2013-01-29, 16:58 | Link #1161 | |
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I'm being a bit picky here, but I really question the premise behind sustaining the war as related by Demon King. Generally, famines happen when there are local shortages of food from temporary causes, but she's talking a global shortage, and a continual one at that. A continual global shortage of food means that there are too many people for the land to sustain across the entire human world. The only possible outcome is that people die off (and very quickly) until it drops to sustainable levels. In this kind of scenario, the human nations wouldn't have the capacity to survive, much less be able to wage war. The overall idea of solving the problem through increased food production is a bit wonky as well. During the Medieval era, subsistence food production is strictly a local affair since it's impossible to transport vast quantities of food across large distances. And thus adding a corn crop in the north will do very little to help people starving in the south. Don't get me wrong - there are a lot of interesting ideas in the show, but they're just not developed as well as I'd like.
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2013-01-29, 17:51 | Link #1162 | |
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I don't know what all her plans are, or how much she'll have to adjust. But I'm pretty sure her endgame is "everyone trading with everyone else and having a lot more interest in keeping doing so than in waging war". And she doesn't mind thinking long term. |
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2013-01-29, 20:09 | Link #1165 |
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You know, it's been really bugging me for a while. How does Maou knows what she knows? Where did she learn all this tech? Are they actually commonplace in Demon World? Does she have Doraemon's pocket?
The next thing we know Maou might just bring out the Printing Press and Steam Engine after all this food business is taken care of
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2013-01-29, 20:22 | Link #1167 | |
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2013-01-29, 21:14 | Link #1169 |
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Actually, that spoiler reminds me that one of the main thoughts I've been having so far as I watch this series is that the world-building (in the literal sense) of this series reminds me of quite a few things, including Terry P.
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*read spoiler* Now I want to see an alternate version, where an evil Maou enchants Yuusha to be her pet and instead of new agricultural wonders, she brings into this era the horsing mount (a terrible weapon when employed by the cavalry), the gunpowder cannon (no brick and mortar fortification can resist) and the submarine (no naval vessel is safe).
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2013-01-29, 22:29 | Link #1171 | |
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2013-01-29, 22:57 | Link #1172 |
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Which is again something we're not actually shown in the anime. Had some of the Demon World segments been animated, your average anime-only watcher will finally be given visual evidence that, yes, the Hero IS an unstoppable engine of kickass.
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That makes some sense, but it's also pretty sloppy writing; especially since they already introduced the compass to do the same thing. It seems to be one of those "works great in a book, but comes off poorly when performed" situations. Quote:
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2013-01-30, 14:35 | Link #1176 | |
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2013-01-30, 19:19 | Link #1177 |
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There are two different elements to the food problem.
1 That the South can not feed itself and has to relay on imports 2 That the humans world has maxed out its food production or at least would not be able to ramp up to meet the non-war population. Element 1 would be a problem even if the North was rolling in food since the South seems to lack trade goods.That is what the crop rotation and potatoes is supposed to help with. Element 2 is a larger problem that the corn will help with but not solve. However it has another purpose in giving the merchants another revenue stream separate from the war. However it will take a lot of capital to get the ball rolling and since most of their capital is tied up in the war this gives the merchants a reason to want to end it. |
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The joke's on them. Startup colonies are big money losers for the first couple of hundred years.
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