@Lex said in Hell Mode Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Also, while I feel sorry for Pelomas, I'd love if Allen finds a way to not have a Holy Orb wasted on a girl that is clearly not interested in him.

She is into heroes and badasses. Pelomas has been training like crazy with the rest of Allen's army and getting involved in their heroic stuff. If he is able to turn his kidnapping into a daring escape that helps the NLG foil the latest demonic plot, her opinion of him may well change radically.

@rkkn said in The Goddess Says, "Kill the Tsundere Witch!" Vol. 1 Discussion:

Evil Elyena was unexpected. I wonder what her endgame is. Is she an "ends justify the means" type, or is she gonna be the big bad?

Yeah, we know her current goal is to overturn the current world order by killing the "goddess" but we don't yet know what she's planning to do afterwards if she succeeds.

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@pcj said in This Gyaru’s Got a Thing for...Vampire Hunters?! Vol. 1 Discussion!:

The way that ended felt like it could be a standard one-shot with an open ending, but the title says Volume 1 in it, does that mean there are more?

I guess this answers that question.

@TheWickerMan Got it. Thanks. I missed the word "remaining", it seems. I interpreted that as: the three plus one who were doing their own thing referred to Hanakawa's group of three plus Tachibana. I guess instead it was referring to Hanakawa (the one) plus this otherwise unnamed group of three.

Thanks. That clears things up.

<picture of little middle sister leaning over and big brother little sister holding a large fish>

That insert was a bit more mindbending than I had anticipated. I'm not sure if we've ever had an image of Kizuna and one of the sisters together before. I have to say, Kizuna is really short.

Poor Eliza. :(
Why do I get the sense this is about to be super plot relevant and their meeting will cause disaster? 😂

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@myskaros My JNC library page says that v9 was updated, but what I just downloaded still says version 1.0. Did it not get renumbered to 1.0.1, 1.1, or something else? Did I manage to not actually download the updated book? I don’t know what changes to look for.

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That was charming.

@Makine well, it's certainty not one of those misleading LN titles. Lol..

@Lex said in Three Cheats from Three Goddesses Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Honestly, I'm ok with the protagonist having the mind of an adult and having impure thoughts of the sexy goddesses that is kid body still isn't prepared to handle. But when he reacts to being close to an 8 year old girl...that's too much. I hope we'll get another timeskip as soon as possible but with the current pace of the story it doesn't seem likely.

It may be a while until the next volume comes out. There are only two volumes written in Japan too, so we are caught up. Vol. 2 was published in December 2024 in Japan.

@jiofreecs said in Blade Skill Online Vol. 1 Discussion!:

People know about the player named Yuri, given that his name kept popping up as defeating dungeons, so how is he not the favourite in any contest he enters? Did whoever didn't pick him want to lose money?
With 30,000 contestants how did people decide who they'd bet on and how many people needed to pick Z whatever for him to be the favorite?

That's actually addressed too. He wasn't the front runner because it was common knowledge that there were entire teams dedicated to knocking him out early. And w/o knowing how the build works numbers should have been enough. Especially when you learn even the top players have to play smart and to their advantage against numbers.

@thatsleepyguy I don't think so, but maybe since it's on catchup

I rather enjoyed reading as Chelsea toiled over what to make for Glen, and him being a bit sullen over the fact that she kept it a secret from him.

I very much enjoyed reading about Mica's past and how she and Roy met. I wish she has a bigger part in the story moving forward as I like her character quite a bit.

Something else to consider is the we know the kingdom is very peaceful. So far at least, we've not heard of any threats to it or to the royal family, random monsters not withstanding.

That implies that regardless of how we all feel about him, Fausto and his department are actually very good at what they do. That doesn't mean that it's acceptable to sacrifice lives to do so - and it's hard to tell if he was even intending that to happen - but it does lead some credence to the idea that his "ends justify the means" approach isn't entirely wrong, at least in terms of practical effect.

I'm still all in favor of there being a reckoning down the line... I'm just acknowledging that there are shades of grey here that I wasn't expecting 🤔

@karasutengu said in I Shall Survive Using Potions! Vol. 11 Discussion:

@Phabiohost I actually keep two in case one runs out of "juice" (photons).

Thanks Pitohui! That's good advice!

Another great volume. I wonder how many more we'll get since apparently all lefttkdkus to decipher the codex but maybe the author has some surprises in mind.

Heh… Diana’s perspective stayed in front of my eyes into the afterward: The first baseball reference had passed by unnoticed, and I thought that pitcher/catcher was a yaoi reference… Then “3-4-5 hitters” showed up and “oops” went through my head. ^^;

I finally got caught up!

So this volume started off with the seemingly out-of-left-field Utgard business, threatening to upend the entire plot, but the author managed to tie this up (for now) as simply a means of solidifying the outline of Zenjirou|Aura's plan for female royalty.

Then we had this Yan business, IMO sparking the war on the Northern Continent that was teetering on the horizon. I wonder if we get a 10 year time skip soon? Seems unlikely, but it's hard to imagine actually reaching that part of the story at the current pace, if I can get a bit meta.

We're also introduced to the founding of modern Alcott, which will be a continuing plot point, and they mentioned two new bloodline magics, one strong (Burke's celestial magic, possibly the The Stars magic from the White Empire) and one weak (Graz's expansion magic).

Not much business on the plot/politics side with the South Continent lately, I suspect the author will pivot the focus there once the North Continent is happily burning itself away. A lot happened in this volume, but I think do this is something of a transition book. We've had a North Continent arc, and now we're poised to start transitioning back to South Continent politics. Now that Freya's married, we're at most three volumes away from her and Zenjirou having a child, which would activate the secret agreement with the Twin Kingdoms. This is another reason we might have a time skip, since the agreement really just says if her kid has Sharrow's Bestowal bloodline magic, the kid has to move to the Twin Kingdoms for three years when they hit age 15. Probably won't be that simple though, I don't think we're time skipping for at least another year or two in-story.