Renchin!
*spoiler-ish* I LOVE HOW THERE WAS NO CONTROVERSY WHEN WAKI CONFESSED ON LIVE TV. HUHUHU Edit: okay, I finally read vol 2 and apparently even though the confession got good feedback, they still denied the confession (ie Waki is not gay, Waki is single). Eh, classic tv politics ig. Now I feel bad for feeling happy about it The mom still irks me. At some point, she shows qualities of a good and funny mom (like being overly nosy why Waki has a big specially-made lunch box and offering to eat dinner every now and then), but she's still overall a bad mom. If she ever shows up more in the story, I hope she gets more character development. And yeah, kinda weird that Waki and the mom were being shipped together because there's at least about 18 years age gap (actually maybe at least 9 if she's really young when she conceived Waki /j. She's probably at least 18 at the time since the flashbacks showed her to be a grownup and the story implied that she just chose her career over her child, nothing about regrets of conception because she's too young). Though tbh, from what I've seen irl, it's possible to have TV pairings with that kind of age gap (or even a bigger one), but it's not that famous. It only exists when the story (tv show, movie or whatever) calls for it. So it kinda feels like ukie being Waki's mom and co-host at the same time was just done so both plots of ~dating controversy~ and ~Waki backstory development~ can be squeezed into the same volume.
Principle
WTF ARE THOSE PARENTS. ONE DISOWNED THEIR SON JUST FOR BEING GAY (like he's good at his job, but nope, I'm not gonna let you inherit it because you're gay). AND THE OTHER MOTHERFUCKING ADOPTED A CHILD BUT NEGLECTS HIM???? WTFFFFF. THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BURN IN HELL On the other hand, I love Tsuji-san. That's it.
Kanashii Doubutsu