Ep. 9: TRAP faces cancellation due to low rankings while Azuki gains anime fame

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TRAP resumes publication but struggles with poor rankings. Takagi attempts to incorporate fan mail ideas, but Miura rejects this, arguing that such changes would compromise the creators' artistic identity. Meanwhile, Azuki’s popularity rises as she secures a semi-regular role in an anime adaptation. Ultimately, TRAP is cancelled alongside Aoki and Nakai's Hideout Door due to these low rankings. Mashiro and Takagi finish the series, frustrated by their inability to achieve better results and realizing they will not secure an anime adaptation before turning eighteen. Mashiro shares this news with Azuki, who promises to wait for him indefinitely but expresses a desire to marry by age forty. Determined not to keep her waiting that long, Mashiro and Takagi resolve to exert maximum effort in their next manga project.