Can't even hold a sword

There's one where the equivalent of Houdini gets isekai'd into actual historical medieval Europe. There's no magic, either.

That one put a literal date on its time travel.
400 years ago is post-middle ages.

(and time travel isn't isekai, anyway)

>Take the time to actually come up with a story, draw it out and everything
>Doesn't spend 5 minutes to google how hard a bow is to draw, (which should be basic knowledge, really)
Why would they do this?
It's like they barely care at all, but simultaneously care just enough to put some effort into the art.

The bow is by far the smaller problem.
Most people would be able to draw a hunting bow, and a hunting bow is enough if you are fighting unarmored opponents.

The way the story plays it out, it might as well be an isekai. It's not like most time travel stories, the guy just travels once and gets stuck there.

But its not like the mangaka understands that relation.
>but that requires time for research which most mangakas just don’t do anymore
It sucks but that seems to be the reality of things for most.

english longbow men were so muscular up top that they might as well have been living leg day memes

English longbow does have that kind of firepower

>Not surprising that some manga author has no fucking idea how bows work.
Mangaka have no idea about fucking anything in grand majority of cases. They think crop rotations, fallow and troop training is some novel idea that was never tried in medieval and would TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZE A NATION!1!!1!! because the mangaka in question is too stupid to understand how a steam engine works or the finer aspects of military such as logistics.
Rome literally conquered entire peripheral of mediterranean BECAUSE their logistics and military organization was pristine for the times.

God I hate CROP ROTATIONS!1!1!! so much. Do mangaka think European farmers, or peasants in general were clinically fucking retarded? They were undereducated but most of them were very wise, if prone to magic thinking.

>have no problem with 8 pound rifle
>struggle with 3 pound longsword

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user, without armor it's not really about power.
The arrow gives you an arrow-shaped hole. If that hole happens to pass through any important organs, you die.
If it passes through non-vital meat only, you live (maybe, if the shock and blood loss don't kill you).

Even a hunting arrow can kill you, and the wide arrow-heads often used against fleshy targets would certainly be more dangerous than the narrow arrow-heads used to penetrate mail - unless you are wearing mail.

I mean, it's whatever the mangaka can think of.
Bookworm found that the natives had never ever thought of decorating things, and so she could become a super success with her lacking handicrafts skills.

Thanks user, finally someone said it

>reading isekai
>complain it's retarded
Why would you even raed this garbage? Just read historical manga if you aren't a faggot looking for wishfulfilment.

Thing is, decorations will never TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZE A NATION!1!!1! it's just a plot device for her to get money, which is fine in its own right, though a bit silly and far-fetched. Meanwhile those isekai-writing mouthbreathers think peasants swinging a long stick for a few hours a day will somehow make them unkillable. Yeah don't teach them how to brace said sticks against dirt to counter a cavalry charge or how to move as a unit, that's too complex and make the MC not seem as powerful if a shitty peasant can kill a knight lol.

It's a bit more complicated than that, they didn't have lace and weaving patterns (in the commoner city) and nobody had three dimensional lace patterns. The handicrafts also don't make the main character a lot of money, it's only when she actually starts creating plant-based paper that she starts rolling in dough.

>decorations will never TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZE A NATION!1!!1!
Oh, it totally would though.
What do you think a modern country would be without trade?

If you have the only country that can decorate stuff, then you are officially the richest king in the world, meaning you begin to dominate the other countries in other ways too.

Back when I played around with thread as a kid, I and my siblings almost immediately tried out what sort of interesting patterns we could come up with.
These people couldn't even think of ways of decorating their fucking baskets.
People of the past were way bigger on such things than the modern era because people were used to making these things themselves rather than getting them out of stores. The idea that she could routinely show them new stuff in this area is retarded.

>which should be basic knowledge, really
But it really isn't. Most people have never been close to a real bow let alone had the pleasure to shoot one or multiple ones. Without that the knowledge would have to be gained by some other means and that's simply not something most people come across to. Sure it doesn't take a lot of thinking with a basic understanding of physics to understand why bows work like that but it's not something you just realize if you don't think about it.

There's some great videos on youtube about a guy like that.

Tweet this shit to the mangaka

>If it passes through non-vital meat only, you live (maybe, if the shock and blood loss don't kill you).
Back in the day you'd have a pretty risk of dying to infections or disease if you got a bad wound even if it didn't hit your organs.

Especially with stabbing wounds. The deeper the wound, the less the people knew how to handle them.

The idea that bows are suitable for weak people comes from the meme that elves/females are good with bows. Elves/females are weaker than men so the natural conclusion is that bows are suitable for weaker people.
The reality is of course the opposite and the only female infantry divisions that have existed generally used polearms.

Exactly. Usual thing with arrow wounds and later with bullet wounds before medicine got better was that the projectile would take some cloth or other material with it into the wound and people didn't understand this or had no way of cleaning the wounds deep inside so stuff would get stuck inside and fester.

It was lethal at relatively close range and only if the enemy wasn't wearing proper plate armour and was lacking a shield. It was a peasant/rider killer and was woefully ineffective against a shield wall.