Someone's Girlfriend - Ch. 58 - Did you know...?

[krkj]

This story line deserves a better manga.

There is. Its called Love and Curse. Its supposedly a semi-autobiography

 

[RakshaJaeger]

Ah. That can stand for "at the moment," too. Right.
Hm?

That’s what I meant when I used it, any pun detected was unintentional

 

[rozert]

I'm asking myself why am I hear... And then I remember we still have Yako... Only for you I'm enduring this mess...

 

[dmbase]

Does her voicemail ever run out of microcassette tape? How did we get an answering machine trope in 2025?
Edit: Do you think he took breaks during the five minutes of jiggling the doorknob and like, looked at it all confused? Tried jiggling different ways? Or was it just five uninterrupted minutes of trying the same knob the same way before concluding it was locked?

Seeing how utterly stupid Riku is, I assume the latter.

 

[Virtualplayer]

As i said in the previous chapter discussion where I spoilered this one - this is Riku's moment to redeem himself. And NOT by prostrating himself in front of Umimi's pathetic excuse of a mother and semi-gaslight her for not being a better parent while eliminating any evidence of what's left of his pride as a human being, never mind a man.

Spoiler: And Spoiler - Chapter 59!

Yes, he DOES redeem himself (fist pump). Mom's doing a pathetic, Don't Get Involved, even puts her hands on him (that should be enough for assault in Japan) picks up Umimi in a classic Princess Carry and runs her past the sorry-ass predator of a Father and books it to an All Night Internet Cafe, renting a private cube. There is some more development between them - she tries to seduce him, like even more explicit and obvious than the restroom scene long ago. Here's hoping for a semi-happy outcome to this arc - God knows this series needs it.

 

[javajulien]

Bruh there's no way her mum is this evil. That strains my suspension of disbelief.

As far as edgy shit in the series goes, that's actually the most believable thing. You'd be surprised how many people came out as being sexually abused in their childhood will reveal their mom always knew but looked the other way.

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

So do we know what the dad did? Cause ive just kinda been reading this with my brain turned off.

My memory might be off, but he tried to sexually assault her, MC and MC mom managed to stop him

Dad (Step Dad, IIRC) was getting overly physical with Umimi - not quite to the level of SA, leaving you the traditional "but is he really?" thriller dangling thread, but also very clearly escalating and heading that way to the point grandma stepped in and got her out of the house.

With Grandma not longer there to stop him, Dad says stepdaughter returns or divorces mother.
It is very likely that this is that Dad can grape her, but there is a non-rape-related explanation that "the neighbors talk; it was find before because we could say she was living with grandma closer to school but now that isn't the case she either comes homes or the family is massively shamed, and I will divorce you if you dishonor the family" (which is a normal and understandable reaction if you are japanese)
(But we all know its really because he wants to get his molestation on.)

Mom's reaction there is distrubingly common. I have an older coworker who went on a date with a woman who made it very, very clear her thirteen year old daughter lived with her, the father was not in the picture, if they were dating he could come over to her house whenever he wanted ("she gets out of school at 3 but I'm not usually back from work till like 6:30"), and he otherwise got the very distinct impression what was on offer was "Get into a serious committed relationship with me, and you will have a clear path to molest my teenaged daughter"
In his words "she had a lot of pictures of her daughter on her phone which is normal, but the ones she showed me weren't exactly out of bounds but not of the sort I would think a mother would have on their phones, let alone show them off to guys, especially man she recently met"
She didn't seem to in financial trouble or anything. She was just in her late-30s, looked a little.... like she was in her late 30s and was not having luck with dating. Just seemed to be very desperate to not be single, even if that meant offering up her daughter to a predator.

 

[Wonder42]

⚠️This post was made using MTL, so keep that in mind while reading. The purpose is to provide the MangaDex community with some insight into Japanese audience opinions—not to fish for internet points. So, please refrain from giving a 'like' or any other reaction. ⚠️

Here are some comments from the Japanese audience on the Sunday Webry app:

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As a bonus, here’s a graph showing the estimated sales for each volume in the first month, based on the Shoseki Ranking:

Despite the criticism and a slight drop in sales, the decline is not substantial. The last five volumes have consistently ranked well, with positions ranging from 221 to 203. Keep in mind that the Shoseki Ranking includes the top 500 titles.

According to the author, this manga sells better than before. The sales of volume 2, which was released in August 2023, reached 100,000 copies in February 2025; (https://x.com/nikumarusuisann/status/1893241253489184983) on the other hand, volume 6 sold 100,000 copies in only one month. (https://x.com/nikumarusuisann/status/1901674237359976833)

 

[Amariithynar]

I'm shocked - shocked! - to find that an insensitive handling of SA is happening in an NTR fetishist's manga. Sure, there was a time she was afraid of men, but don't worry, that all got stuffed into a flashback, so before Riku even woke up from his nap Umimi was all broken, crazy, and slutty for him like a good victim should be. /s
Fuck this so much.

Look up "hypersexuality caused by sexual abuse". It is... depressingly common.

 

[Ruvvveee]

Just questions no answers… Explanation arc will be really bad ı guess

 

[Litreara]

According to the author, this manga sells better than before. The sales of volume 2, which was released in August 2023, reached 100,000 copies in February 2025; (https://x.com/nikumarusuisann/status/1893241253489184983) on the other hand, volume 6 sold 100,000 copies in only one month. (https://x.com/nikumarusuisann/status/1901674237359976833)

Well, the Shoseki Ranking only tracks physical volumes sales from a sample of bookstores in Japan, so the manga is probably selling much better digitally.

Looking at Oricon's data (which also tracks physical copies), the manga appeared in the rankings only during its first week, where it sold well:

Oricon's numbers align with Shoseki's estimate of 7,756 copies sold in the first week. Considering the sales for February, it really seems like the author is referring to total sales (both physical and digital). If there had been 100,000 physical copies sold, the manga would have appeared in Oricon's February ranking:

 

[Amariithynar]

Well, the Shoseki Ranking only tracks physical volumes sales from a sample of bookstores in Japan, so the manga is probably selling much better digitally.

Looking at Oricon's data (which also tracks physical copies), the manga appeared in the rankings only during its first week, where it sold well:


Oricon's numbers align with Shoseki's estimate of 7,756 copies sold in the first week. Considering the sales for February, it really seems like the author is referring to total sales (both physical and digital). snip

That seems to be the crux of what they're getting at- that the sales aren't dropping overall as implied in the original post they replied to, and instead have accelerated; it's just not in physical copies, but digital, that it seems to be getting purchased. Specifically, the "slight drop in sales" part of, "Despite the criticism and a slight drop in sales..."

 

[Litreara]

That seems to be the crux of what they're getting at- that the sales aren't dropping overall as implied in the original post they replied to, and instead have accelerated; it's just not in physical copies, but digital, that it seems to be getting purchased. Specifically, the "slight drop in sales" part of, "Despite the criticism and a slight drop in sales..."

Yeah, but there was a slight drop in sales—for physical copies. And I also said that the decline is not substantial and that the volumes have consistently ranked well. Anyway, I added an asterisk on the chart to point out that it’s referring only to the sale of physical copies.

 

[ItsMe10293]

They didn‘t have to do Umimi this bad…

 

[EulBassist]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[subwayanyway]

The comment at the end is spot on, what is this, the landline in the 90s with an answering machine?

 

[pero10kai]

I think the author is trying to tell us that adults are fake and gay

 

[Ninoren]

Well, the Shoseki Ranking only tracks physical volumes sales from a sample of bookstores in Japan, so the manga is probably selling much better digitally.

Looking at Oricon's data (which also tracks physical copies), the manga appeared in the rankings only during its first week, where it sold well:

Oricon's numbers align with Shoseki's estimate of 7,756 copies sold in the first week. Considering the sales for February, it really seems like the author is referring to total sales (both physical and digital). If there had been 100,000 physical copies sold, the manga would have appeared in Oricon's February ranking:

Author really out here ragebaiting himself into the ranking, by refusing to explain anything in the story and people being so frustrated they're buying it to find out, can assure you 70% of that are hate-reading it 😶

 

[morbitouchiha]

YAKO I BEG YOU PLEASE SAVE ME FROM THIS HELLHOLE

 

[SigmaMaster69]

Why don't they just send the video of her dad to the police? I seriously don't understand why it is so common in manga for pedos and rapists to just get let off with a warning. Those typa people shouldn't be walking free