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- Hitomi: Hitomi will make Richard super happy!
- Hitomi: Will make life cute like in “My Neighbor Totoro” and funny like in “Rat Race” and a little bit sexy like in “Dirty Dancing”.
- Hitomi: Except if Richard goes to bed with other woman…
- Hitomi: Then will make life more like in “Saw”.
- Ye Thuza: Woman in school uniform very reasonable!
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Awh! This woman has spirit! And she knows what she wants and how to get it. 🙂
Wedding, when?
Well the implication is that she’ll be fucking him so it’s highly doubtful that Richard would even want to bed another woman
better safe than sorry
So… beneath its sugar-coating, this is a continuation of the demonic nightmare that started on the plane. How very, very cruel!
Yandere alert!
Ah how the turntables.
She’s quirky but I like it! Hope she stays!
@ Titan: Unfortunately, there are examples of guys like Tiger Woods and Hugh Grant who had beautiful wives/girlfriends and yet still slept around.
Somehow, I doubt Hitomi will have to worry about that!
Now, Richard: get thee to a jeweler’s, and put a ring on that woman. ^__^
Conversationally NTR’d? That’s some hardcore flirting. Didn’t Hitomi have a boyfriend of some sort in Japan?
Hitomi kisses with chu. When Richard returns the kiss, what sound does it make? Chu, smek, or smooch?
@ Vicious Sand:
There was a guy she liked who was a regular at the cafe. Richard encouraged her to ask him out.
He declined because he loved his job too much, and having a girlfriend would distract him from it.
He was either lying, or an idiot.
Aww, here we get more sweetness AND a glimpse of the yandere steel hidden beneath the kawaii silk. Although I doubt Richard is going to be too uncomfortable being the gently henpecked husband. He is probably accustomed to that kind of woman and Hitomi seems in dere mode most of the time.
Ok, both of them have declared and accepted by now, Hitomi came with a baggage suitable for a change of residence, Sandra gave her seal of approval. They can start living together now and go looking for a ring (their area does not seem to be in any kind of lockdown) and a wedding planner (although I suspect Ye Thuza is going to vounteer). Introduction to the rest of the gang can happen as soon as they return from school. I wonder what they are going to do about the lava moat (Larisa and Yuna sure wish to complete their pyromanic masterpiece). Given the circumstances, we can surely expect an anime-themed wedding.
In the short term, Richard can probably afford to support his cohabitating gf, being a senior programmer and department leader. And the current economic climate sure as heck is not optimal for Hitomi finding work. I assume she can apply for permanent residence being a fiancee of a US Citizen (and they decided to marry after she came to visit).
In the long term, I wonder if she is going to be a homemaker like Ye Thuza or seek employment. In the latter case, my best bet given her talents would be to try and set up some kind of anime-themed game/comic-book/RPG shop cum cafe for the local geek population. There is one in my town (minus the cafe part) and it has been staying afloat for quite some time.
Ok so Richard and Hitomi are a confirmed couple… not what i was expecting but the guy needs it imo. poor bastard has had to take care of his daughter since his wife passed away. being a Single Parent isn’t easy. at all, especially for Single dads with Daughters approaching puberty
Thisguy wrote:
He might be gay, asexual/aromantic, workaholic (a serious social problem in Japan, up to overwork being a significant cause of death), and/or into a totally different type of woman.
Lokitsu wrote:
A typical consequence of the temptations of the wealthy celebrity lifestyle. Richard, however, is not one and withstood being a non-dating widower (except for the potential serial killer coworker episode) and single parent of a tween daugther for years without falling apart. He is fairly tested and found worthy on that account.
I am 100% down for Ye Thuza and Hitomi becoming best friends.
was thinking more of kill bill for that last one, but ok XD
Richard sleeps with another woman.
Wakes up tied down to a torture device.
Hitomi:”We’re going to play a little game…”
@ Commander Clash:
I’ve seen just enough Japanese game shows for that to be funny. Moreso if Sandra is the opposing team. Hitomi and Sandra’s different heights (and leg strengths) may give them different advantages at different challenges, especially trying to outrun a kendo chaser through a honeycomb of doors to a win/lose mat/mud zone.
Vicious Sand wrote:
Ahh, the good ol’ “Takeshi’s Castle” honeycomb labyrinth
Now I understand what a part of the prediction about “changing to worse” was referring to.
Saw? I thought Audition might be more appropriate lol
Lil miss hedge clippers may have an ‘accident’ forthcoming lol.
First panel: I am worrying this is too fast.
Second panel: does she have a mental illness?
Last Panel: ahhhhhhh,
Good luck surviving Sandra & Woo!
@ Lokitsu:
Monogamy is recent my dude. Nature expects diversity of the genome.
nans wrote:
It really feels less authentic than their other interactions. It is hard enough to write good interactions between lovers under normal circumstances. If you try to make one of the involved people strange, it probably is impossible to make the conversation feel genuine.
@ Alice Macher:
Probably “another” ring.
So how old is she again?
@ hannes10001:
Around her mid-twenties, 23-27 if i had to guess
That seems like a completely reasonable arrangement to me.
but in “Saw” you get a chance to survive…
IT’S OFFICIAL! My ship has sailed!
@ Alice Macher:
I second the motion!
@ Thisguy:
I’m pretty sure he didn’t decline, just told her he didn’t want any kids, which was a deal breaker for Hitomi. Is Sandra going to get a younger sibling in the future?
no worry Hitomi, if Richard goes to bed with other women, we’ll help make his life a living nightmare
I’m seeing the martial possibilities more than marital. I’m seeing Ye Thuza putting Hitomi through combat training, after which they become an unstoppable battle force. Richard isn’t bad himself. Sandra and Woo are logistics support.
extra points for the Totoro reference.
I’m extremely torn at this. I love Hitomi, and Richard deserves the good things. But let’s look at this realistically (in a webcomic with a talking raccoon and a pyromaniac half-demoness, I know, bear with me). Richard was over there for what, maybe a month? Not even? And now she’s flown to him, and is talking pretty heavy relationship talk there. Rushing into those sorts of things is a very dangerous gamble…
Even “Saw” would be very reasonable if she befriends Yuna…
As for the speed of their relationship, with Hitomi being in her mid-20s and single, she probably thinks if she leaves it too much longer to find a partner, she’ll be on the proverbial romantic scrapheap. Then she encounters a Gaijin who happens to share her love of geek culture and, unsurprisingly, latches onto him.
For his part, Richard’s been single for a while and has probably been too busy with work and raising Sandra to consider looking for love. He quite likes Hitomi (platonically, at least) and with her unexpected arrival, was willing to house her in the short term at least (at least partially due to the travel restrictions). I think in this strip, he’s just beginning to realise that not only is she completely besotted with him, but if he breaks her heart, he’ll also have to deal with Ye Thuza making his life miserable (never mind what her daughter would do!)…
Added onto which, unbeknown to Richard, his daughter’s best friend is a trainee succubus…
The third panel is a masterpiece
We love you too, Hitomi
Well…we still haven’t seen what will happen at 7:35 p.m. …
Whoa, girl! Slow down.
Silk hiding steel. Or should I say, sailor fuku hiding steel?
@ Draven:
Rushing into a relationship is always a gamble. However, part of being in a relationship is the conscious decision to have that relationship. The falling in love is a biological phenomenon, and the rush lasts a few months, not more. After that, the love needs to be based on something else, and that is the compatibility of the spouses. Mutual trust, respect and steady love are built by living together, having good and bad times.
So, my advice is to move together during the first rush of love. If a stable relationship can be built, it is then built by the mutual decision of the partners to live together and live each other. Simply delaying the moving together means also delaying the unavoidable frictions and arguments that follow. Also, when there is such a basis, moving together seems like the most natural thing in the world to do.
Marriage, in the other hand, is an economic arrangement that should be entered into soon afterwards, but only after it seems that living together is actually doable. I would say that one or two years of common life before marriage is sensible. A longer engagement shows lack of commitment.
@ Lurker 2:
A lot of useful advice. However, in the case of Richard and Hitomi, there is a practical issue that compels accelerating the pace to marriage considerably (but not too much), namely Hitomi’s immigrant status. As I understand the issue after some quick googling, she can only stay 90 days with the visa waiver, or 180 days with a tourist visa. Before it expires, she shall have to apply for permanent residence as the fiancee of a US Citizen. Then they have to marry within 90 days and apply for a change of status after marriage.
It seems better if they spend a few months living together before marrying and/or applying for a fiance green card, but not long enough that her tourist permission to say is likely to expire before she gets approved for permanent residence. It shows she did not mean to misuse the tourist visa with fraudolent intent to become a permanent resident when she entered the USA, but came to test a relationship.they had started during Richard’s visit to Japan. Because of the faux pas of entering the USA as a tourist with potential intent to become a permanent resident, Richard and Hitomi might have use for the advice of an immigration lawyer.
Her situation in the eyes of the USCIS is likely not so bad since she comes from a trusted nation and this is a legitimate case of evolution to a confirmed relationship after she arrived, but she still needs to say and show the right things to the officer reviewing her case, lest her application for a green card gets into trouble.
@ Irioth:
The inscription on the Statue Of Liberty is only valued for it’s decorational merits nowadays, right?
Don’t mind me. I’m just going to be standing over here in the corner, internally screaming with joy for these two.