I know for Cooks/Eats it fit into the mainstream women’s programming tv time block and was well received. AyaHiro was on late night tv where it was broadcast (strangely available in some cities but not others on tv) tho mainly was meant for streaming on demand anyway where it did great. Looking forward to how this Hulu release does and what the budget looks like. I’ve been buying the manga here and there but it’s been ages since I read the first volume from my stack so far. I need to prioritize it.

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i see a Hulu logo… does that mean this might stream on Disney+ in mit-America?

Possibly! I'm also hoping it streams on Disney+. Since it's by Hulu, it looks well-budgeted based on the trailer, so it should be good. :D

On another note, I've noticed that yuri manga with adult themes or settings are usually adapted into drama series rather than anime. It's pretty nice since it makes the story feel more realistic. Examples include Ayaka Is in Love with Hiroko! and now Even Though We're Adults. If Pinky Candy Kiss ever gets an adaptation, I hope it becomes a drama series too. ^u^

Trying to imagine an adaptation for Pinky Candy Kiss, I picture a movie instead. Although it's not finished (or at least not fully translated idk its publication status) so that could change. I just know that author has a movie based on one of her other works.

Pinky Candy Kiss is only four volumes so far, vs the ten (finished) volumes of Even Though We're Adults, but i don't see that story coming to a halt any time soon.

unrelatedly: Way too many Adult Yuri series have at least one of the characters be married, and I really don't get what the deal is with that…

Pinky Candy Kiss is only four volumes so far, vs the ten (finished) volumes of Even Though We're Adults, but i don't see that story coming to a halt any time soon.

unrelatedly: Way too many Adult Yuri series have at least one of the characters be married, and I really don't get what the deal is with that…

You're right! I just realized that in Pinky Candy Kiss and Even Though We're Adults, one of the love interests is married. I think it adds a kind of forbidden love feel to the story. They're in love with someone who's already married, which creates a barrier. But, as seen in Even Though We're Adults, that barrier is crossed with the cheating aspect. :)

Pinky Candy Kiss is only four volumes so far, vs the ten (finished) volumes of Even Though We're Adults, but i don't see that story coming to a halt any time soon.

unrelatedly: Way too many Adult Yuri series have at least one of the characters be married, and I really don't get what the deal is with that…

In Japan when you're "older" marriage seems to be an unavoidable discussion and presence. I think that's the reason. It's either someone is married for various reasons, or someone has the spector of marriage hanging over them. It ends up being in the story one way or the other.

last edited at Feb 20, 2025 3:43PM

Pinky Candy Kiss is only four volumes so far, vs the ten (finished) volumes of Even Though We're Adults, but i don't see that story coming to a halt any time soon.

unrelatedly: Way too many Adult Yuri series have at least one of the characters be married, and I really don't get what the deal is with that…

Because if you're having your gay awakening well into life previously living as a supposedly normal hetero, then the odds of you being in a comphet relationship is high, and part of the heteronormative prescriptive life journey is inevitably marriage. It's common in fiction because it's sadly common in real life, although thankfully getting less so with the youngest generations as people are less likely to need until they're in their 30s to finally crack that egg, thanks to mainstream queer representation and the Internet connecting social minorities more easily than in the past.

Edit: and this is not remotely a Japan specific pattern or problem, especially for bi people, as both characters on Pinky Candy Kiss pretty explicitly are.

last edited at Feb 20, 2025 6:46PM

now that I've finally finished reading the manga, I am really looking forward to seeing how it's put on the sreen, because the tenth volume contains some meta narrative, where one of their friends makes a mockumentary about their life, and one of Ayano'a former students writes a story about the whole mess, while trying to understand it

Also, I'm going to slyly retract my previous opinion, because the fact that this story started out with the mess that it did is what makes it this unique story. It's a story about how messy life is. And I think it's beautiful.

now that I've finally finished reading the manga, I am really looking forward to seeing how it's put on the sreen, because the tenth volume contains some meta narrative, where one of their friends makes a mockumentary about their life, and one of Ayano'a former students writes a story about the whole mess, while trying to understand it

Also, I'm going to slyly retract my previous opinion, because the fact that this story started out with the mess that it did is what makes it this unique story. It's a story about how messy life is. And I think it's beautiful.

Plus the kids' storyline is integral to the central point of the story--it doesn't really work without them. They even give one of the kids the "title drop" moment. I'm also looking forward to how the series is handled in live action, especially after how well "Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko" has been handled (apparently with a new season coming).

last edited at Mar 16, 2025 4:23PM

Finally read it all, here is my review.

There is a lot I admire about this story. I like that it really takes its time in exploring how the characters deal with the initial adultery. I like how often it doesn’t hold secrets back and they are just revealed, not just to us the readers, but especially to the other characters, particularly Ayano is so upfront and honest that she kind of carries this. I also like how we can see the damage of the adultery and how it reverberates in ways one might not initially expect. Some of those ways were hard to relate to, but in trying to understand the close-knit, collectivist community in Japan where going against the norm is such a big deal, it felt very real and not at all like melodrama or drama for drama’s sake. It’s a serious story told largely through calm conversations. It’s beautiful in a very soft way.

That said, I can’t really say I loved it. I was vacillating between a three and a four for this one because I couldn’t really fall in love with it. I am going to give it a four because I think the writing deserves it, but I did want to say what didn’t work for me. For one, I am not that interested in the husband, or rather I’m not interested in his love life after their divorce. I can’t really fault the story for this as the way he deals with and and recovers from being cheated on is important and theoretically should be interesting, but I just don’t have a lot of interest in the character. He’s not only passive, but lacks shading and details that make it hard for me to care. This is in general a problem with most of the characters. The conversations told us a lot about what kind of characters and people they are, and the way they react to different situations does as well, but it never quite felt enough. This was the biggest reason that I found it hard to really fall in love with the main leads or the work as a whole. They just felt removed for me, or rather from me as a reader.

It’s not a work I think I plan on rereading or one I think I’ll look back on fondly as it just lacked emotional punch for me, but it is a work I respect. 4/5