- Richard: I guess that didn’t go so well.
- Hitomi: Hai.
- Hitomi: Yukiya said loves working so much! And even said that he doesn’t want children!!
- Hitomi: What is point of man if always at work and no children?!
- Richard: If you look at it like that…
- Hitomi: Why is he even man?! Should be robot instead!
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An unexpected turn, she surely knows what she wants, good for her! 🙂
Totally agree with her. And Richard, too, I assume. So they have something more in common. And Sandra soon a little baby brother or sister. (Feeding the shippers here… 😉 )
And: first time truly first! 🙂
I’m just wondering how old Hitomi is. Cause I want to ship it but I also don’t want it to be creepy
@ Nobody:
I approve this ship!
@ Vitor Cruz:
And to add…
Anyone sensible and caring enough to call a group hug to make you feel better, deserve at least your respect 🙂
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2020/03/19/1163-gurupuhagu/@ Vitor Cruz:
MY SHIP IS LIKE THE THE MERRIMACK, IRONCLAD AND READY FOR ROCKY SEAS
You may correct me if I am wrong, but I also think that Hitomi does not follow the typical Western stereotype of Japanese women in her strong opinions or actions, even if some of you cringe at the way her spoken English is presented. The one who eventually marries her will have to watch out.
A Swedish friend married a Japanese woman from an old Samurai family and she said “of course I don’t mind walking behind my husband, then I can see if he turns his head after other women”. 🙂
Plot twist: He IS a robot.
Richard’s thoughts in panels 3&4: “Is being a widower a good excuse for not seeking a relationship, or should I hide behind my failed attempts at dating? Not sure if I should mention the disaster with Melody before the size of my work week.”
@ jimmywiththreeMs:
Just as an FYI the Merrimack (aka the Virginia later on after she was salvaged by the South) was not very sea worthy as her deck wasn’t that far above the surface and in heavy waves she could be swamped. The same happened to her rival The Monitor when she was being towed along the coastline off North Carolina.
I’m all for Hitomi being as strong and solid as those great early Ironclads so she can achieve whatever victory her heart desires!
Plot Spoiler:
He was a robot.
She’s not wrong….
jimmywiththreeMs wrote:
The Merrimack was not an ironclad; but was seaworthy enough to make it down to the Caribbean and across the Atlantic to Europe. She was decommissioned in the Norfolk yards at the start of the U.S. Civil War, but after she was burnt to the waterline to prevent being captured and used by the Confederates, she was captured and used by the Confederates. The Virginia, built on the remains of the Merrimack’s hull, was an ironclad, but “Since Virginia was now a steam-powered heavy battery and no longer an ocean-going cruiser, her pilots judged her not seaworthy enough to enter the Atlantic, even if she were able to pass the Union blockade.”
So, Ironclad, or Ready For Rocky Seas, but not both at once.
Drachinifel has a nice Five Minute Guide to Warships on the battle, it only takes 37 minutes. ^_^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vougAE7LM
cddmanful wrote:
Oh, no! He isn’t gay or taken! 😛
@ Leomon:
I see you took advantage of my need to get my references ready to beat me to the post!
If only I hadn’t taken the 38 minutes to watch the Five Minute Guide….
@ Foradain:
Wow. I need to go back and re-read my Jane’s book on warships. Granted I was doing that from memory, but apparently I need to go back and refresh myself as some of those items I had totally forgotten till you mentioned them.
… that guy is a robot.
@ Foradain:
well, in my haste to try and be informative, I forgot several key points so my bad all around.
As a member of a Japanese Buddhist lay orginazation in America, I have run into quite a few Japanese women and many of them were outspoken enough that I have trouble taking the submissive Japanese woman stereotype seriously.
My older sister spent some time in Japan when she was with the Navy. She noted that while the Japanese had clearly designated gender roles, the wife was effectively head of the household. The husband worked and was expected to bring his paycheck home to his wife and she managed the money and gave him his allowance.
I may disagree with Hitomi’s expectation that men shouldn’t be be allowed to be what they want (doesn’t Yukia have the right to be a workaholic?) her outspoken nature is hardly out of place in Japan.
@ Mystik:
I’m curious about that too. She gives me strong “teenager” vibes, so I kind of hope this isn’t leading to a “New Mom” area if that’s the case.
I thought that him being a workaholic was likely as he always arrived so late.
I suspect that she’s going to have to look carefully as too many businesses expect their employees to give their all to work.
Link didn’t work.
I mean yeah good face, bad personality I guess…
Don’t mind me, I’m basically here for the Hitomi pout, like in the last panel.
@ Francisco:You linked to the current strip and included a double quote on the end of the URL. Did you mean to link to [1165] Tiger, possibly?
Darwinskeeper wrote:
… You act as if workaholism is not a bad thing.
More and more I like this Hitomi! Work should support family, not the other way around. But I understand this is becoming more and more common in Japan. It certainly explains their birthrate . . .
Here you see the gender-swapped version of “what is the point of a woman if always at work no children”
Abe-nomics has an uphill battle on its hands
She is really an interesting character, i like her.
She’s talking children before the first date.
Richard, run.
I think Richard might be learning an important leasson here. He does work a lot and tend to burn himself out, meaning he does not have as much time to spend with Sandra.
At least that is the feeling i have been getting over the years.
Upside to all of this: At least Hitomi now knows Yukiya isn’t right for her instead of putting her life on hold waiting for him to make a move. She’s now free to find someone to love. *hint*
You’re taking some sadistic pleasure in leading us on for this ship, aren’t you?
To be fair, almost every japanese male is like that, they worship their job above all things, putting it before everything else, including their own family. They treat their boss like a semi god, will be severely punished and ashamed if they are a couple minutes late to work (more than 10 min is not computable in their minds) and losing their job can be a reasonable motivation for a suicide. So no reason for Hitomi to react like that, is the most accurate Japanese male portrait she will be facing that a lot. Also, Japanese women tend to look for a man who works a lot and leaves all the money for the wife, while she stays at home doing nothing.
Strips like this Remind me again of the Great Benefits of being a gay man.
Little smile wrote:
And what do you do if you happen to end up with a partner who really wants kids, but then you learn it isn’t all that easy … ?
Well she DOES have a point!
@ Mechwarrior:
Exactly. I’ve been saying it from the start that she’s crazy. Poor guy probably doesn’t care about work much at all, he just had to come up with some excuse to get away from the insane cat-maid.
@ Kevin Anon:
Yes, it works both ways: Either way, you don’t get children, and the real point of BOTH men and women is making and raising children. Because, if they don’t get THAT done, no next generation.
Either I’m reading too much into things, or everyone is missing the point. Because no one seems to mention the fact that as Richard is listening to this, he is on a business trip far away from his teenage daughter.
@ Foradain:
Don’t be to hard on people about this. Even in Virginia where they should know better there is a bridge named after the battle of the Ironclads called the Moniter-Merrimack bridge. The very state it was named for got it wrong and so do many textbooks.
Nobody wrote:
Ehm… about that…
@ Francisco:
Honorable salaryman
@ YBerion:
Your stereotypes of Japanese society are thirty to forty years out of date. These days, Japanese women are no more likely to be stay-at-home parents than American women.
Just when you thought she couldn’t get any cuter, you get panel 4
@ Ravyn:
Dang, beat me to it!
@ Ritch:I know!!!
@ Mechwarrior:
And that’s another reason for the cascading birthrate. Japanese women have some grim role models set for them by traditional society and they are less and less buying into it.
Wait… She started an inquiry about what he think about marriage and having children BEFORE THE FIRST DATE!?
Well, it’s realy agresive! 😀