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"If you give out food for free to the poor, they will start to take not starving for granted! It will be terrible!" ...Says the prince whose food is paid for by taxes.

I appreciate that, for once, a character chose to possibly betray trust and tell other important and trusted family members the 'secret', recognising that more people need to know what's going on. I cannot disagree more with this. Over-sheltered? For fuck's sake, they let an eleven-year-old go...

"I don't consider you to be a child" Uh... Dear Author, This is not the "he's not a pedo" line you think it is. "But she's so mature!" is exactly what actual pedophiles try to convince people. Fucking... I may have to drop this one. It's a pity, because there's stuff in this I really like...

I am bothered that: A) The series is now about her getting stalked rather than all the fun stuff B) The author clearly wants us to like her stalker

I honestly enjoy the robot-girl story concept more than the main story to some extent. The ongoing existential crisis on several fronts, the currently-ambiguous disposition of the various units, as well as aspects of "the personality unit" knowing her perception of the world is being messed...

IDK, the participants in that thought that the sacrifices were necessary to prevent the immediate end of their world, so I'd be hesitant to damn them just on that alone. It's some trolley-problem bullshit, nothing clear-cut about it at all (although it generally seemed like the people running it...

ML: "I am so worried about my wife, who has gone to meet my abuser..." "...my wife is successfully bullying my abuser into the ground, literally, with schoolyard tactics..." "...is this true love I feel?" I love it XD Also, appreciate the amount chosen for monthly upkeep. $20k per month in...

I feel like all these antics are all rather deflated by not being a murder attempt, which is what we're still expecting.

It's framed as if it's turning the villain tropes on it's head, but at the end of the day they're just... charismatic and evil? Like actually evil, not play-evil as they're framed as. Like she goes in there with modern societal knowledge and yet berates a kid for trying to stand up to the...

...I'm not so sure how I feel about the fact that it kind of ultimately sort of papers over the fact that this is a man who was initially willing to rape a girl at the prince's request.

On the plus side, the misunderstandings do seem to get better. For better or for worse, it takes a bit before the plot starts to reveal why everyone is so stubbornly convinced that they're right, and why they aren't listening or communicating. The explanations when they do arrive do make sense...

That wasn't an appeal to historical accuracy of his specific wardrobe choices, but to the fact that a starting assumption of "it's weird a guy looks good in a dress" is a completely arbitrary, culturally-bound assumption with no particular relation to actual aesthetics. ...I'm not going to...

I posit that modern isekai is written by all of us who read all the old isekai manga growing up and, when the good old Hero's Journey got to the 'coming home' phase in them, quite reasonably went "Wait, why would you want to come home? The magic place is way cooler. Immigrate, yo." (Possibly not...

I mean, why not? Until roughly the end of the 1700's, men wore dresses all the time (though we didn't call them that, but the basic shape's the same). Save for any ingrained modern cultural training to the contrary, guys look just fine in dresses if they're cut right / sensibly for the form of...

...I... All that talk about how "our slavery isn't bad" and five minutes later being shocked that MC doesn't want their live-in servant to be a sex slave... ... Like, okay, MC refused them, sure, but, honestly, at this point it feels more like this is because the author, unlike the...

I... this artist, um... Someone really needs to calm down, lmao Honestly: The homoerotic subtext has been around for a while in this series, especially with the faint, ambiguous, and frankly sort of predatory vibes accompanying his relationship with his sensei. Looking even on mangadex, the...

The nobility breezing off indentured servitude as a "welfare system" is, okay, on point for nobility, but man, that sure does harsh the vibes of the "friendly neighbourhood nobles" they had going. "What do you do with the poor except force them into servitude??" from the people who get to...

Up until now the horrible things happening in the human lands felt like they were partially to give contrast to MC's peaceful life, and the author could get away with making it maximally dark without overshadowing the rest of the story because it was all happening "far away with people we aren't...

My favourite surprise meat-eater bird is the Shrike. Most birds are omnivorous, but only one impales its enemies on stakes!

It's really not quite that cut-and-dry, particularly because deliberately using words 'wrongly' sometimes carries significant meaning. Using traditionally-male titles for female rulers has for instance a long, if unusual, history in actual politics (particularly, to imply that said ruler is not...