Recent content by Pokari

After an incredibly strong start, has simmered down to just "quite good", but it is still quite good, and is still holding a lot of promise tantalisingly in front of us. Some of the readers in the comments here seem maybe upset it that switched from an adventure story to a coming-of-age (in...

Dude. She said "Mercenaries like that". And it seems likely the ambiguity of meaning is there in the original Japanese ("anna youhei" or something like that) to give the MC his measure of doubt and panic attacks, but... More subtly and more importantly, though: Changing your views to be more...

This is a minor point, hardly worth mentioning in all this, but: A spear will be a better weapon than a sword, not just for the untrained to use like the man implied, but in general. Some people seem to confuse "using a sword takes skill and a spear is easy" to also mean "but once sufficiently...

Okay, hang on my dude, were you just going to say "no" if he just said "yeah, after you teach me, I'm going to go back to help my dad fight?" like an honest and normal 11 year old? Like you can't exactly just send him back... It's obvious what he was sent south to avoid being caught up in...

I dunno, optimistically, it seems like it might be leaning somewhere thematic with it? Like, their relationship isn't just "weak" or "shallow", it's downright abusive. She wants people to use and appreciate her weapons; he's the literally the only one that even wants to use them, but he shows...

Possibly, but this smells more like "wasn't as popular as the producers hoped and got cancelled" to me. This is seemingly wrapping everything up quickly like mad and trying to draw everything to an emotional conclusion; in an advertisement teaser series you'd normally end with "tune in to see...

I appreciate just how much the art is doing for this. The plot is fine, but the art is fire (...Odd thing to say for a chapter where I hated everything I saw, it occurs to me, but, like, that was the point)

Gotta say I suspect the artist thinks so as well! In particular, one will note how that whole "Secret society of sorcery skill users" concept was introduced and, y'know, lined up to be important... This feels like one where you can nail down a fairly narrow range of chapters in which the...

IKR XD Like, yes, as a pet cat from a pet shop, he would be neutered. There's hardly two ways about it. But like... I fully expected them to ignore that, given the general vibe. Weirdly I think my respect for the series actually kind of went up slightly with this. Fully accepting the...

It seems necessary for the way it functions in the first place for it to "save" them. But the fact that 'game masters' can seemingly retrieve those full-body scans without the players' consent, alongside identifying info, would seem to show a terrifyingly cavalier approach to privacy...

The tech itself might well fall into "not illegal because no one's even realized they needed a law about it yet", unless some jurisdiction could twist their laws against drugging people to fit. The fact that people apparently aren't even informed that this is possible in this game seems like it...

I feel like knowing who's a real person is actually kind of important for reasons and hiding it would be a really bad idea. For instance, you're inevitably going to get players being awful to other players that they misunderstood to be NPCs. Even if ignoring the potential ethics problems for...

"Our game has no classes, you can make your character however you want!" "Please be careful when selecting [totally not a class] as it affects what your character can do and cannot be changed!" Game marketing be like

I don't want to spend too much time on a parenting debate, but "my kid is showing unusual and unprecedented distress, let's just let the situation be for their emotional growth" isn't even parenting, that's just watching a child grow up from the sidelines and taking notes like a psychopath. If...

I never thought I'd thank a scanlator for vandalizing the art but honestly thank you for erasing the eye-bags it was making me feel god-damned tired in sympathy to look at them. >.>;