Group Scanlating: Maki Maki Scanlation
Maki Maki is back with a new series Metoraba. The art is very similar to Kuroyome.
I haven't read this yet since I'm working at the moment but I'll definitely will later.. Let me know what you think of this. :)
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It's not only similar art - it's the same story universe as Kuroyome featuring another customer of the "Global Wife Allocation Bureau".
ReplyDeleteOnly let-down she makes the same mistake as Mitsuko in Kuroyome.
This is actually an offshoot of the Kuroyome. The two stories were published in the same tank.
ReplyDeleteI'm not liking this Hire-A-Wife crap. It's lame. The stories are shallow. Maki Maki should work on something good instead of wasting everyone's time...
ReplyDeleteI agree - I wouldn't mind if it were Hire-A-Maid, as that would make sense, but a wife is way more than cooking/housekeeping. I pine over wanting a wife all the time, but for very different reasons than the above (love & companionship).
DeleteI agree the idea is shallow, although since the person that hires the wife is researched before the potential wife is sent over, it means the potential wife knows whose wife she'll be up front and might have made the choice herself AFTER getting information about the person that hired her. So with this in mind, it's actually not very different from a (disguised) dating service.
ReplyDeleteIf Kuroyome and Metoraba were about gratuitous sex, it would be one thing. They aren't, however, and therefore I for one don't find this nearly as offensive as some might.
ReplyDeleteIn Kuroyome, they wind up together. Happy ending. And I have seen the raws of Metoraba - another happy ending.
No harm, no foul. It's just a story, after all.
I agree with Peppah, but I think there is more to the premise than a shallow dating service story.
ReplyDeleteThe service is sending a "wife", but it's up to the client to decide just what this implies. So far the clients initially only consider the most superficial and stereotypical aspects of a wife. That of maintaining the household and taking care of her partner's general needs.
It's only later when they realize how much more there is to the relationship than that. They discover the most important and meaningful aspects of a domestic relationship involve reciprocity, respect, and love. I find that beautiful.
So the story suggests the nature of a wife is superficial because it's up to the client (and maybe the reader) to discover that a wife is anything but superficial. At least ideally. I guess others may feel differently.
Just agreeing with the consensus. Found the concept pretty implausible and a smidge sexist. Not sexist as in the typified example of women being chained to stoves by men but that 'wife' essentially equates to something slightly better than domestic servitude. As if, even in lesbian relationships someone has to assume being the 'wife' and do wifey things. I dunno, I felt as if I was reading something that was trying too hard to define 'roles' as it were.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff is totally out of my element, but I can respect a good database for comics when I see one, even if it is stuff I don't know about. Good page.
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