What's Wrong with Adding One More Genius to Omni-Anime?

If Toyokawa Shoko's rent had been even a little more expensive back then, she could have declared the story over right away.

Don't assume ordinary people could do it just because she could barely support two people. You were forgetting that she was still young.

Ordinary families didn't get free tuition, free lunches, exemptions from all sorts of medical insurance, TV fees, taxes and pensions, fire insurance, loans, and so on.

Naturally, you also couldn't go a whole year without buying new clothes like she did, with only a handful of social outings with Wakaba Mū—and in the beginning, Wakaba Mū probably paid for many of her meals too.

Besides, if you rented a new place, many apartments came completely unfurnished, without even appliances, not to mention Tokyo's unique key money system...

Just the non-refundable gift money paid to thank the landlord for renting to you could cost one or two months' rent. It was an entrenched, permanent bad custom.

So you had to be grateful that Toyokawa Kiyotaka, that middle-aged loser, had paid all that money in advance. Little Shoko still had some pocket money saved when she left home. Otherwise~~~

Anyway, now you could basically understand just how difficult it was for outsiders to come to Tokyo and chase their dreams.

Unless you were a rich young master like him or a local, he really wouldn't recommend casually coming here. At that point, you were basically coming here to survive.

And if you were an outsider coming here to play music... well, never mind, never mind.

When they had talked about how expensive it was for Kawaragi Momoka and the others to play in a band, they had already mentioned it—though they were in relatively cheap Kawasaki.

Realistically speaking, you couldn't even blame all those band girls who