I’m glad we have one more volume coming up, but it’s going to be so hard to wait for volume 8 once we’re caught up.

Also, are there any plans to sell either the light novel or the manga in printed form?

Cue up Billy Joel's Just the way you are. Looks like Aoi has gotten past her denial. I don't see Holmes rushing things. Slow burn here.

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@doomrider7 said in Unwanted Undead Vol. 7 Discussion:

What's the status on the series? Volume 8 of the LN dropped some months ago, but I don't see any mention of anything for it here and it made me concerned.

It might help to know that JNC has never dropped a series, except one where the publisher stopped all sales including in Japan.

There's no 100% guarantee but unless the publisher refuses to license the new volume or makes some crazy demands, it's safe to assume that JNC will get the new volume once licensing negotiations are complete, the materials are given to JNC, the work is scheduled, and enough of the work is done to start releasing the prepub.

(Note: I'm not JNC staff, that's just my understanding of what's been posted by them over the years.)

@piisfun i honestly dont remember why i quit reading them but major reason was(if i remember correctly), it doesnt help for the story and its "dark". I mean when i read isekai, i wanna know MC's past, his/her background, you know. But in this case, we got as much as we can get. Dude knew karate and stuff from his father, and he had a white color job. So bussiness kind a his thing as well. Its fine.

In bookworm, girl knows many things and we are getting info HOW she knows those stuff.

Realist Hero, dude says "i read from this, i like history, i studied that area" etc.

For example, i would like to know Lazy Dungeon Master MC's past. It seems like dude is a genius but we dont know anything about him. Except he has foot fetish.

But in this one, these short stories just says "fuck ryouma, his is a trash". Ok we got it from first or second story, what will you give us next? Another "that dude is trash" thing?

@Terabyte Yeah, I didn't think he'd end up the bad guy, since they have played that card before, but he was still very sus. Certainly wasn't expecting his father to be Zuma though.

Finally got around to getting the epub for volumes 8 and 9... and quite a few errors I reported are still there (a lot in v8 actually). 👀

Is the print version for the last 2 volumes out already?

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I do not really know. He's currently working on another book, and I don't know if/when he is going to return.

I’m assuming there isn’t a third volume in Japan yet given the amount of time that has gone by since the initial translation? Rather sad since I enjoyed he first two volumes quite a bit. No harem, no OP main character, the main character isn’t a complete loser, etc, etc. Very refreshing. It also has me on the fence as far as purchasing the first two books. Unless the author is going to continue I really don’t see a reason to do that. Plus, as much I’d like to support the continuation of the series I don’t believe sales here would influence the Japanese market for LNs that much.

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Some nice little side stories.

Also, I was skimming through the regular side stories at the end to find the bonus ones and noticed again that the picture of Rion crawling under the covers with Kelvin is just adorable :)

@Malloc Yeah his Healer job did Level up. So this experience is only for jobs and skills (like Martial Art).

EDIT: Argh did not see the answer from the translator.

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A pretty constant theme in this book series has been that the works of art reflected the way the artist really felt during the time they made it. That makes me wonder if the author of this series was going through a rough patch when they wrote this book.

The first two stories center around infidelity The third story has ueda revealing his unrequited love for Holmes's mom The arc around Holmes's and Aoi's love involves them not being able to see each other's true feelings and causing them to drift apart Akahito frequently acts as a third wheel between Aoi and Holmes, interfering with their relationship by just being around, possibly as a stand-in for a mistress/mister

@Terabyte A moment of silence for Kurz Weber. He went out proving to his mentor that he was a great sniper.

I am wondering why Leonard didn't mention that both Sousuke and Tessa are alive and escaped. Embarrassment, perhaps? Either way, the climatic battle seems to be set up, except for the little wild card that will be Chidori resetting the world. Rewriting time like that can have strange effects. We'll see what happens.

@Paul-Nebeling JK Haru is because we licensed the doujin; the content was already available to Japanese consumers by the time we got it.

The Bloodline was essentially produced in order to pitch to JNC with the plan to publish it in Japan sometime in the future. That's why it was announced as a "J-Novel Club First" title (or something along those lines).

Well that was both epic, and sad. Cant wait to see what happens next.