I don't think Noah's Charm Ability is having any impact upon Makoto.
Rather, it's her natural charm that is proving effective.
"Charm" is imposed from without.
'charm' is part of how you really are.

While Noah's Charm has no effect on Makoto, he finds her charming.
They get along, you know?

Makoto.
Sasa doesn't have a home in this world.
So saying you are happy to be able to go home together with her...
You saying that your home is her home as well?

You lady killer you.

We do need to bear in mind that Sasa did make herself at home at Makoto's back in Japan, so Makoto not thinking deeply about his wording is par for the course.
She was one of the few he considered a friend rather than an acquaintance.

Along those lines, consider who he does think of as friends among his classmates.
Fujiwara. [Rising Merchant Prince]
Sakurai. [The Hero of Light.]
Sasa. [The Lamia Queen.]
It's a rather select group...

If one starts adding in those he looks at that way from their new world?
It's pretty impressive for someone who all the Sacred Deities representatives considered total trash upon his arrival.

@aZaphos some of them were commented to be unable to continue due to injury or lack of motivation, but I doubt any of them would manage to journey back into the Wasteland without Alpha knowing about it. Only one was marked hostile, and they were "disposed of", so I'm 99.9999999% sure they're dead.

My guess involves LN V2P2 information, so under a tag for manga only to avoid

...Lopez better get resurrected. Don't get me wrong, Starkers is a great guy, but... Lopez deserved better, dammit. And as for Ollen... can we maybe toss him and his buddies to the Sarlacc?

@kuali said in Housekeeping Mage (Manga) Vol 5 Discussion:

That... sounds very wrong.

Which is exactly why she didn't take any of those folks as aides.

Rip the drill hair, you will be missed

Fel makes a floofy bed.

All the Riefenstahl daughers are so amusing...
And I love how the manga doesn't like to tell you that Liese is a good person directly, but through the actions and words of others, like when Fiene lets slip all the help she's received from her.

Mommy's appearance at the end really makes an impact, doesn't it?

Volume 10 is currently scheduled to start on June 8th! Can't wait! :D
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Level 41? I believe Principal Skinner has a word for that.

Pathetic.

I'm not sure one can call it a "saving grace," but Zadu's pragmatism seems to extend far enough that I don't see him gunning for Noor in the future...unless hired to do so.
Noor and Ines prevented him from completing the task he was hired for, true enough.
There wasn't any personal animosity involved on Zadu or Noor's parts.
Ines...was also doing her job.

I'm pretty sure that's how Zadu will look at it.
He did his best to fulfill his commission, no one can question that.

There's no profit in seeking "revenge" over his "humiliation" when he doesn't consider himself humiliated.

Ines understands that shields aren't just for defense.
You can bash people with them.

Ines's primary duty is protecting the Princess.
By extension, aiding someone who ups the Princess's survival probability falls within her remit.
What matters is getting the job done.

Amazing stuff. Which I expected from the novels, but still...

Favourite moment: "What an unbelievable lack of common sense..." from Clowria.

@TheGrimLich said in Gushing over Magical Girls Vol 6 Discussion:

Is Baiser a pervert? By golly is she ever. Is she evil? Ehhhhhh...

Ehhhhh... she sure was doing a damned good job looking like it in this most recent chapter. The layout and the lighting in it might be the best in the series so far!

@Windsagio Yeah, I can see "Murder the newbie before he gets too competent/threatening to the Orc Mafia who are my secret boss" being a thing he goes for. And I do want to specify secret boss there because there's no way the guild would have a positive opinion of him out of earshot if he was open about working with the Mob.

I've read the books, bits of the fantranslated manga, watched the anime, now I read the manga again, and it's still great.

At first I was thinking that yeah, it's obviously the manga that goes all in on the cuteness of it all, and then the serious parts hit and I when I say hit I mean hit, and I'm close to tears again. It's just all around good, hitting both the funny and the sad perfectly.

My favourite completely inconsequential detail was the picture of the "lost and found" box where Fiene got her magic wand, including a single sock and a teddy bear missing an eye. My favourite consequential detail was Art flying off from a single uppercut and Baldr's face as it happens.

Floof... fluffed. Mission Complete!

Oh no. Now I feel a need to go buy some copperware. Somebody help!

Nice! All according to plan keikaku!

All that swimming was for a reason.
She's the best damn illusion mage in the business, but her illusions are only as good as her personal knowledge permits.
If you want to convince something which has its optical organs beneath the water, the underwater aspect has to be spot-on.
A hull looked at in drydock isn't the same in appearance as one viewed through water, so you need to observe it well enough underwater to get it right.

If you only have one good shot, don't use it for your ranging fire.

@Kotenmaru said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! (Manga) Vol 1 Discussion:

I love that you can basically hear Lefi whistling inconspicuously as she sneaks up on Yuki to troll him during weapon crafting.

Yep yep.

Also, Why did the manga have to end with that as the cliffhanger? Why? Beautiful trolling on the Mangaka's part.

Someone offered them cookies, clearly.

Haven't we come across someone else who used rebar as a weapon?
...it's so long since i've read about it that the memories grow dim...

@Andyyy

Hello,

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https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule/1

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Rest assured, Lord Simeon and I were never involved romantically! That's an impressive bit of trolling on Rose's part :)

Lines I love: My neighbour's dog repeatedly picks fights with my cat... ones it can't win.