“A 29-year-old woman moves to Tokyo and becomes a surrogate mother at a fertility clinic to earn money and escape financial hardship.”
Tsubame wa Modottekonai
燕は戻ってこない
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A 29-year-old woman moves to Tokyo and becomes a surrogate mother at a fertility clinic to earn money and escape financial hardship.
The story centers on Riki, a 29-year-old woman who quits her caregiving job in her Hokkaido hometown and moves to Tokyo to work at a hospital, but the exhausting and irregular job leaves her with financial problems. She hears of a high-paying side gig her colleague Teru. She heads to the Japanese branch of Arte, a specialized American assisted reproductive technology clinic to become a surrogate. (Source: ANN, edited)
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A Manga Publication
- Published Feb 2024 – ongoing
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- Ref. BS-M75961 catalog