A Dark Shadow over Familia

8.6

01

Due to Akane and Shiragiku continuing to try and be closer to Hayato, Ouka calls a meeting where the girls openly discuss them all being in love with Hayato. Ouka claims to be intimately close with Hayato, having seen him naked, but this is quickly exposed as an exaggeration. Later, Ouka walks in on Hayato in the shower and for a long time afterwards cannot stop thinking about his anatomy. Soon afterwards, she and Hayato fall victim to one of Ami’s booby traps and she lands on top of Hayato. His embarrassment causes Ouka to realize she becomes aroused when tormenting him. Ami spots a ghost in the house, terrifying Akane who has a ghost phobia, so when needing to use the toilet during the night, she is forced to ask Hayato to accompany her for protection. The ghost is exposed as a stray cat but the shock is so bad, Akane passes out still half naked from her toilet visit, getting Hayato in trouble with the others. The decision is made to adopt the cat they name Sachiko after Hayato’s grandmother. Talking of Sachiko causes Shiragiku to remember Sachiko once became emotional when talking about all the girls grandmothers. Hayato finds a photograph showing that Sachiko and the girls grandmothers were all Familia waitresses together as teenagers and begins to wonder if meeting the girls was fate. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/5/2024

A Bolt From the Blue

8.6

02

Due to meddling from Kikka, their father mistakenly concludes Ouka is dating Hayato and summons him to their home. Hayato mistakenly believes they are talking about Ouka’s career and does his best to impress him so he can continue employing Ouka. Her father however, believes they are discussing marriage and immediately gives his blessing for their engagement, to which Hayato remains blissfully ignorant. Ouka’s grandmother Harue recognizes Hayato from his resemblance to his grandfather Masahiro and is happy to hear he married Sachiko. Ouka is intrigued that all their grandmothers knew each other and believes their meeting might have been fate. Fuwa reappears with news he is opening his own café, the Family, to put them out of business. Visiting Family, Hayato and the girls discover it is a blatant copy of Familia, including five beautiful waitresses who copycat the girl’s personalities but deliberately exaggerated to ridiculous extremes. Despite this, Hayato notes Family is three times larger than Familia, the coffee and food are higher quality which Familia cannot afford to compete with, and they have a car park. He fears this might be the end of Familia, but the girls are determined not to be beaten and begin preparing for war against Family. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/12/2024

The First Counterstrike

8.6

03

Shiragiku is unable to improve their menu since the original menu was created by Sachiko, a 3 star chef. Hayato tells her to stop focusing on Sachiko’s menu, which was created to serve Familia’s needs at the time, and come up with something that suits Familia’s current crisis. Shiragiku begins planning a cutting-edge menu. Riho encounters her Family counterpart, Ririka the internet idol. Shiragiku creates a menu based on Spanish snacks. The Family waitresses are shocked when Familia’s popularity suddenly skyrockets when Riho releases a video documenting her journey from child actress to waitress trying to save her grandmother’s café. Local tv stations soon pick up the story, making Familia popular again while Family suffers an unexpected surge of negative online reviews criticizing their badly made food and poor customer service. Ririka refuses to give up but her confidence is shaken when Riho points out Ririka’s popularity is already declining due to her naïve attitude toward the idol industry. They then notice Ririka forgot to turn off her camera and her audience saw their entire argument, leading to messages of both disappointment and support as their fans discuss which of them was in the wrong. Riho expects Hayato to be angry as they lose customers again, but Hayato had already deduced Riho provoked the argument on camera to help boost Ririka’s failing popularity just a little. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/19/2024

Eleven Co-ed Cohabitors

8.8

04

As a result of Ririka accidentally leaving her camera on her, fans discover Fuwa’s plan to ruin Familia, so Fuwa fires the waitresses and plans to demolish Family. Ririka is fired by her idol agency. Hayato finds the girls have invited the Family waitresses Ririka, Mao, Moemi, Hekiru and Valentina to move into Familia as well, since they are now unemployed, in debt and homeless. Hayato grudgingly gives them two rooms to share but warns them to find somewhere else to live soon. Hayato quickly finds living with ten girls makes life for him completely unbearable. Akane and Ouka notice Ririka close to Hayato, even having meetings with him in his room, so they spy on them with help from Mao, but discover Hayato was helping Ririka plan to take over Family from Fuwa and run it herself. While negotiating with Fuwa, Ririka claims she tricked Hayato into handing over his savings, and Fuwa is so happy Hayato is now bankrupt that he sells Ririka Family for half its value, ¥6.5million. The other waitresses decide to work for Ririka and rent a house together, becoming Familia’s neighbours. As Hayato had given her all Familia’s profits to buy Family, Ririka signs a legal repayment plan so he eventually gets it back. Hayato slowly realizes he just spent all his money creating a business rival. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/26/2024

A Hot Spring Trip for the Familia Party

8.8

05

Family reopens as the Chiyoda Diner serving Japanese cuisine so as not to compete with Familia’s coffee based menu. Ririka gives Riho a ticket for a hot spring inn where she could be alone with Hayato and seduce him. Riho invites Hayato, making it clear the trip would be romantic, but before he can answer the others arrive home having coincidentally won tickets to the same inn, infuriating Riho. As there are only three rooms available Riho, Akane and Shiragiku compete over who will share Hayato’s room, but Ami ends up winning. Later, in the hot spring the girls hear Hayato bathing with other men and are amazed to overhear that Hayato is quite well endowed. Afterwards, Hayato notices Ami deliberately trying not to be recognized as the inn is actually in her hometown. The girls debate on ambushing Hayato in the bath. Ami’s foster sister Eri tracks her down hoping she will visit her grandmother Katsuyo, her only living relative, but Ami declines as Katsuyo has dementia and no longer recognizes her. Ami refuses to see her until she is cured but Hayato warns her not to be like him as not visiting Sachiko before she died is his biggest regret. Following his advice, Ami agrees to visit Katsuyo soon. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/2/2024

The End of a Scary Dream

8.7

06

The girls accompany Ami for emotional support. Katsuyo still doesn’t recognize Ami and when frightened by her pushes Ami away. Seeing Ami cry Hayato, relying on his resemblance to his grandfather Masahiro, yells at Katsuyo like Masahiro used to. The shock brings her memories back as she remembers Ami, who is so glad to have her grandmother back. Hayato decides they can stay an extra night. Unfortunately all they can afford is a single room in a rundown inn resembling a haunted house. Akane is so scared of the ghostly landlady she almost returns to Familia, until she learns the inn has a mixed bathing hot spring. Shiragiku gets drunk when their meal turns out to contain alcohol and causes a lecherous commotion. Hayato bathes alone but Ami turns up naked, though for once she decides not to beat him up. Instead, she reveals to Hayato thanks to him, the doctors realized Katsuyo was misdiagnosed with dementia and will completely recover with treatment. To thank him she offers him a free breast grope. Hayato refuses, but seeing how upset she is he goes along with it and gropes her naked breasts, cheering her up. Meanwhile the girls begin plotting how to take advantage of everyone sharing the same room. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/9/2024

I'm Not Letting You Sleep Tonight

8.5

07

Akane moves to seduce Hayato first when she once again requires Hayato to escort her to the toilet. There, her attempt to seduce him ends abruptly when he falls through a wall. Shiragiku makes the second attempt but as she is still drunk all she manages is to fondle her own breasts before pushing him through the wall again. Finally Riho lures him out of the room where he falls through the same wall a third time before she can even try. In the morning Hayato is so exhausted the girls can’t wake him and are shocked to find his manhood poking from his underwear. Ouka feigns disgust while the other three are fascinated. Ami arrives at that moment, ending their examination. Having several brothers Ami is used to such things and forcibly wakes Hayato by grabbing it and squeezing, traumatising him. Returning to Familia the girls from Chiyoda demand details, and from their description Mao confirms Hayato is indeed very well endowed. They are shocked to learn Ami made the most progress, having shared his futon, bathed together and given him a breast squeeze. Realising what they are discussing Hayato barges in to yell at them, only to find all ten girls undressing after Ami and Tina spilled drinks on everyone. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/16/2024

It's Not a Joke

8.7

08

Hayato realises everyone forgot Shiragiku’s birthday three weeks ago. With Akane’s help he buys Shiragiku a cute kitchen apron. Akane asks to enjoy themselves while shopping as if it were a date, causing Hayato to realise he forgot today was Akane’s birthday. Instead of a gift Akane asks him to marry her. As Christmas approaches Akane continues to demand an answer to her marriage proposal, but Hayato continues to refuse to answer. Men suddenly kidnap Hayato and Akane to Akane’s family home on orders from Akane’s grandmother Youko, another of the past Familia waitresses. Youko is aware Akane wishes to marry him but Hayato cannot decide. Unhappy with this Youko attacks him with a sword. Walking home later Akane apologizes for her eccentric relatives. Hayato reveals he is worried their marriage has implications as the Hououji’s are an important family, and if they marry either the Hououji or the Kasukabe name will cease to exist and he doesn’t feel he loves her enough to make the decision. Akane decides to devote herself to making him love her enough to decide. Youko meets with her daughter and suggests Hayato actually impressed her. Meanwhile, Ami and Ouka have gotten lost still searching for the kidnapped Akane and Hayato. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/23/2024

Mother and Daughter

8.6

09

8/30/2024

Christmas Party!

8.6

10

9/6/2024

Kisses, Openings, and Things to Think About

8.8

11

9/13/2024

The Last Pilaf

8.7

12

9/20/2024