Just erase their water....
Just erase their water....
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Or something simpler, like carbon.
Peace.
Why not, my guess is stripping them of water leaves less dangerous chemicals like gazes and other ions you might not want to get to close to if you strip them of their carbon.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
I would say he doesn't quite understand his own power. It's a divine power in the literal sense, but he feels the need to rationalise it like a scientist from the 21st century, so he's actually limiting himself. It's likely he could create chemical substances, even whole proteins with proper 3D folding, simply by knowing the trivial name and what the stuff is used for. Instead of impossibly remembering the whole structure with possibly thousands of atoms.
Episode 7
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All the other stuff aside, the stiffness of the society is one of the more believable parts of the story. Falma actually could, probably, oull off a lot more by throwing his family's, and even his own, weight around more, but he's a bit too limited with his former Japanese manners and values. Of course in a fairy tale his good behavior will be rewarded in one way or another.
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The plot of this episode had really textbook vibes, clinically so, with everything happening exceedingly conveniently, but it still worked pretty well. The olden pharmacy guild feels quite believable, all in all, and it's not like the obstinate guild master would have been talking only nonsense. He had a few good arguments. However, again quite believably, his personal trauma made him blind to the changes absolutely needed for his guild to survive the new era. It's possible that if Farma wasn't a noble, the geezer might have been able to see the light, after a lot of frustrating battles of words and convincing arguments. But since Farma is a noble, the old man simply refuses to admit anything due to his hatred of nobles.
Yeah, it's nice the old guild isn't just motivated by greed, but by totally justified distrust of the nobility.
I was also surprised by how reasonable the token murderous inquisition was. They went from "He's irregular! Heresy!" to "Oh, no wait, that's actually just our healing god." super easily.
It did feel like they were used to dealing with real heretics abusing magic. And they were totally unprepared for the possibility of actually encountering an existence that's not harmful (against their faith and world view). On the other hand, since their actions are dictated by opinions, it does allow them to switch their attitude swiftly. Just like a ruler with absolute power could in a heartbeat decide a person being marched to the gallows for his crimes is in fact a great benefactor to the country and spare him, with nobody being able to second-guess the ruler. Pretty novel in isekai, though.Originally Posted by DarthEnderX
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Plague, and the strong one.
On paper the contermeasures work, in reality we know it doesn't in an ever working society. COVID is a strong ongoing warning that should an epidemic as lethal as that plague (or last century influenza) happen again, we will struggle, a lot.
I wonder how that arc will unfold. Even with godlike powers.
Then a counterbalance evil appears. A good show needs a good evil character. Too bad it feels like that one is caricatural as f... They told us he was a genius. I hope that will prove useful to the story.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
Depends whether their world has the thing we have where half the people think ignoring medicine = winning a political argument.
They are similar in their social behaviour... The old pharmacists guild is an example.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
They have a pretty early start, though, since they know the ships potentially carrying the plague are only going to arrive at some point in the future. If there was already a city on the same continent with an outbreak, then things would be really bad. Now it could still go either way. Compared to the modern situation it's also a plus for the fight that the people are used to obeying the higher-ups. If they don't obey, they can be killed on the spot. I don't think even in China the police would have shot quarantine breakers, no guestions asked. In our world we had miscreants who purposefully tried to spread Covid around so that everyone would get the "natural immunity" (or die). If caught, they would have hardly faced any significant punishment, in many countries no punishment whatsoever, so what's stopping them?
If we talk about the Black Death, then the villain behind it must look like a skeleton. If you look at medieval art, that's just how it is. Whether he was a genius or not, it's hard not to think that's all in the past, looking at the scenes. He has clearly gone off the deep end a long time ago. A genius spending all of his time on nonsense is not really a genius anymore.
I know my hope is vain... let's see how it unfolds, haha
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
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It's over! He done blowed up that Nurgle champion.
He was!
Best anime ever
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"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
This was a pretty standard example of a specific theme isekai, which form a certain bulk of the isekai genre. The most common theme is food/cooking, the rest are more sporadic, like modern guns in a fantasy medieval setting, for example. In a certain sense carrying a particularly, strictly defined theme allows the author some leeway in the actual story because the focus is elsewhere. At least the medicine wasn't at a high school level in this, the author had clearly done as much research as was needed, but otherwise the story is nothing to write blogs about, and the characters are pretty superficial. The MC is OP and thus hardly needs to struggle in any pursuit, which is unfortunately extremely ubiquitous among isekai series. But I guess it's something that attracts the stressed Japanese audience seeking simple escapism.
All in all I find this quite a decent isekai series. The MC is not an idiot, which already makes this watchable. The "educating barbarians" plot device is quite heavily used, but it's more tolerable here than in more regular isekai, where the author is under an impression even soap didn't exist a few centuries ago.
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