The assumption that your teen years are the best, more shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

Oh....oh my......my now this is finally wholesome!

Now lets get a spin-off of the adults! Ahahah jk....unless O_O

The assumption that your teen years are the best, more shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

I think it's pretty common in the West as well, although it also includes college. There is pushback for it, but there are plenty of media that talk about the high school/college years as "the best years of your lives".

Lizstar posted:

Every week when this updates I check it out and it's consistently like the best thing on this site

Why do you think it's the best? Also, happy (early) birthday!

"Why is it so upbeat today?"

"Ah, the power of yuri."

A sudden outbreak of youth. :D

Am I the only one who's bothered by them just sitting on the floor, right next to the adults? I could see them sitting on the floor, further away from the adults, or standing near them, but the combination of proximity and position feels off to me.

My mission objective is now to put out such a powerful gay vibe that I automatically raise the Yelp review score of any store I enter

Omega Deuse posted:

Am I the only one who's bothered by them just sitting on the floor, right next to the adults? I could see them sitting on the floor, further away from the adults, or standing near them, but the combination of proximity and position feels off to me.

The store is small.

The assumption that your teen years are the best, most shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

I think it's pretty common in the West as well, although it also includes college. There is pushback for it, but there are plenty of media that talk about the high school/college years as "the best years of your lives".

But you gotta admit that the angsty tormented teenager trapped between childhood and adulthood is far more frequent in Western literature.

The assumption that your teen years are the best, most shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

I think it's pretty common in the West as well, although it also includes college. There is pushback for it, but there are plenty of media that talk about the high school/college years as "the best years of your lives".

But you gotta admit that the angsty tormented teenager trapped between childhood and adulthood is far more frequent in Western literature.

Yes but those two concepts aren't contradictory nor exclusive.

The assumption that your teen years are the best, most shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

I think it's pretty common in the West as well, although it also includes college. There is pushback for it, but there are plenty of media that talk about the high school/college years as "the best years of your lives".

But you gotta admit that the angsty tormented teenager trapped between childhood and adulthood is far more frequent in Western literature.

But it's not a trope used to depict teenaged characters, it's a "middle-aged person romanticizing youth" trope.

(Although to be fair, the "next we're going to be third-years and have to decide what to do with our lives and then get jobs, etc., so let's make fun memories while we're footloose and fancy free" trope shows up in manga pretty regularly, too.)

The yuri was so strong the bald dude grew a mohawk.

The assumption that your teen years are the best, more shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

Why would we feel offended?

Romanticizing teen and college years when those years are so confusing, awkward, and fumbly is truly the adult experience.

The assumption that your teen years are the best, more shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

wtf is this comment? Adults can't be nostalgic for their youth after seeing the next generation enjoying the art they enjoyed as teens? Especially when it's connected to counter culture. This was literally such a wholesome chapter. The fandom for this manga is so weirdly negative.

It should be the crime of the decade (or at least year) that such an adorkable yuri couple won't get their own anime. Especially when not even Kase-san could get a proper anime adaptation.

We need more wholesome yuri without all the forced villainy and drama that often ends up plaguing a lot of the series.

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It's pretty much like old people are romanticizing the 60s, 70s or whatever, through the rose-colored lenses of time and self-delusion.

Pretty much a boomer thing, who think youths of today are lazy.

Soooo, how many chapters before a gig date then?

It's pretty much like old people are romanticizing the 60s, 70s or whatever, through the rose-colored lenses of time and self-delusion.

Man, a lot of stereotyping going on about this.

Looking back fondly at the time in your life when you weren't responsible for holding down a job, for taking care of a family, for buying car or home insurance, etc., and remembering when you had the time to get totally wrapped up in your friends and to spend large chunks of your time thinking about music, grooving to music, and finding new music to love, and before the main tracks of your life were set--that all seems pretty normal, whatever one's generation.

Sure, it was never all good, and most of the adults I know would never actually go back to being 14 or 15 if magically given the chance. But it's not like remembering the good things about being between childhood and full adulthood is totally delusional either.

The assumption that your teen years are the best, more shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact.

On the other hand, "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen

The yuri was so strong the bald dude grew a mohawk.

The yuri is so strong that it sent all 3 into a flashback of their youth. All of them look younger and different from any of the other panels, it's just easier to see with bald dude because of the mohawk

The assumption that your teen years are the best, more shining and radiant part of your life—and that as soon as you reach legal majority you become a decaying thing that can only crawl in the rotting morass of adulthood all the way to your death—is very much a common Japanese idea... but it isn't at all a Western idea; more like the opposite, in fact. I'm surprised nobody felt offended by this strip and reacted with anger.

I guess we've all already been mentally colonized by the Japanese. :P Come to think of it, I haven't read any rants against lolicon manga in a long time...

Not a Western idea? Where have you been? The worship of youth wasn't always a big Western thing, but it sure has been since the mid-20th-century or so. As someone pointed out, it typically includes college years . . . but I'd say that's the case in Japan too. And, rock and roll in particular has always been about youth, right from the hippie "never trust anyone over 30" days. Certainly youth and the desperate attempt to maintain it is probably the single biggest component of modern advertising culture.

For one very overt (if possibly ironic) musical statement of this ethos, consider Pink Floyd "High Hopes":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMlFXouPk8

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It's pretty much like old people are romanticizing the 60s, 70s or whatever, through the rose-colored lenses of time and self-delusion.

Man, a lot of stereotyping going on about this.

Looking back fondly at the time in your life when you weren't responsible for holding down a job, for taking care of a family, for buying car or home insurance, etc., and remembering when you had the time to get totally wrapped up in your friends and to spend large chunks of your time thinking about music, grooving to music, and finding new music to love, and before the main tracks of your life were set--that all seems pretty normal, whatever one's generation.

Sure, it was never all good, and most of the adults I know would never actually go back to being 14 or 15 if magically given the chance. But it's not like remembering the good things about being between childhood and full adulthood is totally delusional either.

For sure. I mean, I'm overall happier now, because I fell in love, got married, and never fell back out again. No more storm and stress on the romantic front is a Good Thing. But the whole university scene of my youth was great and I did have a lot of fun.