Well, think about it.

A drawing is nothing more than what it looks like. If I don't see a dick, there's no dick.

You could draw what looks like a cheeseburger and decide in your lore that canonically it's a painted turd.

I can only see it. I can't smell it or eat it, so why should I care about pathogens? I like cheeseburgers so I like the drawing. Nothing else factors in 🤷

Definitely 😳 Reona seems a little too chill and based to be Japanese, really I felt that way from the beginning. She goes straight for first name -chan within a minute of meeting someone.

That's my type of girl tbh but I know if I ever make it to Japan it's gonna be an adjustment because they don't like that, so I'm kinda surprised she's well liked.

I wonder if she's an immigrant. Iirc they showed her and Hanako training together in a flashback, but I can't remember how young they were in it.

Fr though, I snorted like a pig when I saw that. Nobody in this manga is anywhere near flat 🙄 Takae's probably a D at least 😆 I always misunderstood cup sizes until I met my wife even though I'd had other partners before but apparently tons of women are a higher size than they think.

My wife pointed out all this complaining about bras is warranted because it's a double standard, but it's kinda blown out of proportion becauae bras aren't the issue. If it hurts just to wear something, that means it's too small. My wife can sleep with a bra on, because it's big enough,

I'm guessing people wear sizes smaller than they should because they don't wanna be seen as dishonest when they say their cup size, because someone will call them out and be really mean about itl

We used to do SW together, so a lot of people have seen them and I remember someone being like, I almost wanna use the word "hostile" over this. I don't remember who it was, so a rando presumably, was like "That's not a fucking D. How tf are you gonna lie about that when you know I'm looking right at them and I see my own every day? I'm a D"

Iirc my wife said something like "Do you wear a bra for one work shift and already wanna cut it off with the jaws of life and throw it into a bonfire??? Okay then that means it's too small. I'm a D. You're an E or an F. There's 26 letters, not just 4." Oof 😵

It's also cute in its own weird way how on pages 2 and 4 that one crazy first year girl's default enthusiasm looks more like rage 😁

From the makers of Resting Bitch Face comes Resting Berserker Face 😄

Ehh, I'm not sure I'd wanna be much taller IRL since life is mostly mundane and I'm already bumping my head on cars and refrigerators when I'm not all that much above average.

In a fantasy world though, or even if I just lived a more dangerous lifestyle, hell yeah I'd wanna be ginormous 💪

Ehh, guns aren't easily accessible everywhere. That doesn't clash with the second part of your statement though.

And do remember not every violent situation is a fight to the death, and not everyone you fight is a complete scumbag. Usually someone's just being a dick, needs a reminder that they're not living in candyland, and if you don't do it, they're gonna think they're untouchable and be even more ruthless on the next person. And that next person might be a lot more vulnerable than you.

You can put your hand under someone's neck when you throw them so they don't hit the floor directly. You can twist someone's joint just enough to subdue them instead of breaking it. You can punch their liver instead of their jaw and it'll hurt like hell without stopping them from eating solid foods.

But you can't press a button and set your pistol to 10% velocity so it doesn't break skin. Granted it matters where you shoot them, but even if it's not a vital area it's still a wound. Plus gun crime sentences are pretty heavy unless you're a cop.

Oh yeah, as someone of average size I learned that REAL quick at the kung-fu school I went to. We were always supposed to partner up with someone we hadn't before whenever there was 2-person exercises. You got to fight lots of body types that way.

Well I'm not average anymore, I'm a bit bigger now but back then I was 150-160 lbs (68-72.5 kg). Got to spar with people significantly smaller and bigger, and I didn't notice any consistent correlation between size and speed.

Take that with a grain of salt though, I was only there for a year. Not really all that long compared to many, but I would estimate I had a few dozen sparring partners throughout. I think that'd be enough to notice consistency.

I don't react well when people think of sexy stuff like it's somehow dirty just by default, but I see this time it's not like that 😅 These are school students at an event that's open to the public and there's gonna be adults watching 🤦

Idgaf about morality but I give multiple fucks about safety and that'd be like a stalker recruitment seminar 🤔 If it was just about any other type of event it wouldn't be quite so bad, the creeps would have to ask questions to gather info.

They probably wouldn't get answers, and even if they did, they'd be recognized later, so even if someone was bad, they wouldn't wanna risk looking sus, so probably wouldn't ask. So no harm done. But in this case they'd know for sure what school they go to without even asking

Idk if it's the same in Japan (I hope it's not, because some schools really suck) but where I live you can't just enroll in any public school. Your mailing address determines which one you have to go to. The school districts are public info, so if someone knows your school they know your district, and your name will be in the yearbooks.

Even if whoever's calling the shots for these events is a bad person, they have a personal stake in it. Anything bad that happens to the students from their decisions will affect their reputation, so yeah even without compassion as a factor, this would be an awful decision.

So I'm glad there's not truth to it. We've always got the "stop committing sex crimes" option, which would be ideal for the dirty mind / clean hands pervs like myself since all the hot people wouldn't be so afraid to be hot.

But noooo, of course some assholes have always gotta be ruining good stuff by doing shit nobody else would do. The show's not wrong, it's the crimes that are wrong, but effectively that's not much of a difference, and it should be.

I just hope the people who get mad about events like this don't forget who the real enemies are. People wouldn't have to be so careful if nobody was committing the crimes.

Ohh, that'd be interesting 🤔 So assuming this is the same world, that makes me wonder if young Rein is there, if he's different in any way. If I was the MC I'd be glad to know the normal me is there too, unchanged, and is probably gonna walk my same path. And that I've already got his biggest threat out of his way. Makes me wonder how I'd decide to go about it helping the cause 🤔 I see a lot of potential here. Really exciting.

Sorry if I'm bugging you, but could I get more info on that? The theory sounds like it'd be fun to think about if I fully understood it.

When you said "very nearly", did you mean very early? I see the N and E are not close to each other on a qwerty keyboard so I was gonna rule out an error but there's other ways to type.

That would make sense since if he died early it'd mean more reincarnated people would have time to pass through. But also if you really did mean nearly, that'd make sense to me too. I don't see why his body would still be usable if he had died, because if his body's alive, why did his soul leave?

Maybe some extreme effect of this crazy training was effectively the same as death because it forced the soul to pass on, but the body was too sturdy to die even without a soul, so whichever soul got to it once it was empty could just stay. A body that's more hardy than any soul would be a neat plot thingy.

How many sit-ups before a fatality displaces my soul instead of destroys my body? 🤣

I'm not completely sure reincarnation is the right word for what's happened in this story, since I'm not sure the MC or Tesslon actually died in that first fight. I don't think they did. I think reincarnation has to involve death, and this looks more like just a time leap coinciding with a body swap.

😳 That's the most epic plot synopsis I've ever seen. I might know why it's so good... Or at least why I think it's so good...

Because I'm a half-assed author, a half-assed activist, a half-assed lucid dreamer, and a half-assed gish-playing dnd min/maxing geek. So if this story is even 5% as good as it sounds like it's gonna be, I'm gonna find a way to plagiarize it with IRL retcon. Skiddaddle skidoodle, your story's in my noodle 🤣

BT-dubs, the guy on the cover looks like the high school version of me made ten clones of himself and ate them all, so there's a the second clue. Now I just run the author's pen name through an anagram generator to look for any alias matches and I'll know if it's Asian me 😅

Omg Hishiro is such an adorable social derp, I love her so much 😍

Do the Japanese really use honorifics even in their inner monologues? 🤔

Idk how it's possible I wouldn't have noticed that before now if it was normal. I'm not sure why it seems weird to me, because when I'm thinking, I call everyone the same thing I do when I speak, but it does.

It's a little tough to relate to because there's no exact equivalent in the US. The closest thing I can think of would be titles like Mr or Mrs, and I include those when I think

As a former athlete I feel the same way. There's no way it's gonna be that frequent. I wouldn't make that call myself anyway. As long as the customers see it once, that's enough.

It takes some time to eat, so once it's crowded, between that and standing in line, everyone who visits will probably be close enough to see it for awhile. Unpaid all day, I'd be willing to do that once every half hour at most.

And I don't mean I'm sure I'd last all day. Only that I'd commit to it.

[TLDR: It's not a healthy relationship if you gotta act like your appetite has changed. Not saying break up, just saying growth is needed. That behavior is fake, and she's not different.]

If anyone orders the yappucinno 👇

The sooner people toss out that fairy tale bedtime story BS, the better their relationships are gonna be.
Your girlfriend is just as thirsty as you m8. She's looking around and thinking just as much. Everyone is. The only variable is the degree of honesty, because people say it's wrong but it's not.

Monogamy is bae imo. It's the only way for me. But that's not how humans were meant to live. Our brains are hardwired to do that same stupid alpha/beta shit that other animals do. It's only safe to go against your instincts if you understand what it's gonna entail. Monogamy is safe as long as you don't expect your monkey brain to stfu. It's not gonna.

Just because you want something doesn't mean you're gonna act on it. You're in a very scary world, so you can't afford to be afraid of your own thoughts too. Your mind needs to be your sanctuary. There's nowhere to fall back to if it gets overrun.

And I bet you're telling her she's the most beautiful person you've ever seen when she's not even in the top hundred. And I bet you don't like how it feels when you say it, and that you'd rather not, but she makes you feel like you have to. I bet you're not a liar in general, but insecure girls have conditioned you into doing it.

These society-wide charades are a lot more harmful than most people realize. It's scary how comfortable people can become with dishonesty even though all of them know all of them are doing it at the same time.

This is why so many couples fall apart. You're not gonna be able to trust someone during majorly serious problems if you know they're lying to your face about basic stuff every day like it's nothing.

I'm not flexing my healthy marriage, I'm trying to help others. Reputation is not a thing rn. Respect from randos I'm never gonna see again won't benefit me later. Bragging would be pointless 🙂

Yessss, people with troubled backgrounds looking happy is bliss 🤌
It's like a big fat line of compassion Coca-Cola
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Duuuuude, come tf on, what????? 😭
How you gonna spoil another ongoing manga in your scanlation just for a laugh?? 😭
The scanlation of that chapter only came out a few days ago 😭
You even said which chapter 😤

I happened to have seen it on time, and someone in that chapter's comment section spoiled 2 other mangas I'm planning to read 😔 I can only ever get so mad at a comment, since there's always a chance it's a little kid, but to see a scanlator do it... Y'all know better 🥺

Not everyone is reading everything they're planning to read at the exact same time as you 😔

I just noticed they wasted an opportunity for one of those lewd/flirty/awkward things where someone falls on top of someone else. I really like those.

There's probably a proper term for it. I once found some cool website with "trope" in its name that showed me like EVERY LITTLE THING that happens in lots of stories has a proper term. Like stuff that would take me a paragraph to describe, there's a way to say it in one or two words.

I guess apparently that's all basic knowledge between people who write stories for any type of media, but having not known practically any of it until I found the freaking encyclopedia of it as an adult, it was fascinating to me. Read it for hours.

This wasn't one of the most major examples, but honorifics really seem problematic sometimes. I don't think I'd like having my feelings toward someone be that obvious to everyone who hears me say their name. That should just be between that person and me

People really overthink it sometimes too, especially in situations where someone's interested in dating someone but they're not a couple. Like they'll hear someone use -chan or -kun with their crush and be like oh noooo!!!

I like most stuff I've learned about Japan but it seems like it makes more sense for everyone to call me the same name. I think even the "Mr./Mrs. (Last name)" thing in the US is kinda silly except when it helps with organization.

Like if it's a corporate or military setting there's so many people that there's probably many people with the same first name, and there's also a chain of command. But if someone is just my friend or girlfriend's parent and they don't have the same first name then it doesn't really make sense.

It just seems to imply there's some kinda hierarchy. That's only a thing in business and military. There's no social hierarchy.

"DISCLAIMER: NOT PROOFREAD" ???

How does that call get made???

Idk much about scanlation. There were six usernames mentioned. Does that mean six people collaborated on this, but none of them read it when they were done?

I'm never gonna complain about a free service, scanlation teams do God's work. I just don't like being ignorant and wanna understand. It seems like proofreading would be the most crucial step of the process, and the easiest step.

Translating seems like it'd be a lot more work than just reading the finished product to see if there's any spelling or grammatical errors. So skipping proofreading after all that seems like it undermines a lot of effort. Like cooking beef stew but then not putting it in the refrigerator.