More pieces of the jigsaw puzzle reveal themselves... Yet, their (apparent) lack of connection suggests that the lore is more complex than predicted.
Nevertheless, now I am more convinced than ever that the Lord of Mystery will eventually turn on our protagonists. Even if it is just to protect...
For reference, I have rented apartments in Japan several times and most of them didn't have a lock in the bathroom doors (which were often rather flimsy/hollow to begin with). I do not know if it was a cultural thing or part of a seismic building code, but it is not just a doujinshi-only thing.
At the cost of being accused of moral relativism... I believe any society should be judged by how it treats those at the bottom, including bandits.
Should they punished? Yes. How much?... I fear it depends on the ability of their system to rehabilitate them. If, like in this case, the...
Yeah, capitalism has a lot of problems (inequality, poverty, corruption, etc.). But, first, it is way older than the imperialist mindset you mention (which is also far from being the first one, as well). They didn't have banks as we know them today, but most of the ideas about capitalism were...
You lost me there. Yes, salaries make it easy to assign a value to a person in a Capitalist system... but very similar things end up happening in all economic and social systems. Whether it is the number of medals in a militaristic system, the impact score in academia or your "stats" as a...
Yeah... It is going on a direction I was not expecting (although it was hinted at the end of the last arc). However, the idea of a not-so-hidden chunni side is interesting, because it generates some stakes to using a cheat like resurrection rings.
Errr... Would this not make Ameri's existence extremely important in the Netherworld, even after all these years? (To the point of being kept hidden and under constant supervision) How are they going to hide something like this in-world? Is the author going to retcon her?