It kills me that there's 300 newly serialized isekai/otome/tensei manga a month, but an actually good fantasy premise is axed in it's very first story arc.
Aki: "To me it was normal, I had proof of that."
Shadow Aki: "I truth, you were scared, right? You couldn't say it yourself, so you waited for your hero to come, right? Deep down... wasn't there a reason why you couldn't say it?"
(Flashes image of the other boy)
Me: .... green yaoi incoming?
IMPOSSIBLE! People don't THINK about the media they ingest! They need someone else to form opinions for them!!
Thank AI Jesus for telling me what to think! 🫡
I was going to say back when it happened, but death by strangulation is actually quite difficult. You're unconscious in the first 10 seconds, but it takes 4-5 minutes to actually die.
When that chapter ended, I honestly wondered if the mangaka knew that and, what do you know?
Communication is key, everybody.
Whether during sex, or even or letting someone know you're actually married and shouldn't be having sex with them... communication is key.
I kind of feel like an experiment like this is pointless without a baseline from complete strangers who wouldn't feel anything from each other, in a sterile lab setting.
Like, no romance, no social awkwardness, just very base clinical observations.
For the record, Joe was about to explain that Dave Grohl was invited to play drums on QOTSA's "Songs for the Deaf" after grabbing there attention with Foo Fighter's cover of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar", which had Brian May of Queen as a guest guitarist.
Another fun fact: Brian May also has a...
The thing is, you're not exactly wrong... or I mean, not COMPLETELY wrong.
A lot of creativity comes from emotional turmoil, simply because it becomes an outlet for those emotions when they have nowhere else to go. And it grabs ahold of how people feel, that's why it spreads the way it does...