Kouchuugun Shikan Boukensha ni Naru - Vol. 2 Ch. 10 - Gotania

[pakyu1199]

I don't like how the breastplate of the girl looks so out of place.

 

[UncleRad]

@theldras The main reason why we don't have many examples of leather armor from ages past because they don't preserve well. But you will certainly see plenty of historically accurate reproductions of them in museums and (yes,) movies. Just a quick check at wikipedia should do the trick for 3rd party verification.

 

[AAAAAD]

@Hollow7F

in the first chapter, one of the listed uses for the nanobots is short-range communication

 

[Mephis_to]

Adventurer entrance looks like a church

 

[Winchan]

medieval armor in reality isn't a bunch of heavy metals that have only a few joints of movement, it's actually quite flexible with many folds- though it is heavy, it isn't just an assembly of large tubes.

I wonder where the concept of restrictive armor originated, else we'd have battles with no losses in history because one can't properly thrust a pike or a lance.

 

[namecantbebl0nk]

Confusing perspective eye

 

[tigerstar186]

The telepathy isn't the only inconsistent or nonsensical storybeat. Most recently, this wagon journey was supposed to be a 20-day trip by horse, so even longer by wagon, and even longer than that when having a train of restrained bandits walking behind you. Yet the journey is instantaneous and there is no sign of a time skip as the merchant still knows fuck all about them. Admittedly there is 20 days before the encounter, but still, wagons are significantly slower than unburdened horses. Another thing they've forgotten is that nanom can and will talk to him. It's like they didn't know how to write him alone so they gave him an ai companion til he met Ria and then decided it was unnecessary. Also ria makes no fucking sense. She has had to teach him very basic things of the setting, things that even a commoner would know like magic existing, you have to learn it from spellbooks, and that monsters have magic stones in them. Yet she still thinks he's some incredibly skilled noble rather than an amnesiac or madman.

I enjoy the series with my brain turned down. It's really not a narrative masterpiece.

 

[tigerstar186]

oh how i wish all these mangas, novels and so on would just stop it with this nonsense about how metal armor restricts movements... late medieval era plate armor could even move in ways the human body could never even hope to do without breaking bones and twisting limbs out of their socket, seriously, if you can do it without the armor then you can do it with the armor just as easy.
i also wish they would stop with all this leather armor this and leather armor that, leather armor is practically nonexistent thru out history.

Leather armour is absolutely not nonexistent in history. While outside of early history it was rarely used alone, it is used in tandem with metals for armour in many cultures throughout the medieval and renaissance periods. Leather underlayers, straps, and supports are key to the flexibility, cushioning, and insulation of most later metal armour sets.

 

[BadHaremSchollar]

@WildGrizzlyBear
Both ugly, and wildly impractical, the worst of both worlds. When I read the webnovel, I had to force myself to ignore the illustrations and imagine a suit of armor that made sense.

You really cannot expect good armor from japanese fantasy.

Even icons like Guts have some questionable armor design. Cause in the end, is a design, artist dont think of them as practical stuff.

 

[BadHaremSchollar]

Leather armour is absolutely not nonexistent in history. While outside of early history it was rarely used alone, it is used in tandem with metals for armour in many cultures throughout the medieval and renaissance periods. Leather underlayers, straps, and supports are key to the flexibility, cushioning, and insulation of most later metal armour sets.

Bringandines tho?

Basically the best you could use if you dont want to carry a heavy suit of armor.

 

[DanYHKim]

Seems like he still didn't know that Ria is a ▎█▍▉▅▍

Whatbugs me is that he does not ask Ria what that name means. He could clear it up pretty quickly if he did

 

[NEOO_]

Seems like he still didn't know that Ria is a ▎█▍▉▅▍

im pretty sure its royalty or something

 

[Snailman32]

@SGR
I think they're just whispering to each other and the artist failed to use the correct visual indicators to notify the readers of it, making it seem like they're using telepathy with the thought bubbles. I may be wrong, but that's the only plausible idea I could come up with.

I'd agree if it weren't for the AI comment on page 15. That's not the sort of thing he would whisper out loud, and she wouldn't be confused by the term if it was just a visualisation of their non-verbal communication. That interaction only makes sense if she telepathically overheard his thoughts.

 

[Szaal]

Wyvern skins, son! They harden in response of a trauma.

 

[Coldlight]

I guess it's kind of nice to see the fantasy bits also getting much more scrutiny to balance out how the sci-fi parts were getting nitpicked in the comments early on. I too don't like her armor's design and lack of coverage, which barely counts as armor and is obviously drawn more for show (which doesn't even look that good...) as is tradition in anime/manga/games; only beaten by the notorious bikini "armor" (at the lack of coverage, defeating armor's sole purpose of covering the vitals) which thankfully isn't what Ria is wearing.

But yeah, it's super weird he hasn't asked her about that certain word he keeps hearing. It's not like he's asking her to divulge her entire past like he decided not to do, it's just one word. It's like he quietly decided that asking her anything is off the table now, even though he only said he wasn't going to dig into her past.