Agreed.

Here, let me, the author, explain to you how you should be feeling…

That is what that whole “theory” felt like to me.

swoons

I had forgotten about this character, but this is his friend from middle school, right?

I am going to keep this post relatively short this week as I have been doing a lot of traveling and am super exhausted. However, there are a couple things I wanted to point out. As for the story, it seems Jolenta is on a collision course with the church now. The point at which Nowak is asked to torture his daughter grows ever closer (I am guessing). However, this episode bears lots of historical parallels that I wanted to draw attention to.

• Venus

This is super quick, but I just like this shot of Jolenta after her conversation with Piast. We can clearly see Venus in the sky above her. We know it’s Venus both because of the color and because of its low position in the sky at dusk. Venus never gets very far from the sun in the sky from Earth’s perspective, so the only time you can see it is either just before the sun rises or just after it sets. Once you know how to spot Venus, it is actually quite bright in the sky. @rikka@ani.social

• Philolaus

This is one of the philosophers with the silly models that Badeni mentioned (the other was Aristarchus, which I discussed in the Episode 1 thread). I wasn’t familiar with this one, so after looking it up, his model is quite silly. It was not based on observational data at all really, but rather just based on philosophical arguments about what is higher up than other things. For instance, Mt. Olympus had a place at the foot of the central fire in his model. It also included a planet that was directly opposite the central fire from the earth called Counter-Earth. This was included simply to make a nice round number of 10 heavenly bodies.

• Piast’s Historical Basis

Piast is clearly heavily influenced by the real life astronomer Tycho Brahe. I have written about Brahe in multiple discussion threads up to this point because it is basically impossible to talk about astronomy of this time period and not mention it. A short summary of Brahe’s bio:

• Brahe was born in a noble house and educated in law. However, while at university, he developed an interest in astronomy and wanted to pursue it.
• Brahe was sent on a trip by his family in order to dispel him of the notion of studying astronomy. This did not work, and he ended up working with a distant relative to pursue astronomy instead.
• As a young man, Brahe observed a Great Conjunction, but the predicted time/date it happened was off by a day using the existing Ptolemaic models. This led him down the path of collecting data to improve the models.
• Brahe collected decades of astronomical observations that were more complete and more precise than anything that had existed before. The finest set of astronomical data that would exist prior to widespread usage of the telescope.
• In the final years of his life, he collaborated with a young, upstart mathematician, Johannes Kepler, who would later go on to provide a much improved model of the cosmos using Brahe’s collected observations…with the sun at the center.

Anything in there sound familiar? Hmm?

Wait, there’s more? I finished this chapter and was sure that this was simply a rushed ending to the series. No idea where we go from here if Miyabi is truly out of the picture.

I feel like I just skimmed a whole volume or something. We just bounced from one thing to the next. Especially when it comes to the resolution with that (now ex-) boyfriend. He made some vague statement and then we hand waved our way through several important points.

This is not giving me a good feeling going forward. A mystery story really relies on how things are revealed to the reader, and this series has almost stopped trying to make it engaging. The first couple chapters were done so well, but I get the feeling that they hadn’t really worked out the story past that point.

Ummm, about that…

I lost it at this panel. I think she awakened something in herself today.

This stuco president is like Ruri after she gets control of her powers.

This is like the Hyper Go Home Club from Houkago Kitaku Biyori mixed with Mieruko-chan. Count me in. Oshi no Ko just finished up, so I wasn’t currently reading anything in Manga Plus except Torture Princess.

Also, Mary-san crossover when?

You weren’t kidding 🤣. That is like the anime version of Too Many Cooks.

Hmm, I bet it has more to do with brightness and contrast more than anything else. So, in that respect, CRTs are significantly dimmer than modern LCDs. Additionally, CRTs were just much smaller than most people’s living room TVs these days, so it would take up a much smaller portion of somebody’s field of view. It’s an interesting question though.

That’s the exact same comparison that ran through my head.

I really, really like this manga. So, I am very much looking forward to this when it comes out.

When I saw that title, I knew I had to include the whole damn thing. It’s just too ridiculous.

TruckBus-kun claiming victims back then too.

Thanks for sharing!

Really interesting perspective on this issue. Out of curiosity at one point, I got my hands on the porygon episode and the flashing is certainly jarring. It didn’t really bother me, but my wife said it gave her a headache (just a minor one, not a migraine fortunately). I had no idea that there was so much that came out of that incident. Really neat!

Wow, that sent me down a rabbit hole of searching. I am old enough to have messed around with lots of VHS tapes in my day, but I was still too young to know what was going wrong with the picture. Reading how Macrovision screwed up the picture through desyncing the scanning explains why some of the “non-authentic” tapes I got never played right for me.

At least the kids have some way to defend themselves now instead of having to rely on conveniently placed large pieces of equipment.

I was surprised to see Madoka there, but after thinking about it, she would probably be the easiest person to socially pressure into helping out. I am pretty sure that Karasuno likes Kujaku and that is why she is leaving the stuco. Not sure yet if anyone else realizes.