I'm only partway through this volume on catchup (well, I've now purchased it, so maybe it's not catchup really.)
Anyway.
Imagine my surprise upon finding mention of an Israeli folk dance I learned in high school some 45 years ago here in the US, Mayim Mayim; I had no clue it was widely known in Japan.
Widely enough that a bunch of tamed monsters would spontaneously dance it and no one would consider this odd.
Unseen Japan has an episode focused upon it. The Jewish Folk Song Everyone in Japan Knows; an excellent video, well researched concerning the origins of the dance itself and then how it came to Japan.
I knew some of the background concerning its creation, but only some, and nothing concerning its introduction to Japan.
Boy howdy, is it ever a part of Japanese culture now!
Clearly I haven't watched the proper anime and such.
Hokay.
The comparison of stats and abilities for Sakura when considering what to evolve into?
It's identical to what displays in The Summoner is Going, which is the WN/LN I suspected of being the one mentioned back in Volume 1 as being the reason for more going for Summoner than Tamer.
I've no clue as to whether this is standard or not in such works, as these are basically the only works I'm familiar with of this type.
Right, I didn't mention that Summoner is also a VRMMO with crafting and such; the two works are very much dealing with similar aspects of the same sub-genre.
Summoner focuses a lot more on combat, however, and the MC is something of a battle junkie, but much less so that in Black Summoner.
Doesn't stop him from doing a fair amount of crafting of his own.
Amimin and Yuto meet again!
Well, Yuto hadn't been aware of who he had met early on.
Both of them oohing and aweing about the other while wondering at being awed over...
They don't think of themselves as anything special, ya dig?
Oof.
Getting back to reading of Amimin, Mattsun, and Yuto after reading the latest Bookworm update and I keep 'hearing' Rozemyne when Yuto speaks or thinks.
Wait, WTF?!
Amimin's a Tamer!
How did she Return Koasa and Bring Forth Yasuke in their place?
Tamers can't do that, it's a Summoner thing!!!
And I can't see anyway it's a mistranslation concerning who is doing what, these are Amimin's Tamed.
Ah.
She's got an artifact which allows her to act like a Summoner.
Phew.
That would have been a fricking huge error, and I found it inconceivable that it hadn't been mentioned by anyone.
That no one commented upon it is damn near as inconceivable, though.
Oh.
Having now gone through some of the posts, it did get commented upon.
Apparently I misspelled Aminim's name when entering my search.
