Koibumi to 13-sai no Actress - Vol. 5 Ch. 20 - Recollection

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Oh! We're getting somewhere.

Also Ayano's cute in this chapter. Deciding she has to be just the perfect height and having all the actresses she admires be sexy girls is a fun thing for a girl to do, and that she sees herself being by his side in 5 years, and even seems to be setting up the idea in her head that he'll be a director who directs her is the sort of magical optimism a kid has.

But oof man. Oof. Isshiki's thoughts are rough. I'm glad we'll finally see where they come from, as well as this mad and desperate desire to make Ayano a success.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm glad that Ayano's got a crush on the guy and will try as hard as she can to stick by him. He needs to feel like someone finds him worthwhile and precious, because the glimpses we've seen of his inner world are growing more and more dire.
 
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I guess this Akari girl was. The previous actress he was close with, but she went to work overseas or sumn at a point. If it’s the girl from the front page, I can understand that he can’t forget her… :aquadrink:
Nah, didn't seen like it. I don't know what really happen, but it seems this Akari was caught in a scandal. This scandal may also involved our poor MC here. This event seem to traumatized him a lot.
 
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Ohh shiett, I don't think I'm ready to see Isshiki past 🙃🫠
It's just like... I will see how a man got broke down and somehow can't fully repaired until now...
 
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his boss knows that he suggested exchanging letters with a 13 year old girl and invited her over to his apartment alone for lunch and is cool with it?
lol every now and then I realise how dumb this manga is.
She wrote him letters and he started responding. She was looking forward to cooking together with her mom, her mom bailed and she was super bummed, he suggested cooking together to cheer her up and her mom agreed.

See, the cool thing about that page, where the co-worker lists off all the things that happened, is that we saw that they all made sense at the time. But when you put them all together like that, you start to realize just how much it all is. We've been with him while he dug a hole here, but now we see someone calling to him from above.

Because he's also genuinely doing things that feel right, trying to help this lonely kid feel better. He's also clearly driven by past failures, which we're gonna see soon. But these motivations have led to actions that have made him deeply invested in this kid, and he's literally only supposed to be covering for her manager who's currently away on maternity leave. We see him take emotional inventory of his attachments and she's literally the only one, and he's not even supposed to be assigned to her on a permanent basis.

It's why I'm actually glad that Ayano has a crush on him, cause she'll make it clear she wants him to stick around. Because investing this much of himself only to have the talent casually leave would be very bad for the guy.
 
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After this chapter i'm now expecting a timeskip if that girl in the cover is actually Ayano. I wasn't sure she was but i really don't like when covers spoil what's going to happen and it doesn't look like it'll be pretty.
 
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it's so funny to see him say he'll explain to her what love is when he can't even control himself when 13 year old ayano talks about a guy and now puts the petal she threw at him in her badge haha i can already see 18 year old ayano talking to some guy then Isshiki runs in all sweaty while watching them from afar and says "ayano we don't have much time the agency doesn't mind if you don't get a foot massage every hour but they might still be worried so hurry up and take off your shoes!"
 

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