I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend

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Megatokyo. That was a fun one until it turned into a dating sim visual novel because his partner left. Still not as bad as the hard right turn Sinfest made.

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He doesn’t, but you see in later comics he’s working at the funeral home and… well… it takes a couple turns.

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Why’s she dressed like a Japanese schoolgirl?

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I've recently re-read all of it, and it made me so nostalgic for internet that wasn't sterile and jokes like this were the norm.

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Because the comic is inspired by Japanese 4koma comic structure.

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Ahhh okay.

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It's for teenage suicide prevention. Which makes the sex thing worse.

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But not unusual in Japan!

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The artstyle is also very reminiscent of old manga/asian comic styles (like 1970s 1980s) so it would make sense the boy and the girl are dressed in that fashion

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This comic (called Sexy Losers, BTW), is where the word "fap" came from, BTW. It was an extremely popular web comic back in the day.

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I was thinking this would be the obvious thing to happen without even knowing there were more comics about it. It's good see stuff be reused.

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I remember the lore already being convoluted 20 years ago lol

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Originally called "the thin h line"

Rob Bos

It helps that he puts references to previous comics at the bottom of each. A few rabbitholes down the archives and you might find it funny!

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I had completely forgotten that existed. Thank you!

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That's one fucked up comic... Thanks for linking it I enjoyed it greatly

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If it makes you feel better, he's also in a Japanese school uniform, so he's probably around the same age.

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that was uh… interesting

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"To understand revolutionary suicide it is first necessary to have an idea of reactionary suicide, for the two are very different. Reactionary suicide: the reaction of a man who takes his own life in response to social conditions that overwhelm him and condemn him to helplessness.”

“I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions.”

“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”

– Dr. Huey P. Newton

Queen HawlSera

In Japan the age of Consent differs depending on the situation, but 12-14 isn't unusual.

In Persona 5 this is even a plotpoint early on, as your first real story arc is about a guy sexually abusing female students and beating male students. He gets away with it because he's a coach and his physical abuse of male students gets results, and what he does with female students is believed to be both completely normal and consensual. "She's 13, she's old enough, and he's a famous former athlete so the attraction is there."

The idea that the massive age difference could be part of the problem is not brought up a single time nor the fact that the girls are just starting high school. The only part of the game's narrative that sees it as wrong is the fact that they were co-erced into it.

Later on, you can date your homeroom teacher as one of your romantic paths if you so wish. Joker, the player character, is 16. This relationship would actually be legal in the UK, and depending on which state you're in the United States as well (Likely not a Romeo and Juliet state as those require the age gap to be small, whereas there are non-R+J states that say "You're 16/17 you can do who you want.", hey don't shoot the messenger okay),

However while legal in the UK and (parts of) US it would still be heavily socially frowned upon, but I guess in Japan they don't care? I don't know I'm not a Japanese Culture nerd nor am I Japanese.