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

@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

Hrmph!
Attacking him while he's carrying a book?
How cheap can you get! Have they no shame? Imposing such a handicap upon him?

Ah.
Testing if he can defend someone precious to him.
That's gotta be it.

@Torka don't quote me on it, but I think he was 18 when she was 12, and she's 13 now at this point in the story. He's definitely older than her. Having read the LN I can tell you that they do wait until she comes of age before doing anything that exceeds hand holding (not even kissing, other than back of the hand or a peck on the forehead). They're so pure as a couple it's almost painful to read :-) but that's a good thing because of her age.

Also, this is a country where engagements are often decided by your parents when you're still 5 years old or so. He's apparently begged out of all of them until now, and her original parents would have rather sold her as a slave. The Sergeants haven't gotten around to it yet because she's too new to them, and at this point they would probably have tried to hook her up with Glen anyway.

@pcj said in Wild Last Boss (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

Lufas's realization at the end there tells me that Dina is probably a player.

You got it right on the target @pcj. (I assume a play-tester is similar to an admin player)

@Torka said in Eternal Fool's Words of Wisdom (Manga) Vol 2 Discussion:

If the first volume had “One, two, buckle my shoe”, the second volume must clearly have “Three, four, knock at the door”. It’s just math at this point

In the original Japanese, he just said "hoi no hoi no hoi", which doesn't have meaning.

@GeorgeMTO said in Duchess in the Attic (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

@Pieta said in Duchess in the Attic (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

I don't know if the LN is better paced and gets more into stuff that's skipped over here, but the manga just doesn't work for me.

Nope, this was pretty accurate to v1 of the LN.

Thanks for letting me know.
/emote picks a future reading list, crosses something out

Ch 3 pg 6 correction:
Code 205 should be for 3 Loner Nolime based on the image.
Gold Loner Nolime only spawned one at a time, and as mentioned in pg 10, their code is 514.

(calls other people "puppet" all the time, even when they're following their own convictions)
(will murder countless innocent people in the service of someone else's plan)

Ok bud, whatever you say

This is shaping up to be like the underlying conflict of Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside, except the positions of the protagonists and antagonists are swapped

And a followup:

The manga's currently released seven volumes will be available while supplies last, but the publisher Kadokawa has no plans to reprint the manga. Furthermore, Kadokawa cannot comment on the continued availability of the digital version, the vertical-scrolling version, and overseas translated versions of the manga, but will make announcements as soon as it is able.

Is volume 5 going to be translated? The manga ends at chapter 30