Turned out quite different from what I was expecting. The protagonist became strong quickly instead of having to grind. The childhood friend wasn't a villain but simply acted like an idiot. They basically made up on the first volume although they are going separate ways.
I had some doubts about Sasha 's role in the story but by the end it seems clear she's going to be the main heroine and I wouldn't be surprised if she and Hyse will eventually become a couple. Which probably also means that despite being another girl in love with Hyse and maybe others in the future I shouldn't expect much romance until the end.
Biggest problem I have so far is that I'm not really interested in reading about Sasha's clan so potentially half of the story will be annoying. Plus the healer should just die, that would make the series much better.

Given the original story had Akira interacting with humans as soon as he broke the forest barrier, it would certainly be interesting to see how they handle him now that he has done so much that they interpret as Lord of the Forest.

Part of my thinks that there is a narrative imperative to keep him from interacting with this worlds normal denizens. As that could diminish the story options of him being a mythical figure.

@LightningLeaf Not only Patience but her mother (his wife) too. And her two brothers were also fated to die if the new Patience hadn't appeared.

@GeorgeMTO thanks! I hope so!

Well the flashback turned out to be really sad, and the worst probably hasn't come yet.

Does the author have a thing against nuns? Because so far, they're both horrendous.

a particularly large piece - about 10 meters in diameter...

Bruh. Understatement of the month right here. If there's any thickness to this, it's the size of a tank. What is it with LN authors and their complete lack of anything resembling a sense of scale?

Not really interested in the manga, honestly. Just tired of series being dropped I'm following.

@A-James said in Campfire Cooking Vol. 17 Discussion!:

@Jon-Mitchell said in Campfire Cooking Vol. 17 Discussion!:

maybe the garlic/date the next day is foreshadowing? finally meets a girl and has terrible breath

Bad breath would be a status effect. He's immune to those.

LOL!

Really author did you need to put such excessive cruelty and violence in the chapter

I’m debating dropping the series, it felt like that came out of nowhere and beyond my comfort level

The prince is right. She is a fifty-year-old cranky nosy grumpy interfering busybody old man and is proud of it.

@LightningLeaf Guys like this are probably the inspiration for stuff like demonic possession and skinwalkers, due to their tendency to seem like nice people until they do something horrifyingly evil without blinking. There's no malice, because they aren't capable of it. They lack everything that defines a human besides its form.

@zeji13 I think volume 14 is coming in June or July in Japan. There’s also one SS volume.

Mina is an absolute chaos gremlin, and I love it!

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.

@George-Wang-a98vag7 More likely the young Remi is going to be a saint. Cause that is what a trickster god would do. ;)

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.

@PatrickPhelpsnpc - I think you're confused about something. If you pre-order a book you are charged just once, not once for every new chapter.

With a membership you pay one monthly or annual fee that lets you read ALL pre-publication chapters of EVERY title that is currently being released as pre-pubs and not yet published.

Full access to a title is available until shortly after the book moves from pre-publication to published. Soon after it's published the prepub box in the series page changes to "Expired" and you can only read part 1 for free. If you want to keep reading past part 1 then you need to buy the whole book, not part 2. The $8 is for the whole book.

Just read it, turned out better thanI was expecting. The fact that the protagonist revealed his identity makes it feel fresh compared to the usual reincarnated into a fictional character stories, and I applauded when he explicitly stated he's not the typical herbivore main character. And we already got a battle scene plus sex in the first volume. For now I'm in.

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.

"What's your rank?"
"One less than Keigo's."