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Being a cathartic yet extremely formulaic manga series, the stories will make sure that the antagonist will almost always receive heaps over heaps of karma for their misdeeds. Therefore, this warrants Manga Soprano its own Humiliation Conga page.


  • "Her parents doted only on her younger sister, but she would learn the truth about her parents": After Haru spilled the beans about her younger sister Natsu being the daughter of another man in retaliation for the latter ruining her wedding, their mom calls the former to whine about her husband charging her the alimony, her lover dumping her, and Natsu overeating after the shock and despair over realizing she was an illegitimate child.

  • "I was made a sucker, and I mobilized all my past victims to get back at them": In a bid to punish Mizuki for taking advantage of Kanade, Alto contacted all of the former's past victims and gathered them at the Puni theme park, where they celebrated Kanade's birthday. When Mizuki shows up after Kanade leaves for the restroom to wipe her tears, everyone pretends to forget their wallets and force her to pay with the same excuses she used to avoid being held accountable. Even her plan to take advantage of Kanade at the last minute was foiled when Alto and the victims lied that Mizuki was going to pay the bill herself and Kanade fell for it. Eventually, Mizuki is left behind at the park working hard to pay off the debt.

  • "I work in a lunch box shop and my mom's friends are harassing me...": Lisa mistakenly defaces her in-laws' bento shop in a last-ditch effort to get Kanade fired and make her suffer. When they chewed her out for review-bombing their shop and her recent vandalism, it was revealed Lisa's complaints referring to Kanade as "that staff with purple hair" ended up targeting her mother-in-law instead, who coincidentally has purple hair a shade darker than Kanade's. Lisa tries to force Kanade to pay the damages, only for the latter to refuse and tell her that kindness and cruelty come back to one before hanging up on her. Eventually, the in-laws go through with their lawsuit, causing Lisa's husband to divorce her and get custody of their son.

  • "A misunderstood woman who pretends to be a lover when she is not even in a relationship": Misato mistakenly thinks the smile Alto showed towards Kanade was for her and tries to seduce him in her usual cutesy way, but he has none of it and orders her to resign. In response, she tries to plead with him while insulting Kanade, which caused him to reveal that Kanade is his fiancée and that she reported her behavior to him before. Much to her further dismay, Takeuchi and the other employees confirm Kanade's report and crush her Delusions of Beauty in the process. While she stayed and kept up with her cutesy act, no one took her seriously; her poor work performance made her a pariah. After she resigned on Alto's request, he laid the groundwork for surrounding business to prevent her from being hired there and is eventually rumored to work at a local snack bar.

  • "My sister, who takes all my things, brags that she stole my boyfriend. But she was mistaken.." [sic]: Milano mistook Takeuchi for Kanade's fiancé and gloated to her about being pregnant with his child. However, Kanade reveals she's marrying her childhood friend Alto, who became an inn consulting company's CEO before hanging up. According to Kanade's narration, Milano's debut in showbiz went unnoticed and tried to gain popularity by marrying a CEO. As it turns out, Takeuchi was married with children and his wife sued Milano for alimony, dashing her hopes of becoming famous In response, her parents Karin and Baccarat stormed the inn demanding Kanade's presence, but it was too late because she stopped working there. Furthermore, their tantrum was recorded in photos and videos, causing them to become pariahs. Eventually, they showed up to beg Kanade for money but she was having none of it, leaving them to pay the debt by themselves and Milano became a Struggling Single Mother.

  • "On the eve of the wedding, my fiancée was snatched away by a bratty junior colleague...": Shiho's plot to ruin Ram's life after stealing Kinoshita-kun from her fails when her victim becomes a star employee at the subsidiary she was transferred to. Later on, the parent company's CEO reveals that Kinoshita-kun was fired for his irreverence toward business partners and selling secrets to other companies. When Ram asks Shiho about him, she reveals he was too stingy for her liking, implying she divorced him long before his firing. As for Shiho herself, she tried to steal Chief Kairi from Ram as well, but he refused and pointed out her poor performance at work. She tried to confess her feelings for him only to be told he's marrying Ram and then lambasted for her faux pas. As a result, Shiho becomes the target of rumors about her messing with other people's fiancés, causing her to resign.

  • "After being taunted with a wheelchair on a graduation trip and left at a train station": Misuzu and her posse took the train early for their graduation trip to Disneyland and left both Kanade and Haru behind at the station to spite the former for being disabled. However, she books a trip to "Disney Sea" [sic] instead. Later on, Kanade is called by Misuzu, who complains she has to pay 3 million yen a night instead of the 10,000 she talked about. It turns out the 10,000 yen fee was a special discount for Kanade's graduation trip as she was a Zaibatsu heiress with connections to the company. After Haru took Kanade's phone and hung up on Misuzu, the girls' parents fronted them the money, leading the three of them to slave away at a convenience store to pay off the debt.

  • "I was pretended to be dead by my family, and I took revenge": After having her older sister Haru kicked out of the house, Kiyomi cast herself as a "selfless good girl" and faked Haru's death to fish for sympathy on her wedding day. In response, Haru goes up the stage and exposes Kiyomi's true colors to everyone, all while the bride's demands of taking her allegedly dead sister off the stage are ignored. Eventually, Kiyomi breaks down from the guests' whispers and reveals she faked Haru's death because she couldn't stand her being with Shota. As a result, he calls off the wedding and asks Haru out instead, but she rejects him for being a playboy. Eventually, Kiyomi's once-doting parents turn on her and apologize to Haru for their mistakes. Moreover, the couple broke up and Kiyomi lost friends after everyone found out the type of person she was.

  • "My parents left me on a deserted island, and ten years later I became a yakuza": Years after Ram's parents abandoned her, they spoiled her sister Momo rotten to the point she eats at restaurants without paying; the couple even laments how did she end up like this. Furthermore, this becomes their undoing when she pulls this in a Yakuza restaurant. When the owner, Kairi, shows up and the trio learns that Ram is his wife, they beg her for mercy only to be rejected and chewed out for all the abuse they put her through. Kairi then punishes the three of them on Ram's behalf, sending the mother to work at the mines, the father to a fishing boat, and Momo to a cabaret, all three of them for two years. Ram even narrates that they tried to escape to no avail, reflecting the situation they put her through.

  • "Bride holds her wedding outdoors in the winter→The groom and all present were outraged...": Maria decided to have her wedding outdoors in freezing-cold Hokkaido and didn't care about the presents falling ill from the cold. Eventually, Maria blurts out she planned her garden wedding without telling Narita and only wanted to marry him for his face and money. When Narita overheard her and Haru pointed it out to him, he gets pissed off at her. Furthermore, Haru revealed Maria had the guests pay for their own transport and hotel accommodations, rather than using the money Narita gave her for such services. When he asked her what she did with the money, Maria claimed she spent it all on her wedding dress, her tone implying it was actually a spending spree. Understandably, Narita canceled the wedding and left for the hotel booked by Haru and Ram despite Maria's pleas, with all the guests following suit. Afterward, Maria had to quit her company and work three part-time jobs to pay him the alimony and the wedding expenses.

  • "The day before her wedding, her pregnant sister took her fiancé from her": Masashi dumps Ram for her spoiled younger sister Yuri, but it becomes his undoing when her reckless spending busted his fraud scheme and made him a fugitive. He then returns to beg Ram for forgiveness but she calls the cops on him instead. To twist the knife even further, she reveals to Masashi that the baby in Yuri's belly wasn't even his. As for Yuri, she stormed Ram's place with her parents to demand she pay compensation but was sent home spouting threats. One day, she hired a pair of thugs to beat Ram up in revenge only for Kairi to beat the both of them into submission. Furthermore, Ram calls the cops on Yuri despite her pleas for forgiveness and gets arrested. Therefore, her parents took over the debt and Yuri's baby may be put up for adoption since the real father was still missing.

  • "I heard that my husband was absent from work due to high fever, so when I went home with anxiety...": Yoshikazu and his mistress, Misa, are locked in the shower when a pregnant Ram nails several tables to the door. As the lovebirds try to reason with Ram, she has already called the mistress' husband, Haruki, who came over with his lawyer as he already knew that Misa was cheating on him. Even as the lovers blamed one another for the affair, Ram and Haruki both demanded a divorce from their respective spouses despite Yoshikazu's pleas and Misa's fake tears. Eventually, Ram called her in-laws to take Yoshikazu away. After confirming the divorce, Yoshikazu lost his trust as a client of Ram's company, got disowned by his parents, and got buried in alimony because of the affair while Misa got fired.

  • "My sister plundered my fiancé! Now my arranged marriage partner is also plundered": Nonoka's married life becomes hell after stealing Ikki-san from Ram, as the man turned out to be a chauvinistic jerk who hated working women. Furthermore, he only gave Nonoka the minimum to live while spending the rest on hostesses and beat her up for not finishing the housework in time, eventually deteriorating her cute appearance by the time she met Ram again. Moreover, she couldn't sue him because his fortune made him untouchable, sending away any lawyer she hired with a bribe. While she turned to her parents for help, they basically told her to put up with him as they did back then. Eventually, Nonoka loses her parents' favor after they learn she squandered their money on the aforementioned lawyers.

  • "The result of challenging the contest with a school swimsuit prepared by a handsome brother": Maria and her minions torn up Kanade's bikini in the swimsuit contest to ensure the former wins. However, the latter's yakuza brother Kairi forethought it and snuck a school swimsuit into Kanade's bag just in case. As a result, Kanade outshines Maria and wins the contest, earning the praise of her friends Alto and Haru. When Maria called her out for wearing such a swimsuit while bragging she could look good in one, Alto replies that the surprise feeling they got from seeing Kanade's swimsuit only works once and asserts she could never win against Kanade. When he brings up the torn bikini, Maria denies it right when Kairi shows up and calls her out. In response to seeing his tattoo, Maria's minions sell her out to Kairi and run off to save their own skins. Eventually, he forces her to work as a waitress at his beachside business to pay for the damages.

  • "I told the truth to my husband who cheated on me with my sister and abused me...." [sic]: Karin seemingly took over her sister Erica's position as president of their father's company and slept with the latter's husband, Casino, to spite her. However, her celebration is cut short when Erica notifies she is the President after catching them red-handed. While Karin protested the decision in anger, Casino begged Erica to forgive him but she refuses. Moreover, Erica announces Karin will be transferred to another company starting the next day, with a lower salary than before. After that, Karin left immediately and Erica kicked Casino out of the house while forcing him to pay alimony.

  • "I was tricked by a gal at work into entering a swimsuit contest at the beach on company trip": Kanade outshines Miki in the swimsuit contest into which the latter forced her and wins. Enraged by this turn of events, Miki chews her out for it and shows her true colors. As a result, the men who previously admired Miki turn on her and pine for Kanade instead, causing her to break down. Ever since the incident, Miki's popularity in the office dwindled until she quit, and is rumored to have confined herself in her parents' house.

  • "My brother's fiancée was actually a woman who made fun of me, so I exposed her": Miyo had enough of Kawashima-san's bullying after the latter destroyed the cellphone charm streamer Haru-chan gave her. Moreover, when she found out her abusive senior was her brother's fiancé, Miyo exposed her true colors to him, causing the man to dump her and send her home crying after being reminded Haru was live-streaming the whole thing to 30,000 people. Eventually, Kawashima-san became the laughingstock of the hospital; she couldn't take it anymore and quit her job.

  • "When we went to a spa, my father-in-law came into the spa with me...": Ram's father-in-law followed her to the hot spring to have his way with her, but Ram revealed they were in a women's bath. When he brought up the landlady saying it was "unisex," Ram corrects him by saying there used to be unisex baths. Moreover, when other women come to the spring, he tries to deny he was a creep but his towel drops to the floor, causing all the women to freak out and throw buckets at him. When he tried to apologize, one of the women brought the landlady, who seized and lambasted him for not paying attention, leading to his arrest. Eventually, his wife lambasted the hell out of him for his perverted actions, reducing him to a henpecked husband. Moreover, no one in his company takes him seriously anymore due to the incident.

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