I didn't like how he just abandonden his daughter like that (╬￣皿￣)凸 i don't kno...

Considering his circumstances - jobless, penniless, homeless - I doubt he would have felt the same way you do. Not to mention that, well before he met Sou-chan, his daughter and he were already estranged due to the estrangement between Tsukamoto and his wife. She likely would have fiercely objected to such an arrangement. The icing on the cake, so to speak, was the fact that Tsukamoto was finding himself and his own way in a world that, to this day, is frowned upon in Japan. Dragging his daughter into that and subjecting her to ridicule from friends, family and strangers would have only lead to further estrangement between them. Sometimes, you have to let go of those you love the most for a while in order to be closer to them later. Especially as a parent.

So true

Ya doin' yer thinking

I believe they would be happier that way, especially when Tsukamoto became happy himself, he can show his daughter he loves her despite everything. What is important in this story is that he never abandoned her forever, he still wants to see her.

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I agree with that point but as a person who was abandoned by her father as a child, I have to bring up the psychological trauma of being abandoned by a parent is far damaging than being made fun of because your parent doesn't fit the norm. I have been made fun of for both my father abandoning me and for having a divorced middle aged mother in an Asian community that didn't accept divorces as a social norm. Not to mention, she refused everyone's attempt at marrying her off again and insisted on raising me alone. We became the community rejects. But no matter how much the community played and bullied my mother and I, I never felt such hate for them like I do for my father for abandoning us. I grew up learning that because of my father's abandonment, I was fair game for bullies and had to modify my personality so I had enough guts to fight back to preserve what little family I still had left.

First, allow me to thank you for sharing both your story and your perspective. I admire your, and your mother's, tenacity and bravery in the face of overwhelming circumstances. I, too, was an abandoned child and faced harassment and bullying from peers and even adults for my situation. Though, admittedly, my circumstances were a bit different in that I was born and raised in a culture where, although frowned upon, child abandonment was not particularly uncommon. That said, I can't help but think that the circumstances you and I found ourselves in as children are quite different from those of the young girl in this manga. Abandonment and divorce are vastly different. In the former, a parent walks away never to look back, suddenly leaving both their spouse and child without financial or emotional support. Divorce then becomes the inevitable outcome of such abandonment in cases where the child's parents are married. However, when divorce happens before the parent leaves the child and spouse, there tends to be a build up of either understanding or animosity between the parents and child, if the child is old enough to understand what is going on. The divorcing parents will either try to explain to the child that they are still loved or they will fight with each other until the child becomes fed up with one or both. In the case of this story, the young girl experienced the "pre-divorce fighting" between her parents. If memory serves me, the father was a bit of a doormat to his wife and simply allowed her to walk all over him. (Sadly, a common trope in yaoi where the wife is often portrayed as an evil bitch worthy of being divorced or abandoned.) This experience led the daughter to already have feelings of animosity toward her father long before he divorced his wife and left. Again, if memory serves me, we never actually see the daughter or hear her perspective, but we hear from the father that she hates him. Thus, she is well aware of the impending divorce and separation of her parents. So, the girl is never "abandoned" per se, and by the end of the manga the protagonists are discussing having the ex-wife and daughter visit the ryokan. This indicates that there is still communication between the protagonist, wife and daughter, further bolstering the idea that the protagonist did not abandon his daughter entirely or permanently. His separation from his family was necessary for his own personal growth, which, in turn, helped him grow to be a better father... or, at least that is what is implied in the story.

Having read this reply and many other comments made by you, my impression of you is one of a very intelligent, articulate and self-assured person. Your circumstances as a child were unfortunate, but you seem to have become a strong, well-rounded adult despite the hardships you faced. I'm sure your mother is very proud of the child she raised. I know I would be if you were my child. Thank you, again, for sharing your story and perspective. I sincerely wish you all the best going forward. I genuinely enjoyed this exchange and I hope that we have an opportunity to share our views with each other in the future.