I've had a lot of luck importing used books (which I only do if it's out of print, the new prices are already fairly affordable even for tankobon) from Buyee, which I only leaned recently has a feature on their site that will search multiple stores. (They do charge separate fees if you're ordering from multiple stories, then you can have them bundle that into a single package to send to you.)

Since I'm mostly doing this for older stuff by authors I'm catching up on, I'll add that early volumes are often only 100 yen, but last volumes can be double or triple the cover price. There just weren't as many copies printed in the first place, and since the series ended, no reprints; at least one took several tries to even find a copy that hadn't been sold out from under the listing. (I assume, since the seller cancelled after the order was placed.)

@Almond-Magnum said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - anime discussion:

Yes, what they call "the basement" is what Americans call "the first floor". It's where kitchens and servant quarters are. Not really a place for nobles, especially guests, so they need a way to access the first floor directly. Their "first floor" is what the French call the "first floor".

Grand houses are designed for the comfort and convenience of the high status owner/occupiers. If you need to put The Help down low, bury them in a basement if doing so lets the High And Mighty walk in up six steps instead of thirty to reach the front door.

UK, Australia and New Zealand generally have a "ground floor" and then "first floor" being the first one above that. If built into a hillside such that where "ground" is somewhat negotiable, usually "ground floor" is wherever the main entrance is. I worked at a university where you could be on the 4th floor of one building, walk along a corridor into a connected adjacent building, and you'd be on the 6th floor. At the start of academic year, we had a sign posted in our lift instructing people how to get to a seminar room on the neighbouring building's sixth floor as so many people got confused.

I've had a Japanese person complain to me about the "ground floor" thing, as they do it the American way.

@Furihama

Hi,

You subscribed to the Library Pass which grants access to books in the reader's library.

If you want to read the latest volume of Hannelore. Please upgrade to the Priority Pass (also called Club Membership). That grants acces to the latest volume of Hannelore.

Or you can buy the book for 799 coins. The book costs 799 coins to pre-order/buy. And you gain access to the book as it is released and when the final ebook is released.

Just want to mention again this may be quicker to resolve over email as compared to the forums.

Ah that makes sense, @GeorgeMTO thanks for letting us know.

@lenovoaxioo

thanks, but we have capped the synopsis box with. character limit. Should not happen again.

I just checked on Chrome on mobile and can confirm it doesn't show up. Unlike an image tooltip descriptions (e.g..as can be seen on XKCD) it does not show up in the details on a long press.

@FrenzyWandere
From reading the whole TOC from both this year and the previous-previous one.
I can say,

Max 75k is the whole volume and ONLY contain the story. Yes you have to compress it to 75k max. If impossible, just cut it on a good part for future next volume

Last year participants are encouraged to put outline for the whole series. But this years, there's no mention of it. Better not.

Anything that adds to wordcount is counted. If you put synposis, character profile, and table of contents. Those are counted too.

Whatever the name name of the first volume are (volume 0, volume ex etc), it's still volume 1.

Whether you can keep the series going or not depends on the demands. Just any other series by the publisher.

*notes, i'm not jnc staff. If you want to be sure, reply or dm people with #staff tag on their name

@FrenzyWandere The rules may have changed this year.

this week finally volume 7 is coming

Trailer for last episode is out...
Manga readers will have a huge surprise.

Either that day had been outliers, or it has been fixed already, as any Part on the homepage section "Calendar" i see now links correctly to the series page + the volume number.
(Though the actual /calendar still does not link to the volume(#volume-X) on non-released parts)

hopefully j - novel gonna adapt it cuz for sure i will buy all of it , welli already have all physical book and try to translate it in pathreon

Only just watched the anime, didn't realize it came out so long ago. I guess that means there will be no season 2.

Currently on episode 11 and the anime-only spouse is ready to rage-quit just short of the finish line because of how infuriating Eli's insecurities are. 8-) At the end of episode 10 when Eli and Chris were not talking to each other, he said "They're so stupid (because a 5 second talk would have fixed all the misunderstandings), neither of them deserve love." 8-) 8-)

@Rahul-Balaggan It's working now. Thanks for the quick response!

@darkdave Hi! We apologize for the confusion. The date displayed on the site was accidentally set for October, when it should've been set to August, when the volume was set to expire. We'll look into why this happened internally and apologize for the inconveniece.