My Summary so far -
Previously on Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai;
Our main group is the Doushinkai now run by its 4th head Misumi Takahito. Along side him is his right hand man and (I believe illegitimate) son Amou. Misumi has a soft spot for Yashiro, and had planned to elevate him to a higher position within the group (2nd in command).
The Shinseikai are a branch of said group - run by Hirata, under him is our very own Yashiro. Together with his underlings - Sugimoto and Nanahara, they make one fearsome band of misfits. Doumeki, tagged alongside them, was and will forever be Yashiro’s body guard. They never did exchange saki cups did they... Doumeki lost the last knuckle of his left pinky in atonement, for failing to protect Yashiro during an attempt at his life. In other news, Doumeki flies to the rescue when Yashiro is attempting to expose the “yakuza who framed me” - Hirata. Come to find a very battered Yashiro who seems to have accepted death. All in all Doumeki is shot, Yashiro freaks out and gets a rock to the head. Cut to the hospital Yashiro pretends to have forgotten Doumeki. Sweet Doumeki knows it’s all lies but still chooses to step back.
Kageyama is Yashiro’s childhood friend and your friendly neighborhood go to yakuza doctor. Also I guess Yashiro’s first crush. Kageyama likes burning stuff - like his friends skin. Koga is Kageyama’s (former street fighter) boyfriend.
The Matsubara is Ryuuzaki’s branch. Ryuuzaki is very clearly in love with Yashiro. Was manipulated by Hirata - Got him into the drug trade and ordering an assassin/bullet against Yashiro, but Ryuuzaki ordered said bullet to miss - thus Yashiro lives. When poor Ryuuzaki tried to stand up against Hirata, he was stabbed. He was sent to prison for his part in Hirata’s fiasco.
Scumbag Hirata - our previous bad guy. Resented Misumi for favoring Yashiro and trying to promote him above himself. Thus attempted to destroy the group, frame Yashiro for assassinating two execs, and jump ships to the Gouda group. Luckily, his evil plans failed. He was disposed of as you would do in the yakuza world.
Currently on Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai;
We rejoin our heroes 4 years later -
Both the Shinseikai and Matsubara branches Have been disbanded. Ryuuzaki is currently serving his time in prison. Our original group of misfits is currently running a very legitimate shady casino business. Yashiro still uses Detective macho dumbass - exchanging information for sex. It also seems Yashiro’s right eye has been damaged after his fight with Hirata. Currently Yashiro is holding onto an ugly and loud exotic bird as collateral for Shouya Kido, a former Matsubara member.
Doumeki is currently serving the Sakura family under the Sanwakai group. This was achieved with the help of Amou, 007 style. The group is run by it’s leader Tsunakawa, with his right hand man Muraji. Tsunakawa’s daugther Niki likes our Doumeki and thinks of him as a giant puppy (as one should when seeing him). Doumeki saved Niki who was kidnapped by Okuyama, a former member who decided to branch out from the group with his own new brand, now rival to Tsunakawa. Underlings include: Masa, Shinji - was in a hit-and-run while trying to collect a debt from Yamakawa and Shouya Kido (Yamakwa’s manipulator I suppose). Kamiya another underling - is Doumeki’s current partner on debt collecting adventures, suspects Doumeki might bat for the other team. Our sweet Doumeki has clearly become even more taciturn. But he still keeps tabs on Yashiro’s whereabouts and dealings.
They will very soon meet again as both are searching for the same person (Shouya Kido), but thus far it seems only Doumeki is aware of their eminent reunion. Both have now visited the pet shop owner and exotic animal smuggler, while Yashiro set free the animals, Doumeki who came a little later offered to help in the apprehension of the wild animals in exchange for information.
* Doushinkai
Head - Misumi
Right hand man - Amou
* Shinseikai - No longer operational
Leader - Hirata (DEAD)
2nd - Yashiro
Body guard - Doumeki
Underlings - Sugimoto , Nanahara
* Matsubara - No longer operational
Leader - Ryuuzaki (PRISON)
Underling - Shouya Kido (former member)
Kageyama - Doctor, Yashiro’s childhood friend. Koga - Kageyama’s boyfriend.
* Sanwakai
Sakura Family
Head - Tsunakawa
Right hand man - Muraji
Traitor - Okuyama
Daugther - Niki
Underlings - Masa, Shinji, Kamiya (currently Doumeki’s partner)
This was an awesome write up thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
This helped me to catch up since updates are few, far and between. Thank you!!!
Amazing!! Thank you so much for writing this up!
Just a minor correction :
Hirata headed the Shinseikai, not the Gouda. Under him is Yashiro. His beef with Yashiro was that Misumi intended to promote Yashiro to be the second in command of the Doushinkai Group. It's like a Senior Manager (Hirata) resenting the President who wanted to promote a mediocre supervisor (Yashiro) to be the Vice President. Hirata resents this because (#1) he thinks he should be the one promoted because he ranks higher than Yashiro, and (#2) he's a homophobic asshole who doesn't want to be outranked by what he thinks is a slutty masochistic faggot. Now he wants to switch to the Gouda, but will raise hell in the Doushinkai first as revenge for what he considers an outright insult to his pride. He gets Ryuuzaki to deal drugs and blackmails him to kill Yashiro, but jokes on him cuz Ryuuzaki is too in love with Yashiro to do it.
For more info : https://domeyashiro.tumblr.com/post/160161982248/yakuza-groups-ranks-and-family-relations-in
Ahh I knew Hirata’s reasons and motivations, just mixed him in the groups, I’ll fix that - thanks for the comment. Didn’t write too much details oh Hirata cause he’s a total scumbag and I hated his character ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Ohh I just scrolled through your link - it’s great! Very detailed ヾ(☆▽☆)
I’m definitely using that “I hope you break your little toe” the next time someone rejects me / breaks my heart (￣ε(#￣)Σ
The pure joy I feel whenever a new chapter is released, hindered only by the absolute devastation that hits me when I finish that new chapter knowing I have to wait again (￣ε(#￣)Σ
Spoiler!
Raws - Ends with Chiwoo throwing away a box of stuff (pictures and whatnot) from his time with Jihyun, and kissing puppy boy as to be expected!
So puppy boy shippers rejoiceヾ(☆▽☆)
Jihyun appreciators - no redemption story I guess, oh well ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Hoesntly, I ship Chiwoo with his classmate (I love that we've both forgotten his name lmao) and I don't really care that Jihyun doesn't get a redemption arc in this story (even though I adore him), but I hope he gets his own side story in the future.
He's too hot to be cancelled like this haha ლ(´ڡ`ლ)
I didn’t care if Chiwoo ended up with puppy boy, I could have also accepted seeing him grow mentally stronger on his own, definitely didn’t wanna see him end up with Jihyun.
But Jihyun’s backstory was so good, the complexity of his relationship with Chiwoo was such a good read, I did want to see some semblance of closure for him (〜￣△￣)〜
I’m just curious, if what puppy boy is doing might not be a start to something similar to Chiwoo’s past relationship with Jihyun;
Becoming best friends, constantly thinking/obsessing about your best friend, constantly pursuing/pushing for a romantic relationship one-sidedly (at least for now), keeping the best friend to yourself, basically alienating any other potential friendship - spent an entire vacation at his house not giving others a chance to visit, using any opening to try and get physically romantic...
BUT, then again what’s different is pretty obvious - The fact that puppy dog is HONEST about his affection for Chiwoo, and the fact that Chiwoo hasn’t “fully” rejected his advances... So it’s probably heading towards a happy ending between the two characters, as Yaoi’s do quite often... ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Oh wow, I really love this analysis! It seems so obvious once you've stated it yet I totally didn't notice!
No I don't see that happening and not because I ship the two. The indicators are not there we would see the dark obsession. Have you ever been with someone who wants to spend so much time with you? Some people forget that there actual people and couples who just love being around each all the time. So no I don't see his behavior in the same light as jihyun.
Funny thing is, as it’s depicted in this story the initial obsessive thinking and behavior is quite the same. Jihyun’s obsession wasn’t “dark” initially. It took some time for his obsession to turn “dark”.
I already stated that the only difference is puppy boy was honest with his feelings from the beginning and he had Chiwoo’s - for lack of a better word “encouragement” as he wasn’t rejecting him. So I’m saying the relationships started basically the same way but forked along the road - one twisted the relationship the other stuck around enough without turning it “dark” to see a happy ending...
I’m thinking I might have some serious memory problems, since this is the second time I re-read this manga forgetting it was dropped by Sensei.
Meaning I read it again two more times expecting an ending when I should know already there isn’t gonna be none...
I’m sorry if this seems harsh or out of line for some, but I’m sure most of us do understand that this site and others like it aren’t just “not official”, they are in fact illegal hosting sites. So, to complain about the Author being upset HER work is being used WITHOUT her permission and to try and justify what we’re doing here saying “the author should be happy just to be doing what she loves” as if this wasn’t her bread and butter and her source of income is just plain ridiculous!
Grow up, at the end of the day we’re all gonna have bills to pay and NOT one of us would be “understanding” if someone out there was cutting into our hard earned pay with utter disregard, since nobody bothered to notify us.
This isn’t the first time something like this happens, that is why people on this site and translation groups have to keep posting - don’t go commenting on the authors social media.
Please DO NOT pretend like we’re doing something pure and justifiable, I’m sure many like me are poor arse students without a penny to our name, we appreciate and worship translation groups that share mangas that we would never in a million years would have been able to read, we fall in love with the work of authors and mangakas that we wouldn’t have ever heard of without said translation groups, BUT in the same breath we would never, NOT in a million years pretend like any of them owe us anything, they can decide to stop sharing their translations and even stop writing these stories any minute of any day and not one person using this site has a say in those decisions. So, please save your stupid arse entitled opinions to yourself and save yourself the humiliation.
Sorry for ranting, got more upset as I was writing this. Its coming from a person who freaking loves this story. And Still I choose to -
Respect Mangakas!
Respect Translation Groups!
Preach
Why is it so hard to find characters like Karino and Azusa, that are well thought out, flushed out, have complex and intriguing backgrounds and personalities, and with such intricate relationships with their family/friends in this genre.（/TДT)/
I’m genuinely tired of the shallow connections we get. This story is literally a one in a ten thousand kind of story...
PERIODTTTTT
I can't agree any more(〜￣△￣)〜
G and H! Get married, we’ll all be happy for you!! Fighting (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
This manga gives me peace of mind (⌒▽⌒)
Edit - I just realized I made a very similar comment when the last chapter was released...
Can't blame you, it's so fluffy and peaceful