@Gamen said in Ascendance of a Bookworm Pt 2 Vol 1 (Manga) Discussion:

And Ferdinand's other attendants with sweat drops, presumably knowing the quarter's reputation.

I couldn't decide on that one myself... it's hard to tell if they are put off because they do actually know or if it's simply the idea of giving a commoner girl the quarters in the first place. I got the impression that the former director's proclivities weren't widely known - largely because someone that values intel the way Ferd does didn't seem to know - but you could very well be right.

In fact, as I'm thinking about it... if I didn't know what the real reason behind what he's doing was, then assuming they are just reacting to a commoner being rewarded in some way would be perfectly natural. It's great camouflage.

Either way, pulling in very subtle bits that we won't know about (if we haven't read the novels) for quite awhile into the scene in a way that pops out to anyone that does know already... just goes to show how well planned the manga is, to say nothing of the actual artwork itself.

@Revenent Okay yea that was fixed in the physical book.

@Tube Depending on the series, the catchup versions may or may not be fixed after they go up.

Hello,

Typically J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on new projects until they are ready to announce.

As such, if you are looking for any direct answer, one will mostly likely not be coming.

Sorry

As an aside, for what it is worth, the retailer rightstuf does occasionally do bundle sales on select titles, and Boowkorm has been featured in the past.

I understand it is not a box set, however it is a bundle deal.

Just putting it out there...

@Ludovico-Secondo

I have the book so it’s definitely out.

@Moonpie said in Equivalent time period of Bookverse:

@Gamen Yes, definitely hard to draw hard parallels where there is literal magic involved.

One thing I'd observe is that European pagan tradition closely linked the king with responsibility for maintaining the conditions necessary for the land to remain fertile. And that the king's fertility (capacity to have children) was symbolic of his fulfilment of that duty to the land. It's interesting to see this concept picked up - literally, via magic - in the Bookverse.

Ah, the Fisher King.

@jpwong I know, my brain's crazy sometimes :)

@Rahul-Balaggan Thanks for the beta link! I love how it has the Jp releases too!

Also, I have the sneaking suspicion that No matter how much space you have available right now, it won’t be enough. is going to end up being very correct. :/

@skybrian said in Speculative applications of magical technology:

It seems like it’s not a normal market, though, or it’s hidden somehow? We don’t hear about nobles selling their mana to get money, or people who need mana just buying some. There is no mana merchant, apparently? Most mana transfers seem to have something to do with government or politics.

Considering the cost of feystones and magic tools themselves a regular sale wouldn't make sense. It would likely be more a case of paying to have a loaned feystone topped up.

The functional magic tools not being sold easily and information how to top them up being secret would be the reason the Guildmaster couldn't have just have Frieda charging the guilds tools, saving money and keeping her alive without becoming a nobles mistress.

That'd just get the books impounded as containing agricultural "contaminants" based on where they're being shipped.

All hail lord Justusiculus!

@Rahul-Balaggan I've modified the topic name to be "Historical" instead of "Political," since that more accurately reflects what my original post was about and might make it less tempting for people to think it's an opportunity to air their own political philosophies.

@db0ssman , @crowdcontrol Don't forget the gaping wound that is ink development R&D.

In the side story at the end of this volume, and also in the side story at the end of a previous manga volume, it refers to the group of kids going to the temple as the "baptism progression." Shouldn't this be the "baptism procession" instead? In the LN it was called a procession. Or was this a deliberate change?

Also about that story: If you are reading the LN but not the manga, then start reading the manga too. There was some serious world building with hints about inter-duchy politics and the recent political upheaval hidden in that side story. Wow.

@hiroto I see, thanks. That makes a lot more sense than the more vague "have to deal with nobles."

Found more info about Glebes from Life in a Medieval Village. Excerpt below. A rectors was a hired priest for a parish to perform the rights and rituals of a private or community church.

Finally, the rector had the income of his "Glebe." the land pertaining to the church which he held as a free man, owing no labor services or servile dues, and which he cultivated as a husbandman. traditionally, the Glebe was twice the normal holding of a villein, though in practice it varied. In 1279 the rector of the Elton church held a virgate, probably distributed in the fields, and, adjacent to the church, ten more acres and a farmstead. surveys of other Ramsey Abby villages list the rector's ;ands in more detail. At Warboys, he held two virgates of land. a house and a yard, and common pasture "in the wood, the marsh, and otherplaces." The rector of Holywell held a virgate, "half a meadow which is called Preistsholm," three acres of meadow distributed in "many places," a tenth of the villagers, meadow, and shares of a pasture and a marsh. In Abbot's Ripton, the rector had a virgate, a parsonage, three houses with tenants, and a common pasture in Westwood."

I voted dark blue because that's what I think it is based on all the various descriptions - but I would also call the colors used for the LN's covers 'dark blue' (or 'blue' at worst, but definitely not 'really light blue').

So because I have too much free time, I made a (poor) infographic of the layers of her hair shades across the LN (P1V1 cover), manga (P1V1 cover), and anime (S2 wiki sample image), using the top Google Images result of 紺色 as the backdrop color for comparison. It's not a perfect representation, because even just googling a color gives you different shades, and different displays are going to present colors slightly differently, and you could argue about which exact selections to pick from the images as representative colors, but it is what it is.

Myne's Hair Infographic

For the LN and manga, (1) is the darkest shadow, (2) is slight shadow/darker neutral, (3) is lighter neutral and (4) is the highlight. The anime only really used three colors so I just did (1) for shadow, (2) for neutral, and (3) for highlight.

I think this makes it visible that the LN has the darkest hair color on her, with its (2) still being darker than 紺色 unlike the others, and although its (3) is somewhat lighter, it's not by much. The manga and especially the anime creep into lighter tones of blue, but I wouldn't say the LN's covers are too far off the mark for a 'dark blue' shade. It's not the darkest of dark blues or a midnight sky, but I personally would call it acceptably dark.

@petitmelon said in If you could send one book across time and space to Myne, what would you pick?:

How to invent everything-- A guide for the stranded time traveler

That is a good call, though I am thinking "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" just to see Ferdinand's reaction to it's translated version.