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I hear ya, but then... her armor is hot pants and a bikini top, and she constantly holds her knives in reverse grip. I kinda have to turn the "practical considerations" part of my brain off to enjoy this (which is fine, no shade).

Re: Seabird's nest island, he's almost certainly talking about guano mining. Prior to the development of the Haber-Bosch process, bird guano was the go-to source for the nitrogen used in fertilizers and explosives, and could be sourced in huge quantities from islands that had served as seabird...

I agree it feels weird, but that's cultural differences for you. Sometimes there's just not a solid equivalent. I mean, you could make it "cousin-fucking redneck" or something to ramp up the offensiveness, but that kinda feel like it's going too far. [edit] Part of the problem translating...

@Weoooo イモ/芋 has a fairly long history as a pejorative modifier, and isn't inherently gendered. For example, rural samurai were mocked by more metropolitan courtiers as "imozamurai". Being rural carries the connotation of being poor, uneducated, and uncultured, in addition to being...

He actually calls her "potato girl" イモ女 in the raws. The meaning is usually closer to "bumpkin", or "lame/unfashionable".

Her name is written シャルロット (phonetically "sharurotto"). The nickname is シャロ ("sharo"). Charo is at least a reasonable transliteration, though I guess you could argue Chalo more closely matches the parts of Charlotte that are being retained. Both sound a bit weird in English, though...

The pool of every person you know, plus every person that each of those people has ever known over the course of their entire lives is not a small number. At the very least, this coincidence is orders of magnitude more probable than 1 in 8 billion. How many teachers did you have growing up...

The term the author uses is "haikaburi" 灰かぶり, literally "ash-head" or "ash-crowned". It's the exact same phrase used in the Japanese version of the classic folk story Cinderella, which is well-known in Japan. Since the author renders it as haikaburi-hime (Princess Cinderella) in e.g. chapter...

Feels kinda cheap for her to earlier say she would "divulge every aspect" of her powers "until you understand it fully" and wouldn't lie, and then shoehorn in domination in the event of cheating. The line "You should have expected that cheating in a fair game would be treated the same as...

I don't see anything between Lupin and Laputa. The guys in the bowler hats are just Muska's bodyguards. The guys at the right are Count Cagliostro and his henchmen. [eta] For anyone wondering, the general mentioned on page 10 is Mutaguchi Ren'ya, not Rentarou Muta. During WWII, despite the...

To the folks confused at Yajin's poor treatment or the guild's "figure it out yourself" attitude, I'd recommend reading the WN, as it's pretty thorough. It's on Syosetu and Kakuyomu, but Kakuyomu seems to be the author's preferred platform (updates are there first). A few things to keep in...

Ikemen-sugiru Gorilla reference?

When you're unashamedly naked and ladies still have to ask if you're a guy. feelsbadinjapanese.jpg As far as squeaking... yeah, that's a bad translation. Why? Because it's not onomatopoeia in the source. "Squeak" would be "チュウ" (chuu), but she says "りす" (risu) which just means squirrel...

I don't get it. How does nanpa come into it? Given the x-ed out heart, I'm assuming his "mindlessness" skill is just 心無い (kokoronai).

Are we 100% sure it's pterosaur? Pterosaur is literally written with the kanji "wing" and "dragon" (翼竜). Although Sylphid's species is 風韻竜, it is still true that she's a winged dragon. Given it's the introductory chapters, I would assume the title is just meant to be "Tabitha and the Flying...

In the same way that healing magic won't fill your belly if you're starving, I doubt you can just "heal" oxygen deprivation. It's a "fuel problem", not a "damage problem". It's not just that lack of oxygen kills cells, but rather oxygen is necessary for cells to carry out their functions.

It's... not? I admit, it has been awhile, but this is how I remember the story going. Kill centipede, make poison meatballs, invade ant nest, They cut a conversation with Adhoff about the neighboring countries, I guess?

Ugar's pantomime on page 26. The number "two", and "vomiting", so... "ni" "gero" ("run away!" in Japanese) . I feel like the mangaka could've conveyed that with "stop" gestures and the humor would've been retained without introducing some weird cultural equivalent of anachronism (is there a...

Odd that there's no TL note for the idiom, "like a borrowed cat". It apparently refers to someone being uncharacteristically quiet and meek due to being in an unfamiliar environment.

So... it's an Antaeus kind of situation? I wonder if the Heracles solution will work or if it'll be some kinda nonsense like F/SN Berserker's kill-him-so-hard-he-loses-multiple-lives. [edit] Dunno why I get a "dumb" reaction. That's literally how both stories go. In Greek mythology, Antaeus...