"...molybdenum, molybdenum, molybdenum..."

Also, did anyone else read this read this to the tune of "Modern Major General" (a.k.a., the Elements Song)?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo

But if this was a legitimate debate, shouldn't it work like that?

There's nothing to debate, though. There are no wrong reactions to a work. Your reaction is just as subjective as theirs, based on all the little invisible mental currents and experiences that make your mind different from theirs.

And by the time the "debate" takes place, the reaction has already occurred. You are not going to make me retroactively react to the work a different way. I didn't think it was all that funny, and there's no way anyone can argue me into thinking otherwise. The ship has already sailed.

It's like trying to "debate" someone who doesn't like a particular type of food that you yourself happen to like. Someone says "I don't like beer", what is there to debate? "You totally do like beer"? "You totally should like beer"? You can certainly explain why you yourself like beer, and you can even badger them about not liking it, but neither of those things are "debate".

"You cannot reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into in the first place." --Jonathan Swift

I mean, people have the reactions they have. By the time you get around to discussing it, the reaction ship has already sailed.

I guess. I'm just trying to understand why they can't enjoy it, clumsily, I'll admit.

But are you really trying to understand their viewpoint? The things you've written so far in this thread haven't come across that way to me. They come across more like "Guys guys GUYS, you're all having the TOTALLY WRONG reaction here. Can't you SEE that?"

I read the comic and basically shrugged. I'm not outraged. It clearly exists in that bizarre RomCom universe where shit that would make you a creepy weirdo in the real world is instead coded to make a character endearing and adorable. Those are the overt signals the media gives us about the character, which guides our interpretation of the character. I see it, I recognize it, yadda yadda yadda.

But we are also in the midst of a cultural change, where a lot of our RomCom tropes are being re-examined. John Cusack's character in Say Anything was considered romantic 30 years ago, but he'd probably be considered a pushy, obnoxious jerk with boundary issues now. Same thing with this comic; the tropes themselves are being criticized, not merely Mochi au Lait's specific implementation of the tropes in this comic.

However, I don't agree with saying it's not comedy because it's morally wrong, this is the one thing I'll be stubborn about, thus the thing I won't talk about any more.

I agree that it's a comedy. I just don't think "it's a comedy" is a "Get out of criticism free" card.

I mean, Amos & Andy was a comedy.

That sounds good. I would continue on the subject of separating fiction from reality, but I'll be repeating myself and that doesn't seem to be interesting for many people. Sadly, but as usual, I guess I could conclude with to each their own.

But again, this sounds less like a genuine attempt to engage people and find out what they think, and more of a back-handed way of telling them they're reacting wrong. "*I* don't have any problem separating fiction from reality. Why can't you people do it?"

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I can see why people are put off by this story, but, perhaps wrongly, I'm trying to suggest to them how they could look at it differently so they could maybe enjoy it - or at the very least, why it really is comedy.

"You are not experiencing the correct emotion" is, I find, an argument that rarely goes anywhere fruitful.

I mean, people have the reactions they have. By the time you get around to discussing it, the reaction ship has already sailed.

A better way (IMHO) to approach these discussions is to simply describe your own internal landscape and your own reactions, without trying to contextualize it in terms of how other people reacted.

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When your own mom ships you with your girlfriend.

Clearly we need another American ship to take Iowa's attention off of Kongou. How about the Enterprise?

Kasen got herself a handfull of chub.

I miss these two.

Guile's Bicycle Kick. Takes me back to 1991.

Lewd.

Clicked on the link, saw the first page, said to myself "Hey, whoever this new character is, he looks just like Leon."

Then I went to the next page and saw that Wei Wei was actually watching the movie. :D

I dunno what she's got in that mug, but it clearly ain't coffee.

Pigii!

I really dig the framing and composition of this scene.

Mari is really growing on me, she's actually so sweet..(the other Mari in my pfp agrees.)
Of course, everyone else is great too-I just didn't expect her arc at all. Really pleasant surprise.

I like how Yae tends to randomly insert herself into Mari's life at bizarre moments without noticing.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/hanjuku_joshi_ch16#10

I'd like a little more adulting in my Adult life manga, personally.

Got kind of a creepy vibe from Minori tbh. I kept waiting for the yandere turn.

/r/ineffectivecensorship

I'm just now watching Season 2, and I hafta say they've done a fabulous job of leaving the field wide open for shippers. Riko x You, You x Chika, and Chika x Riko each have at least one moment in the series where you can say "Yep, they're totally into each other."

Whoa. I wonder who proposed to who?

Given that Hiei's in Kongou's lap, Imma guess Kongou popped the question. Which is...not in character, but whatevs. Great picture.

Hand bra.

Time to make the donuts.

Time to go on a binge, see you on the other side.
..although I doubt anybody else has found this series as late as I did, lol.

You're in for a treat.

Thanks, GA.

So they are coming out quarterly? Just want to make sure my future expectations are calibrated appropriately.

I'm not up on the release schedule for Kase-san now, so this is just me being curious: When is the next one due out? Are they coming out quarterly now? Last one came out at the end of October, so are we due another one at the end of January?