- Title: Family planning
- Y axis: Number of children
- X axis: Amount of Kawaii
- Hitomi: This allows only one conclusion!
- Caption: Bonus drawing
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[1208] Family Planning
└ posted on Tuesday, 8 September 2020, by Novil
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If that were true Japan would have a booming population. But it is actually in decline.
Subtle Hitomi. Very subtle.
@ TwoTail:
Yeah…….subtle…….
😏
And then they did things to each other that would make a hentai artist blush.
I don’t believe Hitomi understands the concept of ‘taking it slow’
Abe would approve
And that’s how the dramatic event that will turn Sandra’s life upside down STARTS…
With a humongous family.
The graph should taper off after the 3rd kid, because by that point, the eldest is getting to the bratty kid stage
>Germans
>Smiling children
Pick one
Gamesman wrote:
Nah, their fictional population is exploding at an astounding rate, and we all know that the fictional realm of japan is hoarding all the kawaii from the irl realm of japan.
@ Freezer:
I know, right. Hand holding and headpats around the clock. Disgusting. *Hides smirk*@ Freezer:
Wait’ll Sandra and Yee Thuza hear about this one!
Oh.. Hello, Cloud. 🙂
Gamesman wrote:
Japan probem isn’t kids being kawaii. Japans problem is the developed something similar to germ phobia about having actual sex. [but it not not about germ] so they having problems getting over the virginity hurdle of a reluctance to go from thinking about sex to actual having sex
Don’t turn a good thing down! That, being Hitomi.
Reminds me of my wife. Then money ran out; she is now telling me to stay away until income is moar pluss
umm… Hitomi I think its more like a bell curve, at some point the number of kids become more overwhelming than kawaii.
She obviously doesn’t realize that her suggestion would eventually put her right out of the top ten Kawaii “things” in her surrounding.
More kids -> more Kawaii -> less rank for her.
Or she’s doesn’t mind as long it’s her own offspring and she’s thus part of it.
And then they grow up, then the graph start declining proportionately to the age of the children.
ok so Hitomi is really looking far ahead. also the fact that Richard is seemingly ok with this is…. interesting
I sure hope the study she got those statistics from was peer-reviewed. Linear relationships with such complicated variables tend to be the least best-fit curve for wildly incoherent data.
I like Hitomi, but wouldn’t it be more fun and feel more natural if we gut those chapters occationally with some other chapters in between? I know it is quite overvelming for everyone involved when a new person comes into a family and it will take over quite a lot of what happens around the house, but here, it’s like everything else stops…
Still, better like that, than no Hitomi at all.
In the comments under a recent strip, someone suggested that the relationship with Hitomi is Seeoahtlahmakaskay’s gift to Richard, and I think that idea is very nice. This could also explain why Hitomi share Seeoahtlahmakaskay’s idea of a desirable number of offspring. 🙂
Hmm… while I have been enjoying the Hitomi-arc quite a bit, I can’t help but feel a bit like she isn’t so much of a character as a trophy for Richard with some japanese stereotypes to go for it. Don’t get me wrong, she’s enjoyable, I just feel like she is a bit two-dimensional. Would be nice to see her being more than the perfect japanese waifu for Richard.
@ Roguebfl:
Japan has a serious space management problem too. After the war, they were seriously overcrowded, in the big cities but out in the countryside too. Nowdays, you can find whole former cities mostly empty and many smaller towns completly without people as most people move to bigger cities. This creates a strange problem, that big cities are still crowded, while a few hours away the countryside is completley empty with only a few old people living there. One train company had to hire people to plant the fields along its tourist line, so tourists could see the ideal japanese countryside.
Then there is the cultural problem. Traditionally in the japanese family the woman stayed home after the first child and took care of the household. With more and more women working and doesn’t really want to be a stay at home mom, less and less of them starts a family. Also most males have very low chances with actual real females and end up prefering “2D” girls even if they have the means to start a family. First it was only one child per family, which essentially halves the population every generation, but nowdays more than half of japanese adults never have any kids (or a relationship). This would cut each generation down below one quarter of the previous one.
Then there is the case of NEETs, both male and female, who drop out of education, couldn’t get a job (or doesn’t want to) and often the whole family lives on a single income, often the pension of a grandparent or a single working parent. Without any skills and an education, these people couldn’t really start a family even if they wanted to.
Hitomi is the rare one (mostly only seen in anime) who is a school dropout, but would also like a big family. I’m sure many japanse men would actually love to find a girl like her. She seems to be not really smart, but this could be down to her somewhat broken engrish. I think it would be interesting to see what happens next…
Sally wrote:
Tastes differ. I absolutely don’t mind when characters are mostly 2-dimensional. She may very well get her deeper arcs somewhere in the future. But characters can be very enjoyable without being deep and well-rounded. Cloud isn’t a very 3-dimensional character either and I still think he’s a cute addition to the cast. Quite a few characters in this comic stay true to their shtick, which feels just right to me.
Japan’s problem is that it is a socially and economically successful country populated by highly intelligent and industrious people. The way the modern world works is that, one way or another, the more closely a country fits that profile, the more difficult it becomes for its people to find the time and resources to have children, and the fewer children they have. OTOH, the more abjectly failed a country is, the faster its population growth. (There are countries in Sub-Saharan Africa where the average woman still has six children!)
On the whole, long term, a pattern like this does not bod well for the world.
@ DysprosiumDy:
I can kinda see your point – about the characters having a “shtick” and sticking to it and not being completely well-rounded, yet still enjoyable. My problem is, that Hitomi starts to feel more like a wish-fulfilling fantasy (the submissive, anime-loving, kawaii cat girl japanese waifu) and trophy rather than a real character, which just rubs me a bit of the wrong way. I mean, I don’t doubt that there are people like that, I’d just like to see a tiny bit more depth, which this comic usually does show.
Hitomi-san willing to be oneesan to Sandra but want to be okasan to others
Sally wrote:
I find her far from submissive! And seeing Richard happy in her company makes him a more rounded character, because this is a new side of him. From what we have seen, Sandra’s mum seems to have been very different.
The big drop of perspiration on Richard’s head that apparently denotes that he is nervous about the chart showing Hitomi’s intention to have lotsa kids is a bit puzzling, given that he experienced Hitomi’s tirade about the Japanese guy she was infatuated with telling her he did not want kids in episode 1167.
This has to be the most data-driven, information-heavy “come hither” I have ever seen.
Also, the y-axis of the graph goes *over* the pointer.
John C. wrote:
There different interpenetration of lots of kid, from 3 though to quiverfull. he knew she wants a large family sure, but the different from being showing a chart that say she doesn’t see there is an upper limited of feasibility.
TQ wrote:
she could be using a projector
TQ wrote:
That’s okay, the hand is kind-of visible through ti too. That just means she’s using a transparent wand, maybe acrylic.
Or, if you ignored the hand, and the lack of shadow, it could be a projection. But maybe I’m projecting.
She forgot to include “species”
@ Roguebfl:
Economic and social problems do not help. Not enough money to have even a single kid or to support a wife. Then again its sort of happening in other countries except Japan’s problem is accelerated by low immigration
Surprised Japan has not built a space colony in the Moon alongside China
Gamesman wrote:
You lack the full picture.
Japan also has the highest singlerate, and suiciderate in the world.
Ignoring that, the number of children are put in function with a quality (and a subjective one at that), not a quantity, limiting theusefullnes of the equation severly.
(Basically we could say that the population would decline EVEN FASTER if Japan lacked the power of kawaii…)
@ Bottas Heimfe:
You aeem to have miswed the sweat mark by his head. That is the international sign of freaking out.
Well, this escalated linearly quickly…
So sandra is getting siblings
“Ow! My eye!”
Sandra: “I concur. She makes a validated and very informed point.”
@ Bottas Heimfe:
I mean…I would be. I need to find myself a Hitomi to fall in love with and woo. Not the raccoon, the verb.
Just remember, the best part of children is making them.
@ DysprosiumDy:
Did you miss the strip where she went all Saw psycho at the thought of Richard being unfaithful? Add to that her near constant assumptions about various things and it is easy to see Hitomi misconstruing a lot of culture gap stuff to be infidelity. Her displayed (and stated by her) below average intelligence could also make for several kinds of unforced errors. Honestly, I don’t see why anyone would want to be in a relationship with Hitomi, she seems very self-centered and incompetent… and has shown a potential for being petulant or worse when she doesnt get her way; maybe some folks like a dependent partner, but if Hitomi was a real person she would probably fall just short of being a narcissist (how many regular people care about being in the “top ten kawaii things in the room”? Obviously she is a cartoon character, but still,its bizarre)
Christian Dauz wrote:
I was under the impression Japan and China do not like each other very much.
I was under the impression Japan and China do not like each other very much.
I see where another translation of ‘kawaii’ is ‘cuddly’. In that sense, Hitomi is dead right.
Let’s see her family planning graph after she gives birth for the first time 😀
Gamesman wrote:
If all japanese girls who wants big family would end up emigrating into US, it would explain the decline nicely 🙂
Sally wrote:
Hitomi is more wish-fullfilling for READERS than for Richard. She’s not really submissive – she has clear goals in life and goes for them hard, although doesn’t mind being trophy otherwise. She’s not typical tsundere but shows the mood swings (maybe she COULD be classified as sweet tsundere …). Richard’s live with her has lot of potential to be interesting – which is something WE will like but him not so much.
Just what kind of college did Hitomi apply to?