History TearJerker / BitterVirgin

* Hinako's mother is often seen as callous/stupid for denying the fact that Hinako is being sexually abused by her stepdad, but most people don't realize how ''insanely hard it is'' to wrap your head around this kind of thing. It's easy to go MamaBear on a rapist you don't know personally; it's a lot harder when the accused rapist is your own spouse, whom you live with and ''love'', and who is a skilled enough manipulator to put a good face in front of you. Massive AdultFear material.

* The CreatorBreakdown that created this story. Kei Kusunoki wrote this manga [[spoiler:right after having a miscarriage.]] Hence, why Hinako lost her first baby. [[spoiler:[[HarsherInHindsight And why Izumi lost hers in the end.]]]] Tragically, Kusunoki also reveals that her own mother [[spoiler:lost her own son (Kusunoki's older brother) in an accident when he was only three years old]].

* The CreatorBreakdown that created this story. Kei Kusunoki wrote this manga [[spoiler:right after having a miscarriage.]] Hence, why Hinako lost her first baby. [[spoiler:[[HarsherInHindsight And why Izumi lost hers in the end.]]]]

* [[spoiler:The death of Izumi's stillborn son.]]

* Any time Hinako's son is brought up, really. Notably when she stares at a cute one-year-old's outfit in the baby clothing store, and when she asks in the confessional whether it's alright for her to celebrate her son's birthday, despite never having met hi - urgh, choking up here!

** Not to mention of having to wrap your head around the fact that your supposedly dear spouse would rather ''sleep with your daughter'' than you. That's quite a punch to anyone's pride.

* Hinako's mother is often seen as callous/stupid for denying the fact that Hinako is being sexually abused by her stepdad, but most people don't realize how ''insanely hard it is'' to wrap your head around this kind of thing. It's easy to go MamaBear on a rapist you don't know personally; it's a lot harder when the accused rapist is your own spouse, whom you live with and ''love''.

* The CreatorBreakdown that created this story. Kei Kusunoki wrote this manga [[spoiler:right after having a miscarriage.]] Hence, why Hinako lost her first baby. [[spoiler:And why Izumi lost hers in the end.]]

* The CreatorBreakdown that created this story.

-->[[spoiler:'''Daisuke:''' My nephew came home as nothing more than tiny bones.]]

* Hinako's mother is often seen as callous/stupid for denying the fact that Hinako is being sexually abused by her stepdad, but most people don't realize how ''insanely hard it is'' to wrap your head around this kind of thing. It's easy to go MamaBear on a rapist you don't know personally; it's a lot harder when the accused rapist is your own spouse, whom you live with and ''love''.

--> "It didn't feel terrible the way a kiss does."