@Samael
Per the Japanese Wikipedia article for the franchise volume 31 was released in Japan on 2025年5月19日発売, so JNC is likely involved in contract negotiations as we type, not that we'll hear anything until they're ready to start releasing prepub sections.

Maybe the publishing schedule will pick up a bit then for the last volumes - saw V31 is coming out this month in Japan: https://firecross.jp/hjnovels/product/2026

Well I hope with this new development Touya will be able to directly intervene against Gould and it won't become a wicked god at the last moment just to frustrate us even more.

So we are reaching the conclusion of the series with this as the final arc, I'm assuming it will end with the kids going back to the future maybe after visiting Japan once. Which also mean that we'll have to deal until the end with Touya and the girls nerfed to let the kids shine.

Hi,

There is no set date for when Volume 29 will start pre-publication on the site, at this time.

For a general overview of how new volume starts are handled at J-Novel Club. Please see the following topic, https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

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Volume 28 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story & A Column by the Author Sports Exchange Author's Column: Gifts

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but we have been given all the gifts and godly talents of every child and wife with the exception of Yae, Sue, Leen, and Hilldi. If I am wrong, please correct me. It's a bit of a let down.
I do like the light novels. I have watched season 2 and found it to have gutted the source material. It was worse than season 1.
I don't think they'll make a season 3, but I would like to see more of the light novel. If the author would notice the pothole with regard to those four, it'd add to the interpersonal relationships with Touya and the rest.

Ok. Just finished watching S2E12. On the plus side, they didn't rush things too badly. On the minus side, a single cour wasn't enough to even add all nine wives or pieces of Babylon. Kudos for doing a better job of the final scene than S1's debacle. Honestly, I'd like to see either a second cour or S3, because just like S1, we are left hanging.

Now for my standard rant, I would really like to see a second season of Rokujouma.

No longer Catch-up, but still going.

I'd wondered about his grandfather, based upon stuff he'd thought.
And what Touya was really like back in Japan.

Now we know.
And his mom, as well.

Explains quite a lot, doesn't it?

Catch up!

Welp.
Maybe Sakura isn't the Sovereign Core after all.

Apparently the Dominant Phrases are far too human in their outlook on things.

The "Cast of Characters" is maybe a tad large, yes.

Catch up!

Currently at the illustration on page 67, of the Dominant Construct that's just told Ende that it's time to go home already.

Which confirmed a speculation I hadn't written out as of yet, that Ende was a Phrase himself.
I'm guessing maybe a Sovereign...since he doesn't have any visible Phrase Crystal to him, unlike the Dominant Construct.
Dominant and above appear Sentient.

I'm still leaning toward Sakura being one as well, but we shall see.
There's also the potential for her being the unauthorized low rank God.

Back to reading.
There's enough left in this volume that some of this may get covered.

Mere paragraphs later it's clear that Ende, or more properly Endymion, isn't a Phrase himself but he's "messed" with them, and has something to do with their Sovereign deciding to take a hike.
And that he'd miscalculated how they would react.
And he recognizes Touya and Karen, &c as being something more than Human themselves, but not that what they are involves Deity.

Catch up!

Hmm.
Last episode I speculated that Sakura might be the Sovereign Core.
This volume we find that the Fourth Level Phrase Constructs are humanoid with sparkly bits.
But still of lesser rank than the Sovereign Core.
The idea becomes less crazy, I guess.

A TV with HDMI out but no HDMI in?!
Madness.

Dr. Babylon was a complete and total looney.

Catch up!

It may or may not be a crazy thought, but I'm thinking Sakura houses the Core of the Sovereign Phrase.
If so, one has to wonder what impact being under Touya's care will have upon the character of the Sovereign Phrase...and if there's any way to awaken it which doesn't require the death of Sakura-who-is.
Seeing the impact that being thought of as "family" by a Divine Being has as shown in this volume, this could be a real game changer when it comes to the Phrase down the line.

Anyway, thought I'd toss that out so those reading after me know of this weird idea, and those looking back to see what new readers are posting can consider me astute or hilarious, depending upon how it turned out.

Catch up!

Having just completed Volume 3, I decided to check something.
The WN commenced publication on Narou approximately 5 weeks after Death March started being posted there.
Both works posted like gang busters initially.

I think the specific items I found similar show up first in Smartphone; as said, I just finished Volume 3, and the Death march stuff is sufficiently later in that title...

Let's just say the time was right, and any similarities, well, very little is original ever, and how one develops an idea is crucial, and the differences are significant.

Both works started WN publication considerably prior to the other works I'm reminded of.

Babylon.
The creator of that is one weird gal; a trope, a veritable trope!

@Paul-Nebeling said in In Another World With My Smartphone Volume 2 Discussion!:

@Geezer-Weasalopes Just don't mess with the people that are important to him...

That seems the case.
He's pretty laid back in many ways, but if you endanger someone he cares about the kid gloves come off.

Which is a weird phrase in some ways, because putting gloves on to protect your hands from damage is such a standard thing.
It comes from removing dress gloves, in general "kid gloves", soft and supple made from the hide of baby goats, really nice stuff that cost significant bucks back in the 1800s. Taking off the kid gloves says you expect your hands to get messed up and you don't want your fancy gloves damaged.
It's a sign that things really are getting serious; you intend to beat the crap out of someone.

@Harmlesss
Folks are aware of my opinions about Blacksmith.
So far I'm not getting those problems with Smartphone.

I do find myself wanting to go check and see the order of initial publication of a couple of WNs that became LNs that resemble different aspects of Smartphone; which is the influencer and which is the influenced, as it were.
I mean, over at MAL I've come across works where folks were commenting that such-and-such work was a weak reworking of a certain other work...and the truth was that the work they were slamming as a cheap knockoff was written and published first.
The English editions didn't reflect that publication order, and the bozos didn't consider that in their thinking.
I don't want to be that kind of commenter.

The bottom line is always how well does the author utilize the tropes they've selected.
So far he hasn't worn them out.

@Dreadscythe666 Volume 27 just came out recently in Japan (19 October 2022) so it might take a while before it's licensed and we get prepubs.

See this topic for more details: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

@Gamen

Thank you Yue.

@solarinday
They might do the same thing as The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar Anime wherein they adapted 8 volumes in 12 episodes.

Please God! Don't let this happen!