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KitKat1721
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 Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:56 pm
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I have to say this is probably one of my new favorite new subgenres too. I recently read Akiko Higashimura's series My So-Called Artist's Journey, and it quickly became one of my favorites. This series also sounds like its worth checking out.
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Triltaison
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:51 pm
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Color me intrigued. Considering I'm a lady in my 30s with PCOS and hoping to have my own journey when financially able to, this definitely sounds up my alley. I think I'll have to pick it up for sure.
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Brutannica
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:00 pm
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| Quote: | | I'd blame this on Abe but the guy isn't even in office anymore. |
What did Abe have to do with sex ed?
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John Thacker
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:57 pm
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My wife and I enjoyed this manga a lot. As you say, every pregnancy is different, but even in the different details you can find a commonality.
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Oggers
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:04 pm
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| Brutannica wrote: |
| Quote: | | I'd blame this on Abe but the guy isn't even in office anymore. |
What did Abe have to do with sex ed? |
There was a lot of criticism towards Shinzo Abe not making any progress towards raising Japan's birthrate like he promised. It got to the point where there was a meme about how he was using anime (most notably Darling in the Franxx) as propaganda to encourage people to start families.
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nobahn
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:07 pm
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| Brutannica wrote: |
| Quote: | | I'd blame this on Abe but the guy isn't even in office anymore. |
What did Abe have to do with sex ed? |
Surely you haven't forgotten about SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist (TV).
From the first review:
| Theron Martin wrote: | | The series is also, in a very real sense, a satire. Its premise is undoubtedly meant as a stab at the 2010 revision of the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths, which is much reviled in the Japanese publishing industry; in fact, the defining law of this series is merely an extreme extrapolation of that law's intent. Imagery and concepts used here sometimes evoke defining cautionary tales like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 and the notion of everyone being fitted with collars and/or wristbands (and later chastity belts) to inhibit and control them is, frankly, scary. The writing also savagely chastises such intense focus on morality for its potential negative consequences, such as leaving even sexually mature teenagers ignorant of basic biology or unable to comprehend or cope with urges that they may have. [my emphasis -nobahn] |
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Gina Szanboti
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 11:50 pm
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| Quote: | | the baby decides it likes the breech position and that sucker isn't getting out of there without surgical assitance. |
Was that a deliberate pun? 
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yeehaw
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:28 am
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| Quote: | | I'd blame this on Abe but the guy isn't even in office anymore. |
The current prime minister is from Abe's former cabinet so I assume he's got the same conservative politics. Therefore, we can and should blame Abe
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ANN_Lynzee
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:15 am
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| Gina Szanboti wrote: |
| Quote: | | the baby decides it likes the breech position and that sucker isn't getting out of there without surgical assitance. |
Was that a deliberate pun? |
All my puns are deliberate.
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John Thacker
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:13 am
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| nobahn wrote: |
| Brutannica wrote: |
| Quote: | | I'd blame this on Abe but the guy isn't even in office anymore. |
What did Abe have to do with sex ed? |
Surely you haven't forgotten about SHIMONETA: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist (TV).
From the first review:
| Theron Martin wrote: | | The series is also, in a very real sense, a satire. Its premise is undoubtedly meant as a stab at the 2010 revision of the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths, which is much reviled in the Japanese publishing industry; in fact, the defining law of this series is merely an extreme extrapolation of that law's intent. |
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But that had nothing to do with Abe. The governor of the Tokyo Metropolis in 2010 was Shintaro Ishihara, who hadn't been in the LDP since 1995 (for reasons including that he felt it was too subservient to the US, and because he's a populist - considered right wing but also imposed cap-and-trade, taxed bank assets, and a bunch of other assorted moves.) It's like blaming the President of the USA for something done entirely by a state government - and the final revision of the bill after edits was passed with large all-party support in a Tokyo Assembly that had the most DPJ members in a very long time, one of the rare times that the LDP wasn't the largest party. To be completely fair, the LDP was ok with his election in 2011 considering that, as often happens in Tokyo, all the leading candidates were independents (and that he had several times beaten official LDP candidates in previous elections), but in national politics he formed his own party immediately afterwards.
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Gasero
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 12:47 pm
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The review already has me hooked. Sign me up for this story.
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