Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 2nd Season Episode 8 Discussion

It would be for sure actually necessary a cesarian section would have been needed in this time period even if a very young birth. People's heads used to be smaller and the head is what winds up getting babies stuck.

My speculation on the case of the emperor

Contextually it makes sense but not for the time and setting, yes. I think keeping it as lolicon would seem odd with a ancient China like setting and when using it this way. Ive seen "deviant" used elsewhere and I think that would have been a good one to use in the subs instead. Pedophile is a lot more loaded than lolicon. Pedophile did get used before clinical usage with a non sexual meaning of someone who loves children which is close enough to what lolicon means (though lolicon is even broader) but the clinical meaning overrides that and no one thinks of the preclinical meaning and even then that was not until the 1900s (though lolicon is even newer so fair enough) and it just doesnt make logical sense to use a very clinical sounding term for something that would not be viewed in a medical way in the past rather as a moral thing assuming we are talking ages of like 10. So deviant would have been the most accurate and correct feeling.

Poisons that would slow decay after death: antimony, arsenic, carbolic acid (phenol), nux vomica (plant), strychnine. Best guess for a popular fiction story would be arsenic.

I guessing that Mammao's request would be permission to consult with Loumen, who would have some useful information.

@traed i think you're right

@traed I mean that people in the West are used to counting these words as the Japanese analogue of own Western concepts, while these are slang words with a certain context. Lolicon is not so much the idea of ​​pedophilia in the Western sense, how much a slang word for a particular media fetish. Especially modern. So yes, from the lips of Mao Mao it would sound very strange.

The more mysteries there are, the more ideas Maomao creates, and there must be a way for everything.

I have to admit that the mystery of this imperial line is indeed complicated, and at the same time I am also getting more curious.

And the emperor's mother is said to be able to curse, and there is already evidence of that. Even so, I still won't fully believe it, there must be a more logical and reasonable reason to solve it, we'll see.

@RobertBobert I don't really understand what you're trying to communicate here. "She is unlikely to use this term when it comes to the actual pathology"? She literally does. She literally uses the word lolicon to describe his actual pedophilia. Whatever distinction you perceive to exist is clearly not that strict in practice.