Of course they have a couple name. Also: further proof that Urumin only has one fan because the OG shippers steer everyone away from becoming Urumin’s fans just so they can avoid the usual “idols can’t date” drama.

That is absolutely true and will likely be why this ends up being the one slow roll romance novel I don’t end up dropping. Too many others are just forever stuck in the relationship twilight zone where they’re a couple but not actually doing anything with it so the author needs a new source of drama every volume to keep readers from realizing that their relationship is not progressing at all.

The Angel Next Door Spoils me Rotten Vol. 5

Well not like anything ever happens in this story. Just more undiluted sugar straight to the veins.

Is It Wrong to Try To Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Vol. 18

Rating: 11/10 Definitely not biased since this is certainly not my favourite series ever. Nope not at all.

Obligatory curse the editor for forcing this highly misleading title. Obligatory curse the author for introducing plot conveniences just to forbid us from enjoying more sugary Bell x Aiz scenes. I want more stuff like their dance.

That aside I’m not the biggest fan of the familia conflicts, I just wanna see my boy Bell survive some dungeon adventures. Not that the familia conflicts are badly written, I just don’t really get the same enjoyment reading them. The volume was iirc the longest we have got so far which was kind of needed, imo there wasn’t really a good spot where the story could have been split cleanly into two volumes. There are a lot of “side” stories going on with Bell taking a bit of a step back for the first half of the story. Despite not going where I initially thought it was going the Freya arc was sort of neatly resolved, the outcome is just a bit unexpected. The climax fight against Ottar feels a bit weird, I would have liked to see Bell dominate a bit more in his first challenge as a Level 5 but the story doesn’t allow for an “easy” fight right now and having Ottar be an obstacle far more insurmountable than anything before feels fitting. Unsurprisingly Haruhiume’s level boost comes in clutch to win that fight along with a very brief glimpse at just what it means for Bell to only ever level up with S and upwards stats. 2 Levels difference should be an insurmountable difference yet Bell managed to narrow it down to a surmountable one with his stats accumulation.

That’s that regarding the plot of the volume, I want to use the end of this “review” to mourn every Bell x anyone-but-aiz shippers some of whose ships were sunk with multiple broadsides by Bell refusing both Syr and Lyon’s confessions. Poor Syr, she even got rejected twice. Lyon also joins Hestia familia as their first and for now only Level 6 adventurer. Bell’s insane growth continues to force additions to the familia with higher Levels since no one can even hope to keep up with his desire to stand next to his crush. With the distractions out of the way I hope the way is finally paved for an unfolding of the long teased Bell x Aiz ship. Surely the author won’t throw us another curveball. Right? Right??

starts reading Volume 19 Oh ffs… I just want my ship to set sail already.

The Eminence in Shadow Volume 6 Honestly not much to say here, if you liked the story up to this point you’ll love this as it’s just more of the good stuff. We also get more glimpses into the Cult vs Shadow Garden allegiances forming in the Midgard kingdom and hints at an upcoming country scale conflict in which Cid will surely be yet again an unassuming background character.

Also we get to see more of Akane who might just be the first non Shadow Garden member to figure out the link between Cid and Shadow. She’s pretty close to getting there since she’s almost linked shadow to his Japanese identity.

I cannot for the life of me imagine this launching with any significant amount of content. Pretty much all the good stuff is already licensed to English publishers and getting a license for digital redistribution under a subscription model is not likely to look like a very good deal to most of them.

I still hope this turns out decent because more legal options are always appreciated but I fear they might just try to Sony-monopoly their way into a successful platform here.

Well it can’t possibly go worse than the last time they tried right? right?

whoever has tastes more similar to her since they’d have more things in common that way

Not really, obviously I’ll take their library into account when talking with them about Novels but I don’t judge them for reading things I consider bad. Iread enough trash myself and find it enjoyable so I can’t pretend like the same can’t be true for others

It’s nice to see more classmate interactions which unsurprisingly have been shipping alongside us all this time. I’m starting to miss the cosplay though so hopefully this interlude isn’t going to last much longer.

yes, it seems to be absolving the isekai genre, although currently there’s still a lot of overlap

And many by Yen Press of all, can’t wait for them to be translated at a snails pace…

Cozy Life with the White Witch and Isekai Walking sound like right up my alley. Glad to see J-Novel Club continue to pick up series, they’re the only publisher I don’t have to jump through 20 hoops to get my books readable on all my devices.

I recently bought the first five volumes of “Villains are Destined to Die” in the Collector’s Edition without so much as reading a single page before the purchase.

Glad the AniList Tags turned out as accurate as I hoped they would.

High School DxD: Volume 1-14

Recently took the time and actually read the books of this. Obviously the target demographic is horny teenage boys of which only the first part still applies to me but oh well, it’s still a good read anyway, if only because some aspects of the story are just way too funny to my adult brain.

For a harem series the MC is expectedly dense, although the author does have an explanation ready for that and gives the MC some character development this “early” on into the story, reducing the annoyance of it somewhat. Still even after supposedly overcoming his issues the MC displays a typical lack of self-awareness and a profound ability to not actually do anything lewd while constantly doing lewd things. I find other approaches to avoiding graphic descriptions in the novel preferable to somehow making the audience believe a hormone driven teenager wouldn’t try anything if surrounded by willing girls, but that’s the genre I guess.

Enjoyable enough to be very good if you like Ecchi Harem stuff, definitely wouldn’t recommend if you don’t

ani.social didn’t exist back then (or I didn’t know about it) and since we needed at least two communities to prevent whole volume readers from catching stray spoilers…

This will either result in a full sports team or 1 daughter to repeat the romcom.

Glad to see my favorite diving anime make a return

I’m starting to wonder whether the Editor kicked the Author in the butt to finally get the plot going, not that I’m complaining about it. I’d normally agree with @[email protected]’s assessment that they’ll get cheap rent from Ooya-san but I suspect she’ll die from high blood sugar levels when she hears about this (I know I almost did)

Man I was just wondering where this thread was.

Lovely to see Akutsu get on her friends’ nerves with her lovey-dovey behaviour, even more lovely to see them suffer through it and support her. Slightly related: 18+ Spinoff wen?

The author seemingly kicked the plot into gear recently, now my only complaint is that the chapters are too short and/or too infrequent. Which as far as problems with Manga go is a pretty good problem to have.