Volume 6 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story The School Revolution Begins with Brown Bread!

Volume 7-Exordium (Premium Edition): 3 Bonus Short Stories & Bonus Cover Art Private Academy Z: Senior Year! - Home Room First Period Second Period

Volume 3 (Premium Edition): Griffith's Unexpected Sweetheart

Volume 11 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story Cowberry Fields Forever

Volume 5 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story Splashing Water in the Hot Spring

For a while there, I was scared that Sayumi would fall to the devil (Sagami) but she managed to keep to the 'straight and narrow path'. Whew! I'm glad. So I guess after this volume we can stop pretending it's a supernatural battle story and call it what it really is: a high school harem romcom. I guess this is taking the path where there will be a single winner rather than all agree to share him. Which means I probably have quite a bit of romantic angst to read through in the following volumes.

I am still laughing at their antics. The best scenes for me are where they all interact with each other. It reminds me a bit of Haruhi Suzumiya but with a nicer (dare I say cooler) male protagonist/ narrator.

@Pieta said in Exiled Noble Vol. 1 Discussion!:

You can't leave the honorifics out! It's "info-dump truck-kun"!

Unfortunately, "truck-kun" failed the job site safety certification required to work as a dump truck. Something about running people over?

FYI the series page for this shows this volume as having bonus stories, but I'm pretty sure it's just a copy-paste from volume 6. Certainly the copy I downloaded doesn't have any. I was gonna buy it anyway so I don't mind, but probably best to get that corrected.

@sailorarashi oh man that makes me so happy. It was like a burr under the saddle when I read that and plus I really love that part with the artist

I know it's already published but I'm reading it on catch-up right now.

This may be nitpicking but I just wanted to clarify something. In volume 5 for all the chapter titles, it's supposed to be X years old and not the Xth year, right? It's the same construction that makes this the 21st century even though all the numbers start with 20XX.

Question from part 4 (chapter 4 Kiryuu at 21 years old- the second tome)
I just learnt to drive and as far as I know you're supposed to keep your foot on the brakes when the car is stopped. If you put it in neutral while the car is stopped, you normally take your foot off the pedals directly. How did Kiryuu manage to push down on Hitomi's leg and cause her to press the gas?
Ah, nevermind, I figured it out. Writing this out caused me to remember that there are some people who use both feet on the pedals so one would always be on the gas pedal.
Though, another question comes up, can the gas pedal be pressed while you're pressing the brakes? Or did Hitomi stop the car, leave the gear in drive and even take her foot off the brakes while having her other foot hovering over the gas?

@saidahgilbert - with anime you almost have to ignore it if you dislike it when considering reading the LN, since so many anime end up throwing away the parts of the LN that make it unique or good.

Abilities Average cut away the good bits from the academy and hunter's school and added its own comedy bits that failed for me, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear tossed a huge amount of the fun and endearing content to cram in 5 volumes(!), Death March missed the point of him being a tourist, on and on.

I guess I'll have to give this a try now too :)

@Paul-Nebeling said in Crown of Rutile Quartz Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@Geezer-Weasalopes It's really a "good news, bad news" thing. I'm happy to see the new volume coming out, but not looking forward to the wait for JNC to start translating it. I do think it will be worth the wait though.

Bear in mind that it's a DRE Novels publication.
JNC appears to have a relationship with DRE unlike any they have elsewhere; pre-pubs tend to start upon the Japanese release, in other words they've got the license already and have the translation in process with the go ahead to start releasing prepub sections as soon as DRE releases the work in Japan.

If I'm correct in this, we could see the first section of volume 2 as early as March 12, 2024, presuming they maintain the Tuesday timeslot for this work.

@strangeattractor said in D-Genesis Vol. 5 Discussion:

I hadn't realized there would be recipes at the back of the book! Now I'm wondering where to get canola florets.

They're actually rapeseed flowers. Which I'm not sure where to get them, but wild mustard flowers would probably work. Wild mustard is extremely common here in Upstate New York around March or April.

Here is a weed identification for wild mustard from Cornell

I'm very close to Ithaca, NY (around 30 miles). Which is where Cornell University is located, so I tend to use their website as my go to reference for science.

Five years after the party 😄 on my first read.

Just finished the part with the promotion exam. If I was ever subjected to such infuriating treatment, I'd wait for as long as necessary to return the guild the chance to grow and become stronger without me if they one day they truly needed me and called me to help. I am one to remember a grudge for life.

Been busy the last couple of weeks. I finally caught up with the last three parts. And now, we've reached the end.

An amazing series from start to finish. And to think I was just randomly browsing new titles when Vol.1 of this just began prepubs.

Thank you, translation team, for bringing this to us. I believe you did it justice by translating the humor & the emotional moments well. I definitely had a final cry with the last side story. The author is really good at making you emotional even when knowing the actual crappy thoughts of Fuudo Niito/Ellize.

Like many people here, I'm also hoping this gets an anime adaptation. It just has that great potential, and a short one as well.

@MrsBinks because v9 has only just finished up this week, and LN prepubs are typically only announced on the day the first part is released (some exceptions, but on average it's the same day). It'll likely have next week at least off.

Just read the bonus short story in the premium edition. Thomas is toast. Especially since he put a (matching) +3,000 INT ring on the Princess' finger. She'll put that INT boost to figure out how to get exactly what she wants.

Congratulations, you're engaged and the wedding will be right after she passes her exams.

@LightningLeaf said in Brilliant Healer Vol. 2 Discussion!:

I was wondering if Zeno's mentor tried to resurrect Afred and raised something else entirely, perhaps himself, perhaps not.

That was a thought I had too. In the manga chapter that just dropped, Zenos's mentor was very confrontational when Zenos started to try to use healing magic on a corpse. Like, if you don't know resurrection magic is impossible, his reaction looks... over-the-top, to say the least. If you know, however, that researching resurrection magic is hella taboo, then... well, suddenly his reaction comes across as someone who broke that taboo and had massive unintended consequences happen to him. And not just the "lost your job" type. The "came back wrong" type. The "what knocked at the door at the end of The Monkey's Paw?" type.

To borrow a phrase from the labor movement, "magical taboos are written in blood."

The further into the re-read I go, the more I feel like Mary isn't really dense per se, its more to do with where her priorities lie. She just has to stop lying to herself and accept that she'll always go out of her way to help those she cares about (though yes, she really needs to learn some self awareness!)

Ended up slowly re-reading the series again, forgot how much this book is the evolution of a certain maid from 'doting admirer' to a 'big sister' role in how she looks after Mary. ^^