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They write it out that way sometimes. Japan is the monarch of shorthanding words. Remote control? Nah, too long. Remocon! Disrespect? Too much! Disuru! Mailing address? Aughhh, no. Meruado! So Xmas fits right in!

Can't forget the solstice too! Laplanders AKA the Sámi people for example have some lovely Winter Solstice traditions.

It's entirely fueled by marketing. Imagine, for instance a culture with no traditional root for Christmas, Valentine's or Halloween, but the Disney co. and their cohorts of toy and confectioner industry magnates introduce these holidays with culture-ingraining strategies that boost sales and...

Lol this needs to be on a hoodie. If Americans acted like Japanese think of them they'd only live in New York, Los Angeles or Texas (Japanese geography gets a little fuzzy on the distinction between city and state, and to them Hawaii is a separate country), people would throw themselves at...

I love this observation! It reminds me of a motivational speaker, I don't remember who, maybe some dumb TED talk, "Be the Change you want to see".

XD that was work though, they were playing characters, buys now they're just themselves... Though Miyako does wish Masaki could be more like Cambria and Dom her a little.

Oooh thank you for the recommendation! BBAN-010 looks very cute indeed.

Only slightly better representation than the hulking and cartoonishly unattractive transwoman representation in comedy manga. I like seeing Yuri characters in non-yuri manga, but I'm a little sad the character couldn't be more chill.

She handed her a lily, out of her bouquet of lilies. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ It was a strike from the sledgehammer of subtlety, wasn't it? I'm still happy to see representation, but it shouldn't be as a heel.

I would love to have that level of representation here! I'm usually afraid of hoping for that outside of GL/Yuri or gender-change stories though.

Kinda reminds me of that one sex worker who always wears the "himeko" style hair -Ichigo Aoi. It's good gap play, the image is like your standard Japanese "nadeshiko" (大和撫子), but her breadth of experience and genre work within JAV stands in sharp contrast to this marketed image.

That's a fantastic point. One side it's great that there's better sex worker positivity in this story, and especially compared to America, Japan et large. However the author could stand to talk about both the MC's other partner's so we can avoid that whole dumb "Madonna/Whore" complex with the...

Especially after as long as the dry spell she's been having.

We all feel like that eventually. 10 years as a professional designer and I found out I wasn't drawing for fun anymore. It feels like a crisis!

At the very least it was juicy.

That sounds awesome. I want to get one for my florist in-laws now. As a dense person I already learned the hard lesson not to give them flowers. ~_~u

Some people have rules about kissing, so it's at least conceivable to me that sex could have happened before her first kiss.

Oh wow, both retired sex workers? Romance where the only thing left to discover is the inner workings of one-another's heart? Oh I am so here for this kind of wholesome romcom!

OMGs I've never even looked at this: 嬲る. It is a "girl" between two "boys". To quote Atsugiri Jason - "Why, Japanese People?".

AFAIK there isn't one. Teachers just pretend not to see it, usually the kid goes through enough embarrassment from their peers.