For what it’s worth, it’s only his party’s mage mentioning that the protective charm looked like how (the apparently somewhat rare) magic school-grads do them that led him to think of Laois’ party, since he knew Falin went there and he clocked Marcille as a longtime close friend of hers. So it’s at least the venn diagram of magic school + elf that led to the hunch. One does still get the impression he may have Laois on the mind a slightly disproportionate amount though.
(but yeah the geopolitics of the island are not the most interesting or well-developed aspect of the manga…)
Glad you asked, I had forgotten too AND forgotten to ask!
(we read volume 1 last year sept / oct / nov so I’m not too surprised that I didn’t remember though)
sure, but presumably the original magazine readers would have less difficulty parsing it than a community of second language learners… also reading things at magazine pace sucks anyway
Yeah I was just thinking the same thing, it’s a pretty deep pull. I assumed they were just stereotypical noob characters, I didn’t make the connection.
Hey, I was an original magazine reader for the last four volumes’ worth of chapters and I’m a second language learner!
For what it’s worth I’d personally say it does undeniably alter the pace, but not necessarily worsen it. Some series do suffer with a month or two between chapters, but others I think improve from the extra time spent with each chapter instead of just zipping through in volume chunks. With this series the suspense went a long way, and I’d probably take reading new chapter by chapter as they came out at least over reading new volume by volume as they came out (the start and stop of the latter is rough), though I’m definitely curious to reread that whole portion some day to see how it all plays not drawn out and knowing where it all goes.
There’s no reason to try to replicate that when there isn’t the fun element of getting to read something brand new each time though of course!
Also hasn’t it already been established that chilchak is in his thirties in a previous volume? Is senshi just being boneheaded as usual when he still treats him as a teenager?
Half-foots have a shorter lifespan than humans, so he may arguably be a little older than you thought. Dwarves living for much longer is partly why Senshi has a hard time grasping that Chilchuck is fully an adult despite being told his numerical age - but yeah it’s an established running gag at this point.
I was just a bit miffed about it because the BMI is already a very imprecise metric that really doesn’t mean much in the abstract when applied to humans (according to BMI metrics I’m nearly obese myself just because I go the the gym and I never had a super lean build to begin with) so seeing this brought up for fantasy races seems like an extremely strange concept to me.
At least they don’t list the blood types… That always creeps me out.
