Modern day hunters of the supernatural who deal with both old fairytales and modern urban legends, and try to prevent them both from developing into something more dangerous. A great theme. A not so great execution.

This is one of those series that I really want to like, but can't. It brings up great plot hooks that I'd really love to see explored, then drops them completely, and goes to a random filler chapter not connected to anything else instead. It goes for that mystery vibe where plenty of things are left unexplained, but overdoes it till you can't tell what's going on half of the time. It frequently places speech bubbles in such a way I have no idea who says what. And worst of all, in my opinion, it does a lot of action, a lot of movement, but it's super hard to follow along - there's some motion happening, but what exactly it is is often unclear, leading to a lot of frustration and backtracking in the action scenes.

All in all, sorry to say, it makes me anticipate something really interesting, then consistently disappoints.

I love this so much! This volume opens with the bombshell that is Bal's confession, and it manages to perfectly switch between cute, funny, romantic and dramatic within a single chapter without any of them feeling out of place. The manga is really such a great fit for the source material.

And when Fiene starts hearing "the voices", she reacts in perfectly Fiene ways - first complaining about how loud they are, then arguing with them that she definitely didn't say anything about marriage so why are they wishing them eternal happiness. :D

(Plus the weirdest foreshadowing: What do you mean "I don't want you to die again?")

The whole volume is such a rollercoaster of emotions, from the lows of Lieselotte's nightmares to the heights of love and caring, and back again, usually in the span of few pages. And as usual with Endo and Kobayashi, I open the volume wondering if it will still be engaging given I've been through the story, in various media, four times already, and end the book ecstatic about it all again!

@Kotenmaru said in Endo and Kobayashi Live! (Manga) Vol 4 Discussion:

I understand why her father told her what he did, but it always comes off as rather cruel, especially to tell a five year old.

Full agreement here. The revelation that Lieselotte bottling her emotions inside is because of something her own father said to her always feels like such a tragic moment; it's just words, but in a lot of other versions of the story, it's something that ultimately kills her.

@King-of-the-End https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7451/manga-display-issues

This is so sweet and adorable!

They've reached the "living together" stage. And I wonder how representative of people of Japan it is, in general, because I can't believe how chaste everybody is. They're living together, but they're hardly ever physically intimate - they hold hands, and sometimes hug, and that's it. To me it feels like a super conservative look at how young couples should be, not something that flesh and blood people would be like. Could be our cultures are just that different?

Also I'm still fascinated by how gyaru seems to mean "a perfectly ordinary girl, though you can sometimes see her shoulders".

I'm getting the same issue as Prometheus0000 but with page 29 I think. The one where Akane delivers her finishing blow.

@mattashii Thanks. It was corrected to "on the battlefield".

@GeorgeMTO You're right, well spotted. In vol 1 of the LN, Yuri says that Soim is over 90. In the manga he's under the impression that Soim is 90.
We can't obviously change the number used in the manga, but we tweaked the line very slightly to emphasize that Yuri is just sharing what he's been told.

In ch 2, the princess said she had the power to know what roads people ought to take. Then MC started thinking how he did his teenage years multiple times.

At first, I thought the princess's power is to see the path that someone need to take to have a good future.

But, is "ought" here supposed to be past tense, and her power is to know the path someone has taken?

@Ingraman said in The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (MANGA) Vol 10 Discussion:

Rentt’s horror story is finally over…

The backstory has been presented.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

From the perspective of explaining his motivation behind becoming an adventurer, and his being methodical from the beginning...I'm not sure how much could have been cut and still have it be impactful.
Doesn't change that it's not going to be a favorite reread.

Oh man, ch 1 was really interesting with how it subverts the broken engagement trope. Then I thought we finally get a shoujo manga where the man respects MC.

But this just turns into the typical forceful romance but even worse.

the power of bread is truly incredible

After finishing today's part. Yes, Yuji, yes. You were supposed to tell Francesca that you are in love.

oh thank you, I guess its better to wait for them to be complete than get them from here directly then. Thanks for all your help both of you.

"Isn't this person a girl?"

...Don't ask questions you aren't yet ready for the answers to, Ashy-boy.

Rook's battle visualized looks amazing!

Also, the link to get to the forums at https://j-novel.club/read/the-conqueror-from-a-dying-kingdom-manga-volume-2-chapter-2 leads to volume 1 discussion instead of here.

When the volume opens with the drill-haired noble lady being told by her servant "you're looking especially drillsome today," you just know this is going to be good. And it is.

As before, the clear strengths of this series are the lively and funny facial expressions, and the non-stop banter whenever the main gang is together. Which is only about half of the volume since Mary's studying in a different otome game abroad this year!

I think my favourite part is Adi's constant attempts to subtly get to Mary to notice his feelings which get misunderstood in the most impossible ways. But it's also some of the rare moments when she manages to get through his thick skin that anything else just slides off of, so it warms my heart to see her get some payback.

To balance that out, all the little moments when Mary starts speaking to Adi who actually isn't there are done wonderfully, and really tug at the heartstrings.

OK seems like the manga is pole vaulting right into conflict. Now we get to see Arcus in action.

Kaoruko: So the two of you are a couple? I'm new to this "couple" thing, can I ask some questions?

I'm normally not one for comedic violence, but the image of prez walking off to the infirmary with the bent baseball bat still lodged in his head keeps popping up in my mind, and cracks me up everytime.

I also love how Usami sees herself as the one serious about art, when in fact she's a total tsundere who always blows up at somebody and is never far from violence, being in fact as problematic as everybody else. (: