Jitsu wa Imouto deshita.: Saikin Dekita Giri no Otouto no Kyorikan ga Yatara Chikai Wake - Vol. 2 Ch. 7

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I don't get the application of Medel's Law here. Guess we'll find out later

Also, MIYUKI WWWWW. However, I wonder why she is pushing them together like this? Maybe because she sees that they're sorta awkward with each other now? Even then, those are date clothes lmao. This would be a first though, usually in these step-sibling stories the parents are dunces. Here it might not be the case, especially since they're technically not step-siblings since Akira never changed her last name.

I kinda blame the parents in these stories though, you'd think that they'd have some sort of talk with their kids to avoid a relationship if the kids are around the same age. Or if they do get into a relationship they'd support it as long as they tell them. If it were me, I think I'd try to keep an open mind since two people of different sexes being in the same house (not blood-related and teenagers or adults) could bring all sorts of issues. You're inviting all sorts of trouble if they aren't raised together. All that to say, there has to be an ounce of mental preparation on the parents' part for these sorts of things right? I feel bad for the main characters in these romances since it seems they think they're ruining the family but the parents never really gave their explicit dissent in the first place.
 
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1- Somehow people didn't understand it, but it's been heavily implied he isn't his father's son, but his biological mother's affair result, while she was married with his father. The other guy didn't want a kid so his dad just kicked her out and kept the kid.
It's either that or she found a new partner but he didn't want the kid to come together with her.

2- The mom is pushing them to get together because he's the one PERSON that she got along with like that outside of her family, so her happiness lays with him. Not only that, she knows her daughter and can see she likes him that way and is helping.
It's possibly also probably the main reason she didn't take his surname... yet.

Basically the only thing stopping them from being together is his own complications about having the blood of a cheater and believing he doesn't deserve happiness because he's probably just like his mother, that is, his fear of being like her.

The sad part in all this is that Hinata got absolutely robbed. She HAS been very slow while he is very dense. But she also barely got to high school, it's like she didn't get her chance.

This does have a lot of chapters, so I'll end up seeing how much I got wrong.
 
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Wow, Ryota even with Kousei being quite blatant, you can't see Hinata's feelings? That's just mean. I guess at least Ryota is focused on being a good brother to Akira after the whole mess up he made.

Miyuki pushing them out the door on a date was pretty strange to me. Was she planning on this? She even put make up on Akira.
Mom is a masterful tactician
 
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Here we are again, another western law/topic that the MC focuses on in a weird way.
Are we really just gonna put everything on Mendel like that? Can his laws even be used to explain behavior to this extent? How's he know that he got the trait? Doesn't the law also state the inheritance of one trait does not mean the inheritance of others?
 
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Is this the law I heard that goes against the "Hikari Genji Plan" stories?

If I remember what I read on... I think it was tv tropes, "Hikari Genji Plan" is when someone grows up with an adopted sibling or child and marries them later in life.
But later there was a law added in Japan that forbids marrying adopted or step relatives just as it would actually blood-related ones.
It's legal for step-siblings to marry in Japan, just like it's legal in all 50 US States.

Personally, having been in the mental health field and with a wife who works in counseling and family services (she's the one with the Master's Degree), my opinion is this:

If the step-siblings actually grew up together from a young age, there's almost certainly something very wrong if they're physically and / or romantically into each other. The part of human development that makes us go "of HELL NO, NEVER!" with close blood-relatives almost always does the same with anyone that has been family the same amount of time if it started early enough in our lives.

On the other hand, if two people are close to adult age and their respective parents just happen to get married... Sometimes it's going to happen. It may seem weird, but it's not really incest.
 
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So, after an old story japanese story named The Tale of Genji, where a man named Hikaru Genji who kidnapped a poor girl that lived in poverty and raised her with the plan of marrying her when she grew up, stories featuring an adult raising or helping raise a non-blood-related child and later entering a romantic relationship when the child is grown up became known as "Hikari Genji plan".
One infamous case that I will not name is a manga where the first half, that if I recall is the part that became an anime, was a loved slice of life but after a timeskip the second half became this. Let's just say that, since most fans joined for the cute family of the first half, the second half is... not as liked (I heard it bein called a betrayal, even).

According to Tv Tropes it used to be pretty common in older works because it was common for noblemen to help raise the daughter of friends and later in life they may sometimes fall in love and marry each other.

I heard that it was mainly to avoid this that there was a law in Japan that would make it ilegal to marry someone adopted into the family or that joined it through marriages, for example stepsiblings like in this story's case.
But I also heard later that the law was repealed because of the low birth rates in Japan.
Usagi Drop. The anime is cute and wholesome because it ends before the manga gets to the part where the girl goes "hey, foster dad, you're gonna marry me!". He "denies" her by saying she has to wait till she's done with high school anyway, and surely she'll get over the idea by then. Of course she doesn't, so he just... goes along with it. The writer clearly thinks it's cute.
 

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