Love, an Election, and Chocolate #03 — Strange Bedfellows

July 19th, 2012

 

That student-teacher relationship probably isn’t healthy.

FYI, my laptop completely bricked this morning. This post is coming to you from the local library and a flash drive full of my little blogging shenanigans. I do have a slow ancient hingeless backup laptop, but it is slow, ancient, and has no hinges. There will probably be some delays/lack of responsiveness from me and a lot of typos (and/or shorter, more generally annoyed posts) due to its horrendous keyboard until my new system gets here, hopefully in not too long.

Impressions:

I’m not entirely certain that I questioned where the teacher got her beer, but the question was answered this week. She has a keg in their clubroom. Her relationship with Whose-His-Face also took a little bit of a weird turn this week with them having dinner together and then having a little too meaningful of a hug/head-in-breast cradle, and that was after spending all of dinner teasing him about dating Chisato. Anyway, easily the weakest of the episodes so far. As usual, I like watching Yuuki and Chisato together and Satsuki isn’t bad either, but a lot of the characters are just riding their gimmicks a little too hard. And oh yeah, almost the entire first half of the episode was one dull stream of pointless electposition.

So yeah, learning about the basics of elections, and creating a manifest, which makes me laugh every time they try to say it in English and then watching the vice pres shake hands with every single club member. Did we really need that? The whole thing could’ve been replaced by a flow chart and "Here’s what you have to do." I’ve also been developing a particular annoyance with the certain kind of Japanese ‘back and forth’ expositional conversation where the expositionee simply repeats back the last word of the sentence to both stretch things out and pretend like it isn’t just one guy giving a long boring lecture.

 

 

Preview:

   

Bondage, apparently.

Posted in Love & Choco | 9 Comments »

9 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Raikitsune says:
    July 19, 2012 at 11:58 am

    And now I will press my face against your breasts. Dawwww.

  • NightShadow2239 says:
    July 19, 2012 at 1:44 pm

    Ah, was worried that you haven’t been posting anything in the past few days. Hope you didn’t lose any translation stuff.

    • Aroduc says:
      July 19, 2012 at 1:52 pm

      Well, there’s just a grand total of one show on Tuesday/Wednesday this season and it annoys me. My system didn’t die until this morning. And no, I didn’t lose any significant amount of work since it’s all backed up on my FTP. Just my tools, work environment, and the time I’ll need getting everything back together, re-creating test save files, etc.

  • Nanaya says:
    July 19, 2012 at 1:51 pm

    Japanese ‘back and forth’ expositional conversation where the expositionee simply repeats back the last word of the sentence

    Reminds me how a long time ago I had to pick a language class so figured I’d take a Japanese language course, and we had to do that in every practice conversation ever, no matter how short or what the context was. Was annoying as hell, and when we asked the teacher agreed it was annoying as hell but if you don’t do it they think you’re not paying attention or are rude or something. I’ve been wondering if that’s really the case, or if it’s just a textbook rule. Anime seems to support it being the case.

  • KLAC_OF_PERSONALITY says:
    July 20, 2012 at 5:36 am

    ok then now got tomoya 2.0 in run for pres but what to do?

    here close eyes pres coming in to help give teacher & some has feeling he up to something give hmm for now with let him help in.

    while drunk teacher ask her sister who challenge tomoya 2.0 in pres race is for personal or school reasons give answer for school yet also aim higher than her sister teacher.

    yep also chisato went coffee can wild on it about tomoya’s other girls & seem more going on it hmm what next?

  • Travis says:
    July 20, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    Rough. Hope it comes quickly, hingeless computers are the worst. We can hold out on updates if it gets too frustrating… In the meantime, I’ve seen the head-in-breast cradle thing a lot over the years… Is it actually considered less intimate (emotionally?) then, say, kissing or holding hands? Perhaps just another lost in translation thing.

  • The Phantom says:
    July 20, 2012 at 9:48 pm

    Pretty good episode, I liked how the male lead didn’t panic when a woman asked for a hug and went straight and gave her one hell of a hug, that’s being a man, well done mr male lead.

    I also like how the rival girl is not bitchy as I thought she was gonna be, and the relationship between male lead and chocolate-fobia, I laughed my ass off when she found him flirting with rival girl.

    A nice surprise this is waaaaaay better than what I was expecting, a must watch for me.

  • icymirage says:
    July 21, 2012 at 1:59 pm

    So the teacher is his mom (according to dinner texts as fansubbed) and his mom is half-sister with the Finance girl? I guess that means Finance girl is his non blood-related aunt? I guess his mom could be his non blood-related step-mom also, and that would make them all doable. Oi… my head hurts.

    • The Phantom says:
      July 23, 2012 at 12:43 am

      Should be absurdly obvious but anyway he was making excuses, the teacher is 23 and mr male lead is like 16 so yea she is not his mother, he just didn’t want female lead to find out he was alone with the teacher.

      Based on their conversation they have been doing this for some time, its also implied that they have at least kissed, but most likely gone far beyond that (unlikely that friends hug like that).