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A remark on the washerwomen's words to Eucles about washing the clothes in his piss: it was common in Roman times to wash clothes in diluted urine (the first of several stages of the cleaning process). There'd be places near laudries where passersby could relieve themselves, and the urine...

@Thelele I'm pretty sure it's intended as a paraphrase referring to the passage on earthquakes in the 2nd book of Pliny's Natural History: "Fiunt simul cum terrae motu et inundationes maris, eodem videlicet spiritu infusi aut terrae sidentis sinu recepti."

All later Roman historiography is written from the point of view that Nero was a BAD, BAD MAN, AND WE MEAN REALLY BAD. The obvious reason for this is that later historians were writing during later dynasties which had supplanted the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and their legitimacy was, to a certain...

As an historian and a classicist, this manga is quite interesting reading.

@amplified Yes, but no. For counting on fingers of one hand, Japanese people fold the fingers starting with the thumb, to count from 1 to 5. Then, from 6-10, they unfold the fingers, in reverse order. Since three fingers are extended, the count is 5+3 = 8. Here's a link to a PDF by a Japanese...

Google Translate is not a substitute for actually being able to understand Japanese. This "translation" is awful.

Page 6: Titania says she is on her seventh husband -- but her finger position marks a count of eight. Did the mangaka make a mistake, or did the translator?

@Syapaaye and @Nanaten have already alluded to the joke, but I thought it best to explain it for anyone who didn't get it. Japanese custom at New Year is to give a gift of New Year's money, otoshidama (お年玉). But the final kanji in that phrase, 玉, can also mean "ball" or "bead" or "jewel" (or...

For future reference, JA is short for Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (農業協同組合, Nōgyō Kyōdō Kumiai). There are almost 700 of these regional co-ops, which grew out of food supply efforts during World War II. Today, JA functions as a farm lobby, which (among other things) pressures the Diet to...

This was good.

Let me note that I haven't read the story, so I have no idea what is going to happen -- but I'm willing to bet

A "grape tree"... 😏

A remark on the T/N on page 25: It is historical fact that poetry (pretty much anywhere poetry is found ) was originally meant to be sung, not recited. This is the case with the poetry of the ancient Mediterranean world as well. A holdover from this tradition is the use of "song" to mean...

"Wanton" noodles, eh? 😁

Goddammit, I love Urasawa. Amazing storyteller.

Page 3, common translation mistake: while it is true that oboeru does literally mean "to remember, to memorise", it is commonly used to mean "to learn". That is the sense that Earth is using here: "... and you already learned them. You must have trained hard."

@Solemmaru : No, there was no question that he loved Yumi, and no indication that he was ever in love with Yoshizawa. But he was caught up in his imagination. He wanted to create a fantasy of love in the film, and this desire was overturned when he fell in love with Yumi. His entire life...

269 days since the virus outbreak, and they've managed to build a containment wall? Never mind the fact that the writer of this story has no clue about physics, they clearly have no clue about how engineering projects work.

Well, this looks promising.

Yeah, I saw that development coming. If ever there was a more clearly-telegraphed case of Chekhov's Gun...