@karasutengu Or dead. Just as good. I want to see his reaction when an undisguised Sora walks into the throne room. Don't care how many court mages he has in the wings, they won't be enough. Then again, with Geed's appearance, the line comes to mind: Your Majesty, you've soiled your robes.

Bizarre week.

I very rarely drop series, yet this is the second multi-volume series I've dropped this week because of an author's weird plot choices coming across more as personal fantasies and/or desires. Or maybe this was an attempt at fan service by innuendo.

The "doll" in Part 2 seemed unnecessary and tasteless. Maybe the author did something amazing to make the doll the lynchpin to the story, but for me it was the end of a sluggish adventure.

At least I'm finally at a point I do not feel I have to finish reading everything I start--now I just need to trust my instincts and throw in the towel earlier.

@Lex said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! Vol. 17 Discussion!:

I'm still not sure if it's the end or not.

As I saw one person put it recently (in regards to The Faraway Paladin) it's not over until everyone's dead. Life goes on, and there's always another story that could be told.

@arghc I'm expecting the descriptions of the spells to match up with some of her other tales, and them just assuming.

@Hylebos said in Update on Volume 7: The Magician who Rose from Failure:

To my understanding, v7 was delayed indefinitely due to the illustrator's (who is also the mangaka) health problems, so the fact that the author is putting out volumes for other series like After-School Dungeon Diver: Level Grinding in Another World doesn't mean much.

https://gcnovels.jp/blog/316

On top of that, even if he is working on The Magician Who Rose From Failure, the fact that he's working on other series means that he's spending less time on The Magician Who Rose From Failure. So, even if/when the issues delaying that series are resolved, it'll likely be coming out more slowly than it would have otherwise. Of course, the fact that he's working on other stuff shows that he's still around, but it really doesn't say anything about us getting more of The Magician Who Rose From Failure.

Either way, it sure would be nice if he started releasing more of this series - and ideally actually focused on it (IMHO, it's his best series). I can appreciate him wanting to support the illustrator and not drop them, but personally, I'd rather just get more of the story, and I really don't care about the illustrations.

"Has Mussel learned self-restraint?" is a very good question, core to his being allowed to return to Lefreya's service.
And Duke Genos is testing this, it would seem.

That was a cute, if corny, ending.

That reveal about Earth-chan and our MC's staggering number if deaths was cool. No wonder she's such an odd ball. She's died more than Subaru from Re-Zero!

When men went to war, they buried their hearts first.

Alas, some never remember where they buried their hearts and are broken forever.

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Just kidding...

@kuali said in Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Vol. 3 Discussion!:

So to be clear, what I think happened in this part is that she started with a server does everything (even graphical rendering) approach, and shifted to the server sends updates, each Smart Frame renders the results itself model once she lost most of the servers. (I don't think she could have gone fully peer-to-peer, since she still needed to stream the rest of the performance from the remaining server. And each frame having to transmit to each of its peers would have had some 'interesting' effects on network performance. But it's hard to tell with this series.)

If that's what happened, then I agree with you that the first approach was very stupid. Even if the server did the composition there was no need to do the entire rendering and stream a video - just send the composed state to the frames that take care of rendering it.
With 40k people in a small area is already difficult to get a good network, no need to fill up the bandwidth for no reason.
But at the end we're trying to make technical sense of something the author just wrote as a whim because it looked cool.

@kuali said in Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I've no idea how good Erlang would be for something this graphics heavy, but, maybe? That said, regular Android apps (and VR games, as of the last time I used my Quest 2) generally can't update while they're running.

Nope, but a new app can be installed and the controller/server could tell the devices to run app Y instead of app X. It all depends on how you design the platform.
It's actually a good design for smart frames for events, you register them with a controller for an event and the controller tells them what to run, dynamically, without the need of flashing a new firmware every time. Then you reuse for other things.

@Valanduin I thought it ended at 11, super happy I'll get more mecha gremlin chaos.

Seems like Arata will end up with a full army of wives before he finds the resolve to confess to Reina.

The two scariest characters combined to squash the third scariest. I almost feel bad for Nosfy.

Ah, equals now and in love. A good story.

At some point I was convinced that the plot would lead to Eugene to be involved with the Vepar succession war, and the new Queen would become a recurring character if not even an harem member. Instead, they all ended in a dragon's stomach.
Fourth harem member fully unlocked, no surprise she's the princess childhood friend, now to keep things fair she needs her own contract.
A nice change of pace that this time Eugene shared the spotlight for the climatic battle with his best friend rather than a love interest.

@LeavesCat That's also a pretty good guess for why 'this' ritual failed while the others worked. And wasn't the original point of a Saint to be someone who could perform rituals using the crests the Sun Witch created...?

@TheGrimLich said in Déjà Vute: Betrayal Begets New Beginnings Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@b-scot-morgan Kalmia didn't, but I'm fairly certain her mother did. She likely didn't want to "worry her husband" or whatever excuse she might choose is, so she made sure he wouldn't find out. And given he's not exactly the most observant man... I imagine pulling the wool over his eyes would be fairly easy.

It would seem a little odd for his second wife to have that level of control over his household. You'd expect at least some of the servants would be loyal enough to the family to discretely inform the Duke of something that threatens their future...

That said, I do get the feeling this is one of those series, where information is only exchanged between people when it's convenient for the author...

Well, it took until the very end of the volume for the title character to appear. The good news is that it's someone we sort of know. The bad news is that she wants Ainrand Leslie very much to be dead, which is bad news for just about everyone.

Nice cliffhanger, author sensei.

@Hylebos

Aaand it's out :)

Never been a fan of reincarnated adults as children getting into relationships with actual children.

This author is seriously reinforcing my stance.

The cross-dressing MC maid trope seems written more for the author's enjoyment than plot or reader's enjoyment.

Finding it difficult to continue this series, and I'm only in Part 2.

@SilverFuton said in Housekeeping Mage Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Based on the afterword, we might have around 2-3 volumes more at most?

Could be…

Maybe we’ll get a spinoff series that’s focused on the critters. ^o^