"Friendship, effort, and victory..." Facing Masuzu Natsukawa, who was barely holding back her anger, Yukino Yukinoshita calmly raised a finger. After sparring with Sogo Doma and Utaha Kasumigaoka for so long, along with being steeped in 2D culture, the second young lady had evolved:
"Wouldn't it be fair to say these three factors are essential to a classic shonen manga?" Even with only a passing familiarity with 2D culture, the serious Yukino Yukinoshita had still summed up the three essential elements of Weekly Shonen Jump.
"So what?" Masuzu Natsukawa said dismissively. After all, she did not know this was a conclusion the second young lady had reached herself. For most manga otaku, wasn't this basic knowledge? Especially for a veteran JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fanatic like her!
"But according to you, Natsukawa, friendship is just a boring relationship where people play at being friends, isn't it?" The evolved second young lady had long understood how to use someone's own spear against their shield.
"Looking at any classic shonen manga, there are countless portrayals of friendship. Yet in your eyes, Natsukawa, those are merely boring friendships. Based on that alone, even if I had never read JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I could infer that it lacks one of the three essential elements of a classic shonen manga: friendship!"
"That's not true..." As a veteran JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fan, Masuzu Natsukawa grew anxious. "How could JoJo's Bizarre Adventure not have friendship? The bonds between the JoJos and their friends..."
"Then," before she could finish, Yukino Yukinoshita looked at her with a pleased expression. "What right do you have to say the friendship in our Service Club is boring?"
"Those are completely different concepts..." How could real people possibly compare to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?
"If they are both friendship, why are they different concepts?" The