@piisfun said in Late-Start Tamer Vol. 6 Discussion!:

It looks like the delay was due to changing translators.

JNC does like to have the folks picking up a title be familiar with the translations of the previous volumes, which does add some time, yes.

It's worth it.

@custodes said in Magic Knight of the Old Ways Vol. 5 Discussion!:

"And next to the lofty queen was their beloved, their partner and first knight. Whose name was known to all..."

Tenko, obviously.

@lucaslp5 It was a premature announcement. We can hope its next week but we won't know until they reannounce it

Oh, this was great. The whole trilogy was great!

I loved how much it is all about how it feels when you're on a sacred quest, as opposed to what you do. I loved how the two girls treat each other as equals and are such good and close friends (which is surprisingly rare). I loved how the companions are such a tight-knit group, and how nostalgic every parting feels. And how much everybody grows up - those who are childish at first, and those who are serious, all have ways to go before the end of the story. And how being humble, caring, and not aggressive are traits that don't prevent anybody from being a hero.

What a story twist in the second half of the volume, though! I probably should have expected that, but I didn't, and it got very scary for a time!

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In the end, I really appreciated the characters recognizing that a lot about the whole situation, starting with summoning people from other worlds, is pretty fucked up, and they shouldn't have done that, and end up taking measures against it happening again. It's so great when a story is willing to take a look at all the stuff a genre takes for granted, and make its own conclusions.

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Favourite pieces of dialogue:
"What! You're so rude! Who do you think I..."
"I think you're a nuisance, that's what. I'm above your ranks. This isn't even my home world. I'm not afraid of what anyone says, and I'm gonna speak my mind."
- Maria, using her powers for good.

"He's way too uptight with me! Really, does he think he's some kind of class rep?"
"Class... rep?" I asked, unfamiliar with the phrase.
"Um, someone who leads a group."
"Oh, he is a captain."
"Ah... yeah. But, the nuance is kinda different. Anyway, he's uptight!"
- Everybody just being silly for a change. But the banter in general was very nice.

I also liked how the group of very disparate travelling companions eventually became very tight-knit, and other people who should be in theory close to them in life experience and outlook feel distant because they're working from assumptions instead of taking time to understand them as individuals.

@Terabyte
What a cauincidince, I was coming her to ask the exact same question.

@Hylebos OK. Thanks for the reply.

@Lily-Garden said in Deathbound Duke's Daughter Vol. 2:

@AZM welcome to the club 😉

We've got punch and pie.

@Rahul-Balaggan

Thanks I knew there were sometimes breaks for books so I was just wondering.
All good I’ll wait for next book whenever that is

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@GeorgeMTO
They used USDD in the latest part. (V4P3) From the context I think it's the Department of Dungeons.

The guild receptionist starts to freak when it seems that an 18 year old is the mama of a four year old. That should not have happened. In medieval times, it was not uncommon for girls to get married and start a family as early as 12.

@jazzyjeoff

Haha guillotines do not leave scars. Yes, I think Mia would think something like that.

What a truly strange sequel to a truly strange book. The last thing I was expecting was for Grand Sumo Villainess to get another volume, and I was even more surprised to find it fully abandon its villainess isekai trappings to go all-in on comedic fantasy worldbuilding instead. It works just as well, since the original was never super invested in its villainess parody concept to begin with, and the whistle-stop tour of the quirky spins on staple fantasy lands works better for how lightly the story takes itself. It was a good time.

I went into this part completely expecting that it was going to make me cry. I knew it was the wedding and I'm a sucker for sappy romance stuff like that. But I made it all the way through the wedding ceremony without tearing up.

But then the little girl approached her during the parade and told her she was going to be a doctor. THAT's when I lost it. Good old visit from the onion ninjas. That sudden realization that yes, she really was inspiring people must have meant the world to Rosemary. I assume that little girl is the one who went on to be called the saintess in the flash-forward at the end.

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@Zeteni said in A Pale Moon Reverie Vol. 1 Discussion:

@Pieta I don't tend to read series where that's the case so I'm curious how Sari compares to other female leads in those situations. While accounting for her working relationship with Eid I found she did a good job expressing her desire to maintain a distance from him. If not to him directly then at least to us, the readers. This is why I wasn't really entertaining the idea that the story was trying to present him as a problematic suitor.

It's not that I thought he had any chance with Sari, but it was her disinterest that disqualified him in my eyes, not his behaviour, despite being way over the line in many many ways. After all I've seen too many times that being way over the line might not be enough for an author either.

The genre of romance as a whole tends to have an unhealthy amount of "No means Not Yet" or "No means Pursue Me Harder". Which, I guess, brings us to the question of how other female leads might deal with these situations - and the answer is often that it doesn't matter, because "women don't actually mean what they say" is also something that appears way too often.

As you can probably tell I have something of a love/hate relationship with the entire field of romance. (:
The worst are those with interesting women who draw me in, only for the men to disgust me on arrival with no concept of consent. Reverie is absolutely golden in that regard.

Also I finished my review at about 1100 words: https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/13otadt/rt_a_pale_moon_reverie_fantasy_romance/. It was incredibly difficult because so many of the things I really wanted to discuss hinge on knowing the big reveal at the end of the first story. Obviously spoiling that is a no go.

Nicely said. And I agree, not wanting to spoil anything makes it pretty hard to discuss the books.

@Rahul-Balaggan said in Haibara's Teenage New Game+ Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Volume 3 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Stories By the Riverbed with Hondo Serika

Fun story.

Am I supposed to read anything into the decision to use the frequent use of the term 'riverbed' rather than river in this bonus story?

Generally this term refers specifically to the bed (bottom) of a current/former river rather than the river itself.