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Didn't most Socialist Republics have laws specifically forbidding inherited government positions? I know Russia did — that's why they ended up with Stalin, Lenin's son was forbidden to be a politician.

Sort of a violent version of Mushishi, huh?

Note to translators: the language of the letter is spelled "Ogham" in latin characters, not "Ogum". It's an ancient language from the British Isles.

Yes! For once a main character in a comedy makes chocolates and there isn't a joke about how they screwed it up and the final products are horrible!

I always wondered — it's hinted that Bolt is not just immortal, but that the story universe is just one of a nested series of them that he has created and then entered, so that he's potentially not just immortal but older than the universe (which, if it has progressed far enough to have planets...

Society: Everyone has a true soul mate, and a relationship with anybody else just won't work. Also Society: If you haven't had a relationship while you're a teenager, or at least in your early 20s, there's something wrong with you.

@phil777: meh. If you've ever read the original story this is based on, the thing that's so insanity producing is really quite tame:

Fairly sure most bottled ink is toxic, and cats lick themselves clean...

Ooo, for once the "I'm in a game" setup actually acts like a game, and glitches when things don't go "right"! I like it!

Yay! It's back! Thanks, OHpress scanlations!

@Acolytus: well, really, the whole point of this plot arc is Jokes aside:

@th30wl: yes, but when it comes time for the next generation to take over the throne, or further generations down the line, how do you decide who gets it? Wars over succession were common, but not that common. And no, the answer wasn't always "the eldest surviving legitimate son takes the...

Incidentally: "magic" mirrors are a thing in Japanese culture, and I think a couple of other cultures as well. Certain metal alloys have a property that if they are heated to the point of softening, and then struck, the surface which is struck will instantly harden. So if you make a plate of...

I want there to be a revelation at the end that there actually is a dwarf (or something like that, you know — a fairy or a gnome or something) which lives hidden in her bedroom and steals things.

Aaaand once again a series whose mere existence proves that late-stage capitalism is a hellscape. If it weren't we would not understand the joke.

@UncleBenny -- the company would suddenly transubstantiate directly to Nirvana, leaving a hole in the ground where the foundation used to be.

Wow, it' the return of the alternate-universe MC who actually finds corpses disturbing.

Ah, body-slamming somebody who orders the wrong thing and then blames it on the staff — one of the dreams of every retail and food services worker.

@Tikibo: You're surprised? Anti-abortion people are always pretty clueless about the whole thing. (Deliberately — in the modern era, until the 1960s, the anti-abortion movement was an extremely fringe issue that very few people got really excited about. There are actual records existing of the...

Not "dissolve" the chocolate, "melt" it. You break the chocolate into chunks in a bowl, then put that bowl into a larger bowl filled with hot water, and the heat is communicated to the chocolate to melt it without any danger of burning it, so that you can then put it into a mold and/or beat...