It's rather funny that, in this here forum, most readers identify more with Kaoru...

[citation needed]

Mainstream AZNs wear surgical masks when they have a cold supposedly to avoid spreading it around. (Other societies seem to get by just fine without having massive epidemics without such ostentatious gestures, strangely enough.) Assuming the "rebel youth" counterculture sorts have picked it up as some kind of "outsider" statement, and for the aforementioned usefulness of incidental identity concealement if they actually get up to something shady.

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Probably worth noting Fujishiro's behaviour here is entirely consistent with her characterization throughout - she's always acted on her first instincts without concern about possible consequences. This is just the most dramatic iteration so far but then it's also the first time someone's actually made Kurokawa cry in her presence (it's already well established that people dissing her pisses Nanaki off something fierce in general).

...that girl really needs to work on her impulse control a bit tbh, she's checking enough boxes for the mild end of several personality disorders as is. >_>

Shark Girl is OVER 9000 wingman power

Japan is not really exceptionally conformist, it's just easier to see there because conformity is part of the culture. For example, as much as Americans love going on about how their country is the land of the free, their society is just as conformist at the core, they just don't like thinking about it because they like feeling special.

There's a world of difference between societies that have had to adjust to diversity - however reluctantly and irrespective of how many refuseniks are still tilting at windmills over it - and ones that, well, have not.

Case in point pretty sure that the kind of crude appearance policing on display here would be more likely than not to get the school sued very quickly in the notoriously prickly and litigation-happy US of A.

Practice: depends entirely on the ambient temperature. If it's hot you just welcome the added evaporative cooling.

Well those tribal cultures are very patriarchal but they figured they would marry her to the idol because they need an ambassador to the outside world.

More like they tend to have all manner of quirky traditions for accommodating misfits in some kind of productive niche. With pre-agricultural demographics you can't really afford to be too picky about your community members.

I mean she did have big guns IRL... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

"The heart does as it wills," as it were. Not like poor long-suffering Hime-chan's even had alternate shipping candidates so far either. :|

#givehimekoagf

Points for being such a good sport about the whole thing though.

Let's not bring up the massive poo stain that is India in here (or any other 1st/2nd world country conversation), thank you.

This country will forever & always be stuck with medieval laws & social rules. :^)

Everybody is free to bring India here. Keep your hate and shitty predictions of a country you don't know for yourself, thank you.

...you do realise that by what they're saying they live there, right.

"Harumin, I seriously love you!"
HARU X YUZU! BANZAI!

Will HaruYuzu fans ever give up? xD

Well Nene certainly hasn't given up hope...

The idle and frustrated warrior class that had the legal right to slaughter commoners over some remarkably thin excuses? The locked room of course being a metaphor for the Tokugawa hermit police state.

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No particular shortage of automated machinery also scanning the sky either. Pretty much anything of meaningful size, nevermind now in the inner solar system, will get detected and have its trajectory calculated as matter of course.

I wonder why these strict regulations, there doesn't to be seem much sense to them.

Reflexive cultural fixation with conformity. Sort of happens when a society spends three centuries figuratively locked in a room with a volatile axe murderer.

Naz, meet food chain.

'Course Japan for the most part isn't terribly cold and the way they're dressing (or not) certainly doesn't suggest deep winter...

What act of sluttery is this?

Nothing is happening as usual. Why even start a new series besides the obvious reasons...

Where we're going we don't need solid surfaces ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

"I used to be a battleship like you, but then I took a swordfish to the knee..."

what the actual fuck Natsukawa

[Maekawa forcefully joined the party.]

me rn

You don't make Nanaki's girl cry. You just don't.

Not one year, I think they've been stepsisters for 2 years now.

Fo' realz? I'll take your word on that, kind of stopped paying attention to the internal chronology of the original series a long time ago. Even less plausible in that case.

Are people really getting hung up on the rumor thing? Himeko literally mentioned that they were freshmen in the next panel (i.e: new to the school). Of course they're going to be yapping their mouths off on a hot rumor in a new environment, that's how girls bond.. Smh

The issue is that it's rather implausible that rumour would still be circulating in that form. Way back around the beginning of the original series, sure - the way Yuzu publicly broke the news about being "family" was just asking for wild conjecture - but after what, around a year? With multiple people who know better in position to spread word about the actual state of affairs and having no reason whatsoever not to?

Yeah, no.