We’ve had some nice weather in the UK over the last few weeks and I’ve been looking up at the night sky, inspired by Asumi in the last volume sitting outside and drawing the constellations. Her drawing particularly featured Virgo and Leo:
I’ve had great views of Leo, also a great view of Ursa Major and Arcturus below it. But Virgo and Spica frustratingly always seem to be just out of view…
Did school teachers really still hit children like that in Japan in 2001? I feel like the days of school teachers throwing board rubbers at pupils or hitting them on the knuckles with a metre rule had long since passed by then in the UK…
Very nice, I enjoyed this song. I also found this version on the ハープ
Google says it’s technically illegal, but does still happen (probably because specific individuals should have never been placed in a position of authority over children).
Interesting. I don’t remember picking up on this in other Japanese media set in high schools before. That punch wasn’t even corporal punishment, at least it wasn’t a carefully considered punishment handed out in response to an incident. It was just a spontaneous punch handed out in anger by someone who was annoyed. The kids don’t seem particularly shocked by it though!
I mean, it seems like it was normal for adults to hit children at this point in time (or maybe figures of authority), just like the father did earlier.
