Ruri no Houseki - Vol. 3 Ch. 16 - The Abandoned Track of One Sentence

[MangaDex]

 

[semi_truck]

Out a bit later than usual because

Spoiler

I'm fucking boiling alive in a heatwave

I put the book stuff on the side on page 31 since vertical text would have been a pain to format and read in such a small space.

 

[Mangadexorgy]

Three tisms all at once.
Trains, wars, and rocks.

 

[sjiveru]

Oh, rhodochrosite is really neat. Got to go to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science a few weeks ago, and they've got the world's biggest single rhodochrosite crystal on display - it's a good five or six inches by about the same! It's massive!

 

[SuperOniichan]

I didn't know that Imari was a railroad worker in the last century.

 

[rudezki]

This never fails to ignite imagination..

 

[Serenata]

Phew that went better than expected, I thought it would turn out to be a real toxic mineral and they were all over it.
Thanks for the update wooow Imari you're so cool!

 

[Dagger]

Unexpected to see WW2 stories here, but that makes sense. I wonder if we will be seeing bauxite at some point given its importance in Japan's Aviation Duralumin.

 

[SuperOniichan]

Unexpected to see WW2 stories here, but that makes sense. I wonder if we will be seeing bauxite at some point given its importance in Japan's Aviation Duralumin.

Well, in a sense this is entirely justified, since minerals are the history of the world around us.

 

[semi_truck]

Unexpected to see WW2 stories here, but that makes sense. I wonder if we will be seeing bauxite at some point given its importance in Japan's Aviation Duralumin.

They've somewhat appeared in past chapters. Whenever the Showa era is mentioned, that's during the reign of Emperor Hirohito. (For those who don't know, instead of using the Gregorian calendar, Japan will sometimes use "Era X years" format, e.g. "Reiwa 7" for 2025)

You can check the bottom of page 21 Ch 5 for more info, but the TL;DR is that Japan underwent a lot of industrialisation during that pre/during war period, meaning that there were lots of mines, factories, geological surveys, maps, etc made during that period, so it'll pop up quite a bit.

 

[lowarctic]

They've somewhat appeared in past chapters. Whenever the Showa era is mentioned, that's during the reign of Emperor Hirohito. (For those who don't know, instead of using the Gregorian calendar, Japan will sometimes use "Era X years" format, e.g. "Reiwa 7" for 2025)

You can check the bottom of page 21 Ch 5 for more info, but the TL;DR is that Japan underwent a lot of industrialisation during that pre/during war period, meaning that there were lots of mines, factories, geological surveys, maps, etc made during that period, so it'll pop up quite a bit.

most mangas depict pre-WWII Showa and/or post-WWII Showa and avoid WWII itself, and basically all of Japan’s current infrastructure is all post-war

that being said this reference is so minimal it’s not that weird

 

[SuperOniichan]

most mangas depict pre-WWII Showa and/or post-WWII Showa and avoid WWII itself, and basically all of Japan’s current infrastructure is all post-war

that being said this reference is so minimal it’s not that weird

Depends on the genre and setting. A number of manga portray WWII in roughly the same context as Western media, depicting how wartime/actions led to the death or brutalization of the younger generation.

 

[lowarctic]

Depends on the genre and setting. A number of manga portray WWII in roughly the same context as Western media, depicting how wartime/actions led to the death or brutalization of the younger generation.

I would say it extends across genre (to varying extents)

manga is an artists‘ medium and the Imperial government suppressed the arts during the war for being decadent so it’s natural there’s a gap there, even without taking into account political concerns

 

[SuperOniichan]

I would say it extends across genre (to varying extents)

manga is an artists‘ medium and the Imperial government suppressed the arts during the war for being decadent so it’s natural there’s a gap there, even without taking into account political concerns

Are you talking about depicting the time itself or about refusing to depict some positive or neutral things because of political confrontation?