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Hello,

Yes, it is already up for pre-order and releases in September

https://j-novel.club/series/the-magic-in-this-other-world-is-too-far-behind?buy=volume-10

Yay, they won! Man, this entire battle was so well written.

Welp, now both of these idiots realize they have feelings. So now they just have to convey that to each other!

Also, ahhh, the happy and sad feeling of the volume ending.

I've been waiting for this release for a while. Im glad to be back reading this series again. And again, Chelsea is as popular as ever, and as always again, just plain nonchalant about said celebrity status. I just wonder how she'll handle all the fanfare she'll tack on as she gets older.

@Kurzaa I was joking.

@shiratori-keira said in JNC OLN Contest 2025 Finalists! - Discussion:

I'm just a bit curious about how the judging works. Like, are the judges American or Japanese? From JNC or Kadokawa? Do Kadokawa's editors only read the works that pass to the final round?

We got a bit more information on the judges last year. The initial judges were mostly JNC staff, with Sam himself doing a large amount of reading. But the final judges were Sam, Frog-Kun (aka Kim Morrissy, a long time reviewer and translator for Japanese material and also an author themself), Akiko Fujita (Chief Editor at Kadokawa/Enterbrain) and Carlo Zen (Japanese author whose most known work is Saga of Tanya the Evil). Bookwalker also likely had multiple people from their management committee discussing who got their prize.

Unsure how this has changed this year (probably no Carlo Zen, definitely no Frog-kun) as we didn't have someone taking photos of every slide this year. Maybe once Sam has unwound after the con he'll give us the full presentation with reviewer comments.

Only about halfway through this volume so far, but I find Makina to be the least likable character in this story by far. She knows Yotsuba is dating two other girls but rather than just trying to join as one of her lovers, she wants to kick the other girls down. She's just a homewrecker, and she doesn't belong in the harem.

Finished reading the volume, so far the series is in a kind of limbo where I'm not really looking forward to read it but it's not a chore like Isekai tensei was. We'll see what direction it takes in the next volumes, Allen's promotion and discovery of wind magic seem a good start to make things more interesting. I just wish there was a 3-4 years timeskip because it feels weird every time the story mentions the characters being 12...I wonder if it's meant to be a series aimed at a younger audience.
People mentioned the clever foreshadowing in the title but I want to file a complain for false advertising, I was told swords are up and I got a protagonist who wants to become a mage and fights with a bow.

So now that I've actually read the two parts I am clearly not as interested in otaku-tsundere pairings as the author is. I'll probably give it another part or two to see if things shift? Maybe?

And we see that while Ernie is good, he's trained his people quite well. They actually managed to pin him down. Thankfully the Boss was there and noticed things were just a little unusual.

@Burgerlava Yes, she still remains innocent and outside of fightning strategy, she still remains clueless about human interactions.

Damn I cried for Raielfam Sudra. I know he had it rough but reading it spelled out like this is different. I hope his fortune continues to trend upwards.

Getting close to the point of rage quitting this series. Zelos acts the same doormat he had in his previous, rather unhappy life. Except now he has all the power to say things like, what a nice kingdom you've got here, would be a shame to find a crater there next time you use me

Really? The after birth illustration does not include the baby dragon?

Feels like Ryuto's friend and Maria is how and otaku x gyaru story would play in real life without wish fullfillment.

Nice job Lay, Misa and the other for being able to minimize the damage done by the solar eclipse. Misa also got a powerup like Eleanor earlier.
Now it's time for Anos to deal with Equis and make him pay for making Sasha and Misha suffer in the next volume.

@xdbx I assume he's not going to tell them, at least until Juliet appears again. He would be in for such a massive lecture for letting them go freely.

About the prince's name, i believe the whole pea brained prince thing might have shown up in japanese as robert -> robaato (in romanji) -> rokudemonashi ouji (useless prince) or something to that effect.

Just a guess, since i havent read the source material. Maybe robert is spelled out differently. Fun to speculate about it tho.

I just got around to reading thos volume 's ebook. It is amazing to read some of the stories (like Oswald's) without a week's break in between.
I absolutely loved the translator 's notes which was a nice bonus and also gave a nice comparison to how it is on the original. Thanks a lot to the team for that!