Reading 'Strawberry 100%' While Listening to PinocchioP: A Pleasure Only Possible in This Era.

Hello, it's Incompetent here.

The other day, a senior recommended 'Strawberry 100%' to me, and I read it.

There are spoilers, so if you don't want them, please read the manga first.

How I Came to Read It

Anyway, I changed jobs, and a senior there recommended it to me.

Me: "I've been feeling a long sense of loss after reading To Love-Ru, do you have any recommendations?"

Senior: "Hey, hey!!!! Strawberry 100% is a bible!! You absolutely have to read it!"

So, thinking 'well, okay,' I read all 19 volumes in two days...

Experiencing the Happy Ending of a Glimpse-of-Skin Romantic Comedy That Doesn't Go All the Way

Perhaps I, who never had a proper youth, am filling that void with romantic comedies.

My high school life was like a common co-ed fraud, with only about three girls in my class, and there was a girls' school nearby with many 'gyaru' (fashionable girls), so I always longed for that whenever I saw them on the train.

The only time I became friends with a girl from that girls' school, she recommended I read manga by Inio Asano, which I borrowed...

To put it bluntly, it was "DAMN IT!!!".
While it's good that subculture manga can be interesting, the endings are often unsatisfying and leave a bad taste, which might appeal to girls, but men are dream-chasers.

With Strawberry 100%, around volume 17 of the total 19, I strongly wondered, 'No, no, will this really end happily?' But in the end, everyone found their own path to a happy ending, and there's nothing more to it. It was the best ending.

To Love-Ru ~ To Love-Ru Darkness left me wondering what would happen next, but perhaps it's fine to leave such a future to the readers. In contrast, Strawberry 100% clearly depicts the characters' life paths afterward, so the sense of fulfillment after reading it is an absolute peak feeling.

It's okay for everyone to be happy...

Reading 'Strawberry 100%' While Listening to Hatsune Miku (PinocchioP) is a Way to Enjoy It That's Only Possible Now

I, being incompetent, enjoy reading manga while listening to music, so I play music that matches each one, feeling like a DJ.

It should be said: 2000s x 2010s-2020s.

Because Hatsune Miku didn't exist back then.

I was listening to PinocchioP's album "LOVE". By the way, I got into it because of 'Loveit', which often plays in short videos. Sorry for being a casual fan.

Thanks to the modern lyrics of "Nee Nee Nee." from this album, I can bridge the temporal gap within the manga.

Aren't these the best lyrics?

Hey, hey, hey. @To you, a one-way mention.
We talk until dawn, but it feels like I'm talking to myself.
Hey, hey, hey. Cowardly underachievers, we are inexperienced.
The world is overflowing with 'love,' but it feels like I'm all alone.
How are you feeling right now?

No, no, these are the feelings of the female characters in Strawberry 100%!!!

Hey, hey, hey. @To you, a one-way mention.
We talk until dawn, but it feels like I'm talking to myself.
Hey, hey, hey. Cowardly underachievers, we are inexperienced.
The world is overflowing with 'love,' but it feels like I'm all alone.
How are you feeling right now?
Do you love both of us?

Can't choose one of us?

Hey, hey, Manaka, get a grip!!!!!

And so, reading Strawberry 100% while listening to music created a synergistic effect, making me fall even deeper into the world of these two different genres: manga and music.

So, there's no particular punchline or anything, but this is just for me to process how great Strawberry 100% was!

If you have any recommendations, please let me know.
See you then.