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In the page where the father is at the forge, the box with a handle that he's working with his left hand is the bellows to stoke the coals. Japanese bellows are different from the accordion-pleated bags that I normally expect to see in a blacksmith's shop.

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"cut to the chase" If that phrase were actually used in such a culture, it would be meaningless.

I can willingly suspend disbelief and have peace with the idea of beastmen or lizard people being able to speak. But somehow the idea of a crocodilian being able to form a proper embouchure to play a brass instrument is a bridge too far.

Smith is such an interesting character in a manga full of interesting characters. He's kind of a bumbling academic, but also seems to be an expert linguist and ethnographer. He's possibly an unwitting spy for Britain by way of Hawkins. But he also needs a minder; someone to tend to his daily...

So, a midnight escape to Gretna Green? I suppose that they are both old enough that they don't really have to be so dramatic. But then, he gave her his watch and then was thwarted by the stepfather, went on a long journey to Ankara through treacherous mountain trails, to find she had gone in...

I think he said that he was an aeronautical engineer, which must have helped. But getting all of those systems to work would normally take a fair number of cycles at the Skunkworks. I really, really love isekai stories where the MC shows some ingenuity. Instead of just inventing Reversi and the...

Woah. In the final boss room with the body of the phoenix right there? Kind of 'tickling the tail of the dragon'. Ana could already be pregnant, after all! (Unless those elves have some handy potion for her.)

Gotta say that this is such a huge and refreshing change from the usual shyness we see in relationships in manga. What do those elves put in the barbecue, anyway? As for the Duke: I can see him racking his brain trying to come up with a legitimate path for his daughter to marry Allen. He's not...

Telling the children that they had always lived in the country. In Plato's Republic, there is a short bit in which this was recommended that if a people are brought somewhere to found a city, they should all tell their descendants that they had sprung out of the ground itself. That way, those...

Thought-provoking story. A bit different from the anime, where they built tension longer. There is a difference between "murder" and "killing", in which some killing is done with the sanction of the State, while murder is an individual's selfish act.

A very engaging and different kind of isekai. It's a little predictable that every problem is solved by a trip across time and space to learn more, but that's OK. I am really enjoying it.

I'm enjoying this. Some interesting psychology here, although I don't know if any of it is real. I do have some investment now in the outcomes of the characters, which is important for a story to be engaging.

Going one-up on the Pocky game, I see.

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"Val" is an interesting innovation. Long ago, Spiderman picked up a new costume that turned out to be a parasite/symbiote. It eventually became "Venom", but in the early days it just took over Peter's body and ran around the city all night. Peter would get up in the morning really tired from his...

A tribe of women who get pregnant and, if the child is male, father and child are driven away. They sound a bit like the "Chinese Amazons" of Ranma 1/2

The recreation facility needs a weight room/gym. Maybe with treadmills as well, and a couple of professional coaches to keep things safe. Oh! Where's the hot spring? He could actually do well to make his Duchy into a recreational resort with different towns having different trim levels...

"Julio" Living in the desert southwest of the U.S., I pronounce this in my head using the Spanish convention.

"Say hello Kohaku" "Rawr" (I can imagine him saying this totally deadpan, being a bit put out to be considered just some tiger cub)