Heisei Haizanhei ☆ Sumire-chan

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I really liked the one-shot and I'm glad it got serialized. I know basically nothing about idol culture, but it's fun learning about how doujin circles do business. Please keep up the good work!
 
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The heroine is definitely gorgeous and cool but it's as if the mangaka forgot to make a personality for the boy and fixated on his manager role too much
 
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Man the latest raw chaps of this get REALLY dark.

Sumire is drugged and brought to a love hotel passed out, and she is asked to prostitute herself by the guy who drugged her, she refuses of course and nothing happens to her, but the whole arc was creepy as fuck. Completely unnecesary
 
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This manga is such a wild ride. I wonder where “I need fixing” girl will end up next.

That being said, I kinda feel a tad bit uncomfortable not knowing if there is any romance between two main characters — or if it ever happens. Dunno.

P.S: I understand the age difference, I just want to know if Yuusei loves Sumire or vice versa.
 
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This manga is such a wild ride. I wonder where “I need fixing” girl will end up next.

That being said, I kinda feel a tad bit uncomfortable not knowing if there is any romance between two main characters — or if it ever happens. Dunno.

P.S: I understand the age difference, I just want to know if Yuusei loves Sumire or vice versa.
Obviously it can change, but I doubt it. It's really not that kind of a manga.

The main character is Sumire and she's a "haizanhei" which means a vanquished remanent soldier. In most usage, it goes back to Sengoku, or the Warring States, period. The army was defeated and routed, and the haizanhei usually turned to banditry and other petty crimes to survive because they were most likely stranded in enemy territory and were hunted. Back then, you did not have free travel between regions and needed a special pass to travel. People usually lived and died in a very small area centering where they were born. So being stranded away from home was a big deal, and much more so when you're an enemy soldier. Someone could make money from killing you and cutting off your head. So the author's decision to label Sumire a haizanhei at was the first and most significant clue on what kind of woman Sumire is and where this might be headed to. That is, Sumire is not just a failed idol. Her situation, as a haizansei, is much worse than that. And in recent translated chapters, you get to see just how impossible she is and her situation is. She's incorrigible. She's unfixable. She's like a vanquished solder in enemy territory with no future prospect. Just when you think that she might have gotten her things in order, she goes out and fucks it up.

Yuusei is a fixer. He wants to fix her and bring her back to being someone he admired as a kid. And there isn't any romantic hints yet. Right now, the feeling Yuusei has for Sumire is not love but 憧れ (akogare) which is broad enough to include love but more like yearning respect/adoration. In Western context, look at the Greek concept of the many forms of love. So 憧れ is more "agape" than "eros."

So the manga will have Sumire as a fool or boke, continuing to screw up, and yoyoing between "maybe she's got it together this time" and "oh shit, there she goes again" with the Yuusei as a tsukkomi or a straight man trying to fix her issues. It doesn't preclude this being a love-comedy, and may end up being that by the finish, but the manga as it's set up right now does not need a romantic tension to make it work.
 
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Obviously it can change, but I doubt it. It's really not that kind of a manga.

The main character is Sumire and she's a "haizanhei" which means a vanquished remanent soldier. In most usage, it goes back to Sengoku, or the Warring States, period. The army was defeated and routed, and the haizanhei usually turned to banditry and other petty crimes to survive because they were most likely stranded in enemy territory and were hunted. Back then, you did not have free travel between regions and needed a special pass to travel. People usually lived and died in a very small area centering where they were born. So being stranded away from home was a big deal, and much more so when you're an enemy soldier. Someone could make money from killing you and cutting off your head. So the author's decision to label Sumire a haizanhei at was the first and most significant clue on what kind of woman Sumire is and where this might be headed to. That is, Sumire is not just a failed idol. Her situation, as a haizansei, is much worse than that. And in recent translated chapters, you get to see just how impossible she is and her situation is. She's incorrigible. She's unfixable. She's like a vanquished solder in enemy territory with no future prospect. Just when you think that she might have gotten her things in order, she goes out and fucks it up.

Yuusei is a fixer. He wants to fix her and bring her back to being someone he admired as a kid. And there isn't any romantic hints yet. Right now, the feeling Yuusei has for Sumire is not love but 憧れ (akogare) which is broad enough to include love but more like yearning respect/adoration. In Western context, look at the Greek concept of the many forms of love. So 憧れ is more "agape" than "eros."

So the manga will have Sumire as a fool or boke, continuing to screw up, and yoyoing between "maybe she's got it together this time" and "oh shit, there she goes again" with the Yuusei as a tsukkomi or a straight man trying to fix her issues. It doesn't preclude this being a love-comedy, and may end up being that by the finish, but the manga as it's set up right now does not need a romantic tension to make it work.
Well, hopefully everything will be alright and she won’t commit that many bad mistakes. Thanks for the extensive reply!
 
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Looking at the raws there's literally no progress, this girl isn't learning shit. She will end up fucking old guys at the end of the manga, looks like that's what the artist want, I can feel the thirst for it.
 
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I haven't read this, but judging by the description, I probably won't. Woman in her 30s gets pimped out by her highschool-age cousin? Yeah, no.
 

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