@SalmonJones said in Tearmoon Empire Vol. 13 Discussion!:

I am curious what they're getting at with Yanna and Kiryl. They haven't really done anything yet. Not sure how they fit in. After this many stellar books in a row I trust this author, I'm sure it'll be something clever.

There's a pirate serpent from the same culture as them that got a brief cameo recently. Likely there's something with that serpent and their people coming up that Yanna and Kiryl will be important for...

@Travis-Butler said in I Parry Everything Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Something that came to me as I was re-reading this volume…

Lynne needs to complete an “exceptional deed” to obtain the right of succession. That was her cover story for going to Sarenza.

Um.

WTF was her leadership in the fight against Holy Mithra? Chopped liver? O.o

I think that one might count as politically inconvenient exceptional deed as nobody wants to dig too deep into what exactly happened there. Conquering a dungeon, much less complicated.

Just binge read the whole series on catchup.
I'll admit it, it wasn't exactly what I was hoping for. And Lud made me mad in multiple occasions, midway through the series he was among my least favorite characters. If volumes were longer, I would've likely dropped it. Still, I decided to stick until I reached the conclusion, and the ending almost made me cry. I'm of the opinion that a bad ending can ruin an entire work, at least for me that's the case. For this series, this last volume saved it.

@topgnu said in Unwanted Undead Vol. 13 Discussion!:

I care not for a Hinata or a hero's story.

Seems like we got both of those.

Anyways, kudos to the artist. While the church uniform was about as flattering as a burlap sack, that dress they put Hinata in for the festival was something else.

But Jaurès also introduced a sacrifice to take the fall for him... No, he made his wife pay the price for his mistake. That was the truth of the matter.

Aww, I feel bad.

The overhanging question of this series is of course: will Lynokis ever go to prison? She's very lucky that despite her experience, Nia hasn't quite caught on to her creepy maid lol. Alternatively, maybe Lynokis will be rewarded with a kiss and die happy.

The way this story blends fantasy and elements of the modern world is really weird and I think very unique. It does it quite well too. I'm glad that this is being translated.

@Libri-Liberorum said in The Legendary Witch Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@topgnu said in The Legendary Witch Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I'm not sure where the music comes from. Maybe they perform acapella (not so Bollywood.) Maybe the music just comes from nowhere. Maybe a significant fraction of the population carry musical instruments to be ready to provide psychically guided orchestration when needed.

Maybe the music comes from spirits, like how in other series an intercession or otherwise connection with the spirits is what produces magic.

Perhaps the more powerful your connection is the greater and more elaborate the orchestration is

I'm sorry... This novel is just too uninteresting. I mean come, can't we have a novel that's not full of common tropes? Or at least a well written common trope. But I think I'm just getting too old for reading novels like this.

@HarmlessDave Even I, for as much as I have frequent issues with the plot, will admit that the main cast, and the relationships between them, are actually good.

(I still don't like Sara herself, but approve of everyone around her.)

The strength of the cast is actually the reason why I never dropped this series, no matter how annoying Volume 2 got.

@xdrfiredogx said in Elf Bride Vol. 18 Discussion!:

love power

I have no idea at all why my mind is suddenly hearing The B-52s singing about Love Power!

@Geezer-Weasalopes They did come up with a believable reason why the King only received half of the magic stone. I wonder who cooked it up.

And Dias will more than likely piss off another princess by turning down her proposal, this one for marriage.

@HarmlessDave I hope it leans in to more of the "Overpowered Protagonist deals with sometimes humorous slice-of-life situations."

We have a zany cast. Several of them seem to have some sort of awkward feelings for him. We also just got his two previous teammates in town. Are they going to join the guard, too? Is the knight vice-captain going to get blow-back from her boss?

That knight captain is destined to be trouble down the line.

Anyone that can be defeated in a straight-forward fight is easy, but plenty of things can't just be punched or blocked. Between the knight captain's distaste for the guards and the knight vice-captain's feelings for Seig, there's definitely material for another novel -- and without drawing out a monster-of-the-week type of situation.

I mean, the Capital is regularly attacked. We're likely to see more attacks. But that could easily be used as a tool to play for timing and importance with the other stuff going on.

Even if the Capital weren't attacked anymore, that would also be disruptive to the Capital as it would be a change from the status quo. It would mean it is safer and more folks would engage in trade there. This would bring a steady new stream of potential problems.

I'm assuming we won't see the sister before a time skip, so the age problem would be solved. The incest part remains, author might try to play with it by saying that Caim isn't the same person as before, but I guess in the end it all depends if he wants to cater to that fetish or not.

I officially ship Kid and the princess.
Anyway, a nice volume. I'll never get tired of seeing Ernie and the Ikaruga going wild.

Ayame could technically have a chance, if Light tells Khaos that a political marriage is useful to him. Of course, he's not going to give such and order to one of his retainers.
Anyway, it was a nice volume, I'm looking forward to the next one.

@Geezer-Weasalopes I've grown up in the happy unsafe days when there were tall swings with a plank for seat and chains holding it. Tall enough for someone to stand on the plank and swing strong enough to do a full circle. It was crazy luck that I survived after all I did as a kid, but my parents really had it rough.

But a swing doing a 270 degree turn? And then I guess stopping somehow? Now that is a certain death.

@Ingraman the seventh volume just released about a month ago

Seems like Pista decided to tell the beast king where her mom was after all, and he got to go for a visit. With the black guild nonfunctional, I guess it's not especially dangerous for him to do it anymore.

Ok, still on my catch up and was going to wait to comment tell I finished the volume but I just found out about granny Rina looking, essentially, the same. She is nuts. It is pretty hilarious. And I'm guessing I know who her husband is.

Pretty funny that young Rina's reaction to finding out her future fate is a resigned "Yeah. That sure sounds like something I would do".

I'm in the process of catching up but I have to say that Bel's story was lovely. I legitimately teared up. It would have honestly been a good place to end the series. This series has done its various arcs really well. I'm guessing Bel will be back for awhile, but I do wonder when she will leave for the future for good.

Time sure is flying. Seems like Mia should already start looking like her 17 year old self by now, right?

@diablo8x There can be multiple reasons why a series's translation is paused: licensing later volumes needs to be ironed out, the translator needs to be replaced, the translator's currently got a large enough workload that they can't handle anything more being added...

The only other thing I can add is that JNC has only ever dropped one series, and that was because it was cancelled and removed from sale in Japan and the JP publisher told them to axe the series.