@Libri-Liberorum said in The Villainess Speaks Not Vol. 1 Discussion:

I wonder if TV tropes has a trope for this.

Probably one of these:
ImprobableAge
WiseBeyondTheirYears

@Almond-Magnum no doubt, but I don’t think Dr. Liu or MM care. She also thinks the La clan is a bunch of loonies and doesn’t see herself as the La clan princess. To do so would be to acknowledge the relationship with her father, which even just to herself she really isn’t interested in doing.

@GeorgeMTO ah I completely forgot his name but yeah that does make sense.
Wonder what’s gonna happen now

@LightningLeaf

I think they've been mentioned once in vol 1 but it was very minor (iirc, during the late-night chat where Nadar came to Kariya's room)

Yeah, adults shouldn't take advantage of sixteen year olds. He keeps nattering on about having no libido, too much so perhaps? Or is he in denial about being gay? I can't tell.

imo both theories are likely LOL he's been shown to be an unreliable narrator (if not just clueless) so i think a lot of his thoughts are like, him definitely trying to work through the confusion he has with his feelings

@topgnu at least we can see the costume in the cover.

Curious that Grease didn't take revenge immediately. Though maybe he waited for Chris to be out of town to go after the other two.

A pity the orc tree didn't work out. As for why a sapling formed without a seed; my guess would be either Chris' new skill or some magical shenanigans (especially since the tree having some kind of aura was emphasized several times).

@karasutengu
Maybe Sano's chickens came from Luke's extra large village?

Oh dear.

INCOMIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG!

Damn, I hope Ines doesn’t take any harm from this. I was enjoying her banter with Shawza; seems like he was actually unbending some alongside her.

And we haven’t heard from Noor yet, two parts in… uh-oh.

Will the residents of Genos’s invitation lead to their bonds deepening further, or will romantic strife tear them apart instead?

Bwahahaha, I suspected we'd see some ship movement!

Based on this part it seems Jilvarad was responsible for Mia’s abduction. So the question no one is asking how is he not aging like a human???

@Tacitus said in The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Though it's Mira realising that that I really look forward to. It's going to cause some sparks, heh.

I really hope for Miranda's sake that she can see reason. After all, Alia already eliminated an entire branch of the assassin's guild simply for threatening Cere'zhula, let alone actually making an attempt on her life.

@dragon3010 said in The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival Vol. 6 Discussion!:

So Alia is changed to a wall? Pfft amateurs that won't stop her, it'll just be a handicap for her to wreck them.

Chains are just going to give her leverage for whenever someone strays too close. Not to mention, they may have made the mistake of leaving her boots with her, which of course have blades inside them.

I’m guessing that Ares was supposed to be Wrath’s host but Thor derailed that plan when he ate the core instead. He wasn’t fully compatible and awakened to Gluttony instead.

That was an incredibly disappointing set of fights. Ryo can sense mana, so how could he possible be caught off guard by a glowing fist of plasma? No way is that subtle.

Why did Sera just let them run rather than at least kill the swordsman she beat? Why didn't the Luna knights take the prisoners hostage to gain an advantage?

Why did Ryo not do literally anything to them as he fled? Why didn't he do anything to the airship that's so close to the surface that all those knights could reboard it?

Why didn't any of Luna's other knights attack it? Surely they have weapons like balista for flying monsters right?

How did Oscar know where Kenneth was?

Why does Ryo keep jumping to his sword as a mage? The argument that a mage battle would take too long is asinine considering how fast Ryu and Oscar cast and how Instantly fatal their spells are. Also it puts Ryo at a major disadvantage in that scenario because there are 10 mages that can attack him with spells whenever he takes any distance from Oscar.

Everyone but Sera lost basically. Despite the fact this was a defensive battle and with one of the strongest knight companies in the setting...

I'm not actually all that bothered by the draw between Oscar and Ryo, I think him losing his composure makes perfect sense considering what we've seen of him. But every other mistake just boggles the mind and damages my suspension of disbelief.

I wonder if the manga will be announced in the forthcoming announcement stream. Given the upcoming anime it'd be pretty good timing, but they might want to wait for more volumes to be out.

@strangeattractor said in Haibara's Teenage New Game+ Vol. 9 Discussion!:

I'm not sure what I think of the original timeline at 28 years old. It's not a bad future, I think.

Short and (bitter?)sweet, I guess. I definitely didn't hate it.

It makes me wonder where the redo timeline is going. Will he become a rock star married to Hikari? Or end up on something similar to the original timeline? Or will the rainbow colored youth lead him in a different direction entirely?

I'm not sure who he'll end up with but I certainly hope he sticks with the band!

No longer the ruler up front, but now entirely behind the scenes. Long live the demon lord.

Leyas in specific was cut off for a couple of reasons.

One, she was too young to leave the village by their laws, as she wasn't an adult by their standards yet.

But much more importantly, she was leaving specifically to marry someone outside the village. There's been a little bit of discussion of people being allowed to marry into the tribe, but she was doing very much the opposite. Not only marrying someone with the intent of leaving, but marrying royalty, while the People of the Forest are specifically trying to isolate themselves politically.

I don't really think the hypnosis thing is really all that farfetched either. I don't know whether I'd go as far as to say it's realistic, but the idea of using drugs to induce a hypnotic state, then using suggestion in that state to suppress a block of memories seems pretty par for the course when it comes to fiction.

Baarbadal isn't quite an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
...How did Dias get his axe again?

Anyway!
In Baarbadal, you fall into your area of specialization somewhat by chance.
You just happen to find the activity that makes your heart sing.
With a diverse enough group, well, that'll cover what needs doing and then some.
"Anyone interested in taking this on?" seems to be working for them.