@isekaitruckdriver Because it's just some dumb noble squabble that just happens to have affected Alus' friend.

I just wanted to say, if you're like me and deliberating buying this story based soley on going "that's a pretty cover", it's actually a lot better than you'd think. Both of the main characters are far more likeable than normal and there's the bare minimum of the standard issue light novel romcom misunderstandings. The couple becomes a couple at what I thought was a realistic pace. I particulaly liked how the male lead logics out "oh wait this woman was being horribly abused, nah I'm not sending her back" remarkably quickly, I do like how both parties seem to get over the "this is a contractual marriage" and into "nah screw it it's a real marriage" quickly, and I am interested in seeing where they're going next with it. Recommended, good impulse buy with your free 699 a month from membership :^)

Random observation: Most female-lead romantic novel main characters are drawn as pretty plain women (not a complaint, just an observation, it's self-insert fantasy for a large portion of the audience after all). Agnes really isn't, she's a total 10/10 babe. A nice change of pace. Not that I don't love my girl Marielle Clerac (although in that series her not looking particularly interesting is sort of a plot point), but you know.

Volume 3 starts tomorrow! Yay!

@Silver-Sugar-Duchess said in Earl and Fairy Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Now this sounds very interesting and promising again. I can‘t wait to read the volume!

It's my favourite volume so far.

I'm looking forward to the afterwords of the next volume, when the author apologizes that he planned to write about princess Cheryl but the demon lord girl stole the spotlight.
I do agree that the protagonists not being able to land a meaningful victory is annoying and tiresome. I guess the author is planning for this series to last long but I'm not sure this is the right way to achieve that.

@Chervilious

Hi,

There is no set date for when Volume 6 will start pre-publication on the site, at this time.

For a general overview of how new volume starts are handled at J-Novel Club. Please see the following topic, https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

whelp that is a wrap as of today, I guess I shall see you boys in another year or so seeing that is how long it took this to get approved for translation :P

@lucaslp5 said in Let This Grieving Soul Retire Vol. 6 Discussion!:

@Garbag3Tast3 Seing how Krai is basically an walking misfortune bomb but has extremely good luck in inter personal relationships I assume that town will at least get to sucess in planting the trees and it will all end up being thanks to Krai.

If Krai's affinity for sweets comes into play, they'll end up with enough water for rice and soybeans and be able to add some inarizushi alongside the fried tofu offerings.

Honestly one of my favourite OP protagonist stories, because it's not about how the protagonist is so much better than everybody else. Instead, all of the cast is very strong people with unique abilities, who could often match or come close to what Noor does. Frequently, Noor's only stronger by never realizing how much trouble he's in, and thus never freezing. He still often needs the others' help before prevailing. And he and those around him just don't hoard power - if anything, making others OP too is a core of what makes Noor, his friends, and the whole kingdom strong.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, this book is my kind of power fantasy.

This volume in particular does suffer from pacing issues, since being done in the style of "webnovel cut into pieces", it spends the book mostly on setup of something I assume will happen later, and ends without a satisfying conclusion, sorta mid-scene.

@Leon_97 the mystery mage could be his apprentice only as an adult.

Really interesting volume, finally getting to see the Prince and some more meaningful progress in Lydia and Edgar's relationship.

@Tahu https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule/1

@strangeattractor
You might like Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen. It's very meta with introductions to each chapter that refer to it as, for example, a far future anthropologist correctly surmises what happened, then is smacked down by another anthropologist as loony.

I've read Jo Walton's book about Regency dragons (Red in Tooth and Claw maybe?). It was a lot of fun since I like Regency romance too and she plays such fine commentary on them.

Looks like Alec's close friends helped him come to terms with some of his biggest demons. We should all be so lucky to have friends like tbat in our lives.

I can only hope that it will be a peaceful trip.

Ha, ha, ha - the author has a keen sense of humor...

The vice captain...actually had a sense of smell that rivaled a dog.

Well that explains everything especially his adoration of Marielle.

@SalmonJones For those people who only read this series and don't know what SalmonJones means about the mean-spiritedness of the other series, I remind you of this bit in Volume 2:

@kuali said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 2 Discussion!:

I was initially quite confused why Lorea suddenly turned into such a blunt, snarky bitch when reunited with her less composed childhood friend - given that he'd apparently done nothing particularly wrong, hadn't hurt Lorea in any way, was being entirely reasonable during his appearance, etc...
Then I remembered this series has the same author as To Another World With Landmines, and the dynamic between Lorea and Gretz was suspiciously similar to the one between Haruka and Touya.

Except over in Land Mines, 'Lorea' has (at least) two accomplices, Gretz is one of the main characters, and its been growing more egregious over time in a series that just translated its 10th volume. On the master list of things you will not commonly catch me doing, defending the girls' treatment of Touya ranks pretty highly.

@SalmonJones said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I guess I'm saying land mines is weirdly chaste because I made it eight issues in and everyone is acting like romance is an icky thing that's worth belittling people for being interested in and in this series I'm 3 issues in and it's just a background thing that isn't super relevant to anything.

Honestly, they're more acting like romance involving Touya is an icky thing that's worth belittling Touya for being interested in. There are so many characters interested in romance with Nao that I ended up writing the Harem Guy Song about it...

Novice Alchemist is definitely the more fun (and funny) of the two series, no argument there. But at the start, Land Mines felt like it had some tension and some stakes to it every time the party went into the wilderness (something Alchemist has pretty much only managed once - during the fight against the Hellflame Grizzlies at the end of the first book). Very different tones, and its perfectly valid to prefer one over the other.

Then Land Mines began the slide to Op Harem Comedy, and while it doesn't get significantly funnier, it does lose the stakes and the tension... and grow significantly more annoying...

...I know those aren't really positives, but then, late series Land Mines doesn't have many of those for me to pick from...

@whyohwhy1 said in Altina the Sword Princess Vol. 14 Discussion!:

still no nre volume released in jp?

Unfortunately I've not heard anything about progress for a while now.

At JNC's last announcement stream Sam mentioned it as one of the series he most wanted to come out of hiatus alongside How Not To Summon a Demon Lord, so at least JNC has not forgotten about it!

I have to agree that the otome game part felt a bit weird, either it should've been expanded more or just scrapped.
I'm also of the opinion that Laura was the worst character (well, excluding the villains) and I would've liked her to suffer more.
In the afterwords the author mentioned this series turned out yo be atypical for a female targeted work, and in my case it turned out to be a positive, although I have to wonder how Japanese readers who were probably expecting a more shoujo like story reacted to this much focus on the male protagonist.
The length felt appropriate, I certainly wouldn't have liked 10 volumes of the main couple being unable to be honest with their feelings.

@Lily-Garden welp. We shall see as we shall see.

(Part 1) Alright but Margret be spitting truth about the noblewomen. I like that she's not an entitled bitch. I don't really have anything against her, but I don't think she's realized that being queen doesn't suit her personality at all, and she wouldn't be happy with that life (though, she'd probably make for a better monarch than Elliot). She's an energetic firecracker; she should be brightening up the life of some second son or a lower noble without a big territory, not holing up in a castle.