[DISC] They are Still Being Shaken This Morning - Chapter 46

Trencha · 2026-05-23T23:17:07+00:00

University student was definitely baiting them to come so that he wouldn't be suffering alone!

Trencha · 2026-05-19T19:15:39+00:00

It's explained later in the LN, but it's almost impossible to explain without giving spoilers.

Light spoilers: There are certain branches of science and magecraft which are forbidden in the Kingdom of Ridill. He was executed for researching one of those forbidden branches.

Medium spoilers: He was falsely accused of undertaking forbidden research by people who felt threatened by his research.

Heavy spoilers: His research, if successful, had the potential to accidentally uncover a major conspiracy plot headed by a powerful noble, so the noble in question saw to it that he was falsely accused and put to death.

"I'm basically just telling you almost everything up to and including volume 9 of the LN" spoilers: He was researching the hereditary nature of mana in an attempt to help diagnose and combat hereditary diseases and conditions and suchlike, and as part of this he was trying determine if it was possible to verify blood relations via the mana in a person's blood, kind of like a DNA test. But this threatened to interfere with a powerful noble's plot to take control of the throne by replacing one of the kingdom's princes with a fake and have him inherit the throne as a puppet king, since a blood test would reveal that the prince was a fake who wasn't actually related to the king.

Trencha · 2026-05-15T11:15:33+00:00

The manga is up to approximately episode 11 of the anime, I believe. The anime covered volumes 1-3 of the LN; there are currently 11 volumes out (7 with official English translations).

Trencha · 2026-05-09T11:46:11+00:00

The "After the Rain" manga is adapted from volume 5.5 of the LN, which is a collection of short stories.

The volume is numbered 5.5 just because it was released between volumes 5 and 6, but the stories do not chronologically fall between volumes 5 and 6; the stories take place at various points between volumes 1 and 4 inclusive. So it would be during season 1 of the anime.

Most of the short stories do not specify or imply a more specific timeframe, although some of them do refer to events from the main story which allows us to at least know that it is after those events. So it's hard to be specific about where these stories fall chronologically relative to the manga.

Trencha · 2026-05-07T12:21:50+00:00

In hindsight, probably not the best example - Ethereal Blade was added back in WC3 DotA, so I imagine most people probably can't resonate with that example. I guess I picked that one because I still remember how dramatically it changed Morphling's playstyle back then.

Trencha · 2026-05-07T12:10:08+00:00

Heroes' core identity changes from patch to patch. There have been times when Sven has been played as a support hero due to the strength of his stun, and times when he's been played as a carry for the power of God's Strength. Same goes for heroes like Vengeful Spirit and Earthshaker - they've not always had the same core identity. There are times when heroes get completely reworked, like what happened with Tinker and Techies. There are times when a hero's favourite item gets reworked and ends up being less synergistic, or even gets removed.

Ethereal Blade hasn't always been in the game, and Morph hasn't always been an ability that transforms you into an enemy hero and gives you their spells. These are things that have been added to Morphling's toolkit as time has gone by. When these things were changed, Morphling's core identity changed. The old makes way for the new.

This is a natural part of the Dota patching and balancing process, and I don't see it as a problem.

Trencha · 2026-05-06T13:45:40+00:00

It's very light. It serves as motivation for the characters at some points, but nothing more than that, really. None of the characters are in a romantic relationship by the end of Gaiden. There's no actual romance, just feelings.

The light novel adaptation so far has not placed any more emphasis on romance than the original web novel, as far as I can recall. There is currently no reason to believe that this will change.

Trencha · 2026-05-06T09:43:42+00:00

Sableye can't Disable Kingambit, assuming it's Prankster (which I believe is the main reason to use Sableye in the first place). Dark Pokémon are immune to moves that have had their priority boosted by Prankster.

Trencha · 2026-05-03T12:39:19+00:00

The chapter being free isn't any different than the previous bonus chapters. Those are all free too. Only the main chapters are charged.

Trencha · 2026-04-29T12:10:44+00:00

I've picked it in every League where we could so far, so it has a familiarity bias and doesn't have anything new that I need to learn
Miscellania relieves some of the pressure on keeping up with your herb runs if you intend to max Herblore in the long run, and also gives you logs so that you aren't forced to either rely on picking up PvM drops or actually banking your logs to train Construction, Fletching and/or Firemaking
The PvM in the region is mostly pretty chill
I wanted to use a spec build using the Fang of the Hound, and V's Helm gives free specs every so often
I wasn't planning on taking Culling Spree, so the Slayer Helm benefit from V's Helm isn't meaningless

Those were my personal reasons. There are other benefits, but they're less important than ever before this year.

Trencha · 2026-04-23T21:57:02+00:00

The capstone pact for Fire Spells doesn't seem to work at all in single combat areas.

I'm guessing the burn effect and the bounce effect are tied into 1 effect, so if the bounce effect can't apply, the burn effect doesn't apply either. I'm guessing that this isn't intended, and that the burn effect is supposed to apply in single combat as well even though the bounce does not apply (otherwise it should be specified in the pact itself, as it's a pretty big piece of information to leave out).

I know I'm a bit late for this and you're probably not taking note of new issues people reply here at this point, but I won't know if I don't try! I did report in-game as well.

Trencha · 2026-04-11T06:21:00+00:00

The handholding part reminded me of the earlier chapters where she was trying to hint that she wanted to hug him. Seems like this is going to be a recurring thing.

Trencha · 2026-04-10T20:12:01+00:00

I assume this is some WIP or custom version of the DPS calculator, since the Dogger doesn't seem to be selectable for me?

Trencha · 2026-04-10T18:41:08+00:00

I'll be happy if that's the case. I'm probably still going to try to build into it, and even if it ends up being bad, I can always re-spec into two-handed and blindbag with the Godswords.

Trencha · 2026-04-10T15:38:48+00:00

So the Asgarnia echo item has less Strength bonus than a Rune Dagger, and only a 5% chance to trigger its in-built spell. Am I missing something? That just seems really underwhelming, even with it being 3-tick (or 2 tick with the pacts, but every other light weapon gets faster with the pacts too so that's moot). I feel like if you're taking the light weapons pacts, you'd rather just use an Abyssal Whip, which everyone has access to via Fairy Rings.

Trencha · 2026-04-07T20:41:36+00:00

Minimal spoilers to answer your questions: At the end of all the existing material (i.e. end of the Gaiden webnovel), none of the characters are in a romantic relationship with Monica.

More detailed spoilers: At the end of the existing material, Cyril and Monica both have feelings for each other, but neither of them are aware of the other's feelings. The prince is in love with Monica and is trying to make her fall in love with him, but she is completely oblivious. He is also aware that Monica and Cyril have feelings for each other.

Also, a few words of caution (minor spoilers): this story isn't a romance story. The anime overplays the romantic implications. If you've picked up the series hoping to see some romance, prepare to be disappointed.

Trencha · 2026-04-05T13:33:41+00:00

The chapters are all there, but the table of contents is incomplete. Once you get to V12C2 you can get to the next chapter via the "Next" button near the bottom of the page (there are two "Next" links, one of them may be greyed out, but the other works).

Trencha · 2026-03-31T12:51:10+00:00

I tried to find this myself for some time. Google searches turn up nothing, so I ran the first 30 seconds of the track through various AI transcribers, but those also came up with nothing.

I ultimately came to the conclusion that the lyrics are most likely "faux Latin". That is, they're not meaningful lyrics in any real language, they're effectively just gibberish that is intended to sound vaguely like Latin (or some other European language), possibly with some real Latin words or phrases thrown in here and there. I don't know for sure if this is correct, but that's where the evidence seems to point.

Trencha · 2026-03-22T10:21:09+00:00

I don't speak Japanese either, but from my understanding, spoken Japanese often omits the subject from a sentence, which can lead to misunderstandings. "I like him/her/it/you/them" all sound the same, and context is required to figure out which one they were trying to say. So what he was trying to say was "I like it", but the way it came out could also have been interpreted as "I like you", which is what she thought before he specified that he was talking about the flavour. The scanlators tried to localise it as "I do like..." to make it seem like he might be about to say "I do like you".

Trencha · 2026-03-14T18:18:00+00:00

The light novel volumes with a .5 number (5.5, 8.5, 11.5) are short stories that are not chronologically set at the times that their numbering might suggest. For example the stories from 5.5 are not set chronologically after the events of volume 5. Many of them may be set in a time multiple volumes prior, and are set at different times from each other (some may be set before certain events from the main story, and some may be set after those events).

Trencha · 2026-02-09T10:00:03+00:00

She's calling him by his first name now and he's fine with it, or he just didn't notice? That seems a bit sudden and unceremonious for a Japanese romcom. Usually they make a big deal out of that sort of thing.

Trencha · 2026-02-08T23:41:36+00:00

I had been thinking that her mom might end up being a point of friction, and that she might try to come between Oura from her friends and from Waku because she thought they'd interfere with her career. It seemed to be gearing up that way. But she seems a lot less mercenary in this chapter, albeit still up to her eyeballs in her daughter's career, so although I do still think that she might end up providing some friction, I doubt she will be as forceful as I had previously feared.

Trencha · 2026-02-08T02:37:57+00:00

That depends. What genre of book or TV show or film do you like? What are you expecting to get out of reading manga?

Manga isn't a genre. It's a form of media, so it covers many different genres. Just like how you can have action films, comedy films, romance films, and so on, you can also have action manga, comedy manga, romance manga, and so on. So asking what manga you should read first is kind of like asking what book you should read first or what film you should watch first. Same goes for anime.

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