Hataraku Maou-sama volume 21 has been delayed yet again, to 4/19/22. Sigh. This is the final volume of the series, I've been looking forward to the ending for so long, but it keeps getting pushed back over and over again. How many years does it take to translate a book? The author writes it in less time than these people take to translate it.
But at least there's Ryuuou 15. The book is pretty good. It's about the problems women have balancing work with female vulnerabilities -- menstruation, pregnancy, getting stalked or molested by men because of your looks and weakness that can't stop them. It's a good point that women don't have a charmed life in the modern world. Of course the answer to all this is for women to stop working and stop wandering around unaccompanied, solutions the ancient world figured out long ago. If they lived like English women did in the 1800's they wouldn't have any of these problems. But given that they insist on modernity it's fair enough to mention how much it sucks. It also has a dumb sub-plot where a minor sub-character tries to convince Yaichi to cheat on Ginko with her -- as though he'd be remotely interested in her since he's already turned down both Ai's who are infinitely more attractive and more important to him. It's silly that she'd even bother -- suppose she succeeded and Yaichi did betray Ginko -- wouldn't she then despise Yaichi forever after that as a worthless trash of a man who cheated on his girlfriend the first chance he got with the first woman who offered? What would she gain in getting him to destroy his own honor? Obviously, since they're still only dating, the proper procedure would have been to convince him to dump Ginko and get with her instead, in an orderly and sincere progression. But telling him to sleep with her while he's still officially dating Ginko and it's alright to keep it a secret is contemptible. That's the worst possible idea and no one who actually wanted what was best for Yaichi would attempt to drag him through the mud of moral depravity like that.
I do like that this temptress was put in her place by Ai beating her in shogi and Yaichi dedicating his new book to Ginko, that was a satisfying ending to her nonsense, left with absolutely nothing.
Strangely, just when Ai Hinatsuru moved out of Yaichi's place because it was stifling knowing he had chosen Ginko over her, Ai Yashajin has moved in with Yaichi despite knowing the exact same thing. Yaichi is fine with living with any and all apprentices so I get why he could switch from one Ai to the other quickly, but why would Ai Y. tolerate the hellish environment that Ai H. already made clear could not be borne? I guess she's not very perceptive and is living in some sort of dream world where Yaichi's decisions don't matter. I guess she's just a dumb child who can't read the atmosphere. Oh well. Like usual, the reason I read this book is for Ai H., not Ai Y.
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