@Eternal-Wanderer while we aren't caught up, v2 did release in 2025 (January) so it's possible it wasn't licensed when the series was announced. JNC have been getting a lot of manga rather early in their JP life lately, so there's been a bunch with gaps between v1 and v2.
@Ingraman@b-scot-morgan Thank you for reading and leaving your suggestions. The latter error was caught independently and fixed in QA; the former is a part of the lizardman's speech style.
Allow me to declare open season upon the mangaka.
The ending of this volume was...very well drawn.
Gotta give it that.
But as the end of a volume?
Excuse me?!
@Ingraman Not really. The LN covers the post war clean-up such as what happened to the two ladies he used to be partied with and what not. Otherwise it's the same ending.
most of his skillset is actually seniority. He knows his old company, who to suck up to, where various levers are, and there may be advantages baked in the rules making it harder to remove old employees without cause, that sort of things. None of which would apply to a new environment. He may have a few people skills, sort of, if you're into that sort of things (I guess being a sleazy manager is a skill), but enough to take a chance on the rest of the package?
Yeah that’s what I was thinking/trying to get at, that his “seniority” didn’t in fact mean “more experience making The Product” but instead meant he was experienced in “sucking up to/pushing work onto specific other coworkers” which just ain’t a transferable skill 🤷♀️
