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Ice Train
Nov 17, 2012

Orca lady?
I have a pet theory and Hernderson.

He knows that Loid's been sneaking onto campus to spy on Anya's classes. However, because the Forgers are not an upper-class family, he just thinks he's just thinks Loid grew up poor (which admittedly, is true enough with all that happened in the war) and is just trying to help Anya get a leg up in her education.


EDIT: Also and this isn't the first time something like this has happened.


EDIT EDIT: Also He's fine with this, as long as it doesn't devolve down to anything as inelegant as cheating of course.

Ice Train fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jul 22, 2024

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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug
Pillbug

David D. Davidson posted:

I have a pet theory and Hernderson.

He knows that Loid's been sneaking onto campus to spy on Anya's classes. However, because the Forgers are not an upper-class family, he just thinks he's just thinks Loid grew up poor (which admittedly, is true enough with all that happened in the war) and is just trying to help Anya get a leg up in her education.


EDIT: Also and this isn't the first time something like this has happened.


EDIT EDIT: Also He's fine with this, as long as it doesn't devolve down to anything as inelegant as cheating of course.

I suspect that if Henderson knew of Loid's goals, he'd support it since Henderson is heavily anti-war.

I will admit as sad and bitersweet as this chapter was, it does give some closure.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
i think that if henderson learned anything about loid, he'd be furious on behalf of anya. adopting an orphan to use as a tool with the intention of eventually abandoning her would instantly incite someone like henderson.

Nebrilos
Oct 9, 2012
More suffering please.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Is it just me, or did this chapter heavily hint that those two are actually a thing these days and they're just keeping it on the down-low?

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Failed my 2025 Anime Resolution

Darth Walrus posted:

Is it just me, or did this chapter heavily hint that those two are actually a thing these days and they're just keeping it on the down-low?
They are definitely still good friends with some feelings both have buried under the years. But they need that push to get the two of them to be willing to spend their latter years together as an actual couple and not just people who went to the same school and who had a mutual friend in Henderson's wife.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Can't wait for them to become Anya's allies in trying to get Loid to kiss her mom.

Nebrilos
Oct 9, 2012
It would really suck if a character was able to read minds and find out that they both still love each other.

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013
I kinda fell off 3 times during this flashback, but the upside is being able to binge it and being able to see the wonderfully sweet conclusion. Honestly, I’d say it was worth it.

I wonder how Henry’s wife died that’s her grave they visited right?

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

Darth TNT posted:

I kinda fell off 3 times during this flashback, but the upside is being able to binge it and being able to see the wonderfully sweet conclusion. Honestly, I’d say it was worth it.

I wonder how Henry’s wife died that’s her grave they visited right?

15 years ago would have been during the the last war yeah?

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

A Sometimes Food posted:

15 years ago would have been during the the last war yeah?

I think that math tracks about right.

fucking love Fiona Apple
Jun 19, 2013

samus comfy so what

I'm glad Mr. Henderson's wife was a good person. It would have been so easy to make her just a hag for us to hate but the fact that she was an absolute sweetheart just makes it hurt more.

There are no villains in this romance triangle, just unfortunate circumstances.

doomrider7
Nov 29, 2018

loving love Fiona Apple posted:

I'm glad Mr. Henderson's wife was a good person. It would have been so easy to make her just a hag for us to hate but the fact that she was an absolute sweetheart just makes it hurt more.

There are no villains in this romance triangle, just unfortunate circumstances.


Legit hope we see her. Would feel cheated if we don't especially given the circumstances they were married. She's either anti-war or had circumstances of her own.

Some Numbers
Sep 28, 2006

"LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

doomrider7 posted:

Legit hope we see her. Would feel cheated if we don't especially given the circumstances they were married. She's either anti-war or had circumstances of her own.

Martha said that her uncle was heavily involved in reconstruction, so hopefully that and her marriage to Henry means she was at least somewhat anti-war

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
A few chapters back, Henry's dad told him that his outburst against the military cost him all his marriage offers and only one person was still willing to marry him. So I figured that Henry's wife wasn't a bad person. Since you'd either have to be really desperate for a social boost or sympathetic to Henry's beliefs to marry a dude who's being dropped like a social high potato in high society.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


i cant believe loid faked his death as mr hendersons wife

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

where the red fern gropes posted:

i cant believe loid faked his death as mr hendersons wife

Truly, he has aged gracefully

fucking love Fiona Apple
Jun 19, 2013

samus comfy so what

where the red fern gropes posted:

i cant believe loid faked his death as mr hendersons wife

Loid is so dedicated to his cover, that he even gave birth to Mr. Henderson's daughter. Truly willing to do anything for the mission.

Flair
Apr 5, 2016

loving love Fiona Apple posted:

I'm glad Mr. Henderson's wife was a good person. It would have been so easy to make her just a hag for us to hate but the fact that she was an absolute sweetheart just makes it hurt more.

There are no villains in this romance triangle, just unfortunate circumstances.

Some Numbers posted:

Martha said that her uncle was heavily involved in reconstruction, so hopefully that and her marriage to Henry means she was at least somewhat anti-war

I made this point a few chapters ago in this thread: given that she was the only candidate left after his outburst about the war, I would assume she is anti-war as well, and she was looking for someone who was not a warmonger (which was probably rare at the time).

If anything, the relationship and complications between Henderson and Martha is an allegory to the relationship and complications between countries.

Supersonic Shine
Oct 13, 2012
New chapter came out. We're taking it easy this time.

Elite
Oct 30, 2010
My aquatic research project - By Anya

The Day I Went To The River And Found The Hiding TV Seal And It Then It Gave Me A Crayfish And The Crayfish Pinched My Dog On The Nose. THE END.

The junk collector
Aug 10, 2005
Hey do you want that motherboard?
Psychic Seal team six

stuker
Jul 9, 2003

i really liked the flashback arc, but it felt great to open the chapter and immediately see anya looking like a zombie

Sephyr
Aug 28, 2012
Plus Becky has internalized that home-wrecking is a no-go.

Doodles
Apr 14, 2001
This manga earns the Seal of Approval.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


Smart of Loid to avoid being spotted investigating the Westalis SEAL team

Nebrilos
Oct 9, 2012
Not depressing enough. I wanted to hear about the seal's unrequited love.

lunar detritus
May 6, 2009


Sephyr posted:

Plus Becky has internalized that home-wrecking is a no-go.

It’s not going to happen but it’d be really funny if that’s the only time the multi-chapter backstory is ever referenced or thought about again.

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.


Elite posted:

My aquatic research project - By Anya

The Day I Went To The River And Found The Hiding TV Seal And It Then It Gave Me A Crayfish And The Crayfish Pinched My Dog On The Nose. THE END.

You mean snisored the dog on the nose

Elite
Oct 30, 2010
Damian might be an educated young scion but he can be just as much of a doofus as Anya.

Brought To You By
Oct 31, 2012

Failed my 2025 Anime Resolution

Elite posted:

Damian might be an educated young scion but he can be just as much of a doofus as Anya.

I love Damian focused chapters with him and the boys. I'm happy he has some good people in his life, butlers included.

thetoughestbean
Apr 27, 2013

Keep On Shroomin
What a good chapter

stuker
Jul 9, 2003

love these stupid dorks

Omobono
Feb 19, 2013

That's it! No more hiding in tomato crates! It's time to show that idiota Germany how a real nation fights!

For pasta~! CHARGE!

Link to the chapter.

E: at least for EU goons, I don't recall if there's a region split

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer
looks like Martha's not the only cool butler in town...

Some Numbers
Sep 28, 2006

"LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"
I hope the author never stops writing slices of these people's hilarious lives

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

stuker posted:

love these stupid dorks

during their other focus chapter where they jump off the raft to save damien only to also immediately flounder is probably one of my favorite bits in the series

Elite
Oct 30, 2010
If we’re talking favourite things about Damian’s crew then “No! That’s too many manos!” deserves an award for peak localisation.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

TwoPair posted:

looks like Martha's not the only cool butler in town...

The noble, dutiful servant seems like the main heroic archetype in this manga. You could argue that both Loid and Yor qualify.

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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
Now I want to see fanart of Anya's imagination of adult Anya with loid and yor doing the "faithful ninja servant kneel" to either side of her as her adult self stands smugly with arms crossed. Possibly mounted on an armored Bond

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