This is really one of the most unusal romance LNs I've read despite not having any other gimmick besides romance and the titular familial situation. It's the way the series delves into what people are thinking, what they're feeling, that gets me. That and the way it doesn't have a single protagonist, but switches viewpoint between the two of them, and often a lot of others too.

The other volumes were already very open about young people having all kinds of feelings, impulses and desires; this volume takes it quite a bit further, and at times stops, I'd say, just short of being erotica - while never being just that, because it's always also about people dealing with the complexity of their feelings and relationships. I think, at this point, it might be comparable to Scum's Wish - yes, there's young people having intimacy and sex, but it also serves the story foremost, and it's often obvious that the characters don't really know what they're doing, and what they're doing might be a mistake anyway.

This volume was a bit slower that the series usual; but even when not that much happens, we get to see the thoughts and emotions of the characters, which makes a lot of difference from just stalling, because there's always development, just not a physical one.

@Gamen thanks. I was curious if the story went further in the WN, but maybe the author simply didn't have many ideas of how to keep it going.

@Roy-Nukia lol I remembered it wrong.

Still! The first 7 of 7x7x7 should be important!

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@Terabyte I just saw that the Japanese novel for volume 9 releases on January 10, 2024 and since volume 8 released back in the summer and it took about 6 months for that to be fully translated I'd assume about same time frame so we won't get volume 9 until mid-summer 2024

@Village-Idiot said in Peddler in Another World Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Aina's dad either survived but lost his memory or got reincarnated already.

Another possibility is he was captured by the enemy and was sold as a slave or something. There are quite a few possibilities on what happened to her father.

@QuixoticHorizon
Same publisher.

Oh, and one more vote for more like the wyvern and rabbit story. That was adorawholesome.

Having read the manga until this very point, the ending didn't come as a surprise. I look forward to what the author has done in the next 3 volumes. 😋

Go tournament was interesting to me, primarily for how the freak's games are structured. As noted, he played second and without komi. Also as noted, komi is a relatively new addition to the game; while it's origins track to the 1920s, the current values of 6.5 or better are roughly 2 decades in age.

As to why I find this interesting, it's mainly an artifact of reading 8 immediately after 7. As the translation notes (which I find to be of immense value, so thank you for providing them) there indicated, our setting is most likely historical pseudo-china. Given that, I would assume that the relatively modern invention of komi would likewise be excluded, but clearly that isn't the case.

Please, Little Vio, I’m begging you. Have mercy on him.

Little Vio wins the Best Character award! 🤣

And with this, the series has ended. Thanks to the team for working on this series. 👏 🎉

In the afterword, I'm not sure if that bit about the manga is a jab or sincere praise

@Eminent said in Earl and Fairy Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Is this a good series? There are 33 volumes, so there's certainly a lot of content.

I like the volumes released so far.

It's an older series (started 2004, so pretty ancient (: ) and it doesn't read much like modern light novels, or even modern romance light novels. Not much focus on the cuteness of the heroine, or how she feels embarrassed by whatever the male lead does, or any of the other staples. Not much fanservice either.

It reads a bit like a romance set in the world of old British detective stories, with two major deviations - one, that lord Edgar is much more of an Arsène Lupin or Irene Adler type of character rather than any sort of detective, and second, that Lydia, besides being the HolmesWatson of the duo, is also a specialist in the old Scottish (or sometimes other British) supernatural creatures, who turn out to be very real, and very fae.

The romance is of the kind that some people might bounce off. There's enough of something there for it to be a real relationship, except that as it turns out Edgar has had a very traumatic past and is used to approaching the world in a "manipulate them before they could manipulate you" manner, and can't get rid of that habit even when it gets in his way, which makes the progress of the romance very slow, with frequent steps back. So far I'm happy to report that Lydia doesn't respond well to seduction and manipulation as opposed to honest dealings (but there's enough of manipulation attempts there that it might drive some people away anyway).

So, there you have it. It's been an interesting read so far for me, but the romance is slow burn and some people might not like some aspects of it.

Maybe, just maybe, discussions concerning future volumes with numbers like "10" and "11" should happen in something other than the discussion topic for volume 1.

I'm really fond of the way the series blends supernatural mysteries with ordinary human concerns, such that one could never be quite sure when and how much is the work of the fae. This time it was even more so, with the setting and the story strongly reminiscent of detective stories of the era.

I was getting a little concerned about the romance side, with Edgar trying his hardest to make me dislike him for being manipulative, but by the end of the volume we again got to the part where those sorts of approaches just don't get him the real connection he so obviously desires, and he realizes that. But it's a wild ride, in every volume he manages to make me angry with him at least once, because he can't stop backsliding.

I was also glad to see more of Ermine, whose exit from the series in the first volume was far too hasty. It remains to be seen if she'll be as interesting a character as she originally was; she didn't exactly get a chance to shine in this volume.

@TheGrimLich said in Earl and Fairy Vol. 4 Discussion!:

Hmm... I wonder what will happen to Ulysses when the selkies get their skins back.

I seem to recall at least one story not ending well for the person who stole the skins...

The series doesn't really keep that close to the original stories; it's the first time I've heard of selkie skins being anything but, you know, skins.

@SomeOldGuy yes

@whyohwhy1 I belive it was in Sep that 1 site started selling .https://jpbookstore.com/products/the-greatest-magicmasters-retirement-plan-17 Unless it is a pre-order kind.
Also there are 2 colored ilustration already

We're at the end of another volume. Reading it cleared up a few things for me at least. I remember reading the manga, but it was messy and didn't explain enough (or anything at all really).