Suterare Seijo no Isekai Gohantabi - Vol. 2 Ch. 6.1

[MangaDex]

 

[blackLuna]

Just a little titbit: European carriages have had some form of suspension since the early Middle Ages.

 

[Perfurator]

The place is called Riesfeld.
Ri es f eld
Rice Field
Welcome...
TO THE RICE FIELDS!

 

[Nunally]

So the van has potential to be an invisible yet deadly carmagedon

 

[AnotherDuck]

Just a little titbit: European carriages have had some form of suspension since the early Middle Ages.

Isekai Middle Ages tends to be more like the Dark Ages. Or rather, how the Dark Ages were portrayed by later eras.

It's always fun to see what kind of idea these authors have about older eras outside Japan.

 

[blackLuna]

Isekai Middle Ages tends to be more like the Dark Ages. Or rather, how the Dark Ages were portrayed by later eras.

It's always fun to see what kind of idea these authors have about older eras outside Japan.

I know, but most of these stories, including this one, are clearly set after the late 17th century (minus gunpowder, found in European weaponry by the late 15th-early 16th century), by which time the use of leaf springs had become common place, resulting in more people traveling by carriage rather than horseback.

FYI, the early Middle Ages is a synonym for the Dark Ages (unless you're specifically talking about England while arbitrarily excluding the Dark Ages from the Middle Ages as part of the Anglo-Saxon period, and even then that's far from universal). So yes, vehicle suspension was attested to as early as the Dark Ages, with possible examples dating to late Antiquity. That said, roads were typically very poor in the post-Roman world, so people generally opted for horseback as long as they were physically able, irrespective of rank and sex.

Just saying.

 

[AnotherDuck]

I know, but most of these stories, including this one, are clearly set after the late 17th century (minus gunpowder, found in European weaponry by the late 15th-early 16th century), by which time the use of leaf springs had become common place, resulting in more people traveling by carriage rather than horseback.

Most of these stories are so anachronistic you can't really set them at a specific time period. If I see some kind of year, it tends to be in the range of 950-1600, which usually indicates where the author wants the story to take place in.

Fashion in particular varies a lot, sometimes even having clothes from post-industrialism eras. Weaponry and armour can be anything, like rapiers crossing with spathas, and that's if they're not pure fantasy anyway. Castles and fortifications are usually medieval (which is a long time span just by itself), sometimes with classical flavours. Mansions can sometimes be later, while more common buildings are earlier.

So all in all, I don't think you can say it's clearly set in any era. Most of the time.

And yeah, gunpowder is usually excluded, despite being available even as early as the late 14th century. It sure took a few centuries to make armour "obsolete".

 

[blackLuna]

@AnotherDuck
I'm well aware of the all of that. I'm just pointing it out, since that's one area people tend to not realize even when they are trying to be historically accurate, at least slightly.

Also, the clothing in particular tends to be based on late 19th century to pre-1914, especially the women's fashion, and these settings typically assume that corsetry means tightlacing… But that's another rant for another day.

 

[AnotherDuck]

these settings typically assume that corsetry means tightlacing…

I think the ironic part about those is that the mangas that just have corsets as something to add visually to the characters are usually more accurate than the ones that make a big deal about them.

 

[Moridin69]

Crashing into an invisible car on the road is a random nightmare I have once in awhile (i think it was an ability of the Viper in the 90s TV show).

 

[MrGrinns]

So im digging all the history and such, but didnt she say earlier in the story that the RV was stocked with coffee and tea? Or am i misremembering because i just read the mofu cafe manga

 

[blackLuna]

Just a little titbit: European carriages have had some form of suspension since the early Middle Ages.

Correction/update: in 2021 archæologists uncovered a carriage in Pompeii in excellent condition. Careful analysis over the past three plus years has revealed that the Romans had vehicular suspension! The same type as the mediæval examples— ancient source confirmed!