Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket service has released the 30th and final chapter of Saitou Aya and Sotokun’s Haha to Iu Jubaku, Musume to Iu Rougoku (A Mother’s Love, a Daughter’s Prison) manga on April 19th, 2025.
Saitou published the original tale, which was based on a true story, as a book in December 2022, and Satokun started the manga adaptation in September 2024 on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket service. Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in January 2025 and the second in March 2025. The third and final volume will be released on June 9th, 2025.
The manga is released digitally in English by Kodansha’s K MANGA service as a simulpub, and it describes the story below:
The torso of a headless, limbless body is found half-buried by a riverbank. It belonged to a middle-aged mother, Yaeko Miyagawa, and after an investigation and trial, her daughter Hikari eventually confessed to her murder. For many years, Hikari had been subjected to physical and emotional abuse by her mother, revolving around her failure to make it into a top medical school and become a doctor. Even after nine years of futile applications and entrance exams, Yaeko refused to free her daughter from this virtual prison. What led to the fatal stabbing that ended Yaeko’s life?
