Shokubutsu Monster Musume Nikki ~Seijo datta Watashi ga Uragirareta Hate ni Aruraune ni Tensei Shite Shimatta node, kore kara wa Kougousei wo Shinaga…

[UdenEmpati]

Well she's not human anymore so it's not cannibalism.

Still morally questionable but biologically I think it's fine even if she was still human.

If you think about it, plants eat their own kind all the time. Including via "extra steps".

 

[Andigo]

Well she's not human anymore so it's not cannibalism.

Still morally questionable but biologically I think it's fine even if she was still human.

That helps, I'm remembering the semantics now. This isn't cannibalism as in 'conspecific predation', so yeah basically biologically fine. However treads on all the usual ethical topics of cannibalism though like not having a clearly better option, eating a sapient (bird)man, eating from a man-eating predator (like a tiger, boar, or something mythic like a dragon), AND eating honored kin.

So it falls between usual definitions of cannibalism but yeah, morally justified.

If you think about it, plants eat their own kind all the time. Including via "extra steps".

There's no end to that If you include extra steps life is cannibal stardust.

 

[CountryMage]

So a demon with the power to steal the power of anything he ate doesnt have anything like basic fire magic?

He's a minmaxer, he put all his points into eating Saints and using offensive Holy magic.

 

[UdenEmpati]

He's a minmaxer, he put all his points into eating Saints and using offensive Holy magic.

In one one way, it makes sense.

If Saints & Holy Magic are a super-rare, super-powerful entity & magic type, then it would be quite effective against just about everyone and everything, more or less. And unless I misread/misremember--there's few "full-fledged" saints running around concurrently, so if he's just sufficiently strong to defeat those in "normal combat", and/or use demon armies to subdue and capture them, he can just eat them that way. Everyone else is an apprentice, and that's shooting fish in a barrel, at that point, for him.

No one could reasonably expect their super rare, super potent magic to be utterly ineffective against the single thrice-reincarnated Sentient Plant Saintess with super immunity thanks to turbocharged photosynthesis in existence--much less to run into her, on a day she's already in a foul mood, and she regains her full power halfway through the fight as a result of your own magic.

Dude just drew the short straw in the most against-all-odds manner conceivable.

 

[UdenEmpati]

That helps, I'm remembering the semantics now. This isn't cannibalism as in 'conspecific predation', so yeah basically biologically fine. However treads on all the usual ethical topics of cannibalism though like not having a clearly better option, eating a sapient (bird)man, eating from a man-eating predator (like a tiger, boar, or something mythic like a dragon), AND eating honored kin.

So it falls between usual definitions of cannibalism but yeah, morally justified.

There's no end to that If you include extra steps life is cannibal stardust.

Well - I think it'd open the argument of whether stardust is alive to need to "consume to persist".

But at least for plants on the Earth (and I guess wherever this story takes place, ostensibly), they do feed on dead/decaying organic matter. Which, generally, is all plants and animals (and various microorganisms if you wanna get taxonomically pedantic about it), so..yeah.

Plants eat dead plant matter, or dead animal matter--which fed on either plants, or animals that ate plants, when they were alive.
Extra steps.

 

[Andigo]

Well - I think it'd open the argument of whether stardust is alive to need to "consume to persist".

But at least for plants on the Earth (and I guess wherever this story takes place, ostensibly), they do feed on dead/decaying organic matter. Which, generally, is all plants and animals (and various microorganisms if you wanna get taxonomically pedantic about it), so..yeah.

Plants eat dead plant matter, or dead animal matter--which fed on either plants, or animals that ate plants, when they were alive.
Extra steps.

It's fun and messy to think about. Alraune eating by trapping versus intentionally using something as fertilizer is equally choices, and she treated each as eating. Valid. Something unconsciously near an external nutrient source without a connected decision or adaptation for the prey? Calling that eating in a sense that can qualify for cannibalism is what opens the door to my pedantic hyperbole.

I can treat roots actions as adaptation for foodsources, but rarely for specific prey. Plants specifically use fungi and other intermediaries. A big animal's digestion microbiome is inside; for most plants digestion lacks bounds and leans hard on the wider ecosystem of tiny things in eternal warfare that stick to everything. If I don't draw bounds that make most plants not cannibals it leaves room to slander the food web and beyond. At extreme, all us supernovae debris.

 

[albirew]

Spoiler: current arc

thing will get real spicy and I can't wait for each weekly update

what sort of "spicy" are we talking about?
do you say she'll do things even lewder than pollinating herself or flashing her pistil at every chapter?

 

[Sip-Fu]

Luv this series

 

[windfang]

what sort of "spicy" are we talking about?
do you say she'll do things even lewder than pollinating herself or flashing her pistil at every chapter?

No no not that sort LOL...
She got call out for always half naked tho...