@Shaun__ Spreading out the release of a work helps foster deeper discussions and more invested fans. Animation fans are relatively familiar with this phenomenon.

Will, there's only one reason she would complain about not being able to make an echo. Just keep up the good work in spreading her faith, and maybe Gus can get those grandchildren after all.

I know the chances of anyone reading this are slim-to-none but I have to get this off my chest.

What this novel says about mayonnaise is downright incorrect. First of all, I wouldn't trust eating an egg raw straight from the shell anyways, cause the salmonella checks aren't so thorough that it's guaranteed safe, at least where I live. Secondly and lastly, mayonnaise IS perfectly safe to eat because the acidity of vinegar and/or lemon involved in the process of creating kills not only Salmonella but protects it from a variety of other potential bacteria. To quote an article I found in literally seconds, 'A seminal study from 2000 took a look at the fragility of mayonnaise and set the record straight: "Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, E. coli, L. monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, and Yersinia enterocolitica die when inoculated into mayonnaise and dressings."
To put it just as plainly, but in layman's terms, store-bought mayonnaise contains enough acid (from vinegar or lemon juice) to not only kill food-borne pathogens, but also to prevent them from forming.'

Mind you, this does not mean it cannot go bad and in all likelihood your homemade mayonnaise will not keep as long as storebought one, but you also certainly won't contract salmonella from your freshly made mayonnaise.

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WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF.

I love the growth of Citrina. She's might be my favorite side character of the series, certainly my favorite Etolie. A petite but graceful poison master with the unflappable sweet smile is a good character combination. I like how her friendship with Bel is genuine now and that she displays minor yandere tendencies. I also like how she is the most capable Etolie of the bunch, being able to act independently on covert operations.

Sign me up.

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Mommy? Sorry, Mommy? Sorry, Mommy?

I had gotten behind on this and now getting to get caught up. Just finished volume 10.

Now that Marguerite has joined their party, and their stories about how the original 3-person party formed described what their roles were within that party, it occurs to me that they now have a party that almost exactly mirrors Belgrieve's old party. There's a person in each of the same roles.

Percival = Angeline = the front line fighter that brute forces their way through everything
Satie = Marguerite = the front line fighter that also brute forces their way through everything and happens to be an elf
Kasim = Merry = the support mage
Belgrieve = Anne = the brains of the group keeping track of their surroundings and providing tactics

Volume 7 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story Untitled

Volume 5 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story Always Drink Responsibly

Volume 2 (Premium Edition): The Orthodoxy’s Combat Clergy Corps Enlistment Welcome Party

Volume 2 (Premium Edition): A bonus short story Group Cooking

As long as the series features adult Sousuke trying to teach the kids self defense, how to use firearms and guerrilla warfare because you'll never know when you'll need those skills, causing adult Kaname tons of headaches, Family would be a must read for me. I hope both the main series and the short stories sold well enough for JNC to consider licensing more FMP material.

Man, I love this bit of the story, but what in the world possessed the author to include that goofy A side story right after such an emotional moment?
Like, I went from goosebumps to mild amusement at best, why wind us down after a cliffhanger that perfect?

@Lily-Garden Oh yes, I think that was it! They'd licensed material out from other Japanese companies to put in the 6.5 book, so J-Novel would have had to sublicense from them on top of licensing the book itself.

"If you wait too long I'll die of old age or an accident or something."
"Oh there's no way that could happen, I made you immortal!"

After all, if potion loli dies, she loses her conversation topic.

So basically, her item box range is only limited by whether or not she can think of the target location. She is entirely capable of taking things out of her item box inside someone's body. She can probably cut things in half with it too.

Her potion-making ability is kinda... not limited to potions whatsoever. They can be magical, or just mundane food/water. And she can create sword...shaped potion bottles.

All together, she has the power of "your head a splode".

If the topography of her chest actually bothers her, she could always make a boobs potion.

I wonder how the "keikaku means plan" line worked in Japanese.

What's she making lead oxide containers for? Those are poisonous.

@meteorsfalling Thank you for clearing that up.

More art and merch (?) info

Episode 6 Celebration art by Mashimasaki Online Lottery Special Art (slightly NSFW for S Prize, watch your back) 01 02 - Body pillow cover of the same art, higher res by Tohsaka Asagi, LN artist Jess and tiny pig Nendo

I'm half-suspecting Mister Pig made a lot of the merch choices because well, they were clearly chosen by someone of...culture, especially the more NSFW options???

@Kaylea-Herndon-ghj13mf rip its a muffer not a muffler sorry. typed that in a still didn't anything that has to do with armor, lol.

@piisfun said in Late-Start Tamer Vol. 8 Discussion!:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Late-Start Tamer Vol. 8 Discussion!:

The problem with that and relate scenarios is that he wouldn't grasp why they would do something like that and thus not accept it.
They'd need to somehow finesse taking over his support so he'd accept it.

Oh, I suspect that it would be reasonably easy to convince him that his monsters are needed for in-game PR, and by extension, him as their manager.

Yeah.
He carefully blocks all mention of himself from his forum searches and such, and remains oblivious to his own impact.
But his monsters?
He can get their being famous.
And he thinks of them as real, so something that would allow them to remain as active as they are, rather than being limited in their actions during his offline time while working, there's potential there.
Good idea.

@Leon_97 said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I'm certain this case has come up in a lot of other translations (i.e. sounds that don't exist in the target language), but I've only noticed this one since I happen to know Chinese. I would be curious what the translator @Kevin-S thought about this.

Sorry for the belated reply! In Japanese, this name is Shenryu, a katakana gloss on the kanji 深緑. We used the umlaut because, as you say, it’s a different sound from plain ol’ u. We’ve used Pinyin and quasi-Pinyin romanizations for a few names, and this was one of them. (Lihua would be another example.)

As far as the broader question of sounds that don’t exist in the target language, when dealing with a source in Japanese, I think most examples would be like this one—a situation where the original is representing a sound from a third language that doesn’t exist in English. By and large, most native Japanese sounds have fairly ready equivalents in English and don’t need much in the way of diacritics. (The only real exception I can think of might be a voiced e on the end of certain words like 萌え or 酒, where you might choose to render them as moé and saké so English readers know the E isn’t silent—however, I don’t think that’s widely favored in the industry at the moment.)