Hehe, that reminded me of way back when the word "midget" was still being used casually for little people, but before they came up with the consensus that they liked term "little people", some were thinking "dwarf" might be good.

A comedian named I think Ralphie May, (He would be a complete dickhole by today's standards but people used to just be way more impolite/inconsiderate in general, and this bit was from those times)

He said the word "dwarf" wasn't right because they didn't carry battle axes 😆 "No axe, no dwarf. Sorry. I don't make the rules". I hope he adapted and changed with the times. He didn't seem hateful himself, but more like he wasn't taking other people's hatred seriously enough.

I really respect people who try to be funny without using dark or edgy material as a crutch.

Yeah, I'm usually the one to try and find other solutions even if someone's scummy, but the second they took out cameras, nah. At this point it'd be irresponsible to NOT get violent.

If those guys will do this in the middle of the day in a crowded place, they're certainly not gonna behave themselves when they're alone with one girl somewhere private.

They need to be straightened out before they get that opportunity. And ideally by girls. If they think a guy coming to the rescue is all they need to worry about, it'll just make them more careful. They'll still be bold

I wouldn't consider that much of a defeat. A fight is much more complex than just pushing on something. More of a psychological aspect to it. Itachi's cool head combined with tenacity is what makes her powerful. You don't often see those things in the same person.

Lacking either of those qualities is costly in any dangerous situation, but even if a person is the opposite (unstable/timid) they can still have strong muscles. I think shark onee-san would be way more competent in fighting than anything else.

Oh god, that would be the perfect solution! Once they knew how much of a disaster they'd be walking into, they probably wouldn't escalate the situation.

Whole issue could be buried without anyone getting hurt.

Everyone's calling out the lack of information and the implausibility of the situation even though it's daytime right now and it was night at the end of the last chapter.

Have any of y'all been told a story before?? Things that the viewer/reader sees are not always shown in real time, and we don't always see every little thing that happens.

Things are not always explained to us upfront completely devoid of ambiguity and kept up to date down to the second. Sometimes things aren't meant to be fully understood at the time they happen, and things that were mysterious are revealed later on.

It's really not all that unusual of a thing to do. Some of the most well known stories have utilized this to great effect. Has anyone seen Star Wars? Harry Potter? Lord of the Rings? This is basic stuff.

Now if it were the last chapter of the manga, loose ends were not tied up, and nothing alluded to any future continuation of the story, that's when we have a problem.

To anyone who adores that humor as much as I do where you liken real things to aspects of MMORPGs, there'sxa subreddit for it. r/outside

Omg those executive people are such pieces of shit 🤮

No wonder so many people kill themselves in Japan. I know this is fiction but authors draw from real experiences.

Personally I'm pretty sure he likes girls. As far as I know, this has never been included in the story as a conscious thought of his, but it's probably there under the surface if he's smart.

As a guy myself, if I wanted a career in women's fashion I would be very paranoid about potentially doing anything that could be interpreted as perverted. I might be too afraid to even flirt, at least until I'm out of school.

Famous people REALLY need to watch their step nowadays, because old stuff they did that was shady can fuck up their fame. It's one thing when it happens with someone who's already well established, because they can cut their losses and just step out of the limelight. Won't be respected anymore but they're still rich

Like the rapper drake's reputation is probably cooked at this point, and I think that's what he's gonna do. I've heard he's got his houses up for sale, so he'll probably just go to another country where he won't be recognized.

If even the most mild version of that type of thing happened to Saotome while he's still in school, he probably wouldn't recover. There's just too much attention on him. We all know the guy's nothing like that, but remember, accusations don't have to be true.

And he has already had fingers pointed at him many times. When someone gets accused there may be people who don't believe it, but that doesn't mean they're gonna stand up for them. It's very risky.

I forgot what a scimitar's defining qualities are. Or maybe I never knew 🤔

I think I remember the ones I've seen called that in video games all have curved blades but idk if that's a requirement

What the heck?? The orc seems like he's super loyal, but he lets the guy walk right past him? It'd be one thing if Siris jumped on him first and Rifen got past him while he was fighting her, that would just be getting outdone, but he let it happen 🤔

I have a guess, but I don't really appreciate it when other people make predictions in comment sections. I know it's fun to brainstorm and speculate, but if they guess correctly, that's still a spoiler.

How did you get negative 974 points?? It seems like we should have to cause some kinda trouble to get like that, but you're not being mean 🤔 You're being helpful

Ahhh yeah m8, "First They Came." 🤌

That's some of the healthiest shit ever written. I've been corresponding stuff in other languages across a lot of cultures too.

Tyranny 101. Easiest targets first. Whoever's so unpopular that everyone's afraid to get roped in with them. When even the sympathizers won't step into the light. Most of the other people you're eventually also gonna kill will be glad to see them die. It'll earn you supporters and keep you in power.

To clear up a common misconception, sympathizers are not allies or supporters. It doesn't mean they agree or approve or forgive. They just have the humanity to know that it's tragedy itself that should be more upsetting than anything.

Once they're wiped out, next most unpopular group, and so on. Eventually even some of your own supporters will start thinking "This isn't really where I thought we headed at the beginning. Those first few groups were dangerous, and the next few were shady, but at this point we're killing people just for being weird."

But by the time they figure out it was never about protection, and pure hatred from the start everyone's seen enough to know it's too late. Your targets don't have the numbers to fight back, and all your supporters think they're the only one who's not a zealot anymore.

They're all too afraid of each other to say anything, so their only practical option is to blend in and carry on. Killing people who don't deserve it will tear them up inside, but they know if they don't, they and their loved ones will die instead.

The ethical thing to do would to turn on the tyrant anyway, but ask a dead person if being righteous helps them sleep at night. That silence is your answer. .

The butterfly effect is a BFD. "First They Came" is probably doing as much good as religion does harm.

Yup, that's the protocol when someone's ahead of their time. Not necessarily insane anymore, because at least in my country some people have started embracing words like insane and crazy. But it's always some form of instability. Always considered to be something wrong with them.

So true. The training camp thing made me so happy, because iirc we hadn't seen her since the time Nagatoro was sick even though he had visited more.

I was starting to think she was gonna be one of those likeable characters you just inexplicably never see again even though the plot is set up in a way that there's no reason you wouldn't.

It would've been surprisingly negligent for such a good manga, because it doesn't take much effort to avoid. I've noticed manga/anime fans tend to be impressively chill about plausibility, compared to other forms of media.

People who are more into films tend to be so critical it makes me wanna slap 'em and be like "Just be entertained, ya miserable dick!"

Anime/manga stories can be set in a 1st world country in a two story house with only 2 school age siblings in it. All the author's gotta do is say the parent(s) work overseas and we're like "Okay, so they're not important. Moving on 🤙"

🤦Obviously it's a little bit darker than three shadowing an little more pale than five shadowing.

Pick up a book once in awhile 🙄

Sooo like, unpopular opinion... Presumably... 🤔

Does anyone else think boobs look better without nipples?

Like yeah, I get that from a strictly scientific standpoint that's absurd, since our inherent idea of conventional beauty is derived entirely from likelihood of survival, and they would have no function without the nipple.

I just mean aesthetically I've never liked nipples all that much.

You're welcome! It's what I do 🙂🤝

Crying is no bueno. Well not unless you're Aqua from Konosuba. She's the only one who can cry without making me wanna throw hands.

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Jeeze, even with such pure intentions, still such shady execution. Now I see why An and Ryo don't play by the rules a lot of the time. I wouldn't either. I'd struggle to maintain a facade that I was even keeping them in mind.

I know they're saving people's lives, but erasing someone else's memories has already got this mess DEEP in "the ends justify the means" territory already. That's a very dangerous principle. Might wanna make the rest of your logic a little more orthodox if that's gonna be an aspect of it.

I know Japan's preoccupation with productivity is cancer, everyone deserves a second chance, and compassion is my cocaine, but dude if we're thinking about the whole society then we gotta weigh the numbers.

There's what, like 20 students in the class? All getting their memories of their formal education tampered with to potentially rehabilitate one person who's already had their chance? The butterfly effect is a BFD. They might be setting them on course to end up in Relife themselves.

I know the subjects are chosen carefully, that it's always a victim of circumstance, and that their failure is not their own, but the students are the same minus the failure. Whatever method they're using to tamper with memories better be pretty fucking precise.

Like it better just only be who the subject was, and not the information of their interactions. It's healthy for younger people to be in close proximity to those who've basically got spoiler alerts for their problems without feeling like they're being preached to, but if they lose the benefits they got from their influence then that kinda defeats the purpose, no?

Like if they're gonna be like "I can't imagine how I forgot who taught me this lesson that changed my life, but thank you. I'm better off." then that's kind of a grey area, because if they remember exactly what the subject said/did, the most harmful thing they could speculate would be some kinda guardian angel type thing. Falsely believing someone's watching their back to any extent might make them less cautious.

But if it's gonna be more like "Why do I remember feeling stressed out and lost, then suddenly so grateful and liberated, but nothing else right before or after? Who tf was that and what happened?" then dude, no. Their imagination could wander off to all sorts of bad places with that. They could suspect innocent people of bad stuff. They could potentially believe it was something supernatural and start fearing an imaginary pursuer. Yikes.

I'm not sure that was what it looked like. It was impolite but I don't think it was an insult. I think she was just presuming too much familiarity. Like the kind of thing where minority groups are comfortable using their slurs amongst themselves, and if an outsider's standing as an ally is strong enough, they can say it too. It's just established that there can't be any malice in it.

I don't think they've been properly introduced yet, but everyone knows Itachi is well known and well informed. And Makoto knows there's a lot of bad rumors floating around about herself, so it'd make sense to presume Itachi has heard it. She better apologize for it though. Might have flown if the mood was lighter at the time, but it was tense.

Maybe she was intending for it to be one of those pot/kettle things that are so absurdly blatant that you just know it had to be on purpose and was actually more like a fist bump than a smack in the face.

I do that when my fellow people of culture ask for sauce on questionable stuff. Like if a meme cites something taboo and puts 8 examples on it that are just screenies and someone's like "I need all the sauces. So I can lead a protest." I say "Well I'm not some degenerate freak, so I only recognize these two"

It's astounding how many anime/manga characters seem to be completely unfamiliar with anime/manga, even in the ones that are set in modern-day Japan 🤔

I wonder if that's some kinda plot hole preventing thingy, like how almost every zombie movie's actors never know what a zombie is.

I suspect that's because there'd be fewer problems to solve if they already knew, so less story to write. I love how that just keeps getting more funny the longer I live. Idk if there's a cap on it.

"The town's been overrun by some kinda crazy... Biting... Monster... Things!"

Zombies. They're zombies.

"I know this vulnerable person's chronic health condition is flaring up, but we can't go outside! Those things are still out there!"

They're called zombies! You're using a smartphone right now! It's gotta be at least, what, 2005?? Zombie movies are older than home TVs!

"I stabbed it through its fucking heart and it just kept coming!"

The parasite/virus/bacteria/curse/chemical/whatever tf causes it isn't in the heart! It's in the brain! I ain't seen this movie before, but it's always in the brain!