This series is odd to me. The science techno-babble was nice, until a few mistakes made it a bit more of a slog. The story is interesting, until little inconsistencies add up (I think the author should consider more detailed notes for small details). The constant references to troublesome tropes have gotten quite dull. I will still read on, but I can't say I'd recommend this series.

On another note, I hope he eventually makes a water whip. Whips can move quite fast! He's not really done much with controlling liquid water though, even bothering to make his solar lense out of ice...

@Abedeus The anime also changed up some content as well, like changing the culprits behind the rockmen puppets as Akaza and one of his underlings (instead of the jester man and the other fellow).

All references to Alisuin being a mole for Akatsuki were also removed from the finale.

I think i will go mad if i read Flio's easy going smile just one more time.

@nappingcub That's some good news!

On the flipside, we're coming up on the end of the year and that volume 7 that I mentioned a tweet about doesn't appear to even be announced yet. Granted, we have 3 months left, and it seems like sometimes announcements come literally days prior to release, so it's not impossible, but...

@LightningLeaf well to be fair that wasn't his first kiss either, he's kissed both Monica and Novem already back in volume 5

Is it just me, or do Beryl and Ficelle have similar speech patterns, succinct with occasional word elision but with inclusions of "Hmm" or "Mm" here and there?

@staylo67 v15 came out less than a year ago, and hasn't released v16 yet. I understand missing the series, but time frames are really worth keeping in mind. There's no major reason for JNC to try and rush the next volume out if it'd hurt the business relationship long term.

One would think that, at volume 26, readers would be familiar with the notion that values in isekai are different from Japan and summoned people need to adapt in order to survive. Yet, author always feel the need to explain the concept every time it appears in the story. But well, at volume 26 we are all well aware of what to expect from this series, the only thing we can do is vent some frustration for the author's endless rambling about unnecessary things while appreciating when the plot moves.

@groudonvert-own27br Please see our standard reply for this question here! https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

@GeorgeMTO thanks, good to know there will be more to read.

@Lex I'm expecting the next volume to skip over it completely tbh. Based on the wording there, it's likely to happen next on the date.

@swiggy1957

There will be a physical edition of Volume 14.

The listing should go live on all stores later this year. No public release date as of right now

Thank you

How is Zweit still alive? Getting an assassin on your back without any sort of protection means you're dead, no? If he realized he's under attack why the fuck didn't he activate the item given to him. Where are the birds? And how could whoever cast the barrier pinpoint him with such accuracy. How was Zelos planning to come to help without means to well, come to help?

This story is entertaining but runs on stupidity and stupidity only... and this time it is a bit too much.

@ultimatehaki said in The Boy Who Ruled the Monsters Vol. 1 Discussion!:

As I thought, Sol will acquire all 7 imprison entities. The dragon was just a pre-order bonus.

And the Elfen Queen will join his harem (probably).

@isekaitruckdriver Sorry for the late reply. First read-through of the series and I have to agree with like 98% of what you said. I understand the "moral high ground" argument of not murdering your opponents, but I think to be a "realistic" MC, you need to set aside absolutes and weigh it like "hey, these villains I keep let go instead of kill keep coming back and hurting the people I care about." It's like Batman/Joker, and why I hate that whole dynamic. He knows that Joker will always come back and hurt/kill people he cares about or random citizens, but refuses to kill him based on his morals. I agree with that concept about 1/100 times.
Also, even having binged the series in the past week or so, I doubt I'll remember most of the key plot points by the time volume 14 releases. The "drip feed" of history is so rough to memorize if you read literally anything else. I JUST read volume 8 a day or two ago and I had to pull it back up because I had completely forgotten the other elemental names that were mentioned. And yeah, the whole "oh Anna and Duchess Lebu (the fact that I can't remember her name despite being a pivotal character should be an indication, but the 'Comet') were all around during the dark war and instead of him just like....idk.....sitting down for 20 minutes and asking them questions, he's like "I MUST READ AN ENTIRE LIBRARY AND DECRYPT AN ANCIENT LANGUAGE FOR CLUES," so it gets to be....questionable and frustrating after a while. Alice also CLEARLY knows SO much about what's going on, but despite her and Allen's friendship, just is like "eh figure it out in the next 5 or so books, dude."
Rant for rant matched lol.

@saidahgilbert I read the first 20 odd vol of that and while I enjoyed it at first the mc and his non relationships with pretty much ever character that wasn't his annoying little sister just sucked all the enjoyment out of it.

I will give full marks to the Author though as apparently he didn't want any romance in the story, but he was writing to spec so when the publishers asked him to include it he made the MC an emotionless card board cut out and went the incest route out of spite. I suspect he found it less funny 20+ vol later when he's still writing it and having to deal with it due to the series being successful.

@Rahul-Balaggan said in Finding Avalon Vol. 4 Discussion!:

@thomasce10

Our releases match the "basic" Jp releases. If a store gives out a premium bonus in additional to the base product that would not count as "base".

If there was some side story that is present in the BookWalker edition (that is not a store exclusive) that we do not have in our release. Please email support@j-novel.club and we will investigate.

Thank you

Bookwalker has two side stories, one that comes with the regular ebook and the other that's store exclusive to it.

Information from the author's blog. (Akito Narusawa)
Books and comics come with purchase bonuses. There are many types and different ways to get them, so we've put them in a list.

Regular e-book bonus SS　
Hayase Kaoru Edition "Recommended Reference Books"

When Souta goes to buy a reference book, he bumps into Kaoru and Pink-chan. What will happen to Souta!?

The store exclusive ones are these here:
● Book Walker bonus SS
Tenma Akira Edition "The Scene of the Adventurer School's School Entrance"

A rather unusual scene of Tenma-san's school entrance. She wasn't riding in the usual black limousine...!? This is a bonus SS exclusive to Book Walker.

● Paper book bonus SS
Kuga Kotone Edition "Kuga Kotone's Specialty Dishes"

As Souta-kun is eating his lunch, Kuga-san comes over with interest. What is her special dish that is revealed there... but can she even make it!?

● SS for the sponsored store,
Narumi Family Edition, "Snacks brought home"

Delicious snacks brought back from that place. A commotion breaks out at the Narumi family because of them! ?

If he had least have something planned for the ending, he should just give us a short summary. But probably he has no idea of how to conclude the series.

I don't read LNs because I expect them to be perfectly written tomes full of high literature, but even then, it's rare to find a work which manages to stumble into so, so many unforced errors at once as this one.

For starters, it somehow manages to combine three of the most tired tropes of three different LN genres - the "technically weak but actually super strong" of fantasy, the "technically just a commoner but there's a crowd of devoted nobles and officials willing to use their power for my benefit" of historical novels, and the "technically a loving man who's so possessive he's hostile to any other man in the vicinity of his daughter/sister/other relative/fiancée/wife" of romance.

Then there's the writing style, which has it's share of peculiarities, like attempting to add a mystery by omiting from the reader information obvious to everybody present (like names of characters or any hints of their status or identity) in a way which makes it painfully obvious what is being omited, thus paradoxically robbing it of any mystery.

There's characters exhibiting curious behaviours, like people with all the powers of royalty at their disposal who, over the course of several years, couldn't find a way to deliver a message saying "sorry fam, can't see you right now because of reasons", making for a completely unnecessary drama.

There's bringing up huge plot developments and then completely resolving them in the same scene, before the reader even manages to find a reason to care. Notably, there's a several pages long scene of unnamed and previously unmentioned nobles being arrested for previously unmentioned crimes against previously barely mentioned characters...

And it just piles on and on. And overall, the book totally undermines itself by trying to have a cake and eat it too, in many different ways. Is the protagonist's abusive home a thing nothing could be done about, or is she close friends with people who could apply so much pressure even on a noble? Is she a target for bullies because of her weakness, or obvious prodigy? Is she mild-mannered, or always ready to apply violence? Somehow, it's all of the above and more.

And finally, the less said about Yui's adoptive father intending to take her out on regular dates, the better.

I made it through a third of the book and just couldn't find the strength to go on.