Big Order: New manga by author of Mirai Nikki

Doesn't Occam's Razor rely on Law of Conservation of Detail?

Not unless the universe you are talking about is a story created by someone.

Occam's Razor is a principle for developing theories based on the idea that they should make the smallest logical leaps.

The Law of conservation of Detail is a fictional principle based on the idea of not making your story to complicated.

The only overlap I can see is when you're developing a theory based on the story's developments / the author's intentions.

Duly noted.

Say in fiction there's a murder and no one knows who did it in story, but it's very likely it's one of the introduced characters. While in real life not so much.

Although most murders are committed by friends and family. So depending on how close you are to the victim you may know the killer.

/coughs

So, anyway, I'm personally betting on a magical psychosomatic pregnancy, on the basis that I don't think she going to be effectively removed from the story just yet and therefore needs a way to get her powers back.

And because having the main character impregnate a loli in a very literal sense might be pushing the limits of what they can get away with.

edited 10th Apr '12 7:58:17 AM by Gilphon

Ohhh it was an accident.

She breeds like bunnies.

Welp after waiting a while chapters 8 and 9 are up and translated [URL="http://www.mangahere.com/manga/big_order/c008/"]here[/URL]

Some interesting developments this time around. Seems Rin won't be getting rid of her Eiji kiling mantra anytime soon like I'd hoped but at least it turned out to be somewhat useful this time around. Also interesting to see that we got a red herring as far as who was eaking out information but Hiiragi still comes across as being too suspicious. Was also nice to see Eiji dealing with some of the hatred people have for him from the disaster and it;s cool to see him staying resolute in spite of that. Hopefully he won't be forced to tread any deep moral territory anytime soon.

That last part would be nice, but let's be honest.

He won't be that lucky. The kid will have to make some tough choices during this story.

I'm still wondering about the legitimacy of whether he's really responsible for what happened or not.

I personally don't think he is. I don't see a wish to "rule the world" matching with the world being mostly destroyed. Hopefully we'll get some clarity on that soon.

I just had a dark thought:

What if the destruction of the world was a part of his wish, but not in the way we considered.

What if Ruling the world at the time when he made the wish was impossible unless something happened to change it over time, allowing events to slot into place so he could get his wish.

In other words, the events of the Manga are Eiji's wish being granted, as he'll eventually earn back the trust of the people, while defeating the evil order users, and creating the safe world for his sister that he wants.

He really did destroy the world, and he doesn't even know it.

Hmm. I was just thinking that we seemed overdue for a new chapter.

Nuking him right off the bat like this- wonder how they'll keep tension in the series after that.

Orbital Laser.

Yeah, I kinda feel we've jumped straight to over-the-top battles and an over-powered protagonist when more story building would have been nice first.

I mean, to start with I'm still having trouble understanding what the limits of Eiji's power are.

You know what though? In spite of the little development they've gotten so far, I like the characters.

Must be because they're some kind of compound of a heap of character types from other works. Seemingly the good elements though.

Eiji's limits so far are simply his territory and the extent to which he can manipulate those inside it.

Well, he can give absolute commands better than Lelouch with Geass in both eyes, throw up a barrier like he's a Kekkaishi and appears to command servant Assassin. Plus he can levitate objects like a wizard and probably change them like an alchemist. And that's only what he's thought of doing so far.

He's got more power than most heroes get in their entire series is what I'm saying I guess.

edited 8th Jun '12 2:21:44 AM by UltimatelySubjective

I'd bet that, within his territory, he's a full-fledged Reality Warper.

I guess there's probably a limit to how complex the things he can do are. That would be why healing his sister is beyond him.

Plus while he can manipulate other order users he can't manipulate their powers directly.

The 9th chapter has been out a while.

It was scanlated on the same day as the chapter before it, so everyone's seen it already.

This manga still exists.

Chapter 10 now up on Manga reader.

Benkei is on Eiji's side, and comes off as a decent guy. I am immediately suspicious. Eiji going out and stopping a damn nuke was just a feint. Sucks to be you, kid. Iyo has a prophetic pregnancy, and totally-not-evil-looking-guy can apparently cut holes in space. All good to know.

I can't be the only one finding this manga a little messy. It's like the whole thing is one long action scene... With quite a few 3 month breaks in between.

But still, I look forward to more fleshing out of the concept.

It certainly feels like it's trying to be high stakes and intense all the time, which is hard to maintain with the long breaks.

I'm fine with that though. Makes each and every chapter rather entertaining with things always happening. I'm sure it will calm down sooner or later.

I'd rather have it plotted out well in advance.

It feels more like this story is trying to keep up the pace by ending every sentence with "suddenly".