Honestly Eve and especially Zarish being around are making me lose the will to follow this series. Author should focus more on the main couple.

First part and all the girls already had their turn, author knows how to not disappoint his readers. Looks like we're also getting a new girl, let's see if she'll be compatible.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Imperial Reincarnation Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Consider all of the previous comments today upvoted.

I have friends in the jewellery and metalworking trade.
Gold and Silver cost astronomically more than they did several decades back.
Crap your pants more than they used to.

(I really need to track down the couple of gold rings in my possession and sell them.)

So, yeah, using metals as a currency base has drawbacks; the supply isn't infinite.

Silver isn't that bad, it has been in the range of $35-40 an ounce (at least for Sterling, which is standard for jewelry but coinage may use other alloys), and half an ounce would make a smaller but still useable coin (US silver dollars were around 1oz and relatively large for modern coinage) and the value would be a reasonable denomination for common transactions, at least if you ignore that the price would massively shoot up if governments started buying up silver for coinage. Gold is a whole different matter though.

It seems the façade is starting to show cracks in that more than a couple of nobles have started to notice that Lavi's not entirely what she seems. They don't know how far it goes but clearly she does not match what it says on the tin. Interestingly it seems Sienna is also having this problem but in the opposite direction.

@Outinthegardener Now that you mention it... I guess there have been so many more egregiously boyish voices in anime that I didn't really notice that. Plus, with how immature Ryo usually acts, it didn't feel out of place to me.

I was wondering how Kubou might change the Inverney arc for the LN, because in the WN it was the most "the bad guys have plot armor" moment in the entire series, and got the most complaints in the comments with people (rightfully) calling the protagonists morons.
If anything, the LN is worse because his students didn't even get kidnapped in the WN. In the WN, Ryo gets halfway there before getting the news that his students escaped safely, but decides to keep going anyway, so it makes more sense that he's not as motivated. Well, the Inverney arc isn't over yet so maybe things can turn around...

@Kotenmaru I think she's underestimating sutur, he is much more likely to rip her army to pieces and rid the land of her ilk once and for all, he attempted it the first time around and now they betrayed the empire again, I see 0 reason for him to be happy at all with her and be more annoyed that she got so cocky.

I will agree if she gains any land at all from this that I will be unhappy.

200 Year Curse: MC is a bland OP doofus but the POV of his "pets" is amusing, and his creations taking pity on his incompetence are even more so.

Worthless at Home: I'm expecting his sisters to ruin this for me even more than the ones in Peddler did, but the author is holding off on doing that for now.

@Makine just read the first 3 parts and noticed that on the cover as well. Really hoping for chuubybbnui syndrome or however you spell it. Can't stand to see a young girl partially blinded like that.

"Look, I'm worried about you, bro."

"I'll be fine, the crack was barely anything, and besides, it was already cracked when we got it."

[one forest later]

"Nope! Nope nope nope nope nope! Retreat! ...wait a minute, where'd our universal signifiers that we're the baddies go?"

This part seemed very short.

@zz2000 said in Old Knight, New Post Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Old Knight, New Post Vol. 1 Discussion!:

This isn't by the author of From Old Country Bumpkin, but man does it feel like it in some ways!

It is by the author of Knight's and Magic, which J Novel Club is currently translating, and which got an anime some years back. The one whose MC was the androgynously beautiful reincarnator crazy about all things (magitech) mecha.

From your response it is clear you haven't read From Old Country Bumpkin or you'd have caught what I was referring to.

Scum nobles gonna scum.

So, yeah, Otto &c are going to side with Watt and Anna, because they stand by their own.

Joints are verily the weak spot in mechanisms of all kinds, biological or not.

@karasutengu probably not. She was to receive a reward from the kingdom at a later date. The salt and fabric were almost certainly not that reward.

Every time I see a new volume is out, I always end up procrastinating until the last minute to read it before it expires. I still enjoy the story. I even like the character introductions, it brings me up to speed so I don't have to keep the characters in my memory. I guess I just like this author's narrative style. It matches what I like about slice of life very much.

@pcj said in Knock Yourself Out! The Goddess Beat the Final Boss in the Tutorial, So Now I'm Free to Do Whatever Vol 2 Discussions:

Karina and Dia actually do make a really good team when strategizing for an attack.

And in battle as well. Dia on tactics over the comms while Karina actually fights made a really good team.

Pretty much my thoughts on the battle:
Dia Suppport

@T-Fontana Ha, ha, ha. Very good.

Yknow the most unrealistic thing of this series is that the dojo isn't well known, it's birthed monsters for generations and the current gen knight order is pretty full for a organization of that size all trained from one area. Pretty nuts to think about.

Friends we need to settle this. We know that Iris is the wife, Kate is the mistress, and Lorea is the girlfriend. This is settled.

Who is Misty? The bedwarmer? The side chick? The fling?

Maybe we need to get Sarasa drunk and let things sort themselves out.

@Travis-Butler said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 15 Discussion!:

But if you argue that her emotions are changing over time, the logical corollary is that the most recent description of her emotions is the most accurate. Because they are changing.
That is why I put heavy emphasis on LN 13. Because it's not only the most thorough examination of her relationship with Jinshi, it's also the most recent, and therefore the most current take on how she feels about him.

It's a thorough examination of her relationship, but not through her eyes, that's the catch. We have not seen her emotions clearly in LN 13. It is not from her point of view. Maomao says things, and often can feel a different way. She even contradicts herself in her own thoughts sometimes. Based on how she was raised, of course she would say and convince herself to handle the situation explicitly as "a courtesan getting ready to serve an important customer." It protects her emotionally to treat it that way. She has always tried to only view things logically. I still don't see any of this as evidence one way or the other. Whereas, I would argue the earlier examples still weigh just as much if not more because we are seeing it explicitly from Maomao's point of view.

@Travis-Butler said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 15 Discussion!:

But people are claiming this is romantic love, and that's more than just caring. To me, romantic love means you do romantic things because they bring you pleasure and make you happy. And I'm still not seeing where Maomao feels that way about getting together with Jinshi.

But why is it not possible that doing romantic things for Jinshi does make her happy? Or even simpler, having Jinshi in her life makes her happy? Maybe not pleasure in a physical sense, can't speak for that, but I think she feels happy doing acts of service for the people she loves. Not because she feels obligated to. This is also my subjective opinion.

@Travis-Butler said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 15 Discussion!:

I think Maomao feels like she's in a web of duty and obligations. She feels it's expected of her by just about everyone around her. She feels like she can't say 'no', whatever Ah-Duo says. She may even be willing to do it because she knows Jinshi wants it very badly and she does care about him. But she'd be doing it for him - not because it's something she wants for herself. And if she's doing it for him, that makes it a duty, not a pleasure.

But this first part is still your subjective understanding is it not? We don't have inner monologue saying, she has to do this because everybody expects it of her. Or she can't let Jinshi down. Of her feeling outside pressures to do this. She has so many cards she can pull on if she really wanted to get out of this romantic relationship part, to even just find a different way that wouldn't chain her to Jinshi, but still allow her to fulfill her platonic "duty" to him. She has pull with people like Gyokuyou and more importantly Lakan. She didn't even give Ah Duo the chance to explain what she was offering. Don't you think if she only felt this way out of obligation she would at least hear out Ah Duo's proposal? Even if she would turn it down all the same.

@Travis-Butler said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 15 Discussion!:

Maybe that's why I'm arguing about it so strongly. Because I feel like, if all of the external pressures and entanglements were stripped away, this is not something she wants for herself.

And I think I'm arguing so strongly because I feel like while initially for a LN 1 Maomao, this would never be something she wanted for herself, she has grown a lot, and opened up emotionally to Jinshi and other. She considers these relationships as worth making sacrifices for, not forced my outside factors. The relationships make her happy.

Honestly, I'm also just totally surprised after the Sound Sleep chapter in LN 12 how people think she has no romantic attachment to Jinshi at all. That's when Maomao is tired and much less guarded, and as honest as she has been so far, or since in my opinion. I can not think of any other interpretation of that scene besides romantic.

Severely under utilizing her power again. She could make a seed to power the teleporters without needing to use anyone's magic for as far as they want.

So who will the detractors for every bride be?

Sera = Gustav
Melfina = Luquille
Efil = ???
Ange = ???
Shutora = Maybe her brother, Azgard
Colette = Maybe her father, Philip

And who is the 7th or is that the "main event" for everybody?