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Ahh, fantasy manga! Where the "pure blooded nobles" are ethereally beautiful. Meanwhile, historically... the natural consequence of consolidating power through marriage is not pretty.

It's not exactly a rucksack, but if he can make cord/rope, he can make a netting sack. For small goods, learn basket weaving, make a flat-walled basket, fit it with a strap for carrying.

"Ah... yes. My grandma is a westerner." Jeez, girl, you don't have to sell yourself short. Most native English speakers would have difficulty with the technical language in research papers. If you can parse a paper in English and then accurately translate it to Japanese, you read English...

Arumi/アルミ is just a common JP way of saying aluminum. She says アルミの件 (alumi no ken) in the raw; ken means matter in the sense of an event or topic (a thing-to-be-discussed). It's the same ken in "jiken" (incident/case), which you see a lot in e.g. occult/detective manga.

Clue me in, are you referencing some other manga or show? 'Cause the only significance "Cohen" has to me is that it's a super common Jewish surname. I sure as hell hope that's not enough to make it an "Evil name" for you. Only notable fictional Cohen I can recall offhand is Cohen the...

That ドクン (heartbeat sfx) from the hero's grave... I wonder what it means. They seem to have left right afterwards, without noticing it.

Raw has it as busshitsu shoukyo masu (物質消去マス). Busshitsu shoukyo is "matter erasing". Masu written in katakana can mean a lot of things. "Mass", "box", "square/tile", "masturbation", and "trout" are the obvious options. I probably would've gone with "mass", but dunno what the author actually...

... are they actually pterodactyl, or is a machine/amateur translation just failing to understand 翼竜? Dinosaurs were written in Japanese and Chinese kanji/hanzi as different "dragons"†, and pterodactyl specifically as "winged dragon"/翼竜. In a fantasy world, the default meaning of yokuryuu/翼竜...

The author's theme seems to be thinking, "if you take a mundane medieval world and throw in monsters and levels, how would society realistically develop?" And his answer is, "A tiny few will use their wealth and/or political standing to monopolize experience and equipment, solidify their rule...

Thief who disables his enemies by whistling? Wonder if it was inspired in some part by the Slavic folk character Nightingale the Robber.

1) In the raw, it's just ストーン, with no exclamation point. すとん / ストン is a 擬音 (Japanese mimetic phrase, something like a "sound effect") meaning "to fall/hang down". TL was apparently confused, since ストーン does indeed sound like a transliteration of "stone" into JP. tl;dr it's just the sfx for...

With respect to the ストーン on page 9, rather than "stone", I think it's means to be an extended ストン, a manga 'sound effect' for something sinking or hanging straight downward (in this case, the demidragon he's kidnapping via a mist gate underfoot).

So... all she says is, そういうの嫌い "I hate this kind of thing". Dino-Takafumi is depressed because it's tantamount to saying, "I hate you" in JP. Fujimiya is pleased with how much this upsets him because it essentially confirms that he does like her back. I get that cultural differences mean some...

Human food coming in "regular" (onigiri) and "soft" (bread) is just about the most Japanese thing ever.

Tein, huh? I wonder what the author's going for. It's just hiragana in the raw, and the sound doesn't map onto any word phrases off the top of my head. I guess if you impose a Japanese reading on the Chinese word for mudra (手印), you could get that (手 and 印 as individual words are read "te" an...

Damn, her daddy's built like a linebacker.

Love is a battlefield.