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Chiikawa Sociologyby Shinogi

How I read

Why Shinogi reads Chiikawa as a “society”

Who decides? Who gets something? Who helps when there's trouble? Whatever the story, these are the three things I want to follow.

Mentions the story about winning a house, and scenes at the job desk and of caregiving.

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From small scenes rather than big labels

The world of Chiikawa has work, shopping, and life with friends. Who arranges the work? How did they get their houses? Things like that catch my interest, and I keep rereading the stories.

Was it hard to save up to buy a house? Asked that, Chiikawa shows a winning notice from a yogurt sweepstakes.

Keep the viewpoint consistent, but don't force the answers to match

This blog follows three questions. Who decides? Who gets something? Who helps when there's trouble? The job desk, the sweepstakes, the shopping run. Read with the same questions, even different stories can be compared.

I don't want to reach the same answer every time. There's work, so it's exactly like the real world. The friends are kind, so there's no problem at all. Decide things like that, and you can't rethink them in the next story.

When you finish reading, go back to the story

In my essays, I try to write which scenes led me to think what I think. I keep what happens in the manga separate from what I thought about it. If that line is visible, you can talk with people who read it differently about where your thinking split.

When you finish reading, go back to the story once more. “Next time I'll look at the desk's reply.” “I'm curious about the one doing the shopping, too.” I'd be glad if I could add one more thing to enjoy while reading, like that.

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