Nah, he was cuter before. You should exorcise to stay healthy, but losing weight to make a girl like you isn't right. She's the one who needed to get over her dislike of fat people.
You misunderstand, there's nothing wrong with wanting to be healthy. But being healthy isn't the focus here. He's being pushed to lose weight so a girl will like him, that's just shallow. Fat people are sexy in their own way, they shouldn't have to change to be loved.
I've read this chapter several times across many re-reads of the series. And It only just occurred to me that the time frame of this chapter doesn't make a lot of sense.
Kiyomaro makes Vulcan for Gash before school
before Kyomaro leaves Gash announces his intentions to go to the park with...
It's not that I don't like having the odd occasional cute chapter like this one, but I do have to wonder at what point this series will actually be like... OVER over.