Kaguya-sama: Love Is War - Vol. 15 Ch. 151 - The First Kiss Never Ends

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Why do these series keep trying to push normality so much?
Can't there be a single weirdo anywhere in the full span of manga who is okay with being weird? Who is proud to be weird? Who rejects normality?

I can't even imagine wanting to be normal. It just seems unrealistic and stupid to me. Normality is that sickly middle ground where absolute ineptitude meets unwarranted confidence. Where people assume that their failures can't be flaws because they share them with so many others. That a fuck-up somehow ceases to be a fuck-up if "everyone does it"... which just feeds into becoming more inept and useless the more said flaw is simply overlooked. It is the ad populum fallacy plus entropy taken to its most horrifying conclusion.
 
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Why do these series keep trying to push normality so much?
Can't there be a single weirdo anywhere in the full span of manga who is okay with being weird? Who is proud to be weird? Who rejects normality?
The most attractive thing is the one that's the hardest to reach. It's nearly impossible to have normal relationships with people when you're a scion of a very toxic billionaire family, which if what makes having them attractive. The fact that a lot of the interactions such scions have throughout their daily lives are far from pleasant just adds to that appeal.
 
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"And this is the caricature of a girl's wavering heart"
It's these moments in stories that make me happy to have read them. It's what sets a good story apart from a great story.
There is no single word for how you feel when the author 'throws back the veil' to show that single element, the foundation if you will, of all the meat and build that is the entire story.
If there were one word that could come close to describing this effect, it would be: Anagnorisis
 
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Kaguya trying out a white version of Fujiwara's bow when she first wanted to be cute is, in itself, cute. Also younger Bakaguya only had a sprout growing out of her head instead of a full flower. Bakaguya is the rarest Pikmin.
 

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