I forgot just how absurd the flight with the Captain was, given how long it's been since this happened in the novels. The sight of him jumping around with a pair of tree trunks feels like it should have come from some mecha fight. 😁

@TUSF said in Banished Former Hero (Manga) Vol 1 Discussion:

Chapter 2 is honestly painful to read and make sense of with pages being constantly repeated and put out of order.

Yeah, and it's still not fixed yet. Well, it has been released and the streaming going to end soon.
But I wonder if this is fixed in the final release.

So I wonder who this new all powerful mystery guy is?

@TheWickerMan We didn't see this fight, but I think it still at least partly took place.

@cadero2 said in The Magician Who Rose From Failure (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

Something I wondered in both the LN and manga; Craib is a good uncle, but I wonder, after that first time, why he doesn't quite confront Joshua more often. (I know their brother relationship is complicated because of their own lousy father.)

Personally, I feel like he probably doesn't see the need. That first argument was before he was training Arcus in magic, and he probably felt he needed someone to stick up for him (just being a kid and all). But once Craib started training Arcus, he learned about Arcus's goal to get payback on Joshua, and he quickly learned that Arcus is no pushover. With how tough Craib is on Arcus after that, he probably figures Arcus can stick up for himself. Plus, he knows Joshua is stubborn, and going off at him isn't going to change his mind. Lecia notes in LN volume 2 that (minor spoiler, but I guess I'll be safe):

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Which probably has something to do with it. But imo, he knows that Arcus will eventually show Joshua up, and in a big way, and that's probably the only chance anyone has of getting the message through his thick skull. I think he's just content to let Arcus take care of Joshua by himself, because he knows he can and will. He might feel like getting involved now would just undermine his nephew.

Why is this Manga not available on BOOKWALKER like all the other Manga Volume releases?

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! (Manga) Vol 5 Discussion:

If he wants the fight of his life...he'll get it.
If he expects to win it and be left alive...his disappointment will be of short duration.

Turns out he doesn't mind dying if the fight was good enough.
He was true to his passion, he wasn't a bully...just not sane in his desire for a fight.
He clearly got off on a good enough fight, so his head was miswired in a dangerous manner.
Doesn't make his actions acceptable, but it still makes him just a tad less vile that he wasn't totes sadistic, that he really was a battle junkie of that caliber.
Still someone needing elimination for the common good.

Way to go Allen! Kick butt and take names!

Seeing that this volume releases this week, I'm now anxious for volume 3!

Actually I want volume 5 because the Bookwalker cover has the Arthurs....

@Zerio said in Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival (Manga) Vol 1 Discussion:

Ch 1 pg 4: it seems like we're missing the other half of the color page?

You're not wrong title page spread

Ch 2: I'm really confused where she got her supplies. She said white bread was rare, so where did she get them?

The manga skipped it, but as well as taking The Woman's supplies she also took some clothes and food etc from the orphanage (and specifically good food the old woman had kept to herself)

@Zerio They are classmates that haven't been shown.

What a great ending. Perfect for this story.

v.2 ch. 3 p.10 - “Go on, don’t be shy**”**” extra end quotation mark here

Interesting chapter. Definitely like the whole discrimination plot the series is hinting at. Mr. Pig should really assume that every girl he meets can read minds, because otherwise hoo boy

It’s not specific to this volume, but ANN put up a story this morning saying that the manga’s pausing due to Ononaka Akihiro’s health:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-17/gushing-over-magical-girls-manga-goes-on-hiatus-due-to-author-poor-health/.208846

@jpwong Given that his job is textiles, I think it's safe to presume he can tell when cloth itself has shrunk. Maybe the seems are a bit stretched from trying to contain the same amount of stuffing, or the fabric is too taut.

The manga has such a nice style. Clean and simple but very pretty. I especially like the backgrounds, often kinda half-done with lines just hinted at, but still very evocative.

I must say, I thought anime Ange was cute, but she's perhaps even more so in the manga. And everybody's faces are great, they're so expressive...

I love how much of the story is not adventuring, but people just being people, doing normal stuff, having human connections.

The chapter with Ashcroft's duel was also great. So many people, each living in their own little world most of the time...

Cuteness is Justice!

...leveling up as a result of being squozed up against...
What kind of work is this again?

There is no defense against Otto's puppy dog eyes.
None.
A privileged attack that slips past all defenses and deals max subjugation damage.

@pcj said in Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer! (Manga): Vol 2 Discussion:

@Zerio do you mean Seraphi or Maribelle?

They digressed into a discussion of a different work.
A really different work, given Bookworm being the normative "digression into a discussion of" work.