The Water Magician: Arc 1 Volume 2 - I like the volume. There is less of that Marvel-style banter in this volume and what is there feels more natural and less forced than in the first volume. I also like the addition of some romance to the plot. I would have liked it better if it weren’t the love-at-first-sight type, but at least the love interest is competent and not a damsel in distress. There are a couple of negatives though. The translation is riddled with typos and grammatical errors (stuff like "Thankfully, skeletons don’t literally blood.” or “Also in the eastern woods…well, deeper in the words, a little south.” Just as examples. There are a lot of those types of errors. I hope they fix whatever is happening at Jnovel.club because the translations from them have a lot of mistakes in the last couple of months and this book was one of the worst offenders in that regard.

The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival: Volume 1 - Love that murder hobo brat. The rest of the story is a bit cliche so far, but it gets effortlessly carried by MC. Since I bitched about too-good-to-kill-MCs a while back I’ve been picking up series with ruthess MCs and little Alicia here might very well be my favorite of the bunch. Makes sense since the author seem to have the same thought about those too-good MCs. Here’s a quote from the afterword:

I noticed this tendency for the protagonist to become overly merciful halfway in my other stories too, so I decided to write one who would never show her enemies any mercy at all.

nice.

The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Volume 4 - Okay, so there are little baby-baals and puppies now in Iluk village. Cool I guess, but: Where. The. Fuck. Are. The. Illustrations?! I want to see cute baby baals and puppies but there isn’t a single illustration of the most central plot point of this volume. Not on the cover. Not in the color pages. Not in the b/w illustration mid chapter. Nowhere. In the words of my favorite goblin slayer: “Horseshit”.