Julia Was One Of The Strongest Woman Of Shin Makoku. And, If She, At The Very Least, Shares Even One

As is I was hyped for Novel 18 after finishing Novel 17 with its various cliffhangers and plot twists!! Now I know what might take place and that it is dark and it involves my dear Wolf and YuuRam moments as well!!! My heart cannot take it!! Please Takabayashi-sensei update!!!!

I hope she writes before I turn into a skeleton while waiting for it.... I'll become like Kohhi and go haunt her then...

Whats your personal analysis summary/ any thoughts of the last novel 17

Hello anon!

Sorry for the late reply. What are my personal thoughts on novel 17? I’ll try my best:

Novel 17 -summary & opinions

Let me itemize the main points:

1) Shinou: Shinou gets out of the pouch thing, by borrowing maryoku, meaning that he doesn’t have it himself. He then has Anissina work for him, to keep him in the physical world with a sort of battery (underwear), so that he doesn’t have to be borrowing strength from Ulrike constantly. This gives him freedom of movement. At the end of the novel he will threat Wolfram to work for him, making sure he won’t say anything to Yuuri, he also threatens him saying: You’d do anything for the person you love and your family right? You’ve always been like this. Making it clear they’re not safe if Wolfram doesn’t agree to his terms. Assessment: Shinou’s an ass.2) Water box: In novel 17, the guys find out about the water box in Darco.  At the end of the novel Yuuri will touch his box. We already know from stories after novel 17 (e.g Do you want an exorcism?), that touching the box has affected him and given him yet another personality. Only Wolfram, who was in close proximity to his box, knows how Yuuri felt, however it doesn’t seem like they can share notes, based on Shinou getting in the way? Yuuri was saved by Conrad because everyone else in the room was being electrocuted. Assessment: Water box is gonna be a problem, or is it?3) Ranatan: The Prison warden who looks and talks just like Yuuri’s mom. She said that she wanted to ‘become one with the box’ to stop it. But I always wondered…  weren’t the boxes not supposed to be reactive to regular people? Here’s what the novel said:Her mind was slowly corrupted, and the sense of responsibility she had towards anything sinful, lost out to her own desire for the Box. In the end, she even considered merging her destiny with the Box. If she’d gone on like that, it really would have led her, to be destroyed with it.Why did she want the box so much? Why was she getting destroyed? Didn’t the guys at Big Shimaron had a box for a long time and it was just in storage? I know, the fire box responded to Alazon’s plead and brought Saralegui back to life, but Alazon was powerful and had houryoku and was in an enchanted tunnel… what did Ranatan have? So I’ve talked about this in the past, it has been made pretty clear in the novels that half-mazoku, half humans, don’t really possess maryoku (not even Conrad, and he’s a direct descendant from Shinou). The other thing is that Murata says “the keys” have to be bound to a soul and to a particular bloodline. Why would Yuuri have the water key if he’s not a Wincott?  So, he must be. So who’s the Wincott? Yuuri’s dad? Or his mom, that looks like Ranatan who was corrupted by the box? My personal opinion is that there’s something fishy here. I think Ranatan might have been a half-key, and that’s why the box corrupted her. (The Wincotts were human at some point remember? They ruled Caloria until they ‘went crazy’ and were kicked out). Assessment: I think her character introduction had a purpose.4) Kinan and Hawk-eye:  This novel closes one of the mysteries of maurma. Why did Kinan shoot Wolfram in novel 9!? It is explained that Kinan was promised the body of his older brother who allegedly died at war 20 years ago in Big Shimaron. However! It is discovered here, that his brother is Hawkeye, alive in Darco, and Conrad pretty much reunited them at the prison (the ‘reunion’ hasn’t taken place yet, but will, now that both of them are in the prison). Assessment: Explanation completed.5) Conrad goes back home: Well, final-fucking-ly! What is going on with this dude!? Wasn’t he planting seeds in Shimaron? Now he’s back? I feel he should have ‘been back’ after Seisa. His explanation of ‘needing to grow seeds of democracy? Anti-monarchy? Who knows what in Shimaron didn’t happen at all cuz he ended up in the prison right after Seisa. I’m just glad he’s back, but what was he even doing? Are we supposed to take the info in the ura cd at face value? Did Shinou scare him after giving him the arm? I don’t know, but I would like a proper explanation for his constantly irrational behavior, and we haven’t gotten one besides the ‘Takabayashi-sensei hates him and doesn’t want him around’. I’m sure there are many ways one could explain what he did, the drama cd explanation was good. Can we get that in writing? Assessment: We still don’t understand anything about this boy.6) Fanfanis a baddie: Not confirmed but he seems to be looking for the boxes. Cherie’s relationship may not last long. Assessment: Future enemy?7) Royal Couple: “ Those words hurt me deeply inside my heart, a pain as though I was burnt in an instant. Because I had an experience like that, in which I nearly lost my most important person, just because he was wearing someone else’s clothes. “And this is what Yuuri thinks when Hawkeye tells him about what he had done. Yuuri used the ‘most important person’ line, which we all know what that means in this novel, to refer to Wolfram. Assessment: Royal couple ftw!Finally the afterword: Takabayashi sensei says that the next novel will be darker and with emphasis on Wolfram. A drama cd with canon info that came out after novel 17, mentions that Wolfram will be aloof and sneaking out for fire box/Shinou purposes in the middle of the night, while Yuuri has no clue and thinks he’s cheating. Murata and Josak seem to be onto the fact that something’s off and will be investigating. As we know, Shinou threatened Wolfram with hurting Yuuri and his family if he says something, so he won’t be talking. It looks like novel 18 will be awesome…. that’s if …it ever gets written. 

The Swan and Eagle

I love the way Takabayashi-sensei breaks the characters and theories. It just makes them even more awesome and original somehow. And more human (even though most are mazokus 😉).

(Maruma Cafe 2019) Conrad’s “Good night” Short Story

I make no promises about the quality of the translation. Original story published by the author on Twitter here.

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When I was near the border, a house had several ornamental altars, that welcomed the spirits of friends and family. Outside several people dressed as skeletons were making a fuss. It seems they had mixed Halloween and Day of the Dead. Once the festival was done, the children would write letters to Santa Claus.

I believe that there’s a Santa. As much as I believe that this country has a Maou.

(image: Good Night) At any rate, kids may have found out about you. Sooo, give me the letters and I’ll fill the bag, and then I’ll have to come through the roof like an early Santa Claus.

I asked the palace guards to turn a blind eye, because I'm Santoku rosu*. Once I give you this and greet you, I’ll go home. Good night. I wanted to say a night greeting. I wanted to say it at night.

——————————————- *Pun of Santa Claus:  Santoku rosu忖度ロース: Lit.  Considerate Pork Loin 

All we can do now is to pray that our words reach her and she starts writing!!

Takabayashi-sensei please continue to write!! That last cliffhanger is just too bewitching to leave it hanging like that!!

A little maruma update

There’s been a few updates in the maruma scene.

PERFUMES

Maruma official retweeted links to buy Yuuri, Conrad, and Wolfram perfumes (Japan only). https://twitter.com/maruma_official

Takabayashi sensei only posted : I’m late, and retwitted the ads: https://twitter.com/TakabayashiTomo

(Takabayashi sensei’s tweets are private, but if you follow she’ll approve after a while… don’t know how long it takes now, when she was less active it was a few weeks)

NEWS AND NOVEL RELATED

But the most interesting by far was GEG’s who said:

https://twitter.com/rikka2020/status/1171272123991511040

I have a feeling something really nice is coming this fall. (prediction)

And then she followed up with:

https://twitter.com/rikka2020/status/1171280827461693440

Just in case, I wanted to say that there are no plans to release a new novel in Beans Bunko. Why? Why is it something different? I’m the one who’s the saddest about that. Damn you T. T. who lives over a river*. (I’ll send her a message)

(*)I guess it means on a cloud or something.. not sure. T.T. means Takabayashi Tomo.

Agreed. The light novels really are a treat for the fans of the royal couple!!

Is Yuuri still engaged to Wolfram?

Hi anon! Yes, and very much so, let me post an excerpt of one of the most recent stories:

Wolf: "If I was in trouble, and I was missing something important. And you had one that was exactly the same ...." Yuuri: "I'd lend it to you, of course" (Yuuri) I thought about this, literally with my hands on his chest. In fact, with my hand, that was pressed against his chest, I could feel that the speed of my partner's and my heartbeat was the same. Anyone would get blood rushing to their brains when they're seriously thinking about something. When I could calm down a little, I let out a small sigh. Yuuri: "Or rather, when it comes to things that I can give you, I would give you anything, Wolf.” One of my favorite scenes, couldn’t help myself! Also in the latest short story published last year there’s a lot of sexual hints and they talk about a ‘secret photo’ that was taken in Yuuri’s bedroom (and we never find out what it is), but the ideas Yuuri has is either HIM completely naked during ‘baseball practice’ (in his bedroom), or one of Wolfram’s butt peaking from under his negligee (which makes us think about the length of that negligee tbh). At any rate, still engaged, not married, very happy together in all the latest works.

If you like the Royal Couple, you should check the paperback novels (the original work). They’re really so much better than the anime or manga. Cheers!

This is beautiful!

The part about Yuuri and Wolfram belonging to Greta before themselves is so true and so sweet♡

The daughter of Izura, the daughter of Svelera, the daughter of the demon king.. dear little Greta.

Much went wrong very early in her life. All she wanted was to belong to someone. But being the daughter of an entire country meant something very different- it did not mean love and comfort, but responsibility and an impossible task of proving oneself worthy of love. Thankfully, that painful journey led her back to her childhood. And it brought her two fathers closer together to create a family - before Yuuri and Wolfram belonged to each other, they belonged to Greta.

Down that road from outside the Bloodpledge castle where Huber left her to inside the heart of everyone that lived in it, Greta found where she belonged.

PS: this is what I think Greta looks like, all grown up. ❤

PPS: I'm not too good with drawing anime characters (or anything else, really) and I'm just too scared to even attempt for fear of messing them up. But I tried anyway. 😅🙈

In love with the last one!!

a bunch of kkm doodles from twitter!!

On point....

I kinda wanna see you draw something tragic

there you go….

Tom Hiddleston as Loki Laufeyson throughout the MCU (2011 - ) 

Keep rollin' Suga!

I’m scared