@kuali said in The Blue Sea of Marielle Clarac:

This series is based on the real world right before World War I.

Huh. I would have guessed earlier - probably some point in the mid 1800s, with the equivalent of the Franco-Prussian War still to come...

Agreed. I was surprised by the author's comments alluding to this fact.

What do you mean last volume?

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@Cryten said in Flung into a New World? Time to Lift the 200-Year Curse! Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Something that interests me is that over these last two pre-pub chapter we have discovered that the enchanted monster stones that the master (and now the golems) have created are being called magestones. The same name as the ancient relics the other nations have found around (And the central magguffin of the one used by the humans).

What interests me is that they are sentient. Given that little wiggle when the kids said thank you.

@xdbx without knowing the inner workings of J-Novel Club, all we can do is speculate. I am assuming that they initially only licensed the first 5 volumes of the series as at the time, neither volume 6 or 7 was confirmed to ever be published. As J-Novel Club has never knowingly dropped a series being translated, they may have been waiting for volume 7 to be released and volume 8 to be added to the publishers release schedule before they attempt to license all three volumes for translation.

Of course, once they acquire the rights to the books, they then need to fit it into their translation schedule, ideally keeping the same translators and editors for the first 5 volumes to insure a consistent "voice" to the translations. Of course those individuals haven't been sitting idle this whole time and have started translating other series and need to wait for a break in between those volumes in order to start translating volume 6, 7, and hopefully 8.

I hope we get something other than battles soon.

The complete lack of romance and the fact that Liam acts as a puppet for everything not involving magic are the reasons I only read a summary and the final part for the last two volumes.

The first story was the best one, mainly because I'm a fan of horror. A bit of the shame the Scooby-Doo ending, but a real horror story wouldn't have worked too well with an overpowered protagonist.
The curry story would've irritated me a lot if it was part of a main volume.
The shark story was fun and I learned there are sequels of Sharktopus which is invaluable intel. Ti,e to plan for a B-movie marathon.
The other stories were fine, although while I'm fine with the talking (well, at least telepathically) cat, I hope we won't end up with an overpowered little girl later in the main story.
I do agree that is annoying that Kei isn't doing anything with the girls that are clearly after him but I'm totally expecting zero romance until the end when he'll just marry Miyoshi.

@xdbx I'll be fine with just her being troubled instead of the usual "everything is going as I planned".

Mikhail reminds me of myself with I was young...idealistic, arrogant, irritated by those older than me who didn't see my potential or understand my intellect.
Yes, I was indeed a chunibyou.

That was cute. I wouldn't mind more, but I also think the story has a respectable ending, so it doesn't need more.

Somehow, in my mind's eye, Ruka kind of overlaps with Manatsu from "Girlfriend Limited to Seven Days".

I was amused when Suela needed some of Ruka's terminology translated into "older person language". I did also!

Speaking of translation, this one must have been incredibly difficult to translate in such a way that the youth culture carries over credibly. But it certainly seems like they succeeded, so complements to the translator Gwendolyn Warner and editor Ren Alea.

@Cryten said in Heir to a Monstermancer Vol. 1 Discussion:

I really enjoyed this first novel. A pickup for me for certain. The afterword seems to indicate that the story is intended to be a short story possibly ending in volume 2.

I understood the afterward only to indicate that the first draft of the volume was originally quite long -- so long the publisher split it into two. That may be why the first volume lacks the usual 6-10 illustrations: the standard number were commissioned then half of them rolled into the split-off second volume.

Niice. Really nice.

@rkkn I also liked the joke. I thought her being that quick to jump on the first solution she thinks of no matter how crazy is a funny gag. But it's like the entire setting is built on people being that stupid regularly and that breaks my immersion.

Can we please not make the prey so sympathetic...

Great ride from beginning to end, and I loved the world building. Its been a while since I last saw such a coherent well paced narrative as this story's.

Vesper sounds like he's having a real identity crisis, and will probably end up being a nuisance to Aurora/Lam just like her three apprentices.

@lovelight
I’m DONE with this story, I dislike Amur so much that I might as well talk a bit about the rest.
I enjoyed the first few volumes. The pace of the story was fine and enjoyable. I cried the first vol I thought man I found a good one this time…

I didnt like the multiple love interests thing. Mainly cuz the said love interests were all just them forcing themselves to be one, in a way it was very one sided. I do believe he cares for them however he doesn’t show much romantic affection towards any which I liked since it wouldn’t make any sense for him to have had been interested in multiple girls at the same time.
The types of personalities these female characters have are mostly annoying making it hard to finish reading.
I did enjoy all the adventures, accomplishments, and reactions those around him had.
However having annoying female characters pop in every now and then was not enjoyable. Had they had different personalities I probably would’ve enjoyed their shenanigans but no.
The 3 female cat siblings are extremely pushy and childish which is acceptable for their age but annoying cuz it’s 3 vs 1. Primera is honestly the most likable one but rarely seems to make an effort to be his love interest which isn’t bad but she’s like nowhere to be found. Princess Luna for some reason I can’t see her being romantic with him she’s like a younger sister, yet I enjoyed her the most out of all of them she was fun to read about. The two maid slaves are annoying in the way that their always hinting at the fact that their open to him specifically aura but like can’t you just not be a love interest and instead just be a good friend/slave/maid. When they were left behind at the capital while Tenma went back to conquer the dungeon(doesn’t seem like there’s not much dungeon stuff actually happening tho) I was ecstatic. Amur is the one I hated the most. I liked her in the tournament. When the kiss happen I was like nice move but then it went downhill. She went from mysteries to badass to clingy/pushy/annoying so fast that I can’t read any more of this.
Amur irritates the heck out of me, to the point that I was reminded she comes up in the upcoming volumes art cover so I decided to read the discussion for those said volumes turns out he heads to her hometown like nah she’s like a piece of gum that doesn’t wanna come off the bottom of your shoe. Why couldn’t she just not been involved. I don’t wanna read any more of her. I honestly would take the maids or the 3 cats over this tiger girl. It’s like the maid slaves and 3 cat girls are combined into one Amur. I was about to let it go when we found out the backstory to her armor but no cuz the backstory ain’t ever gonna change this characters personality. she’s irritating I can’t any more.
it seems the story over all is being prolonged. I was looking forward to an academy arc but the ml was like not doing that so as a reader I was like okay I can get behind whatever other interesting thing that’s bound to happen, but it seems it’s just the same side quest/plot repeating itself but with different opponents to fight against.
Nonetheless although I doubt this is ever going to be read and if it does I’m sure you whomever is reading isn’t going to care, yet thank you to whoever wrote this story although I dislike the repetitive female characteristics that some of the characters had, the story isn’t that bad. The first vol was good, I like the vol where he reunited with his gramps and the village people, would have loved to had seen more interactions with the royal family specially the king. I liked the 3 male characters whom gave him a tour of the academy they seemed like fun I hope for other readers they get to read more about their interactions with tenma. The crest scene and the koi guy being mad he wasn’t in it was fun. I enjoyed the gods convos with tenma along with other creations that tenma made like his carriage with a bathtub and the horse thingy that got damaged in this part 4 of vol 7. Aside from that I saw the covers for the recent vol hopefully he does marry primera and I had hoped to see more of her in the story. So I’m glad there’s gonna be more primers content cuz that’s definitely something that’s needed I also hope princess luna and tenma develop some feelings cuz her character is so funny I could only hope she becomes a second wife or something. But I doubt that’s gonna happen idk. Glad I read as much as I did and I’m also glad I won’t ever have to read about Amur again since I’m dropping this story. I would’ve enjoyed her more had she started developing feelings for one of the 3 male characters from the capital but oh well I ain’t gonna read about her no more so I’m relieved that I can just make this stuff up in my head and be happy with it.

Last but not least Amur you’re so annoying it irritates me to the point I might get a headache, reading about you was a pain I kept checking how many more parts there was to the vol it felt never ending that I decided I had the free will to just end it ( part 4 volume 7 was my breaking point) and make up an ending for myself. I feel relieved and happy cuz Amur is a fictional character hahaha…ahhhhh! so annoying that I had to write about it. Glad I had the money to get the membership and write my thoughts thank you. Maybe someday I might come back and skip vol 7 & 8 & 9 and just start at 10 but not for now.

@LightningLeaf said in Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! Vol. 1 Discussion!:

So Merlin deliberately destroyed Lloyd's self esteem. That's more of an explanation than we usually get. Not as useful as telling him about her prideful mistake and letting him deal with the world in a realistic fashion.

Like bumpkin swordmaster’s dad did to him by pretending to still be stronger, though that was out of toxic pride.

@kuali said in Even Exiled, She’s Still the Beloved Saint! St. Evelyn’s Weird and Wonderful Friends Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@Ingraman Checking bookwalker tells me that @zeji13 is correct - the author did, indeed, write two more books after the afterword that says they'd finished the story.

From what I've seen of this author's work, those next two books will have an iffy plot and a long list of absurdities. But on the plus side, it's unlikely that Cecily's mother will cross over to this series, so it might still be readable!

This author also wrote that series? I wanted more Evelyn... but this doesn't bode well.

Any word on when Volume 10 will be released in English? It was released in Japan way back in February...