Koibumi to 13-sai no Actress - Vol. 5 Ch. 24 - Sympathy (Second Half)

[Melon566]

When we see Fumi and Akari, it is in a flashback to when he was working as an assistant director. This was several years before he was working as a talent manager. Ayano was in the business as a child actor already, but Fumi had not yet met her.

When we see Ayano in this chapter, it is the current events. Anything we see happening when she is on screen is occurring long after any events we see occurring between Fumi and Akari.

The blending of perspectives is deliberate. Not because the events are occurring at the same time, but to show the audience the similarities between his relationship with Ayano and Akari; both reaching out to someone lonely.

But, the things we see are still in the past. The conversation Akari and Fumi are having about her father occurred before he was working as a manager for Ayano.

jaga i think should put the border in blackened border to tell the time difference

 

[OverlordSaiki]

Actually, he does have a pattern... Our MC does give a special treatment to people in a pitiful situation, doesn't he? But like, unaware? I mean he's kinda aware of it currently but, still, kinda crazy I didn't realize this sooner.

Yes it's crazy he's like, a normal person

 

[Bigvoii]

bro really is just a surrogate father for all the women he meets

 

[Deltragon]

Guys I desperately need Akari to be Endgame am I delusional?

 

[jojoka]

bro really is just a surrogate father for all the women he meets

To be fair one of the two is in fact 13.

 

[chiruno09]

If he gets with akari in the end, all the set-up with ayano will just be bullshit. Please don't go akari route

 

[Shamgarsan]

“It’s okay because I like him” is such a perfectly innocent and destructive assumption.

 

[BuzzBacksArmstrong]

Why do they keep translating pedophile as a lolicon. Makes no sense

 

[viliml]

Why do they keep translating pedophile as a lolicon. Makes no sense

You are the one making no sense, the manga never used the word ペドフィリア or 小児性愛者.

 

[BuzzBacksArmstrong]

You are the one making no sense, the manga never used the word ペドフィリア or 小児性愛者.

“It’s a crime called being a lolicon”

And they’re discussing adults raping kids. How does that make sense? Does the manga say lolicon in Japanese? That’s so strange

 

[Koraeli]

“It’s a crime called being a lolicon”

And they’re discussing adults raping kids. How does that make sense? Does the manga say lolicon in Japanese? That’s so strange

They mean basically the same thing in Japan, someone who is attracted to children. Pedophile is just less common and often seen as a harsher word (though not always, in particular "pedo" is sometimes used in a soft, cutesy way). Or sometimes pedo/pedophile refers specifically to an interest in much younger children, like babies and toddlers.

 

[viliml]

“It’s a crime called being a lolicon”

And they’re discussing adults raping kids. How does that make sense? Does the manga say lolicon in Japanese? That’s so strange

That's a mistranslation. It said something like "they're called lolicon crimes". And "lolicon crimes" is Japanese net slang, you won't hear it from normies in real life. Natsumi uses some... interesting wording from time to time, like page 5 too, the word used for "this girl doesn't get it" is the one used in "mesugaki correction" memes.

 

[sotokouya]

i unironically goes awooga on page 24 and 29

 

[JustForKIcks2]

Yo, the writing is actually fire tho! I read this out of a morbid curiosity thinking this was written as sort of sympathy for the Drakes and Diddys of the world but holy shit this chapter actually proved me wrong. There IS substance to this story (although it still makes me uneasy)