@philhouse Note that there was a mixup in the schedule and volume 2 was accidentally released while volume 1 was not yet done streaming. This has been rectified, and Lady Rose Vol 2 will be back in December!

Until then, please enjoy the final parts of Lady Rose Volume 1. 🌹

@LightningLeaf Going by the afterword, next volume's plot was supposed to be this volume's plot, but the Beth plotline expanded into a greater explanation of her charitable organizations as well as a way to restore Opal's reputation, and it took up the whole volume.

Re-reading the comments above has me laughing at how completely most of us have forgotten the countries, politics, and minor characters :)

I decided to wait until a bunch of parts were out for this before reading them (instead of my usual weekly reading) and then almost didn't get through volume 26 before it expired, but now I'm caught up.

Like we all suspected if you took two volumes off this, stapled them together, and cut out the asides and repetitions then it makes up one volume of a pretty ok series.

We've also gotten two different open ended "little did he know somebody unexpected riding along with them would change the course of things forever" now with no sign of introducing - much less resolving - either of them any time soon.

Wasn't expecting a callback to the coachman from volume 1.
Looks like author is going with religious worship rather than incest for Elisnasze so she might not need her own Flio clone as a partner...she'll just stay single for life given her standards.

@spohl20127

Whelp, that’s not getting addressed until Monday when business hours resume …

You did it Andou, we got the illustration!

@neosovereign That's much too early to say. Who knows? He might just have a useful talent! Plus, I believe, that befriending him is actually relevant to patching up old wounds, if you know what I mean.

Liz’s cookies turns the battle between heroes with swords into a battle between heroes in bed.

A new haremparty member!!

Big "I won't die even if you kill me" energy.

@Gad-Onyeneho-u4rduhi said in Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon Vol. 9 Discussion!:

Guess what, guys...

Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon Novels Get Anime

Definitely looking forward to it.

Every time the author talks about the makeup of the ladies of Evantail, I hear in my mind "And may the odds be ever in you favor".

Took me a long time to get around to finishing the essay. An enlightening read. Thanks again to JNC for bringing us this minor volume, it's great for the English audience to have a chance to read all these.

While Lewis being the culprit certainly seemed likely enough, that wasn't exactly how I expected it to go!

Was rather painful to read, even if it was a mercy at the same time.

@ultimatehaki said in The Legendary Witch Vol. 2 Discussion!:

what do you mean no one know the FOUNDING kings' name just cause its been 5 centuries!? That's nothing! One of the dumbest excuses I've seen as to keep something a mystery.
I mean they still remember Adelheid name!

Brainwashing is a real bitch, huh?

@Zeteni said in The Legendary Witch Vol. 2 Discussion!:

This is not what I would have called, but given the names it was really staring us right in the face, wasn't it?

Yeah... I like to think I'm generally reasonably perceptive but this one flew right past me until the reveal 😅

I'm gonna have to buy the volume to reread it to remember all the characters at this point haha. JNC gets another purchase from me I guess.

The fat bastard seems to have lived. What a shame.

I guessed knee and not arm/shoulder but close enough I think 😏

@dragon3010 said in The Greatest Magicmaster's Retirement Plan Vol. 18 Discussion!:

So is everyone there going to ingore that alus really has been changing? Including himself....? They are going on about him being so dark but he himself mentioned how Alice,tesfia and everyone at the institute have changed him. This feels so stupid atm ._.

It's hard to tell how much closer the sun is when the sky is still filled with clouds.

But IS changing, bit by bit.

My policy of not reading book blurbs because they spoil too much does backfire from time to time. For example, if you read a collection of short stories, with some set even before the first volume, but the book itself doesn't say that, you might find yourself wondering why the text is constantly contradicting previously established facts, and wonder if you missed something like the main character falling into an alternate world at the end of volume 7.

The stories, at least those that come after Edgar has entered the picture, just nail the dynamic between the main duo, even better than the main story. And the Christmas story is really a treat.

Euphie is really got that Koala cosplay going strong

That was rather adorable... glad to see it's not over, but that would have been a nice ending if that had been the case.

For the next volume, I'm thinking it's time we meet the rest it their adventuring party. We still have at least one more than hasn't come to visit yet.

@MFDelta said in Lacey Longs for Freedom Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Honestly, with the way the epilogue and afterword were written and the author stating that one of her works getting a second volume was unusual, I have to wonder if the author herself was sure there wouldn't be a third volume.

That's more or less how I read that as well. It felt like it was meant to be an ending, but that she'd like to tell more stories with Lacey & Co. if the chance ever came.