Honestly laughed pretty hard at the monologue about how he always thought from his nickname he must be some great swordsman who can parry any attack... but then it's just a big paddle. This manga's pretty good at mundane little bits of humor like that.
@Rafaelrgm I mean if you think of any of the shitloads of randos who died during the exam as actual people it's pretty obvious everything and everyone in that setting is fucked from the first arc.
Clearly Thoth and Amelie need to be introduced so they can be best friends. Or destroy half the netherworld in the first demonic shipping war, whichever.
Also lol you guys are so dumb everyone knows Franz Kafka wrote Metamorphosis.
Not to be confused with Metamorphoses, written by Ovid.
lol the art in this is better, or at least cleaner, than the main manga tbh. Though Iruma's rough style is part of its charm. Writing is a lot more generic but Iruma has a fun setting so it should be decent.
I wonder if this is all true or Misurn is just a really good bullshitter... after all the elder races' knowledge is supposed to be secret, right? I guess maybe keeping secrets is just one of the desires he lacks, but. Could just be a convenient way to set things up.
I guess it's not really surprising that they aren't equivalent to Amelie but I kind of thought since they're supposed to be the two who are really good at fighting out of the first-years they'd manage to get a little more done that that.
But yeah, Sabnock is interesting in that he essentially...
@Leo80221 I mean there's some in-rank pecking order there either way. Either Opera is an 8 and picks on Kallego despite being the same rank, or Opera is a 9 that serves another 9 despite being of the same rank.
@reika while logistics stretches back to the earliest history of warfare (ancient Egypt fortifying all the wells and oases in the desert so invading armies would die of thirst, the Persians getting an unusually large army to Greece by marching on the coast where they could be supplied by a fleet...
Gotta agree normally I like stuff that makes the isekai hero kind of suck but this just isn't very interesting.
The 'bottomless expendable party member' concept is also ground that was thoroughly trod by Nodwick for something like 15 years, in the context of the thankless sacrifices early...
IMO one of the healthiest romances in shounen manga. That focus on their desire to support each other in their differing goals and see each other flourish isn't something you get a whole lot when romance in shounen tends toward shallow wish fulfillment stuff.
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I mean this whole setting feels very Disgaea to me. Probably the reason I like it so much even though I'm usually pretty picky about art and writing quality.
I read a lot of historical and pseudohistorical with period settings manga but this one really stands out as apart even from others of its genre. The art feels like a hybrid with European comic styles; the writing really is worthy of being compared to Catch-22 and looks at the absurdities of war...
Definitely my favorite zombie cannibal furry manga.
Though the technological milieu in this is weird / kind of incoherent. Maybe I misread something but it seems like they discovered gunpowder within living memory - which would certainly explain why you've got soldiers who look and fight like...
Even though I will be calling her the Kinkshamer General from now on Amelie's still my fave.
Also that axe kick, lol, what is that the Dragoon's Jump skill?