The whole "I don't recognize you just because you're wearing a wig” schtick is so dopey.
But at least we're getting a tiny bit of progress on the overarching plot before this series ends.
@Darketower Except she wasn't actually trying to kill him at all. What was she thinking right before she attacked? She was hoping to find his training lacking so that she could get free room and board. She even referred to it as a spar. How would she have expected to get her lodging comped if...
It's not that complicated for people to establish an extremely basic vocabulary relatively quickly even when they start from drastically different languages. It's a key element of cultural exchange. How do you think Europeans and the Indigenous populations of the Americas learned to communicate...
Not that this wasn't darkly funny, because it totally was, but it's still pretty unethical for him to do this stuff before they fully realize what they're agreeing to experience. She clearly had no idea what was going to happen and still didn't even really understand as it was happening. Suppose...
Heck, even comments like mine talking about how long people have been doing "first" have been common for longer than most people reading this have been alive.
"First" is probably the most enduring online meme there is. (If you can even consider it a meme rather than a simple human instinct to mark any unblemished territory.)
It's been common practice - including the ironic commentary of those replying to "first" - for much longer than most people...
Justifying the persistence of yakuza dominance throughout various levels of Japanese society. But eff that noise. Organized crime doesn't keep society running. It's one of the major factors dragging society down, limiting its potential. Protection rackets are especially heinous, and they should...
Less than a lifetime ago, Japanese were effectively keeping people enslaved in Korea and Manchuria for both labor and sexual exploitation. With that in mind, it's not so surprising that their fiction is still semi-obsessed with servitude.