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Not that it matters, but the mention of being from a landlocked, mountainous prefecture got me thinking. There aren't actually all that many landlocked prefectures (Gifu, Gunma, Nagano, Nara, Saitama, Shiga, Tochigi, and Yamanashi). Of these, Saitama seems way too urbanized to fit, and neither...

Alas, this link no longer works. The ignorant are cursed to remain so.

Japanese doesn't have separate words for the two groups, instead using 蜂 (hachi) for all manner of bees, hornets and wasps. This is actually a little bit closer to reality, as wasps and bees are actually not separate groups, taxonomically speaking. (Although ants are also deeply interrelated...

There are obviously some invasive species, but it's not at all true that most of them are bad for the ecosystems they live in. There are quite literally tens of thousands of species, and many of them play vital roles as pollinators and predators (including controlling the populations of many...

Fortunately by their appearance it's clear that these aren't suzumebachi. They don't build hanging paper nests anyways, but rather nest in holes in the ground.

Okay okay but who cut down the sacred tree?

It seems like Meng Meng is just messing with Qiu Qiu, but I see this kind of sentiment all the time both in media and sometimes irl. To be clear, one's sexual "needs" are truly, genuinely not difficult to handle even when strongly felt. Anyone trying to use that to pressure someone or as an...

From a child development perspective, neglect is an extremely serious problem. Depending on specifics, it's not uncommon for childhood neglect to cause mental health issues in the same league of severity as straight-up abuse.

My guy is so down bad I'm afraid he's going to dig up a balrog.

Smh men will literally go to therapy when they could be turning into meatballs with the bros

Small detail, but I love that they're in each other's phones as "Dumbdumb" and "Dummy"

The bag Itou gets on page 5 is labelled 粗塩 "arashio" (coarse salt)

From where I'm standing that sounds pretty fantastic XD

Not to sound like his dad, but the real fantasy in this series is this kid's finances XD

I am unfamiliar with Touma so I can't evaluate that, but the notable similarities with Re:Zero I am very familiar with.

"It's actually fine if many people can't easily afford nice things because then they're motivated to grind themselves into dust working every waking hour of their lives." How . . . uplifting I hope one day Natsuno achieves the dream of a more proletarian pâtisserie.

A shockingly incompetent and/or cruel teacher...

Is less impressive when you realize that it's literally the only part of the Zhuāngzǐ I actually remember, but hush don't tell anyone

I believe this poem comes directly from the Zhuāngzǐ, a classic Daoist text written during China's Warring States period.

Solidarity to the the brave freedom fighters of the Shikoku Liberation Front! Wish there was another volume so we could get more background lore about the insurgency in Kitakyuushuu.