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Kunagisa · 2012-07-17, 19:20

I haven't read the Q+A/Twitter comments for this week yet, so I'm not sure if it's explained there but translating 長寿族 to elven's kinda ... non-optimal ... (as per your own post from before, there are other names they could've taken). This would make it more self-apparent on what the issue at hand is.

The "half elf" (半寿族) is obviously a mix-ethnic that came from humans and "elves" procreating, but they're all "retarded" (in the most literal sense). They age like humans, but mentally they develop like "elves", so if hypothetically "elves" takes 100 years to reach the mental age of 50 for human years (because they would naturally live to the age of 200), "half elves" at age 50 would have a mental age of 25. On himado, you can see people refer this mix race as "reverse (Detective) Conan". Since you visit the novel thread, I'll add a bit extra spoilers

Spoiler for not a huge spoiler but spoiler nonetheless from novel:

In other words, "elves" develop mentally slower than humans.

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Kunagisa Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009	I haven't read the Q+A/Twitter comments for this week yet, so I'm not sure if it's explained there but translating 長寿族 to elven's kinda ... non-optimal ... (as per your own post from before, there are other names they could've taken). This would make it more self-apparent on what the issue at hand is. The "half elf" (半寿族) is obviously a mix-ethnic that came from humans and "elves" procreating, but they're all "retarded" (in the most literal sense). They age like humans, but mentally they develop like "elves", so if hypothetically "elves" takes 100 years to reach the mental age of 50 for human years (because they would naturally live to the age of 200), "half elves" at age 50 would have a mental age of 25. On himado, you can see people refer this mix race as "reverse (Detective) Conan". Since you visit the novel thread, I'll add a bit extra spoilers Spoiler for not a huge spoiler but spoiler nonetheless from novel: 長寿族 further splits into many two major groups, humans types and demon types, human types further split into mountain, forest, and pure type. Spoiler for season 1 episode 1: The "loli" you see in the beginning of the very first episode is a pure type and she's longest living besides Azuma's papa in the GENESIS period. You can calculate at least how long she's alive ever since "heaven" fell down. In other words, "elves" develop mentally slower than humans.