I'm usually not interested in JNC Hearts series but I gave this a try out of curiosity since the synopsis made it look like it had a male protagonist. It wasn't bad, and makes me wonder if I should pay more attention to these kind of novels if they are more likely to have a strong male lead compared to the harem series I usually read.

I'm sure that Roxanne will be just as effective of a villainess as her mother was!

"Get results or die" isn't conducive to being overly concerned about details.
The ends justify the means.
As The Evil Overlord's List points out, your ends had better justify your means.
In this case, selling those above you that the end justified the means is their standard operating procedure.

I don't like these guys, OK?

@CosmicTempest said in Min-Maxing My TRPG Build Vol. 9 Canto I Discussion!:

Also I thought Erich’s name was pronounced as Erik this whole time, is it pronounced differently?

Essentially yes. The names of a lot of places and people are German and I guess translators often used German spelling. But Erich in German pretty much sounds like Eric/erik

Oh my, a twofer with start of next volume.

@UrchinStar47 said in Duchess in the Attic Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@yzh4rjdzob6 I don't recall Stella having any significant money to her name. She grew up freeloading on Hubert, more or less. Not that I've seen her have much options either.

As I quoted in my original post, in 1-8, Hubert says:

I’ll use the funds that I’ve given to Stella and begin my investments once more to build up money again.

He has been giving Stella money to live off of, and plans on taking it back.

I really have to remember to stop waiting until close to the expiry date to read this novel. It's so light and fluffy but sometimes I'm not in the mood for a light snack and then it's boring to me. But I really like how it tastes and when it comes to reading, I'm greedy so I still want to read it. If I ever miss it on membership, I may just have to buy it. In fact, I should probably start collecting it when my budget allows. This series looks like a snack I should always have available in my snack cupboard.

Volume 9 was published July 1 in Japan, so ... we'll be able to order it here REAL SOON NOW (to quote a person I had an argument with eons ago).

What? We have to wait for negotiations to finish, and announcements to be made? ARGH!

@abernan

Hi,

There is no set date for when Volume 14 will start pre-publication on the site, at this time.

For a general overview of how new volume starts are handled at J-Novel Club. Please see the following topic, https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

Thank you

@SalmonJones said in Tearmoon Empire Vol. 13 Discussion!:

I am curious what they're getting at with Yanna and Kiryl. They haven't really done anything yet. Not sure how they fit in. After this many stellar books in a row I trust this author, I'm sure it'll be something clever.

There's a pirate serpent from the same culture as them that got a brief cameo recently. Likely there's something with that serpent and their people coming up that Yanna and Kiryl will be important for...

@Travis-Butler said in I Parry Everything Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Something that came to me as I was re-reading this volume…

Lynne needs to complete an “exceptional deed” to obtain the right of succession. That was her cover story for going to Sarenza.

Um.

WTF was her leadership in the fight against Holy Mithra? Chopped liver? O.o

I think that one might count as politically inconvenient exceptional deed as nobody wants to dig too deep into what exactly happened there. Conquering a dungeon, much less complicated.

Just binge read the whole series on catchup.
I'll admit it, it wasn't exactly what I was hoping for. And Lud made me mad in multiple occasions, midway through the series he was among my least favorite characters. If volumes were longer, I would've likely dropped it. Still, I decided to stick until I reached the conclusion, and the ending almost made me cry. I'm of the opinion that a bad ending can ruin an entire work, at least for me that's the case. For this series, this last volume saved it.

@Libri-Liberorum said in The Legendary Witch Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@topgnu said in The Legendary Witch Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I'm not sure where the music comes from. Maybe they perform acapella (not so Bollywood.) Maybe the music just comes from nowhere. Maybe a significant fraction of the population carry musical instruments to be ready to provide psychically guided orchestration when needed.

Maybe the music comes from spirits, like how in other series an intercession or otherwise connection with the spirits is what produces magic.

Perhaps the more powerful your connection is the greater and more elaborate the orchestration is

I'm sorry... This novel is just too uninteresting. I mean come, can't we have a novel that's not full of common tropes? Or at least a well written common trope. But I think I'm just getting too old for reading novels like this.

@HarmlessDave Even I, for as much as I have frequent issues with the plot, will admit that the main cast, and the relationships between them, are actually good.

(I still don't like Sara herself, but approve of everyone around her.)

The strength of the cast is actually the reason why I never dropped this series, no matter how annoying Volume 2 got.

@xdrfiredogx said in Elf Bride Vol. 18 Discussion!:

love power

I have no idea at all why my mind is suddenly hearing The B-52s singing about Love Power!

@Geezer-Weasalopes They did come up with a believable reason why the King only received half of the magic stone. I wonder who cooked it up.

And Dias will more than likely piss off another princess by turning down her proposal, this one for marriage.

@HarmlessDave I hope it leans in to more of the "Overpowered Protagonist deals with sometimes humorous slice-of-life situations."

We have a zany cast. Several of them seem to have some sort of awkward feelings for him. We also just got his two previous teammates in town. Are they going to join the guard, too? Is the knight vice-captain going to get blow-back from her boss?

That knight captain is destined to be trouble down the line.

Anyone that can be defeated in a straight-forward fight is easy, but plenty of things can't just be punched or blocked. Between the knight captain's distaste for the guards and the knight vice-captain's feelings for Seig, there's definitely material for another novel -- and without drawing out a monster-of-the-week type of situation.

I mean, the Capital is regularly attacked. We're likely to see more attacks. But that could easily be used as a tool to play for timing and importance with the other stuff going on.

Even if the Capital weren't attacked anymore, that would also be disruptive to the Capital as it would be a change from the status quo. It would mean it is safer and more folks would engage in trade there. This would bring a steady new stream of potential problems.

I'm assuming we won't see the sister before a time skip, so the age problem would be solved. The incest part remains, author might try to play with it by saying that Caim isn't the same person as before, but I guess in the end it all depends if he wants to cater to that fetish or not.

I officially ship Kid and the princess.
Anyway, a nice volume. I'll never get tired of seeing Ernie and the Ikaruga going wild.

Ayame could technically have a chance, if Light tells Khaos that a political marriage is useful to him. Of course, he's not going to give such and order to one of his retainers.
Anyway, it was a nice volume, I'm looking forward to the next one.