Title: 彼氏彼女の事情 (His and Her Circumstances) Vol. 18
Artist/Author: 津田雅美 (Masami Tsuda)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 187pp., w/furigana
Original Serialization: Monthly LALA 11/03-3/04
First Printing: 5/10/04
Rating: 3/4

I was going through Newtype August and it said this book was the top selling manga for the previous month.

I'm finally caught up with this series. There's a lot of story telling in this volume about the people in Arima's previous generation. Not as much humor, but I enjoyed the narrative. It might be because I took a week off from reading before this volume.

Bonus is a Tsuda Diary.

84. ACT84 ラ・ヴィ・アン・ローズ (La Vie En Rose (Life in Pink)): Arima is currently staying with Reiji. He attends the concert. He gets visited by his dad who checks up on him. That night, Arima asks Reiji if he's married to which he replies that he can't. He's been permanently scarred from his mother's suicide where she tried to drown with him.

85. ACT85 カデンツァ (Cadenza): On their 6th day, Arima and Reiji bump into Yukino on the streets and invite her to dinner. Reiji tells Arima that he should return home now and that he can't do anything to help him. At home, Arima asks his dad about Reiji's past. Menawhile, Arima's biological mother sees her former lover on TV.

86. ACT86 ノクターン (Nocturne): Arima's dad tells the story of his family, particular, his father. His explains the lineage of his family where they've been doctors since the Edo period. His father never appreciated his children though and despite the oldest sister studying hard to become a doctor, he brushed off her goal and told her to do something else. Eventually she did. Years later, they hear about their father's new and illegitimate child, Reiji.

87. ACT87 ゲーム (Game): After the suicide, Souji's father tells him to take care of the mischievous Reiji, especially since the result of the family simple detests him as he's gotten more attention than all of them combined. When confronted by family members who mock him for being a bastard, he pounds their faces in and takes pleasure in that.

88. The Way We Were: In middle school, Reiji graduated with top honors and is revered by everyone, making Souji feeling very isolated. Some of the feelings his older sister has about the illegitimate child getting more attention creeps in and Souji starts showing that. In retrospect, he regrets that he brushed Reiji off.

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