@Gad-Onyeneho-u4rduhi Thanks for the clarification.

@LeavesCat I thought it was "Manners maketh the man.", but that's not important. What mattered was that she learned from her experience and both Claude and Opal covered up why she actually was dressed like that, bonus points to Claude for being a stellar gentleman.

"Slash, slice, and slay!" And since you hurt his daughter... well, Shin's more than angry enough to do just that to you. And if you think he's incapable... then you've already lost.

Not as big a surprise as Vol. 9, but another book in this series is a good thing. Looking forward to it!

@Lex said in Hell Mode Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Also, while I feel sorry for Pelomas, I'd love if Allen finds a way to not have a Holy Orb wasted on a girl that is clearly not interested in him.

She is into heroes and badasses. Pelomas has been training like crazy with the rest of Allen's army and getting involved in their heroic stuff. If he is able to turn his kidnapping into a daring escape that helps the NLG foil the latest demonic plot, her opinion of him may well change radically.

@rkkn said in The Goddess Says, "Kill the Tsundere Witch!" Vol. 1 Discussion:

Evil Elyena was unexpected. I wonder what her endgame is. Is she an "ends justify the means" type, or is she gonna be the big bad?

Yeah, we know her current goal is to overturn the current world order by killing the "goddess" but we don't yet know what she's planning to do afterwards if she succeeds.

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@nappingcub said in Water Magician Arc 1 Vol. 5 Discussion:

The author having Ryo and Abel leaving prominent enemies alive after defeating them makes my head hurt.

Agreed. It's very PG, but it's objectively ridiculous to participate in a war without the resolve to kill your enemies. All the allies that he loses to them once they re-enter battle are on his shoulders.

I actually think this was a huge mistake for Ryo to enter the war at all. He's not a mercenary. And he can't claim adventurer neutrality when he's clearly fighting for one of the sides. Rescueing his pupils was fine - it's in character and I could see him leaving the soldiers alive, then, on the basis of not choosing sides. And he could have maybe tagged along to the battlefield as Abel's bodyguard or something like that, without ruining his character. But to actively enter the world stage on behalf of one power at the expense of another strikes me as a huge and unwelcome shift in the story.

God he just sucks so much...

@pcj said in This Gyaru’s Got a Thing for...Vampire Hunters?! Vol. 1 Discussion!:

The way that ended felt like it could be a standard one-shot with an open ending, but the title says Volume 1 in it, does that mean there are more?

I guess this answers that question.

@TheWickerMan Got it. Thanks. I missed the word "remaining", it seems. I interpreted that as: the three plus one who were doing their own thing referred to Hanakawa's group of three plus Tachibana. I guess instead it was referring to Hanakawa (the one) plus this otherwise unnamed group of three.

Thanks. That clears things up.

<picture of little middle sister leaning over and big brother little sister holding a large fish>

That insert was a bit more mindbending than I had anticipated. I'm not sure if we've ever had an image of Kizuna and one of the sisters together before. I have to say, Kizuna is really short.

Millicia as the empress is something I was expecting since the start of this succession war, although that would mean Caim too will have to settle down, and so all the girls. I'd prefer if Lance inherits the throne and the party is free to keep going to adventures, but we'll see.
Before that, though, Arthur needs to be defeated. I wonder if the author is saving him for the next volume and he'll be given some sort of power up, because after Caim defeated both Gawain and Merlin and his army lost the battle I think he's currently at too much of a disadvantage.
Gawking, as expected, was the toughest opponent for Caim so dar and I wish the battle lasted longer. Merlin...if felt like the author didn't want to gave Caim fight a woman unless it's in bed and since she already loved another man he had her play support and die of exhaustion.

Poor Eliza. :(
Why do I get the sense this is about to be super plot relevant and their meeting will cause disaster? 😂

Yoshimura would have to consume roughly one to three kilograms of chilli powder to reach the LD50 of capsaicin content.

As the author helpfully pointed out in the following sentence, it's unlikely that the capsaicin would kill him first.

I suspect the only way to get even close to consuming that quantity of chilli powder would be in its raw powdered form. As a powder it undoubtedly has desicating properties, meaning the mode of death would likely be dehydration (or suffocation from accidental inhaltion, or dust explosion).

Mrgh. Geh! Agh! Gaaaah! Ngh! Haaaah! Grr... Mrrrr...

That's all I've got to say about today's release.

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@myskaros My JNC library page says that v9 was updated, but what I just downloaded still says version 1.0. Did it not get renumbered to 1.0.1, 1.1, or something else? Did I manage to not actually download the updated book? I don’t know what changes to look for.

Thank you! :)

Nooo, he didn’t get his autograph!

Aside from that, was cool to see Lara demonstrate her power.

Been enjoying the way these present the heroes as so overpowered but still somehow normal people.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Vol. 8 Discussion!:

Inviting him to a hot springs?
You shameless hussy, you!

Way to go girl way to go! Keep it up...