Shikarabe: Nothing shady, I promise.

Akira: *shows up*

Shikarabe: Actually, it's pretty shady...

some kind of weird cockroach.

Tentacles, how nostalgic.

Another correction for v7c8:

Page 3, top middle, shouldn't it be [Seed Creation] for her skill name, not [HD Creation]

@Isshou said in Housekeeping Mage (Manga) Vol 8 Discussion:

Wait... you can't just end the volume there. What about the performance?!

Maybe they think that they’ll need a whole book for the show and the resulting reviews/aftershock/tsunami. :p

Oh, they've totally changed this bit up from the novels. I hated how it played out in the novels and I actually ended up sidelining the series into my ever-growing backlog at the end of the volume, so I'm happy with getting to see an alternate version.

And this week on The Unearned Hairdrills Can't Grant You Power - It turns out she wasn't the villainess, just a spoiled girl with an impractical hairstyle!:

Owen and the other knights can't help. Marielle sees them all as beneath her. Why this would prevent them dragging her back to her father if I ordered them to is a question I'm too busy psyching myself up to consider...

Marielle last week: "I just lied to the knights to get that Oafish Prince Edward out of the way."
Carolina this week: Surely she'll respect my authority as a member of the Imperial Family!
So, a nice try, but it was kinda doomed to fail no matter what Carolina said - Marielle's just too far up her own arse.

"By all rights, your entire family ought to answer for your daughter's wrongdoings."

Or, at the very least, for their inability to keep one noblewoman in a room...

"I'm but a servant, someone unworthy of such consideration from you."

I totally get why, emotionally, Marissa feels that she doesn't deserve such consideration (being bullied all your life will do that to you).

Even if, in reality, its generally considered a good idea to stick up for the people working for/under you.

Random sailor moon reference.... Guess fitting as she is playing as a magical girl.

And now, shion shall get her comeuppance...i hope.

@SilverFuton said in Campfire Cooking: Sui's Great Adventure Vol 7 Discussion:

I was surprised to see a bunch of unread chapters today when I keep checking the series page weekly.

It's even more of a surprise (and a confusing one at that) if you use RSS feeds to track releases for series you read. Apparently they were all uploaded at exactly the same time so in my RSS feed, they were in a totally random order.

Beware of Draculaura
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OOPs, excuse me I meant Dracula...
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@Ingraman said in The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (Manga): Volume 3 Discussion:

Well, that was a tensionless cliffhanger of an ending…

This chapter also felt like more of a quick summary than is usual, racing right through his first lectures…

It really mirrored what was shown on the anime though, even the dinner scene with Carmilla. (Ya gotta love her sense of purpose...)

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This is not that series.
The author has totes done their research.

It would sure piss me off if someone who gives the impression of not being into something I was passionate about had received instruction from someone I wanted instruction from.
Just...what the effing hell?!

...it may be that they do have an interest in this stuff but since it hasn't been entirely their choice they kinda deny it.

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Sometimes it is hard to comment without referencing a related series, in this case Zero Believers.

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Sounds like they've just reason to seek to advance through the dungeon, and they can be polite when needful. So lending them a hand when asked (especially when allowing him to experiment) isn't a bad thing to do.

Eugene SpringSantafield, eh?
OK, that may be just a tad obscure of a reference.
And one I'm certain the author wasn't making.

@Arcene said in Strongest Exorcist (Manga) Vol 6 Discussion:

@Ingraman Whoa, we got a gory shot of brains there, was this series that graphic before, or is this a bit of a leap? I don't remember.

It reminded me of the movie "Kill Bill" when Beatrix (Ulma Thurman) battles O-Ren Ishii (Luci Liu) and her Yakuza gang the Crazy 88. That was great cinema.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village Vol 2 Discussion:

"It's over!"

Yup. That was the end of the book. Now to wait for the next one to see what happens after the light show. :)

Um.
Yes.
But maybe not how you intended.

Well, she was probably intending/expecting magic to happen, and not just for swords to clang against one another. :)

It's too bad Allen didn't turn the crazy black wolf knight over to the other knight with both his legs cut off, too.

@arghc This volume contains an afterword, including commentary on and rough drafts of cover illustrations, and a preview of volume 10.

@Kotenmaru Out of all the weird and bizarre depictions of MMORPG gameplay in this series, having a sizeable number of players simply not read or know of basic details is by far the most believable.

My MMORPG of choice is FFXIV, and every day there are complaints by would-be players who fail to realize there is a subscription fee for the game, despite it being listed in plain text everywhere one might purchase the game.

Players who don't understand the purpose or intent of an in-game event is certainly more believable than the devs having created such an event in the first place.