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@tatherwood What I'm objecting to isn't that such cultural attitudes about virginity exist in this fictional world or our own. Much, much worse than that exists. What I'm objecting to is that the authors choices here in how he creates the character, introduces her and protrays her thoughts...

Great art. Writing has yet to give me a reason to care. at all.

Maybe it's a quirk of translation, but the use of 'sullied' annoys me. It stinks of being more concerned with a loss of virginity than the actual fact this girl is actually about to be raped and beaten. It's puritanical thinking that gets on my nerves. If the plan was to torture her it wouldn't...

there we go, up and fighting again, just like that. You can't have her bawling her eyes out as blood spewing civilians call her a murderer, only to then have her do a full 180 because the MC said he wanted to save her. She just experienced the pain of being universally despised and cursed with...

I enjoy an actual depressive breakdown now and then. Makes a nice change from characters that let everything bounce off harmlessly or get so angry they can overcome the despair. People give up. I wish authors could bear to hold on to that for more than a dozen pages. of course this didn't last...

We all know where this is going author, you could at least have let them have more than 5 panels alone together before starting the sexual tension or putting MC in a position of power over her. let it breathe! I'm way more interested in the world/magic than a budding romance between two...

What happened to "we should have planned"? Needed more verbal pushback from Will, but that moment of breaking/dislocating Melen's arm was great. I wonder whether Will will be defensive or offensive from now on. Even if he accepts that he's not the be all end all and people will die regardless...

This is what I love about this. Even if you think you can see where MC has gone wrong, or when you realise you were missing something important in front of your own eyes, you can understand how hard it is to overcome that for the charactes. real character development, interesting moral...

the will-melen dynamic is great. Author knows how to create a story where the MC isn't forever the be all end all of every interaction. It's good stuff.

Amazing. The best, the absolute best. How the hell did they make me care so much and feel so much in 13 god damn chapters.

Oh man, this is so wonderfully written. I can't express it, just wow.

What you didn't hear: *Aisha slaughters half a dozen soldiers* A:"Be careful princess" *cut soldier trie to put his intestines back in* L:"Sorry I just-" *dying soldier screams* "-got a little too excited" L:"Doesn't souma seem like he's pushing himself too hard?" *skull of dead solider cracks...

I called this kind of hidden conversation a dick move back when it happened several chapters ago, and this is exactly why. A dozen chapters later when it's become a distant memory, the reveal renders all the tension and buildup pointless. I mean gratz, I was tricked in to thinking the frenemy...

Oh I understand. Clearly this is some Sun Tzu level shit. When going in to war, it's important to 'cut ties' with the closest family members you have and send them away. Obviously no one will try to use their lives against you, or simply kill them out of malice, so no worries there. After all...

https://imgur.com/mXbYKgj That moustache... I don't know if I love it or hate it. My boy looks like he just drank a glass of chocolate milk.

I'll give the author the fort in one night even though its nothing like hideyoshi's 'prebuild then assemble'. Mostly 'cuz magic'. But if you can use earth magic to create a huge wall of stone and cement in one night... whats stopping anyone from using earth magic to create a ramp? If you're not...

Author thought about his values (Peace&family, meritocracy, anti-corruption) then dismissed his own character's (Loyalty, honour, personal sacrifice). If you can't reframe your values in terms of your opponent's, they throw their own back at you. They don't just accept yours. Thats why that...

Well, the prelude to an 8 way assassination plot and succession war begins. the sequel to this aught to be good. "My isekai father can't possibly have this many children?! Succesion SNAFU!!"

Pure, unrepentent, shit-slathered hypocrisy. lamp-shaded with a reaction shot of the gang and half-assed comment from the cartoon villain, regardless, that was a fucking awful move. Make them hate eachother! Make it for revenge! Make it for killing this guy X or fucking up this plan Y...

So sick of this dumb trope of 'commanders' putting themselves in danger for the sake of seeming brave/noble to the reader. Battlefield overview, access to messengers, not risking your scumbag infested country being left in the hands of an untrained 10 year old girl who fell for assassins...