Forum - View topicNEWS: JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World Manga to End in 7th Volume This Summer
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njprogfan
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Read the light novel when it first came out and now reading the manga. This is a surprisingly good story with sex/sex workers the main topic and plotline. It'll be interesting to see if this ever gets an anime adaptation because it's not just the ecchi moments. It goes pretty deep...(pun kinda intended).
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mrakai
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I honestly would've skipped these as they're not my thing but a friend who used to be at editor at J-Novel club recommended it and while I haven't checked out the Manga, the book was, as you said, surprisingly non-exploitative of it's sex worker characters. (at least for a light novel) |
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MFrontier
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I might check this out.
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xxmsxx
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Read vol.1, definitely hooked. Good to know it is not going to be milked but wrapped up at least for the main series. I was getting concerned it got big and preparing to be milked.
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nobahn
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They have released the two LNs. The second LN is a series of short stories. I really, really, really wish that Ko Hiratori had continued the story; the short story "Mom" is nothing less than mind blowing. Seriously. I wonder if "Mom" has inspired any fanfiction in Japan? These two light novels emphasize the need for understanding cultural anthropology when trying to navigate foreign literature. In "JK Haru" Hiratori repeatedly has Haru explicitly state that girls/women are a lower class than men. Yet -- at least in terms of social interactions -- the social norms are Japanese social norms. If you do not know cultural anthropology, then you will not realize that Ko Hiratori is using "JK Haru" to comment upon the endemic sexism in Japanese culture. Have any other works by Ko Hiratori been released in English? |
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Andrew Cunningham
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She hasn't written anything else. Definitely looking like a one-shot wonder.
Edit: The Wikipedia article does say they've put out adult web novels under a variety of other names, but doesn't list them, and I couldn't find anything documenting it. |
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Mohawk52
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Seed for a crop of hentai spin-offs.
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nobahn
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Hence, my line:
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