@henman I wasn't commenting just for the sake of venting something political. I thought I had something to say that people reading the prior conversation might have been interested in. You're right that 7 months is a bit long, which is why I didn't ping anyone. My comment was meant for people...
@Yuu_Jin
A couple minutes of looking around seems to indicate that "necto-" is from Latin and means "bind", whereas "-penthes" is from Ancient Greek and means "grief", so "grief-binder"? There's apparently a genus of carnivorous plant called Nepenthes though, so that may be related as well.
@mxtt10589
I know it's been quite a while, but mangadex is missing a bunch of chapters in those parts of the story. Is it possible you missed them? I definitely recommend checking them out on another site if so.
The original comment seems to have been deleted or something so I'm not precisely sure what the original question was, but I wanted to add that there's a very significant political movement in Japan favoring historical revisionism to paint history in a light more favorable to the Japanese state...
@So-chan
Some people in the west aren't aware of this, but "Jap" is a derogatory term that is widely considered to be an outright ethnic slur. I have relatives who grew up during the period of intense racist propaganda that surrounded WW2, and they sometimes use the term as though completely...