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There is a quantifiable mistake which is the scale of kingdom of 15,555 units and short the distance between the two dots south of Sacula at 1,944 units based on the map's vertical grid of 10 blocks or so; those towns should appear further apart but to be fair to the story, they know it's not...

Yeah I skimmed through the light novel to find any specific town names but nothing comes up, and any further than Volume 2 continues onto the future

I was afraid I might've made a typo but it was 15,555 units for the kingdom and 1,944 units between towns; which does not appear to be to scale especially if you look at their map w/ the total number of vertical points on the grid, there's two dots in separate provinces south of Sacula which...

Not really related but It just occurred to me that Kinrou and Zhongli have more in common than just sharing the same JP voice actor, like how they both use spears, are strict with rules/contracts and are associated with gold; I'm so smurt

I agree, even the cement used to make stone walls and castles was a closely guarded military secret at the time, which may explain why they're having trouble w/ their crumbling wall, if that knowledge was lost

the Volume 5 Extras can be found 'elsewhere' I guess someone somewhere already pirated all the official English omake chapters but they just go unreleased since the ones in between aren't available or something

if you think it makes sense for this kind of story to have kangaroos/capybaras/penguins w/o explanation, that would make it even more deserving of criticism; if these things were to exist at all, they can't be in the same place at the same time w/o reason This "there's NO evidence that they...

the premise of my argument is "this is clearly a medieval-inspired story w/ a similar setting and real plants and animals, but the non-medieval foods are out of place" if you think it's only got "medieval vibes" and refuse to even engage w/ that premise, saying "it's clearly another world, so...

do you want me drop "anachronism" so that you won't get hung up on vocabulary and instead try to understand what I'm saying? What difference does it make if a medieval-inspired story has smart phones or potatoes? Unless there's context or an explanation for them, NEITHER of them make any sense...

why are you insisting stories w/ "medieval vibes" makes sense to have potatoes and tomatoes"? that's what I wanna know, even after I spelled out to you that the middle ages ended before anyone in Europe discovered potatoes/tomatoes (the 15th Century means 1400-1500, not the mid-16th Century)...

this isn't the feedback I was looking for when I was making my credits page

Just because potatoes/tomatoes were introduced to Europe a long time ago doesn't mean that they were always there, which is what I mean by anachronistic; if all you're trying to point out is "so what? it's fiction, just suspend your disbelief" then there's no real argument to be had I sincerely...

I felt the same way skimming through the light novel, like it's a diary of the perspective character and events just occur as they happen; The Rising of the Shield Hero web novel was the same way but its manga managed to be more engaging, hopefully more action changes things up

I mean anachronistic as in there shouldn't be any in their time, like if they were eating actual box cereal from today (they weren't medieval Europeans because that era ended by the time they started eating them) if the story intends to be realistic w/ infant mortality, lack of technology etc...

rats my eyes don't work so well, I fixed it so hopefully no one else will notice...

My feeling was that the author wanted to emphasize the earlier use of 'endure' as in Arthur didn't need to persevere around Ash but it's not exactly a natural expression in English

Yeah but I'm saying people ate other foods at the time, like cereals and legumes and root vegetables it's just odd that a lot of medieval/fantasy manga gravitate towards potatoes like they've already found a fantasy South America

historically, medieval guilds were basically gangs that enforce "quality control" on anyone trying to muscle in on their line of work, with very much a join-or-die mentality

omg you're right about changing font sizes, thx! lol yeah I had an English teacher explain the evolution of old English into Norman/French English after being conquered like you described, history is fun

My understanding is that katakana isn't strictly standardize in the sense of listing non-Japanese words: like convenience stores are abbreviated to コンビニ　(conbini) and television is テレビ　(terebi) respectively, or maybe it's a first syllable thing but there's still words like violin バイオリン　(baiorin)