Story Time - Thermae Romae - Mari Yamazaki

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I might take a nap while I post this, so don't expect a reply.

If it suddenly stops posting, then something terribly wrong has happened and it's up to you believers to keep it afloat until I return.

keep going OP

this manga able to make me smart

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My college degree tells me that this thread will take just over 4 hours, so I will nap for 3.5

>>112052101

>foreign sailors

Damn Russians

>>112052101
>some sailors brought food to a bath once
>foreign sailors forever banned from the whole area forever
Fucking Japs.

Has the volume 2 been released in USA yet?
I own the first volume but i haven't seen new ones.

k-keep going anon!!

>>112052241
ARE YOU NOT FEELING RELAXED AND REFRESHED???

>>112052241
Money well spent.

>>112052311
They're all out now.

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This thread will continue right into the next volume.

>>112052311

All three are out, but bookstores might not carry them anymore unless you request them.

Is there a torrent?

>>112052241
My Japanese tells me I should say ?????

>>112052193
>>Accidentally walking in on naked, plump, sassy elderly Italian women

This is not like my chinese cartoons and I don't want it!

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>>112052361

Get a degree, post storytime threads on /a/ for a year and work every now and then. Living the dream.

>>112052299
It wasn't the whole are more then it was probably that specific bath, and it was specifically sailors. They probably don't have any laws discriminating people from using/entering their services.

I say probably because it's big fuck all assumption especially since I've been in a hotel that prohibited japs from renting rooms. It even had a floor segregated that only women can rent.

>>112052418
just google kitty blog + manga name
mega link

>>112052471
>>>common policy of "no foreign sailors allowed" in that area

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>>112052418

Yes, try the usual places.

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>>112052587

I would also say to try giving Vita Arcana a shot, but I don't even know if that's still being published. I think it transferred magazines, but I don't know its publication schedule. Must be irregular, since a new tank still hasn't come out.

>>112052574
>anon in charge of not reading
>that anon is me
I'm gonna blame how late it is, my point is still partially true in that it probably wasn't that big of a deal, they just needed to go further to find a hot spring, which sucks.

but yeah I fucked up.

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In other news, I would like to scan the deluxe versions of Ravages of Time, but YesAsia (the only place I can find that sells it reliably and overseas) charges $25 per volume.

I can't even remember the last time i had a good soak in a bathtub

>>112052782
Been about 2 years for me
Blog: don't know if you can call it a good soak though.
4 AM, decide to soak and stay up since no bath at home and often travel, bubbles, bubbles everywhere, to the ceiling, bubbles, have to evacuate bubbles to the shower to wash them away, for about 30minutes+, bubbles.
It popped the luxury bubble I was trying to live in.
Bathtubs.
Not even once.

>>112053149
well, he never became emperor

>>112053419
No doubt thanks to our dear time-travelling Lucius.

>>112053416
Here we go

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I completely forgot about Shirokuma Cafe. No one's even touched that.

>>112053498
no, thanks to tuberculosis
>>112053230

>>112053507
>Roman
>Egyptian
Two of these are not like the other.

>>112053498
"I would've succeeded the throne, if not for that meddling plumber!" -- Cieonius

>>112053507
>white guy
>native Egyptian
Is it normal for Japs to just lump all foreigners into one category or something?

>>112053376
The way they stand is absolutely adorable.

>>112053651

Yes.

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>>112053724

Yes it is.

>>112053651

Too be fair, egypt during roman times was ruled by greeks, so they were fairly white

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All right, for real this time, taking a brief nap. Enjoy. 219 images left for this dump, otherwise it would end in the middle of a chapter.

Going to have to go buy some caffeine gum or something.

>started out as a comedy about Roman's being thieving bastards
>turned into a self-insert Roman culture circlejerk

Why

>>112053798
Even if that's true, how is that relevant to modern day Japan?

>>112053798
She's not in Roman times.

>>112053889
Alright, sleep well. Remember people, no images in storytime threads, especially not one that's cutting this close to the image limit.

>>112053926
The hell are you talking about?

>>112053926
The author took the saying; 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do', too literally.
Too much immersion.
>>112053962
>saying it
You'll only attract the wrong crowds, even not saying it would've only led to 1-2 reactions at most.

>>112053934
This guy is clumsy as fuck.

>>112054043
It's divine intervention.

>>112053948
>>112053958
Could just be that he's a foreigner and he's wearing clothing one could mistake for Egyptian clothes if you didn't know much of Egypt and since he's in an Egyptian crocodile den. Also Romans had olive skin, Egyptians can have light-ish skin. It's not that much of a stretch to assume he's one.

>>112054043
if that isn't moe, then i don't know what is

>>112053651
Probably watched too many Steve Irwins, so she must have thought that crocs + caucasian = that person is a croc expert --> + zoo = zookeeper

>>112054094
That doesn't look entirely safe.

>>112054094
This page is one-page thread material.

>>112054226
The Desu-Emperor and the Nile Crocodile of Truth

>>112053651
well crocs expert often associated with australia so...

>>112054234
Ceionius, stop destroying the future of the Empire with your libido!

>>112054276
>>112054160
But she specifically says the crocodile came from Egypt right before that.

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Stripped 20~ pages of anecdotes, so if you want those I can either dump them at the end, or you can download the volumes yourself.

>>112053948
>Even if that's true,
it's a p liberal interpretation
afak Egypt was ruled by remnants of Alexander the Greats empire (Ptolemaic Kingdom) then it was made a Roman Province by Octavian and entered the direct jurisdiction of the Emperor, so it was ruled by the Emperor directly and not by the senat

so you could argue it was ruled by 'Greeks' but Ptolemy the I was Macedonian and the kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom, which means it builds on the tradition of Alexander to merge 'western' (greek/macedonian) and 'eastern(persian) traditions of military, philosophy and government together

>>112054333
Excuse the image, didn't pay attention.

>>112054380
Go to bed already.

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>>112054488

Just ensuring the safety of this dump. Until the next thread.

>>112054488
Jeff is that you

>>112054522
>that qt Luscious boypussy

>>112054387
addendum: and since during Hadrian's period it had been and imperial province for a good 100 years it was ruled by Romans if anything (then again that is a stretchy term too since it means people who had roman citizenship and is not an ethnic term)

>>112053619
Do crocs actually like warm water?

>>112054387
>greek/macedonian
Why say the same thing twice?

>>112054921
They're cold-blooded animals that live around the equator, what do you think?

>>112054921
I'm assuming they do, tropical zones being their natural habitat and all.
I have never seen Crocs being depicted as the cold bloody monsters of the northpole.

Has anyone scanned volume 3 yet?

>>112055074
Yes.

It's pretty bad. The author even admitted she didn't want to write it anymore but was forced to by her publisher.

>>112055074
Yes

>>112054960
because it's not
it may be from our modern perspective, but they were different at the time, Greece was basically a patchwork of city states with different forms of governance but a common cultural and religious ground while Macedonia was a kingdom at the peripherie of the classical greek world, only in the hellenistic period the two sort of merged, but it's not the same
sort of like you wouldn't say that Canada is US-american

>>112055189
Probably why the ending felt like shit compared to everything else.

>>112055189

She should have drawn 80 pages of hot roman thermae gay orgies

I'm almost done with the other thread. Sure are a lot of phalluses in this chapter. Are they going to slip into a hot spring and surface in a seedy Japanese porn store?

>>112055337
Close enough

>>112055007
>>112054971
They sunbathe to regulate their temperature. I would think they would get in the water to cool off and hunt.

The terror of waterslides

>>112055392
A tropical river is still going to be much warmer than anything naturally found in a temperate climate. Besides, they get lethargic if they cool off too much, not the best state for trying to find prey.

>>112055392
Still don't think they like cold water.
Of course they would recreate their natural habitat when putting them in Zoos and the like.
No one said they were in the water all day either.

This is getting silly

I love it

>>112055696
Those corners look lethal.

>>112055772
>superb in that case its my turn next
so moe

>>112055897
The bath water, err, plot, thickens, hory shet.

>>112055189
I never would've imagined that it would be popular enough for publishers to harass the author for me.

>>112055987
>these people mad at the free market doing its thing

>>112056177
>I do not even have the money to pay slaves
>Japan in charge of slaver

>>112056177
>paid slaves
?
Workers?

>>112056283
well, somebody must feed them, or it's money for the slave master because they only hire them?

>>112056283
Pay FOR slaves.
There

>>112056335
Maybe rented?

>>112056359
The story is beginning to lose steam.

>>112056393
>>112056348
Maybe.

>>112056335
Yes. He's just calling a spade a spade.

>>112056359
He must have an inner ear problem.

>>112056419
Worst joke all thread.
At least the Cream of the crop one was good

>>112056458
Its clumsy-moe anon.

He gets a love interest right? Is the love interest Roman or Japanese?

>>112056493
just be patient, part of that is scanned already

>>112055204
If you want to look at it that way, Greece as a concept didn't exist back then, it was a sort of mini-Europe.

>>112056493
Japanese, of course.

>>112056536
All of it is scanned.

>>112056536
All of it is scanned.

>>112056493
Japanese, and it's very clearly the author's self-insert.

>>112056537
well, they did have stuff like the oracle or the games, but it was certainly not the same understanding we have today

>>112056945
That face though

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>>112056945

>>112056699
..

>>112056699
>It's clearly blablabla something I don't know about even though it was mentioned in the last thread I wasn't in either

>>112056335
Roman slavery is different from most other types. From wikipedia:

Roman slaves could hold property which, despite the fact that it belonged to their masters, they were allowed to use as if it were their own. Skilled or educated slaves were allowed to earn their own money, and might hope to save enough to buy their freedom. Such slaves were often freed by the terms of their master's will, or for services rendered. A notable example of a high-status slave was Tiro, the secretary of Cicero. Tiro was freed before his master's death, and was successful enough to retire on his own country estate, where he died at the age of 99.

>>112057302
Now look at this shady fucker.

>>112057302

>temporal investigator looking for time-leaping roman

>>112057302
we a spy-thriller story now?

>>112056945
>searching for the Dragonbaths when I was a kid was merely the beginning, and before I knew it I ended up in this world

>>112057371
>the roman who lept through time
I'd watch it

>>112057231
their property was not only their master's it was also his decision whether they were allowed to hold one

and slaves who were in charge of heating eater were most certainly not paid

what this article is talking about mostly pertains to slaves who were educated vernae who recieved a good education from their masters and would work skilled labour or finance and not be water heaters

but whatever, they probably meant paying for the slaves' living costs anyway

>>112057167
>g-guys, she totally isn't self-insert, even though all the author comments indicate that she's pretty much exactly like the author!!

>>112057382
>and now I am well known as a Super Bath Engineer
>I think I've just desired to bathe from the beginning
>I've bathed with flat-faced, bald-headed, short barbarians, crocodiles from Egypt, and many others

>>112056563
Last time OP didn't post Vol. 3

>>112058184
The OP of the last thread even says it's all been scanned. I don't know what your point is.

>>112058395
Bathing solves everything.

>>112058395

>stick all the world leaders in a bath
>next day, world peace

>>112058437
>slip
HERE WE GO AGAIN

>>112059268

>I want him to pound my pussy like he pounded that target

>>112059268
Shit, where is the "grinning Archer" pic from Carnival Phantasm when I need it.

>>112059423
>tfw one of those coins in that mint condition is literally priceless

from the ktk release post:
>Incredible books. (Well, the first two are.)

Is there something I'm missing about the third volume? Weak ending?

>>112059894
The mangaka was forced to write it by the publisher. So it's kinda shit

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>>112059940
Nine tenths of mangakas struggle with the problem of being forced to stop writing for a magazine because of low popularity and the remaining one tenth has to put up with being forced to write stuff even while dry on ideas.

>>112059894
The author literally didn't want to write it, you can pretty much guess the quality of the third volume.

>>112059940
>>112060117
Well, fuck. Shame.

>>112060117
Are the other 2 volumes nice?

>>112060328
What, the first two volumes? Just follow the storytime and decide for yourself, they're the ones getting posted.

It's great.

>>112060420
No, I mean the last two. It has 6 volumes, right?

>>112060513
Volume 1 is JP volume 1&2
Volume 2 is JP volume 3&4
Volume 3 is JP volume 5&6

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>>112060652

Moest character I've seen in a while

To the anon posting these, you have my heartfelt thanks. Keep up the good work!

>>112061474
Nigga broke his barrel.

Just watched the movie, it was shit. The dubbing was pretty funny with how bad it was. I like Abe Hiroshi, but it wasn't a great role.

It would have seriously benefited from being more like the series, or the first 2 volumes of the manga. Changing everything to fit in a love interest was shitty.