The next TRPG volume comes out in Japan in July. Naturally it will take several months after then for JNC to license it and begin translation but we might see it hit our shores around the turn of the new year if we're lucky.

Now that I've actually gotten around to chopping this up for the omnibus...

Due to the framing device showing Bel in the Empress Mia timeline instead of the Empress Prelate timeline, I think it should go after the end of Volume 11 (where Bel 1 is shot and Bel 2 replaces her), at the end of To The Moon-Led Morrow.

It looks like stripping the duplicates out still leaves enough chapters left that we won't have two intermissions next to each other or anything, so I think the collection's still readable without them.

On a related note, I spotted at least one pre-pub bug report that doesn't seem to have been addressed before the ebook was published. I wasn't even looking for that, but when you have both copies of The Mystery of the Island and the Sage of the Moon on screen at the same time, it really jumps out at you.

Just finished the volume. It was fine, but I hope at some point we are getting a time skip, because I'm not sure I'll be willing to read ten volumes of romance between elementary schoolers.

@xdrfiredogx said in Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains Vol. 6 Discussion:

The mysterious human that was there called it "Tora" , which of course means tiger. But we are well into the realm of myth and fantasy at this point, unless it escaped from a zoo, since there are no native predator cats in Japan that I'm aware of. Which would align with the extinct Japanese Wolf keeping it company

Thanks for the clarification. Now that you mention it, these could be associated with the "retainers" of the god of east mountain that Ten was mentioning.

The "I hope nothing happens" flag, along with the "You're always around her, so you have to protect Misha" side story leads to only one conclusion...

Misha's totally falling off that boat.

Um, what the fuck just happened.

It wasn't bad, but I hope in the next volume Loyd will start acknowledging he's not a weakling.

Alright, I think I've got a decent enough answer to the question of "how is there a volume 2?" Really not a fan of Dina and Teodoro's dynamic, so this is enough for me.

Nice volume. New characters, some progress for the main couple (although not as much as I hoped ), and the plot is moving.

@Davrwa said in Zilbagias the Demon Prince Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Anything similar to this while I wait? Needs to be good too; it took much effort to find this in the middle of all the isekai slop.

The best thing I can think of is Rebuild World or the black company. Rebuild world is an orphan who salvages old ruins runs into an old AI that was left after the apocalypse. Black Company is about a mercenary Company called the black company that serves the dark lord.

@wandering-dreamer said in The Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman Vol 4 Part 2 Discussion:

@karasutengu She already knows, iirc when he cornered her in this volume with his proposal he let slip something about how the margrave died and Karen realized that he must've been there.

I think I remember her asking him if he killed the margrave, and he was truthful, he didn’t.

@Ingraman said in The Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman Vol 4 Part 2 Discussion:

I’ll have to remember to not eat before reading a part of this story. It wasn’t as bad as some of the parts, but “Ick…”.

Honestly, it might just be better to not eat before reading this series. Several scenes are not good for the stomach.

I was expecting the dragon emperor to start worshipping Zil too but he ended up being just a source of new citizens. For now, at least.

The wedding made this volume more bearable than others, but Tenma and Primera are one of the couples with the least romance I've read here at JNC.

Psyched!

I was grumbling at author-san for doing such a horrible thing to cutie-pie Jess, but it was Dio!

@Lex They were already a weird family. Right from the moment that Mizuto's dad met Yume's mom. Let's not forget that Mizuto and Yume were dating before their parents got married. That just ramped up the weirdness. Yuni being pregnant only adds to it. Now would be the perfect time for them to come clean and tell them that they are dating, but they probably won't.

I'm not sure if they will break up or not. They really don't have a reason to. Worst case that I see is that they keep it discreet and quietly get married after college when parental notification isn't needed.

@emma1411 I haven’t read the volume yet, but your comment makes me even more excited to read it.

Finished v1, it was a really exciting final sequence!

@hendric its been awhile, but I don't believe the crown prince had any ill intentions towards his sister or a fear that she could replace him. He was just an easily manipulated bumbling idiot. The previous king and queen both believed any damage done could be reversed, though I doubt they expected the resulting lobotomy their son put her through prior to their execution.