La Ragazza: Living with Francesca (Pre-Serialization) - Ch. 2

[Jacky_My_Boy]

I bet she cant even make a simple pizza, fake Italian, smh.

 

[Rengar]

Pasta

 

[versub]

Author putting italian girl in title like it has some meaning
yet her nationality/country of origin doesn't seem relevant to the plot.
And wth is with "I know you're nice..." when the last time you met him was when you're 3 y/o

 

[Naabii]

@versub just to justify, probably Italian by blood, and has been living on Japan presumably since 3 yo

 

[Xystus]

Reveal the shorts to us too damn it.

 

[HajimeteNHK]

What's the point of make her Italian? She could also be Japanese and the plot would be the same. At least until now

 

[qwerter123]

lmao i'm liking the short story

 

[CyanHide]

@versub just let the poor guy fulfill their fantasy of a carefree Italian gf

 

[ItchyLongThing]

I'm confused, was the "ask your boyfriend" thing supposed to be sarcastic or does she actually have a boyfriend? Cuz i find it confusing that she's willing to stay at a another boy's house that she has close relations to.

 

[ak0w]

Damn a sweater one-piece do we have those in the us

 

[havelmom]

"put some pants on"
- no man ever

 

[Asiandesu]

This man has a built in cock-block mechanism

 

[ChocoMacchia]

@MagicalCarcrash That's the wrong manga..

 

[eypicasso]

@ItchyLongThing Sarcastic.

 

[ItchyLongThing]

@eypicasso Yea I had a feeling. It’s just the way she reacted that was weird

 

[DJKenji]

lol this was a good chapter

 

[yukaru12]

Bet if she continued that, he woulda been like "I lost"

 

[wannabewallaby]

I know it's just Japan being Japan, but it's weird to me how anyone from another country tends to get totally odd hair colors. Blonde Americans? Okay, not that unusual, but they're a minority for sure. True blonde Italians or Greeks (most Mediterranean countries, tbh, though those are about the only two Japan seems to know about), which I see a lot of in manga? Have met literally less than a dozen in my life. Same with blonde Brits. More common with the French and Germans, and again moreso from the Nordic and Baltic countries, but to read a manga you'd swear no one from a generally ethnically white country has black or dark brown hair. Blonde everywhere, a lot of silver, and sprinklings of red hair, but nothing black or dark brown. I don't notice the same level of fetishization of hair colors based on country of origin in most other comic cultures, so it just throws me off every time.

In a lot of "anime" art styles it can be difficult if not impossible to tell a characters ethnic background at first glance based on something like their facial features, but a unique hair or eye color not naturally seen in an ethnically homogenous society like Japan is something immediately visible that tells the readers that this character is not Japanese (I mean look at Francesca, if not for her hair and eye color I would have no clue that she isn't supposed to be Japanese since she doesn't really have any traits that make her look different from a Japanese person in Hamita's art style). This is doubly important for a manga like this one, where the whole point is that one of the characters is a foreigner, this is probably why the author opted to go with such a unique hair and eye color combo instead of doing something else to clue in the reader that Francesca is Italian like having her speak in formal Japanese (i.e she learned from textbooks rather than immersion), or having her occasionally slip into Italian, both of which are also common ways to show that a character is foreign.