As long as the series features adult Sousuke trying to teach the kids self defense, how to use firearms and guerrilla warfare because you'll never know when you'll need those skills, causing adult Kaname tons of headaches, Family would be a must read for me. I hope both the main series and the short stories sold well enough for JNC to consider licensing more FMP material.

Man, I love this bit of the story, but what in the world possessed the author to include that goofy A side story right after such an emotional moment?
Like, I went from goosebumps to mild amusement at best, why wind us down after a cliffhanger that perfect?

@Lily-Garden Oh yes, I think that was it! They'd licensed material out from other Japanese companies to put in the 6.5 book, so J-Novel would have had to sublicense from them on top of licensing the book itself.

"If you wait too long I'll die of old age or an accident or something."
"Oh there's no way that could happen, I made you immortal!"

After all, if potion loli dies, she loses her conversation topic.

So basically, her item box range is only limited by whether or not she can think of the target location. She is entirely capable of taking things out of her item box inside someone's body. She can probably cut things in half with it too.

Her potion-making ability is kinda... not limited to potions whatsoever. They can be magical, or just mundane food/water. And she can create sword...shaped potion bottles.

All together, she has the power of "your head a splode".

If the topography of her chest actually bothers her, she could always make a boobs potion.

I wonder how the "keikaku means plan" line worked in Japanese.

What's she making lead oxide containers for? Those are poisonous.

@meteorsfalling Thank you for clearing that up.

@MrCents_04
Hopefully you'll find other titles you enjoy from J-Novel.
Given this is one of the Sol Press license rescues, knowing that folks are here because of it is something the company will be happy to hear!

More art and merch (?) info

Episode 6 Celebration art by Mashimasaki Online Lottery Special Art (slightly NSFW for S Prize, watch your back) 01 02 - Body pillow cover of the same art, higher res by Tohsaka Asagi, LN artist Jess and tiny pig Nendo

I'm half-suspecting Mister Pig made a lot of the merch choices because well, they were clearly chosen by someone of...culture, especially the more NSFW options???

@Kaylea-Herndon-ghj13mf rip its a muffer not a muffler sorry. typed that in a still didn't anything that has to do with armor, lol.

@piisfun said in Late-Start Tamer Vol. 8 Discussion!:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Late-Start Tamer Vol. 8 Discussion!:

The problem with that and relate scenarios is that he wouldn't grasp why they would do something like that and thus not accept it.
They'd need to somehow finesse taking over his support so he'd accept it.

Oh, I suspect that it would be reasonably easy to convince him that his monsters are needed for in-game PR, and by extension, him as their manager.

Yeah.
He carefully blocks all mention of himself from his forum searches and such, and remains oblivious to his own impact.
But his monsters?
He can get their being famous.
And he thinks of them as real, so something that would allow them to remain as active as they are, rather than being limited in their actions during his offline time while working, there's potential there.
Good idea.

@Leon_97 said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I'm certain this case has come up in a lot of other translations (i.e. sounds that don't exist in the target language), but I've only noticed this one since I happen to know Chinese. I would be curious what the translator @Kevin-S thought about this.

Sorry for the belated reply! In Japanese, this name is Shenryu, a katakana gloss on the kanji 深緑. We used the umlaut because, as you say, it’s a different sound from plain ol’ u. We’ve used Pinyin and quasi-Pinyin romanizations for a few names, and this was one of them. (Lihua would be another example.)

As far as the broader question of sounds that don’t exist in the target language, when dealing with a source in Japanese, I think most examples would be like this one—a situation where the original is representing a sound from a third language that doesn’t exist in English. By and large, most native Japanese sounds have fairly ready equivalents in English and don’t need much in the way of diacritics. (The only real exception I can think of might be a voiced e on the end of certain words like 萌え or 酒, where you might choose to render them as moé and saké so English readers know the E isn’t silent—however, I don’t think that’s widely favored in the industry at the moment.)

@Terabyte Seems like volume 3 will be the last one if google translated the description correctly:

This is the last one. You too are free. Live as you like.
The most terrifying supernatural power x villainess x loop fantasy complete!

Source: Amazon + Google Translate

@rkkn said in The Faraway Paladin Vol. 2 Discussion:

The only bad thing is I think he goes a little too hard on the "no one can ever see me being a good guy" deal.

In fairness, he's from a culture without TV, movies, or anything close to the number of fiction books we have, so he has no roadmap to tell him how to be the fake corrupt bishop that lets the rest of the church remain pure. He's winging it and has cast away any subtlety for the role, but it seems to be succeeding. The right people like Will can see through it while the corrupt are fooled.

That was a rather long title for the author’s next writing exercise. Not atypical for a light novel, though. :)

Enjoy your bad-end epilogue, Charlotte! Unless there’s a volume 5, you’ll be stuck there forever!

@Pieta said in VTuber Legend Vol. 6 Discussion!:

. Wait a minute, what was it even about?

A monster of vaguely humanoid outline, but with ribbons and a lemon slice adorning its blue hair, a cute, anime-looking body, open cans of Stro-Zero by its hind and fore limbs, and a mountain of empties piled haphazardly behind, whose drunken fantasies inflict perversions on even the sanest of VTubers.

In her house at Tokyo, perverted Awayuki waits drinking.

You know, same as all the other volumes 😎

Part 5:

Yeah, I figured Tiona and Sion didn't get together in the Guillotine timeline, because beheading a princess is relationship poison. That's the event that broke Sion's justice, sending him down the path of darkness. Tiona, with her revenge complete, now had the time to think about if it was really the right thing to do. Neither of them could stand being in the other's presence for long, because they'd remind each other of their sin.

Part 7:

Poor captain. "Who the hell is this Miabel person? Citrine I can handle. Sure, she's a duke's daughter and the fact that she's walking around alone is stressful, but at least I know what she is. Miabel acts like a VIP and looks like Mia's close relative, yet I have no information about her whatsoever. The fact that I don't know what kind of VIP she is only makes it more terrifying."

"Lady Miabel, the capitol is mostly safe, but there are potentially dangerous elements, like the open market."
"Ooo! I want to see the open market!"
Fffffffffffffffffffff

"But the open market might have rare mushrooms!"
No! No! No! No! "I will find you some rare mushrooms." So can you please stay within my line of sight?

The MC's inability to mentally grasp all the favorable turns of fortune in his favor has largely described what it was like reading this volume to me; it's so heavily leaned into the power fantasy to the point where it's simply unrealistic to keep up with it, yet the setting demands for even more. I do appreciate a little that they put some awareness to the MC's mentals not being able to keep up with his skills, but the setting itself doesn't acknowledge it and keeps pegging him on... who's to say there won't be some kind of abuse of power to happen this time around?

I won't deny the possibility that this kind of setting really elevates how much I attempt to expect out of the story, and that I have a tendency to refrain from popular things, but I don't think following fads is always a good idea... though for the majority and for their circumstances that might actually be the best approach, due to how the content is treated. There's just so much that can go on in a fantasy setting... and even moreso if video game elements are implemented into the setting; I don't see them as comfort as much as it is a flawed nostalgia, but it's a big word where we live our lives among so many different kinds of experiences.

@pcj She'd have to Mia the place upside-down in order for the populace to accept it. Not impossible, mind you, but currently the country would sooner accept some random foot soldier as king.

One more volume of our protagonist's desperate struggle not to stand out, which she's failing miserably at; whether it's due to being hilariously overpowered, prone to panicking and acting without thinking, or making moves nobody else can predict or even understand because she's playing checkers when others are playing 3D chess. Also, it doesn't help that she, just like everybody else, is a bit of an idiot.

This volume takes a while to get going, but when it does, it's good - it's a silly, chaoic story where people's quirks run into one another at full speed, somebody is constantly getting dissed, all the great plans turn out to have glaring flaws but often work better than the originals, and no matter what happens, Mary becomes even more of a legend. The silly chaos is also the greatest weakness of its style - don't expect deep characters or meaningful story, or even things to make sense with anything but a cursory reading. This is no Tearmoon; things mostly just happen for the fun of it.

A big caveat, though: A large part of the plot this time, I'm sorry to say, is a cursed sex change artifact. It's not handled in a mean way, as boys being feminine often is in LNs, but it's also dealt with all the subtlety and nuance you'd expect a random light novel to have, which is to say, none. There are some interesting ideas there (The queen believing that as a future king, the prince having a personal experience with what woman's life is like is a boon to him and the kingdom both), but they're buried pretty deep.

Favourite character: It's a tie between Alice who finds all undead things cute, and Victorica who's the oldest and mightiest vampire with the personality of an easily distracted little kid. A close runner-up, the hydra with the speech patterns of an annoyed teenage girl.
Favourite moment: Repeatedly using Turn Undead on a vampire as a la la la can't hear you :D

Mia finds Salamandrakes
Citrina: It's okay, she obviously can't identify mushrooms, I can bluff my way out of this.
Mia: "Oh I know this one! This mushroom is so violently poisonous that it's even dangerous to touch!"
Citrina: Why is she competent NOW?