Look out Fiona, Seika's not going to let you harm one of his harem girls...(lol).

@Ingraman said in Looks like a Job for a Maid (Manga) Vol 1 Discussion:

Maybe instead of a “Wanted: Dead or Alive” poster, it’ll be more of a “Lost Pet” kind of poster: “Missing can-do-anything supermaid named Nina; please return her home for a reward of G1.5m. We really, really miss her!”

I just so happen to have another reward poster for that:

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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Cave King (Manga) Vol 7 Discussion:

"This does not bode well" is the phrase springing to mind.

"This does not bode well" is an understatement. This is an omen of catastrophe... and one can only hope that our dear Heale, with his subjects, can somehow turn the tides. We've seen that relying on just humans wasn't enough. Mayhaps monsters will become the key to destroying this icosahedron of hatred.

Oh no! Lloyd left his lunch behind! Whatever will Chloe... Oh, I know! She can deliver it to him! ...Like she's his girlfriend! Or wife!

Always feel kind of weird how detailed the artist draws bodies.

I wonder if the pedestal was red?

@Serah If I really like a light novel series I'll often read the manga too; it doesn't take that much extra time and it's fun to see the art. But for some novel series I generally like but am less keen on, I've dropped the LN but continued with the manga since it's a lower time commitment. My free time is pretty limited, so I can't read as many series I otherwise might in a vacuum. I'll also follow manga-original series.

For this series, I started with the manga when it started serialization, drawn in by the art. When some time later the LN started serialization, my sense based on what I had read of the manga was that it would probably be one of those series I wouldn't follow both the LN and manga for, so I didn't try it then. But recently, with it going on sale, I did pick up the first volume of the light novel. While I don't hate it, the manga seems like a pretty close adaptation and I think my earlier sense that I wouldn't follow both was right. Usually I think more about missing stuff in an adaptation, but here I think the adaptation might actually be better. I just wish it released a little faster...

I’m now a bit confused. My notes say that the first book was prepubbed as five parts, but the series page says the first book is four chapters. Did I mess up my notes? ^^; Hmm… Going back to the prepub book in the iOS app, the parts are listed as parts, and not the chapters shown on the JNC series webpage. But book two is chapters in the app… Heh… @_@

Edit: /me goes to look at the part 4. Only 17 pages? It was a normal-length book wasn’t it? Why so few pages? Part 3… 57 pages?! 10 chapters? Part 2… 33 pages, five chapters. Seems a bit more normal. Part 1… 23 pages, four chapters. Maybe parts three and four were combined into chapter 3?

Well... I am not surprised that Rui has decided to do that to her "betrothed".

I forgot how gutsy Sissy is. So Callus, whatcha gonna do?

@MrMonday said in Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! (Manga) Vol 1 Discussion:

I suppose we don't yet know why Merlin picked Lloyd as her apprentice, or why she decided that kind of training was necessary, so we're not 100% out of the woods on that, but I think I'd actually kinda like it if this story just said "he had a teacher who was very knowledgeable and beat her knowledge into him within an inch of his life".

Er... relatively speaking, I mean. Obviously that's not a good thing, but I find it preferable to "some people are just built different".

All Merlin really did was to just get him to sacrifice a basic skill common sense for awesome training.

@Ingraman Apologies, this should be visible now

His tamed monsters have maxed out the skill "Intimidate Tamer."

Hi Watt! Welcome to the fight! We've got some real bad apples here, including a guy who probably oughta be removed from the Knights.

The mangaka really is crazy good.
I know, I keep saying that!
And then they go beyond what they'd done before.

No, that ass isn't broken, it was always like that. Pay it no mind.

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...I may or may not have been ruined by 'broken ass' jokes in anime...

...having been two parts behind, I've now caught up.
To horrible news here in the forums.
It does explain the, as noted, drop in detail in the illustrations; wrapping things up in a hurry.

@Kotenmaru Yeah, and the strange dark discoloration on his skin and face reminds me of demon affects. (unless those are ink spill mistakes by the mangaka - lol)

@xdbx A few weeks ago I stumbled across what I think is the official website where new episodes of this manga are posted online by the author/publisher/whoever is in charge of that kind of thing. I can't read Japanese, and don't remember a lot of the LN anyway, so I couldn't really read it and can't say if it is past the end of the LN or not, but it does appear that the manga is still ongoing in Japanese. The dates of the most recent postings on the site were quite recent.

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