I would love to purchase an official English translation of Oni no Hanayome (鬼の花嫁) by Kureha. I have already purchased other officially licensed light novels by Kureha, and I would buy this series digitally on release. Please consider licensing it.
It's a wonderful serie already translated on manga and animation. Would be great to read the author because I do love light novels. And when I love a series i want every way of reading or seeing it. Thank you.

Ok disregard I worked out how to understand what you can and can't read. So everything is pretty much expired for online reading except for most recent volume. I was mistaken in assuming you could access all back volumes online.

The redesigned calendar widget on the home page behaves worse than the old one where I live. I live in a timezone that has most releases at +/- 6 hours around midnight. The old one didn't care about the date rolling over, it just displayed the set amount of recent and upcoming releases.
But with this new one, when it passes midnight, it yeets the previous releases into the ether and shows the next two full days instead. So if I want to go check up on a part release that happened at 22:00 but it's past midnight, I need to go to the calendar page to find it.

Then there's it being slow to appear, but maybe the previous one was also slow and it was masked by it being ready by the time you scrolled down. The new one also populates the url bar with a "?tz=" variable, but that's an aesthetic quibble. Mobile browsers tend to hide the

@Almond-Magnum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - General Discussion:

You say that because you're looking at the end result, but she didn't start as a tyrant. She started as an underdog in enemy territory. Her mother was dead, her older brother was dead, her father, at best, resented her, her stepfamily hated her, her little brother was nothing but dead weight. And from there, she climbed to a position where she could be a tyrant. She must have been quite the schemer before she got old and complacent.

I was mostly playing devils advocate, we've only seen her abuse and tyranny, fterall. I agree that she was probably quite the schemer, but it could just be everyone in Ehrenfest being meatheaded knights.

Assuming JNC is doing a 2026 contest soon, I would like to submit this year to the Ongoing Series category.

I've written 5 completely ready to go volumes and have a 6th close to 90% done, along with a detailed and completed series Bible.

I was hoping I could find some people to read and critique my first volume over the next month so I can have the strongest entry possible for whenever the submission portal opens up.

It's a multi-genre piece. The first volume explores how warlocks who have built a mundane life in a realistic setting to protect their family from a dangerous hidden realm learn to love, accept, and sometimes protect those within their community when they hide dangerous secrets and flaws of their own. How do their old ways begin to intersect with their cover life when ordinary life holds its own dangers? Its slice of life meets dark urban fantasy, held together by a family saga structure. I often describe what I'm going for as what happens when you drop a grimoire into Violet Evergarden, except your cast is something closer to A Silent Voice. Tonally the arcs range from Erased to Frieren to My Clueless First Friend in vol 1 — as the series open up it is a bit more like Frieren meets Fragrant Flower, but with a speculative framework that turns Earth as we know it into a type of Isekai.

Here is the basic synopsis:
The Genji family opens the series navigating a crisis in their community concerning their six-year-old son Jomei's newest friend, Soshi, that can only be resolved when the clandestine magical intervention staged by Jomei's parents, Chimon and Kumiko, rescues multiple people from an escalating cycle of domestic abuse. The presence of magic in this quiet, coastal Japanese town remains bubbling beneath the surface, a well-kept secret to all except the two of them — even unbeknownst to Jomei — until the story advances to Jomei's final year of middle school. What occurs then could either be described as an act of disobedience, or as destiny – depending on who you ask!

When the popular fourteen-year-old Jomei intervenes to defend transfer student Hibiki Kurosawa — a nonspeaking, neurodivergent boy whose intellect and depth of feeling most people never take the time to discover — from bullying, the two forge an unlikely friendship that changes both their lives. Together they stumble into a hidden occult archive within the Genji family library, and Jomei discovers that his family's quiet life was never the whole truth. His parents aren't ordinary people. They're warlocks in hiding.

What will happen when two teens suddenly become aware of magic existing within their world? And more importantly, who will be watching them as a result?

CONTENT WARNINGS: Domestic/Child abuse, Language, Graphic Violence (Rare), Occult

Anyone willing to help out? If so, are we able to exchange emails?

This (ep 16) is the first episode of volume 4. So we have 8ish episodes left to finish volumes 4 and 5. This is way too rushed.

@doceirias that's a great reminder that I need to keep in mind, thank you!

Volume 5 released on July 27, 2026

I think it will probably end on next volume.

Volume 5 Cover

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Volume 1 of the Manga Version is scheduled to be released on August 6, 2026.

Manga Volume 1 Cover

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Serialization of the manga version is now available on Corona Ex website. The first 4 chapters are currently available to read: https://to-corona-ex.com/comics/264581102223592

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@cassydd said in The Ryuo's Work Is Never Done! Volumes 1-3 Discussion!:

Great news! Can you say when volume 19 will begin translation?

If we get three books a month, then next January I think...

@rmkelly I've been watching the anime this season, and it's so good! Would love to read this

@qka_bee boosting this again lol.

The anime was great, and I would really love to read what happens next!

Only thing I worry about is if the anime makes licensing this series even more expensive or unprofitable

@Torka I really hope someone picks up the novel too, it looks really interesting.

@vilobion said in Frontier Lord Starts wit a Population of 0:

I don't recall Eldan being quite so... annoying... in the novels?

Agreed, he seems more immature in the anime.

@GeorgeMTO said in Membership doubt:

If you were looking for the cheapest way to do so, perhaps look into whether your local library has access to any of the manga? Many libraries also have access to ebooks these days.

This. I have attempted to request LNs through my library before. Sometimes they can get the volume in if they don't already have a copy.