That panel is literally just staff credits, though? Same as all prior volume extras. The names shouldn‘t translate into anything relevant, I would think. I won’t discount the shape having a meaning, though, or the fact there are fireworks. Probably the most clear this manga is going to get, I figure, with that lead-in.
Shit, man, I’m twice that. I had my first time a little over a decade ago. To be honest, though, I’m kind of used to the loneliness, but I wouldn’t mind finding someone again, for sure.
I don’t remember much from that time???? Y’all don’t get distracted from the lewd things the questionnaire at the end of every omake has sooooo many hints to tsukasas past
The biggest one is the capital of antiquity this time, I think. I mean, I already suspected it before this volume, but I think this cinches that she was born in Nara. It’s why she was so melancholy during the visit to there. She remembered when it was a lively place over a thousand years ago. Memories of a childhood lost so long ago.
I don't know if this is a spoiler but better safe than sorry. Is no one going to point out the fact that she is peobably immortal and she practically admitted it? Throughout the entire story she constantly talks about the past with precise accuracy in a way almost like shes reminiscing about it. About how Nasa knows nothing about her past and how the moon rock helps her sleep (possibly also hinting SHE IS LADY KAGUYA.) In this chapter she practically admitted to immortality by saying "you can feel the immortality oozing out."
She isn’t her, though. She’s still just a normal human, just immortal. She was born in Nara, far as I can tell from the hometown question. All but admitted it, and explained why in the first part of this comment.
The moon rock has nothing to do with her physical well-being. Well, it might have something to do with the immortality elixir. The content I’ve seen so far hasn’t necessarily ruled out it being used for that. But Tsukasa isn’t a moon baby, so it doesn’t have any magical power for her. It’s just a fantastic souvenir representing a pinnacle of human achievement, and she’s someone that gets excited by what her species has achieved in her time alive. Far as I’m concerned, this isn’t really a spoiler, as the evidence should be clear at this stage, if all the clues are factored in.
Edit: to be clear, my current running theory is that the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter has significance to this story mainly as an event that actually happened in the past almost exactly as it was said to have, with the exception of the destruction of the immortality elixir, to explain Tsukasa’s unnaturally long life despite being an otherwise normal human. She was quite likely the child of one of the soldiers tasked with the elixir’s burning atop the mountain, and may well have been on her death bed in her 16th year (to explain why she is eternally 16) during the time when Kaguya-hime was leaving the Emperor, to explain why her father may have defied imperial order to steal the elixir and use it to save his beloved daughter.
Ya'll Horny asf back in the covid days huh? well, I know no-one will read this, are we gonna ignore the fact she is at least 1,600 years old by the capital question, 5,000+ at max
I did. And I didn’t think she was quite that old. I was more thinking closer to 1300, but I just know it’s over a thousand, at least, if it’s all but confirmed she was born and raised in Nara while it was the capital.
… but yeah, it really doesn’t need more.
