things i love:
-komi openly speaking in class 🥺
-everyone scaring tadano then him eventually getting it stuck in his head later too
-the fact you guys used a fancy font to translate naruse's sfx lmao
@suchtla An English writer (Desmond Bagley) actually borrowed "earworm" from German, that's how we got the word.
The concept itself was around long before that, though. The oldest version I know is in Mark Twain's "A Literary Nightmare."
Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
It gets homaged in one of Robert McCloskey's Homer Price tales, though probably none of you whippersnappers have read those.
Urg. I get songs stuck in my head super easily. Sometimes entire albums will play on loop, and it hangs around for days (literally starting the instant I wake up).