Rise Up Animal Road

[Jacint Kosack]

In2018 alone, collisions with animals resulted in 190 deaths, per annual statistics published by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Between 2010 and 2019, the IIHS also said, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan ranked near the top of the country for motor vehicle crash deaths resulting from collisions with animals, at 106, 118 and 109, respectively.

2. Pay attention to road signs.

If you see a deer crossing sign, stay alert, as the sign is not just for one small section of a road, but rather an entire stretch. Pay attention to locations where you know there is a higher deer population or have seen roadkill before. If you see one deer, there is a good chance there are others nearby.

3. Use your high beams when possible.

When there is no oncoming traffic, the use of high beams at night will give you more distance in your vision, and will pick up those soft yellow eyes of deer and other animals.

Rise Up! Animal Road is a lot like Konosuba and that is no surprise. Both are firmly planted in the Isekai genre. Both have a cast of characters with quirks that make them funny, unreliable, and pretty bad at what they are supposed to do. And both of them also have the same author, Natsume Akatsuki.

With so many similarities to the hit comedy, Konosuba, you'd be forgiven for laughing your butt off at this excentric cast of weirdos as they stumble through a fantasy world in an attempt to turn the vicious demonic beasts that roam the land into household pets. So much so, that you might have missed a few things about the characters in your fits of laughter.

Genzo might seem the more obvious choice but that would be the wrong answer! This little pipsqueak may seem more content lazing about at home and having her fill of any (and I mean any) type of food she could get her little claws on, but she is by far the strongest member of Genzo's awkward group. The fact that she is basically a princess of the dragon tribe sure does help.

Throughout the series, she has been seen wiping the floor with whatever had the misfortune of fighting her, demonic beast and vampires included. Other feats of strength include being the one to ultimately defeat the griffons where everyone else failed and then carrying Genzo and Carmilla home after the fight.

No, MAO's name serves for much more than wordplay on the Japanese word for Demon Lord (Maou). In reality, MAO is the abbreviation of his real name and you'd be forgiven for not knowing it since it wasn't uttered once in the entire series despite the character being one of the main antagonists.

MAO actually stands for Macadamian Orge. Why his name is the combination of a type of nut and a fantasy creature is something only the author could know. Still, it is his name just the same, weirdness and all.

Jeeg is the colossal ant that shows up in the background throughout the show. He appeared suddenly at the end of the first episode and has been there ever since. Why he is there, why he follows Genzo, and what's his deal remains a mystery but his loyalty to Genzo is without questions.

Without being told he seems to have taken up all of the housework and if he is given an order, he follows it to the letter. The loyal ant fights life and limb for his master and his dream. If only we knew why...

As something like the princess of the Dragon tribe in Rise Up! Animal Road, it is only fitting that she be named after one of the greatest dragons of legend. Though you would find no mentions of a dragon in her usual moniker as Hanako, her full real name has one in plain sight. To us she is sweet little Hanako, to everyone else, she is Lindabrea Fafnir Gildmerag.

Fafnir is the greedy dragon of Norse Mythology. The son of the dwarf king Hreidar who was afflicted by the curse of Andvari's ring and gold. He would later be mortally wounded by Sigurd after hoarding his gold and having instilled fear into the hearts of man.

Poor guy. Heat Haze seems to have good intentions and constantly tries to help out Genzo and company, but the young adventurer usually gets the short end of the stick for not understanding how crazy Genzo is about animals. Good news for him though, he still found a way to help Genzo and company, albeit indirectly.

Heat Haze has a penchant for running into several legendary weapons on his journey. Legendary weapons that get stolen by Shigure whenever he triggers Genzo's berserk button. The money that Shigure then makes off of pawning those weapons is one of the reasons why Genzo's pet shop idea hasn't gone completely belly up.

You might not notice because they play wildly different characters in Rise Up! Animal Road, but the voice actors for Kazuma and Aqua from Konosuba made it onto the show. It takes viewers with pretty sensitive ears to even try to notice.

Jun Fukushima, the voice actor for Kazuma, plays Heat Haze who seems to be the antithesis of Kazuma as a character. Sora Amamiya, the voice actress for Aqua, plays Joanna who above all seems like a competent person. That's quite the range for these two voice actors.

Throughout most of the show, Hanako is shown to be a red dead eating machine. Very little seems to escape her sights when it comes to food and she is more than prepared to gobble up whatever comes her way even if it isn't normally edible. Though, even the little glutton has things she won't eat.

After trying griffon meat once, it didn't please her open palette. The girl swearing off the food after having saved Genzo and Carmilla from them. She also won't eat humans (thankfully), because she heard that omnivores do not taste good. Lastly, she also stays away from orc, goblin, and troll meat. Not because she doesn't like them, but because she is sick of eating it all of the time.

Tell me if this sounds familiar. A blonde long-haired lady from a noble family is a masochist despite her standing. The girl getting a kick out of being bullied both mentally and physically and has a habit of thinking impure thoughts. She is also miraculously able to take more damage than initially thought possible.

If you said Darkness from Konosuba, you would be right. If you also said Altena from Rise Up! Animal Road, that would be two for two, baby! As it turns out, after having being humiliated time and time again, Altena's inner Darkness came out.

It's uncanny. Carmilla and Aqua seem to be cut from the same cloth and possess quite the list of similarities. Yet they would probably still try to fight each other because one is a goddess and the other is demonic.

Get out your cards everyone, let's try to strike bingo! Both of them are addicted to alcohol. Both of them are considered useless by their party. They consider themselves far above other people despite being no better. And they constantly waste money. If you include the free space (the one on the bingo card and the one they take up), that makes bingo!

Genzo and Kazuma aren't exactly expies of one another, but they do share one common trait. They believe in "true" gender equality. Man or woman, both Genzo and Kazuma would treat them just the same for getting on their nerves.

Kazuma would berate them and give them no special privileges, going so far as to mention that he would dropkick any woman that got unjustly angry at him. Genzo, on the other hand, will completely wreck someone's life for trying to hurt his precious animals. It doesn't matter if they are a man, woman, vampire, or even a princess.

The massive 4-million-mile (6.2 million-km) system of public roads in the United States is used by more than 200 million vehicles every year. This engineering marvel, largely a product of the post-war economy, permeates and links nearly every urban and rural area in the country as illustrated in Figure 3. Together these paved roads constitute approximately one percent of the land area in the United States, roughly the size of Maine. Richard Forman (Harvard University) took this one percent figure one step further by placing roads in the environmental context in which they occur. Since the environmental impacts of roads extend well beyond their paved edge, he estimated that roads affect roughly 20 percent of the land area of the United States.

The North American economy and population are expected to grow considerably in the next 25 years. In the United States today, traffic and roads are strongly implicated in many of the major environmental problems: air and water pollution, heavy energy use, fragmented farmland and habitat, wildlife and biodiversity losses, and disruption of ecological communities. In turn, these problems can adversely affect human and ecosystem health and the nation's overall quality of life.

It comes as little surprise that the ecological effects of roads are gaining more attention among transportation agencies, land managers, local decision makers and the general public. Today road networks continue to expand and there are increasing public and political concerns regarding transport, ecology, quality of life, and local communities.

In much of the North American West, road networks are extensive and the volume of traffic on rural roads has sharply increased, as wild lands are progressively being developed and suburbanized. This new frontier phenomena results in vast changes in land use patterns and the alteration of natural habitats, leading to increased motorist-wildlife conflicts. In the East, the footprint of road systems is relatively stable compared to the growing New West phenomena. Nevertheless, traffic volumes in the East continue to rise on existing roads; suburban areas are expanding amidst a general trend of increasing deer populations.

Historically, roads followed natural landscape contours and ran parallel and adjacent to rivers and streams. But post-war transportation planning and road building diverged from the sinuous, landscape form of roads and became more angular and rectilinear in order to provide efficient travel between population centers and key points of interest. As a result, today many roads and highways cut across landscapes, intersect ecosystems and impact local habitats. In doing so, terrestrial and aquatic flows such as wildlife movements and distributions, subsurface and surface hydrology and wind erosion may be blocked or altered. Roads have five different ecological functions that affect wildlife. Roads function as habitats, sources, sinks, barriers, and conduits. Depending on the road, its location and the number of vehicles traveling on it, some of these functions may have important ecological significance.

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