Goblin Is Very Strong - Vol. 5 Ch. 40

[Abedeus]

@wh4t3ver

"To create immortality you have to find ways to stop your cells from degenerating - so why does her brain still degenerate if the rest of her body doesn't? "

I could rationalize it as their immortality keeping their body in same state structurally - but if you did that to brains, it would prevent them from forming memories, retain experiences or even function as humans since our brains and information in them changes on every millisecond. Your heart, if it were to stay the way it was for next 50-60 years, wouldn't affect the rest of your body's performance. A brain that is stuck at, let's say, 20 years will forever stuck at point when you were 20.

Your nitpicking her needing medicine to keep dementia off is... weird, at very least. It's not an issue. "Magic servant or tool" again this makes assumptions that she can create something like that. She's a medical mage/scientist, not an inventor who can create life or autonomous tools that detect her dementia status.

 

[wh4t3ver]

@Abedus if her immortality thing didn't apply to her brain, she wouldn't be immortal because her brain would be mush after a few hundred years. And even if her immortality could magically keep her heart beating, she wouldn't have any agency without a brain and would only be a living statue.

Anyways, I don't think there's any merit to debating this further. It's simply not a well thought out plot point, nevermind that the basic trope has been done to death. At least it's an attempt at mixing it up a bit but IMO it's badly executed.

 

[Artemi]

I think it's good enough: Divine Protection just resurrects, but doesn't stop aging. So it isn't immortality.
Her own immortality works really good and there can be quite a few possible explanations why it's not the best thing for her, just because she calls it dementia doesn't mean it is normal dementia after all:
- Maybe she is on her memorie capacity and thus has to forget more and more old things. And the way memories work, it's not forget one, get a new one, but all the old ones get harder to remember instead.
- Maybe her spell actually makes her memory really good and way bigger then normal, but in the process her brain has a harder and harder time to actually find any specific memorie at all, getting the symptoms of dementia while having actually the exact opposite problem.

 

[najimimisogi]

For a wholesome(?) and comfy manga, the lore is actually interesting. Sad it already ended.

 

[Drake68655]

Whoa now, that was entirely too much plot dumping to just go to ending it like that. This sounds like an axe happened or something.

 

[Altair]

Turns out this was just an OG take on isekai a la Magic Knight Rayearth. It really does have that 90s RPG feel to it, including that Xenogears disc 2 debacle

 

[tinyfalcon]

@abedus

That's like saying "If doctors can create a vaccine for a virus, why can't they create a vaccine for brain tumors?!"

Actually, they're doing just that, at least for some cancers. It's really cool.

Anyway, I agree with you, if magic is just "I do whatever I want lol" then it takes all the tension/interest out of a story. OTOH I agree with @wh4t3ver too bc any attempt to impose rules like that now is going to feel lame and arbitrary, this series was always just some 80s-RPG tropes and a hint of yuri tease, so the last-minute 'let's make some logically consistent worldbuilding and plot' thing was just never going to be satisfying anyway. The logic of the story never worked that way.

 

[AsuraRaza]

Huh, what's going on? Is it over now? If so, that was rather sudden.

 

[daywithoutgames]

- editor : we have decided that we will axe your manga . you have only around 5 chapters left .
- mangaka : then i will make the plot like this : they will fight the demon king , the final boss .
- editor : screw that , he is an ugly , male demon . just introduce a brand new character as the final boss . and she must be a cute , l0li girl .
- mangaka : ?????????????????

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page 8 is basically a plot in logan 2017 film : professor Charles Xavier is too old and has brain damage , so his power accidentally destroys the x-men .

and the mangaka just retconned things : if maron really just swapped the villagers with real flowers in chapter 36 , then there was no reason for her to bow and thank the flowers .

 

[BakedBanana]

Meh.

 

[Shtoops]

They cancelled this? That's a fucking crime against Goblin-san.