Bungou Stray Dogs - Vol. 18 Ch. 74 - Skyfall, Part 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Soulwarfare]

Yay this series is back!

 

[Rozzak]

sick plan but Nobody uses coins anymore idjots

 

[rrolo1]

That is a ... stupid plot. Seriously, if they were using a supermarket chain to distribute the coins I could even believe it, but a casino? Is the author really asking us to belive that people will leave a casino with their pockets full of coins? :/

 

[Someone2Love]

Man, who even uses cash money anymore.

 

[MoonlightwolfchanX]

@rrolo1
That is why Sigma was fervent about making sure everyone was a winner. I think something in the next chapter is far less believable.

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I think the harder thing to believe is that 2 different human beings can make up a language on the spot and have a full length conversation in it. Sure Dazai is known for being smart and Fyodor too, but that was a bit much for me.

This manga has too short chapters to be monthly. D:

 

[Hitomi_Higurashi]

Thanks for the translation, DazaiScans!

People over here are saying that coins aren't used anymore, but honestly it depends on where you live and what year it is. Tons of places all over the world use coins. And I'm pretty sure that at least 10 years ago everyone was using coins, right?

(Not to mention since this is a fictional universe, I think this much could be possible)

 

[KeepTheFeather]

why was this chapter so small compared to the others

 

[KeepTheFeather]

Also im guessing the casino uses coins to ensure everything stays private, no transactions, probably delivering the coins to your house where you would go to a bank and trade them up now getting into circulation. still though, for the coins to end up in more than 0.5% of the population would require a ridiculous amount I doubt a single casino could generate. but then again, if the richest people in the world turned their money into 1 dollar coins and distributed them to the rest of the population, it does kinda seem possible. As for people not using coins, im sure most people have some sort of change in their wallets, if you go out and buy a 75 cent coffee, are you gonna pay with a credit card? lol

 

[miyako19]

@Someone2Love Me. And a lot of other countries still use cash. A lot of places only accept cash and using cash can keep my transaction from being traced and keep my personal information a secret.

 

[miyako19]

@Rozzak A lot of people still use coins. If you read manga or watch anime, you can see Japanese using coins a lot for vending machines. And children aren't allow to own a lot of cash or credit card so they would use coins.
Coins in Japan have bigger monetary value with the biggest is 500 yen = 5 dollars while the smallest note is 1000 yen so a lot of people still using them.

 

[rrolo1]

All that said, I think the author is :

- Overestimating the distribution ability of coins by one casino ... and that is even compounded by the fact that , IIRC, in this manga and LN , there is not a world governement and coin. But even if there was, getting enough of distribution of coins among the populace is a thing that would take time, most likely months or even years. That leads to ...

- Glossing over the fact that would discover the explosives inside the coins quite fast. The coins would not weight the same and , more important , would not sound the same. Most likely they would not be usable in machines ( due to the weight diference ). Someone would bend or cut one of them , even if by accident. In other words, you would have a very limited time window to distribute the coins before someone noticed them, but you are doing it from only a point of entry . After that you would still need to not be ...

- Forgetting to ensure the coins could make real damage. Remember, coins are small and you would still need a lot of it to be metal to make sure they would not deform under human touch. So, you can't put much of explosives inside one. More, you can't make a directional charge without it being noticeable from the surface of the coin, so the explosion would not be directed ( like a bullet is ). So, a coin with explosves would probably not be worse that a exploding cell phone battery ( and most likely even less ), and while they can be somewat damaging, they are definitely not in the magnitude the manga is portraing the authors of the plan imagination. And even this was not a issue ( say ,enough coins together could really make a fuss ), you would need our masterminds ...

- Finding a way to activate them all at the same time ( that's their plan atleast ). Coins, again , are small and that ( science incoming, brace yourselves ) limits the radio wavelenghts you could pick from a radio inside it hard ( and I'm even assuming that they could put a radio and detonator inside each coin without loss of explosive payload space ). A coin sized antenna would be useless to pick wavelenghts that can be emmited from space and would only be useful to pick the higher UHF spectrum at best ... most likely it would be only really useful at microwaves, that have relatively small radius of usage inside our atmosphere. So, unless they hijacked all cell phone and TV antennas, that would be hard without a very convenient ability user that was not shown. And I can think of more devious and effective damage you can do with that kind of hardware under control ...

And to this you would still need to add that people would need to panic and that the state would not be able to make a coin recollection fast enough. As someone that lived during one of the biggest coin recollection efforts around ( the adoption of the Euro ), I find that to be atleast disputable. All in all , IMHO it is not a very well thought plan :/

 

[PenetrationObliteration]

From what I think that this state of panic only initiates to those countries that uses coins more commonly for example: Japan