Continuing in my series of manga that feature a character with some kind of impairment, we have another great chapter of this series. I remember doing things like this, tornado drills, and nuclear war drills back in the day. I never had to do things like active shooter drills like they do today though.
Hey - that is a good manga.
It’s funny right off that Morio is generally the meek one and Yukiko is generally the forceful one. And Yukiko blushes adorably.
I like the detail that the panels from her POV have the background that she sees - just hazy, low-contrast blobs and rough outlines. It makes it just that much more her POV.
So, another title for my TBR…
Edit to add: I went back to where I’d left off before posting this - the beginning of chapter 11. I have it on my follows, so I almost just closed the tab, but I figured, “What the hell - maybe I’ll just read one more chapter.”
It’s the chapter in which Morio goes to the video store, starts thinking about the issues Yukiko would likely have with self-checkout, then discovers that Shishio is the manager. I closed the tab right then, because I could just tell that if I didn’t, there was no telling how much more time it would suck up. ;)
there was no telling how much more time it would suck up
This was me all last week.
That chapter is about how far I got with my first dive into the series and it is where I realized that the author must have done their homework or knew somebody that was visually impaired personally. In my conversations with patients, the trend toward more self-checkouts specifically (and touchscreen interfaces generally) was brought up a lot. Many of them will have some kind of audio option that you can enable, but that is often done so either by an on-screen button (not helpful), or by finding a tiny little headphone jack to plug into (difficult). Additionally, without an attendant (or a helpful fellow shopper) to call out when another customer finishes, they have no way of knowing when they can proceed to the checkout.
One of the reasons I connected with the series so much is because, like Morio, after I spoke with patients like that, my perspective on what were previously mundane things around me changed a lot. On the subway system for the city I work in, it is a running joke that the speakers announcing stops never work right and the sound is just jumbled. After a decade of joking about it with friends, I came to realize after my patient interviews, that those speakers serve an incredibly important role to people that can’t look out the window of the subway car and see all the signs to figure out which stop the train is at. Instead, they essentially have to memorize the number of stops they need to ride for, and then count as they go (or rely on the goodwill of others to answer if asked).
It’s just really well done and has a lot of attention to details like that.
It strikes me - I should’ve written that initial response in the general thread instead of this one.
Do you have the tools to move this conversation there?
Because I’m on chapter 23 at the moment, and have more to say. ;)
Unfortunately I can’t move it (don’t know if an admin could, but I doubt it).
Well, then we can recreate it a post at a time.
