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Skip and Loafer (TV) (w/ index).

Ah, Edjwald, Edjwald, Edjwald... I swear if I didn't have to spend so much time educating you, I'd probably rule the world... or something.

However, where your entire intellectual edifice collapses like an abandoned building primed for demolition is that many types of footwear DO lend themselves to a singular form.

But Loafer? That certainly doesn't describe Mitsuri. Maybe loafer refers to the shoe type that students wear

...*sigh* This is why it's never a good idea to cross verbal swords with a jailhouse lawyer.

Okay, yes, I concede...

my lack of literary exactitude left me open to exactly the kind of hair-splitting semantics you have so weaselly deployed, HOWEVER, in my defence, I ASSUMED I was dealing with a sufficiently sophisticated audience that would understand that:

loafers = type of shoe -> Mitsuri is an individual, so therefore if you are likening her to a type of shoe OBVIOUSLY it makes sense to use the singular form of that type of shoe, in this case, loafer. MY BAD FOR MAKING SUCH AN ASSUMPTION!!!

Yes, yes I am talking out of my butt.

2) If, at some point before the show ends, there is the following exchange:

Sosuke: "Whatever you say, loafer."

Mitsumi: "Loafer? Why are you calling me loafer, Skip?"

Sosuke: "Because you wear loafers and since you're an individual, it makes more sense to call you loafer as opposed to loafers."

Mitsumi: "Ah yes, that makes a lot of sense."

... I will laugh! so! hard!

2) Apparently the proper translation from Japanese to English would be Skip to Loafer, not Skip and Loafer

I went a-surfin' through the Intrawebs earlier - despite having a full life filled with Many, Many Important Things - and gleaned some interesting tidbits..