Lydia is the type to bring the guy home on the first date

It's good to have Burton back.

Rather hoping vol 7 starts streaming this year, for sure. Great series!

Definitely interesting seeing last weeks part from a different perspective. Though other than the first village being full of beastkin, I had been mistakenly thinking this was the first kingdom, not soldiers on their way home to a second kingdom. I also don't recall anything about an armoury last week, so I doubt Akira noticed.

I have mixed feelings.
The beginning was fun, with Master Kacho and Suiboku undoing their own death after the former realized Sansui's training was still lacking.
I had great expectations for the climatic battle, but again the author didn't want to give Sansui the spotlight. We spent a lot of time showing the side characters, then our protagonist arrives to the scene and it's immediately over. I was hoping for a final boss for him to fight, but nothing.
The ending was bittersweet. We got to see Sansui concluding his journey to become a full fledged immortal, but he also ended up alone. It's something that was always in the air as an outcome given the difference in lifespan between him and the normal humans, but I was hoping at least Blois could've been made into an immortal herself. In the end, a new cycle begins, this time with Sansui as the master and not the protagonist.
This series had an interesting premise, but sadly I don't think the execution was as good as it could've been, at least for my tastes.

Is it just me, or has the author improved in this book? Less cutesy, more plot?

Stella's father is so stupid.

Cesta is a real piece of work.

@Hylebos yes, a funny part. Also everyone nodding at Dier just destroying any country that annoyed her instead of bothering to open a teleport gate.

She knows in her head that she's not ugly and is kind of a big deal, but is still surprised by people saying she's cute or is the most powerful human in their world :)

What a surprisingly emotional chapter. I can’t wait for more.

I might be dropping the series after this volume. Not interested in getting side tracked more with sex changing potions forced on people.

Well that’s the calfolk’s problem solved
I wonder if we’ll meet other types of beastfolk
Luke should crossdress for as long as possible.

@xdbx It looks like the JP edition of volume 8 will come out on July 17th https://www.amazon.co.jp/はぐれメタボ/dp/4798642207

@Ingraman said in Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Awww… The mother-daughter chat was too brief (no surprise).

Heh… “Sleeping Brute-y” ^o^ I’m curious to know how literal (or not) of a translation that was. ^_^

@Libri-Liberorum said in Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey Vol. 2 Discussion!:

@Ingraman I came here also to ask about/speculate on the translation of "sleeping brute-y". When the translation writes a phrase so perfectly, it makes me wonder how it was in the original.

It was a slightly liberal translation, the raw was 眠り折り姫 (sleep break [as in bone] princess) but considering "sleeping beauty" is sometimes referred to as 眠り姫, we thought it was a nice choice.

@karasutengu said in Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey Vol. 2 Discussion!:

@karasutengu said in Unsung Epics of the Hero’s Journey Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Araignee

So it means "spider" in her mother's language, eh. Seems appropriate with the way Araignee moves and fights (as the giant spider found out).

Not quite. Her mother's language is where her surname comes from. Araignée was picked from Partir's local language, because that was the word for spider that her mom liked the best. Honestly, the names are one of the most fun things about the series once you start digging into the meanings.

It was a fun read, and I liked the ew characters introduced, but as many people mentioned there were way to many side stories. I hope the next volumes won't be like this one, I don't want the story to progress too slowly because the author keeps writing fillers.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll ever get used to see the four fairy maids to be called with their proper names.

Hmmm I feel like what we learned about Alexandra and Sergi will be important. I wonder if it will be important to how Alexi treats Ektarina? I'm trying to remember, why did Alexandra hate their mother so much?

@Lex said in Isekai Walking Vol. 6 Discussion!:

So far the series has been barely interesting enough to keep reading. Halfway through this volume I thought about quitting, but with the big reveals about the demons and the goddess I hope it's going to be better from now on. I'll stick around for the next volume too.

I can't argue with that. Volume 1 started off with some original ideas but 2-6 have felt a lot like every other generic isekai story.

Hopefully the author does pull off something interesting with the possible conflict with the goddess...and doesn't decide to drag that out for another 100 volumes like Failure Frame did.

(rant! FF author you had the perfect setup for concluding the main arc. Then you or the publisher decided you wanted more volumes to sell.)

Kudo is in a position those in-world don't grasp.
He's still in school.
And he needs to fly under the radar back home.
He can get away with a surprising amount of stuff given what his home reality is like, but there are still limits.

Be interesting to see how things change once he reaches his majority back home.
Bet he still strives to fly below radar back there.
Still get a job and everything so he doesn't look too anomalous.

Looks like the dragon will get her chance to rampage. This primordial has to be related to the creatures that were worshipped, then buried alive.