Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoshu! - Vol. 7 Ch. 31.1

[ahmed4363]

You cannot escape the allowance seeking man

 

[CapnAndy]

What is with the time skipping lately? Massive amounts of plot seem to be happening between chapters.

 

[genR]

What is with the time skipping lately?

Story "started" when he was five year old and he's now over 50 y.o. Massive time skips have always been there. If anything passage of time has massively slowed down since the start of "group education/school" in ch. 15.

Massive amounts of plot seem to be happening between chapters.

Rosetta is incredibly stacked but as far as the story goes, we can easily fill in the gaps of months of him trying to approach her and getting rejected, since that already happened multiple times onscreen.

Time skips kind of come with the territory of that kind of story. Even more so when it's adapting a book and the mangaka has to chose which bits get adapted and which ones get thrown away or merely implied. I'd prefer if the mangaka was a bit more explicit in labelling those time skips though.

 

[Jhulp_the_fox]

Eila is soooo fucking funny

 

[Jhulp_the_fox]

Brian is such a dad

 

[Carn109]

He finally found his a woman fit for himself

 

[CapnAndy]

Story "started" when he was five year old and he's now over 50 y.o. Massive time skips have always been there. If anything passage of time has massively slowed down since the start of "group education/school" in ch. 15.



Rosetta is incredibly stacked but as far as the story goes, we can easily fill in the gaps of months of him trying to approach her and getting rejected, since that already happened multiple times onscreen.

Time skips kind of come with the territory of that kind of story. Even more so when it's adapting a book and the mangaka has to chose which bits get adapted and which ones get thrown away or merely implied. I'd prefer if the mangaka was a bit more explicit in labelling those time skips though.

Yeah, but the main character is pulling teleporting magic super-ninjas and an ancient backup holy knight directly out of his ass with no setup, explanation, or introductions. This is stuff that needed to be shown to us before it mattered to the plot.

 

[genR]

no setup, explanation, or introductions

There is setup though, the discovery of the petrified crowd, their "resurrection" (turned out it was more like freeing them up), and his intent of using them, were all shown. And we do get an introduction for Marie, just in the previous chapter. And the way she gets announced in the preceding half-chapter does carry (in hindsight) an implication that there could be more of her fellow uncursed coming.

And it's all pretty fitting in this whole arc of uncovering some of the empire's frightful past, terrible secrets, and hidden capabilities.

This is stuff that needed to be shown to us before it mattered to the plot.

Can't say I really agree. But I'll concede there's a limited amount of times the author can pull this off before the readers feel like they're just looking at a succession of asspulls.

But really, "everything MUST have been exposed/foreshadowed" might be an absolute rule in detective stories, but I don't think it really holds in other genres. Especially here where it often seems that the primary genre is humour rather than adventure.