What do you mean "led to"? If anything, it slowed the spread immensely, since Ichi here was actually able to keep it in his pants, and convince them to keep it in theirs for a while. Even after Cherry decided to fuck everything up, she still maintains the very basic idea instilled into her that there's an order to things. In fact, the ones that were a real problem were the ones that didn't spend time cooped up with Ichi.
I don't know whether that's a modern problem or not, but ultimately, the biggest issue is a partner that refuses to grow up. There's a big difference between someone's who's not there yet, and someone who won't be there ever. Like, level with me here: Absent Cherry deciding to fuck it all up, how many years do you think it'd be before he's got them doing chores on their own? How many until they learn that it's bad to run around naked and beat each other to bloody pulps? 1? 2? More? Less?
Say what you want about how much you like them as partners, but it's insane to think that these people weren't well on their way to growing up right alongside him. If anything, this ridiculous situation's retarded their growth by forcing them to start behaving in wild, destructive ways.
MILFS are too old, yo.
Well, it seems we disagree on some outlooks but I'm also optimistic on team Ichi and where the OG girls are headed. I just wanted to be realistic for a second and not downplay just how out of his depth Ichi was at the beginning and still is.
The mess all started because he naively trusted Cherry after she showed herself dependable ONCE. She completed the groceries while the others murdered each other, but she still wasn't ready yet to be out on her own. Ichi also had no answer for Cherry when she asked him 'What' were they (the Sphere girls), he also ignored her insistence and curiosity about kissing, her drive to mate that seems to be akin to heat. It was really only a matter of time because he couldn't leave them alone, but they also made a ruckus when all out under his watch.
I'll even add that Ichi states he literally can't afford to feed that many people (let alone three more, minimum, if they messed up even once), so from the get-go, their chances to have ample time and leisure to mature without issue weren't good.
The Sphere Girls' nature, the combination of their imperious desire to reproduce and their freak strength makes them impossible to control, why I insist that no progress can be made until change truly sets in from them, until they know enough about themselves and the world to find some way to have all their wants and needs met.
Ichi truly wants to do right by them, so that's already more than most would have done, but he's in no position to make his promise reality. Talking about romantic prospects shouldn't even be in the picture when they had barely gotten the basics covered on the short term.
but to go back to this chapter, Eliza and wondering about the next, I really don't think that kissing another man will change much for Eliza. Even if broadening her perspective would be healthy, doing it with sexual assault will and should obviously backfire spectacularly. It was clearly a power move but very stupid to antagonize them when they were already willing to fight Sara's group.
I hope the government guy will continue to be much more convincing than that by telling her that with him she has no need to restrain herself since he has the backing and the funds to take care of all her offspring, telling her that Ichi is irrelevant at this point, just a random civilian that doesn't matter in this existential war. To pose the dilemma between materialistic concerns vs what her heart wants (= the imperfect and unsustainable mess in Ichi's one bedroom with her family)
You can be a mother in your twenties, thirties, forties! It's not too old! And my point is more that being with a woman that is the whole package is obviously better than some immature young woman who is nothing but a pretty face. As is, trying to date Eliza, Autumn, Chrys would look like babysitting! They can't be trusted with sharp objects and would lick subway handrails.