Kekkon suru tte, Hontou desu ka Episode 1 Discussion

5/5 but with a major flaw: Why couldn't he just take that awesome cat with him?!

I really like this, I can relate to both MCs and the mistakes male MC made like not doing a duet with her he fully realizes.

Saying "Please Marry Me" truly is a hard thing to say and I would have absolutely loved it if he did, but likely this fake marriage will evolve into a real marriage.

The cat is awesome and he seems like a decent guy, she seems really awesome and LOVES maps with it being a major hobby. Both of them seem to be hard-workers.

I could definitely see myself volunteering for the position, but being stuck in Alaska (unless quit) sounds awful. ~2 years sounds fine, other guy been in his spot for 10 years but debatable whether he's actually miserable. I would think mosquitoes would only be issue in summer but I don't know. Funny how the suspicion is they bonked and are having a kid, and not marriage is way out. In before they get married and both go to Alaska LOL

@LilyVarbik

I moved to Mexico this year with two cats. One of the main reasons I chose Mexico is because I didn't want to stick my cats on an airplane (yes, I drove from Minnesota to Mexico, roughly 35 hours, with two cats). The pheromone sprays and the vet's sleeping pills helped, but it was still not a pleasant drive.

Before I moved, they even struggled in the 1 mile car ride to the vet. There's no way I was going to make them suffer through a plane ride, with all the loud noise and the changing air pressure. That would be cruel.

@popa910 I thought small dogs/cats can be taken on the plane (just need to "fit" under seat in front or something) Pretty sure I've seen it done.
I do prefer to have pet in car over plane (I don't like plane for myself either). Wonder why he couldn't have just drove from Japan to Alaska (joke)

Well, I think that a lot of it also comes down to how you view the Ukraine conflict which is a geopolitical and philosophical question and discussion which I'm sure we would have different views and stances on, and won't be resolved in a thread topic like this. Basically, there have been many many wars and invasions, occupations, foreign involvement and state-sponsorship in backing unrest and coups, insurgencies, terrorism, bombings and assassinations, etc. in many many countries by various countries since WWII (and obviously before, but just talking about the post-1945 period since that's a modern defining point and dividing line). Many of which were completely illegal. And some of which are also occurring to this very day as we speak (there are parts of numerous other countries occupied at this very moment). But I would never desire for a series or film or any form of art and entertainment media to self-censor or attempt to castigate the governments of those involved countries by airbrushing their existence out of fictional stories.

If you think that conflict is somehow an exception and unique crime or tragedy compared to countless others then I can understand why someone who believes this would hold such a view and position, but if you view it as one among many then I think it's self-injurious and destabilizing to the world of fiction and artistic creation when they seek to wade into controversial current events and world affairs like this by pandering.

The thing about fictional stories is that, yes, they can be set on our Earth and in named and known countries like Japan, so it is the "real world", but at the same time, it's not like it's actually identical to our real world in the sense of every detail being painstakingly recreated to resemble it. Oftentimes entire cities and towns are still fictional, companies and schools are often fictional, all the characters are almost always fictional, and if gas prices are currently very high in the world it's not like it needs to be written into the anime (or other fiction) to represent that when the characters are filling their vehicles up at the pump. Likewise, it's not uncommon for contemporary armed conflicts, reference to current heads of state and serving politicians and all real world phenomena which is too recent, specific, or controversial in that it would be distracting to just be omitted entirely. In this case I'd argue that can be done with omission of mention of the conflict itself, not the country which is one of the involved parties or its cities.

Like, I also wouldn't want it edited out or altered if the story was originally written to include a scene where the characters went to attend a performance of Boris Godunov, a Tchaikovsky ballet, or dined on piroshki so that now the musical events had to be replaced with polka and American bluegrass concerts and the piroshki substituted out for pierogi.

what's the other one?