Looks like the author realized that competent male characters isn't what this series is about and so Arthur has to be killed. Let's see in the next volume if he learnt something from the apostles and managed to run away.
We got some world building and started to unravel some mysteries, but the fact that in order to have a villain be killed we have to wait until they double cross each other is becoming ridiculous.

I found a typo in chapter 1. The paragraph reads.

It sounds like they'd gone and fussed over him f0r no good reason. With a sigh, Zenos sat down at the table and straightened up slightly. "All right, then," he said. "Let's hear it."

The typo is in f0r as it has a zero where the letter o is meant to be.

In the ebook, the first illustration "Dramatic Personae" seems to be split over two pages, which makes it unreadable in an ebook format. Would it be possible to make it in Landscape mode and fit it in one page?

@xdbx Thanks for the update.

Is there anything so bad as knowing the worst romantic lead is going to get picked?

that was a very rude ending point :(

Shinichi is a serial sexual harasser (will happily buy photos taken without consent) and Hikaru intentionally got a bunch of people dangerously addicted to porn for his own financial gain. I thought the 3rd story was a bit of a comeuppance, personally. Shinichi got a taste of his own SH medicine, and Hikaru found himself on the wrong end of a porn addict. I'm a girl, and I have had to slog through Shinichi's constant perverted drivel to get to the part of the series I actually like. The 3rd story just switched the genders around.

Can't believe they called gintama a "period drama"

Aw man, classic case of autistic savant.

@Ingraman said in Fallen Daughter of the Duke Vol. 5 Discussion!:

@MFDelta said in Fallen Daughter of the Duke Vol. 5 Discussion!:

Pooh calls his charge a dunderhead and then proceeds to crash into a chandelier and whoopsie crucial evidence onto the floor, breaking it and knocking everyone out

Yeah, that moment of pain was sufficient to say “Enough! I can’t take it any more!” If there are additional books to this series, I won’t be reading them any time soon…

So how was the ending of the volume? I stalled out on it early on. Is the ending at least somewhat worth the read?

It really sucks they have done this to the story to make it longer. The web novel was actually one my favorites that I had read multiple times.

@PeachyGreen said in Disowned but Not Disheartened! Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Imagine: a teenage hetero male comes across an attractive girl who shows a great amount of interest in him and later proposes. Then she follows him around. His family is trying to set him up with the girl. Is it still as icky as before? How likely is it that the teenage boy falls for the girl in this situation?
The story is just that, except gender reversed

I'm a bit late in responding here, but if you excise the "family trying to set them up" bit, you've described both the Twilight and Fifty Shades series, both of which were written by authors who (at time of writing this sentence) identify as female. I'll also note that even if you adjust your hypothetical story to "comes across an attractive older girl/woman", the Twilight/Fifty Shades statement would still hold true.

So I think it's a bit much to say that this story is "a female MC written from the gendered expectations of a male MC/guy trying his best to write a female-centric romance novel".

So Cion is masochist . The hero is "dead" and that after story is a little awkward when you are using a text to speech reader with a british female voice to read....

My one question is why does the picture look like they just got out of a fight the day before even when they have healing magic and a month has passed?

So is J-novel licensing the manga also?

Alicia seems to be a popular name for female assassins it seems..

Thinking about it are they going to be traveling with the cat?

Read this volume today, not bad, although I think in some parts it was too fast paced and I was confused by how friendly turned out to be the loli demon queen. Still, while I prefer swords myself, the premise of fighting in a fantasy isekai with modern weapons is fun enough that I'll keep reading.

ok, wtf?
plan on Okinawa - romantic setting etc. only for:

Runa is a trooper though!

then simultaneous 'emergency' phone calls (why was the ringer on? why not let go to voice mail? you are on vacation, there is literally NOTHING you can do about any situation from hundreds of miles away (that couldn't wait an hour) - only the typhoon warning alert system would need a response ...and even then 'shelter in place' is "continue with adult activities and stand by for further instructions")

the end? WTF?

@kuali @Almond-Magnum

Thank you!

I feel the alliance between Ernie and Oberon isn't going to survive the next volume.
This arc is longer than I was expecting, and while it introduced some interesting concepts, I'm already missing giant mechas.

@OvanZero I'm told this is fixed. Hopefully you see the same.

Just as a bit of info -- from what I can tell, the author hasn't continued beyond this point quite yet. So it remains to be see whether there will be more in the future.

At any rate, thanks to everyone who's come along for the ride thus far!

@alahue Thank you for making Mondays a day to enjoy.

The introductory message about "universal ethics" seems to describe UH perfectly. Everything they do screams "there is exactly one way to do things, and everyone who does it differently is evil." Their goal is to have every planet be identical. Their vision is more stagnant than the Abh.

(Of course I imagine that starting a war and lying about it goes against their universal ethics, so they're also massive hypocrites.)