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Sorry if this has been covered before, but one of my friends is convinced that there is no reason for Hanako's burns to be as obvious as they are with the advent of advanced cosmetic surgery. Not knowing much about medical stuff myself, I have no answer for her. Has Hanako had all the possible treatments and it was just worst before? Can she just not afford plastic surgery?
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If her burns are as extensive as we think, skin grafting is almost out of the question unless you have a donor.
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OBVIOUSLY KS is set to 1970's. Rin is a thalidomide child, there are no ways to ease several fairly easily fixable disabilities, everyone is listening to funk and the boys' school uniform has pant legs wider than Lilly's vagina.
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They did graft some skin from her ass to her face. But the doctors were drunk so they didn't notice it was burnt as well.
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delta wrote:They did graft some skin from her ass to her face. But the doctors were drunk so they didn't notice it was burnt as well.
OMG. That would explain some of the curly hairs growing at one side of her face!
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Aura and delta wrote:[/sarcasm]
*holds up bowl* Please sir, can I 'ave sum more?
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You are all terrible people
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Duo2Cuo wrote:You are all terrible people
And you are just noticing this now?? :wink:

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Bara wrote:
Duo2Cuo wrote:You are all terrible people
And you are just noticing this now?? :wink:
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Validus Razgriz wrote:
Aura and delta wrote:[/sarcasm]
*holds up bowl* Please sir, can I 'ave sum more?
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SirMax wrote:Sorry if this has been covered before, but one of my friends is convinced that there is no reason for Hanako's burns to be as obvious as they are with the advent of advanced cosmetic surgery.

Has Hanako had all the possible treatments and it was just worst before?

Can she just not afford plastic surgery?
Short version: wrong in context, correct in context, and likely not.

Longer version: I'm not going to go into precise details because of obviously spoiler-y information, but you can assume that Hanako is very, very lucky to be alive at all, based on the extent and severity of her original burns. She has to be, though - she's an eroge heroine :wink: . Surgery, even today, can only do so much and even then only over so much time.

Japan has a system of universal health coverage, but it is rather complex. I'm not going to pretend that I understand it entirely, but Hanako ought to fall under it, paying roughly 30% of inpatient/outpatient costs, up to a certain ceiling.
Time for exhibit A: minor blepharoplasty (eye-tuck) procedure costs. The procedure is pretty much the tiniest thing you can have that qualifies as surgery, lasts literally minutes, requires very small cuts and very few stitches, and so it practically requires no convalescence.

Current-day converted cost: approximately 500-2000 USD.

A "mid-weight" procedure, such as breast implants, a complicated nose, or facelift, STARTS at over 6500 USD. Ballpark the recovery at 3-6 weeks, while we're at it. Hanako's scarring, I'll remind, is NOT in the mid-weight range, requiring multiple staggered procedures over each interested area.
And notice that I'm not even considering the actual pre-stabilization burn treatment; other physiological factors; and psychological factors. Things add up, very quickly, both in amount of time required and in cost.

To sum it up, Hanako's situation is not nearly as unlikely as your friend thinks, nevermind considering our artistic licence. In a sense, I'm flattered to hear that my colleagues' work in Japan (and by extension, mine) is so highly thought of, but I wish it were that easy.
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Aura wrote:OBVIOUSLY KS is set to 1970's. Rin is a thalidomide child, there are no ways to ease several fairly easily fixable disabilities, everyone is listening to funk and the boys' school uniform has pant legs wider than Lilly's vagina.
That would explain so much of Kenji's personality.
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CindehQ wrote:
Aura wrote:OBVIOUSLY KS is set to 1970's. Rin is a thalidomide child, there are no ways to ease several fairly easily fixable disabilities, everyone is listening to funk and the boys' school uniform has pant legs wider than Lilly's vagina.
That would explain so much of Kenji's personality.
No, it's because secretly Kenji is The Question and is the last sane man in an insane world defending us from the feminist conspiracy while singing off key pop diva songs.
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Despair Sensei wrote:
CindehQ wrote:
Aura wrote:OBVIOUSLY KS is set to 1970's. Rin is a thalidomide child, there are no ways to ease several fairly easily fixable disabilities, everyone is listening to funk and the boys' school uniform has pant legs wider than Lilly's vagina.
That would explain so much of Kenji's personality.
No, it's because secretly Kenji is The Question and is the last sane man in an insane world defending us from the feminist conspiracy while singing off key pop diva songs.
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