I really wanted another chickens POV.. I got the impression that this volume got over pretty soon.

Me at the start: Liliana's story? boo! I wanna read more about Fii and bread!
And then I proceeded to forget about it for months.
But I eventually returned to it, and I do like reading about this hopeless mess of a person. And unlike Fii, she's actually honest.

...or so I thought.

until part 7: "I've carried this despair with me for fifteen years"
whoa, hold up. 15 years? That means from the very start. I thought it was only recent! Has she been lying too? And the reason she was so hyperfocused on Seth and being happy was to distract herself from her perpetual sorrow?

And then basically confirmed near the start of part 9.
Oh so that's why she said she couldn't taste chocolate earlier. She couldn't taste anything.
Ah, and then explicitly confirmed at the end of part 9.

Also, what the heck? As an aside, this is the second LN I've read where the (isekai'd) protagonist seems to think that 3 hours of sleep is sufficient. Is this some kind of Japanese thing? Though unlike in the other instance, she does end up passing out from exhaustion. So it seems the author at least knows (hopefully) that 3 hours is absolutely nowhere near enough.

After Liliana's reincarnation incident was described, specifically the part where she tried to save a child from the truck, and then she approached Nana for the first time in the church and noted that she was childlike, I suspected that that child was Nana. And indeed revealed to be true later.

Makes me wonder, what if this whole place is some sort of purgatory, and everyone is reincarnated?

Though, from what I can tell, all the remaining unexplained strangeness is connected to Nana, so maybe it's just the three people.
There could be another volume, Nana's PoV, but it would have to be a very different story, and possibly even a different genre. So I doubt it'd get made. I would like to see the remaining loose ends tied up though. Maybe a few short stories or extra chapters would do it.

The true gold of this novel is Blanc been a silly goober just eating and nomming away nodding along to then suddenly drop thr bigg3wt bombshell ever and then shrug it off for when asked about why she did not try on other things. Also Blanc making even Lyla go all nice and motherly when she mentioned she forgot to feed her vampires is funny. Like.... Lyla and Leah as calculating and cruel they can be still feed their workers!.

So I waited after part 1 for all the parts to come out to binge. Having learned my lesson from book 1 that this series is fairly frustrating read week to week.

Gotta say, I actually like the issue between Alan and the MC. Yes, proper communication could have resolved this faster, but unlike the nef issue of book 1 this wasn't unreasonably stupid. This was a very human immature reaction as opposed to the universe conspiring to make everyone selectively stupid.

I like that it was resolved quickly, because let's be honest these types of problems are usually resolved rapidly irl.

But I also agree with the sentiment that their relationship could have used more time in the oven. We need more scenes of them actually being together as a pseudo-couple. Because they seem like less than friends but more than strangers with how little they interacted outside of work in these last few novels.

Awkward flirting is awkward. That being said, Beryl's constant protestations that he can't see Allucia romantically? The swordsman doth protest to much, methinks.

Honestly, rather than awkward A/B flirting I'd rather see how the sword turns out. I wonder whether it's going to be forged in the Damascus style with the hard Lono Ambrosia material folded together with softer elven steel?

@Lex I'm for die an ignomious death.

Alright, so as I feared/figured this is gonna end in a romance between him and his God damn dead ex lover who shafted him for politics! W.e idk if I'm gonna do vol 2 tbh not a fan of the illustrations, the plot or the romance that's gonna be building.

@Paul-Nebeling Yeah, maybe. It's hard to say with different universes. In D&D, elves don't become adults until age 110, so 50 would still a pre-teen. In Frieren, adult elves start at around 100.

How long is it going to take to collapse this country?

A sword X swordsman fetish?

@rgray9 said in By the Grace of the Gods Vol. 16 Discussion!:

Volume 17 out in JP on July 19, 2025; judging by how long it takes after that, maybe we'll get a translation around December 2025

I guess it's out now, as of June 19, 2025 according to
https://firecross.jp/hjnovels/product/2037

@irioth You make a good point. Several, actually. I'm not taking anything off the table at this time though, including insane wildcards.

@ultimatehaki they can be crushed by guilt until they get crushed by a sword, and the mc takes it upon himself to kill them himself, feels very LARPy

@SalmonJones Neither time Iris 'increased the family debt' was Iris' fault - her initial mauling wasn't a case of her being careless, the party she was with were attacked by a monster well above the area's usual difficulty level without any warning. And it wasn't even her that signed off on the crazy expensive potion use - that was Kate.

And the rescue, as I've said before, should have been charged to Shirtless McDumbMuscles in its entirety. It was his expedition, there's no good reason why his hired guards are accruing personal debts for its rescue!

@SalmonJones said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 5 Discussion!:

her boobs that not gonna lie seem about five times too big for an alleged 13 year old

If I wanted to, I could make the argument for why they're more unlikely than impossible. But I really don't have that kind of faith in this author anymore (their understanding of the topics they tackle has seemed lacking a time too many), so my actual theory about Lorea's build is that he just filed the serial numbers off of Lenny (i.e. the overly 'mature' and business focused 12-year-old daughter of the innkeepers the party usually stays with) from Didn't I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?!, and gave her design little more thought than that.

@SalmonJones said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 5 Discussion!:

Also, jeez did Fuumi not get the memo that Iris was supposed to be "nothing special in terms of looks", that chick is a 10/10 supermodel.

I think its supposed to be showing a dissonance between how Iris perceives herself and how everyone else perceives her. Sarasa's narration does occasionally admit she's beautiful:

Iris-san was beautiful enough that I thought she'd find enough takers if she made her debut in polite society

@SalmonJones said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 5 Discussion!:

the story of five friends that don't really like each other at all getting summoned into another world

...Honestly, I would have described it as the story of three girls who only put up with Touya because his best friend is hot getting summoned into another world...

The dynamic of a party scapegoat that gets the worst of every exchange and gets dumped on by the rest of the main cast seems to just be how the author thinks friend groups work; Iris here, like Touya there, gets flak for basically everything bad that happens, no matter how stupid it is for them to take the blame.

@kyliean9 said in In Another World with Household Spells Vol. 1 Discussion:

Do we have an ETA on volume 2?

We never get ETAs on volumes until they're on the schedule. Check back every Monday to pray.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

It’s been a while. I wonder if we lost our translator. I know that JNC had some sort of reorganization, maybe it’s slowing things down. Anyway-I’m missing Mia. :(

Wow. The plot moved a lot in this volume and since we are talking about Grimgar, everything became worse. I spent the entire volume expecting Haruhiro to become the new No life King, and I guess in the end I was close.
The positive is that there might still be a chance for Haruhiro and Merry to be together, but I wouldn't put past the author to let us build some hope just to crush them later.
Looks like the series will keep going for a while, but between the almost all new cast and the possibility of long wait between volumes, I'm not sure how long I'll sta interested. Which is shame, because there are still a lot of answers I'm looking forward to...but there is only so much despair I can bear to read.

@Makine I checked online, and the author has started on the WN version again after volume 3 of the LN was released in January, so it could be about that. They also just started a comic version of it, which would be unusual but not unheard of for a LN that got axed.

Again that sounds like the series is ending.

“In a terribly unmannerly manner, Sophie tossed her cookies …” I’m glad that that phrasing wasn’t actually there when I read the opening line a second time. It’s too sweet a story for that, although I’ve seen anime characters vomiting sugar when seeing something as sweet as these two leads occurring. ^^;

I look forward to the next book, and I hope that the author can keep writing as well in the next round. :)