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ひとりじめマイヒーロー [Hitorijime My Hero] #13
ひとりじめマイヒーロー 13
A yaoi romance between a good boy who didn't know he was waiting for a hero, and a bad boy who comes to his rescue! Now a hit streaming anime!
Masahiro finds himself working day and night to save up funds again after his mom spends the money he’d been saving for the big school trip. Kousuke’s desperate efforts to dissuade Masahiro prove ineffective, and he reluctantly signs off on Masahiro’s nightmarish work schedule. Meanwhile, all’s well between Hasekura and Kensuke...until Hasekura’s mother makes a surprise return home and utters one dreaded phrase: “school transfer.”
Masahiro finds himself working day and night to save up funds again after his mom spends the money he’d been saving for the big school trip. Kousuke’s desperate efforts to dissuade Masahiro prove ineffective, and he reluctantly signs off on Masahiro’s nightmarish work schedule. Meanwhile, all’s well between Hasekura and Kensuke...until Hasekura’s mother makes a surprise return home and utters one dreaded phrase: “school transfer.”
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Memeco Arii
36 books91 followersMemeco Arii (Arii Memeko ありいめめこ) is a Japanese manga artist.
Other associated names:
有井メメコ
ARII Memeko
Other associated names:
有井メメコ
ARII Memeko
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June 12, 2023
Bueno, no soy fan de la relación de Hasekura y Kensuke, pero este tomo me gustó. Más que todo porque al fin Kensuke dijo algo!! Siento que siempre fue muy pasivo y dejaba que Hasekura hiciera lo que él quisiera, pero acá el expresó sus deseos y eso me gustó. Y bueno, amo a Masahiro! Y a Kousuke también! Vamos a ver qué más sigue en los otros tomos!
February 28, 2023
Ahhhh…these boys are so adorable. Not much of Masahiro and Kousuke in this volume, but Hasekura and ken are cute too, and we finally get to see the Asaya’s mom.
April 16, 2023
As much as I love my two couples and the fact that we got more of our younger couple together I just feels like nothing really happened to be honest. Like I didn’t even feel like he was going to actually move at all. Like he easily could of moved in with them. Would he like it not necessarily but he would of done it for Ken. Story wise this series is starting to feel like it’s dragging and I don’t know where I will be going from here on out.
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March 18, 2023
The book was good but it wasn’t even close to the description! Almost the entire book was about Kensuke and Hasekura as well as a new character, Pei-Taro. There wasn’t much about Kousuke and Masahiro. It lost a star because it was nothing the synopsis.
October 1, 2023
I was a little bored during this one. There is a new character that is introduced, and I think that's a good thing. They helped develop Kensuke a little bit more. Hasekura and Kensuke decide to run away when Hasa's mother comes into town and demands that he transfer schools and move. They meet up with the new character Pei-taro, a gaming developer, who joins them on their 'run away'.
Things get resolved quickly. Masahiro and Kousuke are barely in this one. I do kind of wish that the author had just continued the Hitorijime Boyfriend manga so that way Kensuke and Hasekura had their own series, and Masahiro and Kousuke can have their own too. I think the story and the series in general would probably be shorter if that were the case. It's starting to get a little stale, and I'm wondering when it'll end.
I do still like the series, but it's starting to feel like a drag and at a standstill. Maybe if the author had taken them out of school already and put them in college or something, maybe it'd feel like it's progressing.
Things get resolved quickly. Masahiro and Kousuke are barely in this one. I do kind of wish that the author had just continued the Hitorijime Boyfriend manga so that way Kensuke and Hasekura had their own series, and Masahiro and Kousuke can have their own too. I think the story and the series in general would probably be shorter if that were the case. It's starting to get a little stale, and I'm wondering when it'll end.
I do still like the series, but it's starting to feel like a drag and at a standstill. Maybe if the author had taken them out of school already and put them in college or something, maybe it'd feel like it's progressing.
May 17, 2024
This was...frustrating. I don't think it'd be entirely fair to give it 2 stars, since I do think the parts with Ken figuring out a career path were interesting and decently handled. Even if every single thing in this volume relied entirely on completely random coincidental encounters.
I'm also annoyed by how much the focus keeps swinging back to Ken and Hasekura. We spent this entire volume on them, again, and got the Ohshiba dad finally coming back to the house (briefly) in a brief summing-things-up chapter where there's no indication he even interacted with Setagawa. You know, the guy living with his son in their house. Whom we had every indication he'd still thought was a girl after their last encounter.
And then there's a quick blip of Kousuke and Setagawa finally sitting down with Setagawa's mother, to talk about finances, I guess? Are they ever going to tell her that they're dating? I think this might be leading into the next volume, but it's still feeling really dissatisfying right now.
I'm getting tired of all the actual interesting plot bits getting abandoned or shoved into corners at this point. Memeco seems to be speeding up production a lot - the last two volumes came out in a single year, and her author's notes have been talking less about deadlines and more about debilitating joint pain - which makes me wonder if she's not actually planning the story at all anymore, and just kind of drawing whatever comes to mind first.
This entire volume was chaotic. Pei-Taro, the game developer who'd been interested in Ken's gaming skills and casual attitude, gets lost and passes out directly in front of the Ohshiba residence...for no apparent reason whatsoever, other than it being a funny scene. It does not lead anywhere. It has no relevance later on.
Then we find out that the Hasekura mother, Akiko, has come back to town to reunite her family, mostly because she's an extreme character actress who's now deciding to play the role of mother. To that end, she withdraws Hasekura from school, and starts up another transfer, like the one that had originally separated him from Ken during his parents' divorce a few years earlier.
This time, Ken decides he's not letting him go and boards a bus to run away with Hasekura - which was a part I liked. Interesting! Could lead to some good character and family stuff. But they coincidentally run into Pei-Taro in a cafe, who calls Kousuke to tell him where they are, and then takes Ken on a tour of his game development company. Which I guess they had coincidentally ended up near.
There were some good character moments here, with a surprisingly mature and thoughtful Pei-Taro telling Hasekura that if he really cares about Ken, he shouldn't be trying to hide him from the rest of the world and limiting his future prospects. Meaning, Kei-Taro really wants Ken to come work for him after school. Ken also has a little bit of insightful reflection about how Hasekura has always followed him around just to be with him, without really being interested in what he's doing...which is ultimately pretty draining. But this kind of doesn't go anywhere.
Hasekura just gives up and boards a bus again while Ken's on the tour, and winds up running into his mother somehow at the bus stop?
Then the Ohshiba mom calls Akiko, since the others (Kousuke, Setagawa, Onda, Houjou who barely has a presence even though he's a Hasekura son-in-law) had banded together to figure out how to stop her, and decided a mom-to-mom talk would be the most effective. It is indeed extremely effective, only because the two moms had coincidentally known each other way back in the past, when Miho was briefly working as an idol. (Explains her nightly karaoke sessions, I guess.) And Akiko seems to have really admired her?
So Akiko cancels Hasekura's transfer and then goes back to her next role in a new movie.
It's just. It's bad plotting. It's weird. There were good bits strewn in, but everything just relied on random connections that somehow no one knew about in advance.
Meanwhile, all the Hasekura family stuff was incredibly weird. Ayaka, who'd been trying to divorce Houjou, probably due to her mother's influence (although the divorce proceedings and/or her marriage did not come up in this volume in any way), was for some reason dressed up in a whole loli outfit with pigtails and ruffles, acting like an actual child. I guess to try to return to her roots of wanting her mother to care for her? Since in an earlier volume, it'd been clear that she and her dad were the ones who were really upset about Akiko leaving.
But she's in her late 20s. And her reaction did not fit her personality at all. Does she even have a consistent personality at this point? She kind of seems all over the place, just fitting into whatever scenario crops up at the time...and that's frustrating, because I find her interesting, and I liked Hasekura bringing her over to the Ohshiba residence to try to get her and Setagawa to be friends. (Now that Natsuo's bar is sort of off limits. Although Houjou still goes there.)
Like I said, this whole thing was kind of a mess. I hope the next volume gets back to some actual plot that doesn't rely on a dozen new characters and thrown-together scenes where everyone winds up exactly where they'd started.
I'm also annoyed by how much the focus keeps swinging back to Ken and Hasekura. We spent this entire volume on them, again, and got the Ohshiba dad finally coming back to the house (briefly) in a brief summing-things-up chapter where there's no indication he even interacted with Setagawa. You know, the guy living with his son in their house. Whom we had every indication he'd still thought was a girl after their last encounter.
And then there's a quick blip of Kousuke and Setagawa finally sitting down with Setagawa's mother, to talk about finances, I guess? Are they ever going to tell her that they're dating? I think this might be leading into the next volume, but it's still feeling really dissatisfying right now.
I'm getting tired of all the actual interesting plot bits getting abandoned or shoved into corners at this point. Memeco seems to be speeding up production a lot - the last two volumes came out in a single year, and her author's notes have been talking less about deadlines and more about debilitating joint pain - which makes me wonder if she's not actually planning the story at all anymore, and just kind of drawing whatever comes to mind first.
This entire volume was chaotic. Pei-Taro, the game developer who'd been interested in Ken's gaming skills and casual attitude, gets lost and passes out directly in front of the Ohshiba residence...for no apparent reason whatsoever, other than it being a funny scene. It does not lead anywhere. It has no relevance later on.
Then we find out that the Hasekura mother, Akiko, has come back to town to reunite her family, mostly because she's an extreme character actress who's now deciding to play the role of mother. To that end, she withdraws Hasekura from school, and starts up another transfer, like the one that had originally separated him from Ken during his parents' divorce a few years earlier.
This time, Ken decides he's not letting him go and boards a bus to run away with Hasekura - which was a part I liked. Interesting! Could lead to some good character and family stuff. But they coincidentally run into Pei-Taro in a cafe, who calls Kousuke to tell him where they are, and then takes Ken on a tour of his game development company. Which I guess they had coincidentally ended up near.
There were some good character moments here, with a surprisingly mature and thoughtful Pei-Taro telling Hasekura that if he really cares about Ken, he shouldn't be trying to hide him from the rest of the world and limiting his future prospects. Meaning, Kei-Taro really wants Ken to come work for him after school. Ken also has a little bit of insightful reflection about how Hasekura has always followed him around just to be with him, without really being interested in what he's doing...which is ultimately pretty draining. But this kind of doesn't go anywhere.
Hasekura just gives up and boards a bus again while Ken's on the tour, and winds up running into his mother somehow at the bus stop?
Then the Ohshiba mom calls Akiko, since the others (Kousuke, Setagawa, Onda, Houjou who barely has a presence even though he's a Hasekura son-in-law) had banded together to figure out how to stop her, and decided a mom-to-mom talk would be the most effective. It is indeed extremely effective, only because the two moms had coincidentally known each other way back in the past, when Miho was briefly working as an idol. (Explains her nightly karaoke sessions, I guess.) And Akiko seems to have really admired her?
So Akiko cancels Hasekura's transfer and then goes back to her next role in a new movie.
It's just. It's bad plotting. It's weird. There were good bits strewn in, but everything just relied on random connections that somehow no one knew about in advance.
Meanwhile, all the Hasekura family stuff was incredibly weird. Ayaka, who'd been trying to divorce Houjou, probably due to her mother's influence (although the divorce proceedings and/or her marriage did not come up in this volume in any way), was for some reason dressed up in a whole loli outfit with pigtails and ruffles, acting like an actual child. I guess to try to return to her roots of wanting her mother to care for her? Since in an earlier volume, it'd been clear that she and her dad were the ones who were really upset about Akiko leaving.
But she's in her late 20s. And her reaction did not fit her personality at all. Does she even have a consistent personality at this point? She kind of seems all over the place, just fitting into whatever scenario crops up at the time...and that's frustrating, because I find her interesting, and I liked Hasekura bringing her over to the Ohshiba residence to try to get her and Setagawa to be friends. (Now that Natsuo's bar is sort of off limits. Although Houjou still goes there.)
Like I said, this whole thing was kind of a mess. I hope the next volume gets back to some actual plot that doesn't rely on a dozen new characters and thrown-together scenes where everyone winds up exactly where they'd started.
July 6, 2024
4 Stars
This volume is continuing the lives of all the characters we've come to like/love over the course of this manga. This is a good combo of the main 2 couples stories. Both couples get about the same amount of storyline. Though not too much happens with the main couple. Just see their daily lives mostly. We do learn a little bit about both couples mothers in this one. Which is interesting. This volume is not covered in the anime. If you like this manga or the anime that was made from it it's definitely worth getting.
This volume is continuing the lives of all the characters we've come to like/love over the course of this manga. This is a good combo of the main 2 couples stories. Both couples get about the same amount of storyline. Though not too much happens with the main couple. Just see their daily lives mostly. We do learn a little bit about both couples mothers in this one. Which is interesting. This volume is not covered in the anime. If you like this manga or the anime that was made from it it's definitely worth getting.
November 17, 2024
This was a trial to get through. Hasekura's family storyline just felt unnecessary and just dragged on. There just hasn't been any growth with either Hasekura or Kensuke. They just come off as annoying, especially when they were the main focus of this issue. It felt like the conflict didn't matter at all.
We hardly got to see Masahiro and Kousuke and I hope the next volume focuses more on them. I love this series, but the last few volumes have really been a let down.
We hardly got to see Masahiro and Kousuke and I hope the next volume focuses more on them. I love this series, but the last few volumes have really been a let down.
February 21, 2026
Still sick and manga is still the only thing I have the brain power to read. I hope to either be well soon or to have my order from crunchyroll show up soon because this is the last volume I have.
My precious babies are still going strong and I love them. Hasekura’s mom is wild and tbh I love that little gamer nerd.
My precious babies are still going strong and I love them. Hasekura’s mom is wild and tbh I love that little gamer nerd.
January 30, 2024
3.5 stars
I really enjoyed this one. It introduced some new characters, had a marriage proposal, and revealed all the relationships. Yunge is a scary individual and I need more of him and Natsuo.
I wish I could unpack this volume, but I can't without spoiling things or making no sense.
I really enjoyed this one. It introduced some new characters, had a marriage proposal, and revealed all the relationships. Yunge is a scary individual and I need more of him and Natsuo.
I wish I could unpack this volume, but I can't without spoiling things or making no sense.
July 30, 2024
I almost needed a character page at the beginning. There was quite the gap between vol. #12 and #13 release.
March 11, 2023
Finally, read this volume I have been waiting for what feels like forever to read it! I'm really enjoying this series. This volume was again super fun, we got more into Kensuke and Hasekura's relationship and some family problems on Hasekura's side. My only complaint was how little we got from Masahiro and Kousuke in this volume, I hope to get more of them in the next volume this summer. This makes me super happy because I thought this was the final volume and I was just so happy that we are getting more....
August 15, 2024
I'm really loving this Manga
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