I do have a question and I guess I can post it here? Half-way through volume 14 and there's been an awful lot of mentions of 'awakened' heroes(well, solely by Reiss, but still...), how do they differ from normal ones? Reiss was worried Renji might awaken in his fight with Lucius, but the state he was in at the end he'd have been dead if he'd been pushed any further, ...unless that's somehow the trigger(?).

I do remember that earlier when Rio dueled Hiroaki he seemed to have gained some understanding of a hero's power that might be related to it?

Also, who/what is Reiss, did the webnovel ever address that? The knowledge he seems to possess at times makes one suspect he must be pretty old too.

Now that volume 15 is over I'd like to point out some of the "salvaging" from the WN to LN and how it relates to this arc:
Flora wasn't kidnapped by Lucius in Amande... Lucius wasn't there, and Flora only passed through some time before.
Instead when she gets word that her sister's in Rodania (since she wasn't at the border fortress) she goes by herself to meet Christina leaving Hiroaki and Roana behind in Galarc.
Reiss and Lucius come to assassinate her on the airship, and Vanessa isn't there since she's still with Christina in Rodania...
But on a lark Lucius teleports her to those woods, without Reiss really caring; Lucius isn't out for revenge against Rio, having not fought him yet.
Rio finds her and rescues her from Lucius, killing him in the process.
Then they make their way back... by foot and staying in inns, not flying. And encounters our princess knight Sylvie on the road after they encountered her distraught runaway sister Estellle.
And so here we have a related change: Rio didn't fight Rui and scare off the army at the border while escorting Christina home; there was no army and Rui wasn't there.
Instead it was here while escorting Flora back that he faced Rubia's army and fought Renji.
And thus Hiroaki's bout of jealousy and challenging Rio to a duel happens after these events in the WN instead.

I find it interesting how she tore apart the 7th, 8th, and 9th arcs of the WN, taking plot points and recontextualizing them into new places in the timeline, and then rebuilt the leftovers into the last few volumes.
Anyone else have some examples they found interesting?

Between this, and all the other major differences like how Celia ends up traveling with Rio and meeting Miharu, Liselotte and Rio's first (official) meeting, how Latifa and the other spirit folk girls and Miharu don't meet 'cause they're ignored just like the Yagumo girls, the controversial happening at the party, etc... I think it was complete bullshit a shame that the Narou admins claimed that the WN and LN were the same story.
It's got more changes than a movie adaptation of a Macross series.

OTOH, that gives me hope that the anime will be a loose, mostly original adaptation.... with an original ending instead of "read the books to find out more"

@paulnamida Yes I agree. I fully expect Archdemon's Dilemma manga to also start simulpubbing, since we are caught up with the volume releases, but there are more chapters in Japan. Infinite Dendrogram may also be getting close.

Volume 6 - Chapter 5:

@salientmind yep. We have no idea who or what he is but based on that battle he is not human . I suspect a demon or a servant of one of the gods left over from the last war

Well of course from that point of view Miharu cannot hold a candle to Celia. Satsuki could probably be a stronger ally for Rio for being an hero, excluding Aishia of course who is in an entirely different league.

@sniper_samurai lolz amazon just update there page to say

Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 weeks.

as well as the Dispatched from and sold by has changed from Book Depository

to ChironMediaLtd.

honestly might just cancel it i already own both version of the Ebook

( also not had an email from amazon regrading the book_

That bonus story is why Celia is my waifu

@BunnyFuFu Volume 12 and every other volume are now back up on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P9F69YP

Well, maybe the series will receive a Volume Ex which will include the final spares in the future, like Arifureta.
But I am more curious if others have come across other short stories.
Apart from the wedding dress, I have not personally come across any, though I tend to only export from a single outlet so tend to miss a lot of the magazine or store specific releases.

Though, this series has definitely grown on me that I may go hunting if others can direct me into specific volumes of magazines.

@pjthomas404 said in Seirei Gensouki Vol. 10 Discussion:

Guh, this pity-fest is annoying. Memories are basically what makes a person. If you have Haruto's memories, you more or less are him. Oh, boo, you've got some other, kind of gross memories on top of those? That doesn't make you a different person, it just makes you the old person with a chip on your shoulder.

How long can it possibly take someone to wrap their head around the fact that their old moral code doesn't make any sense for this new world and adjusting it is perfectly fine? I get he seems to have a perpetual rage-fit boiling under the hood, but he needs to work some of that shit out instead of arbitrarily abandoning his companions when he decides it's go time, which seems to be the current plan.

Memories might make the person, but in this case you’ve got two personalities merging and I think Haruto’s is secondary most of the time, with Rio using Haruto’s memories as a guide so it doesn’t “reject” its “new home”.

That’s how I’ve been seeing it anyways.

Multiple personality disorder of a sort.

@Enternal

Feel free to send an email, I don’t work on the corrections side, so I can’t say if it was reported or not.

@custodes said in Seirei Gensouki Vol. 9 Discussion:

In my opinion, she is the love of Haruto whilst living as Rio, whilst Miharu is the love of Haruto whilst he was Haruto. I can only wait to see how things progress....well I do hope there is more progress.

Well, he clearly cares a great deal for both of them, though he's trying to distance himself from Miharu in ways that he's not doing with Celia. That being said, he seems to be more aware of having feelings for Miharu than Celia due to his previous relationship with Miharu. He cares for Celia but doesn't seem to think of it as being romantic in nature - at least not at present.

Given Rio's mental and emotional state, I expect that he'll pretty much have to hook up with Miharu to hook up with anyone given his trauma there. His fear of getting hurt emotionally combined with his fear of the girls getting harmed by his search for revenge seems to have made it so that he's completely closed himself off to romance at this point, much as he's getting close to several of the girls (and Celia would certainly be near the top of that list). If he doesn't open up to Miharu and resolve things with her, I question that he'll ever open up to any of them sufficiently to actually get into a romantic relationship with any of them. As things stand, it's a major roadblock for him, and something major will have to happen to resolve it.

However, given where things seem to be going with regards to Miharu, he may finally open up to her and hook up with her on some level soon, which could very well lead to him hooking up with some or all of the others actively pursuing him. Certainly, with how book 9 ended, something is going to have to happen with regards to his relationship with Miharu in book 10. The wait until July 4th is going to be a tough one. :)

I would guess that ultimately, he's going to end up with some or all of the girls who are currently actively pursuing him. The author has made a definite point of making it a world where polygamy is a thing and made it so that quite a few girls not only like him but seem to do so in a mostly harmonious manner instead of fighting over him, all of which implies that the intention is to hook him up with multiple of them, but we'll have to wait and see.

@don-ledermann

LOL - I think I just graduated to a new level of weeb-dom (I got the reference without having to ask/ google)

not sure how happy I am about this....

This manga for everything that it is is very well done. The art is very good and it does the light novel justice. I'm so glad that JNC picked this up along with the Light Novels.