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Well, you have a point there. For a very long time, it was considered damaging to the skin to wash it.

'Ray doesn't fit the guard role' Ray is in a world whose development is medieval or slightly later. Good nutrition is unusual, even for a noble's son. He might also be expected to be rather short, and missing a tooth or two. For that matter, he might also be infested with worms.

Weeeeelll, maybe. It depends on how the law considers ownership of land. When air mail was introduced, a farmer sued the postal service because the airplanes were trespassing over his land. I cannot remember how it turned out, but the case showed that the limits of ownership of land needed to be...

Wow. Thank you for this. I am reading this from a vacuum, but your historical note enriches the experience. With knowledge, what a wide and wonderful world it becomes.

A familiar bottle of Avery Island Tabasco Sauce

I was so hoping for translators' notes with a picture!

Overpowered cheat skills limitation. I can just see a solution that goes like this: "Greetings, oh heroes summoned from Another World! I am the Princess of this kingdom! Will you please help us in this time of crisis by using your great powers to drive our subway system?"

Unfortunately, it seems to be designed to be propelled by jet power, which is a bad idea. Wind magic, if used, would be better employed to create internal pressure that would drive pistons or a turbine to create torque.

Yeah. In truth, the prototype should have been more like the first steam locomotive. Pretty much open wagons drawn by an engine that scattered cinders on the seated officials and choked the onlookers with smoke. And the noise! Having a fully enclosed locomotive is really a bit much.

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.