There is Slotin and his motivations and then there is the visual vocabulary of musume art and how it represents emotions. The quickest way to get schooled on the latter is to watch the anime for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azumanga_Daioh

which has a mad scientist character that I can easily picture screwing around with plutonium half-sphere and a screwdriver.

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Dilettante_ 10 months ago | parent [-]

I don't remember a scientist in Azumanga Daioh, were you thinking of Nichijou?

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HappMacDonald 10 months ago | parent | next [-]

Oi you guys, quit confusing my favorite animes with one another! Also Hakase would never do that but Tomo absolutely would. @#$

	▲	Dilettante_ 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		Hakase would absolutely give Nano a demon core accessory which Nano would have to fuss about keeping properly seperated the whole day at school(Mai being the only one who can tell what it is, though not speaking up). In the evening, Nano and Sakamoto-San would convince Hakase to defuse it, but in the last second Nano accidentally slips and the core goes supercritical with an enormous flash of blue light. The light subsides, revealing it was just an elaborate device to make the perfect runny egg. "The Shinonome household passed another peaceful day."

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SpecialistK 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

One of the example memes in the article is Osaka, which may have added to the confusion.