Toukyou KINOKO ~Sekai Ranking 1-i no Komyu-ryoku Saijaku JK~ - Ch. 24 - Tea Party

[PerfectDeath]

Bocchi the OnePunch!

 

[Kurodaka]

I’m surprised that eating these monsters is so foreign to people not in the danger zones. Nobody even tested the monster meat for edibility?

Could be cultural trauma. People wouldn't be especially keen to eat alien looking creatures they can barely interact with at all. Especially considering in the events described monsters would have probably damaged substantial agriculture as well, making regular terrestrial meat all the more rare and desirable.

 

[dozymaru]

Muchas gracias por la traducción. Me dio mucha risa la parte en la que Eiri habla del buen clima y cae un rayo cerca.
Ya suponía que ella no podía hablar bien con amigos pero ahora es otra Kinoko. Si recuerdo bien, en uno de los primeros capítulos, a ella se le ve en el ático de su escuela mientras sus compañeras se iban. Esa era una pista de que ella no es buena socializando.

 

[Dust_pile]

Thanks for the chapter!

I’m surprised that eating these monsters is so foreign to people not in the danger zones. Nobody even tested the monster meat for edibility?

I assume that it's a combination of multiple factors.

1. Eating Strangers that are significantly stronger than you may be dangerous, as they contain a lot of power/energy and there is a somewhat common trope that if your body isn't adapted to an amount of power, that such an amount of power acts like a toxin to you.
2. There probably are Strangers that are actually poisonous.
3. Strangers eat humans, so there would be a general aversion to eating them.
4. Most people would likely kill a Stranger in a way that doesn't leave much usable or edible material behind.
5. Any usable material that remains from a defeated Stranger probably is sold for quite a lot of money to companies that develop weapons and other technology from Stranger materials.
6. Strangers are tough, and that likely also applies to their materials, so you would need to hire some who is strong enough to take down the Stranger to process the material, and most people might not have the mentality required for that.
7. There seems to be plenty of regular food, so no one outside of Gunma had to eat Strangers to survive.
8. The government likely doesn't classify Strangers as save to eat, so anyone who wants to eat a Stranger has to hunt one themselves or buy the meat on the black market, which is especially risky if some Strangers aren't edible.

That said, I suspect that there are people that eat Strangers, but it's likely just really niche.

 

[squirrellysama]

The two girl failures interacting reminds me of the old "Unfortunately, they were both bottoms" meme panel.

 

[alfirizkyr]

The page with the weather deck and immediate lightning strike legitimately made me burst out laughing. Never expected Eiri to be such an introverted disaster on par with Kino.

Thanks for the golden TL/TS as always!

 

[Angry_Aguri]

two crippling introverts?

 

[DoubleMatter]

Nadeshiko willing to give up her dream lab tour to see Kino home

Nadeshiko refused because she knows hanging around Eri is dangerous for Kino's secret.

Did also everyone forgot Eri accepted the "gift" from the alien to become stronger? The one that transform people in monsters?

 

[Treswimming]

Thanks for the chapter!


I assume that it's a combination of multiple factors.

1. Eating Strangers that are significantly stronger than you may be dangerous, as they contain a lot of power/energy and there is a somewhat common trope that if your body isn't adapted to an amount of power, that such an amount of power acts like a toxin to you.
2. There probably are Strangers that are actually poisonous.
3. Strangers eat humans, so there would be a general aversion to eating them.
4. Most people would likely kill a Stranger in a way that doesn't leave much usable or edible material behind.
5. Any usable material that remains from a defeated Stranger probably is sold for quite a lot of money to companies that develop weapons and other technology from Stranger materials.
6. Strangers are tough, and that likely also applies to their materials, so you would need to hire some who is strong enough to take down the Stranger to process the material, and most people might not have the mentality required for that.
7. There seems to be plenty of regular food, so no one outside of Gunma had to eat Strangers to survive.
8. The government likely doesn't classify Strangers as save to eat, so anyone who wants to eat a Stranger has to hunt one themselves or buy the meat on the black market, which is especially risky if some Strangers aren't edible.

That said, I suspect that there are people that eat Strangers, but it's likely just really niche.

Most of your points are true when the story takes place, but what about when all this started? Billions of people died so life as we know it ground to a halt. A lot of people must have been just trying to survive.

 

[Elfteiroh]

I really don’t like how much effort was made to have that … thing… cursed gift / seed or whatever… in the panel. They don’t want us to forget it exists. Q-Q

 

[Tairo]

I really enjoyed this chapter but it's a bit insane to get a chapter this fun doing something that's ime pretty novel after how the cult arc massively overstayed it's welcome. Even as someone who was more positive on that arc than the comments here for quite a while this sure is a swing in quality.

I guess the author learned from that arc, and improved, which is always nice to see. I didn't mind the cult one as much either, but it's definitely been better since for sure.

 

[Tairo]

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I have the feeling Eiri will know Kinoko is unknown (or at least be aware of her) because of this.

Perhaps eventually when they do get around to taking out the squid, but they said it's non-aggressive so there likely aren't any immediate plans for it.
That would be a great callback and way for her to naturally get super suspicious of Kinoko, though.

 

[Dust_pile]

Most of your points are true when the story takes place, but what about when all this started? Billions of people died so life as we know it ground to a halt. A lot of people must have been just trying to survive.

That is part of the reason why I suspect that either eating Strangers that have more energy in their body than your own body can handle is deadly (this would be especially the case right after it first started, everyone would have basically just been base human level, so even a weaker stranger taken down with the use of guns could very much have had more energy than the normal human body can handle) or that a good portion of Strangers are poisonous in a more ordinary way, because that could very easily explain why the general populous doesn't eat Strangers, the first people that tried it died.

 

[lowarctic]