"extremes"

Mmmmkay.

Rank prejudice is a quality most unbecoming in a gentleman.

At this point I rather wonder why you made that comparison in the first place.

I think you should read more actual anthropology before trying to make nonsensical comparisons and then trying to explain them away with woolly generalisations.

You're welcome to point out misandry in any of the actually documented, non-mythical examples that can even vaguely be described as "matriarchal".

Drawing parallels is kind of hollow if one point of comparison is entirely fictitious you know.

Just like misandry was in matriarchal cultures.

The what where now.

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
- Karl Marx

...shouldn't tags be about the content rather than the intented audience...?

Haha look at this 'un being calm and reasonable. On Dynasty forums, no less.

oh snap did I just accidentally myself as rebellious counterculture hipster

Ucchi.exe has encountered a disgust overflow and stopped running

Nothing they wrote is an sich incorrect or objectionable, though? Adults with a functioning moral compass aren't supposed to indulge such curiosity ofc but that should really go without saying.

"She's so low-energy and yandere looking it's totally hot" is one of the funniest descriptions of your crush I've seen in a while.

...sans the actual colonial background to it that made that album one of Hergé's Old Shames mind you.

I feel like the author should focus his endeavors in Momose-sama and Kana-chan

I am afraid for Kana's life

RAVIOLI RAVIOLI DO NOT GROPE THE KOUHAI LOLI

inb4 Kana turns out to be domme af

Thinking about it a bit more, maybe the issue is not with the story itself but the way Nakatani writes the story..I will make a comparison with the (in)famous Citrus here. Citrus has pretty bad plot writing and pacing in my opinion, while Bloom Into You has a plot writing and pacing that is very very structured and I'd say pretty much flawless. But during the time I read Citrus, I could really "feel" the emotions of every single character; I could feel the intensity, the ups and downs and so no matter if the problems presented by the story were big or not (or had good resolutions or not), I was completely convinced by the author the problems mattered, because the emotions were successfully transmitted. While in Bloom Into You, for some reason that is not the case (for me). It could just be something about Nakatani's style doesn't work for me. I find myself interested in the story on an "intellectual" level but it doesn't grab my heart.

Sounds like subtle isn't your thing. Back to telenovelas with you, basically.

I kept one of those cans as a souvenir for its amusingly overwrought name (disclaimer: not my photo).

I'm tolerably certain y'all are putting way more thought into the setting than the author ever did.

That last page though

Drama incoming

More like "trolling by bratty kid sibling" I'd say.

"I love her small tits!"

Should we call the FBI?

P sure they have no jurisdiction whatsoever in Japan...

I like kid sis already. Also lmao @ Nanoha and Ryou bonding over basically getting put aside by their respective dates

D I S G U S T I N G

...Yuu's long-suffering expression isn't half bad either lmao

I doubt Tomoko's existence much even registers to Minami; Hell if she recognizes Yuri exists she doesn't much show it, and that's despite de facto having to share Mako (whom she's genuine friends with and noticeably never nasty to) with her. (Yuri, conversely, loathes Minami.) Seems like she's self-centered enough that if you don't catch her (usually malicious) attention for some reason she's more likely than not to entirely ignore you... which, when you think about it, is not unlike how Kuro used to be too back in the day.

She's also thoughtless enough to have trash-talked Kuro and Nemo to Asuka and Okada of all people - see: digging yourself into holes - back during the amusement park arc so I don't think she's that much of a social tactician... part of the running gag with her seems to be that she can rival Kuro in lack of emotional intellect and outbreaks of Foot-Mouth Disease, she just arrives at it from a rather different direction for somewhat different reasons.

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YagaKimi becomes the Inuyasha for the 2010s

There's actually at least three girls who to varying degrees reflect different aspects of Tomoko. Nemo is geeky but gregarious and doesn't share her asshole tendencies (still a troll though), Yuri is gruff and unsociable but not geeky or eccentric (and doesn't mind being bit of a loner), and "little fang bitch" Minami - who ironically never directly interacts with Kuro - is kind of like her mean and selfish streak turned up without the nerdy eccentricities and massive social anxiety. Also similarly prone to digging herself into holes hilarity ensuing.

I could kind of see Tomoko doing it just to screw with Komisomething's head tho. Their Sitcom Archnemesis clashes mostly stem from her getting bored after all...