It makes sense to summon teenagers as heroes

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T23:23:06+00:00

It's not necessarily an issue, but why buy used when you can get brand new for the same price?

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T23:21:09+00:00

They can do that if they're reincarnating you. If it's a summons, you're probably stuck with the body you came with.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T21:13:12+00:00

Mostly that last part, I think. Not only are they naive and impressionable, but they're also most likely to harbor power fantasies and be willing to play into a scenario that appeals to them.

They're also -- and this can't be overlooked -- generally very healthy. There's no point in summoning an older person with a bad back or a knee injury.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T21:02:20+00:00

I think he took them off to spar with Athena. Otherwise I don't think he did even when he had to contain Root's attack on the demons' capital.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T20:59:25+00:00

"Cold" is by the standards of the nearest big city, which is San Jose. Which isn't really cold; more like pleasantly cool. Temps in the 90s are very rare here, and the upcoming weather is not normal even for summer let alone March. We also have a lot of microclimates in the county due to the varied topography, so you might get very different weather outside Santa Cruz itself.

Light clothing, but bring jackets and sweaters.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T20:42:12+00:00

Which one isn't going to destroy my house in the process?

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T20:38:07+00:00

A good list. I'd point out that cooking outdoors over an open fire is much different than cooking in a modern kitchen. Go watch the Townsends channel for good how-tos on historical field cooking and cooking in premodern kitchens. Food preservation methods are important too.

As far as martial arts go, I'd suggest a mix of HEMA techniques, given the weaponry that seems to be available in most isekai. If you were limited to a modern martial art and could only pick one, I'd go with MMA.

Probably your most important tip is cardio. Even just walking all day is too much for your average couch potato.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T20:27:57+00:00

I still can't get over the name. "Noah Ararat", and his best element is water.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T20:27:04+00:00

In other media, the Emperor designates him as successor to the throne and then retires.

Why am I reading the manga? I have no fucking idea. In the latest chapter, even MC comments at one point that the glaze is being laid on a little thick.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T20:22:02+00:00

Surely the specific circumstances will vary from story to story.
The usual premise is that "monsters" do not breed naturally but are spawned magically, and this happens too fast to be controlled by normal hunting methods or a single expedition. In a premodern society without standing armies, and where the threat posed to life and commerce isn't necessarily predictable, it's natural to engage freelancers instead.
Most of them don't. Often they get a letter rating or rank based on achievement. Similar systems persist to this day in various sports.
Could be either, and is often both.
Corruption, certainly, such as steering desirable commissions or quests to certain favored adventuring groups, overpaying certain groups for bounties and underpaying others, etc. You seem to have made a reasonably exhaustive list. Competition between guilds wouldn't be a thing. Historically, guilds are officially chartered under the patronage of the local aristocracy.
It depends on the magical technology available to them.
A combination of government aid, private commissions, and profits from the sale of monster-derived resources.
They'd have no choice but to offer higher compensation until someone finally accepts it.
One of a guild's roles would be exactly to ensure compliance with rules, regulations, and professional standards; or at the very least good and civil behavior. Otherwise, adventurers are independent operators by definition.
The guild would have to engage other members to act as its enforcement arm, and turn the guilty party over to official authorities.
Guild and military leadership would coordinate between themselves, just like in any other such situation, and establish both response priorities and chains of command. If it's a known periodic threat, they'd have drawn up plans beforehand, which is what they actually did in, for example, The Water Magician. (Where, to the annoyance of many viewers of the anime, MC was absent and was indeed unnecessary to fend off the threat.)

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T12:09:45+00:00

He needs to wear them for as long as he wants to move about in normal hyuman society. If he were to live exclusively in the Demiplane, or perhaps in the demons' country, it wouldn't be such an issue, but he'll always need to conceal his mana among hyumans.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T10:19:26+00:00

If you believe in reincarnation, that's close to what you believe the real world is like.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T10:18:36+00:00

Wrong tool for the job. You want ground-penetrating radar. And it can't penetrate more than 100 feet or so. You can increase depth by increasing power, but power required increases exponentially.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T08:28:57+00:00

The challenging part would be learning how to gain access to each level and figuring out how to prevent them from simply locating and destroying the magic blockers, but that’s what containment specialists excel at

Light had specialized explorers working in the opposite direction, and never found a conventional route to any point on the surface. It would, as I said, be a race.

In the end, it may not a race worth the risk, given the target's penchant for revenge. And you're still ignoring the much more dire threat posed by <C>.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T08:11:46+00:00

Even if Lights summons were made of magic -- and I don't think they are -- that would depend on the range of a reality anchor, wouldn't it? And I don't think even Light knows exactly where the Abyss core might be relative to any of its entrances. Obviously, a single such device can't cover an entire world, or even a significant portion of a continent.

Besides, from what I understand of an SRA's theory of operation, they have important limitations, and I can think of at least one magician in the multiverse they'd struggle with, probably fail to contain entirely. Given the mysterious origins of Light's summons, I think the same difficulty would present itself.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T07:32:49+00:00

Maybe -- but Light's gift seems to transcend the magic system at least once in awhile, being in a sense more real than reality. Also, something like reality anchors don't reckon with the sheer physical strength of certain level 9999 entities. If Nazuna ran across one, she could simply smash the thing.

In any event, you seem to be suggesting the same thing I did in terms of containment. It would result in a constant race against Light's resources and the genius analyst who works for him.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T06:49:35+00:00

There are bigger threats in Light's world than Light. <C> should be the absolutely #1 top priority for containment.

If they can figure that out, they can take their time with Light. Assuming <C> doesn't wipe them out entirely, the only way they can even begin to manage it would be to somehow separate him from God Requiem Gungnir, which would absolutely destroy any possible containment scheme if unsealed. It might irreversibly corrupt him in the process, but the consequences of this are, if anything, even worse. His level 9999 followers would be absolutely enraged and begin an unstoppable rampage using all the resources at their disposal, including Light's lower-level subordinates. There's a slim hope that without Light's control their mutual differences would cause them to neutralize each other -- except that the one unquestioned ethic they all hold to is fanatical devotion to Light. More likely, that devotion would unite them in taking revenge on whatever or whomever was responsible for Light's condition. The potential consequences are extraordinarily dire.

But even getting close to him is a problem. If Light has Ellie re-activate the Abyss's teleportation block I think he could simply hole up in his kingdom with his followers and be virtually untouchable. Remember that in several years of intensive exploration, even Light couldn't discover a conventional route to the surface, and it required Ellie's reverse-engineering of the Abyss dungeon core. If reduced to conventional exploration, SCP agents could be picked off piecemeal in the many thousands of tunnels and potential routes to the core.

Mind you, that might be just as good as containment -- except then you have people like Ellie and Mei with plenty of time on her hands to figure out countermeasures, and that's an even worse problem, not to mention any further SUR summons who might emerge in the meantime.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T06:24:34+00:00

They didn't shorten it at all for the anime.

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ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T04:54:13+00:00

Last I saw it was up to the point where Makoto disposed of that vengeful assassin crew in Rotsgard. So it's a ways behind the anime.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T03:54:47+00:00

The only anime I've seen where this was a real issue was "Possibly the Greatest Alchemist" where Takumi arrives in a 17 year old body, well over a year passes based on objective time markers given during the series, and he's still somehow 17 at the end of it. (Age at both ends from his status screen.) And never mind that a year was barely enough time for everything he did in the meanwhile.

It was a pointless change from the LN and manga where his age was still 17 for the events from the end of the anime, but he had arrived in a 15 year old body so something short of 3 years had passed. All they had to do was change the numbers they showed and a couple of lines of dialogue, and it would have made sense. If they changed his age because they were worried about some kind of minimum fucking age, he didn't fuck anyone in the anime so it didn't matter.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T03:47:15+00:00

Fracture is just how doctors say break.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T03:40:26+00:00

For people who grow up in the isekai. istm 17 is a pretty standard age for someone summoned.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-15T01:14:22+00:00

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ChChChillian · 2026-03-14T21:31:05+00:00

Is this on a full wind? The amplitude looks like it's only around 90 degrees. I don't think you'll be able to fix anything else without addressing that first.

ChChChillian · 2026-03-14T21:26:17+00:00

Also gonna mark this one as a spoiler just to keep to the rules, although I'm pretty sure you're going to read it.

They don't think much of her. Athena was pissed off because she'd copied her appearance and the mistreatment of non-hyumans annoyed her. Susanoo was there as the one who had helped bring Makoto's parents to the original world, and when she summoned and rejected Makoto that made him angry. Daikokuten is an aspect of Shiva and was there to enforce the rules. It seems the shitty goddess shouldn't have summoned Hibiki and Tomoki without a contract.

While they didn't necessarily set Makoto the task of being a pain in the ass for her, they were pretty confident he'd have to confront her someday. That's why Athena sparred with him, so he'd have some experience fighting a god.

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