@HarmlessDave said in Let This Grieving Soul Retire Vol. 7 Discussion!:

It's also fun for me how he's clueless but also so hardened by all the past bad luck that the author keeps hinting about that he stays calm in the face of peril. "Huh, that was my last safety ring" -- still stands there. "Hmm, dragon in my hot spring bath", "Oh, it's the fox spirits again", etc. He ignores things, but doesn't run away screaming.

Which is most of, if not all the time, because he's misunderstanding the situation. Sure, part of it is being used to crazy shit and never being harmed. So he doesn't think his life is in actual danger.

The Dragon didn't freak him out because he thought it was a feature of the hot spring. Like a friendly dragon/pet kind of thing. And he didn't freak out when the dragon attacked him, due having his safety rings. And also thinking the attack was actually just a playful prank from a friendly pet if you will.

The Foxes don't freak him out because despite their power, they are nice, polite and even give him gifts.

And then it was against one of the bosses in the arena. He had no idea the guy was there to kill him. That he was an actual enemy and a member of the criminal fox. He instead thought the guy belonged to the fan club. He truly thought all he needed to do was apologize. You don't need safety rings to apologize to someone. And the guy tossing lightning was down anyway. It was only in the epilogue when he barely started to realize who that guy actually was the boss of, and the kind of danger he had actually been in, that he decided to just turn his brain off. Stop the gears from spinning as he called it.

Otherwise, I think he would have freaked out without his safety rings. He never does, because he truly believes he's safe in any given situation. Almost always due to his own misunderstanding. He wants to be hard boiled. And he believes he's managing to fake it at times outwardly, while he utterly fails internally. That's why he considers Krahi the real him, while he himself is the fake.

I think the joke here is that Krai absolutely is the kind who would run away screaming. Or at least he considers himself someone who would. Because that's normal for regular weaklings like himself. But he also never actually thinks he's in the kind of danger we the readers, and everyone around him, knows he's in. So he never runs away.

@Jon-Mitchell said in From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Hero worship/ veneration for sensei - seems to morph into hot for teacher if he is of the opposite sex- (but I cannot see why none of the 20-somethings, nor the head of the magic corps have a significant other- surely even if they 'have a type' someone out there would've scratched that itch)

Allusia has been plotting to capture his heart since she was a little girl when she said she was going to marry him, and she's now schemed to bring him to the capital to work by her side. So her not having someone else makes perfect sense.

For the others I guess we have to accept that Beyl set a standard for them and they haven't met anyone else who surpassed it.

And so it ended. Only disappointing part is that we got a proposal only for Krone and not for Chris and Olivia.
If I understood things correctly the rest of the story is only available as WN so we won't get more here. Still, this wasn't a bad stopping point, although I want to see more of Ein and friends so I'll check if I can read the source.

+1 for being sad there's only 1 volume to go.
Normally, I see it as a good thing when a series gets to its natural conclusion, rather than dragging on till either the quality tanks or the author runs out of ideas, but given this doesn't really have an overarching plot it really felt like it could just carry on for a long time with its episodic comic hijinks.

Also slightly wary of the foreshadowing about the interview being revealed. As much as I do want to know what happened there, I feel like it's built up almost mythical status at this point, to the extent that I'm not sure if a real description can actually live up to just leaving it to the reader's imagination.

Okay, I'm not surprised that the merchant got away, because that's the kind of dumb stuff I expect from this series, but the way it happened was extremely stupid. Which I guess is also expected of this series. They all just kinda stopped fighting for no reason.
The destruction dragon was losing the fight with Celes and Dramom, but because it was ordered to distract everyone else so the merchant can get away, it was suddenly able to pull itself away. And Celes and Dramom just kind of let it do that with zero consequence.

@PeachyGreen i have found that the art of reading these kinds of books is by willfully ignoring the weird shit and focusing on the wholesome stuff

@luisbaez2203

Hello,

I have put both of your reviews in a spoiler. A few things:

reviewing a series in V1 of the volume discussion topic is very odd.
These topics are for pre-publication discussion purposes. Not volume discussion purposes. if you would like to leave a review for a full volume please open a volume discussion thread in the appropriate sub-forum. since you posted them here. I put them in spoiler boxes since they contain information past V1. in your review you have a section for who would enjoy this series. You say masochists in an insulting manner. while you did not enjoy the series. Others do. Please refrain from insulting other people in your reviews. keep your review on the book. Not the people reading it.

Contains spoilers for events past V1. Edited by mod.

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@TheGrimLich
That was my thought. Elizabeth is being positioned to get Felix in an obvious way.

I thought it was striking that Wes made no mention of nobles improving their land or lowering taxes to reduce hunger.

I have now finished reading the third volume and it was so good! While the first two volumes were still somehow slow-paced and more easy going, the story has picked up quite a bit here.
I also still think it's a shame that the manga only adapts the first volume. I would have loved to see that ball scene adapted, too. But maybe we will get an anime adaption in the future, this would be awesome! At least I hope so.

While reading I noticed a few details that just struck me as odd. I could very well imagine things, but are Ekaterina and Alexei really blood-related? In volume two, when Ekaterina looks at the portraits of the family, it is mentioned that while Alexei shares similarities in appearance with his father and grandmother, both have a noticeably different eye color and I assume with his grandfather it‘s the same. Not to mention the fact, that Ekaterina and her mother also have a completely different coloring. Ekaterina and Alexei also don’t share any similarities at all, which they should, at least slightly. It also strikes me as weird, that Lady Alexandra hated her grandson‘s eyes as mentioned by that stupid villainess in volume three and treated him badly. Well, she hated nearly everyone and I don’t think I need to mention anything about how she treated her sons’s wife and her very own granddaughter, so maybe it doesn’t really mean anything. But maybe, just maybe, there is more to it than meets the eye.
If it turns out they really aren‘t related in the end, I would ship them so hard. So far there is no male character who could compete with Alexei in the slightest anyway. I do have some hopes for the black dragon, but so far he still hasn‘t really made an appearance. If Ekaterina and Alexei are blood-related and true siblings, then I will probably ship her with the dragon. Just not the prince, please…

@heimdal7 said in The Legendary Witch Vol. 4 Discussion!:

Is vol 5 actually out or still being written?

Considering that JNC has already announced it (much to the chagrin of those of us who read it and got spoiled on the ending of volume 4 by their teaser), I would say it's already out.

@Ingraman said in Otherside Picnic Vol. 9 Discussion!:

I had several years of French language classes from elementary school through high school (more than a few years have passed since then), and couldn’t make anything out of those long chains of letters. Well, I did see “gyaru” twice, once in each sentence. Couldn’t figure that out. Since you spelled out what we were supposed to be seeing, I presume that the “gyaru” belonged to regarder. ^_^

don't worry about it, I'm a native French speaker and I couldn't read it either, that's how garbled it was. I was able to figure out "gyaru" and the sounds surrounding it was something like "garde" or "garder", but I could barely make out anything else.

The sister didn't wet herself this time, she's making progress.
Rozbeth had to wait before experiencing the joy of being a woman but now she's going to make up for that with interests.
A new girl in the next volume...going by the reveal we git in thus one, I'm assuming it's going to be Lykos turn.

Kazuhiro could bypass his travel skill's weight restriction by bringing everyone to Japan, going back to the dream world, traveling alone to his destination, and then bringing them back.

@Terabyte Well, Wridra has a mate, but I don't know if he'd truly fall under the human definition of "husband". I mean, all we really know about him is that he knocked up Wridra and flew off to god knows where. I don't think you can really apply human social conventions to the relationship of ancient dragons. For all we know, they could have an open relationship, or have the viewpoint of "what happens in a humanoid body stays in a humanoid body."

@strangeattractor Congratulations and best of luck in round two.

@Brentoni The first one is a reference to the second Parodius game from 1990. Parodius was a series of shooters from Konami that were a parody of their own Gradius series. Some wacky things happen in it and I recommend the series if you are interested in classic horizontal shooters. Cover of Parodius for NES featuring said cat ship

The book is something else when read as an entire volume. I finished it in a couple of sittings. The map was a huge help. The light tone makes it not sound like a history lesson. The dose of humor is just right. A family tree with all the aliases (like Duke Raul == Chancellor, Duke Agnicarl == Minister of ceremonies == Regent faction (more or less)) would have been an additional help..I had to map it out in my head with the aid of the map as and when more information was fed.
As we are reading the vol.2, I realise a lot of this groundwork and history was essential to understand the moves made there.
Thanks a lot to the translation team and the editing team who did a fantastic job in bringing this wonderful LN to us. @JasonL

@TrinaBear the second volume has begun streaming. The discussion thread for it is here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9028/they-don-t-know-i-m-too-young-for-the-adventurer-s-guild-vol-2-discussion