@GeorgeMTO said in Oblivious Saint Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Translator and editor you've both done fantastic work on this series, I really enjoyed the prose itself, but the plot didn't live up to its standard.

We appreciate that! I for one was rather less than thrilled with the turn things took, as I spend a lot of time with Carolina, and that sweet, often irritatingly dense girl could do so much better. Unfortunately, I can only spiff up the turns of phrase, not turn around and let Carolina bop Edward on the nose as he so richly deserved.

OMG I thought I was the only one that was getting irritated how the author over explains things or uses multiple examples to explain a single thing that you already understood the first time and before you know it he used up a whole chapter just for that.

@Rahul-Balaggan said in RVing My Way into Exile Vol. 1 Discussion!:

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@Paul-Nebeling said in The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@Kurzaa said in The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects Vol. 3 Discussion!:

sanjivani is obviously a red herring to throw us off the scent of the next volume. Probably the last we will ever read of it.

I don't think so. To adapt a quote from Ian Fleming:
One mention is a throw-off comment.
Two mentions is a red herring.
Three mentions is a developing plot point.

I'm thinking @Kurzaa was making a joke, myself.

I do tend to come up with convolute theories about things and crediting authors with long-laid plotting, they were taking a poke at that, suggesting that this time there actually wasn't anything there in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

@Lisast This was unexpected. Welcome, but unexpected.

Anime project announced:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WGyLLfzCo0

@Pieta said in Earl and Fairy Vol. 5 Discussion!:

On the other hand Ermine, who was a fascinating character in the first volume, did turn out mostly absent and/or passive since her return, which is a shame.

My only advice is keep reading 👁️

To complain a little, at times it gets weirdly patriarchal though. Like, imagine if your identity was in doubt, and your husband had a definite proof you are who you say, but then didn't tell you anything while you were worrying about the whole case, until the time came to reveal the facts to the council (overwhelmingly made of other men). You'd probably be more than a little pissed off at him for never telling you and letting you worry, rather than just be amazed at how he heroically swooped in to save you with information he already possessed for some time, right? And if not pissed, then at least confused, because what reason could he possibly have to hide that information from you when he's on your side the whole time? It feels like the author felt the need for the men to be doing something, and for the ladies to concern themselves with being refined and doing social stuff, and so they cut the storylines in two without bothering to check if it makes any sense.

Also, sometimes I wish the novels weren't so noble-centric. This time there's literally no named character who isn't a noble or a perfectly loyal long-time personal servant of one.

I don't understand why it turned into a big discussion over 'magic carpet' and 'carpet riders', carpet riders makes sense when you think of how english language is used, a group of people are practically never referred to in the singular. A good translation doesn't just do a direct 1:1 translation, because then you can end up with very dry and grey reading material, it works with the language rules that make sense.

I could understand people still complaining about it if it was a dramatic shift from the original meaning but thats not what happened here.

Anyway, thats all I'm gonna say on it. What I had originally wanted to say is I had been re-reading the series from the start, and it really has been a journey seeing not just the journey of our heroine but also the journey of the author - you can feel how shakey it begins in part 1 but has an interesting idea and premise going, and as they wrote volume two and further they got more confident in their story direction and how they wanted to tell it. I look forward to seeing where its going to go from volume 8 onwards with Chise's new adventure.

I can only read “by the way, so and so did blank, then for the next two hours they got lectured” so many times.

Not sure if I’ll continue onto the next one.

@LightningLeaf said in Heavenly Swords of the Twin Stars Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@TheGrimLich
I thought the current Gen emperor was Ou Eifuu. He's not dumb enough to be the foolish one.

And I was right.

Yay, good ending! Poor Ian...

The latter half of the volume turned out to be quite the bodice ripper. Especially when my combination of hardware and font settings rendered a line that ends with:

Cuddling, hugging, spooning, nothing of that sort?” she said, sticking an index finger out in

@Chesspwn-wxbksgn and now we have volume 2 streaming for our reading displeasure! This train wreck is not stopping soon so hop on!

@marten ditto!

@huch340 said in Water Magician Arc 1 Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I don't know if it's bad translation or what but the use of English words is horrible, lame, and just flat out wrong.

For what it's worth, to me, that makes it an amazing translation, because that's exactly what you expect from the boke.

@pcj said in My Magical Career at Court Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Would it be beyond this author to have her wind up being the Elf Queen's half sister, thus giving her a potential claim to a throne, too? That would solve the duke vs commoner problem right quickly.

Given how this series deals with nobility (they seem to have a high percentage of stuck up prejudiced jerks), it doesn't feel like one of those where "secretly noble all along" would be an appropriate solution. I'm betting on them both eventually getting so powerful nobody dares to object.

@pcj they know she’s extremely powerful, same as magiluka before Mary told her. It’s not really the same as invincible. While weird, it’s not completely out of norm for Mary to be extremely powerful as it’s been hinted her dad and reifus’s mom are also extremely powerful so Magiluka felt worried mary didn’t trust her. We already had a scene from back before reifus’s mom and the demon princess’s aunt know Mary is extremely powerful (though they confused her luck or isekai knowledge as intelligence)

Sacher doesn’t care to think about it, he just wants to get stronger himself.
Safina doesn’t care to think about it, she looks at Mary as her savior. It’s just natural to her Mary can do seemingly anything.
Prince has trusted her since she saved his life back in book 1, just want to help/support the country and her. He trusts her and not looking to grill her about her secrets.
And they still do kinda confuse her luck, isekai knowledge or some displays of pure strength as careful planning or cleverness.

Those from outside can’t really tell, peg her to levels like the ice blood witch or reifus’s mother. Since she’s always been altruistic, ice witch and reifus mom not too concerned either since their niece and son are Mary’s friends and just looking to see if they could recruit her once she’s old enough.

Just finished volume 2! So far, so good, though by the looks of it nia's not gonna find her evenly match encounter despite still being in what is still infancy for her lifetime. Dunno how to feel about the broadcasting aspect of the story, especially since it's hard to picture what the broadcasting could be like from start to finish... and it's not like there was just one topic, too. The character dynamic between the three girls is fine, but it's sorta like something is missing... probably just that we're overlooking the part where they're all still single digits in age (nia is an exception, but still... sure they're nobility, but maturity isn't downloaded into people's brains the same way as birds knowing when and where to migrate). It's nice that things aren't being time skipped much (I binged 6 volumes of conqueror of a dying kingdom and that happening a few times made it really hard to immerse oneself and gain attachment), but the world is something of an enigma with the way it's been depicted... floating islands? Magivision? Chi? Demon swords? nia herself definitely doesn't help with that, which adds to the confusion. The picture is being painted for sure, but it's hard to get an idea on what could come next that's not just left for the author to paint out certain blanks on their impulse

Can't remember what it was about the vtubers in the end of volume 1, it's been too many months for me to remember. I probably just glossed over it at the time and didn't pay much attention, but apparently they took some backlash by the looks of it

Just finished the volume and up until part 11 or 12, thought it was going to finally conclude. Instead...death. Sad, meaningless death.

Kudou got somewhat of a redemption. Based on his actions as the demon king, you couldn't really ask for a happy ending for him, even after finding out the motivation behind his desire to destroy the world.

But Berta's death was just pointless. It was a death she wanted and the best death she could have gotten, but it was still tragic and depressing.

And then we learned of the final days of the beast of darkness. After Berta's passing, I couldn't take the side story and had to walk away from the volume for a few days. Her viewing herself as alien and worthless...this almost feels like the Empire Strikes Back of the series.