I'm not really surprised that Bomiras didn't really meant what he was saying and it was only a plan to trick Anos.
I'm even less surprised that it obviously didn't work.
I can concede that he has a point in that the deterrent might be less effective if it's made by Anos' loyal subjects (and friends). On the other hand, they are loyal, not blind nor mindless, and they'll stop him of he strays from his path.
And...it turns out that giving up his power is not an easy and safe thing for Anos. So it's for the best that he keeps wielding It for the greater good.

This is wildly interesting and entertaining. Really one of the better concepts for a reincarnation story.

It's a twisted situation. Sekiya keeps neglecting bis girlfriend in his futile effort to become a doctor. After years of failing, maybe it's time to give up and aim for a goal you can actually reach. Which might be what is happening if he accepts to go ti bus backup school, we'll see.
Nisshi keeps courting a taken girl who rejected him. I'm not of the opinion that people with boyfriends/girlfriends shouldn't hang out with the opposite sex but this seems excessive.
Nicole on her part doesn't seem so strict in putting boundaries. Maybe she likes the attention, or she's genuinely conflicted about her feelings, and her love for senpai isn't as strong as we are least to believe.
Sekiya might be able to solve everything by starting acting like a proper boyfriend. Will he be able to?

At first I was like "hell yeah more murderous leads"
Then I was like
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That being said, the "twist" was pretty obvious. But hey, let's freaking go.

@nappingcub said in Rebuild World Vol. 6 Part One:

Yeah, kinda surprised my jest was on point. Though reading this part, Akira at least knows his training was out there when he refused to meet Reina/Togami's eyes.

And they used 0.5M meds, not 2M meds.

@GeorgeMTO said in The Royal Hostage Has Vanished Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Your impression is mistaken. Female aimed LNs in general tend to the shorter side [...]

I hadn't thought about it, but this makes a lot of sense. A shonen battle series can keep running dungeon dives or tournament arcs forever, but a romance plot needs to progress, and to come to a satisfying conclusion, and there is only so much you can stretch this process, if that plot is central to your story. (If it is a sideline, Nao and Haruka have been showing that you can stretch it rather a long way.)

It also might simply be that different demographics have different cultural expectations around story length.

@Tacitus said in The Tanaka Family Reincarnates Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Cool scars, what's not to like? In a different work I'd worry about high society gossip but not here. They wouldn't care and the 2nd prince and his mom would squash any idiot who talked badly about her.

Emma's spidey senses are tingling!
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Seen Kelvin bee like yeah Sylvia is under Toraj atm and I dunno what Tsubaki would say is funny since knowing Tsubaki she would 100% be in on this entire thing but Kelvin also knows Owing Tsubaki a favor is dangerous in a whole other kind of way and also Gloria I thought you guys had looked into Kelvin ? I mean if you didt least then you would know this guy would only be hyped the nore you talk about THREE AUTHORTIRS OOOOOO

Story feels a bit odd to me but the happy optimism keeping me reading so far. The goddess giving her a -50% cost to healing spells cost seems kinda excessive though, lol

My guess for all this stuff is this is the mmo world as it would be like without players (besides her). Basically the spin-off dating game didn’t have players, you played as the heroine. But her knowledge of reas is the one with players. So elemental weapons were made by player blacksmiths probably.

ROFL, finally got around to reading this volume. I’m looking at it from perspective of that skit “Are we the baddies?” with his gorilla grandmother training him in how to defend or counter all the cowardly human tactics.

Eeeeeeveryone has had trials and tribulations in this kingdom, everyone is Not Okay! The margrave’s condition genuinely makes me wonder if he’ll be passing soon, all the more reason to teach Karen (and Sven) everything he can about running a domain.
Although on that note, his previous son wasn’t with Doctor Emma correct? I feel like he was described as a widower when first introduced but that was what, nearly three months ago now? It’s hard to remember every detail over such a long period of time! 😅

@Jason-Maranto I thought I was going crazy! I didn't realize it right away, but the repeated appearances of L'Arc made me look up the author, haha!

And here I thought that Kizuna being the party's main tank would be a one-off thing. It sounds like role will become permanent.

@Pokute said in The Dorky NPC Mercenary Knows His Place Vol. 2 Discussion!:

atmosphere that was chiefly methane gas. The surface temperature got as low as two hundred degrees Celsius

I assumed that was a typo, "got as low as 200 degrees Kelvin" made more sense, or "got as low as negative 200 degrees Celcius" but then I saw something about sodium chloride as a gas in the atmosphere and figured that the author never took chemistry and was just adding "poisonous" and "salt" to every descriptor and it was throw-away techno-babble gibberish (or a mis-translation)

regardless I just take everything described in a sci-fi setting (if you'll pardon the pun) with a grain of salt- they are creating a mood, and not every author is Hal Clement (who actually uses accurate chemistry/physics as part of the plot!)

@Outinthegardener said in D-Genesis Vol. 8 Discussion!:

Here is the portrait mentioned that Nathan Argyle is supposed to resemble. I don't see it.

The illustration is probably just off. Because I do see the resemblance to Robin Williams.

That was a great visual, by the way, picturing Robin Williams bursting into the room.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in RVing My Way into Exile Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@trollsdotter
I'd been pretty sure there wasn't a digital edition.
Not sure if her estate considers the market large enough to justify the expense if they don't have digital files to start from, although a straight scan to pdf wouldn't be that hard if they could get the hardcopy publishers on board; it'd be very formatting intensive if starting from scratch.

Not… really?

I’ve done scan conversions of some out-of-print favorites like that. Most OCR programs preserve the formatting, and accuracy has gotten pretty good; the number of typos to correct has dropped dramatically since I first played with OCR in the 90’s.

By far, the most time-consuming thing is the scanning; the cleanup is a few hours at most.

This seems good so far. I want to know more. The boy is smart.
The change in POVs in the narration makes for a nice change of pace when things get a bit slow for Kiri.

@Kotenmaru more sounds like this was before ray and maybe what actually killed her was this God getting him to fall into the darkness.

@rkkn said in Knock Yourself Out! The Goddess Beat the Final Boss in the Tutorial, So Now I'm Free to Do Whatever Vol. 1 Discussion:

except with a zipper on her ahoge

I'm really, really hoping J-Novel Club was able to license the store specific bonus stories, especially the BOOK☆WALKER one.