Love the implication that Ys keeps coming to Nia just for the slaps

@PeachyGreen said in A Wicked Lady’s Guide to Accidentally Saving the Kingdom Vol. 2 Discussion:

Hope there's oil

Even if there was oil, they need a mad genius level of doctor or the knowledge of insiders which Shakir had to process crude.
Else they just have a dirty crude coming out of the ground.

@Kalessin said in I’ll Become an Elegant Villainess Vol. 2 Discussion:

In one case, he's purposefully not doing his best in order to make the prince look good, whereas in the other, he's actually cheating. I don't really see how those could be considered the same.
With the first one, he's arguably just hurting his own score.

The first instance of cheating we saw Roy engage in brought Mitia's score down as well. The fake target that Roy set up and failed to destroy was the same one Mitia failed to destroy, so Roy kept both of them from matching the prince's score. That wasn't deliberate on Roy's part in the sense of deliberately targeting Mitia, but it was absolutely deliberate in the sense of being designed from the start to make sure nobody could equal the prince, not just Roy.

Most of the time Roy's actions are only affecting his own score. But that isn't because of how he is behaving, it's only because most of the time the other students can't match the prince in the first place. It's mere happenstance, not something resulting from Roy's choices. The fact that up until now it only impacted Roy's score is incidental.

I think that goes beyond just nerfing himself to make the prince look good, even if it wasn't visible in practice prior to Mitia showing up. That's why I don't see much difference between the two actions, in principle, and why I never liked Roy to begin with.

@dragon3010 said in The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival Vol. 7 Discussion!:

Let the bodies hit the floor! That makes ten already so far, the murder hobo is back to her tricks and hunting poor saps who will know better than to mess with her in their next lives.

FTFY

I'm a little late to the party and I have mixed feelings.

Very mixed feelings.

Sleeping with a nonverbal severely ptsd vulnerable nonfunctional person under your care isn't helping them. Did she consent at the time? Like, fully 'please do the dirty with me I'm horny' consent? She was nonverbal but could she have communicated in any other way? Or did she feel she had to go along with it because she's in his care and Lydia's mythril buddies said this will help? BECAUSE THAT'S RAPE. The idea that raping someone will help fantasy ptsd (not cause it as is the case in reality) is just so unbelievably fucked up. Yes you can write it off as boinking helps chase away that evil god, but the line between 'events caused by gods' and 'natural events/conditions attributed to gods' isn't clear enough to get away with that imo.

And when she turns out to want to be intimate after all, he breaks up with her. Because the sleeping with her was just 'therapy.'

I really like the mythology and setting. I'm okay with the adventurer's guild acting like a pseudo-mafia when someone tries to fuck with it. I like how dark this series is. And it's the first one I've read that describes how a shield-user fights instead of having them in the background shield bashing (Bofuri doesn't count).

Dubious on the (misuse) of alcohol as a coping mechanism too.

Teetering on the should I drop list but uuuuurgh.

Feeling very lukewarm towards this series in general, but the latest part was very boring. US School culture completely lacking the 'seven mysteries' meme doesn't help (meme in this case being an idea/behavior that spreads through imitation through a culture).

In part 5, 'beat red' should be 'beet red'

Edit: Also in part 6 it should be 'bare skin' not 'bear skin'

In part 7 it should be "forbidden tome" not "forbidden tomb" and "gripped heart" should be "gripped her heart"

I do kinda fins it funny hoq the like blunt the pope was. He literally qas talking to the guy all like "are you silly?" Like Nikolaus kinda chill but perhaps hes to chill since it lets someone like this Connor be this disrespectfull.

It was a great volume. We saw Sharanla dead (well, at least for a while) and got a great amount of romance development.

@LightningLeaf said in God Sleeps in Seafoam Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Also, it's very strange to have the ultimate authority be a twelve year old.

Wouldn't surprise me if Tsuguho had been in training when their mentor croaked resulting in their promotion.

What a little jerk this kid is. This being the final volume seems about right for the pacing.

Nina was sure that Rankai was telling the truth. What reason would she have to lie.

You guys, when I tell you that my heart dropped when I read this. I thought that J-novel had switched over to a.i. translation 😱

The possibility that I had just upgraded my old Premium membership to a Premium Readers Club membership mainly to support increasingly rare human translations, only to be betrayed within months....

When Rankai's situation was revealed a bit later I was so relieved I almost cried 😅

Make sure to pack a large frying pan. It was very useful for Tiffany.

@Kurzaa said in Pens Down, Swords Up Vol. 7 Discussion:

@Leon_97 being "reincarnated", doesn't he also prefer older women and might just be ignoring the teenage girls as either innocent crushes or stupid antics of youth?

He still wants the "heart pounding teen romance" that he missed in his past life because he was studying nonstop, even if he doesn't really want a serious long-term relationship yet.

Fey and Jewel are nobles, and he doesn't want to be tied down by marrying into a noble house, and least not yet.

So Melmel needs somethin' from the dungeon that's not listed in the guild guidebook, eh? I don't like the sound of this.

I wonder what this will do to the kid's sanity?

What's with this sudden dungeon. Renee seems to have a working danger sense but not a trap sense, which is kind of weird.

I was hoping the dragon would spike her magic, instead Julius showed up. Sigh. Wonder if he set up the dungeon so he could interfere with her class trip?