Oh joy, Dark Elves. Now let's see how they and the regular elves get along...

N9ce volume, although it's a bit sad that all his achievements will go to the dumb cousin.

@karasutengu totally agree. Finally the mystery of the god of the mountain is also clarified a bit. So the wind that Sano-kun feels is actually the Kamisama "replying" and looking out for him and the Dino-chicks.
It was heartwarming how they all - spirit and human - looking out for each other.

Missed the update last week so I'll just give me thoughts on both parts.

Not surprising at all that this series would follow the light novel tradition of finding excuse to have the rest of our heroines put on maid uniforms, heck here it was probably more inevitable than most since Nina is a maid by default. Only downside is that we didn't get an illustration of the outfit change but I'm guessing the color pages or the manga will eventually remedy that.

Also given how fond Tuyledo seems to be of Nina and he seems to like Astrid I wonder what he will think of the rest of the party when he gets a chance to talk to them. I would be pretty funny if after he meets Emily and Tien that he would just try to recruit the whole party. I think it more likely though that Tuyledo will try to use his influence to protect them after he finds out about Duke Werther's Bounty.

I had great expectations for Farris and so far I'm not disappointed. We should also consider giving Sasha a new order, goddess of retorts seems to be more fitting for her than goddess of destruction.

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No amount of training can prepare you for everything you may encounter in combat. You learn how to survive through actual experience. (if you're lucky)

Of course, we are all assuming that nothing goes horribly wrong next week. I wouldn't put it past the author to kill someone important... but this is the demon-slaying team that the whole story has been building up to at this point. While bad things happen, the ending of the story is in the title.

Well, I can say for a fact that Nia was definitely merciless...to the king that is. Now on with the chaos next episode.

It'll be fun to see Yuri's upgraded build against these idol spawned knock-offs that Pendragon recruited. I'm also curious how Baldy is going to take the Knock-off Corp, cheapening his buddy's build like that.

@Shiroi-Hane said in Dimension Wave Vol. 7 Discussion!:

The last volume came out in 2024, and there has been a couple of years wait for that one so it’s slowed down a lot (honestly thought it had been axed, but then a new volume and the license announce came in quick succession).

I'd be much big sads if Dimension Wave got the axe.

I thought it was super interesting how Sora kept pointing out that everyone was ignoring the first's teachings by bringing the monster for a trial, forcing them to accept either a lack of capability or a betrayal of their purpose. Equally interesting that everyone else deflected it as insolence, either unwilling to accept the contradiction or pushing it out of mind. Gozu seemed to start thinking about it, but I wouldn't expect anything from him.

@AliceCheshire said in Revenge of the Soul Eater Vol 4 Discussion:

I don't think Sora would go for that because he seems to view Ema (I think that was her name, at least?) as something of a mother figure.

I don't think he sees her as a mother figure, per se. It's more that he now understands that he treated her unfairly after his mother died, and he is grateful that she was the only one who stood up for him when his father decided to exile him. Despite the trope of the wicked step-mother, the fact she did that when others (most notably Gozu and Cecil) stood by and didn't even try to argue on his behalf, and that she did so even after receiving nothing but his resentment and hate, speaks volumes to her character.

I do wonder what Sora would have done if she hadn't been part of the group being attacked. He indicated that he wouldn't have stepped in to save Cecil, and that he saved the kid is more down to circumstance. If she had been absent, would he still have stepped in to save the kid?

@Makine
Sex can be wholesome.

Telia Mas and Lebi could be a decent ship.
And he's someone who could marry in, allowing the name to continue.

Yumi and Jou Ran...
Hmm.
Yumi does want to marry into the Forest's Edge.
Jou Ran is unconventional.
Shared interests never hurt.
I'll admit my opinion of him has gone up given the speed with which he's taken to the flute thingy.
And the two of them being able to perform together that well with no previous experience together as musicians is no small thing.
He's still but 16.
Give him some time to settle down.
Just no "The Trees They Grow So High" stuff, OK?

@wanderer_1204 Along with a quick reference guide for all the names and titles.

The problem with bringing Davier back is that you'd have to also bring Mia back as they seem to be getting rather attached. And they can't leave the former queen there alone, but she definitely wouldn't behave if they tried to secretly bring her back. It probably makes more sense to more officially put him in charge of Peppel island (assign him to be the mayor and allow for more infrastructure requests). They could start turning Peppel island into a more official territory over the next few decades (perhaps a resort), and use somewhere else as their go-to penal colony.

In the grand scheme of things, Bill didn't actually seem that bad. He seemed to be a generally above-board merchant until he got coerced into doing shady things (and their request certainly carried a threat if he said no). Though the fact that he came up with that entrapment plan on his own suggests he's not exactly the most upright person. I suspect he won't be harshly punished so long as he cooperates, but I think he'll have a rather hard time keeping his store open given that he'll definitely lose his primary trading source (whether they cut him off or he's ordered to never associate with them).

the hammer chapter:
hold up, one of Room 10's androgynous? 👀
he low-key a femboy? 👀
we gettin' a better look at 'em or what? come on now, quit teasin'.
iirc, it was Amon

ch16?:

“Let’s just say she taught me a lot in the northern library and we’ll leave it at that.”

bruh

“Yes. I literally just said that.

bruh

Abel, you have got to listen properly to others when they talk, all right? It only reflects poorly on you when you don’t.”

reminder: Ryo's 40

this mofo just bought a house without a full inspection 😐

short story:
wait, why did so much happen 20 years Before Ryo Mihara? the Great Tidal Bore, Oscar, Rusay's mines wittling up... 🤔

Lord Kreis got a harem-esque thing goin' on 🤭

“It’s so pretty...” Amon whispered before he could stop himself.

femboy confirmed 🙌🏿

i've been re-listening to my text-to-speech version and i caught something in chapter 1...

hold up... Fake Michael (an angel-like person) looks European... 😑
what's the weaboo version for Japanese people obsessed with Europe?

@LightningLeaf I think of this a lot like a sports or martial arts anime; It's based on a real thing, and there's probably at least one person involved in the writing process that has been a programmer at some point, but it's built of all the most extreme high-(and low-)lights someone could possibly encounter, exaggerated and clustered improbably close together so the audience doesn't have to sit through any of the boring bits.

@pcj wasnt black mask also having the same face as inglis in her previous life? It could be that he literally robbed his body to take it and in the process released the soul.