Heisei Haizanhei ☆ Sumire-chan - Ch. 64 - The Scheming Woman

[MangaDex]

 

[chiquit0_3107]

Well, now it's done.

 

[Mangamoz]

Aaaw shit bruh iz a moderfukin ivol hag.

 

[SuperOniichan]

This is the weirdest discussion about a report with a boss I've seen in a long time.

 

[Boomthorkell]

Overall, this was a beautiful scene. I think it really spoke truth to two types of powerful personalities that thrive off of their own degeneracy and parasitizing of others.

May both the CEO and this woman be destroyed. I loved her expression in this scene, though. The sheer cold, cool, almost emotionless disdain or detachment. Powerful.

 

[3therflux]

Oh my lord.

 

[mgRdr]

Eh, that's what got you raw-reader people weirded out about this chapter?

 

[Churkey]

So, you have to go back and crush more dreams of others for your own well-being and priority?

 

[mangadexamc]

I did expect a love hotel scene... I didn't expect it being this one.

 

[ku4eto]

Ayy, yoo, did not expect such scene.

 

[mrboxeater]

For how hyped it was, the scene wasnt that bad lol....

 

[Litreara]

That double page spread feels so unnecessary and over the top. Like, did the author really need to show us that for us to understand Todoroki’s character? Dunno, it seems to me that the author can’t help herself and lets her fetishes slip out every now and then.

And before someone accuses me of not having media literacy, I get the symbolic value—power dynamics, agency, thematic subversion, and control. But media literacy involves analyzing authorial choice, and my critique is that the chosen method (an explicit fetish scene) was a gratuitous way to achieve it. The symbolism didn’t require the pornographic detail, which is what makes it feel like an authorial slip rather than a narrative necessity. The same effect could have been achieved by drawing the boss kneeling to lick her boot while Todoroki’s holding a whip. The explicit choice feels less about narrative and more about indulgence.

Also, it’s worth remembering that this is not an erotica manga, so dropping in a scene like this kinda feels out of tone. Sure, there were sex scenes during the AV arc, but none of them were given a double page spread like in this chapter.

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[JoeKerr]

Mexican food? But where are the tortillas?! It's not real Mexican unless it comes wrapped in a flat, soft, bread.

 

[JoeKerr]

SNIP!

Yum! Oishii copy-pasta.

 

[t28]

People were really getting that triggered over double page "old man pussy"? If we went through their recently read lists how much spicy content would we see?

 

[AStrangerIsHere]

I like the detail of the tattoo on the president. Well done, author, well done.

 

[danbellucci]

yuck. What a nasty old skank. I hope this is the first villain of the manga who gets totally destroyed and humiliated.

 

[rabidfish]

You can tell she's evil because she fucks old men. Heroines only fuck young boys

 

[mgRdr]

Like, did the author really need to show us that for us to understand Todoroki’s character?

The double page spread is a joke. "She was seen coming out of a love hotel with the boss, she's probably sleeping with him to keep her job" - well yeah, she kinda does, but there's a catch. There's a bit of expansion of Todoroki's character in the double spread, but the primary intent is to tell a joke, and this joke falls apart if there's no shock value to it.

Dunno, it seems to me that the author can’t help herself and lets her fetishes slip out every now and then.

If an author tells a joke of sexual nature, does this mean it is them channeling their personal fetishes into their work? Satomi U made multiple middle-aged women lust after a teenage boy, does this mean she wants to fuck one herself, or was it written this way because there's comedic value in this arrangement? You don't need to be into BDSM pegging to know that it is probably something freaky and that you can extract shock comedy value from it by making your characters engage in it.

But media literacy involves analyzing authorial choice

Which usually comes down to making personal attacks towards the author after experiencing the slightest bit of discomfort when consuming their work. "The work has shown X, that's probably because the author is Y" should really be the last resort when analysing an artistic work, after you've already proven that X doesn't work within the framework of the manga.

The same effect could have been achieved by

Rewriting the story and the characters so that they are not into pegging? As minimal of a rewrite as it is, that would be a different manga from what it is now, for one, it'll be a manga about a world where pegging doesn't happen, or maybe it happens but between people who are freakier than Todoroki, because Todoroki is too much of a prude to engage in it. If I were to witness this kind of rewrite happen, then I would start questioning the author and her integrity as an artist.

Also, it’s worth remembering that this is not an erotica manga, so dropping in a scene like this kinda feels out of tone.

This manga doesn't have MangaDex-specific "Erotica" tag, yes. But it is a manga about gravure idols and the industry's seedy underbelly which has shown plenty of raunchy or sexual encounters by this point.

Sure, there were sex scenes during the AV arc, but none of them were given a double page spread like in this chapter.

None of them had any important or even named characters either. This double spread has two.

 

[Darklight99]

The double page spread is a joke. "She was seen coming out of a love hotel with the boss, she's probably sleeping with him to keep her job" - well yeah, she kinda does, but there's a catch. There's a bit of expansion of Todoroki's character in the double spread, but the primary intent is to tell a joke, and this joke falls apart if there's no shock value to it.

If an author tells a joke of sexual nature, does this mean it is them channeling their personal fetishes into their work? Satomi U made multiple middle-aged women lust after a teenage boy, does this mean she wants to fuck one herself, or was it written this way because there's comedic value in this arrangement? You don't need to be into BDSM pegging to know that it is probably something freaky and that you can extract shock comedy value from it by making your characters engage in it.

Which usually comes down to making personal attacks towards the author after experiencing the slightest bit of discomfort when consuming their work. "The work has shown X, that's probably because the author is Y" should really be the last resort when analysing an artistic work, after you've already proven that X doesn't work within the framework of the manga.

Rewriting the story and the characters so that they are not into pegging? As minimal of a rewrite as it is, that would be a different manga from what it is now, for one, it'll be a manga about a world where pegging doesn't happen, or maybe it happens but between people who are freakier than Todoroki, because Todoroki is too much of a prude to engage in it. If I were to witness this kind of rewrite happen, then I would start questioning the author and her integrity as an artist.

This manga doesn't have MangaDex-specific "Erotica" tag, yes. But it is a manga about gravure idols and the industry's seedy underbelly which has shown plenty of raunchy or sexual encounters by this point.

None of them had any important or even named characters either. This double spread has two.

Thank you for this, I was planning on replying to them with something similar but you did it much better