Ri-chan - Vol. 1 Ch. 131

[sixtem]

But I think I failed in highlighting the focus: what I wanted to say is, it doesn't matter what "type" of wedding you have, when you get married you choose to spend your life with that person...even if there's divorce (for a civil thing more than religious), if you, at any point, feel like that you don't love them anymore, imo, there's something wrong...like, why did you marry? But that's just me

I think that's a bit naive. People can change and drift apart due to any number of internal and external factors. A vow of marriage is made at a specific time between two people who may truly believe they can be in love with one another until they die, but that can change. That doesn't mean there was anything wrong with them or their intent at the beginning.

This isn't to say the dad in this story is fine. He didn't look after his child after the divorce, even though he was permitted to see her, which means he failed her utterly. But to his ex-wife? He owes nothing beyond being cordial.

 

[Nask]

She needs to run to her bf and hold him tight.

oh u gonna love 135 and 136

 

[Eternalcakes]

Maybe I'm reading it too much, but the father seems like a crappy person. Didn't even contact Ri-chan even once before this, allegedly cheating, and I doubt he even pay child support. He's treating Ri-chan like a chapter of a closed book or something. Ri-chan better cut off ties with such a POS, she got her mom and Tatsu now and that's enough.

The author is careful not to portray his characters as either good or evil (except maybe Tatsu). Riri deals with her issues in a self-destructive way. Riri-mama is both loving and resentful of Riri and the divorce (separate issues). Riri-papa is an asshole, but also is stonewalled by mama(?) and so easily gives up.

Very short manga chapters, showing very little of their lives, but there's this painful humanness to it all that I feel

 

[Coldlight]

Damn, the implication that he loved his new family so much more than he did his first, enough to quit a harmful vice that his first child didn't like really stung her. This is just adding insult to injury that he was never shown to visit her after the divorce, even when he was allowed to. Quoting a line I read somewhere that stuck to me, "You don't sign up to be a father and just get to dip out."

Well, now that his indifference to his first family has been established, I hope we never see him again, much less his new family. The one time he talked to his daughter after divorce only caused her pain. Let this be the last, then. I feel like Riri is going to (need a) smoke after this, if so it's a missed opportunity to light one up in front of him.

 

[ZaToby]

Rereading this I just realized what happened.

Dad's a POS.

 

[Pokpong14]

Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my leg... And my arm... even my fingers... The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there. You feel it, too, don't you? I'm gonna make them give back our past!

 

[Akikako]

Drop him in a volcano....
And can we talk about the second wife? She knows that his husband has a child that don't want to see and she is ok with that?

 

[RigobertoParedes]

I thought it was established that his ex-wife explicitly told him not to contact her, tho?


He's not a POS. He's a flawed individual in a complex situation without one good guy and one bad guy. The realization I suspect Ri-chan is having is that he is her papa, but isn't. Just like Tatsu is the Tatsu-kun she remembers, but isn't, and she is the Ri-chan he remembers, but isn't.

He's a complete POS, even if mom didn't let him he has the right to see her or could do something about it after she became an adult but dude didn't do anything. Last time he saw her was in highschool + 4 or 5 years of college and work (considering the bf is a working adult now) make it harder to believe he's even a good dad. There was opportunity to see her anytime, even going to her workplace or something, but dude didn't care.

The key part here to see why he's a shitty person is smoking next to her even if she hated it, but once his new family told him to stop he did it. Oh, and the most probably cheating on his first wife.

 

[NemuriNai]

The fact that he stopped smoking for his new family, but never did when Ri-chan disliked it was just...... sad. It hurts. Damn....

 

[Iamcheater]

Holy shit man... I am a dad myself and I love my kids to death. If they ever told me "daddy can you please do that / stop doing that" I would strive to improve myself and be better.

This massive piece of shit kept smoking like he was in Malboro's advertising team and when his girl asked to stop he just brushed her off. Now his new family asks and he drops it instantly.

Fucking disgraceful. Getting this turd out of my manga panels srsly.