@kuali said in Safe & Sound Vol. 3 Discussion!:

In her defence, she left a child she'd essentially raised to the 'mercy' of an abusive family to have that life. Whether it was her choice or not, I certainly wouldn't blame her for feeling guilty about what Chloe went through after she left.

Yeah, but together with "must forever call you Milady even if you ask me not to do that" it was just too excessive. Feeling some guilt, yeah. Everybody would. Being sad about not being able to be there for Chloe, of course.
Ritually beating your head on a nearby surface for failing to care more about somebody else's child than your own family, that's Dobby-levels of caricature.

@kuali said in Safe & Sound Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I mean, would a name have made it better? She'd have still been a throwaway in Lloyd's 11th hour backstory even if the author had spent a sentence dubbing her Fridgie Mentora.

Fair point, if that was the only change. But, like, giving them a name is a step towards making them an actual character, who could be mentioned more than once, whose appearance in the memory could get some foreshadowing, a mention in the epilogue to show she's not forgotten, etc. The way the story does it is just so aggressively uninterested in who she actually was it really, really stands out.

@GeorgeMTO I much prefer shorter, well-written self contained series. Better for an author who’s willing to write multiple good stories than for it to be dragged out indefinitely.

Well that was an interesting ending.

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Ah, that's super unfortunate. Welp, thanks. Maybe eventually.

@Ekun said in Heavenly Swords of the Twin Stars Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@geetop said in Heavenly Swords of the Twin Stars Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@karasutengu said in Heavenly Swords of the Twin Stars Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@geetop So you would rather see him kill his best friend standing there with him who has been commanded by the emperor to see that he is assassinated, or kill dozens or hundreds of his fellow countrymen in a last moment of bravado?

With suicides happening a lot these days in real life it is not something I would personally push in any form as an author. Better to have the MC surrender and see what life would have in store is my point. For plot purposes he would have been executed but at least it wouldn't have been by his own hand.

If the audience for Light Novels are mainly young people I would be more careful. My opinion is all.

Well, think that Japanese society see suicide quite differently we, westerns do.
Suicide, or Seppuku ritual, or 'facing death' is from a Japanese POV a kind of spirit relief.
So many oriental cultures, like Japanese, believe in 'Karma' and reincarnation, as such a big topic for 'Isekai' LN boom and commercial exit.

They even see in a different complete way our 'Christian' religion belief to boot it.

There's also the idea that with suicide it's relatively quick and clean, instead of potentially days, weeks, months of suffering. "A fate worse than death" really does happen.

@Lex said in Elf Bride Vol. 17 Discussion!:

The big question is how much of Forneus' knowledge regarding souls Furfur has inherited. I'm assuming his death is going to slow down Zagan's quest to free the seraphs but not stop it entirely. Meanwhile, we got a new couple to enjoy.

Depending upon what she knows it could be a significant step forward, yes.
At the least the concept of 'rehousing' them would hopefully spring to mind.
...I may have already commented some of that?

So I finished reading this volume and noticed that there weren't any illustrations anywhere. Did the 10th volume just not have any?

It's even more baffling since author is wasting time explaining how Japanese people relate to organized religions...in a series aimed at Japanese readers. It's like I was reading an Italian author feeling the need to explain in great detail how much Italians love football.
Anyway, it was nice to see Ryoma making more allies...looks like he'll soon need as much help as possible. Looking forward to the next volume, even if I know I'll have things to complain about again.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@thomasce10
Those who dropped won't be reading your comments.

Apparently I'm wrong, given the next comment seeming to indicate not having read the following two volumes here at JNC...
OK, there's one section left on volume three...

Well, wasn't expecting this to end this abruptly, and from what others said, it doesn't seem we are getting a continuation in the WN. At least there was some closure, even if very rushed, but I would've liked a kiss between Noah and Aht.
Hard to believe this is really the ending the author wanted, feels more like an age,but we'll never know.

We are getting too hot in this topic.

If you want to discuss the book, please discuss it. Don’t just say something is not right, explain.

I say this often. If you are going to make it about the poster, don’t. Keep it on the book or feel free to leave it unsaid.

I think I was raised on too much gallows humor since the only death that affected me over 14 volumes was the concierge. Sad that she felt the need to try to kill Yogiri even though we readers knew it was impossible.

Aside from bystanders she might have been the only person in the series who didn't deserve it.

I'll mention one last time that the author's other series (My Big Sister) is well worth reading, and it has a much lower body count.

@HarmlessDave said in After-School Dungeon Diver Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I do read #2 as junk food

I cannot put that one down it is soooo bad.

This one I can't take in parts. So I have to save up and read parts consecutively.

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