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''[[The Lounge]]'' is a slice-of-life webcomic by artist John Joseco. The comic stars Italy Ishida, a Japanese-American young woman who takes over running the titular family business (a comic, anime, video game and coffee shop) after her father takes ill, and Max Espinosa, a teenage Filipino-American who is a close friend of Italy and the assistant manager of The Lounge.
The comic started as a gag-a-day strip, but very quickly became a story-driven slice-of-life comic. It can be found [http://thelounge.keenspot.com/ here] at Keenspot, and occasionally has NSFW updates.
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* [[Animesque]]: The artist also borrows a few of the anime artistic trademarks, beyond just the general style of the characters.
* [[Art Evolution]]
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* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: [http://thelounge.keenspot.com/d/20021008.html Jamie] [http://thelounge.keenspot.com/d/20021009.html has] [http://thelounge.keenspot.com/d/20021022.html it].
* [[Date Rape Averted]]: {{spoiler|Good thing Italy's friends saw Elsa and Rain take drunken Italy away...}}
* [[A Date
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: The antagonists, Elsa and Rain Vilehelm.
* [[Fan Service]]
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* [[Incest Subtext]]: Between Rain and Elsa.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Jamie MacKenzie, who is the quirky, irrepressibly happy foil to her coworkers Italy and Max.
* [[My Master, Right or Wrong]]: Tobiasn Ingram
* [[No Bisexuals]]: First averted, then played straight thanks to [[Retcon]], then traded out for the [[Depraved Bisexual]] trope.
* [[Otaku Surrogate]]: Italy. Not only does she like [[Video Games]], [[Comic Books]] and [[Anime]], but she fancies women, too.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The comic stays on calendar, and there are regular seasonal and holiday story arcs, particularly centered around Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. This can lead to stories getting rushed to keep up with the calendar.
* [[Suddenly Sexuality]]: Italy. While having a bunch of sexual encounters with her female friend Aya (which were usually played for laughs), Italy also showed interest in men including the main male character Max, which made it seem like she was bisexual, or that her sexuality didn't matter. Later, she declared that she was only a lesbian, and a bunch of other times Italy and Aya had sex were retconned in to justify their new relationship.
** Made more complicated but Italy's continued tendency to tease Max, often in a highly sexualized manner. One sort of gets the idea that Joseco might have gotten his idea of what a lesbian is by watching porn.
* [[Yakuza]]: Implied that Italy's Japan branch to be involved with.
* [[Write What You Know]]: It should be of little surprise to anyone that the author/artist is a huge anime and video game fan.
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