On page 12, when she references the "master tactician", the author is most likely referencing Fire Emblem. Some of the games have a tactician class, and their robes look just like the MC's.
Every chapter of this manga makes me double-check and make sure I didn't start reading somewhere in the middle by accident. Everything about it feels like a sequel or spinoff of another manga.
Thanks for the tl, I think you've made as much sense of it as can be. This manga is truly a masterpiece of the "gruesome spectacle" genre, were you almost don't want to read but it's impossible to look away.
I was going to make a joke along the lines of "Thank you for reminding me about this,"...
You should be getting heavier, regardless of fat/muscle ratio, until you're 20(give or take).
I don't think I've ever seen a manga acknowledge the fact that teens grow. It usually just happens as sudden changes to their character design when they go up a grade, there's never a mid year growth...
@alacaelum That's a really good point. If they reigned it in a bit and devoted some panels to showing some actual preparation or planning it would feel a lot less like a negative trope, but authors tend to just skip to when the character's plans all succeed and they expect us to just accept it.
@Reguret
I just realized I've been getting this all wrong, from the beginning. The issue isn't the rifle, the issue is how the artist drew the backpack.
In the LN, if the author says "Toriko disassembles the rifle and puts it in her backpack", the reader would just imagine a sufficiently large...