Oh wow. I didn't know this had a manga. A translated version of the novel is on Bright Novels (299 chapters). But it seems to be indexed incorrectly as it doesn't come up if you search for it. It can be reached via the links on novel updates (you need to login for the links to work)...
Actually that got cleared up in the afterward of volume 5 (after chapter 25). The mangaka did a drawn afterward, so if you haven't been buying the officially translated volumes, you probably didn't see it. Basically he knew nothing about smithing when he began drawing the series. And since it...
The author may have deliberately made this ambiguous. Japanese (and Korean) sentences frequently leave out the subject, and the listener has to assume what they're supposed to be. So it's a common literary trick (sometimes even in official statements) to write ambiguous sentences where you leave...
By the way, the author's other big work is Der Werwolf - The Annals of Veight. That's also a very well thought-out nation-building isekai novel. So I have high hopes for this series.
Two things had to happen before women were legitimately recognized as combatants.
1) Combat moved to weapons which weren't as dependent on physical strength. Mainly, guns. It doesn't matter if the person holding the gun is a man, woman, or child. If they aim it at you properly, you're just as...
It's actually a clever twist, not a deux ex machina nor plot armor. It was telegraphed earlier in the story and in the anime (i.e. you've already seen her do it). So try to puzzle it out based on what you know.
No, Hanano was retconned in as a way to make a new series. She's a junior who admired Kaoru, but never worked the courage to speak to her. She dies immediately after Kaoru's funeral, and is reincarnated since she's an associate of Kaoru. There is no prior mention of her (that I know of) in the...
They play with each other a lot in bed and in the bath in the novel. I think the translation called it lovey dovey time. Basically everything except penetration - that doesn't happen until:
The dark elf after the party at the island. It constitutes completion of his contract to find her people...
I read through the LN for this (I love world hopping stories), and the story is actually a lot more clever than what you see in the first half dozen manga chapters. MC is extremely careful about tax implications and triggering undue attention from the government. And comes up with a scheme which...
This is good. But keeping track of all the:
He knows.
She knows that he knows.
He knows that she knows that he knows.
She doesn't know that he knows that she knows that he knows.
He knows she doesn't know that he knows that she knows that he knows.
etc.
gives me a headache.
About 10% of the population is left-handed. I'd create a special unit of left-handed horse archers specifically for countering directionally biased defensive formations like this. It's not like hand to hand combat, where the situation is symmetrical on both sides (left-handed vs right-handed...