I've never done this before

It's so normalized things in society are built for people who don't have a disability. May it be physical or psychological. As a society, we continuously progress for technology and innovation far beyond our wildest dreams and yet they are always centered around those who already live an extremely privileged life.

Advanced medicine and yet its so expensive that most can't even afford it. In recent years, people can't even afford basic healthcare with the way that the hospitals and insurance companies have been running. Advanced technology and yet its causing so much harm to the environment and the height of it always benefits the upper class. There's always a priority and its never the ones who need it.

MY FAV BANG BUBBIES!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED FOR ONE OF MY MOST FAV ARCS!!!!!!

this is the funniest possible way he could have said that. I really like the contrast shirahama sets up here of letting us see how serious he actually is about protecting jujy while still having that spark of humour shine through for now, transferring hiehart from the purely comedic character he's been so far into a more dramatic serious light to carry the rest of this scene. also heart wrenched by jujy thinking it was her fault, and I think it speaks well of hiehart that even under these circumstances he takes a moment to stress that it wasn't. we see her take on a lot of responsibility before this, but it's nice to see that when it really comes down to it hiehart steps up.

this is so well observed as to how children experience the world!!! the scariest thing for jujy isn't the horrible leech that has eaten the sky, it's seeing her attachment figure be overwhelmed by the situation and not responding to her as he normally would. she's understandably freaked out before this but this is where I think she starts to get frightened.

I think this is my favourite qifrey frame in the whole manga

I admire shirahama as a writer so much, she's always working in narrative mirrors and parallels and foils and sets them out there so skillfully. the scene immediately before this is tartah forcing coco to speak even as she's weeping and breaking down and trying to pull away, and here we have coco entering the scene so angry and determined but the moment qifrey expresses to her (a bit manipulatively as is his wont lol but also truthfully) that talking about this is actively hurting him, she all but makes him stop/forces him to pace himself. because she cares about him. she catches him at the kind of shitty defensive thing he's doing to push her away and she calls him out on it and he actually manages to get his adult brain back on for her to comfort her. (which includes 'yes, you're right. I'm sorry', and for all his faults I think his consistent capacity for that is one of his most redeeming and sympathetic qualities and also part of what makes him such a good teacher at the end of the day.)