So asks the bad guy:

Is there no limit to her mana?

Nope. No there isn't. How perceptive of you to notice. :-)

Yeah, she can't avoid standing out.

Our glorious yuri magical girl stan hath returned!

Wait, Marius really sliced his brother in half (or maybe in 1/3 and 2/3) and killed him?
That was really unexpected. No forgiving or "stoop so low" argument like in most other series.
I guess given that he killed the father and the eldest brother, he deserved it. But since this wasn't something we directly witnessed, it doesn't feel real.

Well no complaints though. I like when a series doesn't hesitate in killing the bad guys.

@Drenok said in My Quiet Blacksmith Life (Manga) Vol 3 Discussion:

And so Wife no 3 joins the party /s

Do you mean wife no. 2? It doesn't seem like the dwarf girl is going to be his romantic partner.

How are they going to pick the top 3 to advance if there's only 1 left? Did someone keep track of the last two to drop?

I'm enjoying this manga as a companion to the anime. In a way it explains more about the story line than the anime did.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer (Manga) Vol 7 Discussion:

Take the kid in and give it a home.
Just like she's doing with Byaku and Charlotte, whether they like it or not.

there's so much more nuance in the manga than there was in the anime. much, much better.

Ange being demon seed seems more and more likely.

Perv^2! But we’ve known that for a long time…

Oh.
This should be noted.
Credit to the translation team for how well they translated the chuuni phrasing; it was a work of art!

@schuburner I was about to say that many pages on ch 1 and 2 didn't load on Android app. But after switching the image quality to "High" (instead of Auto), the pages finally load. Not sure if this is worth addressing or not.

Also, I noticed that the tracker doesn't work (read chapters aren't highlighted in green). But after reading on the website on Android, the chapters were finally highlighted in green.

@kingpendragon oh haha, that's an interesting 4th wall break. I somewhat remember the calculation was a bit off last volume.

@Shaun-C interesting, I checked the Japanese version and he was pretty much being casual from the get go. That was unexpected.

In that case, that's fine then. It's kinda weird that he didn't use the correct grammar despite being genius and very literate in that world. But if the intent is to show casual speech, I guess it's workable.

Opal x Nadja looked more like a proposal than Claude x Opal.

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.

Whales are not meaty. They're fatty and full of blubber, which you melt down to make lamp oil. Good thing they left its body to feed the ecosystem instead of trying to make a series of sub-par meals with it.

Of course, the pyramid shape of ecological food chains mean that Big Fierce Animals are Rare and avoid fighting each other. In real life. Fantasy settings get to do whatever they want.

Loved the illustrations of the kraken needing a crane to pull it up.

"It's really hectic when it's normal around here." --Great writing, looking forward to it!

By accident Yuto does what I'd have thought would be the desired strategy.
Ya got something travelling in tunnels?
Bomb the tunnels.
Tunnels also tend to increase explosion damage.
This is why you don't use fireball in tunnels.
If you aren't in the tunnel, on the other hand, fireball away!
EXPLOSION!

Cute on Claudia assuming she knows what that is.

Graziella sure does have presence whenever she shows up. Weitzer on the other hand feels a bit off-putting to me, maybe it's just a difference in culture/etiquette, but I just see him as someone who doesn't think of Hatsumi as a person.

It's a deific smile.
But is it a friendly smile?

@Drenok said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! (Manga) Vol 8 Discussion:

Also:

(spoiler from the LN)

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