I came across this thread wondering about Zilbagias part 5 as well.
This thread seems to be from the future for me. I see the timestamp as "May 11, 2025, 4:28 am"! Where I live, it is still 8th May, 2025
Apparently, I cant read. I read "Mar" as May.

Bullet Hellion has not been announced for a print release.

@unknownmat said in Hate on what you Love. Let's air our grievances.:

Little kids cannot fight adults and win. I don't care if you have magically enhanced muscles. I don't care if you have combat experience from a previous life. A four year old will never defeat a grown man in a fight.

It would be more believable if they had the kid using tactics and a projectile weapon. But they also default to sword-fighting and hand-to-hand combat for some reason.

@Passiflora-C Interesting perspective.

I'm not as hard-core as many of the readers here. I'm usually only aware of what has been officially translated and that's about it. To the extent that translation houses don't make side-story content available, I mostly won't even know what I'm missing.

For me, it takes time to get into a story, and what really interests me is the characters. I may be a bit of an extreme case, but I have a hard time caring about spin-offs or prequels or anything that doesn't directly result in me spending more time with the characters that I know and love. Just some silly examples:

The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy were transformational for me as a young reader. The Silmarilion sits mostly unread on a shelf 30+ years later. If it doesn't tell me more about Frodo and Aragorn and Merry and Pippin, then I just don't care.

I could never get into the 2nd Mistborn trilogy, because it wasn't about Vin or Kelsier.

I didn't care about the Star Wars prequels because it's not about Luke and Han and Leia. By contrast, I very much enjoyed the sequel trilogy despite all the "true fans" hating on those movies.

I've watched the Danmachi anime, but only the three main seasons currently available. I haven't yet managed to watch any of the spin-off or prequel series (familia or oratoria or whatever it's called), and there's a good chance I never will.

I have yet to watch the Re:Zero prequel movie with Emilia in the winter forest or whatever.

I watched Fate:Zero and then Fate:Stay Night. But I've lost interest in that series after that - I find the explosion of Fate series almost incomprehensible at this point and don't even know where to start.

Anyway, my bottom line is this. I agree that in an ideal world all the content should be translated, because I know there are people who would want it. Heck, given the choice between having it or not having it, I would vote to have it (I'm still waiting on those Bookworm drama CDs!). But it's actually a pretty low priority for me, personally, as a casual reader. Given that resources are limited, I'd prefer the translation house focus on completing the main story sequence rather than side-story content.

@Miz All times are either listed in your time zone or US Central time.

Books from One Peace are back on the Kobo store, so it looks like their distribution stuff is sorted now.

@RoaringKitty Volume 14 Part 3 was released (for pre-publication readers) on the 10th of January this year. Volume 14 has 16 parts, the last of which was released the Friday before last.

As for volume 15, we generally don't get much advance warning of when a book will begin pre-publication releases. As a matter of policy, JNC staff won't talk about release times until they're ready to be added to the release calendar - which normally happens shortly before the release of the first part of the volume. I can't even give you a rough guess as to when that might happen, much as I wish I could.

Seems like a fun light hearted journey

Sounds really interesting

Addendum: I tested this on another series! I also fixed a bug, sorry to anyone if you tried this before :\
The profanity filter has been upgraded and I made it easier to see how to modify the book name so that everything you need to modify is part of those variables and I included two versions if you want to reference how it is done. Here is an updated second step:

Modify the first two variables of the script such that the appropriate epub file is targeted. The example is for a part number and volume number, e.g. "make 4-3" would output "Processing p4-v3: ascendance-of-a-bookworm-part-4-volume-3.epub" for the first line. For the folder name, try using a folder name of your choice and replace the volume number (and/or part number) with '$d' and then paste the epub filename to the second variable, replacing the first number with '\1' and subsequent numbers with '\2', '\3', and so on. Be sure the numbers are lined up for order (e.g. for ascendance, part is \1 and volume is \2). d=\([0-9]*\) # '$d' represents a number, '\1' puts the first one back in, and 'v' or '-' are part of the folder name folderNameFormat= $d-$d epubNameFormat= ascendance-of-a-bookworm-part-\1-volume-\2.epub/ folderNameFormat1= v$d epubNameFormat1= taking-my-reincarnation-one-step-at-a-time-no-one-told-me-there-would-be-monsters-volume-\1.epub %: echo "$*" | sed 's/$(folderNameFormat)/Processing $*: $(epubNameFormat)/' echo "$*" | sed 's/$(folderNameFormat)/$(epubNameFormat)/' | xargs unzip -d $* > discard.me grep $*/OEBPS/Text/cover.xhtml -e "utf" -e "DOCTYPE" -e "<html" -e "head" -e "meta" -e "title" -e "link" > sb echo "<style>\nbody {\n line-height: 1.2em;\n font-size: 1em;\n overflow-wrap: break-word;\n background-color: #222;\n color: white;\n font-family: Lato, sans-serif;\n font-size: 110%;\n user-select: none;\n cursor: none;\n margin: 0em;\n padding: 1em;\n}\n\nimg {\n max-width: 100%;\n}\n\n.main { \n font-weight: normal; \n letter-spacing: 0; \n orphans: 1; \n widows: 1; \n word-spacing: 0; \n}\n\np { display: block;\n margin-top: 0em;\n margin-bottom: 0.5em;\n margin-left: 0em;\n margin-right: 0em;\n text-indent: 18pt;\n }\n\np.signature {\n text-align: right;\n}\n\nblockquote {\nmargin-top: 1em;\nmargin-bottom: 1em;\nmargin-left: 1em;\nmargin-right: 1em;\n}\n\nblockquote p {\nmargin-left: 0;\nmargin-right: 0;\n}\n\nli {\nfont-size: 1em;\nmargin-top: 6pt;\n}\n\nli p {\ntext-indent: 0em;\n}\n\nul {\nmargin-top: 1em;\nmargin-bottom: 1em;\n}\n\nol {\nmargin-top: 1em;\nmargin-bottom: 1em;\ntext-align: left;\n}\n\nh1 {\nfont-size: 1.55em;\nmargin-top: 10em;\nmargin-bottom: 1em;\nline-height: 1.2em;\ntext-indent: 20pt;\n}\n\nh2 {\nfont-size: 1.15em;\nmargin-top: 1.5em;\nmargin-bottom: .5em;\nline-height: 1.2em;\n}\n\ntable\n{\nmargin-top: 1.5em;\nmargin-bottom: 1.5em;\nfont-size: 0.9em;\nborder-collapse: collapse;\n}\n\ntr td\n{\nvertical-align: top;\npadding: 0.2em;\n}\n\ncode {\nfont-family: Consolas,\"courier new\",monospace;\n}\n</style>\n<body>" >> sb grep -v -e "signup.xhtml" -e "toc.xhtml" $*/OEBPS/content.opf | grep -e "<itemref" | sed -z 's/cover"/cover.xhtml"/; s/ <itemref idref="/$*\/OEBPS\/Text\//g; s/"\/>\r*\n/ /g' | xargs cat | grep -e "<section" -e "<div" -e "</section" -e "</div" -e "<h1" -e "<h2" -e "<p" -e "<img" > t.xhtml echo "<nav><h2>Table of Contents</h2><ol start=\"0\" epub:type=\"list\">" > n.xhtml ; grep -e '<section' -e '<div' -e 'h1' t.xhtml | sed -z -E 's/<section[^i>]*id="([^<"]*)">\s*<div class="main">\s*<h1>([^<]*)<\/h1>/<li class="toc-front"><a href="\#\1">\2<\/a><\/li>/g' | grep -e 'li class="toc-front"' >> n.xhtml ; echo "</ol></nav>" >> n.xhtml cat sb n.xhtml t.xhtml | sed 's/"..\/Images\//"/g; s/"..\/Styles\//"/g' | sed 's/the hell//g; s/Hell if I/No way I’d/g; s/as hell//g; s/Hell,/In fact,/g; s/Hell no/No way/g; s/The hell/What/g; s/Hell ye/Oh ye/g; s/HELL//g; s/a hell of a/quite a/g; s/hell /grief /g; s/like hell/like crazy/g; s/damned //g; s/damning/heinous/g; s/Damn it,/Really,/g; s/Damn it!//g; s/Damn it\.//g; s/Damn this/This/g; s/Damn them!//g; s/Damn!/Oh no!/g; s/Damn him!/How awful!/g; s/Damn you/You/g; s/Damn right/That’s right/g; s/Damn these/These awful/g; s/Damn,/Seriously,/g; s/damn//g; s/Tch\.//g; ' > full.xhtml echo "</body> </html>" >> full.xhtml mv full.xhtml $*/. rm -f sb t.xhtml n.xhtml discard.me mv $*/OEBPS/Images/* $*/. rm -r $*/OEBPS $*/META-INF $*/mimetype

After reading the all comments I decided to post it on Licensing Suggestion and hope for the best.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9183/light-novel-the-shut-in-lady-is-an-understanding-sacred-beast-caretaker

There is no fan translation (At least I didn't find it, when I searched), because there is no WebNovel version, there is only the Light Novel version.

I also put the manga version on the Licensing Suggestion on the Forum:

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9184/manga-the-shut-in-lady-is-an-understanding-sacred-beast-caretaker

@gustavosousil said in [Manga] Grass magician Chloe's second life: Free baby dragon and level max medicine life:

VOLUME 5 COVER

spoiler

The manga serialization reached the begining of the Volume 3 of the Light Novel Version.

I’m not sure that that was a good place on the dress to put the flower. It seems to be a bit too suggestive. :p

Volume 4 is scheduled to release in June 25, 2025