Father Secretly Bought His Daughter’s Adult Manga to Support Her

Many people say Japanese parents can act like tsunderes after reading today’s story that was shared and went viral online. First of all, I don’t know if today’s story is actually real, since the account that posted it describes itself as a profile that “publishes short stories”.

However, the reactions show that situations like this can really happen, because other people started sharing that their parents or acquaintances behaved in exactly the same way.

So what is the story?

The story is told by someone whose father had always been extremely strict with him and his sister. However, one day the father stayed silent because the mother discovered that he had been secretly buying hentai manga and hiding them in the house.

Mother: “What is this pile of manga?”
Father: “…”
Mother: “Why are you secretly buying so many volumes of the same manga?”
Father: “….”

If you think this father was just a pervert who wanted to buy hentai manga for his collection, you’re mistaken. The truth is that the author of those hentai manga was actually the couple’s eldest daughter.

A few years earlier the father had expelled his eldest daughter from home because he was very strict. But instead of apologizing or speaking to her again, he was secretly buying the manga she produced in order to support her.

Reading the reactions, I saw many people commenting that their parents are like this as well: very strict with their children but secretly trying to support them in their own way.

Unfortunately, this is probably not a true story. But it would be very nice if it were, wouldn’t it?