There have been occasions when the petitioners have received a kind of quasi-liberated status, similar to that of children, where they remain dependents but have more rights than toasters. That's pretty rare, though.

Mind you, that means the whole flap over Rin's book was nonsense from the start, and she could have chosen to (have her lawyers) point that out and save everybody a lot of trouble, but she thought it was more fun to just let them wave their arms. Besides, the consequent publicity made the book sell like whaaaaaat, not that it probably wouldn't have anyway.

Anyway, I think you guys may be kind of burying the lede here, which is that Rin—not Luka, or Meiko, or Gumi—wrote a book called Sex and the Single Vocaloid. :)

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