Let the 3rd floor raid begin.. . and you know that Kazuhiro is going to eliminate the boss. We'll, hi. Ir Marie that is.

@Cidolfas said in The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival Vol. 5 Discussion!:

Doesn't look like there's gonna be much left to burn down, other than level 2 trainees and informants.

But still! More friends to make!

@TheGrimLich
Yep, Char completely bluescreened.

A few things on their diving experience:

If you're entering off the beach to SCUBA dive, you usually walk in backwards with your fins on. It's far easier than trying to put them on while floating after you've gone out far enough.

No Yoshin, those were almost certainly not Mantas you saw diving off the beach. Gotta get your Open Water Diver cert and do a boat dive for them.

Underwater photography is a lot of fun, and can be cheaper than you'd think. Fujifilm and Kodak both make disposable cameras good to 35ft or so. They're intended for snorkeling, but are suited for this type of intro diving experience if allowed.

@karasutengu said in Frontier Lord Vol. 8 Discussion!:

@Kurzaa I think he is the guy who hired assassins in the first volume to kill Dias, but they failed. His hatred for Dias is an obsession due to a miss-conceived wrong the man holds against Dias. At one time he was captured (I think), but escaped and is more determined than ever to get his revenge against the lovable big ax guy.

Didn't feel like the same sort of villain, the guy from v1 had a smalltime potatoes vibe, as seen in these dialogue samples:

" Because our target is Dias. Yes, that Dias! Think you can beat him in broad daylight? I'm not sure we can kill him even while he sleeps, and with the cover of darkness on our side. But know that if he's cottoned on to our attempt, we're through."

"And I want you to kill Eldan too, if you see him," whispered the client. "You may as well if he's here. I heard he came here to meet with that damned bastard Dias anyway. The more thrones we have without lords to sit on them, the better."

"Shit! Shit! Shit! They claimed to be the finest mercenaries! Liars! Useless! Taken down like mere flies! I told them that it was all over if Dias caught wind of us!"

"Dias! My old wounds ache, and it's all because of you! Always getting in my way, you wrteched upstart orphan! You crazy mongrel! You monster! Why won't you just die?!"

Granted he was fairly irate throughout that entire encounter, but this final example came after "the man was finally done shouting" and "clarity seemed to return to the man's face."

"Damn it," he sighed. "I have failed. That was not cheap, but...there is nothing I can do but cut my losses. No more lingering on past failures. Next time will be different. Next time, next time, next tiiiiime. Know this, Dias: I will not give up until this grudge has been repaid."

The dude in this part seemed more detached from the world, ancient even, though perhaps I am overreading into this guy being in a lonely, dark, and quiet place where no other signs of life existed. Unless this is the man from before who came across some dark god or something and changed, I feel like they are different people.

I was just wondering the other day if would be seeing another volume of this series.

@lighthawk96 Next book, maybe. This is just the point in the arc where Kilpha gives herself up to save everyone from an issue Shiro could have solved even more easily if she didn't. I'm just not sure if Celes or Mifa is playing Kilpha this time. (And they probably won't try pretending Shiro got them pregnant.)

I can't say I was expecting the wedding to happen this week. I figured it'd be next week.

Also there were certainly some ridiculous lines in this release. Multiple lines regarding yams that were just so absurd that even knowing the full context really didn't help, lol.

Lynette and Lynokis are birds of a feather flocks together in term of their love for the 1 they serve. And yes better let the cat out of the bag about Lynokis/Leeno.

On the one hand, having some sort of "charm skill" would certainly explain the popular opinion turning against Bolton.

On the other hand, I've seen enough anime and anime-adjacent stories where the instigator just needs "regular" charisma, and the "general masses" just works themselves into a frenzy on their own. Very rarely does this have any consequence for said masses; most of the time it's just "yeah, I said you deserved to die, but so did plenty of other people, and that was then and this is now. What of it?"

I'm deeply suspicious this is a common trend among Japanese writers, because of what they personally see of social media in Japan. Thus, "the masses" is the convenient plot device to present a huge anonymous crowd going against the protagonists, which can be spawned and despawned as needed by the story.

@unsynchedcheese
And all that because Joshua's dad knows about artificial scarcity.

OK, Ernie really can't back out now. Addy would just drop dead right then and there.

@Exkalamity said in Cooking with Wild Game Vol. 28 Discussion!:

The cake is described as being 3 tiered, but only 30cm in diameter and 10cm tall. That's really small for a cake of that sized, esp compared to the cover image.

@cpitman said in Cooking with Wild Game Vol. 28 Discussion!:

@Exkalamity I do wonder if that is either an error in the original text or a translation error. Based on the measurements and the description of the cake, it seems like it was a 3 layer cake with whip cream in between each layer.

That would be a case of the text and artwork disagreeing with each other. It happens a lot. The size of the cake is described in a way that doesn't have much room for misinterpretation.

直径は三十センチ、高さは十センチぐらいもあっただろう。Diameter(直径) is 30cm(三十センチ), height(高さ) is 10cm(十センチ), approximately.

Which, that's still twelve inches wide and four inches tall, so it's not exactly tiny. The limitations of fuwano and poitan likely also limited the height of the layers. Using beaten eggs as a leavening agent to make the cake soft would've made the structure of the cake even weaker than otherworld bread normally is, so taller cake layers might have collapsed on themselves as they baked.

Oh awesome, 3 of my favorite side stories all together! Glad to see these officially translated!

@syilphion said in Revenge of the Soul Eater Vol 1 Discussion:

@Phabiohost I would give him a little, just a little bit of leeway, he fell hook line and sinker to sora's plot, probably got tunnel visioned so bad he didn't realize the value of what he is betting, despite it being the same with sora, is in fact complete different in value

Getting tunnel vision and throwing your friend's life into a betting pool still makes you a shitty person imo. He could have bowed out. He was the aggressor in this encounter.

Self righteously condemning slavery while throwing his friend into potential slavery in the same breath. There isn't a justification that makes me think better of him except mind control. Which doesn't apply here.

I had considered that Ashbal could be the Golden Falcon - it just felt like the direction this series likes to go in with its stories - but him being both the falcon and a magical device birthed to destroy the falcon had not occurred to me. Gives new meaning to "becoming that which you hate" though.

Makes me very curious about his mother's homeland, to have such artifacts in it!

I'm also not surprised that her magic is burning her body out. That seemed kind of likely, but I'd hoped it was just part and parcel with still being so young.

@wanderer_1204 said in The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods Vol. 1 Discussion!:

What would also be cliched and dumb would be misplaces anger of Leyas friend who places a curse on Misha's father and family.

I think we are fine on that front, at least for now. Misha didn't go into specifics... for all she knows, Leyas got mauled by a bear.

@vilobion said in The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Agreed. The latest batch of new series was pretty weaksauce as a whole.

Yeah... as mentioned before, I'm still reading Mountains, at least for now. It's just different enough from anything else I'm currently reading to be a nice change of pace. But aside from THIS series I really wasn't impressed by this batch at all.

At least they saved the poor dragon...(and I wish he would eat the doctor, (mhe he he).

I love Blanc. She's such a fun character. Her insight is incredibly but she has the massive gaps in base knowledge and gaming terminology. It's fun, and reminds me of the protags of other series like Maple from Bofuri.

And I'm glad that she sisters seem to be actually close now. And that my earlier misgivings about their relationship being the set up to a betrayal seems less and less likely by the part.

@zwabbit If he was smart, he'd also include a clause about replacing equipment that is damaged or destroyed during a direct confrontation with the bounty or supporting forces. Though I doubt either would fly since the defense forces are posting a general bounty on Tiol and not a specific job request.

Even if they did allow the caveats, they wouldn't really be able to argue with Akira on the costs. He could shut them down really quick.

Saeba : "How the hell did you lose an APC, a high end wasteland bike, 3 LEOs and a high end powered suit?"
Akira : "Here's the data from the fight."
Saeba : watches fight "You are completely off your rocker. How are you still alive?"
Akira : "Hey, it's cheaper than if you sent your forces in after him, right?"
Saeba : "... Yeah...." hits the approve expenses button