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He made a clothed statuette. Instant +1 to his faction score.

Definitely. He’s earning a lot of good person-points.

Oh man, I snorted out loud in the company cafetaria when I read that last panel! 🤣

Haaa… Good stuff. 😁
My inner pedant does want to point out they must have spoken to a girl or been around one at least once, seeing as they’re the kid’s ancestors. Then again, adoption does exist… Oh, well.

Even if the kid’s ahead by asking, Yuki could say no. This family’s been mighty rude, creating and keeping the peeping Tom-gallery of their supposed patroness.

To be fair, most of them probably wouldn’t have thought that Yuki was a real person. Magic has been diminishing and gone from the world for several centuries. Yuki was probably the odd one out by visiting the mortal plane as a celestial. We as the audience understand that this was a very perverted thing to do. But given the cultural differences between Japan and the rest of the world around nudity and the fact that her existence can’t be considered real in the comic. It’s not really unusual for the family to have kept as an eclict art piece from and eccentric family member.

Can’t be considered real from his ancestors perspective.* Outside of the original person to do the drawings. To be specific.

There doesn’t seem to be much of a nudity difference now, but I read that historically they were comparably less clothed around public baths than most Westerners but else much more clothed than many hunter-gatherers. That, like art, changed with the Meiji period with its accommodation with Western traditions.

Notably though, around here we meet them halfway in many bath cultures like sauna and ice baths and routinely in sex separated changing room showers. There are public sex separated saunas were you can chose to be traditionally naked or modern prude. One striking difference we do not, which they did before Meiji [from Reddit]: “In the summer of 1858, an attendant of a British envoy in Japan noted that ‘most women exposed their breasts and most men only had something wrapped around their waist’. Around the same time, the Dutch doctor who became the founder of modern medicine in Japan also wrote that ‘Right after bathing (at a bathhouse), both men and women walked out onto the streets fully naked, and those who lived nearby would just walk home like that sometimes’.”

Damn she’s brutal XD

Oh, but nice statuette! 🙂

it’s a wonder his ancestors even had offsprings 😀

Well… it’s possible they ran home right after peeping and looked up their wives while they were … all excited.
*cough*

Why am I getting the feeling this page is somewhat of a buildup for marketing an ACTUAL Yuki figurine sold by Sage in a webshop pretty soon?

Wish i could do something like that and make some money, I need it for living and stuff.

Yuki might be a long shot, but subbing out to a manufacturer for your other Pc’s might not be too difficult.

Arranged marriage was (and still is) very much a thing in Japan. Plus Japan, especially prior to WWII, had (and still has) very, very different definitions to “consent.”

It used to be that a wife couldn’t say “no” to *ahem* making kids with her husband, and if she couldn’t produce a male heir, the eldest unmarried daughter got that role.

Being constantly curious I checked that too and found that in *ahem* depictions of sexual relations. As I understand it they commonly involve the notion that the victim of “no-need-for-consent” harassment can be blamed. E.g. a common phrase is that either part should “take [‘]responsibility[‘] [for the other’s arousal]”. Very much like blaming rape victims for their clothing.

But those depictions are, as I found out regarding its art, probably a narrow cultural phenomena that labor under the consequences from the Meiji period. The underlying consent/lack of consent notions could have been more general though.

I’m sure we all would prefer a photoscan of Yuki entirely.

Meanwhile, can we hope for a statuette or a daki? [Asking for a friend, of course.]