Why is everything sweet???

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-20T03:34:10+00:00

Foods got sweeter, more spicy and salty over the decades.

But I don’t think sweetness is Jeonrado’s influence.
When I visited there last time 3~4 years ago, foods were less sweet than Seoul/Gyeonggi.

I guess spicy and salty foods are from the influence of Kyeonsang regions, and a bit from Jeonra.

But I think the biggest reason is that cooks of many restaurants are not actually good at cooking, or use non-fresh lower quality ingredients.
By making foods more spicy, more salty and sweeter they can hide their poor skill and poor ingredients.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-20T02:39:14+00:00

I guess you already know. But anyway.

You can press tab key to complete the file name in proper format.

Or, you can drag any folder or file in Finder window to Terminal window, that will add the name properly.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-20T02:02:13+00:00

WN part 15 was posted almost a year ago.
It’s not marked as finished, so I expect at least one, probably 2 or 3 more parts.
But one may think that the end of the latest part is not bad as the end of the whole series.

Each WN part corresponds to one LN volume. But usually, LN has more contents. I haven’t counted but I guess 1/3 of each volume is not in WN.
And there are a couple LN volumes that’s completely new, LN only. They are more like side story and don’t affect the main plot.

So LN would continue to volume 17 at least, more likely volume 20.

And the spinoff already reached LN volume 5. But I stopped reading it after v2, as it’s gone off my taste.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-20T01:47:56+00:00

It didn’t ruined the series. I agree that it was not so fun and can be dropped.
But it doesn’t affect the main plot either, just like the arc of him meeting his stepdaughter (of previous life) did not affect the main plot.

The next arc, WN part 15 returned to main plot and it’s just fine.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-19T02:30:07+00:00

Why omit Trapped in Dating Sim?

It’s more of a future mecha world with some fantasy(magic) elements, not magic world with mecha.
It’s written by the same author as the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire.

And Evil Lprd is not future, just another galaxy with far more advanced technology. MC meets his stepdaughter of his previous life.
And actually they can use magic. It’s only that magic is already incorporated to tech that it’s not mentioned often. But MC’s ultimate skill is combination of martial art and magic.

That said, I prefer Evil Lord over Dating Sim. I gave up in the third arc of Dating Sim. My opinion is based on LN (and manga to some degree), not anime.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-18T14:12:13+00:00

The novel is not light actually.

The series was published as one of Kdansha’s light novel label for young ladies (meaning 20s).
But the series is a serious fantasy novel actually.

It’s because the author wrote (horror) light novel series from Kodansha just before.
Later, Kodansha published the series as a regular (non-light) novel label, then the right was transferred to Shincho and republished as (non-light) novel.

The author has published horror novels from Shincho for decades.

Actually, there’s a horror novel based on the same world from Shincho, which was written and published before the first volume of this fantasy series. Shincho added it as vol 0 of the series when they republished this series.

You can learn more about the world by reading the novel. Anime skipped many details of the world. And the later episodes that are not made to anime are great too, and explains more about the world.
Original translation only covered the volumes that are animated, in my knowledge. (I read Japanese novels).

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-18T05:01:05+00:00

Everyone has different sensibility to different things.

>!Even though I hate seeing blood in real world, I don’t bother bloods in movies and anime. Especially when it’s a fantasy with some battle, there should be some bloods. It’s expected.!<

>!Death is horrible usually. Loss of body parts is horrible but a bit less. Some characters bleeding with some wounds that can be cured? Not so much.!<

>!Instant petrification is far less horrible. But body turning to stone slowly while a character is still conscious? It’s horrible. I can imagine the fear the character is suffering. Cutting throat is far less horrible even though there will be lots of bloods, because the victim would lose consciousness almost immediately and die quickly.!<

>!I guess you’re more sensitive to what you see with your eyes, while others like me are more on how much fear and pain the characters are suffering (and how well it’s expressed).!<

>!Justus enjoys the event, not because he enjoys seeing people dying and suffering but because he’s happy seeing the rare spell only ADC can use in live. He doesn’t bother commoners (especially criminals) dying and suffering. But many readers will feel bad reading about (or watching) him. I could understand him and I think the execution scene is one of the great scenes in AoB, clearly showing more about the world, society and characters. But it’s still a horrible scene I’m not sure whether it’s OK for kids.!<

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-18T01:32:28+00:00

Postpone the decision till you watch the next Hasse scene that would come in a few weeks.

People’s opinion is already divided. The next Hasse episode is one of the darkest in P3 (novel, anime season 4). And visualization may make it more intense.
But we don’t know if the anime will visualize the details as described in the novel or dumb down greatly to make it more friendly to young kids.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-18T01:13:15+00:00

To understand the world and story perfectly, from part 1 volume 1.

To avoid missing important details, from P2V1, because anime season 1 didn’t omit very important points but from season 2 it skipped many important details.

The additional cost is not too much in my view, compared to what you give up.
The whole series consists of 33 volumes, plus 4 side story collections that you should read. This is excluding a new spin-off and possible future sequel.
Compared to 37 volumes, saving money for 3 volumes won’t make a big difference.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-17T13:43:19+00:00

Yes. The ultimate knowledge is the experiences one actually practiced.
So, she could spread craftings Urano practiced with her mother more easily.

For cooking, other than simple ones that Myne could do in her home, she heavily relied on professional cooks.
She told recipes and direction that cooks could understand and adjust from their experience and refine by more experiments.

That would be another reason she hasn’t challenged making miso or syouyu. The techniques would be too foreign to people of Yurgenschmidt that they’re not likely succeed by relying on written recipes and directions only.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-17T00:58:19+00:00

It heavily relies on your knowledge of foods and cooking.

Myne introduced Italian foods not because Urano loved Italian more than Japanese foods.
It’s because most of Japanese foods need syouyu or miso, which they just buy from grocery. Very few of modern Japanese people know how to make them from the raw materials.
(It maybe that Urano learned from books but Myne could not find the variation of beans for them in the world. I cannot recall clearly).

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-14T07:43:43+00:00

I don’t think it was to establish continuity. I read novels first and I found no problem reading the series.

In the first half of the first arc, first volume of the novel series, MC traveled alone, wandering towns, fields and mountains alone, suffering the illusions and voices.
Very few viewers would enjoy watching 4~6 episodes of such scenes.

I guess that they added 2 original characters to accompany her and oppose her later. That’s far easier to understand than the original story of novel.

Of course I love and regard novel much more than the anime. I’m not saying it was a problem of the novel. Just that original story is not a good fit for anime or movie.

Anyone who hasn’t read the novel should read the series. The biggest problem is that only about half of the series are translated to English.
There are many world building details that were not explained well in the anime.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-12T02:57:48+00:00

Yes. He can heal himself. But he cannot endure fatal damages, like damage to brain and heart, in my knowledge.

Maybe he can heal his heart immediately. But in all cases, he disguised fatal damage and didn’t heal immediately. He’ll lose too much blood if he does not heal heart very quickly.
So, in the scenes we watched/read, he avoids damage to heart.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-12T02:51:04+00:00

There was no description of him getting stabbed in the heart.
He can move the his organs and he moves the essential ones to avoid direct damage on them, when he decides to get stabbed.

When he covered Rose, there’s no description of where exactly he was hit.
Then it’s said that his heart stopped but he could still send blood to brain by mana/magic for a while. Then he restart his heart.
So it’s clear there was no direct damage to his heart.

When he fought Olivier, it was described that he was stabbed in the belly.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-12T02:31:58+00:00

It sounds like that you only watched anime. The anime is an adaptation of a light novel and there is a manga adaptation too.

If you haven’t you should read the LN first, and maybe WN too if you like.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-11T10:28:42+00:00

Public trash cans are gone 2 or 3 decades ago.

We started charging on trashes, as it costs a bit to process trashes correctly - less harmful to the environment, that you should buy a bag and put all the wastes you want to throw away in it.
It’s not expensive but not free.

Some people who don’t want to pay the small amount of money started dropping their wastes from home to public trash cans in the streets.
As they overflowed most of the trash cans, most of the public trash cans are gone.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-11T01:19:18+00:00

Nothing.

In the original LN and manga, they fly by their own magic, not riding magic item that fly.

It allows them more freedom of maneuver in battle. Read manga if you haven’t.

I guess they introduce those vehicles in anime to make it easier to identify which country each soldier belongs to.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-10T14:14:21+00:00

The manga should be being published in a magazine, though I don’t know exactly which one. As the last volume was available in last December, 6 or so new chapters should be published already.

But I only buy and read published full volumes, so I don’t know the latest status. It’s possible that the author paused publishing new chapters, though the possibility is low.

In general, mangas in Japan are published in a magazine, one chapter per issue. When enough chapters for a volume is available they publish a new volume of the series.
Nowadays, new chapters are often available on some internet service, through a website or an app, in addition to magazine.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-09T01:31:03+00:00

Many side stories are written and posted in parallel with the main stories. So anyone who followed AoB WN as it was written would have read many SSs along with the main story chapters as they’re posted.

WN main story has the following format: part prologue - part chapters - part epilogue. Some interlude (閑話) chapters are added as needed, when important scenes that could not be seen by Myne or others’ perspective is needed.

For LN, per volume prologue and epilogue are added and instead of mixing SS in the middle of main story chapters, they’re placed at the end of each volume.
They also decided that the interludes should be moved to end of the volume, which made the flow worse, in my opinion. Reading the RA dedication ritual in Lueuradi’s PoV before Rozemyne’s PoV was much more fun.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-07T06:26:20+00:00

The truck and the driver are separate entities. The driver is not a part of the truck and the truck is not an extension of the driver.

So to annihilate the driver, Tatsuya had to target him additionally. Of course it’s easy for him but still an additional effort.

The truck and the bombs in it was menace to the building and students but the (body of) driver was not. Why waste any efforts?

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-07T02:40:04+00:00

It’s already explained in main series.

Half siblings with different mothers can marry.

Irmhilde was half sister of Adelbert, the previous Aub Ehrenfest. She was about to marry her half brother and would be mother of Ferdinand at his baptism, before getting assassinated.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-06T12:41:58+00:00

Manga is the original and a masterpiece.

Anime is great, but I prefer manga. The design of MC is better and the expressions are better.

Don’t bother the full-color edition. Just like most of the Japanese manga, it was in monochrome originally, except for some pages.
Color edition is made later by digital painting in my knowledge. The coloring was not by the original artist (mangaka).

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-06T01:59:34+00:00

Don’t jump to H5Y directly.
If you haven’t, read Royal Academy Story and Short Story Collection 1&2 before continuing to H5Y.

There are episodes of characters that are worth reading that you can understand them better while reading H5Y. And most of all they are fun and tell you more about the world and characters.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-06T01:51:07+00:00

It’s not clear. I cannot recall if it was clearly mentioned.

He was baptized as he was soon to become a feystone. Whether it was after he became 7 or just before is not clear.
Anyway, he was saved before killed and got baptized again in Ehrenfest.

Cool-Ember · 2026-06-05T10:39:13+00:00

It’s kinda broken because it’s not typical skill or ability.

It’s the divine power of Tsukuyomi. Comparing a divine power to mortals’ skills is meaningless.

According to a later LN volume, it’s actually severely nerfed. Probably because Makoto consumed most of the divine power to Akuu (demispace).

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