Wouldn't it be a fail safe for the prince to top Kariya and thus bring him into the prince's lineage? Then if Wald is raped, Kariya could restore his lineage.

@PeachyGreen would be ok for me. I wouldn't mind if it keeps going but ending while it's still good is a good strategy.

I always feel a little bad... I really enjoy this series, but I never seem to have a lot to say about it.

Umm...

Yuma is too cute!

@karasutengu said in Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains Vol. 4 Discussion:

I tried to help them out one time and was unceremoniously escorted out of the kitchen by two of the ladies and told to go watch football on TV. I never tried that again.
With Thanksgiving coming up next week this narrative by the author in today's release really made my day.

Also made my day, in a slightly different way. My mother encouraged me to learn to cook and bake and such... but even then, I remember one Thanksgiving where she got quite upset with me because with my sister having made the pies and me having made everything else, I hadn't left her anything to make!

I was careful to never make that mistake again... I did the turkey and left the sides to her or did the sides and left the turkey to her but I didn't do both again until after she'd passed.

She might want to keep it in case the country goes to war with the Empire ... 😘

I definitely know the repetitive writing style which I recognise from the web version. I wish it would have been edited properly for the light novel version.

The way parts of the chapter were written with the repetitions are just awkward if you do not know where the web version chapters starts and ends (the markers).

A tad unfortunate the funny part with Luke's Bible has been cut short. Now the village has one more giant defender who fell instantly in love.

Luke better hides the effects of the fruits before the pedo maid and his fiance decide to make him forever that young...

There were several issues with the pacing (especially clumsy time skips!) but I am surprised how many times this story made me full-on ugly cry.

I’d definitely be interested in more by this author

I can see how he will become the world unifier.

But also, wouldn't he be a god by any definition? He's an immortal with divine energy. Even Demi-Gods are considered gods in most religions once they become immortal/accomplish some great feat. Him being weaker than some other gods doesn't diminish what he is in my eyes.

@LightningLeaf said in Cogs of Time Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I like that the author is setting up longer range questions such as what chrono-energy is. Once this mystery is solved we'll have connections to future books.

The ring and how it works, Mom's force ghost pep talk (you'll be forgiven once but no more for actually changing time); the Sliders Slippers have got to be more than just Kira and Mom. There is more history there, more exploration of how the power works: the rules, tools, and boundaries.

@xdbx said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 12 Discussion!:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 12 Discussion!:

Whistles.
The author sure pulled those out of a belt pouch. stare

Oh it wasn't that bad, whistles are a very primitive tech and the justification for having created them "offscreen" seems reasonable. And I believe whistles have been used for signalling by Japanese police and other authorities for over a century, see e.g. this web page or this one, so their sudden introduction here might seem less jarring to a Japanese reader.

(It's not like the author suddenly pulled a magical Humvee or a magical airship out of a belt pouch. I mean, who would ever do that?)

They were completely reasonable.
We'd just had zero mention of anything like this...compared to, say, toilets.

No mention of whistles.
No mention of emergency Bat Belts. Which could be quite the thing if they went all out on their construction, rather than just a singular belt pouch item bag.

It looks like this objection competition is going a bit far, but since Kelvin and most of his ladies are a bunch of battle maniacs so, I guess it's all ok.

@ReverseEsper said in After-School Dungeon Diver Vol. 4 Discussion!:

So... where is vol 5 and 6 ? I think waiting whole year is bit long ? Or the series didn't sold as well ?
That would be pity, especially since there is new manga from it and it is really well drawn.

J-Novel has never dropped a series mid-translation just because it wasn't doing well financially, the only time they've dropped series has been when the publisher requested them to due to (if I recall correctly) author-related controversy. Sometimes the licensing process is hellish and things take this long, there are many people to coordinate between before streaming can begin.

I too pray every week to see the series on the schedule, for what it's worth.

Last volume?!

Sam I’m going to need you to license more yuri series; I need to feed my yuri addiction 🫠

@Kurzaa said in Frontier Lord Vol. 12 Discussion!:

barating

Shouldn't that be two "a"'s (baarating)?

“Lady Witch? Why did you summon us all here?” a lamia asked, stepping forward as the spokesperson for the group.

Lamias have snake bodies for their lower halves, do they not? I can't imagine a creature that has no legs stepping anywhere.

I was assuming that the second sister would too move near Noa but it didn't happen (yet?). Wonder if the author is setting Raiza as a sort of main heroine or is just using different approaches for the sisters.

I wonder what this story is gonna pull. It has not really provided any details beyond Cormeca and Erifel and a small amount of the Knight. So even if the kid is somehow involved there is nothing to feel like its leading somewhere in the story. Its one of those two or its totally out of left field. But even if it twists to be Erifel that brings a whole host of questions on why she would take these actions in the first place.

I miss when the story was creating life lessons. 100 pages of pondering on the motivations of a witch is wearing thin.

@yzh4rjdzob6 said in Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time Vol. 9 Discussion!:

guh why is Liam such a poopy head...

I hope Sara is more assertive this time around

Liam...
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Translators really need to stop with the side story openers after major cliffhangers, scared the crap out of me.

Overall, surprised the author let Geos survive, though not thrilled with the evil lord somehow being granted dragon powers out of nowhere that made him invincible with ever increasing potential. Then again, now we know how the antagonists feel when ever they meet a Japanese person.

Kinda surprised this dungeon arc will continue for at least another volume, with the hero potentially becoming the next antagonist of the story. But looking forward to Caroline's recovery and the girls spending a little time in luxury.

PS...love how the author didn't fail to remember the rules of his teleporter in the end.

@lighthawk96 said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! Vol. 14 Discussion!:

Even with all of the bickering, that sounded like a really good time on all four fronts.

Ah, good ole domiciliary life. It's great for the mind and soul...

Coco flippantly thinking that a deposed or executed queen, as long as she's not around to interfere with her romance with Raph was a bit more cold-blooded than I was expecting.

Pia's PoV section being labelled "Unknown" is interesting. Even tho she identifies as "I, Pia Abbott" is there some other name that is more correct?

Why would it matter in any way if Gob signed a letter asking for Pia to be invited to tea at Bartles? If King Gustaf of Sweden sent a letter with a stranger asking for me to give them a seat at my xmas festivities I'd definitely say "no".

I thought that Shadow was an identifier coined by Coco or nom de guerre rather than their actual name. Also, Shadow using such obvious magic, out in the open over a spilled drink (politically/socially fraught as it was going to be) seemed like overkill and tipping their hand unnecessarily.

Pia launching her multipronged attack on Coco (ironic in the face of Coco and Luna both going on about how Coco doesn't want Ork) makes it seem that she's better at the politics/socials than Coco who has been training for years and taking the women's course specifically to shore up the networking. Sad.