Slight age gap too, at 18/24. Just outside the "half plus 7" modern guideline. Though for a medieval political marriage, that could be pretty close together.

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As is, this is just someone's rape fantasy.

And that's okay!

at least the one-shot implies that Sakurako has in fact gotten laid. (The friend asking if Kasumi's first time was with S, leading to Kasumi stuttering and changing the subject. Of course if you're pessimistic, you could take it as Kasumi embarrassed at not having had a first time.)

Rae was helped by Clare growing into love with her, too; Rae's clearly satisfied in the end, not settling.

Josei and Battle/Action must be a rare combo.

can Yarai-san teleport

That would also age everyone that answered the survey and stuck around by 5 years. So that would now put it at 23-31. Though that isn't factoring in all the people that left and new users. So it's a bit hard to say.

Churn is natural. And Dynasty had already been around for at least 9 years (judging by uploads) when the poll happened, obviously lots of people joined since then.

The survey 5 years ago had the peak ages between 18 (or "18") and 26. OTOH I think it was done on Discord, which might skew younger than the forum.

https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/topics/15346-dynasty-specific-demographic-survey

I see zero chance of a scenario where Lapis doesn't end up with Natori.

Lapis dies

Diana gets to console Natalie

I'm not sure if it's "bad translation" or "really weird work to start with"

Rachel probably wouldn't dig her own well, but a well that came with the property, or a village well, would hardly be unusual, I think.

I certainly wouldn't assert that Europeans never drank river water, but we seem to have multiple historians saying it was a last-choice for them, and that they had some idea of water quality by source (as well as appearance.)

Anyway, not like we see Rachel draw her water in the morning.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/lets_hang_out_when_the_black_plague_is_over_a_slow_life_of_modern_civilization_in_the_world_of_middle_age_europe_ch02#38

Apologies if someone said this already, but "Franken District" is probably Franconia, and "Roman Empire" must be "Holy Roman Empire". Going by Wikipedia, Franconia is plausibly a major wine source for the HRE. It's hilariously not for the 'real' Roman Empire.

Pliny the Elder preferred well water best of all, while Columella preferred spring water and put well water beneath that. Lupus Servatus, abbott of Ferrieres, echoes Columella in placing cistern water dead last. Hildegard of Bingen's ranking is, from best to worst, well water, spring water, rain water, and river water. Hildegard also advises that snow water is dangerous to the health, while river and swamp water should always be boiled, then cooled, before drinking.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/deleted_by_user/h5bjn7s/

There's a fourteenth-century text that purports to be a letter from a Valencia man to his sons at university in Toulouse that instructs them to "cook" the water they get from a couple of nearby rivers because it's known to be dirty!

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ajkpga/where_did_medieval_europeans_get_drinking_water/eewz0dm/?context=999

Names and honorifics

I'm a sucker for how people get called different things (like Fate's 6 names in Nanoha A's, none of which are "Testrossa-san".) I realized there's stuff to mine here, too.

Umi: something about her makes almost everyone jump from 'Koumoto-san' (or '-senpai') straight to 'Umi'; I don't think Shou has ever used 'Umi-chan'. Ibu says 'Koumoto', and a couple of old middle school friends said 'Koumoto-chan' and 'Umi-chan', also Fuki 'Umi-chan' on the very first page, but mostly people are either fully formal or totally informal.

Umi herself is a heavy -chan user, using Nacchan for Nae and Zumi-chan for Zumiko. Switches between 'Shou' and 'Shou-chan', though 'Shou' in her thoughts and their private moments.

Much of the friend group is on a personal name or nickname non-honorific basis. Yosshi (Yoshida) is always just that, Maki is usually Makki (even to Umi). Zumi is usually Zumiko (except for Umi). Nae is often Nae, sometimes Nae-chan or Nacchan. Ibu is Ibu-san or -chan usually, but Yuuki to Yosshi.

Or grouping things by what people use for others:

Umi: mostly -chan, except for 'Shou' and 'Makki', also 'Kosugi' (the first camera girl)

Yosshi: uses 'Umi', 'Yuuki', 'Zumiko', 'Nae', 'Makki' -- I didn't notice a single -chan out of her

Maki: 'Yosshi', 'Zumiko', 'Nae'

Nae: 'Umi', 'Ken-chan', 'Ibu-chan'

Ken: 'Nae', 'Yosshi', 'Makki'

Ibu: 'Koumoto', 'Makki' (once); I didn't note her talking to or about anyone else. Well, 'Hey, glasses' to talk to Baba.

Some interactions just have no evidence, either I missed them or they don't happen. Like, even in the friend group, seems like most girls don't bother talking to Ibu. (Even Nae's 'Ibu-chan' was more "is she okay?") I don't think Maki has been showing talking to Umi.

I'm leaving out the default 'lastname-san', and the teachers, who seem to use 'lastname' or 'lastname-san' at random.

Diluting wine was a big thing for the ancient Greeks and Romans, dunno when Europe stopped that. Also, again, Germany, more ale than wine. I'd imagine the 4 am Sunday drink would simply have been water.

Given how he showed up going to a wedding in the very beginning of the series, I don't think he can disappear too much.

She was a baker, she was a miller, can I make it any more obvious?

Yes, because I don't get it.

Forks were indeed late. Spoons, not so much. I've never heard of the Church having an opinion on how you eat, unless maybe they had an anti-knife thing for "please stop killing each other at dinner".

I'm impressed that imouto delivered a full-sized fridge through the portal.

their p*op/feces out the window is false and actually wrong information

Also, waste could be valuable. Poop was fertilizer/manure for fields. Pee has industrial uses, for like tanning. People would come and take your waste away for use elsewhere.

Urban filthiness might be more of an Modern period thing, like the 17-1800s, when population grew quickly and faster than the big cities could cope.

So things can travel to the past but never to the future? Interesting that time travel in this manga works the opposite way it does in real life.

The catholics eat with their hands thing was new to me, but not terribly surprising

Honestly I don't really trust all of this research.

Heh, this early, most of the characters haven't even been named, but we can still see a grouping that stays consistent (and is consistent with the sports groupings earlier): https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch05#6

(first panel) Yumi, Nae, Zumi in the back (closest to us). Ibu and Yosshi side by side. Ken and Maki furthest up. (Plus some other girl beyond.)
Oh, Yosshi gets named next page.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch05#8

Just realized that Ibu is so non-participating that she's not even wearing an apron like (almost) everyone else.

Just realized that Ibu and Yosshi are among rare anime/manga girls who don't have bangs. (Also Fuki, and I guess Zumiko.)

Huh, lower right panel implies Umi has an older brother, as well as younger. I don't recall that https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch06#8

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch06#13
Detail of Umi blushing from practical handholding.

Re-read. New visual detail: Fuki sweat-dropping when Umi runs out to find Shou. https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_blue_star_on_that_day_ano_koro_no_aoi_hoshi_ch02#4

maybe dark magic only pops up in women and the prince is actually a trans girl

Is it.. really that bad to let others know that side of you, that you watched pronz as your guilty pleasure?

They're (a) high school (b) girls (c) in Japan. Those are all strikes against letting your freak flag fly. And one of them is the council president, with a reputation to guard.

Congratulations, Aya-chan, on losing your virginity!

what

I'm logged in, but otherwise have no features turned on, I barely use Pixiv. I counted 5 het images on the first page: cock, boy, or cum. Plus one with a suggestive foodstuff. The second page seems het-free from the thumbnails, though I don't feel like clicking through every one. Ditto page 3.

Most or all of the images do evoke "male gaze", though you're free to think of it as "leering lesbian gaze" too.