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    <Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody,> - Volume 25 by Hiro Ainana - ★★★½☆, 153 MynePages™ - Second shortest volume in the series that gave me more of a “mini filler arc” impression. I prefer my filler volumes to be more lighthearted. Coming right from a large-scale battle arc, and then jumping into the same thing just in compressed form felt unnecessary to me. The author is falling into that battle shounen trap: when everything is always redlining the high-stakes meter, then nothing is. I also need some help interpreting what is happening on the cover there.

    <In Another World with Household Spells> - Volume 6 by Rika - ★★★★☆, 194 MynePages™ - A very entertaining volume. They introduced a new character here who is annoying Patience to no end, and it’s hilarious. I just fear that they are pushing this into a romance direction a couple of volumes down the line, which would be fucked up (guy is in his 20s and Patience is 11).

    <The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage: Building a Mighty Empire of Monsters Within the Monsters’ Forest.> - Volume 5 by Miraizin A - ★★½☆☆, 130 MynePages™ - This pisses me off to an absurd degree. The promised “building a Mighty Empire” has been reduced to one and a half pages. I’m not exaggerating. The entire building of the titular empire is 568 words. There are four and a half volumes of fighting battle after battle; then comes that “and then he built the empire - the end” in a page. And then an epilogue where he visits every corner of his empire and fucks his delegate in each. Why put the “building” into the title in the first place when the building is only happening as an afterthought in a time skip? Pisses me off.

    <The Fearsome Witch Teaches in Another World> - Volume 3 by Mitsuru Inoue - ★★★☆☆, 150 MynePages™ - Good guilty pleasure volume with a school festival arc.

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      Hello Bookworm! I looked it up, and the Library in Alexandria — which just so happens to be the greatest in all of Yurgenschmidt, nay… even the entire world — has the following entries:

      Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody by Yen Press: 📖 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26; 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

      In Another World with Household Spells by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

      I couldn’t find a series with the name “The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage: Building a Mighty Empire of Monsters Within the Monsters’ Forest.”. Maybe you should write it and send a copy to my library. In fact, I think this is a great idea and you absolutely should do so. Right now. Chop chop.

      The Fearsome Witch Teaches in Another World by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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      I also need some help interpreting what is happening on the cover there.

      Holy husk titan armour behind the castle

      Sara separating from Satou and his party? (When she goes to help with holy husk titan)

      I prefer my filler volumes to be more lighthearted. Coming right from a large-scale battle arc, and then jumping into the same thing just in compressed form felt unnecessary to me. The author is falling into that battle shounen trap: when everything is always redlining the high-stakes meter, then nothing is.

      Is that what happened? I couldn’t remember the last volume.

      Yeah, I don’t want Death March to become like Dragon Hatchling or Reincarnated as a Sword. Too much fighting gets off putting and drags on. More slow paced relaxation is required.

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        Sara separating from Satou and his party? (When she goes to help with holy husk titan)

        cover

        Yes, but it does look like Sara has a dragon tail. And her expression looks to me more disturbed than just sad about the parting. The party is going and Satou is also leaving which would be after the Giant Husk left the capital. Then there are the chains, but the only chains I can think of were the ones chaining the husk’s soul in the “astral plane” (for a lack of a better word) and not in the real world.

        I could see the cover as a collage of separate things happening, but I don’t see why they would make it look like they abandoned Sara.

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            hmm. Some type of wing-looking frock? That’s the best explanation. Either way, that cover is a strange one.

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          it does look like Sara has a dragon tail.

          Satou has a dragon kink and made a prophetic tail?

          her expression looks to me more disturbed than just sad about the parting.

          Wouldn’t you be if the one you loved forced a tail on you?


          But seriously yeah it’s a bit of a mess, I took it as a collage of the volume. But it could defiantly be clearer. I would have gone for Hikaru and the titan for the cover.