PeterAhlstrom

Anime update: We have been trying out a lot of newer shows. Here's our current status. World Trigger After 48 episodes, a filler arc is starting. We're ignoring this show for now and will get back to it later. Bleach filler has burned us. (Though, looking ahead, it seems the filler ends and then they don't get very far into the original material before going on hiatus. Oh well, I read the manga every week and like it a lot.) Ace of the Diamond 20 episodes in. Enjoyable, but not as good as Baby Steps or Yowamushi Pedal. Not something we want to watch too often. Active Raid Watched the first episode, and it's good enough to watch another. The character interactions are interesting, how this established team ignores the new girl who thinks she's there to whip them into shape. Toradora! 1 episode. We are checking it out because it's by the creator of Golden Time, which we liked. The first episode was entertaining enough to continue. Re:ZERO -Starting Live in Another World- 3 episodes (really 4, since there's 1A and 1B). So far this is the most entertaining new show we're checking out. Portal fantasy with a gamer kid who arrives expecting to have a magical power, but doesn't. Then it turns into Groundhog Day, which is one of my favorite movies. What's not to like about that? Well, the villain lady is stereotypical in an annoying way, but everyone else is quite entertaining so far. Still, this is nowhere near as compelling as ERASED, which was the previous season's highlight for us. KIZNAIVER 1 episode. Good start, will give more episodes a shot. Kid who can't feel pain. Typical secret group of special-power kids at a high school with different personality quirks. JOKER GAME 3 episodes. Spy agency in early World War II. After two episodes I was really liking this show. After 3, I'm much less enthusiastic. The first two had a continuing plot focusing on one character. Then the third one is a different story about one of the side characters from earlier. The fourth episode preview looks like a story focusing on yet another character. It could be interesting in a "these are the types of things that spies do" way, but it's hard to get attached to characters when it's done this way. Flying Witch 1 episode. This is essentially a slightly older version of Kiki's Delivery Service. Relaxed pace. We will watch another one, but it needs to bring something compelling to the table. Tanaka-kun is Always Listless 1 episode, dropped. We hoped it would be something funny like Tonari no Seki-kun, but the basic conceit doesn't drive it enough for us. Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto 1 episode, dropped. Not as bad as some. Kind of random humor. I'm sure this would appeal to a number of viewers. Ace Attorney 1 episode, dropped. Laughably bad. I know Phoenix Wright is popular, but this mockery of a courtroom procedural is just so terrible. The Asterisk War 1 episode, dropped. Too much fanservice. AOKANA: Four Rhythm across the Blue 1 episode, dropped. Too tropey, and the aerial racing thing just didn't make much sense. Main character's voice is grating to listen to. Say "I love you" 5 episodes. I've been watching this one by myself but I'm not sure if I'll continue. Shoujo romance series. It's just so...melancholy. No one is truly happy on this show. I want to watch more romance shows, but I want it more like My Love Story. Not so much moping around. Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches 7 episodes in. I'm watching alone since Karen doesn't like the fanservice or kissing-consent issues. (The magic in this show is based on kissing.) I have read a lot of the manga and like the characters and the clever plotting. I like the "sort of delinquent slacker with a good heart" main character trope.

I am a Viz Shonen Jump subscriber, and I do read Bleach. It still has far too many characters and we see too many backstories. For the past year and a half that I've been subscribed, it's been nonstop incremental fights leading up to the big bad. Ichigo, Rukia, and the other characters who started out the series are rarely onscreen—but occasionally get to do awesome stuff. There are a few interesting things revealed here and there (with some things like first-time bankai reveals in the last couple months)—things that have been years in the making—but it tends to get buried under the endless battle. In my opinion, character creep is the biggest issue. This final arc basically has everyone in it who's still alive from all previous arcs, plus all the Quincies they're fighting. And he wants to show us what all of them are doing. That means less than a day of story time has passed in the last year and a half.

Did you read Secret History?

It isn't. What we said is that Mistborn doesn't give anyone's eye color and only says Vin's eyes are dark. (Shan Elariel's eyes are also dark.) Kelsier's eyes will now be considered canonized as hazel, which is not dark.

Newish shows: We watched one episode of Ace Detective. So, I know that Phoenix Wright is very popular, but this show was just terrible. I sure hope the Japanese legal system is nothing like this in real life. We won't be watching any more. Watched one episode of Aokana: Four Rhythm across the Blue. I didn't think it was quite as terrible as Karen did, but we're not going to watch another episode. The main girl's voice is super annoying, for one thing. Watched one episode of Active Raid. Not too bad, actually. We will probably watch at least another one to see where it's going. I liked some of the character interactions.

We finished watching ERASED. I found it very satisfying, and I was happy with the show all the way through. More like this please!

We've been very slowly watching Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, and this week we hit episode 9, which is one of those "this changes everything" episodes. I'm hoping the show can pull out a satisfying ending. The pacing feels a bit off. In manga, the most recent chapter of Spirit Circle was essentially the climax, and it was very well done. This series is fantastic and very unlike anything else I've read. It's a reincarnation-eternal-antagonists story, and the different cultures are all fascinating.

It's possible that tour fatigue and being sick are contributing factors.

We are caught up on Erased. Time travel stop-a-serial-killer show. It's pretty intense, and I hope no good guys die permanently.

Brandon says he specifically remembers this question, and he remembers saying that Threnody and Sel were not in the same system. In any case, Threnody and Sel do not revolve around the same star. (And they're not in a binary system system either, for those trying to salvage something out of this.)

Folks, I hate to be a killjoy, but I just asked Brandon about this, and he says that he answered that question with "No, they are not."

Believe it or not, the UK publisher just buys the book files from the US publisher, and only changes the copyright page and any other page that mentions the publisher's name. They never change the spelling or quote marks.

We finished watching Golden Time. I enjoyed it quite a bit. The girl who is annoying at the beginning mellows out. Characters actually sit down and talk to each other. (Though sometimes this takes a bit too long to happen.) Now we're watching Ace of the Diamond and enjoying it, 11 episodes in. World Trigger is starting a filler arc at our next episode in the queue, episode 49. Up until this point, the bits of non-manga stuff in the anime have been integrated very well into the existing plot. I'm hoping this filler arc is at all decent. But I'm having flashbacks to Bleach already. Also, right now Karen is rewatching the beginning of Bleach. That show does start off really well. (Oh, hah, "Number One" from the Bleach soundtrack just came up on my iTunes.) I watched 3 episodes of Erased and am very intrigued.

Not adding a comma before "of course." And Allik's lines are not changing, but I'll look into the other things. I'll mention the page number issue to Macmillan, but page numbers in ebooks are so arbitrary that it really doesn't matter.

This SHOULD be fixed already. Try this: See this page for which of your Kindle books have updates available: https://www.amazon.com/mn/dcw/myx.html#/home/content/booksAll/dateDsc/ And this page says how to turn on automatic updates (off by default): http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201252670

Thanks. I will fix both of those.

ecohansen, it looks like you've worked it out! yurisses, I'll definitely report the "Melaan" to the publisher.

I took the period off because I think most of them don't have one. But I wasn't scientific about this. Shadows of Self doesn't have one and Bands of Mourning does. Maybe I'll change my mind later... And you're welcome!

Hah, it's OK... There are a LOT of changes that were never listed on the beta or gamma doc, because those changes came from me (and a handful from the proofreader that Tor hired). I don't have time to type them up in the gamma spreadsheet. This particular error was something I noticed back in the Beta read, but it took Brandon a long time to get around to fixing it.

Well, it depends on how each book is designed, but this is an extremely common practice. I believe all of Brandon's books follow this practice.

What exactly are you saying with the final one? This is NOT supposed to be in the final book. My hardcover reads: What version of the book do you have? Someone screwed up. EDIT: I'm guessing this must be a UK version error. Both the US hardcover and ebook have the correct text. Time to go bang some heads together. EDIT 2: The UK print version definitely does not have this error; I checked just now. So please tell me what edition of the book you have. EDIT 3: If you have an ARC or a beta or gamma version, don't report errors in this thread unless you check the final version and they're still there.

Not an error; that's the way it always is after a break. This is the way Wayne often talks. Dialect. Like everyone else is saying, not an error, but the explanation is that this is an attributive noun. VenDell was ostensibly recruiting Marasi for this, so I don't think this is an issue.

Please note: This post does NOT mean that Brandon is sticking around to answer questions. Sharders' questions are just too good, and he risks giving too much away if he answers. So he's avoiding that for now.

Thanks, I'm fixing the typos so far!

Brandon decides the balance of that. We talked about this months ago and he kept it the way it is.