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Nina starts off life as an orphan, but is quickly sold out by someone she trusted. Her beautiful blue eyes make her rare and alluring, but also an almost perfect double for the recently deceased princess Alisha. Her captor is Prince Azure, Alisha’s older brother, who brings Nina into the palace and strikes a deal with her to impersonate the princess in exchange for a comfortable life. Nina goes through etiquette training and soon has to put her acting skills to the test in front of the king, Alisha's father, and her stepmother, who haven't seen Alisha in a number of years. The next test will be to survive long enough to be married off to a prince and secure an alliance for her kingdom!
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Nasa's students begin filming the horror movie in the abandoned mansion, but Nasa and Tsukasa are mostly there to check out the furniture. As soon as the door closes and the lights go out, the students are freaked out by the headless suit of armor and giant worms chasing them, but Tsukasa is cool as a cucumber. She grabs a sword and starts fighting back! She nearly ruins the movie except for her unbelievable swordsman skills, and her dual with the mastermind behind all of it. After their harrowing adventure, Kaname convinces Tsukasa that she has to match Nasa in showing affection, including being able to say "I love you," which Tsukasa thinks is the height of embarrassing.
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Laios finds himself within an inch of his life after being attacked by a fierce suit of armor. As the party helps him recover, they are beset by succubi, and everyone is susceptible except Izutsumi. She nurses them back to health using cooking methods she thinks Senshi would follow if he were able. Laios has an illuminating dream while knocked out from being drained by the succubi, except he only remembers, “don’t trust the Canaries.” Elsewhere in the dungeon, Kabru and Captain Mithrun of the Canaries have fallen to the 6th floor after their run in with the Lunatic Magician, and to Kabru’s ultimate disgust, they must resort to eating monsters in order to survive, just like Laios. Mithrun tells Kabru about his past and why he’s very powerful but helpless at the same time, and why the dungeon seems to be providing for their every need.
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The mysterious Kaguya gives advice to a stressed out classmate on how to pass a math exam, and we learn more about her genius and her sad home life. Nasa continues his job tutoring at a high school, and when the girls find out he lives at a public bath, they invade so they can sneak a peak at his cute wife. Later, the girls want to film their own version of The Blair Witch Project at an abandoned but luxurious local mansion that is reportedly haunted. Nasa and Tsukasa want to peak on the inside to get furniture and decorating tips, but the girls need a teacher chaperone.
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Illustrated by Nekokurage
Maomao discovers that the hair pins she collected at the banquet in the last volume can be used to gain passage out of the little palace, so she calls upon one of the men to take her back home to the Pleasure District in exchange for notes of introduction to well known courtesans. Maomao isn’t aware, though, that these hair pins and exchanging favors is also akin to entering into social contract and talks of marriage with the young men, so rumors begin to spread while she is visiting home. Her trip isn’t restful as she is immediately put to work saving two young folk in an apparent attempted lover’s suicide, but her father, an even more observant apothecary, challenges her to look beyond the obvious and see what hidden clues the poisoned victims have left behind to tell their tale. ![]()
Simon receives a message that his father might be in trouble, so he and Nicola travel back home to discover his father, who is a penguin-like demon, has been playing with wing-like inventions and trying to fly. Simon helps his father with another type of invention and ensures he can safely test it, while Nicola learns about Simon's childhood. Later, Simon finds a rare mummified demon arm that he really wants to buy and gift to a friend who studies rare mummies. He sets up shop and tries to sell his wares to make enough money, but Nicola spies another customer buy it. She spends her whole day chasing down the customer and trying to learn more about him to get the arm back for Simon, but ends up being known around town as the little girl obsessed with mummies! When Nicola finds a rare item that could lead her to clues about her mom, she tries to track down the shop who sold it her to discover more about her mom's time in the demon's world.
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Fukumaru continues to explore his new domain and gets himself into a little bit of trouble, like when he finds himself on top of a high shelf of a family altar and can’t get down. He wages war on “the black thing” (Kanda's piano) but brings a shelf of Kanda’s CDs down on himself instead. While slightly mad about his broken possessions, Kanda is surprised to find himself more concerned for Fukumaru’s safety than his belongings. We also learn about Kanda’s upbringing and how strict his mother was with him, and why his relationship with Fukumaru is so special. Kanda continues to heal and grieve with the help of Fukumaru’s restorative kitty-cuddles as he fondly remembers his wife’s affinity for cats, especially now that Fukumaru is helping him understand her feelings.
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Illustrated by Tsukasa Abe
Frieren and Denken relive Macht's memories and see him come to Weiss. They see the deal he makes with the lord of Weiss and all of his time in the Northern Lands was spent in order to understand human emotions. Frieren spends two additional months analyzing Macht's memories in an effort to break down the Diagoldze spell to find a way to counter it. Another powerful demon from Macht's past, Solitär, comes to help break Macht out of his barrier around Weiss. Fern and Stark confront her, yet Frieren's teachings lead Fern to want to flee because Solitär is a powerful demon with no recorded past - meaning she most likely rarely leaves victims alive to tell of her. ![]()
Our merry band of adventurers carelessly traipes through a ring of changeling mushrooms on their way out of volume 7, and as they sleep at the beginning of volume 8, they awake to find themselves all in another’s skins, so to speak. Senshi is an elf, Marcille is a halffoot, Chilchuck is a tall man, Laios is a dwarf, and Izutsumi is a kobold. Their fighting styles are nearly impossible when their magic runs dry quickly, strength is nonexistent, senses are all wrong. They have to find more mushrooms to change themselves back but the dungeon is still moving and forging new paths forward instead of backward. We also learn more about Chilchuck’s past with his family and estranged relationship with his wife. Meanwhile, the elves also try to close up the dungeon but things don’t go according to Kabru’s expectations as the elves come face to face with the Lunatic Magician.
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Illustrated by Shūhei Kamo
In a future that seems much closer to reality than science fiction, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government is aided by private company Blume Japan and its powerful data-collection system, J-ctOS, to help fight, predict, and solve crimes. Some of this doesn’t sit well with Inspector Goda, who thinks J-ctOS incapable of chasing down leads who leave behind no data points. To complicate things further, a cyber activist group known as DEDSEC takes an interest in Goda because he may not be as dumb as all cops, and might prove useful in the fight against corrupt artificial intelligence. |
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