https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/homecoming#31

What the heck is Miyuki being made to apologize for? Saying that she's not moving back? Did I miss her lashing out?

The connections we have with one another stifle and suffocate us, and so does living without any connection at all. This is potent.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/homecoming#31

What the heck is Miyuki being made to apologize for? Saying that she's not moving back? Did I miss her lashing out?

This is in the context of a more conservative part of Japan (where putting great weight on the primacy of family and especially women having a role of service is more common), and the uncle is apparently seen as the respected patriarch of the family. It seems quite similar to how Kasuga's family is in She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat.
So the question is more like: "When are you, Miyuki, going to do what is the right thing for you to do and your family expects of you?"
The only socially correct response in this situation is something affirming/agreeing, and anything else is seen as "talking back to your elders/betters".
So Miyuki did "lash out" in the sense that she broke the social code of the meeting and embarrassed her uncle. Her mother, who sees conforming to the expectations of her family to be a better way to happiness than what Miyuki chose, thus wants Miyuki to at least go through the motions to make sure she is not further alienated from the family.

And to be clear, I completely agree that it fucking sucks and I wish Miyuki all happiness in Tokyo away from her family!

If anyone has some good recommendations for more recent academic texts about women, family, and work in Japan, I'd be interested to hear it, because I just realized the most recent work on the topic I read was from 2010.

Very Interesting!! (But it’s also really fucked up how women are so quickly pushed into these roles, with everything they’ve built in their lives just being disregarded for the sake of that role)

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The only socially correct response in this situation is something affirming/agreeing, and anything else is seen as "talking back to your elders/betters".
So Miyuki did "lash out" in the sense that she broke the social code of the meeting and embarrassed her uncle. Her mother, who sees conforming to the expectations of her family to be a better way to happiness than what Miyuki chose, thus wants Miyuki to at least go through the motions to make sure she is not further alienated from the family.

Exactly. In that kind of environment every answer not conforming to the norm is seen as "rude" and "disrespectful", and this comic only depicts a more blatant version. In some more hypocrtical version you maybe even offered a chance to make your own decision, and then be pressured to follow the path they made for you.

Also note the nonstop showering of "you just don't understand" "we just want the best for you", it almost feel like love bombing but with "love" replaced with control freak in the name of love. This is pretty suffocating.

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Just wanted to point out I misinterpreted the scanlator name as a tag and was wondering why "inexcusable" is a tag

My gosh, what a poignant, lovely story.

Best thing I've read recently.

Japanese society as a whole working on the same principles undermines the story.
She simply went from a small cage to a bigger one.

Aureole posted:

Also note the nonstop showering of "you just don't understand" "we just want the best for you", it almost feel like love bombing but with "love" replaced with control freak in the name of love. This is pretty suffocating.

I presume there should be some more practical term than "concern-troll bombing" but it's the best I can come up with at the moment. I liken it to concern trolling because it's the same paternalism. trying to claim what's in the troll's best interest is actually their target's best interest.

Burning the charms paired with "I'll leave you to rest in this middle-of-nowhere town" is an interesting framing. On one hand it could be referring to cremating Maki in the hometown, but on the other hand it could referring to burning the charms in Tokyo, I think with the implication that Tokyo is more of the same despite its glamour.

Japanese society as a whole working on the same principles undermines the story.
She simply went from a small cage to a bigger one.

The difference of being held captive in a human-sized cage and a whole house.
At least she can walk around a little now.

Was it ever mentioned how she died? My interpretation is that she took her own life but I can’t be sure.

Japanese society as a whole working on the same principles undermines the story.
She simply went from a small cage to a bigger one.

The difference of being held captive in a human-sized cage and a whole house.
At least she can walk around a little now.

That, plus the fact that the small cage, she was born in, and the big cage, she chose for herself.

Was it ever mentioned how she died? My interpretation is that she took her own life but I can’t be sure.

Not mentioned.

Burning the charms paired with "I'll leave you to rest in this middle-of-nowhere town" is an interesting framing. On one hand it could be referring to cremating Maki in the hometown, but on the other hand it could referring to burning the charms in Tokyo, I think with the implication that Tokyo is more of the same despite its glamour.

I read that as "Maki, you have always wanted to leave this suffocating village, but you live and died in the village. At least let me offer to burn your charm in Tokyo, as a sort of respite".

Japanese society as a whole working on the same principles undermines the story.
She simply went from a small cage to a bigger one.

The difference of being held captive in a human-sized cage and a whole house.
At least she can walk around a little now.

That, plus the fact that the small cage, she was born in, and the big cage, she chose for herself.

That and she may choose to go abroad later if she finds Japan as a whole unbearable. If she just stayed at the small village, she will never be able to imagine that. If she learned how can she open the cage and walk out, she may pull the same trick again.

This is precisely why those men said "That's why I didn't want to send her to university", they know educated people are harder to control and less likely to tolerate their BS, and they just want incubators and handmaids out of girls, not "women".

Also defiance is a muscle that can be trained.

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