@Helgi_Ingrem @Madcat6204 The soldiers are from a special black ops unit. Toriko figured this out by looking at their designation and unit markings and concluded that they aren't part of the regular US Forces Japan. Go reread the chapter. They and whoever sent them there knew about the Otherside already, so there won't be any explaining needed for the soldiers and their losses if they manage to come back.
@GrayBypasser The manga doesn't explain this very well and there are stuff lost in translation. If a signal is corrupted there would be distortion, static and the stuff. You may even get missing words and garbled ones. What the transmission was instead was "nonsense". That is, the words came out complete and fairly clear, but they don't make sense. It's kind of like listening to a rambling schizophrenic. The nature of the transmission made it clear to the listeners that it wasn't a signal problem.
Also, they weren't charging in blindly until the latest arc. Toriko was mapping out the entrances to the Otherworld and also trying to map out the Otherworld itself. This isn't too clear because we're seeing the events from the viewpoint of Sorawo, who wasn't in on the approach Kozakura and Toriko were taking. From her point of view they were just randomly exploring the Otherworld, but Toriko actually had very systematic knowledge of the Otherworld from her prior exploration with Satsuki. Kozakura wasn't ignoring other possibilities. She had already ruled them out because the research had been going on much longer than Sorawo (and we as the readers) understand. What seem to us like possibilities Kozakura had ignored are NEW findings that the original trio had no way of gaining access to because they lacked Sorawo's eye. We're finding out new things together with the current trio because Sorawo's eye is a mcguffin that allows these things to be seen.
Additionally, Sorawo is filling in blanks in their experience because, unlike them, she isn't a researcher preoccupied with gathering data. She's literally just trying to survive. This attitude makes her more attuned to the more menacing aspects of the encounters that Toriko had already become immunized to. Sorawo has a persecution complex that the other two girls don't share. She actually believes the world is out to get her. This is a bad outlook when you're a researcher and both Toriko and Kozakura realize this. They are acting properly as scientists by following the mediocrity principle that all scientists follow. The problem is that the Otherside IS literally a world that's actually out to get you, and that's why Sorawo with her persecution complex manages to catch this fact that the more objective girls can't. Her paranoia is actually spot on in this special case.
Finally, Kozakura is also correct in that Sorawo's action in attacking the Satsuki impersonator is a reflection of her lack of empathy. While she is proven to be correct, the problem Kozakura has isn't about her aggressiveness but about her not caring if she's wrong.
@GrayBypasser The manga doesn't explain this very well and there are stuff lost in translation. If a signal is corrupted there would be distortion, static and the stuff. You may even get missing words and garbled ones. What the transmission was instead was "nonsense". That is, the words came out complete and fairly clear, but they don't make sense. It's kind of like listening to a rambling schizophrenic. The nature of the transmission made it clear to the listeners that it wasn't a signal problem.
Also, they weren't charging in blindly until the latest arc. Toriko was mapping out the entrances to the Otherworld and also trying to map out the Otherworld itself. This isn't too clear because we're seeing the events from the viewpoint of Sorawo, who wasn't in on the approach Kozakura and Toriko were taking. From her point of view they were just randomly exploring the Otherworld, but Toriko actually had very systematic knowledge of the Otherworld from her prior exploration with Satsuki. Kozakura wasn't ignoring other possibilities. She had already ruled them out because the research had been going on much longer than Sorawo (and we as the readers) understand. What seem to us like possibilities Kozakura had ignored are NEW findings that the original trio had no way of gaining access to because they lacked Sorawo's eye. We're finding out new things together with the current trio because Sorawo's eye is a mcguffin that allows these things to be seen.
Additionally, Sorawo is filling in blanks in their experience because, unlike them, she isn't a researcher preoccupied with gathering data. She's literally just trying to survive. This attitude makes her more attuned to the more menacing aspects of the encounters that Toriko had already become immunized to. Sorawo has a persecution complex that the other two girls don't share. She actually believes the world is out to get her. This is a bad outlook when you're a researcher and both Toriko and Kozakura realize this. They are acting properly as scientists by following the mediocrity principle that all scientists follow. The problem is that the Otherside IS literally a world that's actually out to get you, and that's why Sorawo with her persecution complex manages to catch this fact that the more objective girls can't. Her paranoia is actually spot on in this special case.
Finally, Kozakura is also correct in that Sorawo's action in attacking the Satsuki impersonator is a reflection of her lack of empathy. While she is proven to be correct, the problem Kozakura has isn't about her aggressiveness but about her not caring if she's wrong.
