That was what I assumed, that the author was showing the ineptness of the Crown Prince by having him personally design siege weapons that looked like something someone who was never on the battlefield would design.
Have you you ever practices archery? I have, and bows, especially long bows and composite bows can fire arrows with a relatively flat trajectory quite a bit distance away before the troops ever entire melee distance. Not as much as arced fire, mind. Secondly, even if I were to grant your...
Doesn't even make since to counter archery since it is open ended in the front, leaving the soldiers to get sniped. As for anti-cavalry purposes, a single pointy stick doesn't counter cavalry, let alone heavy cavalry. It is a lot of pointy sticks in a formation that counters cavalry, of which...
I believe the point of that post was sarcasm at about how the elites who want to impose neo-feudalism like to use candy-sweet propaganda to call it anything but.
History has also shown that every society needs a ruling class, even so-called classless societies. The masses would overthrow their rulers only to elect new rulers to be ruled by.
I find that fear is quite useful in getting humans to walk the virtuous path.
It is true that the manga has no qualms showing evil like that, but I do believe that this is a continuation of the false paradise arc with the neutral souls from earlier. The main problem with the neutral souls from...
I believe the common thread among the pure souls and the tainted souls is selflessness vs selfishness. It is of no coincidence that the pure souls Raoul rescued in the chapter had concern for the other tainted souls, whereas the tainted souls had concern only for themselves. This also explains...