Yes, as with almost every manga that goes over 50 chaps it most likely has a novel. It also has large amounts of world building if it doesn't want to be a shit story. How many people in the comments. Understand this? Not a lot

Hmmmmm

Its not like theres been world building happening or anything

Yet you read through it all without dropping it as if it's some big surprise?

You are aware that a large portion of readers who comment a complaint are just that right? Nobodies who seem to think their opinion changes anything. Malt

So the thing about different kinds of neckprotectors is the same as any Armour, but its inherently more dangerous to be hit there. Chain mail is meant for light slashing weapons, anything that carries more force can damage your through. This combined with chain mail being expensive as balls means that it was usually leather with maybe a few metal strips(plate mail or reinforced leather Armour essentially) or some kinda cloth thing that could cushion blows. If you had money then your going to want more protection and are likely a knight, who generally have solid plate mail peices fitted into their Armour for this purpose. Which due the nature of plate mail makes it weak at the sides(just in case you ever gotta fight one)
The reason why most manga have them is one:aesthetics as you pointed out, 2 : aneck gaird is a nice compromise between a half face mask and nothing to protect the face without a helmet, and E: IT IS STILL USED TO TODAY IN OCCUPATIONS THAT DEAL IN HIGHLY DANGEROUS ENVIROMENTS( fire fighters, cops, and bomb squads all use them because they been proven for hundreds of year to be affective
The reason why it's not more common is not everybody is a fucking nerd.

I think he's going to Terraform the earth. Some T.A Barron avalon world tree type shit

Yea, good if your already armored af but other wise lighter is generally better

All these old mfs

Interesting opinion

Fuck that cat. Fuckinhate that gif with every fiber of my being

Nah the first was perfection. None more was needed to improve it. Must learn balance

Indubitably my fine gentleman. As well as could be

Or someone who recognizes that it's unimportant

Yeah we do kinda go over how fucked up Japan essentially raping and pillaging korea and China was then in school. one thing USA does(as much as I can tell) is that it's fully OK with letting us no how badly everyone else has fucked up.

Yeah I attribute a lot of that stuff to just ignorance of the author. Not everyone has the ability nor the understand to be traveled without even leaving their home.

Alr so idk where you live or if you've ever been to US but its to my attention that decent amount of the rest of the world doesn't know that we are fucking massive. Each of our states could be considered a a country.
Usually we have east, middle, west, or we get divided into north middle south like compass points. this is generalization, there's a bit more finer details on how it's divided up into sections and which states are part of which sections. Sometimes states populations might be split new York and Brooklyn. I personally thought there would be three teams instead of only 2. The only other things that can rival us in size are China, Russia, and Canada, as well as sometimes Australia if we're being generous.
i am surprised however at the fact of China only having one team, as I assumed higher population means more people awakening but I guess not?

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Publicity. He's not trying to look like an. S class hunter capable of taking on a s class or higher dungeon. He's trying to look like a highly capable a class hunter, hence the partying

Do the explosions stack?