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I miss the oddball elf.
He doesn't. Eating the food and the general atmosphere dug up faint recollections of a life long gone. He only has ghosts of a memory, like a faded photo so weathered by time that it's been discolored and the faces can't be seen. He also literally said that eating the food stirred faint and dim recollectionsdudes like 200 years old how does he remember Japanese things.
You must be bottling up down there, just find something with 'orc' tag and treat yourselfThis is gonna sound weird but that Shungo picture of that Oni boning that woman was hot as fuck. I dont know why.
Bro has that Kyoshi in him.He's probably closer to 200 years at this point, if not older 🫡
Also did MC just casually suggest to cleave the whole ass island in 2 😶
That's mostly because it's hard to make up entirely new maps and cultures. so most authors just base it on some period on earth and move the map around a little bit.I think it's a bit...odd that he isn't more shocked at JUST HOW CAPITAL J JAPANESE this other world's culture is. I guess everywhere else can be pretty fuckin european, though...and he WAS just in...China...
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Hey, are we sure he isn't on a hyper-far-future Earth or something? Because a vague mental map of these areas and the cultures within match up pretty directly to Earth.
Most of the time we just get the "X years later" snippets, but as of his arrival at Balm (Chapter 25) we know he was 209 years old.He's probably closer to 200 years at this point, if not older 🫡
Also did MC just casually suggest to cleave the whole ass island in 2 😶
Aww man if only there was an easy way for folks to read that contentI must say that the manga adaptation is doing quite a good job following the novel, but as a novel reader myself, I'm quite saddened that they didn't adapt the extra parts (excerpts and side stories) which include continuations of past stories that some of you guys might want to know.
Not cutting the country into two because of the possible tidal wave from the process…
Should have learnt from Bugs Bunny and used a saw instead to cut the territory. (Not as old as our MC, but yes this makes me feel old)
It’s funny how people keep going “I DON’T WANT TO SEE POLITICS IN MY MANGA” when like half of manga is based on Japanese political historyI think the parallels to Japan are interesting. Outo is obviously supposed to be a parallel to Kyoto. The island being split between civilization in the South and hairy barbarians to the North was a real thing in Japanese history. The Japanese - Yamato Japanese, that is - conglomerated in the South of Japan with Kyoto - Heian-Kyo - being relatively far North to the major population centers of the time. In the North, there were the Emishi, a race of notably hairy Asians that even the Chinese were weirded out by (the Japanese sent some Emishi slaves to China as a gift).
Long story short, the Yamato Japanese essentially wiped out the Emishi, unifying Honshu and then spent a millennium working on conquering the Ainu in Hokkaido. The guy who finally conquered the Emishi became the first Shogun of Japan. The title, Sei'i Taishogun would be shortened to Shogun and wielded as a title by Minamoto no Yoritomo who became the real leader of Japan after winning the samurai civil war.
What's great is that his race is already a god-like figure. We were reminded of that just last arc with the calamity dragon. Other immortals treated him with high respect and there was literally a prophecy that it's his (someone from his race) job to basically start ragnarok. Most humans just don't know about the higher order of beings at all or even the very mythology/religion like creation stories surrounding them. The humans really can't even tell Aesir apart from a normal Elf. On the other hand, The reverence the elves showed him already basically was like worshipping a God. Actually think about how insane it was for Irena. Like imagine if an Olympian descended from mount Olympus and on their FIRST DAY meeting you tried to give you a golden apple or some ambrosia. 🤣🤣🤣I think he is finally becoming aware of what he truly is and why is kin usually isolate from the world. Starts to really put things into perspective, when you recall the reverence the elves gave him upon first meeting.
He truly is essentially a demigod of legends walking the world. Wouldn't be surprised, if his exploits eventually inspire a bunch of stories and myths like Beowulf or Gilgamesh. Wouldn't even be surprised, if at some point in the distant future, he'd be worshipped as a god.
Well yikes that got dark. Not that most of the world isn't equally awful looking back historically, but still. Can't help but for bad for the people that were enslaved and eventually genocided. Presumably just for being hairy (I mean I really hope that wasn't just the reason but again world history shows a similar track record of massively mistreating entire people's for their appearance).I think the parallels to Japan are interesting. Outo is obviously supposed to be a parallel to Kyoto. The island being split between civilization in the South and hairy barbarians to the North was a real thing in Japanese history. The Japanese - Yamato Japanese, that is - conglomerated in the South of Japan with Kyoto - Heian-Kyo - being relatively far North to the major population centers of the time. In the North, there were the Emishi, a race of notably hairy Asians that even the Chinese were weirded out by (the Japanese sent some Emishi slaves to China as a gift).
Long story short, the Yamato Japanese essentially wiped out the Emishi, unifying Honshu and then spent a millennium working on conquering the Ainu in Hokkaido. The guy who finally conquered the Emishi became the first Shogun of Japan. The title, Sei'i Taishogun would be shortened to Shogun and wielded as a title by Minamoto no Yoritomo who became the real leader of Japan after winning the samurai civil war.
Probably because language came from a single source: the Creator. If people developed on their own, it would undoubtedly result in multiple languages. But if they were taught, then everyone would speak the same.I just realized in all this traveling, language barrier has never been a problem.
In the latest translated volume, it turned out that the ragnarokOther immortals treated him with high respect and there was literally a prophecy that it's his (someone from his race) job to basically start ragnarok.
It's not necessarily BECAUSE the Japanese hated hairy people but because the hairy people were different. The Japanese didn't necessarily kill all of the Emishi. To this day, people in northern Japan have a higher rate of growing beards and moustaches because of Emishi blood flowing through their veins. Normally, Asians have a hard time growing full beards, the Japanese included, but in northern Japan it's rather common.Well yikes that got dark. Not that most of the world isn't equally awful looking back historically, but still. Can't help but for bad for the people that were enslaved and eventually genocided. Presumably just for being hairy (I mean I really hope that wasn't just the reason but again world history shows a similar track record of massively mistreating entire people's for their appearance).
Fair. It's just-you have to ask these things. It's the most obvious subversion of Isekai I can think of-that you never left Earth, Earth just left you behind.That's mostly because it's hard to make up entirely new maps and cultures. so most authors just base it on some period on earth and move the map around a little bit.
I don't think that's quite the apt comparison. Humans and Neanderthals coexisted for many thousands of years. It's closer to normal evolution than genocide. We don't even know how much they fought, or if they just avoided each other most of the time.Essentially, it was a genocide, but it was a genocide in the same way humans genocided the Neanderthals. Europeans and Asians have between 2 and 5% Neanderthal DNA because we bred them out of existence.