@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?

@karasutengu Or dead. Just as good. I want to see his reaction when an undisguised Sora walks into the throne room. Don't care how many court mages he has in the wings, they won't be enough. Then again, with Geed's appearance, the line comes to mind: Your Majesty, you've soiled your robes.

You know... talking is a free action.

And I don't think they've done it this blatantly before. Usually they're just talking to coordinate, and while they're technically coordinating here there's a lot of back-and-forth while Metea and the rest of the frontliners are doging for their lives.

Yoshino: ...conducting tests on many samples.

Ah, yes. Angelic Sadist indeed.

The way Haibara is framing the choice is similar to the choice Jo Walton explores in My Real Children, a novel about 2 timelines. http://www.jowaltonbooks.com/books/my-real-children/

The idea is that there are 2 worlds, one where the protagonist is personally miserable or less happy but their friends and the world are better. One where the protagonist is happier but the world is slightly worse.

I don't think it is a good framing or premise, and I have hope that the author of Haibara will go somewhere else with all this. There have been hints so far that this may be a false dichotomy.

Too often in stories, a person is asked to give up their magic or personal happiness in order for the world to thrive. Particularly female characters, but in this case a male character.

I am starting to find such stories tedious. I would rather talk about both/and stories than either/or stories.

Bizarre week.

I very rarely drop series, yet this is the second multi-volume series I've dropped this week because of an author's weird plot choices coming across more as personal fantasies and/or desires. Or maybe this was an attempt at fan service by innuendo.

The "doll" in Part 2 seemed unnecessary and tasteless. Maybe the author did something amazing to make the doll the lynchpin to the story, but for me it was the end of a sluggish adventure.

At least I'm finally at a point I do not feel I have to finish reading everything I start--now I just need to trust my instincts and throw in the towel earlier.

@Lex said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! Vol. 17 Discussion!:

I'm still not sure if it's the end or not.

As I saw one person put it recently (in regards to The Faraway Paladin) it's not over until everyone's dead. Life goes on, and there's always another story that could be told.

@arghc I'm expecting the descriptions of the spells to match up with some of her other tales, and them just assuming.

@Tacitus said in EXP Is Golden Vol. 6 Discussion!:

I wonder what the sisters found in the patch notes that they had to discuss asap, even before the game came back up online. Probably not the fall damage change. Maybe the new TP locations?

I'm guessing that they figure that the new TP locations will change the political economy around the portal towns somehow, and met met to discuss how to respond. Leah accelerating her takeover of portal town Kiefer would be part of that response.

I liked this battle scene. Jin had to respond differently which made it interesting even with him decimating their numbers easily. I wonder if dungeons ranking up are a response to mana around them? What if helping the students move their mana led to the surge? Otherwise it's an interestingly timed crisis where he was handily available to deal with it.

@lighthawk96 And indeed it was pretty lame. Hell, at least Garou had a lv500 summon item and Sasha attacked with the elite White Knights and used a Phantasma-class weapon so Santor's trump card was pretty pitiful in comparison. Perhaps it makes a bit more sense now that we know the centaur nation is even more poor than the human kingdom, but still.

@Hylebos said in Update on Volume 7: The Magician who Rose from Failure:

To my understanding, v7 was delayed indefinitely due to the illustrator's (who is also the mangaka) health problems, so the fact that the author is putting out volumes for other series like After-School Dungeon Diver: Level Grinding in Another World doesn't mean much.

https://gcnovels.jp/blog/316

On top of that, even if he is working on The Magician Who Rose From Failure, the fact that he's working on other series means that he's spending less time on The Magician Who Rose From Failure. So, even if/when the issues delaying that series are resolved, it'll likely be coming out more slowly than it would have otherwise. Of course, the fact that he's working on other stuff shows that he's still around, but it really doesn't say anything about us getting more of The Magician Who Rose From Failure.

Either way, it sure would be nice if he started releasing more of this series - and ideally actually focused on it (IMHO, it's his best series). I can appreciate him wanting to support the illustrator and not drop them, but personally, I'd rather just get more of the story, and I really don't care about the illustrations.

Awww… It’s “Adopt a Slime” week! It even gets an extra-spacious bag to hang out in. :)

"Has Mussel learned self-restraint?" is a very good question, core to his being allowed to return to Lefreya's service.
And Duke Genos is testing this, it would seem.