i don't think "making a kid stay in school to learn trigonometry or some shit til they're 18 when they'd rather be a plumber" and "having a 14 year old make military decisions simply because their dad was the king" are all that comparable tbh
Forcing kids to stay in the sociopolitical hellscape that is school, telling them they need to learn so many different things that have no bearing on what they actually need to know (or are even capable of learning) and often are half-assed because it's all spread so thin, during the period of time in which their bodies are growing and hormones are raging, and they need to be able to burn off all that excess energy but are forced to sit quietly in regimented rows or get dosed with opiates, demanding they learn how to be adults while never giving them any sort of responsibility to learn HOW to be responsible until suddenly they're cut loose in the world? Yeah, it is most definitely comparable to the scenario you spin of oligarchy, wherein nepotism was/is rampant, unlike aristocracy where hereditary rule is only acceptable if they remain the best of men (not males, men) for the position (as that is what aristocracy is; "rule of the best"; though especially in these past few decades it often gets twisted into just being an epithet towards shitty nobility), which is closer to what seems to actually be the case in this world.
kaiser wilhelm and tsar nicholas would like a word lmao. never thought i'd find an actual unironic "RETVRN TO MONARCHY" guy in the MD comments, quite fascinating
You didn't find such a one, and if that's what you actually got from what I said, then you failed your reading comprehension lessons (not that that's surprising, given the state of contemporary era schools, as I have already waxed more than sufficiently on).
What can I say? My school experience was very different.
Assuming she took her studies seriously, she should be similar to our world's junior lieutenant, fresh from the academy. Not entirely useless, but still a threat to her own life and the lives of her soldiers.
This is an assumption being made that needs correction: I'm referring to at least the North American school system in general, and any similar system that acts as a daycare for kids while the parents go to work and ignore their kids' suffering, where the teachers run classes at least 5 times the size they should be, are paid too little, can't correct bad behaviours and because of that everyone else suffers, until it eventually results in the situations I noted above, as the years pass and the grade increases, as kids form social connections that become cliques where they vie for intra-group dominance and no adult steps in to stop the very real pain and torture inflicted; Mean Girls was basically a documentary, in that respect. My personal experience with the school system has no bearing on the viewpoint I have with all the problems it has, that are easily visible from the outside.
Close enough, yes. Thus the entire purpose of having her first excursion with an old veteran and his elite squad along with her own royal guard (who may be less competent and untested but are still far better trained and equipped than a standard soldier) for what was supposed to be a minor excursion to gain experience in the seat of command. The fact that she was thinking of her soldier's lives first and foremost, not her own honor and prestige, makes her good material for the role, even if she needs some work on un-crushing the little self-esteem she has, given how thoroughly ground down it has been by the Queen and those around her (though thankfully not her sister or cousin in any direct manner from them themselves, given the interaction they had, though it seems to be alluded to by others, likely as part of the first princess' or the 3rd in line's faction, that they have problems with her).
I see! So the character designer is melon22. No wonder the artstyle feels so familiar, especially Queen Lisenlotte in the first chapter, and how Zabine is literally Barghest but with less self control. At first I was like, "hmm, I feel like I've seen this somewhere before..." and looked up Yanase Kotatsu since he's credited as the artist, but everything that came up didn't clicked any of my gears, and that just confused me even more.
It's not just manga. It's comics in general. And there's a good reason for it. Artists and editors often get/take a lot of time to develop and polish the opening chapters before serialization starts. But as the series goes on, that cushion dissolves. So you only get to see what the author is really capable of month-to-month (or week-to-week) somewhere around volume two.
Polidoro for having such a big dong and a mighty sword, he is pretty wimpy in the head.
this is the type of mobs that i'd rather kill than keep lmao they'll actually rather blame everyone else rather than themselves.
zabine expressing her craziness i can fix her
zabine got that rizz lmao
zabine in page 20 lmao
zabine legit deserves the royal guard captain considering she has the biggestbreastballs by pulling that stunt lmao
page 32 got me sniffing the monitor lmao
tbh i hope mc got zabine as the main wife officially and prostitute his self to astarte and anastasia lmao
Valerie whinswallos Polidoro's whole ****.
Brainrot so severe that some weebs would actually revert back to post-medieval times lmao
