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It's a link to a discussion thread here, on mydramalist, with links to various translations of books, manga and dramaCDs for Utsukushii Kare. Among them is a link to mine too.

Actually, the official English translation of book 3 from Tokyopop comes out on December 3 this year! You can already find listings for all 3 books of the main storyline on Amazon and other book retailers (search for My Beautiful Man Light Novel). The only downside is that they don't seem to release an ebook version, and the books are quite pricey even for paperbacks.
If you're impatient, you can read a machine-translated version of my translation (link is in the post above). I hope to be done with the whole translation by early June.

That Ogata Megumi cameo in ep. 2 was very sudden but welcome.

Please, write more! It was such a pleasure to read <3

One of the characters undergoes a temporary transformation of the way he looks, and it might be hard to pull off technically even if the actor himself and his management agree to it.
There's no English translation of the book ATM. I'm more than halfway done translating it to Russian, and I provide links to a decent-ish English machine translation (because Google and other browser ones really suck) at the beginning of each chapter for those who can tolerate machine translation at all. But currently that's it.
Links should be in the first post here https://kisskh.at/discussions/utsukushii-kare/67669-utsukushii-kare-english-novel

But if you know some major Asian language, like Korean or Vietnamese, try to look for the official translation to it.

The novel series still continues. Only a couple of things from book 3 have made it into the movie, but the majority of it hasn't been adapted yet. And the author plans to write book 4 this year, which isn't supposed to be the final in the Hira and Kiyoi story either.

That said, the scriptwriter for the drama and the movie added a lot of content that wasn't in the books (like, everything school-related in the season 2 and later, including the proposal - the book ends when the photos from the photo shoot are released), so the movie ending feels more final. Also, book 3 storyline would be harder to adapt to screen.
In short, they have source material if they want to continue. Even if it's not enough now (I don't think it is, but others do), it definitely would be once the next book is out. But we're not sure if they even plan to continue.

There's putting yourself into character's shoes and there's pushing your opinion onto someone without considering their personality and circumstances. There's also accepting that people's ideas of what makes them happy are different. And that sometimes you're not even expected to put yourself into character's shoes.

Why are you talking about me suddenly? This drama never presented itself as some kind of dating manual or a perfect example of a couple that everyone shoud follow. I don't self-insert myself into Hira or Kiyoi, and just beause these characters are good for each other doesn't mean that they'll be good for anyone.
And I wouldn't call KIyoi an "abusive bully" or label the drama "toxic". What is even toxic for you? Characters finding a relationship that helps them grow and become better?

They both are realistic people, not flawless angels that don't exist outside of fiction. Both fulfill each other's needs and help each other grow and become better people. If it's not a healthy relationship then I don't know what is.

Hm, I don't think it's particularly spoilery since I'm not telling what actually happened in the end. But I've hidden my other comment where I did.

Nope, he was going to be at home initially. After they deigned to invite him he also got an unexpected visit to a new client at work, so he explained the day before that he would be a bit late. Besides, the party was on the weekend.

And anyway, holding a party while the dad is working overtime without inviting him sounds even more shitty.

Ashihara said that her only point of contact with the drama team was through producers, so it's quite possible that the screenwriter really wasn't told the creator's demands. I wouldn't say that it contradicts what was said in the now deleted blog post.
I didn't read the publisher statement(s?), but I've seen screenshots of the last instagram post of the screenwriter, and to keep things fair, apart from saying that she was unaware of mangaka's demands, she also apologizes, conveys her condolences and says that she's reflecting on her actions and that she's going to delete her social network accounts.

About a month after the drama has finished, the mangaka wrote a blog post voicing her frustrations with the way adaptation was handled or rather mishandled, deleted that post a couple of days later and then was found dead the next day. It appears to be a suicide.
You can read more here or from other sources: https://animecorner.me/sexy-tanaka-san-mangaka-hinako-ashihara-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide/

I was gradually accepting that this drama is actually way tamer than the trailer and synopsis made it seem, but the latest episode actually made me angry on behalf of the main character. The man is bending over backwards to change his views and habits for the sake of his family. Meanwhile the family is all "oh, we will watch and mark his actions, and if he gets good marks, we will invite him to the all-family barbeque party that we're throwing at his own home this weekend". Yeah, I can get their reasoning, but that sounded really shitty if you think about it. Like, what were they planning to do if they didn't deem him acceptable but he was going to be at home at that time anyways?
It's like all the patience and understanding in this family goes towards the hikikomori son and no one else.

Terrible news about the creator of the original manga. Shame on the TV network person in charge and the producer who made it happen.

If anyone was wondering, it's the same translation by White Lotus that you can read directly on her Wattpad page or on Chrysantemum Garden where she posts it.

I've been reading the source manga for a long time (the beginning was interesting and then I held on out of sheer stubborness, I guess), and the showrunners actually outdid themselves here. They did everything they could to elevate the source material, and the reason why characters only get together at the very end is because they haven't even confessed to each other properly, let alone started dating, in this mess of a manga yet.

@nagira_yuu

I remember seeing Vietnamese, Korean and Thai editions in author's twitter. And I think there should be a traditional Chinese translation for Taiwan, but I'm not sure. Also it's not clear whether all 4 currently avaiable books have been translated to these languages - maybe some publishers are still working on later volumes.

The first post in the discussion right above has all the information that is currently available: https://kisskh.at/discussions/utsukushii-kare/67669-utsukushii-kare-english-novel

The first book might have been licensed for an official English release, but there have been no announcements yet. For now you can only buy it in Japanese and some other Asian languages.