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I can't find any English translations after Bone 63, it appears as though whoever was translating them (the person looking after their sick mother, as they said in every chapter) stopped doing it? Does anyone know if there's enough interest to start a new translation effort?
why should we give a shit? who cares? if injuries mean nothing to Oda why waste the panels on them?
smartphones, flatscreen lcds, and electric cars all existed back in 2016. There have been no new real advancements or disruptions in technology as far as consumer goods are concerned. The only real change I can think of is waymos and app scooters. outside of that, remote work and tech scams. more cybertrucks.
this is the first real decade in my lifetime I can say that. it feels like there was always some new technology that would revolutionize our lives once every five years or so. I was born into an age of CRTs, tape camcorders, and car phones, and turned 10 in the age of plasma screens, digital cameras, and camera flip phones. The world was unrecognizable. we romanticized decades because things changed rapidly
if you look around us now, what's really materially different from ten years ago? you could go back in time ten years and have the exact same lifestyle. the age of recognizable era signifiers is over. same phones, same tvs, same computers, game consoles, cars, tablets, watches, and streaming services, just incrementally improved. or in some cases, degraded. and now with more chatbot psychosis and gig work