^ No, they clearly don't. It sounds like a boob joke took off on its own with Watamote as a pretext. Anna is a really interesting, perceptive character who definitely has boundaries. And her boobs aren't that big! She's pretty much the one who keeps Yoshida in line while being gentle most of the time, although she can be a little jaded about Yoshida's innocence. I don't know where this nonsense came from.

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I really like their facial expressions in this. Also the pun sisters are a great pairing

what a coincidence i'm listening to the theme song now

@Sakura the cute girl with the light purple hair is insane

^Because of her constant embarrassment at anything remotely sexual? Or the fact that she is generally quite shy?

^And you missed the point. Who woulda thunk?

Where's the princess carry tag?

@BV
As someone who is learning Japanese and Mandarin I can promise you, kanji isn't that bad. After you've studied it enough, you can figure out meanings for many complicated kanji.
And it's definetelly not as bad as NativLang made it out to be. Haven't seen Xidnaf's video on it, but he does mention it on the Thai writing video, so I know that he knows it's not as bad as many say.

The "enslave centaurs as mounts" thing might seem logical to a layman but to someone who's actually read up on how cavalry actually works (and doesn't) it's a load of horrendously impractical nonsense. Shortlist:
* they're actually on the small side by horse standards (meaning relatively low carrying capacity) and as sentient beings with long maturation cycles fundamentally unreceptive to the kind of selective breeding that IRL slowly pushed up domesticated horse sizes over, oh, three-four millenia or so
* the upright humanoid torso in front is going to get in the way of any meaningful weapon use by a rider a lot; it's also terribly vulnerable to enemy weapons, much more so than the neck and head of a horse are, and will need to be protected somehow 'less you fancy your mount keeling over about instantly - in practice meaning armour which both drives up operating costs and eats into the payload capacity
* to be effective in combat unquestioning trust and authority must exist between the rider and the mount (and even so IRL the more common causes of death and injury among riders stem from misbehaving mounts already outside combat) which is incidentally why cavalry horses have always been much more expensive and valuable than basic riding mounts and beasts of burden - not only are the physical requirements higher but they need a lot more training; trying to ride into a battle a sentient creature that almost certainly hates your guts and is entirely capable of actively plotting your demise is basically suicide. Same issues kind of kill the rider-mount coordination needed to effectively employ weapons on horseback. And hoo boy are you going to be but fucked going up against free centaurs - not only are the latter vastly more effective combatants but there's an only too obvious incentive for your own recalcitrant mounts to flip...
* near as I can remember the centaurs, unlike real horses, are not gramnivores (grazing grass-eaters) - presumably they eat essentially the same stuff as the other sapients of the world (duly scaled up for their larger mass) which in practice means the logistics of feeding any larger number of the buggers are going to be quite the headache, doubly so if they're expected to be capable of strenuous physical labour. Incidentally should also make the bellies of their lower part slimmer than those of horses of analogous size due to the absence of the complex digestive systems needed to process cellulose...

All of which adds to the whole thing being a terribly impractical idea and blatantly inferior in every possible way to the buggers simply fighting themselves as, effectively, super-mobile infantry. In practice given the obvious advantages the centaurs have over the others in terms of mobility and sheer physical power they're far more likely to have formed (important part of) the warrior aristocracy basically everywhere they can survive ecologically, and there aren't very many corners of the world where I can think that wouldn't be the case outside the polar regions... Might've been combined with slave-soldier arrangements in places; the two are by no means mutually exclusive.
Note that they might well also have employed the historically fairly common cavalry practice of transporting light infantrymen who dismount to fight as close support; this has been used for both short-term battlefield purposes and longer-ranged "operational" forays, and parallel "escort" traditions existed with both war chariots and elephants (though the latter obv couldn't practically carry their close-support infantry).

This concludes today's installment of Applying History To Fiction With random-sensei; take notes kids, this'll be in the test.

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Nevermind then, I didn't overthink this nearly as hard as I could have.

I may or may not have spent excessive amounts of time and brainpower thinking about how warfare would work in diverse fantasy settings. >.>

This series has some good yuri potential.

Is it weird that this is probably the best drawn backpack I’ve ever seen? And that that’s what I noticed about this picture?

Ran's favorite food

Finely crafted moe, love it :D

NicoMaki at the back uwu
THIS IS HECKING ADORABLE >:,V

No horse required.

Absolutely fantastic art of one of my all time favorite couples? Yes please!

dream

Are you alright @random? I think you should look at this picture again and meditate on what's really important.

These two are really the parents of the group.

^
I know it's not that bad, but still... Things like stroke order... Gah... It's gonna take years... I mean, sure, it's possible, and I know that due to the fact that millions upon millions of people learn to read and write that way, but still... Even Chinese and Japanese people struggle for years just to learn to write as should... Gah...

And here I was, thinking the hashtag (did I spell that right?) would be the thing that would garner most attention... If y'all struggling with history at your school or university, feel free to ask me for help over at dynasty cafe.

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@BugDevil
Also, I have too much worries with school, my GF, my YT channel, my obesity and my hobbies to worry about learning YET another language (for now at least). Also, if I were to take part could, I bet I'll have to pay, and I'm not even employed yet. And even if I were employed, it'd probably be part-time (because I'm still in school).

@BV I don't wanna sound rude, but there is no way not to... I don't really care. My comment was supposed to be a subtle way of telling you to stop complaining. Those translators do this for free (unless they got a Patreon, which you didnt invest into either) and had to learn the language or even two. If you have any decency you may not make any demands or complaints. Clear enough?

oooo this is very nice!