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I couldn't draw every single detail of the complex house, so I generated some background images using AI. The characters were hand-drawn. I hope you enjoy the show. Koreans who have visited Japanese homes in the winter often say this: “It was colder inside the Japanese house than outside.” "I lay down to sleep at night, but cold air came in through the window... It was cold enough to see my breath!" Japanese homes are among the coldest compared to other developed countries. In fact, if you measure the temperature, it is extremely cold. The average temperature of a Japanese bedroom in winter is 10–13°C. The living room is relatively warmer, around 16–18°C. (Source: Housing Survey by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) By European standards, this is practically no heating at all. That is why items like this appear in Japan when winter comes. A kotatsu. It is a low table covered with a futon, with a heater built underneath. You often see scenes like this in Japanese anime or dramas. Snow is falling outside the window, and there is a low table inside the room. Tangerines are placed on the table, and people are wrapped in futons with their legs tucked inside. And then a line like this comes out: “Ah… I don’t want to get out of the kotatsu…” This is the very symbol of Japanese winter: the Kotatsu culture. If you put your legs under the futon, the heater's heat stays inside, creating a warm space. It is essentially a concept similar to a mini heated room. It is a method that warms only the space where a person is present, rather than heating the entire room. There is also a somewhat frightening term: heat shock. For example... It is winter. The air inside the house is quite cold. A person moves from the living room to the bathroom. However, most Japanese bathrooms do not have heating. Therefore, the air in the bathroom is much colder than in the living room. Japanese people really love taking baths. They say that soaking their bodies in hot bathwater is the best thing. This is especially true during the cold winter. They enter the bathtub while their bodies are cold. Japanese people like hot water. It is usually around 40 to 42 degrees Celsius. This is where the problem arises. The body suddenly undergoes a drastic change from a cold environment to hot water. When in a cold house, blood vessels constrict to retain heat. Blood pressure rises. However, when entering a hot bath, blood vessels suddenly expand, and blood pressure drops sharply.