Invisigoth wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 1:29 pm
well I see that someone gets it
I still don't see where folks are getting that from, though.
Invisigoth wrote:I told you people, that was her "I can feel your boner" face in the last strip and now she's going for it
Ok, worth one last try I guess.
First of all, There Is No Boner Here. Look at his eyes throughout 1479 and 1480, he is in a state of complete confusion and panic, "WTF is even going on?" as Ray put it. The one exception is panel 2 of 1480, where he expresses palpable relief at finally being handed a task his current brain state can just about handle, "pull a blanket over your head." In panel 5 he is right back to "Oh shit the universe didn't go away when I did that, MOMMY!"
Second, Kimiko in the last panel of 1479 is not thinking about that either.
This is what Kimiko looks like when she's thinking about
a love hotel, note the half-lidded eyes and the teeny little sly smile. A useful comparison is Erika in panel six of
this one; you have to turn your head sideways to see it but it's the same idea, half-lidded eyes and that sly little grin.
Kimiko in panel 9 of 1479 is very different. Her eyes are wide open; sure it looks at first like the irises are covered by the upper lids, but that's because her head is angled
down and she is looking
up at Piro. The whites of the eyes under the irises show how wide open they are. She's not smiling at all, you can barely see her mouth because it's completely scrunched up in something ranging from extreme worry to on the verge of tears.
To sum up: half-lidded eyes plus sly grin = sultry, sexy; wide-open eyes and scrunchy little mouth = worried, not sexy.
Now when they roll off the car seat and fall on the floor due to Megumi's antics, we'll see what
that does to Piro's brain state.
EDIT:
Invisigoth wrote:kissing her way down Piro's stomach
She's not near his stomach, her forehead is right up by his chin (panel 2). She's not moving down, Fred has just "split" the panels with their faces so he can put the Megumi panels in between; putting the Megumi panels off to the left or right would ruin the visual effect / sense of motion and action we get in the current layout.
EDIT2:
Invisigoth wrote:a perfect way to deal with anxiety right?
Hmm, that is a valid counter however, sorry to have sidestepped it above.
The idea of Kimiko getting physical right away did seem weird to me back on 1479 when I was still guessing Kimiko was worried about Piro's reaction to her helping Miho (given she doesn't know his current attitude toward Miho), so I was expecting some kind of dialogue first. When you said in the 1479 thread that
no, Kimiko just starts going at it, it made me sit and think what Kimiko could possibly be worried about but that she would feel comfortable "skipping to the kissing". Ray's right that it's still speculation at this point, but to the extent that it's at least plausible she was confessing on her own behalf (and not Miho's), then that would certainly be looming large in her mind right now, along with a strong desire to find out Piro's response. For that specific source of anxiety I can certainly see Kimiko demonstrating non-verbally that she meant what she said, while probing non-verbally for a response on his part. It certainly wouldn't be
the first time she opted for a physical action when she had trouble getting the words out right the first time.
Sorry but I just don't see any signs of "arousal" in either of their faces. Kimiko is tender but clearly worried about something, and Piro is totally freaked the heck out.