Well, it was funny. Stella being a closet pervert, Shizuku never managing to stray too far from the path of the yandere brocon, and Okko's admissions the school thorough a climatic duel.
We also learned a bit more about the ojou sama student council member, that in about every other series would've lead to her falling for Ikki after he saved her from an arranged marriage, but km this case the author decided that we didn't need another harem series in an OTP series.

Ooo, what will we find deeper in the dungeon?

While I'm curious about the where (gestation) and how (delivery) of male pregnancy, no need to toil through another volume to answer that question. I should just see if I can find Junior on streaming. 8-) 8-)

@Kotenmaru That felt somewhat random after building up the idea of the Wards.

@Ingraman said in Looks like a Job for a Maid! The Tales of a Dismissed Supermaid Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@Darkchaser said in Looks like a Job for a Maid! The Tales of a Dismissed Supermaid Vol. 1 Discussion!:

My biggest complain "Why no Nina dress up pictures?" If they had cameras there they could have taken a real photoshoot and sold them for money.

I’m half-expecting that one or more of the outfits will be part of the full ebook’s color artwork, since we didn’t get them in black and white. We’ll find out in a month, I guess. :)

O_O

We didn't get any of the dress-up session in the color art. Nina’s always in her maid uniform in the color images! ;_; <sniff>

@PeachyGreen would be ok for me. I wouldn't mind if it keeps going but ending while it's still good is a good strategy.

@ReverseEsper said in After-School Dungeon Diver Vol. 4 Discussion!:

So... where is vol 5 and 6 ? I think waiting whole year is bit long ? Or the series didn't sold as well ?
That would be pity, especially since there is new manga from it and it is really well drawn.

J-Novel has never dropped a series mid-translation just because it wasn't doing well financially, the only time they've dropped series has been when the publisher requested them to due to (if I recall correctly) author-related controversy. Sometimes the licensing process is hellish and things take this long, there are many people to coordinate between before streaming can begin.

I too pray every week to see the series on the schedule, for what it's worth.

I was assuming that the second sister would too move near Noa but it didn't happen (yet?). Wonder if the author is setting Raiza as a sort of main heroine or is just using different approaches for the sisters.

I actually liked their final fight. I liked the idea of her having to earn the different blades in order to take him down and I was good with him being brought back to life.

But yeah, the second half overall was a bit ehh. Especially the last couple volumes.

As for the harem ending... I just laughed. I mean, if you are going to go that route then sure, might as well have him bone pretty much every single female character of child bearing age 😅

I really do enjoy Reinald. Man though, some of the flashbacks on his past were rough. He really did get "lucky" in a lot of those situations... very interested in how things will develop with Karen.

Karen on matching ribbons.. [What

Loved this volume. We learned more about Carmilla, we saw again all the characters introduced so far, a climatic battle bigger in scale than everything so far, assholes even got their chance for redemption.
Even if, as people mentioned, this volume felt like a conclusion for the series, if yhe WN is still ongoing I hope we'll get more in the future.

I want an isekai where someone introduces like ketchup and pizza and fries to their world and the locals pile on about how much better it is than soy sauce.

@Hylebos said in Cooking with Wild Game Vol. 31 Discussion!:

It makes a lot of sense now why Selva and Mahyudra get along like fire and ice :P

Jagar and Sym are also opposites.

Only the Avatar, master of all four elements cooking traditions, can bring balance to the world. /sarcasm

Just being in Rhi's POV during the first few scenes was enough ick trauma for me. Shiver yikes.

@Ingraman said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@imp000 said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Is this series still being released by JNovel? It has been some time since anything has come out. :(

“Some time”? It’s only been three months since the final part of v6 pre-pubbed… and the ebook was published only two months ago. I don’t know how many books are out for this series in Japan so far. Maybe we’re caught up. Maybe further books have yet to be licensed by JNC. Maybe they’re licensed, but the translators/editors are working on other books at the moment. There are lots of options. I’m looking forward to volume 7, but it’ll happen when it happens… :)

v7 is the latest book in the series, it came out in Japan in November of 2022. I'm unsure if it's the last book in the series per say or whether it got the axe or whether the author simply got busy with To Another World With Land Mines but whenever the ever rumbling licensing engine gets around to licensing it and whenever people's schedules align I assume they will start work on it.

@Roseheart said in My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me! Vol. 11 Discussion!:

As someone with a (bit of a) stake in the industry, I found Canary and Aki's discussion about LN series getting canned especially interesting and relatable - like how you can love a series personally but it's not going to get anywhere because it's not what sells.

Maybe the author is just voicing his personal frustrations after being in hiatus for this series for so long. This volume reads like the plot for Shirobako except for LNs.

@ravenchilde said in Cave King Vol. 2 Discussion!:

@Eminent Was wondering this myself. I see no mention of the LN's anywhere.

I mean, v2 of the Cave King LN came out in Japan back in October of 2020, so infer what you will about your odds of getting a v3. :P

@Eternal-Wanderer yeah that feels like a missed opportunity somehow

@Lex

It was a nice volume, and the rulers were fun characters, even if in order to get to know them we had to sacrifice the heroines for a while.