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• Kaguya-sama - Love Is War. i enjoyed Oshi No Ko in anime form & this is the author's earlier work. first three volumes are in color. it's a romcom that's more comedy than romance.
• Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie: teenage first-love, twist is that an early mistake means her parents think he's a girl and not a date, and he just goes full into crossdressing when they're together rather than come clean. whole thing's in color and more visually impressive than the others on my list here.
• Gabriel Dropout: comedy/slice of life where both angels and devils visit earth undercover, and sort of all end up in a role reversal where the devils are super naive and eager to please while the angels are manipulative or lazy. i put down Nichijou in favor of this: it fills the same "light comedy" niche while being a little more varied and a lot less disjointed.

as always, recs welcome -- especially for more stuff that's in color.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361318793408

you can find it non-paywalled by pasting that into scihub, or zlib, or whatever the kids use these days.

boys boys be my boy (what character is this)

it's maybe not contrastive focus reduplication as Wikipedia defines it, but that is the closest label i know for this concept.

it's kinda like... like when you pause to search for an example and then repeat the word "like" when you resume the thought. it's an idiom, maybe helps to clue the listener that you're completing a paused sentence instead of starting a new one, maybe makes it easier to communicate intended tonal shifts since it lets that shift happen between two identical words (making the tonal difference unmistakable) instead of between two different words (where the difference in tone could be mistaken for a difference in pronunciation).

i've used repetition in this meme format deliberately. the intended reading is really similar to that "like... like" example: the top text is light/airy, then a pause as you jump to the bottom, and then the bottom text is serious/mono-tone. voice it out loud in that manner, with and then without the repetition, and see if one feels more natural to you than the other. i'm curious how much this idiom varies among speakers.

i’m beginning to suspect the devs in this space are in some secret competition over which of them can get us to say the silliest words with complete sincerity