Idea: What if the Divine Arms are actually spirits? Or, more likely, weapons with a powerful spirit dwelling within them?

Wow, Alphonse was a jerk and a pompous ass, but not even he deserved being turned into a Revenant.

What he Rio should have said when he encountered Lucius: “My name is Rio Karasuki. You killed my mother. Prepare to die.”

I wanted to add another theory that I’ve had for a while now (since Revenants were first introduced, I think): I bet Revenants are actually made from humans. (My first impression of them was that they were zombies.)

So, it seems like Aishia might be trying to play matchmaker between Rio and Miharu.

I also have another potential theory about Aishia, though isn’t in any way meant to replace my theory from last volume:

spoiler

Gonna predict that Riess and Lucius are actually the same person. I actually was gonna predict back when I read Volume 1 that Riess was the one who killed Rio’s mother, but I forgot to do so.

@grobinson2k1 said in Amakowa Haruto's parents are terrible:

So she was still living in some form of denial for many years afterwards and never shared that information with her.

I don't blame Aki for this either. She was still quite young, but honestly if Aki's mother is married to Aki's true father... Then they should have told her. If this is the case, that makes him pretty terrible 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"

Volume 6 - Chapter 5:

Page 5 ► Bottom-left Box ► PERHAPS YOU’RE IN NEED THAT SCOLDING NOW... ► It should be OF THAT.

@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

@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_

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.

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.

Well Latifa is cute. Looking forward to the next volume.

It was only five.

Volume 3 will start soon - just waiting on people to get back from vacation.

Volume 1 - Chapter 5:

Page 14 ► It should be [...] HE WAS TORTURED UNDER THE NAME [...]. Remove HIM.
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