@jessiej While it makes total sense in context, it's very umm… dumb?
Like you said, I kinda doubt the author really thought this thru, much like the racism plot-line.
The manga really likes to jump around, lmao.
The translations are "meh", but they're good enough to understand what's going on in most cases… it just doesn't help how so far the manga is 60% abrupt flashback, jumping all over the place.
The web novel was waaay less scatterbrain, but I think...
Ya know, I'd expect her to throw in this saint's face how it's her side's fault those people died, given their interference meant their earlier nigh-guaranteed win was a loss.
But for some reason nobody's pointed that out after the initial loss.
Holy fuck is the author dumb. I would have just rolled my eyes if the MC continued with his edge-spree, but the author apparently wanted to have his cake and eat it too, and gave this nonsense "conflict" to the MC. Kills all these low-level mooks, but totally OK leaving the most evil one go.
@Rukja The ugly elf's ability makes it so others can't attack or defend. The Knight character however can kill "Dark" monsters, regardless of attack/defense, and because the Knight attacked that elf first, thinking it was an Orc, it undid the immunity the others had.
@WhoCares Pretty much, yeah. It's fairly common among manga for men being raped to be played for laughs.
See: One-Punch Man's "Puri Puri Prisoner", who is a walking gay panic stereotype, with his implied sexual assault on prisoners being seen as something hilarious.
The mother is going crazy? Not exactly unexpected… she was basically pushed into a corner by the MC and left to simmer, so not a surprise she's going about trying to do something desperate.
Not sure what she's planning, given LN/manga authors tend to be rather nonsensical with their political...
Hrmm… many of the changes between the Light Novel and manga are pretty dumb, and don't really fit Sansui's character… If things happened the way they were right now in the manga, Light Novel Sansui would have already killed the girl.
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He hasn't really done anything I'd accuse him of being low intelligence for.
He's kinda "dumb" in the clumsy or awkward sort of way that just doesn't "get" normal human interactions.
You just seem frustrated because the MC isn't doing what you specifically want him to do.
@feha Looks like the translator split the chapter up for no reason, but looking at the raws, we're not even half-way caught up to the Japanese release (29 chapters, and ongoing), and it does not look like the original chapter was split up.
@Darketower I dunno. At least she has a character, and keeps the story from being "MC and his bland dolls", given the other girls are so meek and bland that they hardly count as characters, and are just items the MC carries around to pass as a harem. The moment Mareena gets "integrated" into the...
Maybe it's not as sharp as can be, because in 99% of situations a sword doesn't need to be as sharp as possible, and the only reason Katanas required special technique to make is to make up for the shit-quality iron used to make then?
I mean, you guys are acting like Japan is weird for treating this so casually, but it's fairly common in the west for a story involving a female teacher having sex with her underaged students to get a reaction like "Nice", or "He's lucky", or some such nonsense (there's even a South Park episode...