Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord Discussion

Definitely the winner of this season's longest title award.

I was expecting him to have water magic like every other wunderkid.

Pretty decent, just which that opening hadn't basically given everything away. I have no idea why people think that kind of thing is necessary.

I can see why nobles would see that kind of thing as menial or beneath them though.

@zkeleton Sure but this guy's dad went immediately to putting him down lol.

That scene was just odd

Have you had that avatar on MAL before, or did you just recently reprise one you had on Crunchyroll forums?

@HOOfan_1 I figured out how to resize the old one enough to fit as a forum avatar, which I had the whole time as my profile picture on MAL.

@marklebid

Huh is that the reason mine doesn't show up? It is sized wrong?

@MenchiK1 Your profile pic is at the MAL web site level. The little thing on the left is at the individual subforum level, there's a 'Forum Settings' at top right where you can upload an 100 pixel image for this specific forum.

Weird design.

So he can build a house. I don't see how that kind of magic is going to be useful.

Wait...

It sounds like most people with his magic can't make much with it, but he has the mana capacity you'd need to be able make it useful. It's typical of these kinds of stories that nobles have more mana so it follows along with that.

He should have asked about earthquakes before building that mansion. :p

If I was one of those villagers my opinion of this new lord wouldn't exactly go up when I see that he built himself a mansion while the rest of us are still living in shacks that look like they could be blown down by a strong wind.

I read the first few chapters of a manga that had a very similar story to this. In that one though the MC was sent out into the middle of nowhere to establish a village/town, not oversee one that was already there. And it was just him and a maid to being with.

I'm wondering why the hell the village is even where it is. Sitting on dirt, a good trek from the nearest water source, it makes no sense until they build a canal and a lake. Even with Van there, it would have probably been better to shift themselves closer to the river unless there's some aspect of the landscape I'm missing. Possibly a major road?

I also wondering what he's doing about waste. Sewage is a thing, and there wasn't any mention of plumbing. Just a bath supplied by "water magic" In real medieval moats that's what all the local sewage drained into (convenient, plus helped discourage swimming invaders) but apparently they're planning to drink from theirs.

Well, nonetheless I'm finding this a cheerful watch even if it's pretty light on actual drama. I almost laughed at the villagers huddling in terror behind the massive fortifications at the end. I'm fairly sure the next episode will begin by the armored lizards plowing face-first into stainless steel walls and being soundly defeated in under a minute.

Man it was driving me nuts every time they mentioned the lizard meat would spoil and he didn't think about a way to store it. I thought for sure he would suggest building a freezer or digging a underground storage area and someone using ice magic, or salting it, or smoking it, or any of the other myriad ways (look them up) to preserve meat. Oh well missed opportunity. Rest was fun as usual. Though kind of odd these lizards had never attacked before they were suddenly prepared to kill them, though how would they have gotten over the moat? wasn't that the whole point of making it. Boobs and the young girl were fun. He should have immediately told her he prefers older women when she said she would marry him if he were older. Are they really going to pair him with this little girl? Well I guess once she grows up they can have lots of gray haired babies.

I'm wondering why the hell the village is even where it is. Sitting on dirt, a good trek from the nearest water source, it makes no sense until they build a canal and a lake. Even with Van there, it would have probably been better to shift themselves closer to the river unless there's some aspect of the landscape I'm missing. Possibly a major road?

I also wondering what he's doing about waste. Sewage is a thing, and there wasn't any mention of plumbing. Just a bath supplied by "water magic" In real medieval moats that's what all the local sewage drained into (convenient, plus helped discourage swimming invaders) but apparently they're planning to drink from theirs.

Well, nonetheless I'm finding this a cheerful watch even if it's pretty light on actual drama. I almost laughed at the villagers huddling in terror behind the massive fortifications at the end. I'm fairly sure the next episode will begin by the armored lizards plowing face-first into stainless steel walls and being soundly defeated in under a minute.

Yes! I was expecting him to make a freezer or something but he just gave up on it.

@runec I too, was wondering about that very same puzzling development! Even if he didn't have that kind of knowledge you'd think these villagers would know about techniques like salting/smoking.

Well the harem is growing pretty fast now. Don't ever remember seeing freshwater mer-people before. Hey can you help us with our waste we dump multiple times a day into the river? You mean the river we were living in until we moved into your lake? Suuuure......
Damn royal parents in this world are all a-holes. I was hoping for a little more "bounce" from the knight and maid playing volleyball, of course only the guy loses his speedo...
And wait, after many times mentioning the lizard meat will spoil he suddenly knows how to make jerky?

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