ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! WE COULD HAVE HAD A YURI MATURE WIFE COUPLE NETORARE?! WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T WE HAD SUCH A DELICIOUSLY STICKY DEVELOPMENT?!
Because female readers would scorn it? I dunno, Japanese are very "duty" minded usually, I could totally see them hating it especially if there's children and the matter of the "family unit" at risk.
You're talking about a country where the married couple often call eachother "mother" and "father" because their role is more important to them than their own individual selves. Although that's changing slightly over time.
There's a difference in ditching a boyfriend/girlfriend in your teens and ditching your spouse.
At least that's my take on it, to me it seems less risky to do a cliché high school drama romance especially considering the mag and the audience.
Exactly that's why I feel this is an easy way out. The author herself said that she loves that kinda stuff (Acording to some friends, these kind of dramas are fairly common in japanese television, even with the wifexwife setting) and dumming it out feels like a strange thing to do when the other setting would have sold all the more
It's true that Japanese households value roles over individual selfs, but that's precisely why this kind of stuff sells so much: In repression, controversy is all the better
Sorry about my grammar, I'm kinda drunk right now