What thoughts does Satou have that “aren’t good”? It’s been a while since I’ve read volume 1 and 2 but during the entire run of the series so far has he never touched or lusted after one of his young companions. I remember that he often acknowledged that his companions are beautiful, but he never tried anything with them. I also remember that he sneaks out into the red light district once or twice.

To me he is just an adult with a healthy libido and the moral backbone to not try anything with his young companions. Comparing him to a pedophile and rapist like Rudeus that sexually assaults his companion the first chance he gets is as wrong as it gets.

Fair enough. Let’s hope for him that he’s having the time of his life.

Forget the new releases! I have just seen that there is a audiobook of Survival in Another World with My Mistress!. Just try to imagine how awkward that has to be for the narrator! Poor Johnny shows up to do some voice work and the next thing he knows he is narrating furry porn for 6 hours. Reminds me of that “this better not awaken anything in me” scene from Community.

A Cozy Life in the Woods with the White Witch: Volume 1 - Tropy setup. MC gets kicked out of his adventurer clan because he’s useless. Refreshingly enough the other clan members aren’t cruel or evil and are genuinely apologetic about it. Then he finds happiness with the overpowered witch in the woods for whom he now does all the chores. The whole book feels like anime bait. Everything is written as if it were more of a screenplay with he hopes to get it animated. And it could work as an anime. At least I would watch it, but it makes for a bad read.

I want to see numbers of MT 26 vs Bookworm P5V12. Final volume against final volume. But I guess I would be angry about MT for existing anyway even if it sold just one copy.

Very nice. I like the first season very much. One of those rare shows where people are just people instead of stereotypes.

Thanks for the feedback! I have a whole year to figure this out, should be plenty of time, right?

!RemindMe 11 months

You’re looking for Lestilaut. No he wasn’t an antagonist. Just a grumpy artist and closet chuuni.

As for Erwaermen, please refer to last week’s Midweek where I had to educate @Mercuri@ani.social about why Erwarmen is a better antagonist than that stupid goddess of his.

Please do. If it were a character it would be the super comfy and pon onee-san that is always trying to convince everyone that she’s actually an isekai action hero. But she is super unconvincing and everyone is just benevolently smiling at her and nodding along because they like her so much and don’t want to hurt her feelings: “yes, yes. You’re such a hero… now where do you think we should go camping today, sweetie?”

You got Karion and Urion through. Don’t be greedy.

don’t lose your job

They’ll never know. I looked very busy while doing those. :)

Thanks. You wouldn’t believe the amount of labor I’ll do just to not do any actual work.

After working on them the whole day yesterday I started to get frustrated with Photoshop and the name labels had to suffer my dissatisfaction. I’ll post the mean ones after the awards as a bonus.

Ps.: yes. Bookworm is really, really good.

One of these days I’ll pick up the lightnovel and give it a try, but I disliked the anime so much that it’s low on my PTR list.

To be honest, lightnovels don’t make me laugh all that often. I assume that is because of the slow delivery (limited by my reading speed) compared to anime for example. So I’m mostly grinning stupidly or in rare cases chuckling a bit when reading a funny book.

The series that makes me grin and chuckle the most, though, is Tearmoon Empire. Volumes 1-9 were translated in such a witty manner that there are parts that I unironically compare to Terry Pratchett’s prose -not consistently, but the moments were there. Sadly the magic is gone now after a translator switch, but I don’t want to get started on that again.

I might try to pick one up.

What, witches or or LN?

If you’re angling for LN I would suggest not to get A Cozy Life in the Woods with the White Witch. It’s a bit early to say something definitive, but I’m stuck on the first 2 chapters for the last 3 days. I’m always finding something else to do instead of continuing to read, which is not the mark of a good book.

Another Witch taking a break story. I wonder if this is the new trend forming here or if it’s just what the J-Novel.club buyer was into when he was picking up licenses?

I’ll get Lacey and Water Magician for sure and the Zombi one sounds good as well.

Management of a Novice Alchemist: Volume 3 - Another inoffensive volume. Nothing that really stood out and nothing to complain about either. Perfectly mid. I wish I could say more about each volume but “eh, not bad…” is really all I can come up with. And again, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Sometimes “reading fast food” is exactly what I’m looking for.

The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Volume 6 - The new addition to the settlement in the form of 4 falconkin fell a bit flat. It’s not like I don’t like them it’s just that they didn’t add or change much of the established formula. Let’s see how they develop going forward. Then there is a flashback to Dias’ war days as a good chunk of the volume. I disliked that part very much. When choosing to read a comfy series I’m obviously not in the mood for war stories. It’s like going into the cinema to watch some heartwarming Pixar movie but they made a third of the movie Apocalypse Now. It’s an exaggerated example and it’s that that bad in the volume but I still feel that that flashback was out of place.

And a bit of META:

The nominations are now closed and are being sorted and tallied. The voting round will start next Monday.

Is there a meta comm for ani.social? I might toss out the idea there and see if anyone wants to mod.

There is: https://ani.social/c/meta

Hey there, I’ve gone through a similar problem as @wjs018@ani.social mentioned.

I’ve run the LightNovel community on the .ml instance, which was basically dead, and for a year, it was for the most part just me posting each and every week into the void about what I’ve read and me trying to drum up support for it over on Reddit. During this time I’ve got told a few times that I should migrate to a different instance since this was a bad place on .ml but, you know, I’ve invested time into that community, and there were a few people every now and then that I didn’t want to lose. But after thinking about it for a long while, I decided to migrate to !lightnovels@ani.social where the reception was a lot better by comparison. We’re not exactly exploding in popularity or anything but at least there I feel like part of the group and not some outcast who dared to crash the party. If I needed help I got users reach out to me offering it. A very special thanks to [@I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ @lemmy.sdf.org](https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ and @wjs018@ani.social who really got out of their way to help me time and again. Trust me, when coming from a dead community on an instance that doesn’t want you that a huge thing.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I think moving communities can be a great decision and that it’s important to move somewhere where the community can belong. I can’t speak for @hitagi@ani.social but I guess that GunPla is something that wouldn’t be misplace on ani.social.

Next is about modding. Let me tell you that in almost a year so far there hasn’t been a single instance where I had to mod anything. One time someone posted a Chinese or Korean light novel and I pointed that out that this is for Japanese light novels only but looking back on it now I feel like that was an clear error on my part. If I had just done nothing it would have been better and might have grown the community instead of pushing someone away. I don’t expect that a GunPla community would explode to such popularity that it would take much work to mod it.

The other side is the content. I don’t see this as mod work necessarily but just having a community existing doesn’t mean that people will come and fill it up with content. For the most part it will be up to you to fill it up and make it someplace users might be interested to visit. That’s where I’m struggling with the most to be honest. I tried to speed things up with several community building hacks like a discord server and hosting a Minecraft instance but nothing really took off. I think just posting content is the best way to go. I’m not versed enough into GunPla to know how much news/content/discussion there is. It’s something you’ll have to decide on your own if you’re willing to invest that much time into it. Until there’s some resonance it will feel very soul crushing, I can tell you that much.

Whatever you decide to do with your community, feel free to hit me up if you have any question. Best of luck.

Again. Gloating.

I can assure you that the light novel source was thoroughly disturbing. It was outright beastiality and without the stupid-absurdity-funny charme of that helped that reincarnated as a dog anime skirt the line.