Lum has really strange taste in guys. She's the kind of girl that gets in fucked up relationships where she ends up chained to a sink and forced to eat dog kibble while taking a beating every night from the tank top wearing salary man that she's madly in love with.

I actually think Lum and Shinobu are made for each other. Lum's naivety and kindness perfectly balances out Shinobu's maturity and pure rage. Now there's a perfect couple.

>>669
I don't think Lum is THAT dumb. That's basically how Ataru treats her in the Harem's future in OVA 3 and she leaves him soon after, and he ws basically enslaving her. She stayed with him for a while though, so I guess she is that dumb.
Lum and Shinobu is something I never imagined, but it's funny, with how passive-agressive thye often are it would be a fun thing to see

Begs the question. What did Shinobu see in Ataru to begin with? There's really nothing appealing about him. He's a one dimensional asshole and not even the most handsome guy in the show.

>>671
Because the Japanese aren't very good at writing, anon.

>>671
Nothing, he's better than nothing. he's her childhood friend so he's the safest choice, and they seemed pretty happy in those futures we saw so it worked out. But she definetely was ready to get rid of him the second someone better come (Mendou, Rei...). I always wondered if Shinobu truly liked Ataru or not in the first few chapter or if she was just angry at Lum

>>669
Lum and Shinobu reminds me of this bit from Class of 09, but I'm thinking of early malicious Lum rather than the naive girl we ended up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvrw-njBFkA

Ataru's got his heart in the right place; he'll move heaven and earth for his girl, it's just that he also wants to go for every girl.

>>674
Yeah it's a weird character trait he has. It was really obvious in early chapters when he still wanted Shinobu. "I chose Shinobu not you". There's a big difference between love and Love for Ataru it seems. Rumiko clearly altered him so his lust became his main character traits and shit, but he still have a girl hierarchy in his heart somewhat.
He'd treat Lum's right if they lived together and married, they'd be happy together i'm sure

>>675
Maybe Shinobu feigns interest in Mendou and Rei as a way of getting back at Ataru?

>>674
I've heard of womanizers like this who can't keep it in their pants but only really love one specific girl at a time. I don't think guys are built for monogamy.

>>676
> I don't think guys are built for monogamy.

I'm demi and a guy, I literally exist in two states: monogamy or nobody at all.

>>677
What the hell is a demi? Sure there's bound to be variations in preference but I think most guys are primed to want to have sex with other people. We might give that up to show we love someone or because we've been brought up to idolize monogamy but I don't think most guys are naturally like that.

>>676
Ataru try one more time to get back with her and show his good side, which somewhat work, but early Shinobu really cares about look and was ready to cast aside Ataru without issue. She probably fell in love with Mendou at least. And this crush lasted a while (And they were close to a couple for a while). I don't remember when she start losing interest though, maybe when Mendou start acting too much like Ataru? Or when his interest in Lum become too evident? But for a while she 100% was into him. Rei is weird because his introduction chapter is in the middle of the Shinobu/Lum war, so she may feigns interest just to make Ataru jealous and prove how he feels. She still try to get Lum to go back with Rei to their planet, so she doesn't care as much about him.

>>678
The tl;dr is that demisexuality is asexuality for 99% of people I meet. Nobody I see on the street is attractive. It takes me time before I get any sexual thoughts about a person, kind of like an engine that needs a few months to ignite. Because I don't feel anything for most people, I thought I was asexual until I was in my mid 20s when someone actually broke through that wall, then I thought I was straight with something wrong with me until I found out that this super specific label exists.

>>679
So she's just an average teen girl?

>>680
So why not just call yourself straight with a low sex drive? Half of these super specific labels make no damn sense anyway. These labels are bad and worrying about them did a lot of damage to my mental health. Society would be better off without them. >>679

This thread is trying way too hard to get a meaning out of something that clearly doesn't have one.

>>668
They love each other very much and are happily married. That's it.

>>681
I don't mind a lot of the specific labels. Some of them I don't understand, but I think that's fine. If they have a meaning that is understood by the people using them then I see no problem. I think it would also be fine if no such terms were used to describe sexuality and people just did what they want. But with the way language works I doubt we are going to go backwards, more and more words will come to exist that describe more things.

>>684
I don't know why people get a kick out giving each other labels. Its like everything has to be tagged and identified. Its creepy. Sooner or later, there will be so many labels that nobody will be compatible with anyone else. Soon there will be one for whatever Ataru is and you won't be able to call a skirt chaser a skirt chaser.

>>685
Nah that's a slippery slope fallacy

Lum would call you a weirdo for talking about such things. She's our homophobic super straight queen