Natsume Arata no Kekkon - Vol. 5 Ch. 48 - Plenty of "hints"

[Amazing_Retard]

"If you're coming back home, you should have messaged me". "Sorry". Then suddenly a single lie was told? this is dumb. Explains nothing.

 

[Real_Capones_OnlyFan]

It's make-up. Lip sticks, eye liners, etc. Clearly he's a vanilla man.

 

[Geneaux]

"If you're coming back home, you should have messaged me". "Sorry". Then suddenly a single lie was told? this is dumb. Explains nothing.

Unless you're some brutally trained and cloned agent from the disavowed Department of 'does-not-exist', there is simply no lie you could ever tell, double-blinded, that would fool 100% people you'd ever come across.

Also, my dude... this isn't literally just about verbal lies in the moment: the topic/discussion is centered on being 'fake'. To call this prevalent IRL would be an understatement. It's a lot more than just going to the strip club straight after work instead of home with the wife and kids.

 

[Geneaux]

I don't know how widespread this actually is in Japan compared to everywhere else.

This is ancedotal, but I'm actually leaning on the idea that this very prevalent Japanese society. Let me explain.

A while ago, I saw how people lauded the story of MGS2 years later and how it essentially "predicted" the events that would later transpire in America after 2010 or so. Then I saw someone point out that the reason Kojima was largely able to nail this so solidly (seewhatididthere) was because Japan was already living it by ~2000. Being the genius auteur he is, no one saw this of course. Anyways, I thought about this for a good while... then and it started to make sense.

Japan is one of those countries that is known for being very unique and/or novel for one thing or another: "technology" as a whole is one of those things. Some of features we take for granted in smartphones today, Japan already had them by the 90's. Crazy innit? So, with that in mind, if you take a step back and try to think of things more holistically, it may appear as though Japanese society essentially went through technological progress much faster. All by virtue of simply being innovative. As a result, they experienced unintended consequences much earlier, IMO.

 

[pandascepter]

@bigtiddyoneesan @sterven
I'd like to know about his mother.

 

[Huichelaar]

So like, know one woman and you know them all? They're all like identical or something? Seems incredibly naïve.

I can't really make sense of what either Arata's mom or the judge are saying in this chapter tbh. If Shinju's mother went out of her way to make her life worse instead of neglecting her out of convenience, it shows she's extra evil. Sure she cares. She takes extra care to make Shinju's life worse.

 

[EchoGirl]

Kinda been getting the vibe over the last few chapters that Shinju's mom was a victim and tried to protect her daughter by isolating and making her "unappealing" to a predator.

I think it was established earlier that’s why she made her fat/eat a lot and not take her to the dentist (tho apparently I’ve heard Japanese ppl find crooked teeth charming or at least don’t go outta their way to fix them unless it’s needed) unless she was somehow jealous that she naturally looked cuter and tried to ruin ver appearance