I liked this chapter far more than it deserves (I think), if only for how the professor was shown to be human (not some know-it-all prick) and the son-in-law managed to put his foot in his mouth all the way to the knee with his wife.

Actually the man is her son, not son-in-law, which makes his reactions even more frustrating... like come on man, it's your ma you're talking about

It's sadly realistic to sons to dismiss their mothers. :/

So who's that jerk on the last page giving our cinnamon roll prof grief? So that stuff happened to him, so you got nothing better to do than rake it up?

I don't remember the early chapters that well, but this felt like a really explicit showing of Yoshiko's romantic interest in Hanayo. I thought it might have been more ambiguous before, but maybe I don't remember it that well.

Also, the professor made me cry.

I don't remember the early chapters that well, but this felt like a really explicit showing of Yoshiko's romantic interest in Hanayo. I thought it might have been more ambiguous before, but maybe I don't remember it that well.

Yoshiko takes Hanayo on a date ( https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch03#22 ) to make her a perfume, and then to dinner. The perfume making place (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch04#21 ) and the restaurant (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch05#8 ) are both run by two women that Yoshiko knows. Hanayo finally asks, and the lady at the restaurant confirms that she and the perfume lady are a lesbian couple. And that they have been for 30 years (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch05#23 ) .
Hanayo cries in the restaurant bathroom upon the realisation that there are other paths she could've followed in life, and that there are people her age who have braved those paths (https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch05#26 ) . (reminder that Hayano has always had lesBIan leanings https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch02#1 )
In the taxi home, Yoshiko barely restrains herself to hold Hayano's hand. ( https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch05#30 )

And that's all Volume 1. So, i it's always been very strongly hinted at. So much so, that i think this deserves a Romance tag.

Anyway, rereading this, I relearned that Keito, Hayano's son, was always been a butt https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanamonogatari_ch01#28 . I'm glad Hayano has such a good daughter in law and granddaughter to make up for it.