I Sold My Life for Ten Thousand Yen Per Year

Anyone else that read this?

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Yeah, it was good although I wish it had ended differently.

Yes, and it's hard to express the feeling of disgust it gave me. The girl was probably the worst character I ever saw in manga, but the MC was hardly better.
At least if you will flip every trait and quality of Miyagi, then you will probably get an ultimately best girl. Which, I guess, makes her the anti-waifu.

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Just one little actually the most important detail. LN/manga long titles usually describe the work pretty well. Imagine the person the "I Sold My Life for Ten Thousand Yen Per Year" title describes. Yes, you imagined right and it is as bad. BUT there is an even worse thing about that title, and it describes the girl now. Although you need to spoiler yourself to get it.

Why don't you like the girl?

I'll probably answer with more details, but first a little question: do you think that man on the pic is a good person? If you don't remember, it's Miyagi's "temporary replacement".

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Does this guy do anything?

He is the guy who "bought Miyagi's time" in the first place and (if I remember correctly), "bought lifespan" of the characters in the end.

I think the only thing he does is basically telling the MC about the girl's debt

First some backstory. So the tale is literally about death cult (think a mix of Scientology and Jonestown, but way closer to the latter). Well, the cult part is actually not that important. They work in two ways: find depressed and desperate people and convince them to kill (sell lifespan) or enslave (sell time) themselves (for free, which is important!) There is also health selling which may be related to kidneys. The second way is to grab the children of the cultists if they have some and turn them too. It's unclear what is the gain, but it may be grabbing the property of the victims, sucking their energy (the story has some supernatural element) or simply cleansing the town.
So Miyagi's mother gets in the cult (most likely she wants to earn some money, but is talked into getting a debt instead). She works at killing and enslaving people and neglects Miyagi meanwhile (Miyagi hates her). Then some of the victims kill her.
Her owners come to Miyagi and force her to get in the cult too. The kind man from the makes a contract and becomes her owner.
By now Miyagi certainly deserves a pity. But let's look what happens next.

Interesting. What happens next?

Miyagi grows up a bit and is taught the trade. Now her responsibilities are:
-recruit the depressed people and make them sign the contract
-follow the contract-signers everywhere and spy on them
-threaten them with immediate death if they will fight back, escape or try something else
-keep them suicidal by talking with them and reminding them their woes
-if they have relatives/friends, ensure that they will break with them in a most painful way
By now she learns to do that well and even derives a certain pleasure from that (especially because most of the victims are understandably not fond of her). That gives her minor amusement (although she is risking to follow her mother each time). You can guess that most of her clients are not someone to have a crush on.
A detail: she can become invisible to do the things above (which is the only directly supernatural thing in the story).

i liked it

Ok, now the main story. There is a boy who gets depressed and soon impoverished. He is kicked from a job due to illness, so he sells various belongings to buy food. During that process he meets two cult recruiters - bookstore old man (who has a certain vibe of importance) and the cd store clerk. They propose him to sell lifespan instead. They don't buy it themselves, but send him to Miyagi.
Miyagi chats with him about the contract and the conditions. Now that's where the title comes into a play. The cult actually does not want to pay anything (since if you are ready to suicide, your life is worthless, right?). They don't pay even small amounts. But Miyagi sees that there is someone seemingly cute and softer than her previous targets. So she wants to work with him instead. But if you will propose literally zero, even the soft person may get angry and go away.
So she does the following: she takes her small savings and proposes a non-zero amount, around 2-3K in dollars (which is still laughable, but for a starving person even that may have certain immediate reward). So he agrees to suicide after three months and signs the contract. Now Miyagi is put with him as a guard.

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Forget my posts, i realise i was talking about another novel

Not really that good. The mystique and the symbolism could have been better. A better example would be the Death Billiard ova.

It was so bad.

They seem to be the same.

It's the same in the novel.
That guy talks shit of Miyagi in every 3 days of happiness thread for no valid reason. Literally obsessed.

No, you both are discussing the same novel/manga adaptation.
^he just wrote up a very dark interpretation of it.

I'm just a fan. Sometimes bad characters make the story good.

Continue

I dunno what's happening but three days of happiness is the novel and manga adaptation based on the novel is I sold my life for ten thousand yen per year.
Although sometimes three days of happiness can be used to refer to the manga too i guess.

I love it

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And then...?

Now she goes to his flat and starts to watch over him. Next comes the threat part. She tells him that if he will do something aggressive he will be killed immediately (and the same will happen if he will go far enough from her). Now, in no particular order:

- MC has sort-of-buddies remaining, even if friendship isn't very deep. He decides to chat with them. Now that's where Miyagi acts - she still hangs with him and disrupts his talks. He ends up shouting at her and. That ends with them deciding that he is crazy and him escaping. When he confronts Miyagi, she tells him that they are bad anyway and he will break with them later.
- When talking about potential life Miyagi tells him that he will only continue to suffer, so he rightfully should be suicidal and his contract is a good decision

So far it seems like even my worthless NEET time is too precious to waste any on this.

Finally, the MC has a school sort-of-friend and they had a (not very serious) pact to marry each other in the case of loneliness. Now he wants to meet her and at least give her some money. But that friend failed her life, became a single mother and now hates herself, her child and especially the MC (because he didn't come to save her).
Miyagi still gets jealous of her. Now she waits until the MC meets the girl, chats with her and sort of renews the friendship - until the girl finally confesses that she hates his guts and dreamed only of suiciding in front of him to spite him. She does not do that only because he tells her a story about invisible death cultist and she finds the situation amusing. Still she tells him to go away and so the whole affair hits him the most. Now everything which can hurt him did so and he is left with Miyagi.

During this there is a part where he loses an old capsule letter he wanted to get from his friend. Miyagi uses it to rub the salt in his wounds. This time he gets mad and almost decides to kill or rape her. Yet he decides that previous victims probably were harsh on Miyagi, so he needs to be soft.

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How did he afford his rent if he had no food to eat?