@endoftheline It's fine. I would be just as interested regardless of whether or not you found Kouki's redemption story compelling. I don't feel any strong desire to have people agree with me. I'm just looking to engage more fully with stories that I enjoy. Novel perspectives are always appreciated.

That said, I'm genuinely surprised that I can't find a single other user willing to join team Kouki. I know that there are at least a few us because I've seen them on Reddit.

In fact, there's been a real dearth of Afterstory discussion in general. I guess most people limit themselves to what's been officially published. But I think discussing Kouki's stories would be a blast. It's really hard to talk about without it becoming a spoiler... but to broadly outline his situation...

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@Rahul-Balaggan said in Arifureta Zero Vol. 6 Discussion!:

A ertain Princess's Ancestor

Certain maybe? 😋

Seems like Arifureta volume 12 got another update despite getting one last week for the bonus stories. What changed in this one?

@terabyte thanks. Fortunately arifureta is the only series where this is an issue for me.

Well, it won't be till 2023 at the earliest for an after story.
Main series will be needing a 13th to be completed. Though I saw it coming, was a bit saddened. But they are "light" novels for a reason

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In the story, they refer to auctioneers, and the context indicates but they are referring to the people bidding on the auction. Those are not Auctioneers. Auctioneers are people who are auctioning off the items.

Volume 5 (Premium Edition): 7 Bonus Short Stories The Good-for-Nothing Girls of the Liberators The Legendary Sword Born of Hatred and Confusion In Search of My Beloved Synergist - Part 4 A Challenge in the Two of Them The Reason Miledi Doesn't Tell Anyone Her Birthday The Sadistic Princess and the Usshi of Ur Lake Never Take the Forest Queen Out of the Forest

@myskaros thanks for letting me know I was wondering why that was.

@starkadder The after stories involve all the main characters + the other students and some extras. Each of the main characters seems to get an arc and some of the extras as well. I really liked Tio and Shia's story arcs.

Yes the after-stories are long. I was reading them for a couple weeks then had to take a break to read something else. I really want a professionally translated and published version of the after-stories If the original publisher would stop focusing on the spinoff we'd get tons of books out of the existing wn material.

When I saw Arifureta zero vol 5 hit the calendar last week I didn't see the zero part and got my hopes up that they finally published the next book in the main story, only to be disappointed with Miledi on the cover... she is so annoying.

@LegitPancake I guess they delayed volume 5 cause COVID(?) and volume 6 ended up being completed quickly and comes out soon after. Well, good news for us anyway. 😋

Breaking News! It seems that, although not required, there is something to discover in Orcus only if you've already cleared the Frost Caverns. I wonder if there are more surprises like that. Would something additional be revealed in the Sunken Ruins if they go through it again after completing the Divine Mountain?

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@Mark-Logue yes

@pcj The concept of the evil within one self, yes

The soul literally developing an independent body still connected to you? That's All Jojo All za wae

there's a whole thread on the anime...but I'll summarize my feelings.
The anime does not reflect the LN well. It might was well be (as @Antipathy put it an 'alternate timeline') or for a different series of books altogether. It's not the worst anime adoption of a JNC novel ever (Ragnarok gets that title, with Smartphone a close 2nd) but it is bad. That being said, as someone who read the LNs first, I enjoyed some of the anime, mostly out of a sense of nostalgia or because a particular episode reminded me of a part of a LN I particularly enjoyed, but I can't imagine that many folks found the anime to be very good without the context of already having read the LNs. My advice: use some premium credits and buy the series of LNs (the premiums get you some quality bonus stories) and only after you get past where the anime covered (Volume 4? I'm not sure) go back and watch. If you can grit your teeth through the CGI sequences, there are a few moments that will make you chuckle, and overall you might enjoy the cour.

@Rahul-Balaggan Thanks, too many to look at lol. I should of been buying everything from premium instead of Amazon. Now I gotta get them all again.

@CoolmanMTD it was announced vol.11 will be out in Japan in the end of July.