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あの子の子ども [Ano Ko no Kodomo] #10
My Girlfriend's Child Vol. 10
本編では描かれなかった、スペシャル番外編４話を収録。
・SNSで大バズリした話題の「第0話 初恋」
・福と宝が初めて結ばれた日を描く「第0.5話 交合」
・本編の終盤に登場するライムちゃんの物語を描く「第x話 来夢」
・福と、宝と、“あの子”の未来を描く「第n話 花火」 の全４話を収録。
「高校生の妊娠」をテーマに、「生」と真正面から向き合い描いた、蒼井まもる渾身の大ヒット作、ついに最終巻！
・SNSで大バズリした話題の「第0話 初恋」
・福と宝が初めて結ばれた日を描く「第0.5話 交合」
・本編の終盤に登場するライムちゃんの物語を描く「第x話 来夢」
・福と、宝と、“あの子”の未来を描く「第n話 花火」 の全４話を収録。
「高校生の妊娠」をテーマに、「生」と真正面から向き合い描いた、蒼井まもる渾身の大ヒット作、ついに最終巻！
- GenresMangaComing Of Age
192 pages, Paperback
First published November 13, 2024
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April 30, 2026
Loved reading these bonus stories!!!
I loved seeing how Sachi and Takara met and fell in love. Very sweet.
We finally got to see what happened with Raimu. Also, we got to see her past and why her story was different from Sachi’s. I don’t want to spoil but it’s damn depressing.
And finally, we got to see Makoto as a teen!!!! So bittersweet! I loved the little detail of her texting her “grandma on her dad’s side”… So Takara and his mom were able to work things out?
I loved seeing how Sachi and Takara met and fell in love. Very sweet.
We finally got to see what happened with Raimu. Also, we got to see her past and why her story was different from Sachi’s. I don’t want to spoil but it’s damn depressing.
And finally, we got to see Makoto as a teen!!!! So bittersweet! I loved the little detail of her texting her “grandma on her dad’s side”… So Takara and his mom were able to work things out?
May 6, 2026
A really cute opening and closing, getting to know our leads more before the dated, and then their daughter years and years later. The middle is about the girl who...left her baby. It's really sad. Overall a good volume.
April 22, 2026
dopo tre anni che seguo questo manga, mi fa molto strano arrivare all'ultima pagina. è così piacevole trovare i personaggi crescere e restare vivaci. mi mancheranno 🩷
May 6, 2026
this is my formal thanks to mamoru aoi for creating one of if not the best shoujo manga ever
April 29, 2026
While some of the volumes in this series could be kind of disinteresting, this series as a whole was beautifully done.
May 2, 2026
[CW: child abuse, self-harm, sexual abuse]
Well, this volume doesn’t need to exist. My Girlfriend’s Child actually wrapped up just fine last volume and this is a victory lap of side stories. But, crucially, we were told that ahead of time, which means it’s not egregious that this happens.
The bookends of the volume concern our leads and what happens before and after. We first see how Sachi and Takara came to fall in love and it’s a very fun shojo-issue background that absolutely does not affect the story in any way.
Which is a good thing! The series started with Sachi getting pregnant so we knew they were a couple and the focus was on the pregnancy. The romance was less important, so it makes perfect sense that it goes right here for the curious reader.
I don’t know that I cared, but I wasn’t sad to see this fleshed out either. Takara and Sachi were clearly devoted to one another during the main narrative and this just fills in that particular blank. It’s a well-done romance.
The last section features the titular child, now grown to 17 and about to embark on her own adventures. This is a fun little epilogue that, again, doesn’t fit anywhere else. This is a little extra for the person who wants to see it and has some amusing Easter eggs and parallels.
I like that this is clearly Sachi and Takara’s daughter, but she’s also her own person, partially blended from the two of them. She’s got her own personality and seeing that made for another strong postscript.
The middle section is the one that flat-out comes with a trigger warning from the mangaka, which should tell you in advance what you’re getting yourself into. And make no mistake, that warning is not lying.
This shows the backstory of Kurume, the young woman that Sachi was texting with and trying to help during their mutual pregnancies. It is not a happy story and goes real hard on the cycle of violence and abuse and people who prey on others.
Kurume is made to feel worthless and then learns all sorts of wrong lessons about being “valued” by the wrong sort of person. She begins having sex to fill a void in her life, not realizing what she’s giving up in the process.
This doesn’t get any better when she does find somebody, nailing the fact that abuse like this can utterly wreck a person down the line. Some of the things Kurume does are absolutely shocking.
It’s the most polarizing section, explaining something that yet again doesn’t need to be explained, but veering super close to misery porn (the ending in particular is precariously close to over the top, not that it doesn’t ring true). Sure, we knew this was a bad situation during the main story; this just illustrates how bad.
The real question that lingers here is the ill-fated meeting that never happened between Kurume and Sachi. It’s hard to say if Sachi would have done anything to make Kurume’s life any better or if Kurume would have dragged Sachi down when she had her own baby to think about. It remains a ‘what if’ to never be answered.
Overall, it makes for a nice little coda to the main plot and fleshes it out a bit more. Nothing here is essential, but it certainly offers a reward to the reader who is asking for more background or another story with the cast.
4 stars - not fun, per se, but a satisfying final volume that you can take or leave at your discretion. Given the nature of the Kurume chapter, that’s probably for the best. I appreciate this being a send-off that identified itself as such and don’t feel it was a waste of time or money.
Well, this volume doesn’t need to exist. My Girlfriend’s Child actually wrapped up just fine last volume and this is a victory lap of side stories. But, crucially, we were told that ahead of time, which means it’s not egregious that this happens.
The bookends of the volume concern our leads and what happens before and after. We first see how Sachi and Takara came to fall in love and it’s a very fun shojo-issue background that absolutely does not affect the story in any way.
Which is a good thing! The series started with Sachi getting pregnant so we knew they were a couple and the focus was on the pregnancy. The romance was less important, so it makes perfect sense that it goes right here for the curious reader.
I don’t know that I cared, but I wasn’t sad to see this fleshed out either. Takara and Sachi were clearly devoted to one another during the main narrative and this just fills in that particular blank. It’s a well-done romance.
The last section features the titular child, now grown to 17 and about to embark on her own adventures. This is a fun little epilogue that, again, doesn’t fit anywhere else. This is a little extra for the person who wants to see it and has some amusing Easter eggs and parallels.
I like that this is clearly Sachi and Takara’s daughter, but she’s also her own person, partially blended from the two of them. She’s got her own personality and seeing that made for another strong postscript.
The middle section is the one that flat-out comes with a trigger warning from the mangaka, which should tell you in advance what you’re getting yourself into. And make no mistake, that warning is not lying.
This shows the backstory of Kurume, the young woman that Sachi was texting with and trying to help during their mutual pregnancies. It is not a happy story and goes real hard on the cycle of violence and abuse and people who prey on others.
Kurume is made to feel worthless and then learns all sorts of wrong lessons about being “valued” by the wrong sort of person. She begins having sex to fill a void in her life, not realizing what she’s giving up in the process.
This doesn’t get any better when she does find somebody, nailing the fact that abuse like this can utterly wreck a person down the line. Some of the things Kurume does are absolutely shocking.
It’s the most polarizing section, explaining something that yet again doesn’t need to be explained, but veering super close to misery porn (the ending in particular is precariously close to over the top, not that it doesn’t ring true). Sure, we knew this was a bad situation during the main story; this just illustrates how bad.
The real question that lingers here is the ill-fated meeting that never happened between Kurume and Sachi. It’s hard to say if Sachi would have done anything to make Kurume’s life any better or if Kurume would have dragged Sachi down when she had her own baby to think about. It remains a ‘what if’ to never be answered.
Overall, it makes for a nice little coda to the main plot and fleshes it out a bit more. Nothing here is essential, but it certainly offers a reward to the reader who is asking for more background or another story with the cast.
4 stars - not fun, per se, but a satisfying final volume that you can take or leave at your discretion. Given the nature of the Kurume chapter, that’s probably for the best. I appreciate this being a send-off that identified itself as such and don’t feel it was a waste of time or money.
May 3, 2026
The back of the book says this series is destined to go down as a modern shojo classic and I agree. My girlfriend’s child is a poignant and informative series.
Some may feel this volume wasn’t needed and perhaps it wasn’t but I loved it. It was sweet seeing Sachi and Takara falling in love. It was the perfect end to the series ending with Makoto as a teenage girl like Sachi was.
I appreciated the trigger warnings that came before Raimu’s story. It was sad as to be expected all things considered and it’s the opposite of the good life that Sachi was able to provide for her child but we already knew that but it still hit harder than I thought it would.
I just want more people to read this amazing series.
Some may feel this volume wasn’t needed and perhaps it wasn’t but I loved it. It was sweet seeing Sachi and Takara falling in love. It was the perfect end to the series ending with Makoto as a teenage girl like Sachi was.
I appreciated the trigger warnings that came before Raimu’s story. It was sad as to be expected all things considered and it’s the opposite of the good life that Sachi was able to provide for her child but we already knew that but it still hit harder than I thought it would.
I just want more people to read this amazing series.
May 4, 2026
An amazing shoujo series, a must read
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