She might want to keep it in case the country goes to war with the Empire ... 😘

I definitely know the repetitive writing style which I recognise from the web version. I wish it would have been edited properly for the light novel version.

The way parts of the chapter were written with the repetitions are just awkward if you do not know where the web version chapters starts and ends (the markers).

A tad unfortunate the funny part with Luke's Bible has been cut short. Now the village has one more giant defender who fell instantly in love.

Luke better hides the effects of the fruits before the pedo maid and his fiance decide to make him forever that young...

There were several issues with the pacing (especially clumsy time skips!) but I am surprised how many times this story made me full-on ugly cry.

I’d definitely be interested in more by this author

@Libri-Liberorum in the bar it likely would have scared other patrons around them as well, not just the annoying guys. Then again killing them kinda does that in spades.

I can see how he will become the world unifier.

But also, wouldn't he be a god by any definition? He's an immortal with divine energy. Even Demi-Gods are considered gods in most religions once they become immortal/accomplish some great feat. Him being weaker than some other gods doesn't diminish what he is in my eyes.

@LightningLeaf said in Cogs of Time Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I like that the author is setting up longer range questions such as what chrono-energy is. Once this mystery is solved we'll have connections to future books.

The ring and how it works, Mom's force ghost pep talk (you'll be forgiven once but no more for actually changing time); the Sliders Slippers have got to be more than just Kira and Mom. There is more history there, more exploration of how the power works: the rules, tools, and boundaries.

@xdbx said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 12 Discussion!:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 12 Discussion!:

Whistles.
The author sure pulled those out of a belt pouch. stare

Oh it wasn't that bad, whistles are a very primitive tech and the justification for having created them "offscreen" seems reasonable. And I believe whistles have been used for signalling by Japanese police and other authorities for over a century, see e.g. this web page or this one, so their sudden introduction here might seem less jarring to a Japanese reader.

(It's not like the author suddenly pulled a magical Humvee or a magical airship out of a belt pouch. I mean, who would ever do that?)

They were completely reasonable.
We'd just had zero mention of anything like this...compared to, say, toilets.

No mention of whistles.
No mention of emergency Bat Belts. Which could be quite the thing if they went all out on their construction, rather than just a singular belt pouch item bag.

It looks like this objection competition is going a bit far, but since Kelvin and most of his ladies are a bunch of battle maniacs so, I guess it's all ok.

@ReverseEsper said in After-School Dungeon Diver Vol. 4 Discussion!:

So... where is vol 5 and 6 ? I think waiting whole year is bit long ? Or the series didn't sold as well ?
That would be pity, especially since there is new manga from it and it is really well drawn.

J-Novel has never dropped a series mid-translation just because it wasn't doing well financially, the only time they've dropped series has been when the publisher requested them to due to (if I recall correctly) author-related controversy. Sometimes the licensing process is hellish and things take this long, there are many people to coordinate between before streaming can begin.

I too pray every week to see the series on the schedule, for what it's worth.

Last volume?!

Sam I’m going to need you to license more yuri series; I need to feed my yuri addiction 🫠

I'm appreciating a couple of things about this title so far.

Firstly, "poison immunity" isn't a cheat. It offers Chris a possible path to power, but it isn't powerful in and of itself. He's still going to need to spend lots of time, money and effort to actually get stronger.

Secondly, Chris's cold-blooded, analytical, attitude to getting revenge against his brother doesn't seem entirely modern. No live-and-let-live for him! Rather, his character almost feels like it could be that of a dispossessed 18th century European enlightenment-era aristocrat who is using the tools of Reason and Natural Philosophy to get back what was taken from him.

There's quite a bit of variation in the levels of "Achievements" Mia gets credit for. For some, it really is her idea, like tricking Dion's company into retreating from the Lulu's forest. For some it is her idea and she did intend to do it but the motivations get twisted into something more benevolent and the outcome made more grand by coincidence , which is where most of what Mia done falls into. Like Mia didn't full conceptualize the Mianet, but something like it was already bubbling through her thoughts in the form of "how do I stop the famine (and keep my comfortable life) with as little personal responsibility as possible". So when Ludwig proposed it in Sunkland, Mia immediately knew to to have the merchants lead the effort or what to answer when questioned about her motives.

This here is the ultimate level of Mia BS. The entire fish farming thing was Rafina and Chloe's idea and they just laundered it wholesale as Mia's. I would be more annoyed, but I think there's sort-of a character development pattern in these levels. Rafina is the one who most commonly does this high level Mia worship and I don't think it's a coincidence that she's the one with the least accurate picture of who Mia is as a person. In contrast, while Ludwig is fairly deluded regarding Mia, his ideas are usually just a step ahead of what Mia wanted anyways, not something completely made out of whole cloth.

@Kurzaa said in Frontier Lord Vol. 12 Discussion!:

barating

Shouldn't that be two "a"'s (baarating)?

“Lady Witch? Why did you summon us all here?” a lamia asked, stepping forward as the spokesperson for the group.

Lamias have snake bodies for their lower halves, do they not? I can't imagine a creature that has no legs stepping anywhere.

I was assuming that the second sister would too move near Noa but it didn't happen (yet?). Wonder if the author is setting Raiza as a sort of main heroine or is just using different approaches for the sisters.

From this week's part:

In the prologue:

She experienced no great joys and no extreme woes—had neither sincere rivals nor close friends.

In chapter 1:

specifically from Princess Sieglinde, her best friend.

these statements contradict each other...
Although I suppose you could make the argument that she's not close with her most-friendlike acquaintance...

I wonder what this story is gonna pull. It has not really provided any details beyond Cormeca and Erifel and a small amount of the Knight. So even if the kid is somehow involved there is nothing to feel like its leading somewhere in the story. Its one of those two or its totally out of left field. But even if it twists to be Erifel that brings a whole host of questions on why she would take these actions in the first place.

I miss when the story was creating life lessons. 100 pages of pondering on the motivations of a witch is wearing thin.