I uphold the notion that Kase-san has been analyzed more than the Zapruder film.
There is definitely a bit too much reading into things going on here. I highly doubt Kase-sans behavior is supposed to be "possessive".
death of the author
Is the most bullshit concept ever to exist in literary analysis, created by egomaniacal critics who are determined to prove that THEY'RE just as important, if not more so, than any author. As far as I'm concerned, they can stuff those analyses right back up the orifice they excreted them out of.
I wrote a whole post about how yeah, it's probably a tan but then I went back too look through to verify something and I noticed that she has no visible tan lines. Like, we've seen pretty much the entirety of her breasts , butt and legs and her dark skin tone is uninterrupted (including her nipples) so she's either tanning naked or it's her natural skin tone.
Aah... now I get your point.
I had completely forgotten about the thing with her tan lines, or lack thereof. It does raise some interesting questions...
I suppose the artist could have forgotten tan lines are a thing in like every one of her chapters too but that seems like more of a stretch than her just being dark skinned.
She could be of Okinawan descent. They tend to have a noticeably darker complexion compared to people from Honshu.
Dislike for Mogu's childhood friend rising with her every appearance. Her only saving grace is that she seems to instinctually view Mei, the only fully MTF person in the group she's met, as a girl. So she's got that going for her, I guess.
I can only imagine that Kyouka ends all of her sentences with "de gozaru" and if so, I'm kinda sad that it was translated away. Other than that, great job on the scanslations!
