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![[1164] Setback](/comics/2020-03-25-1164-setback.png "[1164] Setback")
Brutal setback for all shippers! The doctors can’t keep up with the treatment of the wounded!
- Caption: The evening of the next day.
- Richard: Isn’t it way past closing time?
- Hitomi: Yes. But we expect a last customer!
- Richard: A celebrity?
- Hitomi: No, no.
- Richard: So why–
- Hitomi: Ah! There he is!
- Richard: Ohh…
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Good for her! too bad to Richard..
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Good! Maybe we can lay the whole “shipping Sandra’s dad and a weird maid with a creepy cat fetish” to rest.
@ Breja:
Considering that this strip is titled “setback,” I don’t think this strip is meant to sink the ship.
And given the caption is “set back for all the shippers” I’d say it falls right back into ship sinking.
Glad the artist sank the boat.
Or is it……
… damn.
Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!
Well, she was maybe a bit young for him anyway.
Is that senpai? >_<
But does she notice her?
Well. You know what set back mean to me?
It means we must eliminate the obstacle. Down with the new unname guy. DOWN!!!!
@ Breja:
It’s obvious from your comment that you’re one of THOSE people who refuses to acknowledge that others might have interests that you don’t. There’s no indication that RICHARD dislikes the catgirl cosplay.
Ah! The Love Rival! Another romance flag!
*cries*
This ship has sink, I repead, this ship has sink.
Guys – that’s obviously Goro Aketchi. The ship is fine.
The ship is taking on water! Man the pumps!
Could be as simple as author doesn’t want to expand cast further. Hitomi would bring her whole family if she and Richard got together. That’s like t more people and a resultant move to a bigger house. Also jobs for Hitomi and family. Lots of chaos.
Hey I will ship her with whoever pays more attention to her… even if she disagrees!
My ship is sinking!
MAY DAY! MAY DAY!
Wait a minute…. It’s March.
MARCH DAY! MARCH DAY!
booooooo
I’m done with Richard x Hitomi. Richard x Yukiya is OTP.
Oh, no, he has anime protagonist level looks.
In Spain we have a nice expression for this: “un jarro de agua fría”, which means (literally) “a jar of cold water”. Picture it being poured over Richard’s back in last panel…
I want to remind everyone again about the F@H team that was set up for Sandra and Woo fans some time ago. It was fallow for almost two years, and now I’m back, but I’m the only one.
Help. We’re slipping in the rankings.
https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/229464
@ Anon:
With that tie and hair cut? That’s Tohru Adachi!
@ apaperscout:
The next order given was, “Abandon ship, the rebs just sunk us.!”
Novil, it’s totally irresponsible to send half of your readers with sick burns into hospitals doring the recent corona crisis.
But honestly, never get to invested in a ship. Especially if the author has trolling tendencis.
Aw. 🙁
Regis Earsquake wrote:
I agree, Novil has a healthy approach to shippers as we know from the Zoey/Julia arc, but don’t forget that the odious shipper Gilligan won in the end. However, I don’t want to be associated to him. 🙂
Well, it is a teenager and a 40-something grown man. Honestly I am happy to see this ship sink. Go for her mother instead, Richard. Sandra needs a sister!
Tramuntana wrote:
Did we have their ages?
Richard might as well be 30-something and Hitomi well over 20. If she’s aiming to look “Kawaii” she might be older than she shows.
(insert Darth Vader “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!” here) ;D
Grijan wrote:
We typically call it a “bucket of cold water”
clickbait wrote:
Given Sandra’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 11-14 (given Cloud is 12/13 and they’re in the same grade) Richard is most likely in his late 30’s/early 40’s. For him to be exactly 30, he’d have to have fathered Sandra at 19 at the *latest*, and there’s been no indication of him having been a teenage father, so that’s right out. Given that he’s a programmer, it’s unlikely he fathered her while he was in college, either, especially early in college, so we can add at least another four years. If he didn’t father her until after his marriage to her mother, we can reasonably guess he would have fathered her not long after 25 or 26, which would put him around 36 at the youngest and not likely over 42/43 at the oldest.
As for our maid, Japanese women tend to look younger than they are, so she could easily be in her 20’s-30’s. Given her work hours and the fact that we have yet to see her working on any homework or hear any mention of school, it’s unlikely that she’d in her teens. Culturally speaking, Japanese people tend to be very serious about school. The fact that she lives at home with her family isn’t a good indicator, as it is far from unusual for Japanese women to live with their parents for as long as they remain single, though the apparent ages of her parents lend a little bit of support to her being mid-to-late 20’s.
@ …:
Guessing how old a parent has to be by the age of their child is pretty tricky. Especially for men.
Just two examples about friends of mine: one of my friends has siblings who are like twenty years older than him. And I once knew a 15 year old girl who’s mother was 31.
From how he’s drawn and how his portraited in this comic I’d place him somewhere between … 33(?) and definitely younger than 50.
I’m totally with you about how old Hitomi might be.
@ …:
Sandra is thirteen. There was a whole story arc about her thirteenth birthday. Granted, that was almost three years ago, but a single day’s in-comic events can stretch out for several weeks of real time. IIRC, Sandra was already twelve when the strip started, and that was in 2008.
I’m not sure but I think I remember something like two different birthday threads about Larissa *after* Sandra officially was thirteen. But anyway. I don’t think she’s supposed to be older then fourteen by now.
Given the way plots twist and turn, the next panel will show an attractive young man sitting down next to ‘Tohru Adachi’ and holding hands with him to Hitomoi’s devastation.
One possibility not yet explored is the “will they / won’t they” relationship – ostensibly platonic friends (with occasional references to internet communication and possibly eventually Hitomi visiting the US), but with hints they may have deeper feelings, but for various reasons, don’t act on them (a long standing trope in fiction).
Or, even more sneakily, end this arc with an ambiguous farewell, then move onto strips featuring the regular gang, and in a few year’s time (our time, not theirs), Hitomi reappears for an arc.
Well, darn.
Breja wrote:
I don’t know if you’re blind to cultural differences, individual differences, or just context in general, but shipping Sandra’s dad and an empathetic and energetic woman isn’t a bad thing. Her (obviously) nonsexual hobbies have no bearing on this one way or the other.
Red5 wrote:
Her hobbies aren’t anything more than a little odd, by Western standards, and might even be somewhat mainstream in Japan.
What happened to that programmer lady that Richard had a love-hate relationship with?
@ Elchar:
The one that sexually identifies as a preying mantis?
clickbait wrote:
Hence why I factored his career and former marital status into my estimates.
As for your anecdotes, Sandra has no siblings, and it would have come up by now if he was a teen dad, *especially* if he became a dad at 15.
Wizard wrote:
Ah. I couldn’t remember precisely.