Unhealthy
Happy Birthday to me… Happy Birthday to me… Happy Birthday dear watashi…
Yup, it’s my birthday, as per Mio’s sister’s song in the latest episode of Nichijou. I’m 23 years old, so I guess that means I’m still young? I hope so. Yeah.
As for this comic, I made it so long ago that I forgot how I feel about it. I have a pretty good lead time on these things, and I usually write the update right when I finish the comic, then set it to autopost, but I didn’t do that this time. Tina’s face looks kind of naked without glasses now, and fans of Kaiji should take note of Rets’ outfit. The art this time around is pretty bad, but I like how the backgrounds turned out.
Denpa Onna started out really strong, and is still riding strong, just not as strong as it used to be. Erio is however consistently cute is a button, and I’m with Tina on this one: I’d love to live with her. Rets, however, is kind of a weird guy.
Well, I guess we’re all weird if we’re considering hypothetically living with a fictional character.
Wow, I’m rather surprised, today is also my birthday. Happy birthday to you. Also the old references page for the old comic is now MIA, you know, the one that was horribly outdated.
Rets is steadily moving further and further away from “unhealthy” and closer towards “outright criminal behaviour”.
Happy Lolita Day!
In a number of countries what he does is already criminal. It’s really a shame how the biggest western countries all treat fictional characters as real people when it concerns who or what they’re attracted to. If it’s not hurting anybody, there should really be no problem with it all.
Happy Birthdaaaaaay
And isn’t anyone in love considering living with a fictional character? No one can really know another person. Instead, they construct out own belief as to what another person is like in their heads. Then, once living together, they realize the other person is at best, vaguely lined up with our image of them. All along, the one we truly loved wasn’t real. Just a wonderful shield of lies, a fiction we’ve created so that we can try to open our hearts, only to hurt because we’ve made ourselves vulnerable.
In that way, isn’t it better to love a truly fictional character who can never betray you, can never hurt you, and never lies? Who we can truly “have” in a way that another human being never can?
Ah, Rets, we stand alone in a world which is filled with lies. And yet we all hope. Long, in fact, for a girl to have as our own. No emotional strings, no pain for us, no lies. His wish, his hope, his longing for a no-strings attached relationship with girls is fulfilled by anime girls. Though there is no way to touch each other, no physical consummation, in truth there is no purer love. For our love, our loyalty to them is not out of desire for their body. For in truth, we realize they cannot truly exist. But we love them all the more. And they will always love us…on the other side of the screen.
Ah, but there’s a difference: it’s actually possible to influence real people. To change them. I’d much rather spend my life with someone capable of interacting with me than any truly fictional character
Happy Birthday for yesterday! :) Liking the Kaiji shirt :D May you continue to revolve around the sun roughly once per year.
Noticed the Kaiji outfit the moment I saw the first panel. *brofist*
And happy birthday.
Damnit, you’re actually 3 weeks younger than me, or thereabouts?
Worldview shaken.
Rets is still free…roaming the streets…openly walking into stores…
SOMEONE HAS TO LET THE FBI KNOW!!