Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Great Quote about Clothes: Cherry Magic

Kurosawa in Cherry Magic! loves to buy Adachi clothes. The first time Adachi stays at Kurosawa's apartment, he wears pajamas that Kurosawa bought for him, which Adachi knows because of his ability to read Kurosawa's mind. He is nevertheless freaked out and ponders, "Why do these fit me?" 

After Kurosawa and Adachi move in together, Adachi discovers that Kurosawa bought him more clothes. In the series, after trying on a sweatshirt and pants, he says, "Don't get me any more clothes, okay?"

I love this line, not just because of its deadpan delivery but because I personally have never understood clothes as a gift. Not when I was a kid. Not when I was a teen. Not when I was an adult. Why would someone else try to dress me? How is spending a birthday or holiday trying something on, then checking out whether it fits or not, then discussing whether or not it should be returned even remotely fun? 

Of course, Adachi wears the sweatshirt quite often--it is from Kurosawa after all. 

"This'd better be all of it," Adachi says in the manga.