【推しの子】Volume 4 [Extra!] | Free to read until January 27th, 2026 (JST)

[GolyBidoof]

Welcome to the 推しの子 Speed Run Book Club (Extra!) Volume 4!

Extension of the Speed Run Book Club series!

This volume is no longer a part of the official speed run book club, it is an extension of the book club, because of the new availability period.

Different from the Volume 2 thread and similarly to Volume 3 thread, two new volumes have been added, and the goal of this thread is to read the fourth volume of 推しの子 until January 27, 2026.

Volume 4:

• Bookwalker
• ebookjapan
• cmoa

Currently, the manga is not free (or on Kindle Unlimited) on Amazon.

Vocabulary list for Volume 4 on Manga Kotoba

【推しの子】4 | L29

JP summary

「この芸能界において嘘は武器だ」
地方都市で、産婦人科医として働くゴロー。芸能界とは無縁の日々。一方、彼の“推し”のアイドル・星野アイは、スターダムを上り始めていた。そんな二人が“最悪”の出会いを果たし、運命が動き出す…!?
“赤坂アカ×横槍メンゴ”の豪華タッグが全く新しい切り口で“芸能界”を描く衝撃作開幕!!

EN summary

Best-selling Japanese manga that has been adapted into multiple awards-winner anime. The story of a doctor and his recently-deceased patient reborn as twins to a famous Japanese musical idol, Ai Hoshino, and navigate the highs and lows of the Japanese entertainment industry as they grow up together through their lives.

The fourth volume is the least dense volume of 推しの子 to date, with an average density of 18.80 words per page across the whole volume.

Hint! If you’re having difficulties reading at difficulty levels as high as this one, the best way to make your life easier is by scraping your manga with a script, such as this for Bookwalker, and then running manga through a script such as Mokuro in order to enable lookups of the more specific terminology.

Since this is a speed run book club, the formal end of this book club will occur on 2026-01-27T14:59:00Z, but feel free to continue with us afterwards, and if you’d be interested in continuing with a spin-off book club for the remaining volumes, let us know and the threads can be created!

Still with us on the book club?

• I’ll be joining together with the book club!
• Joining after the book club has finished!
• I’ve read the manga in the past already!
• I’m reading the manga in other languages, but I still want to discuss!
• Just lurking/discussing the plot!

Please use this thread for volume 4. All spoilers should go behind blurred spoiler tags or in the a hide details drop down.

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[GolyBidoof]

I slowly (emphasis on slowly) started rolling through the fourth volume now ^^

Chapter 31

ahh, this manga has a thing with drawing people being lonely

i’m so rooting for them outside of the job scenario as well

AAAND FOR MEMCHO TO BECOME A PART OF B小町

can’t spell BEST without ルビー and MEM, it’s in the name ^^

Chapter 32

LET HER BE 18 DONT BE A HATER OMG

in fan spaces we would call this panel

PEAK

xddd

i’ll read some more some other time ^^

[GolyBidoof]

Chapter 33

oh the irony of him not realizing what’s going on with Akane yet xddd

Chapter 34

i think i had the exact same reaction when かな said it >:[[[[[[[[[[[[

she’s good at singing though, but i still prefer ルビー to take the center ^^

Chapter 35

UM IT’S ACTUALLY PRONOUNCED “GIF”

what a funny coincidence right

Chapter 36

…and now it’s PTSD for the rest of life xdddd

Chapter 37

kana why would you do this to us

we’re banning dissociating before the big show xddd

Chapter 38

i think your singing is coming out pretty hard to understand, maybe get better microphones next time

and, oho xdddd

SHE SAID THE TITLE SHE SAID THE TITLE

Chapter 39

i wonder who do idols who stop being idols start working as afterwards

how sweet, they’ll meet again C:

Chapter 40

me when 同い年天才

And I’ve finished the text corresponding to the first season of the anime! ^^

That’s the end of the speed run book club extension, and luckily I was able to make it in time C:

Some spoiler thoughts after the four chapters:

Volumes 4 spoilers

As a person who really relies on intrinsic motivation for the moral compass myself, this volume was really hard in terms of me wanting to extend much compassion to かな, I was grinding my teeth and going like “JUST SUCK IT UP AND KEEP GOING”, and when it did feel like others were necessary to keep her going, I was feeling a little uncomfortable

In part that’s the reason why I like ルビー and MEM much more, they just want to do stuff, and even if they can’t be as good as かな first try, they eventually will get there, because they don’t focus on self-pity as much

this definitely is my internal bias though, and I still don’t know where does あかね fall onto this radar, because she starts off as really co-dependent, but then resolves as her own character really quickly

I still have 君に届け to finish, so I’ll probably jump to that book club next!

Thanks for reading 推しの子 together with me! C: