Tensei Renkin Shoujo no Slow Life - Vol. 3 Ch. 13.2 - vacation(?) preparations

[lenovoaxioo]

Life expectancy in ancient times doesn't mean shit because it has a huge variety which is affected by incredible high child mortality. As long as medieval citizens were able to survive childhood, they were reaching life expectancies of 60 years and higher (as long as they didn't die of some injury).

Many families only owned child clothes for one gender. Usually girls. Only when children survived until their 12 birthday (ancient greece) the government and families started to invest into them with education and other expenses.

That era being called ancient felt kinda weird (when i heard ancient, the image in my head is more Mesopotamia than middle ages).

But true, child mortality skew the data a lot. Man, now that i think about. We having low child mortality rate is actually very recent development.

 

[Tavero]

That era being called ancient felt kinda weird (when i heard ancient, the image in my head is more Mesopotamia than middle ages).

But true, child mortality skew the data a lot. Man, now that i think about. We having low child mortality rate is actually very recent development.

True, and it sounds even less ancient if you consider that ancient Rome and Greece had piped water in homes, central heated bathhouses, democracy, consumerism with single use disposable clay amphoras and fast-food.
The only real reason for today's improved life expectancy is modern medicine.

That's also one mayor point of criticism I have with these kind of manga. Technologies don't exist in a vacuum without the support of other technologies, and mangaka rarely make them believable because they don't understand that fact. Like the extraction of suger from turnips and the lack of compasses.

Ascension of a bookwork is one of the only series I can think of, that made the lack of certain technologies and it's introduction by the isekai protagonist believable. It has also much better story writing. Too bad the way the manga is being released is absolutely crap.

 

[lenovoaxioo]

True, and it sounds even less ancient if you consider that ancient Rome and Greece had piped water in homes, central heated bathhouses, democracy, consumerism with single use disposable clay amphoras and fast-food.
The only real reason for today's improved life expectancy is modern medicine.

That's also one mayor point of criticism I have with these kind of manga. Technologies don't exist in a vacuum without the support of other technologies, and mangaka rarely make them believable because they don't understand that fact. Like the extraction of suger from turnips and the lack of compasses.

Ascension of a bookwork is one of the only series I can think of, that made the lack of certain technologies and it's introduction by the isekai protagonist believable. It has also much better story writing. Too bad the way the manga is being released is absolutely crap.

I'm not even going to bother, just whose idea to split the manga into multiple separate parts instead just one continous volume. It's such a idea. Last time i see a series doing it like that is re-zero. . . and maybe that is exactly why it's manga pretty much just a side note