Ginko wins against a lot of people and graduates to 4-dan, the first female to become a pro shogi player. I have no problem with this, as I said, one or two talented women joining in with men happens all the time. There was a female world chess champion who reached 7th place in the world or something. Actually, considering the insane amount of difficulty Ginko had just to reach the bottom of the pro league, she isn't even the genius we've been waiting for. I suspect Ai will reach much higher than mere 'pro.'
My complaint is only with the claim that girls can spit out as many professional shogi talents as boys, and if that isn't true in reality it can only be due to systemic sexism somehow holding women back, even though the rules of shogi are perfectly fair and objective and apply equally to men and women without bias. Still, there must be some sort of ethereal invisible sexism because the results aren't equal! And so yet again men must shoulder the blame for women's own failings. Except it's even worse. When a woman fails according to sex realism, it's only because she's too weak, a morally blameless situation. But according to systemic sexism, when a woman fails it's because all men in the entire world are too evil. The first scenario can easily be forgiven as no big deal. The second scenario requires men be hounded and persecuted and destroyed.
It's all logically implied the moment you say men and women are equal. That is why it's something that must never be said. The same is true when you say the races are equal, or any other unequal thing is equal. It always implies that the evil people who are somehow perpetuating the inequality must be destroyed. If things should be equal, but aren't, then justice demands they be made equal.
Yaichi also won a game against a difficult opponent who relies on software to guide his play. It was a fun cool fight.
Then there was the romance subplot. Ai Yashajin acted like a brat, which I suppose can be forgiven seeing as how she's only 10 years old. But kissing a guy without permission who already has a girlfriend is a crime and a sin. Trying to steal him away is both wrong and absurd. The guy would have pursued you in the first place if he found you attractive, not the other girl. Which means you already lost long ago and any continued floundering is just an ugly, disgraceful waste of time. But let's suppose for an instant that you really could seduce a guy into breaking his word with the other girl -- why would you be attracted to a liar and a cheater? The moment you 'won' your victory would turn to dust and ashes, as he'd no longer be a man worth loving. It's a self-defeating maneuver.
In the case that a guy is with a worthless girl and you could make him much happier (which is the case in this story), the answer isn't to seduce him away while they're dating, it's to simply wait for her to ruin his life and then pick up the pieces and tell him you'll treat him much better, the way he deserved. Since most relationships end in breakups, if you truly think you're right for each other and they aren't, all you have to do is wait. Your chance will inevitably come. And if you think the other girl can make the boy you love happy and your turn will never come -- all the more reason to not seduce him away. That would mean you were spoiling his happiness. Under no chain of logic does it ever make sense to break up another couple so that you can get with the shattered remains.
Ai Hinatsuru at least realized that much and didn't bother to interfere with Yaichi's love life. As expected of mai waifu, she's much better than Ai Y.
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