The author is almost 50 and has published a light novel series not only popular enough to hit ten volumes, but popular enough to be translated into different languages.

Never give up on your dreams.

Looks like the match between Prettia and Hao might just end the continent, but, I guess there's an intermission. And Kelvin had 20 volumes of poetry published without his knowledge. Harsh.

this has been altogether one of the most mature ways I've seen of handling ero scenes. Masterful use of show, don't tell.

Also, the ending is sheer class.

I understand from context who they are but have we actually seen this Bara character before? I don't recall them at all...

@Phabiohost to me it felt like the author had some good ideas but didn't develop them before they started writing, and as they added chapters they just winged it by haphazardly bolting on additions.

Contrast that with the TRPG author where it felt like they wrote out a novel's worth of background for the world (a full set of rule books?) for their own reference before starting on the story that we got to read.

@SalmonJones We don't know the answer as of the current pre-pub, but my bet's on abdication. Matthias doesn't seem like he's all that attached to being Emperor, but he really, really loves Mia.

@Roseheart said in Meals Made to Order Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Haha, actually I was just using it as an example on the fly - so in Japan they do have pink ladies, as well as their own native apple cultivars for different kinds.
I used the example to avoid spoiling the specific one I was thinking of. But basically there was a variety of a certain vegetable that is not (widely?) sold out of Japan, and therefore doesn't have an established English translation. So sometimes we directly translate the name if possible, or we might just use the Japanese name and romanize it (if it's googleable - not in these cases), or we might combine one of the above with adding a little explanation. In the case I'm thinking of, the vegetable species was special for coming from a certain place in Japan. A Japanese reader might see the species name and think "Oh yes, those veggies from X prefecture," but an English reader would likely not. So the location they came from was added as a gloss in the prose too to highlight why the species might be viewed as special.
Hopefully that makes sense! I can really ramble when it comes to these things 😅

Ah~ okay. I understand!

It's been a while since I have read this volume so whatever vegetable it was I can't look into it at this time. Perhaps whenever I get this volume I can look into this particular vegetable.

Uh huh, -muke is simply a suffix you can attach to a demographic to describe something targeted towards that demographic. e.g. seinen-muke is also a thing, since you mentioned that too.

Ok!

@TheGrimLich depends on how large they can argue their settlement is. A city-state might be too small.

@Travis-Butler

I am also enjoying the satirical take on space opera.

I think the point of the books so far is not for the main character to grow into a hero. Rather, it is for him to run away from all the calls to adventure he can see. He reminds me of Rincewind in the Discworld novels.

when the gods jinx you.

I knew it. The miserable goatkin works for the Demon Lord.

Successfully acquired one child. A little odd that there's not a potential love interest already to be the "mom" for her, but still the "adopted ignorant battle child" has been gained. Already had the cute pet of mysterious power. Now we just need to add 1-4 love interests with some of them likely being or have also been slaves and he'll complete the light novel party. Of course there will continue to be no close male associates other than the occasional mentor and advice giver.

Man, it honestly frustrated me that Alpha let Shiori "swindled" Akira.
I kinda doubt Shiori intended to put Akira at disadvantage; it's probably more like Akira would miss out something that he would have not realized was possible.
But still it feels shitty for Alpha to let this happened.

I'm guessing she just didn't want Akira to have connection with other Old Word characters.
Of course this isn't the first time she hid things from Akira, and he also knew that she did. I know that she always prioritizes her goals.
But Akira would likely to follow Alpha anyway, so it's annoying that she didn't say anything.

Also, I kinda like Yumina. Her dedication to Katsuya was off putting, but I like how logical and observant she was.
So, this assassination plan makes me dislike Alpha lol.

@thomasce10 said in Finding Avalon Vol. 5 Discussion!:

So far the trend is MC wants to do nothing then the heroines and sub heroines do something that forces him to act or the scenario doesn't go the way he wants to.

Yup. He doesn't move the plot. The plot moves him. So in order to move the plot along, you need other characters instead. So if falls on those around him to make the MC do anything plot relevant. He can't proactively do things on his own since that would require something he doesn't appear to have, agency.

@Makine To be fair, the author's intended message with that comment was It only looks complicated because I wrote Fii to deliberately mislead the audience, not You only think its complicated because you're all stupid!

Not that that made the 'mystery' any better. shrug

As I mentioned waaay back at the start of the volume, this one seems to have worked better as a Manga. The impression I got before I stopped reading was that Fii's inner monologue is just less entertaining than the manga's artwork was. And trimming some of the dialogue for page space probably didn't hurt either.

That said, I will remind however few people remain that there is a third volume in the series that was presumably licensed alongside these two. Despite how final the afterword seemed.

Though in the interest of not getting anyone's hopes up...

@lighthawk96 said in Cooking with Wild Game Vol. 27 Discussion:

Ai Fa was sure caught off guard by Asuta there. I almost thought we might have a development there, but, alas, I'm too familiar with this story not to get my hopes up. But he surr did push some pretty big boundaries there.

Definitely understand where you're coming from there.

I'm gonna be generous and count it as progress, even if it's just a smidgeon of progress.

And, I'm sure Morun Rutim get her wish. Just a prediction on my part.

She gets her partner and her new clan gets better cooking. Everyone wins! 🤞

Please ping when release date for next volume on Jnovel Club is announced :D

"I could never be a succubus! Fallen angel? Yeah, that's fine. But succubus? No way!"

If he wants to unite the continent without invading Rozern, isn't a political marriage with their princess the only way to do it?

This series should really be titled “The ecchi-LN I’m reading can’t be this thought provoking!!!”

The climax and resolution was definitely something out of left field. As always, I enjoy authors exploring morally gray issues. Bonus points for calling out our ever dependable class president of class presidents.

I’m putting this series on my wish list of series to acquire, though it will be some time until I catch up with other ongoing series in my “buy” list.