The beast girl is an example of a two edged sword. One that cuts both ways.
The demons used her to force the monsters to attack.
Lloyd used her to convince most of the monsters to go home.

Damn cliff-hanger. I bet Sakura is going to change into a bodacious babe, but barring that, I hope she at least starts to talk.

@pcj said in Alluring Dark Elf (Manga) Vol 1 Discussion:

So the MC is an extreme pacifist. That's going to make things interesting in that kind of world.

I'm not sure I'd call her an extreme pacifist.
An extreme pacifist wouldn't have taken action against them.
Because it would be an ideological issue.
Folks will die for their ideologies...which can sometimes mean they'll die due to their ideologies.

She's just not comfortable using force & violence.
She'd really prefer not to.
But not so much that she'll allow others to harm her if the only alternative is harming them; if you force a fight upon her, she'll take carefully considered action.

"So we just don't go anywhere near the mountain."
"The genemos reside in the lower reaches of the mountain."
"...So we don't go very far into the mountain, got it."
"..."
"Hey, don't give us that look!"
"......"
"No, seriously! We do value our lives! We won't do anything foolish!"
"...stare..."

Naruse looks tired.
Think she needs a vacation.

Poor Ashton. Victim of his own success, he is.

Heh, it's the 'Yul Brynner' look (sans the ears of course).

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It is absolutely stupid how much better the manga pacing is.

@kuali said in Fearsome Witch (Manga) Vol 1 Discussion:

And one for the 'well, that's a weird art choice' files: Why does Aoi in the final panel look more like she's trying to flirt with Rox than discipline him?

I think they were going for how little she cares about the status/rank of the people she's calling onto the carpet. they are as important as whether my hair is tucked behind my ear or not.

if we're talking art choices, i'd really like the tops of the stockings to actually overlap with the skirts. 8-)

Duke Sanchez: "I suppose I can take that as confirmation... That my daughter married the only member of the Imperial Family that can't keep his mouth shut?"
Edward: flinches

"Even if they cannot claim her power for themselves, they stand to benefit just by denying it to us."

Oddly enough, no, they actually don't. The Empire doesn't need Carolina to be the biggest and most powerful country in the setting, and there's no way that the Empire doesn't regard the loss of a member of the Imperial Family as a cassus belli.

Now, if they had an equal-ish rival who actually would benefit from humbling the Empire, and was in a strong enough position that the Malcosians couldn't just raze their country to the ground in response...

"Unthinkable. You'd do well to learn a thing or two from Lady Flora."

Calm down, Mrs Danvers! You're not supposed to go off the deep end until after Flora dies!

"I need but will it, and the faithful shall rise across the continent, and in our name, wage a holy war."
Of all the harebrained schemes...

European history says Flora's got a better grip on how well that will work than Archbishop Mills does. Not just because he's not the head of the church (yet), but because actual Popes routinely lost when it came to open confrontation with European Royalty. The only times they didn't were when they could ally with one King against another. And Malcosias doesn't have a rival strong enough for Mills to hide behind...

Mills: "So much as twitch in the direction of betrayal, and... er... kinda lost my train of thought there." Looks away awkwardly.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Frontier Lord (Manga) Vol 11 Discussion:

@Almond-Magnum said in Frontier Lord (Manga) Vol 11 Discussion:

I-forgot-his-name is a good uncle. That's nice.

Uncle Ben.
Which makes Dias Peter Parker...

Today's release, they looked a lot alike.
...same rough sketches for a face...
It works, but it's still the appearance of "in process" artwork.

Wrong uncle. I meant Zorg, Alna's brother. He used to be a good-for-nothing idiot, but he's grown a lot. And he's a good uncle to the elf girls, teaching them the wisdom of his people.

@Geezer-Weasalopes Why did you strike through the best comment?

I feel like Lune looks older than she should, especially against the cover art, which uses the same depiction of her from the light novel version.

All this time, the real final boss was the harem he made along the way.

It's always interesting reading about "magic tunnel-vision" Liam. This time it's inventing "asphalt roads".

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@Torka said in Eternal Fool's Words of Wisdom (Manga) Vol 7 Discussion:

I dunno why, but the second half of the chapter had all the word balloons feel… crammed

Yeah, it was like the font size was just a little too large, and the letters just a little too close together.

It looks like Gushing Over Magical Girls is going to resume serialization! Date seems to be 10/17/2025!

https://x.com/onnkakhr/status/1974037934748971225

https://takecomic.jp/ (New serialization site)

Now I need to wait two weeks.
What a cliffhanger lol