This manga is another jewel:
With art like this, who needs plot? This could be hung in the Louvre. But actually the plot is pretty good too. A high school girl and boy are bribed by their respective grandparents to marry each other, so they decide to at least pro forma go along for the sake of the future job prospects on offer. This means they live together but haven't actually become a couple yet. But with that impetus for the relationship to begin, they start falling for each other in truth. When you're around someone long enough you start to notice their good points, like, 'oh he's actually nice,', or 'that was considerate of her,' or 'wow she's cute,' etc. So it turns out the grandparents have tricked the kids more than the kids have the grandparents, as ultimately they're doomed to fall in love with each other.
I think forcing 18 year olds to get married already is a great idea, and this manga is basically a proof of principle of that very concept. How would forcing people together work? -- a lot like this. The two people would learn how to get along with each other, come to love each other over time, and ultimately be glad their parents/grandparents/society acted as their cupid and let them enjoy this wider world of love, sex, marriage and children. As things stand less than half of the modern generation are getting married or reproducing, so the current system clearly doesn't work. This is the lowest reproductive success rate in recorded history. We know that boys and girls can fall in love, have lots of sex, get married, stay married and have lots of children. Historically they've done it consistently, all the time, all over the world. So all we need to do is force the initial starting condition, the pairing off, and everything else will come naturally like it always used to. This manga is a step by step visual guide of that very process. It could've been written as propaganda for my proposed law.
I finished stress testing my 1-star music and found 73 songs that need replacing with some future better entry. About what I expected, and very doable. I made that many changes this year, so if I'm lucky I could perfect the 1-star tier next year. Out of 5500 songs, 73 subpar tracks is a pretty fine batting average, but I prefer things to be perfect, not mostly right.
I also flipped the ratings between a 5-star song 'Subconscious Domain (Winter)' and a 4-star song 'Kimi ga Kureta Mono,' as usual an instrumental piece making way for a vocal. Like Vector Industries before it, Subconscious Domain had a stupid beep-beep beat in the background which I couldn't stand anymore. The beautiful haunting slow-moving 'Kureta' love song has no beeps in the background and makes for quite the upgrade.
Croatia beat Morocco 2-1. It should have been 3-1 because there was a blatant foul in the box by Morocco but oh well, the right team won either way. This means Morocco didn't do any better than the previous non-white best team, South Korea, and only got 4th place. They also lost to a pure white team, driving home the reality of white superiority for all those who say Morocco only lost due to France's blacks. Now we just need Argentina to win tomorrow.
I watched the last part of the Vikings' historic comeback against the Colts. Who could have believed it? The largest comeback in NFL history, surmounting a 33-0 deficit. I love witnessing history.
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