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dear /c/,

Why is it that whenever I see an anime school girl that is late for school, there will more often than not be a scene with her running, and she happens to have toast in her mouth?

Is the toast a cultural thing? Is it a throwback to some older series? Or perhaps toast is just crispy and delicious?

What say you /c/?

P.S. toast pics go here.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
She's late for school, doesn't have time for a proper breakfast, and grabs a piece of toast on the way out so that she can have something to eat. Aside from the fact that it's cute, I'm not sure there's more to it than that.
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Toast is crispy and delicious
>> Doktor Sleepless
Ichigo Jam-mu~ indeed.
>> Anonymous
>>312096
Only if the older series is Evangelion, LOL

>>312134
Yeah, and when there's something on the toast, it's a bad-put butter. I dunno if it does have something to do with puns, though. Since Japaneses love puns...
>> Sam
I think the above posters speak the truth. My theory is a few series did it to a few characters (what else can you eat as you run? Try that with eggs) and it eventually just grew into a sort of inside joke or running gag in the whole of anime. Sort of like how we mock the action movie car chase or "fiery explosion down a hallway." In theory, it makes sense a few times, but gets overused.
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ZOMG teh Rei
>> Anonymous
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(animooted)
>> Anonymous
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It is delicious toast, you must eat of it.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
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Clean version of OP
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
moe cliche.
>> Anonymous
>>312274

A taste that is out of this world...
>> Anonymous
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Gotta love this classic!
>> Sam
>>312276
Wonder Bread: The personal favorite brand of bread by God herself
>> Anonymous
breakfast on the go. guess they dont have hot pockets
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>> Anonymous
Funny how it doesn't look like they are actually going to eat the toast - both arms can't be incapacitated with running, can they?
>> Anonymous
>>312846
They don't need hands. They have skillzorz.
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Left to right
>> Anonymous
>>312096
Maybe toast is a comon quick breakfast, and the character is late so she grabs some quickly and eats it while running
>> Anonymous
>>312908
Brilliant, I like.
>> Anonymous
>>312578
I thought Mori wasn't in UekiPLUS
>> Anonymous
Simple.

Toast is simple to draw, and it's significance is easily realised. Girls CAN'T run to school with a bowl of ramen, rice, or bento in their hands, and so, toast is the natural choice.

Also, if they're late, they have no time for melon bread (search wiki if you don't no what that is), and sushi isn;t eaten in the morning (and a girl running with a sushi roll in her mouth IS slightly risque, even in anime)
>> Anonymous
>>312908

We have a winner.

Also>>312139earns honorable mention for ichigo jammu and sleepy Nayuki.
>> Anonymous
it's an anime cliche, like hot springs or those summer festivals, ya know?
>> Anonymous
>>312270

Okay, I was talking crap. Not TOO bad, I hope.

That's probably the best explanation>>313920, most probably due largely to
>>312273
>>312215
>>313859,
Evangelion IS after all, a classic, I saw your thread and thought of Rei immediately (all-time fav anime character, first I ever saw a man touching a girl's breast at age 7 --. watch the end movie if you don't know what I mean), BUT everybody had already done so.
>> Anonymous
>>all-time fav anime character, first I ever saw a man touching a girl's breast at age 7

undetage b&?
>> Anonymous
>>313994

Not underage, I saw the movie when I was just 7, first time I had seen a naked female body getting groped.
>> Anonymous
>>314136
Oh, and by American laws and shit you are now supposed to be a psycho. Are you a psycho?
>> Anonymous
Well if you had to run out the door with your breakfast, what would you bring? Cereal?