Hyouka - Volume 03 - The Kudryavka Sequence - Welcome to KANYA FESTA! (1)

outsider.
With a sneering smile, Kouchi-sempai took a step towards me.
"Yeah, maybe I was mistaken in saying it was meaningless. Sorry about that,
Ibara, I was trying to say it was too assertively harmful."
"Whichever it is, I would still like to hear why you think it is so."
"You see, I've been thinking,"
As though demonstrating to those around her, she waved her arms about.
"Not every manga ends up as a classic. Just because you like a title it doesn't
make it a classic. Nine hundred ninety nine people out of a thousand could
have decided it was crap. Yet, you would disregard such consensus and
promote your own bias? That is what I call harmful."
For a while I hesitated at how to respond. A member who was standing
beside me lashed out.
"How can you be so sure that is bias!?"
While I understood her sentiment, it was not the right moment for her to
interject. Yet Kouchi-sempai merely gave her a glance and ignored her. She
could have easily countered the accusation of whether the anthology was
biased or not by giving a definition of what the word "bias" means. Still, she
had not chosen to do that.
This means she did not intend for the argument to be ambiguous.
I took a gulp and said, "Let me get this straight. You're trying to say we were
being subjective?"
"Yeah."
"So you find the viewpoint that 'Subjectively, any manga can be a classic,
and so it is meaningless to call a manga bad' harmful?"