Yay, good ending! Poor Ian...

The latter half of the volume turned out to be quite the bodice ripper. Especially when my combination of hardware and font settings rendered a line that ends with:

Cuddling, hugging, spooning, nothing of that sort?” she said, sticking an index finger out in

@Chesspwn-wxbksgn and now we have volume 2 streaming for our reading displeasure! This train wreck is not stopping soon so hop on!

@marten ditto!

@huch340 said in Water Magician Arc 1 Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I don't know if it's bad translation or what but the use of English words is horrible, lame, and just flat out wrong.

For what it's worth, to me, that makes it an amazing translation, because that's exactly what you expect from the boke.

@pcj said in My Magical Career at Court Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Would it be beyond this author to have her wind up being the Elf Queen's half sister, thus giving her a potential claim to a throne, too? That would solve the duke vs commoner problem right quickly.

Given how this series deals with nobility (they seem to have a high percentage of stuck up prejudiced jerks), it doesn't feel like one of those where "secretly noble all along" would be an appropriate solution. I'm betting on them both eventually getting so powerful nobody dares to object.

@pcj they know she’s extremely powerful, same as magiluka before Mary told her. It’s not really the same as invincible. While weird, it’s not completely out of norm for Mary to be extremely powerful as it’s been hinted her dad and reifus’s mom are also extremely powerful so Magiluka felt worried mary didn’t trust her. We already had a scene from back before reifus’s mom and the demon princess’s aunt know Mary is extremely powerful (though they confused her luck or isekai knowledge as intelligence)

Sacher doesn’t care to think about it, he just wants to get stronger himself.
Safina doesn’t care to think about it, she looks at Mary as her savior. It’s just natural to her Mary can do seemingly anything.
Prince has trusted her since she saved his life back in book 1, just want to help/support the country and her. He trusts her and not looking to grill her about her secrets.
And they still do kinda confuse her luck, isekai knowledge or some displays of pure strength as careful planning or cleverness.

Those from outside can’t really tell, peg her to levels like the ice blood witch or reifus’s mother. Since she’s always been altruistic, ice witch and reifus mom not too concerned either since their niece and son are Mary’s friends and just looking to see if they could recruit her once she’s old enough.

Just finished volume 2! So far, so good, though by the looks of it nia's not gonna find her evenly match encounter despite still being in what is still infancy for her lifetime. Dunno how to feel about the broadcasting aspect of the story, especially since it's hard to picture what the broadcasting could be like from start to finish... and it's not like there was just one topic, too. The character dynamic between the three girls is fine, but it's sorta like something is missing... probably just that we're overlooking the part where they're all still single digits in age (nia is an exception, but still... sure they're nobility, but maturity isn't downloaded into people's brains the same way as birds knowing when and where to migrate). It's nice that things aren't being time skipped much (I binged 6 volumes of conqueror of a dying kingdom and that happening a few times made it really hard to immerse oneself and gain attachment), but the world is something of an enigma with the way it's been depicted... floating islands? Magivision? Chi? Demon swords? nia herself definitely doesn't help with that, which adds to the confusion. The picture is being painted for sure, but it's hard to get an idea on what could come next that's not just left for the author to paint out certain blanks on their impulse

Can't remember what it was about the vtubers in the end of volume 1, it's been too many months for me to remember. I probably just glossed over it at the time and didn't pay much attention, but apparently they took some backlash by the looks of it

Just finished the volume and up until part 11 or 12, thought it was going to finally conclude. Instead...death. Sad, meaningless death.

Kudou got somewhat of a redemption. Based on his actions as the demon king, you couldn't really ask for a happy ending for him, even after finding out the motivation behind his desire to destroy the world.

But Berta's death was just pointless. It was a death she wanted and the best death she could have gotten, but it was still tragic and depressing.

And then we learned of the final days of the beast of darkness. After Berta's passing, I couldn't take the side story and had to walk away from the volume for a few days. Her viewing herself as alien and worthless...this almost feels like the Empire Strikes Back of the series.

With Krone now nearly 16 and Ein's magical growth spurt it's less awkward to see them flirting and acting like adults, as with Chris' obvious infatuation for him. I also found a bit funny that the author's way to justify Ein being attracted to his mother is by saying he sees her as his sister...regardless, I hope he will keep shipping them and won't back down from having her in the harem.
This should be the last we hear of Heim but since it appears to be infiltrated by the red foxes there is still a chance the country will get destroyed later and Ein might have to cross blades with his father and brother. Or maybe he'll have to save them and there will be so,e sort of reconciliation? Only time will tell.

A shame. I actually liked that Medelian scene (or most of it).

Nice ending to the story.

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@dradrian said in Zilbagias the Demon Prince Vol. 1 Discussion!:

When should we expect the next volume?

I just checked and so far four full volumes have been published in Japan, with the most recent being January of this year. So at least we won't be delayed waiting for the next volume to be written for a little while.

So much stuff I want to say about this volume, but all of it is related to a spoiler I ended up reading when my weak mind wandered while checking the wikipedia page to see how many volumes there were. At least it looks like it'll be touched upon next volume, maybe an ending cliffhanger at worst.

@pcj said in Villainess Level 99 Act 4 Discussion!:

As I was reading this part, I kept thinking "yay, we really did get the intelligent Yumiella back!"

She's still having her insane flights of fancy, but she's actually learned from experience that she's thinking insane things and catching herself before putting them into action. This is fantastic character development for her. And about two volumes overdue. On the one hand I want to think maybe she was using Patrick as a handicap so she wouldn't have to think. On the other, maybe the author had just lost their groove and now has gotten it back.

Tbh it feels more that the author is leaning heavily on the "Patrick is the Yumiella Whisperer and Keeper" schtick for low-effort Manzai comedy. It's a pity because it really makes Yumiella as a character come across as an obnoxious, impulsive moron with zero self control and really unlikeable and tiring in my view. I much prefer the Yumiella that acts mostly like a high-functioning independent person that doesn't need a handler to function in society.

In volume 3 I literally forced myself to keep reading through the garbage in the first couple of chapters and was glad I did because the story got (mostly) better from around chapter 3 onwards. In this volume I just quit after she met Gilbert because I'd skimmed through the first part again and was just tired of it at that point. It was really so much better before the author made Yumi such an addled mess.

Nicole gentle and caring? Yes, just like a mafia boss with his "family".
What about the others?
What others?

@Segoth If you're reading in horizontal/paginated mode, a quick fix if it's a problem with the part is to try switching to vertical/scrolling mode. If that works, then there's a bit of code in the part that's causing it to break your reading.

In this case, I found the offending code and removed it, so hopefully you should be able to read it now!

Loving seeing the growth of Ernie. Cant wait to see what happens in book 4 next