@SomeOldGuy I'm talking about books purchased through Amazon. I'm buying books directly from JNC nowadays but I still have a bunch of old purchases from Amazon.

@Ingraman - thanks, I figured out where the forum settings are (I was looking for a gear icon) and went to Windows Chrome where the reader settings appeared -- I couldn't make them appear in iPad Chrome but that might be user error :)

@wanderer_1204 said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

Is Lady Christine in the crowd? We don't have a character design for her, so she could be anyone we don't recognize. Logically, she should be there

According to Kazuki-sensei's activity report in her Syousetsu page, the mother-daughter pair where the mother faints is. Christel and her mother.
The songs are new because modifying the original anime song was too much effort.

Christine (archnoble, former mistress of Wilma and Rosina) and Christel (mednoble student, neutral faction) are two different characters.

@Libri-Liberorum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

Is Lady Christine in the crowd? We don't have a character design for her, so she could be anyone we don't recognize. Logically, she should be there.

IIRC, she married a Veronican, so she shouldn't be. (Same as Christel' sister.)

@Dastern sadly we live in a world where payment processors can put a lot of pressure on companies to have them censor or not release content they deem problematic, so even with enough demand a series like Redo of the healer might be considered not worth the risk.
Personally I started reading the manga out of curiosity, I don't know how much different is from the anime or the LN but I didn't find it unbearable, partially due to my tolerance to objectionable content being much higher when it's done to horrible people. I'd read the LN if it ever gets licensed here, but I don't think it's going to happen.

even worse!, Global bookwalker had only vols 1 & 2 of Part one listed.

Libro.fm and AudiobooksNow.com only have Pt 1 Vols 1 & 2 as well. I have been asking both of them about getting Pt 1 Vol 3 for the last year and they both tell me that the distributor is having issues distributing Pt 1 Vol 3 and that they are working on a solution. I keep following up every month or so but there is no news. I wonder if it has something to do with the DRM free nature of these websites, since the only sites that seem to have it use DRM (Google & Audible).

Can anyone from J-Novel Club confirm if DRM is the issue, or could someone poke the distributer to see if they can fix the distribution problem?

the longest ones I saw are; My daughter leave the nest, with 11 vols.
By the grace of the goods with 10 (or so) realistic hero rebuild the kingdom with 15
even Slayers! stopped at Vol. 3 out of 18

I'm really bummed that "By the Grace of the Gods" stopped at Vol 10, I really want more! There is at least one title that seems to be on going "The Great Cleric" has 10 volumes on audiobook with volume 11 coming out soon. But I too would like to see more J-NC titles on audiobook.

It's difficult to find what J-NC titles are available on audiobook since the publishers are scattered (Tantor Media, Dreamscape Lore, PublishDrive, ect). Is there a list of J-NC audiobooks anywhere? YenPress and SevenSeas make it easy to see what audiobooks are available, could J-NC do something like what they do and create a page with the titles and link to the publisher and/or list the sites that they are available on?

I've been working on a story with a female protagonist who practices yoga and martial arts, and I found some great visual references for describing her activewear and outfits. Check out women's apana clothing — really helpful for getting the details right when writing action scenes. Does anyone else use real-world fashion references when describing characters?

@Luigi2262 - those are the two I most want to be continued myself.

I do have to remind myself to be patient since they need to be written not translated. Unlike with Japanese LNs there also might not be already-written web novel chapters to use as the starting point.

Volume 10 will be released in June.

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@Hylebos The manga has three volumes, so they might have confused the two.

Seven Seas picked up the manga.

going to boost this because I would still love this