@smashman42 sry had a two days business trip. As nichtmalda wrote the german title and the direct english translation. The german publishers generally have problems with title translation. You can't directly write something like "Onii-chan is done for" in german that would be "Bruder ist Geschichte" or "Mit Bruder ist's vorbei" which literally sound like the worst german you could write. You need some more filler words for a correct wording because you wouldn't write a title without context like "Mein großer Bruder ist Geschichte" or "Mit meinem großen Bruder ist's vorbei". It would sound ok if you used Onii-chan instead but most german publishers don't use japanese words for titles. But there are some exceptions like Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!! which got translatet as "Hab dich lieb Suzuki-kun" (literally "I love you Suzuki-kun"). Non the less i would like an english copy too. Also I have to add some info to my previous statement. The german version is the doujinshi version and not the tankoubon from Ichijinsha.

I've heard that the anime followed the manga fairly well, they probably missed some side stories due to time constraints, probably more in the www.working!! as it only had 1 season to cover 6 volumes while working!! got 3 seasons to cover 13.

@pleco_breeder it used to be (long time ago) that manga was reversed that is all pages printed back to front so most people become left handed etc. thankfully those days are gone though I would still like reprints of some of the classics laid out as the author intended

I didn't know this series also had a manga adaptation. Would be fun to Jnovel pick it up since they have the light novels.

@terrence Trash, human trash. It means Scum, glasses, and literature girl. Which reminds me that I failed to mention he has stalker tendencies.

@chocolatkey I'll try in landscape- thanks

Vertical scroll mode causes two-page spreads to get separated unfortunately.

The anime was fantastic, probably the best comedy I've seen, but 13 vol seem a little too long for that kind of serie. Nonetheless, i would love too try the LN.

Yea, I like how the mc has the balls to do what he does lol. I wish more protagonist would act like him tbh.

@aruseus493 I've never dealt with them, so don't know about their history and can't say for certain, but none of their manga have direct sales now and all redirect to Amazon. Likewise, checked their games and all of them re-direct to Steam. If they were selling direct, I would assume that this is just a change in their distribution chain. In this current era, in-house distribution is an unnecessary expense for publishers of any format. This could also account for the staff reduction mentioned in your earlier post.

I've actually brainwashed my twin boys (not-identical). They both love the idea of reading. When they were learning to crawl, I would read books with me and the book on the floor a couple feet in front of them to encourage them to start crawling. They were extremely curious about what was keeping my attention. We would read stories to them almost every single night before bedtime (punishment for extremely bad behavior was having the story time taken away). My biggest tool I used to brainwash the kids was the concept that "people seek to confirm that which they already believe". I talked about how great school was and told hem what they would be able to do when they learned to read and do math. I got them excited about things like pen and paper role-playing games and more. One kid I was a little too successful at brainwashing, when I told him how long Christmas break was he started crying. When Valentines Day came around the teacher had him fill out a card that had "love is" printed on it he wrote "scool" [sic]. He just got out of kindergarten and two days ago I asked him how he liked his summer break; he said "I don't. I hate breaks." The kid has already read three of the five books from the Prydain Chronicles on his own without help (AKA The Black Cauldron series). I didn't read that series on my own until I was well into first grade. My other son has struggled a little more but seems to be doing much better after he finished the summer reading class we put him in. Back on topic though, I prefer light novels over manga. I would rather read the light novel before watching the Anime or read the manga.

@guspaz we can have Both at the beginning (at there weakest), both at a sort of "Standard" power and both at their most powerful. Also, it is stated that Azusa still gets experience so she still may get stronger

@terrence totally agree, specially with the Grimgar stuff you said. But imo I don’t mind fight scenes tbh, that is unless you know the mc is op and has almost no way of losing. That’s when it turns boring to me.

@drone205 My personal favorite SAO variation is "Kirito missed that Ragout Rabbit". Talk about a game changer.

The Save / Load "cheat" I mentioned earlier, I found the LN I was actually thinking about. It is on Syosetu. It has a manga adaptation on Bookwalker too. 「俺の現実は恋愛ゲーム？？　～かと思ったら命がけのゲームだった～」読んだ！ https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4565dq/ #narou #narouN4565DQ "Is my reality a love game? What? ~ I thought it was a life-saving game ~" The other WN mentions the possibility of taking lecherous action before the dude decides he's too kind to do that, but this LN / manga protag actually does cross that line. I don't know how I feel about that (kind of hoping he suffers karmically really badly later in this story for his actions). xC

the manga is decent IMO, still skips quite a few parts and the fight with the Hydra does gloss over some of the early stages of the fight... but damn, that Hydra looks badass, I like it a lot better than the color rendition of the first LN volume