FYI: This Meiling here has all the trope of a stereotypical old Chinese gatekeeper, commonly seen in industrial complex, school campus, office building complex, and retired cadres' residential complex. Tropes depicted: -Uses a glass/white china tea bottle. -Has a radio instead of TV or computer. -Keeps undistributed package, waiting for pick up. -Old-fashioned thermos bottle. -Prefers crouching than sitting while eating, a very northern-Chinese habit. -Northern Chinese dietary: steamed buns, chili sauce, and presumably chilly-vinegar potato slices in that pot. -Old-fashioned torch. -Old-fashioned poster. -Certificate of merit and/or banner of recognition, usually for lost and found of expensive goods.
at the same time it blatantly shows how bad she is at doing her job.
Now, now, let's not draw hasty conclusions. Marisa has obviously just borrowed the books, or whatever else is in her sack, and the gate is closed and the fairies outside, so it's all good there, too. Besides, she obviously has a scheduled lunch break, so the customers must wait.
I don't get this part though. Why would they do that?
Closed management. Package deliverer cannot enter the complex, so they'll have to deliver to the gatekeeper instead. The gatekeeper keeps the package, and waits for the receiver to come and pick it up.
Closed management. Package deliverer cannot enter the complex, so they'll have to deliver to the gatekeeper instead. The gatekeeper keeps the package, and waits for the receiver to come and pick it up.
Oh, that. I initially thought they keep their packages unopened.
That's a very scrupulous depiction of the famous Scarlet's gatekeeper! There's everything, even a cute panda on the giant mug! She is and should be illustrated as a bona fide chinese youkai!
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