A Love Story That Outshines Twilight

A manga-style comic strip shows a boy repeatedly trying to comfort a crying man by giving him increasingly less relevant substitutes for his losses: a lollipop, a broken toy robot, a game console, and finally a girlfriend. The crying man's problems escalate from childhood to adulthood, and the comforting character remains consistently dismissive, saying 'stop crying' each time. In the final panel, the crying man is being held by a woman, and he calls the comforting character 'baka' (idiot).

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