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@zanonyn First you seem ignorant of them being a thing, then you seem triumphant at the fact that they were a thing and claim that they worked!? You come from an alternate timeline where WW1 was decided by mining enemy positions? They were terrible weapons when successfully deployed but...

@zanonyn Dude, tunnel warfare, be it to mine enemy positions or to infiltrate, is a big deal still. In the static warfare of the western front of WW1 it was a much used tactic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_warfare

O'Neill cylinder, nice.

The coup part of coup d'etat does mean blow or stroke and in some cases could mean what pr meaning says. But a coup as in a show of bravery against a foe has nothing to do with a coup d'etat.

Those two retarded siblings make me think of the bad guys in Blades of Glory, the Van Waldenberg husband/twin/wife couple.

@Aichan I'm not talking about the question itself, people everywhere ask that of visitors. What sets pretty much all japanese I've been asked this by apart from the most other people is the almost inevitable follow up やっぱり when I point out something I find nice. Like it is beyond obvious that...

@Aichan You ever talked to Japanese people? This reminds me of a joke, of sorts, my boss (Japanese guy) told me once about different countries views on elephants. Went something like this. The Germans want to know how humans and elephants can coexist. The French want to know how elephants...

@StrangeStripes Yes I would certainly expect rationing in a situation like this. But has there been any mention of such things? When the ambassadors visited Japan everything seemed as normal. Was that all a show?

@IronMace1990 As I said, titanium is nice and all. But to even be able to utilise it, in a fighter jet for example, you need a massive infrastructure which depend on a gazillion other things, many of which also are needed for the day to day business of a nation of 127 million.

@IronMace1990 Wouldn't (shouldn't?) the isekai kingdoms be wary of this mystical country with amazing technology who are more than happy to trade trreasures for 'junk'? Shouldn't someone catch on? And titanium is nice and all but it doesn't power your AC or car...

@AdamKnight Ok that makes sense in a way, I must have missed it. A non oil producing country suddenly having to build an entire production industry from basically scratch would be very tough but doable. In time at least. I mean Japan consumes over 3 million barrels per day of oil with less than...

How can the transposed Japan even function? Japan relies heavily on oil, coal and natural gas to keep running. Like, they are the among the top importers of the stuff in the world, if not number one. Yet when fantasy land ambassadors visited Japan cars were running just as normal. They can keep...

Brain thinks good when plot simple. Simple good. More simple please.

@shinyray01 As others have already pointed out, Kaze no tani no Nausicaä. The 1984 movie.

I feel old.

Pg 26. That's Luna, Earth's moon. In an isekai. Immersion: ruined.

"Some migrants have arrived" At least he can make beds out of rock. And that nudist dwarf looks like he's in a strange mood.

Hnghhhhn...

Ah yes, this is it. Second season of hit TV series but the writers didn't even anticipate getting renewed. That's the feeling.

@Morsealworth I get that it has been a thing at various times and places. It's just that there seems to be a distinct lack of primary sources which describe this custom in a way that aligns with what this chapter depicts and with the commonly held notion of the concept.