R15+ Ja Dame Desuka? - Vol. 6 Ch. 45 - Jealousy

[Otamega04]

that's my boy fuyumine kun, savage as always

 

[horsewithnoname]

The afterword in the last chapter (I wish I had access to it again so I could translate it but I'll have to pull from memory) kinda told me that, first and foremost, the author wanted to write a kind of love letter to the movie industry and movie making in general. This explains why that becomes an ever increasing focus, and why the character subplots become more secondary. It's just a shame that they couldn't wrap it up in a nice package that blended both. The ideas were there, the execution wasn't. Kinda felt like it shouldn't have been a romcom if this was the intention.

So then in praise of cinema he desecrated the manga. Thats some proper bullshit right there. And we have 4 more volumes to boot. Screw that. Bitch ass author should have made an amateur flick if he loves film so much.

Thanks for explaining.

 

[BobBob]

Hold up, who put an anime movie in my 3dpd kino corner?

Also lol at Fuyumine killing this smug normie.

 

[guygarelard]

Haruna please you can't be this easy man

 

[Mocmeo01999]

This cover is ultra suspicious, and as this series already ended, i predict that Fuyumine probably wont date anyone

 

[miguelnillas]

hepburn and theo dont think i didnt notice how long this took yall. Theres one translation group that wants to translate this manga out of every single english speaking country. I appreciate you guys but I'm starving here.
Also glad mc finally has a male friend. I liked the other guy so much until he became irredeemable. I hope this guy becomes like a frasier. Hes really likeable

 

[NickieTheFool]

Read that spoiler someone did about the rest of the series, kinda sucks to see it happen. I feel like that ends up happening for a lot of manga tbh. I do think I'll keep reading regardless as maybe I'll enjoy it more than the guy who made the spoiler comment.

 

[Nosebleed]

Read that spoiler someone did about the rest of the series, kinda sucks to see it happen. I feel like that ends up happening for a lot of manga tbh. I do think I'll keep reading regardless as maybe I'll enjoy it more than the guy who made the spoiler comment.

Don't get me wrong, the arcs themselves are not bad in isolation, and I enjoyed reading them when they were coming out (I followed this manga's serialization for a bit over a year for context, so I was actively invested in it). They are just ruined by the rushed ending because it makes everything that came before it feel pointless.

It's like having a manga you love suddenly kill off all characters in the last chapter. Like sure, 99% of the manga was still good and you still loved those bits, but if an ending is that drastic and impactful, it kinda sours the entire story whether you want to or not. Not that the ending here is that drastic, it just makes you wonder why bother with all the stuff that came before it. Like someone else said, an ending can absolutely ruin an entire manga if it's bad enough.

For example, if Ena had returned after the last arc and they'd gone back to conclude the romance with Akine, I would not really have complained as much. Same with delving into the mom's story. While we get her entire backstory, we barely get a proper conclusion to her and Akine's relationship (the mom does apologize for what she did but them building a proper bond is all off screen), nor do we ever discover what was up with her dad. And of course we get no setup/journey that got the characters to where they are as adults, we just see them already at their jobs. Leaving all that stuff off screen and giving us a timeskip where the cast isn't even together at all feels like a kick in the balls

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

So both girls like him and now there's this new guy who likes her

Both? All three.

 

[RockyRose]

Much love, translator, and very much respect. You've done such a fantastic job on this series. It sucks to say because I don't like contributing to pessimism (you won't find me in each chapter complaining), but I'll be dropping this thanks to the spoiler.

 

[Quackingbean]

NOOO why is it already finished i wanted 200 chapters

 

[krisdreemurr]

Ask me about my opinion on Ao no Flag, then ask me about my opinion on it after the final one-and-a-half chapters.

if i had a penny each time a series i love gets an ending it doesn't deserve, i'd get three pennies by now

 

[The-German]

Worst Ending of 2025 Award shouldn‘t got to OnK, this for real takes the lead

Don't get me wrong, the arcs themselves are not bad in isolation, and I enjoyed reading them when they were coming out (I followed this manga's serialization for a bit over a year for context, so I was actively invested in it). They are just ruined by the rushed ending because it makes everything that came before it feel pointless.

It's like having a manga you love suddenly kill off all characters in the last chapter. Like sure, 99% of the manga was still good and you still loved those bits, but if an ending is that drastic and impactful, it kinda sours the entire story whether you want to or not. Not that the ending here is that drastic, it just makes you wonder why bother with all the stuff that came before it. Like someone else said, an ending can absolutely ruin an entire manga if it's bad enough.

For example, if Ena had returned after the last arc and they'd gone back to conclude the romance with Akine, I would not really have complained as much. Same with delving into the mom's story. While we get her entire backstory, we barely get a proper conclusion to her and Akine's relationship (the mom does apologize for what she did but them building a proper bond is all off screen), nor do we ever discover what was up with her dad. And of course we get no setup/journey that got the characters to where they are as adults, we just see them already at their jobs. Leaving all that stuff off screen and giving us a timeskip where the cast isn't even together at all feels like a kick in the balls

spending years following a series to just get basically cucked by a ass ending truly is painful. It‘s like grinding and working for a visit in a real fancy restaurant to only eat a singular salad. I will not be satisfied.
As I said before, this is not they only series I recently read with the same issue, „The choice is his/hers“ met a similar fate but even faster. The end wasn‘t bad per se, but hella unsatisfying which can sour an entire series quite easily, especially if you are attached to it.

 

[Exeos]

Ask me about my opinion on Ao no Flag, then ask me about my opinion on it after the final one-and-a-half chapters.

while not as bad, i also really hated the last few chapter of my dress-up darling... it sat at 10/10 for me for the longest time, but the last few chapters (and especially the final chapter) were so disappointing in comparison. it's kinda wild how the meme with the horse drawing reflects so many manga these days...

(altho this doesn't really imply that only the ending is shit, but you catch my drift anyway)

 

[Exeos]

if i had a penny each time a series i love gets an ending it doesn't deserve, i'd get three pennies by now

i wish it was only three, but i'm closing in on a quarter by now...

 

[Sky_Ravager]

I'll just leave a summary covering everything (that's relevant to the plot) that happens after this chapter here

Spoiler

Volume 6 and 7
This arc, which is the cultural festival arc, is gonna lead into Fuyumine finally confronting his feelings for Akine.
This is also when Akine finally admits she likes Fuyumine (which only happens thanks to the guy in this chapter btw). She then talks to Ena about it and the two become "love rivals". This plot point won't matter ever again because Ena is never relevant again. Take this opportunity to say goodbye to her.
But most importantly, this is also when Senpai confesses to Fuyumine. She even straight up kisses him, and will be the only character to ever kiss him in the manga.

Volume 8-10
This is the last arc of the manga.
After the cultural festival Fuyumine basically dips out of the club because he can't face Senpai after the confession, and it leads to him starting working on a movie with an actual movie agency.
Akine doesn't like that and starts stalking him, which also leads her to get involved with movie making, but with a different crew (it introduces a pivotal actress that will help in the final conflict). This is what leads to her meeting her mom's former agent (who's a well known agency CEO now) which then leads to the mom's past being revealed.

I already wrote a very lengthy comment about the mom's past in the main comment section but a very short TL;DR is that the mom was an actress and was betrayed by her agency (as was her best friend) and that's why she left. There's a lot to it but I don't want to make this comment 10 paragraphs long. The bulk of volume 8 and the start of 9 is this flashback, just to give you a sense of scale.

Back in the present, Fuyumine is pissed that the CEO revealed all this to Akine when the mom tried so hard to protect this secret, so he punches him in the face. This leads to the actual final conflict, which is Fuyumine getting barred from the movie industry (thanks to punching this famous CEO).
In the midst of this arc there is a side quest where Fuyumine also rejects Senpai btw.

TL;DR for the final conflict is that Fuyumine teams up with the guys he was helping make a movie with to bring down the CEO, the mom also shows up and reveals this whole time she's been working to set up an agency that doesn't exploit its employees (especially women, as this is something that happened with her in her past). They hire all the major staff the CEO had and he's now powerless, so Fuyumine can work in the movie industry again.

Final chapter
Oh, you thought there was something after that last big arc? NOPE! Multiple year time skip!
All we see in this time skip is where the characters ended up, we don't know how they got there.
Fuyumine is now a movie editor. He is dating Akine (no we didn't see them confessing or getting together)
Ena is working at a bar and is friends with Umeki again.
Senpai is a horror novelist.
Akine is an actress. The chapter ends with her giving an interview where she drops the title of the manga in the last page.
That's right, the main couple of the manga isn't even in the same room for a single frame in the last chapter.

Basically the manga set up a ton of subplots only to give us a timeskip where nothing is explained, we just see where everyone ended up. We didn't even get a confession, let alone a kiss (which Senpai, a losing heroine, got!), and Ena literally never shows up again until the timeskip, which is probably why the scanlator is (understandably) upset.

It sucks because the arcs themselves aren't boring and don't feel pointless while you're reading them, but then it abruptly cuts to a timeskip where nothing is answered so you're just left wondering what was the point of all that.

What the fuck

 

[havelmom]

LMAO the emotional damage