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In Adventure 02 Episode 44, Ken Ichijouji is kidnapped in a truck that's right-hand drive. His friends are chasing after him in a car that's left-hand drive. Is it true that a LHD vehicle in Japan is considered to be a major status symbol with a high resale value?
Sort of, but not really. For it to be a left-hand drive vehicle, it would almost certainly have to be an imported car, and it is true that "foreign car = you're rich and have status" used to be a stereotype, but nowadays people will get it because they wanted to invest in a specific model of foreign car for some reason (maybe they were dissatisfied with domestic Japanese-produced ones, and the only models they liked were left-hand). A lot of people will also outright avoid it because of how inconvenient it is to drive in Japan's road system, which isn't compatible with it at all, and it's also much more difficult to keep it maintained in those circumstances.
Of course, that doesn't mean having a left-hand drive car doesn't come with some kind of money and status at all, because buying and maintaining an imported car is expensive, but since the Kido family is a prominent and esteemed family of doctors, it's reasonable to think they'd be able to afford it and would be willing to put up with the trouble if they consider the car to be important enough, especially since Shuu seems to be a traveling scholar. It's a family that tends to be picky and low-compromise, so this probably falls in that category.
Incidentally, Kyoko from Cyber Sleuth also has an imported car (well, putting the other considerations about its, uh, nature aside). While it's not mutually exclusive, I think the modern association with it is probably less "rich and elite" and more "hipster and unique".
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Spoilers??? Please??? (The Underworld Chronicles)
I don't know if this is okay but can someone tell me spoilers of the new generation of UC, please? Like I read Seven's book and part of Hadrian's, but it was getting repetitive in the worst way possible...
I really love the UC and Hadifer (please, someone tell me if they are still together because in the first two books Luci was no where to be found...) and their children and all of their stories. The grandchildren are too much for me and the plot of each book are just very similar if not more violent in an unnecessary way... up until Luci's (book 24) book it was mostly bearable because I loved the characters and I needed to know what happened... but now I'm too busy and not that interested in the grandchildren...
So I plea for someone to tell me what is going on with Hades, Lucifer and their children and all of the characters we love so much from books 1-24.
My favorite characters are: Hades, Cain, Theo, Lucifer, and Charon.
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Underworld series headcanons
- Theo’s first real hug was the one Hades gave him when they first met. - Charon is that typical book addict that stays all night awake to finish a book. Next day, Alexion will have to keep him from falling asleep in the ferry. - Blaine teaches his daughter how to throw a ball. Next time Holly sees Cerberus, she throws him the ball while saying that daddy has taught her this wonderful game called “fetch”. - Noe still likes having plushies, so his and Zelios’ room always has one or two lying around. - Cain secretly searches for new recipes to impress Abel with his cooking. - When on babysitter duty, Nikias just loves to watch disney films with Holly and keros, since he has never watched them. - Abel, Diodorus and Xenon still play videogames. Ambrosius has joined them, since when Thorn is away, there’s not much to do in Purgatory. - Keros has zero sense of rhythm. Both Blaine and Ambrosius have given up on teaching him to dance. Holly, on the other hand, is a genius for anything arts related. - When Hades had to design new guns and equipment, Lea helped him because the new equipment had to be both badass AND pretty. - Whenever Hades gets too involved in a project, he forgets to eat, so sometimes Niki goes to the lab and bugs him until he eats something. Other times, Lucy has to tempt him with cake. - When Hades is specially angry and has a meeting, his sons try to have Niki in the same room, since after Lucy he’s the best one calming him. - Dorian has redecorated his and Xenon’s room in Hades’s palace. Not even Hades could stop him.
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