I hope you continue to like it as you read more. I really need to have some more descriptions of it, then again more description takes away some of the wonder. Some of the references are based on cultural lore, others exaggerated, and some just plain made up. None of my characters have "Titan, Star Trek, Insert sci fi here" universal translators to help them. As for what happens to the American's that's a secret. As for communication, even without language humans can communicate, just not directly. Instead it takes time is arduous and things get misunderstood.

Anyways I hope you continue reading. Thank you.

Yay, a chapter which didn't make Shouta more unlikeable... I think taking baths have benefits. Well so far the Americans have only seen one kind of giant and it murdered 81 men. So who knows what their encounter with the Ryujin will be like.

I'm glad you liked it, and have continued to read it. I'm starting to think the story and the audience is demanding heavier smut scenes. Then again story wise, it might not make much sense or feel real if I did so this early, or at all.

Had they wanted to blow her out of the water, it would have been much easier then the explorative fleets encounter. The Yamato is terrifying enough prospect for the Ryujin, but it was with an escort of a light cruiser and five destroyers. Shouta is a man of pride, as a result, he's not taking the situation too well.

I want to make the chapters longer as well, but that also puts a  lot of pressure on me. I'm not very good at segmented writing, typically I write a whole chapter in one go, then edit it.

Thanks a lot Amateur. Make sure you catch up to the latest chapter soon. I don't care much for male giants either, so turning them into the bad guys probably worked out really well for me in this regard. I'm glad you liked it so far, make sure you save some time for your own writing as well.

Hey I already answered your question in Giantess chat. Since other's might be curious I'll also answer you here.

First off thank you for the review. My understanding of physics is mostly related to research, but it also helps I studied the higher math's and sciences while in college. I just went the IT Computer Tech editor/writer route in college. My friend is at a university becoming a particle physicist, so there's that.

I'll try to review your Rise of the Nephilim when I get the chance to fully read and take it in.

First off in third person is sometimes hard to write, since I have to decide what information is to be revealed or left for later exposition. Some of my early chapters have been to heavy in exposition, so I've tried to move away from this.

There are 219 days a year in Watasumi. A days length is 40 hours. A day consists of 28 hours of light followed by 12 hours of darkness. This means their year is equivalent to ours. The Ryujin have a lifespan nearly twice that of a human, but they develop twice as slowly. Now I understand why you're confused about Nobuto. It has not been explained yet in the story, but when a Ryujin woman is pregnant she cannot tell the gender until the baby is born. Pregnancy lasts about 2 years, this is the same for male and female pregnancies. In the case of females, they are born as toddlers like us, but unlike humans Ryujin males are born as a big protective egg, "or you could say inside them". The egg is opened after birth, as the egg "Giant flesh ball" merely served as a vessel to protect the unborn male child from the mother during pregnancy.

Originally there was exposition planned to explain this during the chapter Meet The Parents Part 2, Maki was going to explain this to Shouta. But I decided at the time to hold off on it." By the time a male Ryujin is taken from an egg he is already fully physically developed and only requires a short period to accumulate into their society. This period is roughly five years, after such time a male Ryujin is able to mate. So a female Ryujin takes 30 to 40 years to become an adult, while a Ryujin male only takes five, as a result Ryujin males are expected to live a max life of around 150 years, 50 years less than a female Ryujin's life expectancy.

All of this was meant to be explained shortly in expositions, and I still intend to. It's partly the fault the story is slow paced and the IJN fleet has not properly spoken to any Ryujin on this subject matter. Since the reader perspective is from the fleets perspective, there is no way they could have known yet. In third person I state some things which I suppose really do need more explanation to prevent headaches for the readers.

I agree that I should have shown more provocation to lead up to the attack. While it was never explicably mentioned, the Yamato was in constant communication with the exploratory fleet, so Ito would have been aware of the situation. This part of the story might need an edit.

I feared criticism because it was a very short battle. Also it gave favor to the humans, even if they ended up retreating. On Giantess World it's often that people side with the Titans. I felt I might get criticism for letting the humans win too easily.

Anyways, thanks for your thoughts.

It's funny since in the dub Star Blazers, they renamed The Yamato to, The Argo, and had other forms of censorship.

Still it's cool that you think I created a good, "anime style," cliff hanger, so thank you.

Yes I've read it plus more. More recently which I will share below.

Yes Ryujin woman are anywhere between 120 to 170 feet tall, with 150 as an average for adults.  Your right I did get the perception wrong on the bullet size, at the time i had been doing some other calculations and it got mixed in there.  However Oni fall under a larger scale then the Ryujin woman.

The ships themselves were fully armed before the operation, so it will be a while before thier out of ammo. Each gun had a life of about 500 to 700 shots and each gun would have had 120 ammo, with the ability to shoots 5 to 10 rounds a minute. Note these were seasoned battleships near the end of the war and also shooting faster results in more wear on the barrels. Speaking of ammo, due to the mission and lack of any air cover the destroyers most likely had an excess supply of incendiary shrapnel rounds made for anti aircraft. They might produce similar effects of a mini shotgun to the Oni. They rely on fuses which detonate by time delay which are manually set by the loader. As for the regular shot, what was common by the end of the war was most likely solid steel shot, or hardened tip sabot in Japanese munitions. So likely the destroyers in Operation Ten Go would have been armed with them.

The explosive shells Quote:

"The earliest naval and anti-tank shells had to withstand the extreme shock of punching through armour plate. Shells designed for this purpose sometimes had a greatly strengthened case with a small bursting charge, and sometimes were solid metal, i.e. shot. In either case, they almost always had a specially hardened and shaped nose to facilitate penetration. This resulted in armour-piercing (AP) projectiles.

A further refinement of such designs improved penetration by adding a softer metal cap to the penetrating nose giving armour-piercing, capped (APC) design. The softer cap dampens the initial shock that would otherwise shatter the round. The best profile for the cap is not the most aerodynamic; this can be remedied by adding a further hollow cap of suitable shape: APCBC (APC + ballistic cap).^[12]

AP shells with a bursting charge were sometimes distinguished by appending the suffix "HE". At the beginning of the Second World War, solid shot AP projectiles were common. As the war progressed, ordnance design evolved so that APHE became the more common design approach for anti-tank shells of 75 mm caliber and larger, and more common in naval shell design as well. In modern ordnance, most full caliber AP shells are APHE designs."

Here's some info "Japan 12.7 cm/50 (5") 3rd Year Type"

Also I thought I should mention that in 1943 the destroyers which would play a part in Operation Ten Go had their guns upgraded from 127mm to 130mm 50 caliber guns. Also the claims of armor penetration of four feet come from a cited Japanese test which was done, but it was not substantiated.

As for adjusting ammo, the guns fired bag ammunition and used a Welin breech-block, must often black powder charges. So adjusting ammo is possible.

The only one which did not use manual charges was an ASW Explosive shell which used propellant. But it could only pierce 1 inch of steel, and had a APHE flat head designed to explode on impact. "This might be effective, but I'm unsure if and how many they had aboard for Operation Ten Go

Likely the amount of shot able to be used will play a more important role in taking down a giant, since unless bone gets in the way, they will likely pass straight through.

 Thank you for correcting me about the perspective. That was a brain fart I wrote there.

Thanks for the review again.

On an unrelated note.

The problems I'm having now for upcoming chapters is physics related. I actually have a friend who's a studying particle physicist, but he didn't want to be bothered by my questions. lol Though I did find out that the ships should be faster due to their displacement being halved, Hydroplaning. As to how much the halved displacement gets the ships, he could not answer, so for now I'm using the need to save gas and prevent damage to the ships boilers as an excuse to stay within slower speeds. If someone could find the answer it would help me a lot. The weapons effectiveness, is actually consistent, but with less gravity they have twice the range and accuracy.

So I've recently been contemplating the math for some possible coming scenario's, so I guess this is sort of, and sort of isn't a spoiler, it's all hypothetical for what if scenario's.

Anyway my problems stems from the effectiveness of 130mm 50 caliber, 100 lbs casings effectiveness in a half gravity environment against a 4,800 ton giants flesh. I can't seem to find any good data sheets for WW2's Japanese Destroyer guns. "War secrets." Though I do know they were said to be able to penetrate four feet thick steel armor, if my sources are correct. Steel has a density of 7.8 g/cm3 while the average human body has 1.062 g/cm^3.  So the Penetration should be 7.34 times greater. But the rounds could penetrate that amount of armor and keep going, so it should actually keep going further than that.

So for a Giant I think, it should penetrate roughly thirty to forty feet. Now given his chest is anywhere between thirty to forty feet thick. And the bullet, or in this case ammo rounds from the naval guns are five inches. In perspective of a giant, that would make them appear to be one inch in diameter, almost twice the size as a standard bullet. So I believe they should be quite effective, if my math is right.

If nothing else the Yamato is armed with nine 18 inch guns with 3 ton beehive canister rounds which releases over 3,000 pieces of shrapnel in a cone like manner, similar to a shotgun. Oh and like 6, 6 inch guns, and 24 destroyer 5 inch guns.

Anyways if anyone has any thoughts on the matter of ballistics or sciences of the Ryujin world, please give me a hand with your knowledge. I know The Titan universe shares similarities to the Ryujins world, so maybe JohnnyScribe, or openhighhat might know some of this stuff already.