以前，このブログでふれた「冷蔵庫にパイナップル・パイ」と同時進行で，岩館真理子さんは別の作品の連載も始めていました。「うちのママが言うことには」です。ヤングユーに掲載されたこの作品は，結婚を前に揺れ動く若い二人，北風けいとと甘夏英太郎の姿を描いたものです。
While she was publishing “Reizoko ni Pineapple Pie” which I mentioned in this blog before, Iwadate Mariko started another serial titled “Uchi no Mama ga Iukotoniwa”. This work which was published in a magazine “Young You” described an engaged young couple, Kitakaze Keito and Amanatsu Eitaro, who were wavering with their marriage in sight.
OLである北風けいとは，わりと裕福な家庭の５人兄妹の末っ子として育ちました。彼女の恋人である甘夏英太郎は，早くに両親を亡くし，妹と二人で親戚の家で育ったという生い立ちで，現在は出版社の編集者です。付き合って数年になる２人は，互いに結婚を意識しながらも，結婚後の生活についてお互いの考え方が異なっていることに気付き，戸惑いも感じているのでした。そんな中，けいとの実家に初めて英太郎が挨拶に行きますが，けいとの家族から結婚を大反対されてしまいます。かえってムキになり，絶対結婚しようと意気込む２人でしたが……。
KItakaze Keito, a female office worker, grew up in rather rich family as the youngest of 5 siblings. Her lover Amanatsu Eitaro is an editor of a publisher and he lost his parent when he was young so he was brought up in a relative’s place with his sister. They’ve been going out together for several years, but they begin to feel some differences between each one’s prospects about the future of themselves after their marriage so they also feel puzzlement now. In the meantime, Eitaro goes to Keito’s parent’s house to receive permission to marry her but her family strongly oppose their marriage. The situation just adds fuel to the fire, they firmly made up their mind to get married, but......
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週刊マーガレット時代に見られた幻想的な雰囲気は影をひそめ，ここでは現実の問題を前に逡巡し，戸惑う若者の姿が描かれています。岩館作品の中でも最長の全５巻からなるこの作品は，実はストーリーとして未完のままに終わっています。
いつか続きを読めると，あきらめずに希望を持ち続けています。
The fantastic atmosphere which was seen when she serialized her works in Weekly Margaret somehow vanished, and what is depicted here is young people’s hesitation or puzzlement they feel in the face of the real problem. This work is the longest one among her works, and actually, it ends up unfinished.
I keep hoping that I can read the rest of the story some day.
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