remember the high speed manga? released in 2015? gave aki yazaki her first official look? well i finally got around to poorly scanning the last 40 or so pages since i'm assuming a good chunk of fans still haven't come across it. it's not the best quality, but i figure it's better than nothing. enjoy besties!! :D
hello I never read free! novels but Haru and makoto like each other romantically? in the anime I had this impression
Unfortunately, any ship in either Free! or High Speed!is 100% fanon. None of them is canon, although a lot of people on the internet will try to convince you otherwise. The thing about this series is that it’s not just the “ships these characters with each other” type of franchise, it’s also the “ship yourself with these characters” type. I would say it’s even more the latter than the former, to be honest. So, no, they don’t really like each other romantically in canon, but hey! There’s plenty of material for the ship, both in the books and in the anime, and there’s no lack of fanworks for it, so if you wanna dive headfirst into that pairing (pun intended), my advice is go right ahead!
so i decided to treat myself and buy the high speed manga since i could never find a translation (or even raw scans) for the final chapter and this made me tear up
i’m not fluent in japanese or anything, but based on the context alone it seems toraichi left a time capsule of his own using rin’s elementary box (?)
and just when i thought this series couldn’t hurt me anymore 😭💔
Musk never had any intention of building the Hyperloop. He only needed it to help kill or substantially delay the high-speed rail project and the alternate vision of sustainable collective transportation it offered. It threatened his interests as an automaker and his elite vision of “individualized” mobility that simply worked better for him.
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In the time since California started talking about high-speed rail and Elon Musk interjected with his fantasy to help sidetrack it, China moved ahead and built a network consisting of 42,000 kilometres (26,000 miles) of track. Europe is continuing to expand its own network, and Japan is building a maglev line that will run at speeds of over 500 km/h (310 mph). The first segment from Tokyo to Nagoya could open by 2027. Not to be outdone, China is working on a maglev of its own to beat its Japanese rivals.
While the Hyperloop deception spread far and wide, nowhere was it stronger than in the United States. As countries around the world moved forward with real transport improvements, North Americans were distracted by the fantasies of clueless, but self-confident tech moguls. They left people trapped in their cars and denied better options to get around that people in many other parts of the world — even those that are quite a bit poorer — take for granted. Now all they can do is shovel money at automakers to try to power cars with batteries instead of internal combustion engines. They have no vision for a better, less car dependent alternative.
how am i, a transformers fan and avid optimus enjoyer, supposed to look at these and resume my life like normal, as if the chemistry in my brain hadn't been irreversibly altered