So, the author's answer to the Haibara-Hikari-Miori love triangle is to have Hilari develop a fetish for NTR? That's not what I was expecting...

Hey at least this cliffhanger isn’t as bad as the one at the end of volume 1 lol (and I thought the previous break between these volumes was more like 3-4 weeks)

@Travis-Butler Good. I'm not seeing things. I'll give Kizuna ½ a point for not being clueless and asking himself if he should do something romantic. His inexperience with women is showing a bit because he didn't realize the answer was most likely "Yes!...

He grew up with two sisters and hasn't figured out that yes they do expect you to read their minds.

Liked it. It seems to have the right combination of the protagonist being ruthless with people who wronged him but, kind with people on his side and willi g to help those in needs. He's not a paragon of virtue but doesn't seem shitty as the one from Overpowered and oversummoned.
I wonder if the mage and priest will end up in the harem. The elf did, but since the beginning she was portrayed differently frkm the other two so might be a special case.

The sister accidentally overthrows the kingdom while looking for her brother who's not even in the country. Her side stories are always hilarious.

@LightningLeaf said in The Tanaka Family Reincarnates Vol. 3 Discussion:

I look forward to the next volume. The Tanakas are so cute.

Sadly the team is taking a well-deserved catnap so no mew part this week, but at least we have Secret Cat (Engaging the Plot) to keep us company.

@heimdal7 I am assuming there will be a major ceremony involved once she turns 18. Personally I think it would make for a nice Vol 10 landmark (?), though I realistically I think we won't see it until vol 11 or 12. Forget the kingdom's laws, Dias himself was against the marriage before she was 18.

@heimdal7 Alternate theory: Her enhancement on herself made her uterus resistant to implantation.

Looks like the author realized that competent male characters isn't what this series is about and so Arthur has to be killed. Let's see in the next volume if he learnt something from the apostles and managed to run away.
We got some world building and started to unravel some mysteries, but the fact that in order to have a villain be killed we have to wait until they double cross each other is becoming ridiculous.

I found a typo in chapter 1. The paragraph reads.

It sounds like they'd gone and fussed over him f0r no good reason. With a sigh, Zenos sat down at the table and straightened up slightly. "All right, then," he said. "Let's hear it."

The typo is in f0r as it has a zero where the letter o is meant to be.

In the ebook, the first illustration "Dramatic Personae" seems to be split over two pages, which makes it unreadable in an ebook format. Would it be possible to make it in Landscape mode and fit it in one page?

@xdbx Thanks for the update.

Is there anything so bad as knowing the worst romantic lead is going to get picked?

that was a very rude ending point :(

Shinichi is a serial sexual harasser (will happily buy photos taken without consent) and Hikaru intentionally got a bunch of people dangerously addicted to porn for his own financial gain. I thought the 3rd story was a bit of a comeuppance, personally. Shinichi got a taste of his own SH medicine, and Hikaru found himself on the wrong end of a porn addict. I'm a girl, and I have had to slog through Shinichi's constant perverted drivel to get to the part of the series I actually like. The 3rd story just switched the genders around.

Can't believe they called gintama a "period drama"

Aw man, classic case of autistic savant.

@Ingraman said in Fallen Daughter of the Duke Vol. 5 Discussion!:

@MFDelta said in Fallen Daughter of the Duke Vol. 5 Discussion!:

Pooh calls his charge a dunderhead and then proceeds to crash into a chandelier and whoopsie crucial evidence onto the floor, breaking it and knocking everyone out

Yeah, that moment of pain was sufficient to say “Enough! I can’t take it any more!” If there are additional books to this series, I won’t be reading them any time soon…

So how was the ending of the volume? I stalled out on it early on. Is the ending at least somewhat worth the read?

It really sucks they have done this to the story to make it longer. The web novel was actually one my favorites that I had read multiple times.

@PeachyGreen said in Disowned but Not Disheartened! Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Imagine: a teenage hetero male comes across an attractive girl who shows a great amount of interest in him and later proposes. Then she follows him around. His family is trying to set him up with the girl. Is it still as icky as before? How likely is it that the teenage boy falls for the girl in this situation?
The story is just that, except gender reversed

I'm a bit late in responding here, but if you excise the "family trying to set them up" bit, you've described both the Twilight and Fifty Shades series, both of which were written by authors who (at time of writing this sentence) identify as female. I'll also note that even if you adjust your hypothetical story to "comes across an attractive older girl/woman", the Twilight/Fifty Shades statement would still hold true.

So I think it's a bit much to say that this story is "a female MC written from the gendered expectations of a male MC/guy trying his best to write a female-centric romance novel".