Issho ni Kurashite ii desu ka? - Ch. 70 - What do you want to tell your mother?

[MangaDex]

 

[MiguelH224]

......did this mf Hiromi seriously forget the shit she pulled while he was on the phone with his gf????

 

[Skater901]

All's well that ends well?

......did this mf Hiromi seriously forget the shit she pulled while he was on the phone with his gf????

Girls in manga are exempt from consequences.

 

[MiguelH224]

All's well that ends well?

Girls in manga are exempt from consequences.

I hate it here

 

[FGRayz]

All's well that ends well?

Girls in manga are exempt from consequences.

well she paid last chapter ? but i get what u mean

 

[Skater901]

well she paid last chapter ? but i get what u mean

She suffered the consequences of her papa katsu life style, yes. But not for all the weird stuff she did to Hiromi. I remember that phone call, it was straight up sexual assault. Hiromi shoulda kicked her out of the room, but he's too much of a wuss, I guess.

 

[itcs]

I tend to think that Hiromi cares about Anju and realizes that she's really struggling mentally and emotionally, and it's making her irrational. He's not interested in punishing her, just in getting her to stop, as much for her sake as his. It's generally in keeping with what we've seen of his character since the very beginning of the series: he's extremely selfless and forms strong attachments to the people around him and cares about their long-term happiness.

Of course, he has no idea yet that she's sabotaged his relationship with Nonoka, so we'll see how that plays out.

Overall, I've really enjoyed this arc and how Anju has significantly matured; it feels like the perfect balance. Her arc of dropping papakatsu and moving forward with a career were about fixing how she relates to herself; now she's fixing how she relates to others. The scene with her mother, in particular, was great: a strong indication of how Anju is becoming less self-centered and able to see how her mom is wounded and suffering herself, rather than focusing only on the suffering she inflicted to her child.

Sasuga is far from flawless, but one thing I really enjoy about her work is the deep investment into allowing her characters to change and grow as people instead of slotting them into fixed archetypal roles to keep the status quo intact. This arc was a perfect demonstration of her writing at its best.

 

[CulR]

......did this mf Hiromi seriously forget the shit she pulled while he was on the phone with his gf????

All's well that ends well?

Girls in manga are exempt from consequences.

She suffered the consequences of her papa katsu life style, yes. But not for all the weird stuff she did to Hiromi. I remember that phone call, it was straight up sexual assault. Hiromi shoulda kicked her out of the room, but he's too much of a wuss, I guess.

I think he was comparing the strangling she received to the sexual assault he received.

 

[CulR]

Alright who's the next arc going to be about?

• We wrapped up Mio.
• We wrapped up Anju. But Anju also stirred up the nest.
• Nonoka is in unstable territory now.
• Anju's analysis has the others reactivated a bit.
• Lili is STILL hanging on. Goddamn.
• Tsubasa is more lost than Anju, and I'm worried she gonna mess up her co-worker.

Best girl Yukari is waiting for everybody to catch up.

 

[itcs]

I think he was comparing the strangling she received to the sexual assault he received.

I guess I didn't make this sufficiently clear in the translation (though to be fair, it's ambiguous in the source material, too): "aren't you doing the same kind of thing?" isn't Hiromi's line: it's Anju telling Hiromi what she was thinking as she reflected on confronting her own stalker (hence the quote marks). This scene is:

Anju: Right after that, coming face to face with a stalker... even if I didn't want to, it really drove the point home.
Hiromi: Wait, I...
Anju: "Aren't you doing the same kind of thing?"
Anju: When I realized that, I felt so sick I started crying.
Hiromi (thinking to himself): I don't think those are quite the same... but... hmm.. oh, whatever.
Anju: After that, I thought... about how I should go on from here. I thought and thought, and what I arrived at was...

I probably could have made this more clear by translating that bubble as "aren't I doing the same kind of thing?" to make it clear it's Anju reflecting on herself as opposed to using the second-person pronoun, which creates confusion about who's doing the accusing: Anju's own internal monologue or Hiromi. There are no pronouns in the original Japanese, because the language uses a lot of implied subjects. You're expected to figure out who's talking and who's being accused simply from context.