@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.

@myskaros The bonus stories for the side story volume includes stuff based during the end of volume 10 right before where 11 will begin. So it's best read after volume 10.

@piisfun I can relate in terms of my experience with my own super limited shelf space and trying to fit my novels without damage. Granted I only have a light novel section with nothing but else to worry about 😂

But in a less joking note, I appreciate that insight it does validate the concern I brought up so I'm glad I wasn't just entirely talking out of my ass.

I feel like we always end up having fun discussions in the threads we both talk in 😁 have a great night!

Also the book is already printed by Seven Seas. I’m sure that error has already been fixed.

Volume 3 (Premium Edition): 5 Bonus Short Stories In Search pf My Beloved Synergist: 2 The Wrong Way to Use Metamorphosis Magic Invincible Corrin Glasses + Maid Uniforms + Cross-dressers = War Boy's Talk and the Aftermath

@zing Sam already mentioned that it seems like Overlap will publish the after-stories. Kind of a no-brainer since Arifureta is probably their best selling series. I switched to waiting for an official release a long time ago back when Endo was fan-translating the series. (He ended up dropping it and the rest of the chapters were machine translated summaries.) Since then, I just don't touch WN translations~

Back on topic though, there is so much Arifureta content a year I doubt it'll be too long of a wait.

@guspaz I know. Just thought I'd put it out there

The Seven Seas cover looks rather different from J-Novel's 🤔
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Volume 2 (Premium Edition): 7 Bonus Short Stories Aesthetics Beget Sacrifice Girl Power! Secrets, Buried Pasts, and so much More She’s a Siscon Searching for my Beloved Synergist They Exist in Every Age The Mascot Killer

@paul-nebeling lol same thing happened to me dude so I'm not bashing you XD . Ending it.

From the subtitle of volume 1, I expected that the outside world would be trivial to Hajime and the girls. The conflict wasn't so much about whether or not he could win against those monsters in this volume, but Hajime's teetering humanity. He's really not that far from becoming a monster in body and soul.

I also agree that Shea and Tio are more annoying than anything else, but I'm getting the impression that each girl is going to do something to restore Hajime's humanity. I think the problem is that the author isn't executing it well. He's trying to be funny, but I don't think we share the same sense of humor.