I know they probably didn't want to just write Japanese, but those agricultural figures ended up looking more like a wiring diagram than any kind of writing...

Come to think of it, if the thought of compiling agricultural figures is so important to her that she can't recognise a guy she grew up with, I can kinda see why Reese might want to marry someone else. (Near-instantly forgetting what someone looks like because you don't love them anymore isn't really how human brains usually work., whatever Amelia's thoughts on the subject..)

Don't get me wrong, he's still a giant arsehole (there are right and wrong ways to do things, and slander tends to come under wrong way). I just mean I can see why he might not have been happy with the thought of a lifetime married to Amelia.

Lady Emilla has one of those hairstyles that just screams I'm too important to leave any hairgel for the lesser noblewomen!, with an undercurrent of High Nobility doesn't need peripheral vision! Obstacles should be avoiding me!

Also, you'd think someone with a pending engagement to royalty would know some of the etiquette around interacting with them...

Amelia, finally catching up with the audience: Oh, the man who has been cheating on me was lying about why he wasn't spending time with me!

Wait, Marius really sliced his brother in half (or maybe in 1/3 and 2/3) and killed him?
That was really unexpected. No forgiving or "stoop so low" argument like in most other series.
I guess given that he killed the father and the eldest brother, he deserved it. But since this wasn't something we directly witnessed, it doesn't feel real.

Well no complaints though. I like when a series doesn't hesitate in killing the bad guys.

@Drenok said in My Quiet Blacksmith Life (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

And so Wife no 3 joins the party /s

Do you mean wife no. 2? It doesn't seem like the dwarf girl is going to be his romantic partner.

I'm enjoying this manga as a companion to the anime. In a way it explains more about the story line than the anime did.

Perv^2! But we’ve known that for a long time…

@schuburner I was about to say that many pages on ch 1 and 2 didn't load on Android app. But after switching the image quality to "High" (instead of Auto), the pages finally load. Not sure if this is worth addressing or not.

Also, I noticed that the tracker doesn't work (read chapters aren't highlighted in green). But after reading on the website on Android, the chapters were finally highlighted in green.

@kingpendragon oh haha, that's an interesting 4th wall break. I somewhat remember the calculation was a bit off last volume.

@Shaun-C interesting, I checked the Japanese version and he was pretty much being casual from the get go. That was unexpected.

In that case, that's fine then. It's kinda weird that he didn't use the correct grammar despite being genius and very literate in that world. But if the intent is to show casual speech, I guess it's workable.

What I like about this series is how, despite a lot of moments when the characters are cute, there's nobody who's just cute; they're interesting and varied characters, who at times act cute. It doesn't prevent them from being smart, badass or dangerous when needed.

A lot happened in this volume. We meet the elves, who are interesting both as a take on elves as a species and as individuals; see who is at the center of the monster outbreak near Turnera; we see how the story of Charlotte and Byaku progressed after the siege of Bordeaux; there's a delightful little vignette as Ange and friends visit Maria; honestly, the volume is packed. And despite not having a dull moment, it still manages to have great quiet and introspective scenes, too.

The finale of the story didn't disappoint!

What did, though, was the art. Not that it was worse - but there was a lot of scenes of multiple machines fighting and often, the impression was "yes, very nicely done, but what am I even looking at?" Telling friend from foe, and who's doing what to whom, was often hard; and for all that I loved how not-human-like the machines tended to be, it did get in the way of easily reading the action.

With that being said, I still loved the final volume, and the story as a whole.

@Drenok said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! (Manga) Vol 8 Discussion:

Also:

(spoiler from the LN)

Question

Looks like things between Sari and Xixu are starting to heat up a little, eh?

@Rahul-Balaggan Much better now. Thanks for the fix and the heads-up!

@karasutengu said in A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

I bet Yuto feels pretty conflicted knowing there's an easier way than he used to get the skill.

Yuto doesn't feel conflicted much, outside of which of his tamed monsters he'll acquiesce to this time.
He'll be astounded at the wondrous new knowledge gained by his fellows.
It might expand his repertoire of "weird things to attempt"...

I'm starting to look at the raws since it's been almost 8 months since the last release and Japan already has 8 volumes of the manga out.

Welp, it looks like war is going to break out between the kingdom and the empire. Will Arle continue her pretense she's not Lady Alphina, or will she finally reveal that she's actually Alphie?

@pcj said in The Invincible Little Lady (Manga) Vol 5 Discussion:

To be fair, Mary is a master schemer, but her schemes involve trying to avoid being the center of attention, and end up being one step in front of the enemy by accident or pure luck. My take is that luck is one of her stats that's maxed out just like her strength and defense.

Her luck is doing great at getting to the bottom of what is going on, but abysmally at not drawing attention to herself. So whether her luck is good or bad depends rather on what goal you have in mind. Perhaps it is folks around her who have exceptional luck, and that luck uses her as its tool.

@Zerio Makoto's probably so disinterested in relationships that even his best friend getting married is a non-event to him.

@karasutengu said in From Villainess to Healer: I Know the Cheat to Change My Fate (Manga): Volume 1:

It's common sense

yes. If only that were something common for isekai protagonists

That said, flubbing common sense things while under pressure is pretty common irl.

@Cidolfas said in The Faraway Paladin (Manga) Volume 13:

That is far more Metal than I recall it being in the LN

"Yeah, the dragon's blood continuously melted me down to my bones"
"That sounds horrible!"
"Eh, my father was a skeleton. Never seemed to bother him."

Death Metal

@kuali said in Land Mines (Manga) Vol 2 Discussion:

And with that, I think we've finished all the manga we're ever getting for this series. Certainly all the manga we're getting anytime soon, since there's only these two published volumes at the moment.

I can see why it seems stopped/stalled? It is nothing like the source. To me this is just a bad adaption. Sure the source gets kinda iffy in the last two volumes, but it was a good source back this far.