I thought Shiro was a girl and that she was supposed to be Kuro’s love interest It wasn’t until he offered him his daughter that I realised it was a guy haha
Though I did wonder about Shiro’s increasingly masculine face as ‘she’ was growing up lol
I feel like the primary tension driving this chapter never really gets addressed by its end…
Hah, same here, though I started to twig at the “increasingly masculine face” bit. Realised on re-consulting the start of the chapter that he was introduced as 大陸から来た少年, which might have been a bit of a clue…
Yeah, it’s Yumi and Hajime from the Joumon period all over again. So much tension, and then…time skip, everyone is dead. I know the characters and their conflicts are just there to highlight the historical developments, but it’s still getting frustrating to never get a proper resolution.
Yeah based on the first page of the chapter (and the precedent set by chapter 1) I assumed it would be a boy/girl story again so I paid extra attention when the character was introduced. Especially since I regularly struggle to identify the gender of people in manga… If they don’t have facial hair it’s a coin flip basically.
I’m mildly amused by the fact that when クロ goes to the dark side he doesn’t just get desensitized to violence towards other humans, but also turns into a total megalomaniac. That doesn’t seem like a particularly realistic character development to me, but reading him as an allegory for how the culture developed (or rather, is believed to have developed) it kind of makes sense.
I kind of thought シロ was going to represent another aspect of culture in that time (like a group that were pacifists) but then … nothing happened.
Oh well! Next chapter has 卑弥呼! So I’m really excited about that.
Also, I miiiiiight be the proud new owner of 15 volumes of manga history. So keep your eyes peeled for an offshoot poll if you’re interested in that kind of thing.
Idk, there was a time skip of at least two decades at some point, and people can just change a lot in that amount of time. Especially as people started to treat Kuro like their leader more and more, I don’t think it’s unrealistic for something like that to go to someone’s head.. But the rapid changes to society were probably a condensed version of something that happened over several generations.
I thought he might represent some sort of scientific advancement, because he kept talking about studying the stars. But nothing came of that, either. I also felt a little sad that Kuro’s daughter got introduced and then dropped two pages later. Guess she was forced to become the child bride of one of his toxically masculine retainers.
My secret is I have a lot of downtime at my job so I might as well just google random stuff I also enjoyed reading Around the World in 80 Days and googling every place that they went to, where it is on the map, and looking at pictures.
It wasn’t until he offered him his daughter that I realised it was a guy haha
I also enjoyed reading Around the World in 80 Days and googling every place that they went to, where it is on the map, and looking at pictures.
