@WhirlwindMonk said in Reborn to Reign: Imposing My Rules with My Mastery of Magic Vol. 1 Discussion!:

And while slavery in these wish fulfillment stories always give me a little ick, most of the time it's easy enough to look past. This one just kept putting it front and center in really uncomfortable ways.

"Thanks to me my dad, once a humanitarian noble, is now enlightened to the merrits of slavery" is wrong on so many levels that part of me actually feels like applauding.

At the end the only sense for the future is: Cool boy doesnt like curses because of his tragic past and that is the impetus for his ongoing attraction to the main character. Plus standard villainess plot B: Unprepared girl shoved into upper echelons of noble society (despite also being shown to be hyper competent (Sub-type A).

The entire volume was taken up addressing the opening premise and has had no room to establish anything else about its characters, world setting or plot outside of that premise. Take away that premise of Proud to Be the Villainess and who is Whelemy and who is Iora? I think we know far more about Mr cool then the main characters because he was the narrator for half the volume.

@groudonvert-own27br I could also assume that greater stretches of logic would require a greater price from the Grimoire. Doing this blinded her in one eye, which she was able to rationalize as a side-effect of her mana rampage stunt, but something more serious might paralyze a limb or worse. It'd be a significant problem if the plan requires her to fight, plus if the side effect makes her realize that she hypnotized herself it might make her realize that she's trying to dodge the contract.

Speaking of insane, where is the afterword?

v11 was just announced to be coming out in jp in June.

A great volume. Sadly during the years after the anime aired I got some spoilers for what was going to happen, but I didn't know all the details and the climatic battle was still exciting to read. Given that Stella got a huge power up in the previous volume it was only fair that Ikki got his upgrade too. I wonder if he now has the potential to reach rank A himself, although given the theme of the series I don't think it's going to be easy and he'll still be the underdog in the future. Also, I'm always happy when the main couple is allowed to have sex.

Its nice to see what exactly went down during her interview since ir was mentioend loong ago how it was that.impact that made them hire her. And uh wow Awayuki you rly had no fear lmaooo. Still what a nice way to end this series Yuki said that she wisved to ne a Legend and a legend she became. Godspeed to her and as author mentions The spinoffs and youtube (lol) still going so Awayuki truly is forever !!!

With the rumor that V10 will begin pre-pub soonish, i got motivated and reworked the stat site.

https://d-genesis-stats.com

It should now be fully mobile readable.
Anyone with a github account can submit a change as the contribution form will create a github issue for me to copy/paste a json block of the submitted contribution.

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Default WDARL view is a modern card view
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But I added a button to show a novel/manga formated WDARL list.
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Clicking/tapping a card shows the detail
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Not me grabbing a pen & paper to solve the math problem.

That diary/logbook is cursed if the princess was influenced just by reading it.

A new version of the manga is scheduled to release on April 6, 2026 (Manga Artist: Miyajima Ryoku / 宮嶋リョク).

Volume 1 Cover

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There was another version that released on 2024, but I think it got canceled (I saw it a long time ago, but since the serialization page was gone I did not find any prof that it existed before finding a image from the cover for the Volume 1)

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Not a fan of how everyone fighting with Sera is nerfed to oblivion so she can have flawless victories. Sure, there are external factors, like the Empire swordsman was injured and Oscar was still young, but it only makes the other characters who instead struggle against the same opponents looking bad in comparison.
Anyway, turns out Ryo was right in hating the Debuhi empire from the start. I hope that this arc is going to end with its destruction.

I liked this ending, especially getting some more story background on Ai Fa's parents. These little afterthought and side stories really make these novels.

I’ve watched the anime and i’m currently reading the manga but i’m thinking about reading the LN once i’m done and if i enjoy it i’m gonna genuinely need a Physical release of the English LNs cause oh my god is it just expensive to find a copy of the manga whatsoever but for now i’ll come back here once i’ve started reading the light novels.

Yes. Thank you for putting it diplomatically. I hope in the future the prepubs will be clear enough to understand, without attribution mistakes.

3rd time reading (my brain just won't lemme move on from this series!) and I haaaate how Amimin is such an afterthought to this story. Never see her in any boss fights, but she's clearly a front liner. Argh.. Just had to get that off my chest.

I suppose that Cercis and Calendula was never going to work out. She liked him for his confidence and the fact that he would pursue her despite all objections. But he liked her as an escape from his duties. What it comes down to it, those reasons are fundamentally incompatible; running away from his duties runs counter to the confidence she wanted.

She probably knew it would come down to this for a long time, because if he were really the man she wanted him to be, he wouldn't have let objections stop them from marrying. But I think she wanted to hope that it'd still work out somehow, and stayed longer against her best judgement.

@LightningLeaf I lol'ed at this.

I've got the impression the uncle could turn out to be a bit too much of a siscon and yandere and that might cause trouble later.
Anyway, Luna's wish for an happy family was granted..except for the part about having a normal child.

My theory on why Rani and the others didn't end up with Inglis and Tiffanier: Rani has gotten really good at controlling her own aether (we've seen that she's learning how to use it exponentially faster than Inglis did by watching her use it), and probably did something similar on her own without realizing it, and everyone else wound up with her. The Steelblood Front guy could have as well.

So the pontifex was likely offed by whoever has been providing the revelations, I suspect. It looked like her choker was set to detonate if she tried to reveal their identity.

I liked this volume, mostly because it was actually about Sansui. Had this series always been like this I would've liked it more, even if it turned out to be shorter.