EROMANGA
HALL OF FAME

By leaving the house behind, the series gained the time of a journey. Tomodachi no Mama ga Boku no Dekachin de Ikimakutta Onsen Ryokou stands in the hall as the second instalment, one that fits the whole trip into a single book, from the drive out to the room they come home to.

RK-2 released this 31-page short as a FANZA exclusive in August 2022. Two people who have not seen each other for some time set off alone together to a hot-spring inn just before a long weekend. Circumstances on the husband's side sit in the background, and the subjects are an age gap and an affair with a married woman. The official genre list includes yukata.

What reviewers point to first is the structure, which follows the trip in order: the outbound drive, the inn, and the return home. Not stopping at the inn scenes is read as what gives the book its sense of travel and draws the reader in. Others note that pushing the husband's circumstances into the background keeps the story focused on the two. Voices also gather around the mother's modest, endearing manner, that is, the way her character is drawn.

Within the series it is read as the second episode, the turning point in the pair's relationship. It is also the volume where one reader remarked that the series never misses.

It was the first in the series to reach first place in FANZA's overall 24-hour doujin ranking, and it was later collected in the first omnibus. It stands 86th among the hall's doujin works.