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I've been to the Hakone Open Air Museum and it's actually pretty rad. There's a tower of stained glass with a spiral staircase up through it and a shockingly large collection of Picasso pieces.

That may be the case, and I think you're right that the artist mostly just wanted to draw fancy cars, but to be clear they don't live in Beijing. They have in previous chapters called their city Jiangcheng, which is a district of Yangjiang, Guangdong Province.

Very good points. Most people have a very indistinct knowledge of history and culture based more on the "vibes" of popular media depictions, which is understandable but tends to lead to unfortunate misunderstandings. Jiang He is from the Tang dynasty, specifically the Kaiyuan era (713-741 CE). A...

The truly impressive one here is the lady who managed to yell down and make herself heard over the helicopter rotors. Scary.

Very glad she doesn't have to live through the An Lushan rebellion. That revolt in 755 led to a truly brutal 8-year civil war, which in turn brought devastating famine. Censuses taken before and after show that the imperial population decreased by an absolutely terrifying two-thirds (although a...

I really like how she's drawn on page 14. Like her twisted artistic philosophy has eaten her from the inside and left precious little else behind her eyes. The paint dark like blood spattering the scene.

On page 14 there's a relatively important translation error. "Mom died" should be "Mom was gone" or similar. The original line is 次の日、お母さんがいなくなった

I went back to look at the raws and found that the line is "okaa-san ga inaku natta", or literally "mom was gone". It seems that the previous translator misinterpreted exactly what that meant, although to be fair this wording is indeed often used as a euphemism for death.

Not that it matters, but the mention of being from a landlocked, mountainous prefecture got me thinking. There aren't actually all that many landlocked prefectures (Gifu, Gunma, Nagano, Nara, Saitama, Shiga, Tochigi, and Yamanashi). Of these, Saitama seems way too urbanized to fit, and neither...

Alas, this link no longer works. The ignorant are cursed to remain so.

Japanese doesn't have separate words for the two groups, instead using 蜂 (hachi) for all manner of bees, hornets and wasps. This is actually a little bit closer to reality, as wasps and bees are actually not separate groups, taxonomically speaking. (Although ants are also deeply interrelated...

There are obviously some invasive species, but it's not at all true that most of them are bad for the ecosystems they live in. There are quite literally tens of thousands of species, and many of them play vital roles as pollinators and predators (including controlling the populations of many...

Fortunately by their appearance it's clear that these aren't suzumebachi. They don't build hanging paper nests anyways, but rather nest in holes in the ground.

Okay okay but who cut down the sacred tree?

It seems like Meng Meng is just messing with Qiu Qiu, but I see this kind of sentiment all the time both in media and sometimes irl. To be clear, one's sexual "needs" are truly, genuinely not difficult to handle even when strongly felt. Anyone trying to use that to pressure someone or as an...

From a child development perspective, neglect is an extremely serious problem. Depending on specifics, it's not uncommon for childhood neglect to cause mental health issues in the same league of severity as straight-up abuse.

My guy is so down bad I'm afraid he's going to dig up a balrog.

Smh men will literally go to therapy when they could be turning into meatballs with the bros

Small detail, but I love that they're in each other's phones as "Dumbdumb" and "Dummy"

The bag Itou gets on page 5 is labelled 粗塩 "arashio" (coarse salt)