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@Terabyte I just saw that the Japanese novel for volume 9 releases on January 10, 2024 and since volume 8 released back in the summer and it took about 6 months for that to be fully translated I'd assume about same time frame so we won't get volume 9 until mid-summer 2024

@Village-Idiot said in Peddler in Another World Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Aina's dad either survived but lost his memory or got reincarnated already.

Another possibility is he was captured by the enemy and was sold as a slave or something. There are quite a few possibilities on what happened to her father.

@QuixoticHorizon
Same publisher.

Oh, and one more vote for more like the wyvern and rabbit story. That was adorawholesome.

Having read the manga until this very point, the ending didn't come as a surprise. I look forward to what the author has done in the next 3 volumes. 😋

Go tournament was interesting to me, primarily for how the freak's games are structured. As noted, he played second and without komi. Also as noted, komi is a relatively new addition to the game; while it's origins track to the 1920s, the current values of 6.5 or better are roughly 2 decades in age.

As to why I find this interesting, it's mainly an artifact of reading 8 immediately after 7. As the translation notes (which I find to be of immense value, so thank you for providing them) there indicated, our setting is most likely historical pseudo-china. Given that, I would assume that the relatively modern invention of komi would likewise be excluded, but clearly that isn't the case.

Please, Little Vio, I’m begging you. Have mercy on him.

Little Vio wins the Best Character award! 🤣

And with this, the series has ended. Thanks to the team for working on this series. 👏 🎉

In the afterword, I'm not sure if that bit about the manga is a jab or sincere praise

@Eminent said in Earl and Fairy Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Is this a good series? There are 33 volumes, so there's certainly a lot of content.

I like the volumes released so far.

It's an older series (started 2004, so pretty ancient (: ) and it doesn't read much like modern light novels, or even modern romance light novels. Not much focus on the cuteness of the heroine, or how she feels embarrassed by whatever the male lead does, or any of the other staples. Not much fanservice either.

It reads a bit like a romance set in the world of old British detective stories, with two major deviations - one, that lord Edgar is much more of an Arsène Lupin or Irene Adler type of character rather than any sort of detective, and second, that Lydia, besides being the HolmesWatson of the duo, is also a specialist in the old Scottish (or sometimes other British) supernatural creatures, who turn out to be very real, and very fae.

The romance is of the kind that some people might bounce off. There's enough of something there for it to be a real relationship, except that as it turns out Edgar has had a very traumatic past and is used to approaching the world in a "manipulate them before they could manipulate you" manner, and can't get rid of that habit even when it gets in his way, which makes the progress of the romance very slow, with frequent steps back. So far I'm happy to report that Lydia doesn't respond well to seduction and manipulation as opposed to honest dealings (but there's enough of manipulation attempts there that it might drive some people away anyway).

So, there you have it. It's been an interesting read so far for me, but the romance is slow burn and some people might not like some aspects of it.

Maybe, just maybe, discussions concerning future volumes with numbers like "10" and "11" should happen in something other than the discussion topic for volume 1.

I'm really fond of the way the series blends supernatural mysteries with ordinary human concerns, such that one could never be quite sure when and how much is the work of the fae. This time it was even more so, with the setting and the story strongly reminiscent of detective stories of the era.

I was getting a little concerned about the romance side, with Edgar trying his hardest to make me dislike him for being manipulative, but by the end of the volume we again got to the part where those sorts of approaches just don't get him the real connection he so obviously desires, and he realizes that. But it's a wild ride, in every volume he manages to make me angry with him at least once, because he can't stop backsliding.

I was also glad to see more of Ermine, whose exit from the series in the first volume was far too hasty. It remains to be seen if she'll be as interesting a character as she originally was; she didn't exactly get a chance to shine in this volume.

@TheGrimLich said in Earl and Fairy Vol. 4 Discussion!:

Hmm... I wonder what will happen to Ulysses when the selkies get their skins back.

I seem to recall at least one story not ending well for the person who stole the skins...

The series doesn't really keep that close to the original stories; it's the first time I've heard of selkie skins being anything but, you know, skins.

@SomeOldGuy yes

For a "so OP it's funny" series, this volume was really chilling. It's the kind of story where it slowly dawns on you where exactly it's going, and (since it's often flashbacks and backstories) there's nothing anybody could do to stop it. I did not expect it in this series, but damn, that was a well-written drama.

Even the funny parts, like the interactions between Astirra, Oken and Roy, are tinted because by the time you get to read them, you already know how it will all end... It's not quite bait&switch, since the books were never hiding that the world had a lot of fucked up things going on, but seeing them brought into the foreground was still a shock.

For a series I already liked, this part really impressed me. But I don't think the mood jump would be for everybody. And it would have been better if stories from various parts of the history were better woven together, instead of placed one after another.

Aside from that, what I adore about the series is that it doesn't fall into the trap of making the protagonist so overpowered he overshadows everybody else; on the contrary, it's filled with ridiculous personalities who all have something to contribute. Makes for a lot more even and interesting story than your typical "always the most important" shounen hero would.

Also, if there was a series about the adventures of Astrirra, Oken and Roy, I'd totally read it.

@LightningLeaf said in I Parry Everything Vol. 4 Discussion!:

Oh, so Noor isn't going to be the only very OP person in the story. This seems an interesting addition.

He never was, he was just the most OP.
But it wasn't him who cut a fortress in half because the group was in a hurry... (-;

@Weird_Wizard

I dropped it because, while I’m pretty tolerant of and even enjoy a fair bit of Mary Sue-ness (or whatever the male equivalent is), it just…takes itself so seriously. And it’s so dry. It should’ve been titled “an encyclopaedia of how I got revenge while pretending not to be attracted by my waifus” or rather “I loved Eminence in Shadow a little too much but I also don’t know how to write comedy so I gave up and wrote this totally-not-EiS textbook disguised as a story.”

@whyohwhy1 I belive it was in Sep that 1 site started selling .https://jpbookstore.com/products/the-greatest-magicmasters-retirement-plan-17 Unless it is a pre-order kind.
Also there are 2 colored ilustration already

Alright, just finished it, here's my random thoughts about this volume:

Overall I liked it as I do basically all of these. If you're only going to read one series on this website... it should probably be Tearmoon tbh, but if you've got time for a second series, this one's the one I'd recommend for sheer funny factor. The author's strange sense of humor always just kinda clicks with me.

These books really do have accurate titles, "Chillin'" is right. They almost never have what you'd consider a conventional "plot" and are just "seeing what's up with the massive stable of fairly well defined characters the author came up with today", which I for one am totally fine with. The series' plot resolved way back like 8 books ago and these days we're just seeing how all these lovable goofs are getting along.

Much has been said about the author's weird habit of liking to re-introduce everyone every issue, and I don't know what I think about it. On one hand it's repetative, on the other hand... seriously this series has one of the largest casts of characters I've ever seen and they come out 3-4 months apart so it is kinda nice to get a refresher on who the heck some of the minor characters are.

I think I speak for everyone when I say I love Rys. Everybody needs a wife that looks at them like Rys does Flio. Her totally self-serving support for everyone's love lives is hilarious. More couples means more children means more fighting strength means Rys' status as alpha female increases. It makes perfect sense out of what is essentially a wolf disguising herself as a human's perspective to go out of her way to support the comically large love shack that is Flio's entire household's love affairs.

I actually really like the once-an-episode aside to HGH's affairs. I find him and his many tribulations very funny and I do like how the author has actually made the guy change slowly and slightly over the series' extremely long runtime. He started from the top, hit rock bottom, and has actually found a nice little crew and method to being at rock bottom and is more or less making it work. I liked seeing him and Tsuya's, uh, kiss... scene... thing. I mean I know it didn't really count but it was just nice seeing something good happen to that poor girl for once.

As a side note I do hope eventually our blonde friend gets pardoned for his crimes against humanity. I think Ellie and soon to be King Garyl are reasonable enough folks, they'd do it.

Speaking of "basically become the main character", Garyl's almost completely incidental accession to the throne is coming along nicely. Older woman respecter Garyl could do a lot worse than Ellie as wife 1 and weird spectral samurai babe Ben'ne as wife 2. I wouldn't be complaining. I love that he's followed in his dad's footsteps of taming a questionably sane dangerous spectral hottie. His is even explicitly female unlike whatever the heck you'd call Hiya. What a chad.

Just dropping casually to me that Blossom sleeps naked. Author, please. You're giving the audience the vapors. :^)

I'm glad she's finally gotten herself a nice man in her life that's as enormous and muscular as she is. And here I was hoping I had a chance with her, alas. :^)

I do find it funny how by FAR the most normal and well adjusted member of the new generation of Flio's place residents is the daughter of Sleip and Byleri, probably the two strangest and least well adjusted members of the original generation.

I'm rooting for you, Reptor, my man. Byleri's gotta intervene in this, if anybody understands a young woman's desire to get busy with a questionably human demon it's her.

And finally: Why did Tia's name change in this volume? Am I missing something there? My main man Calcium's honey used to named Tia and just kinda wasn't this volume.

Also in one of the illustrations at the end of the book, Blossom and Kora are mislabeled. Knowing nothing about how this stuff works that may just be an error the illustrator made but I figured I'd point it out anyways.

We're at the end of another volume. Reading it cleared up a few things for me at least. I remember reading the manga, but it was messy and didn't explain enough (or anything at all really).

Volume 10 (Premium Edition): 4 Bonus short stories Cooking Lessons in Another World The Melancholy of Saint Anna Chat with the Goddess of Fate and Her Nonbeliever Makoto Takatsuki Talks with an Elf Hero

Is the series continuing? Been a while since volume 6 was completed.