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Kampai-Drink-It-Dry · 2018-03-24, 13:35

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Originally Posted by Rinvelt

Just finished volume 3!
So, the main plot is actually already in the manga (the play, thing with Robot Girl), though really condensed, so this time it'll be really short:

Spoiler for Vol 3:

In the previous volume, when Ryuugamine left at the end of their outing on Saturday, she forgot the last costume that was thrown out of the Shop with them. Monday, Satou gives it to her at school, saying he had no interest in it (not true at all, he fought intensely against himself to not sniff the panties she had worn when she tested the costume), which anger Ryuugamine and she slap him.
Back to volume 3, she's sorry and even do dogeza for him. Now that's everything is fine, class meeting for the play (see manga).
Later, Ryuugamine invites Satou to the beach to make him eat sushi made from a big tuna freshly caught, just before him. Reason being they once talked how Ryuugamine had it done personally for her (because she's rich) and Satou was jealous, so she thought it was a good way to apologise to him. Btw, Tsukaya is here too (she's the one cuting the tuna), as well as Tsubasa and Saitou, who followed after Satou when he was called by Ryuugamine.
Then see manga for the discussion about Robots nowadays. If you read the manga you can guess what happens next, Satou go to Yaguruma (Robot Girl) and tells her she's outdated and should update to new robot standard.
Next time they meet, she acts cheerfully like a normal highschool girl, with the quirk that she has antennae, do Robot jokes and has mini machine guns at her hips inside her skirt. She also calls Satou "Master" because he's the one who "made" the new her.
Btw, around that period, their was a plan to make normal students feel like Personae by making them wear cardboard uniforms, that way they can't recognize anyone and feel like the Personae. Ryuugamine recognises Satou instantly, Tsukaya didn't, but the kittens reacted to him then she hears his voice and recognises him once he shows his face, and Yaguruma recognises him instantly too saying that she can sense her Master easily thanks to her detection sensor.
Things happen in the end, then Satou leaves his uniform on his chair and go to report to the Sensei. When going back he hears Ryuugamine calling his cardboard uniform "Jirou-kun" shyly and he's jealous of it.

There's going to be a little break between Vol 3 and 4 because KonoSora's TL is finally out and I'm the type to immediately play/read something I waited for years when it finally comes out. Should only be a few days, so not enough for me to not be motivated to continue to read this novel, so don't worry.

Could you TLC the translation like you did last time and report incorrect parts to the translator?

thanks

p.s. I think the wrong translation you pointed out wasn't reported jet.

Rinvelt · 2018-03-24, 19:38

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Originally Posted by Kampai-Drink-It-Dry

Could you TLC the translation like you did last time and report incorrect parts to the translator?

thanks

p.s. I think the wrong translation you pointed out wasn't reported jet.

Hmm...? Error in translation... ah, you mean for KonoSuba perhaps? You missread, I'm reading a VN, "Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete" (in short, KonoSora), not KonoSuba. It wouldn't take me a few days to read a LN volume, and there isn't even a new one in English (just spin-off). Besides, already read until the last released volume in Japanese.

Kampai-Drink-It-Dry · 2018-03-24, 23:28

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Originally Posted by Rinvelt

Hmm...? Error in translation... ah, you mean for KonoSuba perhaps? You missread, I'm reading a VN, "Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete" (in short, KonoSora), not KonoSuba. It wouldn't take me a few days to read a LN volume, and there isn't even a new one in English (just spin-off). Besides, already read until the last released volume in Japanese.

Yes, I meant KonoSuba

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Originally Posted by Rinvelt

Hey guys, finally got volume 12 in Japanese, so I can now say it clearly, the translation was a little wrong. (didn't want to say it without seeing the Japanese).

Here are the lines (Translated in English, too lazy to copy them in Japanese):
Even though it's an other world and I could just go for polygamy.
Even though I could just not choose anyone and everything would conveniently turn out fine.

So yeah, Kazuma isn't that dumb.

Rinvelt · 2018-03-28, 07:09

And I'm back! So, volume 4 is all about the play during the school festival.

Spoiler for Gist of volume 4:

Saitou (Satou's friend in charge of the script) finished the script and the Personae read it, but almost all of them were not satisfied. Reason being that their role in the play is different from the type of their Individuality. For example, the Magician is their class use magic by drawing magic circles on pieces of paper, but the one in the play use magic incantation.
Healer is actually a manual one, and not one using magic. She can fight too.
Knight wants to be assigned to the Hero by the King, and not just follow the Hero like a servant.
Samurai wants a magnificient death.
Ninja wants to be more Ninja-like (in the shadows, not showy). Ninja is a girl, so Kunoichi, and asks to have a glamorous scene, but doesn't have one in the end.
Berserker wants to be more Berserk. She wants to kill both enemies and her allies. (So they make her kill the Samurai to give him his magnificient death.)
The Dragon says she doesn't appear in the play. It's because her Persona is 龍 and not 竜. First one being the eastern kind of Dragon, like a God, whereas the other is the western dragon we all know.
The others are fine because Saitou knows them through Satou, so he got their type and Individuality right.
Anyway, it caused discord in with the normal classmates, and everyone just wanted to give up the play.
Satou didn't want to give up yet, but he then receives a call from Ryuugamine. Ryuugamine tried to do something other than her type (Intelligent Maou) by becoming more violent by trying to destroy through violence, but her body instinctively reacts and she gets rash and urge to vomit. It's proof that you can't act a type different than the one you are without a huge shock like Yaguruma (Robot girl).
Satou is even more decided to make the play a success after seeing that and decides to hold an interview (through Ryuugamine) with the Personae to know what they want. (kinda went with the wrong order, so see above)
Thanks to that everyone is okay with their role, and it's time for the play! (btw, Satou is every role other than the Personae just to be sure that Tsubasa will be able to interact with him during the play. The other Personae speaks based on Tsubasa's signs as they don't perceive Satou)
Everything is going fine until the end, where Ryuugamine and Tsubasa continue to fight disregarding the script. They use a trick to make Satou go on the stage without it being strange, and he tells them that they're destroying the efforts of everyone like that and should follow the script, which they do after that.
Play is a success, and the other days of the festival Ryuugamine and Tsubasa follow the script without problem.
At the end of the festival, their is the camp fire thing. Satou can't see Ryuugamine so he goes to their secret place. She's here, unsatisfied and resigned by the fact the the destiny of the Maou is to be defeated by the Hero. But Satou tells her that even then, she was amazing and is really jealous of the Personae who can be so lively. Ryuugamine happily says they're even like that, as they both envy each other.
Then the music of the folk dance starts, she says she never danced before (being a Persona, they normally don't participate to the festival), then Satou offer her to dance. She accepts, and end of the volume.

Aaaah, should never have said I would do summaries, it takes more time than I thought it would and it's a pain.

Rinvelt · 2018-03-29, 01:27

Volume 5:

Spoiler for Gist of vol 5:

This time it's outdoors school!
Satou thought he would finally be able to rest a little, but no, just like for the play, this year it was decided that the Personae in his class could participate too! (+Tsubasa) Only 7 other than Ryuugamine decide to come (Tsukaya, Yaguruma, Samurai, Knight, Ninja, Berserker and Medusa).
On the way to the campground, Ryuugamine hijack the bus threatening the smash a Durian fruit if they don't obey her. Things happen and when Satou try to catch it when the fruit is going to smash on the floor he injures his hand.
To the campground, Ryuugamine uses dogeza and want to be forgiven, but Satou manages to convince her to do the cooking for him because of his hand.
The day after, it's cooking time! Ryuugamine make all the Personae (-Tsubasa) cook with her. Everything is going smoothly, but Tsubasa appears and presents her fabulous curry she made in advance to taunt Ryuugamine. Ryuugamine then sees the bandaged hand of Satou and gets the (bad) idea to use the Durian fruit inside the curry. Panic occurs.
Btw, that night Satou is asked if he likes someone (Ryuugamine for example), but he says that's it's impossible. He liked Tsubasa before her Individuality manifested, but after that he realised the difference between them, between Villager and Persona, and gave up. That's why even though we, readers, can see he's obviously in love with Ryuugamine, he can't because he can't help but think that's impossible for him to like her and be with her. Also apparently there is no known relationship/marriage between Villager and Persona, so it renforces the thinking that it's impossible.
Anyway, next day aside from Tsubasa all the Personae can't be seen. Satou don't know what's happening, and think he'll be able to rest, but he's still worried. Then Tsubasa appears and take him with her on a treasure hunting quest. (she got the info from a Persona Site, so she says the info is legit)
On the way there is a battle between Personae (who are also searching for the treasure), but Yaguruma uses a sleep granade to make them sleep. It starts to rain and everyone go back to the campground. Except that after a while, Ryuugamine still didn't come.
Then Satou realises that the treasure hunting was planned by Ryuugamine so she should be where the map says the treasure is.
He manages to find her crying inside the coil mine where she was hidden. On the way back, the mine starts to collapse and Satou throws Ryuugamine out of the mine to save her, but thankfully Tsubasa comes and maintains the beam of the entrance with her sword until Satou escapes too.
Being drenched by the rain, Satou gets the permission to use the onsen to bath. Once in the water, Ryuugamine calls him from the other side and thanks him again for coming to find her. She says that to her he was like a Hero (she uses Eiyuu, not Yuusha like Tsubasa. Eiyuu being above Yuusha). Then she asks him to help her if something happens from now on. He answers that's of course he will, because he's the Vice Class President and she's the Class President (even though inside he thinks that he would help her because she's Ryuugamine). There is a little silence and Ryuugamine answers with her voice a little down. (probably a little disappointed by the answer)
Other girls come in the bath, but Satou manages to go out without them knowing he was here.
Then on the way back, Ryuugamine hijack the bus again!
End of the volume.

Rinvelt · 2018-03-29, 11:44

Honestly I'm tired, but I want to write it before sleeping, and not after, so going to be really short without much details.

Volume 6:

Spoiler for Gist of vol 6:

Writing summaries is really hard. I never realised that before. Guess it's a good experience.

Ophis · 2018-03-29, 12:37

Thanks you for the summaries. It's really appreciated.

Rinvelt · 2018-03-29, 20:37

By the way, forgot to mention we learn that Personae are made to live in a special district for a few years after graduation and only family can meet with them. But Saitou says that if you marry them before graduation to become family you could get the right then. Then he follows by saying that Satou needs to choose between Ryuugamine and Tsubasa.

Rinvelt · 2018-03-30, 09:02

Gonna be short. And I think the next ones will be too, I'm just not motivated at all.

Spoiler for vol 7:

There are a few incoherences this volume, like in vol 2 (I think) Ryuugamine said she believed in Santa, but that's not the case in this volume. Also a thing about Valentine and how he normally received chocolate from Tsubasa each years before, but in this volume it's an horrible day where he has to do a quest to get it.
Also, in this volume it's said that Personae can't marry in highschool, which contradict what was said in the previous volume (see above).

zerodragon · 2018-03-31, 08:28

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Originally Posted by Rinvelt

Gonna be short. And I think the next ones will be too, I'm just not motivated at all.

Spoiler for vol 7:

There are a few incoherences this volume, like in vol 2 (I think) Ryuugamine said she believed in Santa, but that's not the case in this volume. Also a thing about Valentine and how he normally received chocolate from Tsubasa each years before, but in this volume it's an horrible day where he has to do a quest to get it.
Also, in this volume it's said that Personae can't marry in highschool, which contradict what was said in the previous volume (see above).

thx for the info, no need to rush and burn yourself out. take your time

Rinvelt · 2018-04-10, 09:00

Wanted to do vol 8-11 in one go, but shouldn't have because my memory is bad and my SSD died in between, so there was a blank of a few days.

Oh well, will just say the end:

Spoiler for End:

In volume 10 Ryuugamine get kidnapped by another Maou during their school trip. Satou saves her, but ends up in the hospital for half a month.

Volume 11 is all about the fact that Ryuugamine is suspected to not have engaged in Maou-like activities for a long time, and her position as a Persona is threatened. The cause being that she loves Satou so much that instead of thinking about plans to destroy humanity, she prefers thinking about him.
Anyway, things happen and Satou decides to make a plan for her (by asking Tsubasa to make one). It helps her to make her her think more Maou-like again, and she even adds a step to Tsubasa's plan at the end proving she's back in the course.
But because everything was planned by Satou in the back, to not have him being targeted by the government (because he has too much influence on Personae), Ryuugamine decides to ignore him as if she can't notice he's here, like all the other Personae.

A year and 4 months later, it's graduation time. Satou goes to the garden and speaks to Ryuugamine thinking that she can't hear him anyway. While talking, he starts to get a headache (Villagers get a headache when thinking about romance with Personae), but he resists and finally realises that he likes her. Then Ryuugamine stops ignoring him and says the truth.

Then KISS!!!

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Then Ryuugamine tells him her true name: Sakurako. (being the Maou, nobody is supposed to know her true name, only the one she offers her everything)
She says that he's the one who dominated her and made her his, calling him by his name (Jirou if you forgot).
And Satou tells her he was hers since the time she called him by his name (well, family name) in the classroom in volume 1. (chapter 8 in the manga)
He promises her he will definitely become a Villager inside Tales Universe and to wait for him. Not by chance, but by doing his best at a specialised university for Individualities Research.

Ends with the line: I'll become the Villager A!

And that's it. Personally, I really liked this novel, easy to read, nice comedy and some deep insight about the Villagers/Personae. No regret for buying it!

zerodragon · 2018-04-10, 14:46

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Originally Posted by Rinvelt

Wanted to do vol 8-11 in one go, but shouldn't have because my memory is bad and my SSD died in between, so there was a blank of a few days.

Oh well, will just say the end:

Spoiler for End:

In volume 10 Ryuugamine get kidnapped by another Maou during their school trip. Satou saves her, but ends up in the hospital for half a month.

Volume 11 is all about the fact that Ryuugamine is suspected to not have engaged in Maou-like activities for a long time, and her position as a Persona is threatened. The cause being that she loves Satou so much that instead of thinking about plans to destroy humanity, she prefers thinking about him.
Anyway, things happen and Satou decides to make a plan for her (by asking Tsubasa to make one). It helps her to make her her think more Maou-like again, and she even adds a step to Tsubasa's plan at the end proving she's back in the course.
But because everything was planned by Satou in the back, to not have him being targeted by the government (because he has too much influence on Personae), Ryuugamine decides to ignore him as if she can't notice he's here, like all the other Personae.

A year and 4 months later, it's graduation time. Satou goes to the garden and speaks to Ryuugamine thinking that she can't hear him anyway. While talking, he starts to get a headache (Villagers get a headache when thinking about romance with Personae), but he resists and finally realises that he likes her. Then Ryuugamine stops ignoring him and says the truth.

Then KISS!!!

Images

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Then Ryuugamine tells him her true name: Sakurako. (being the Maou, nobody is supposed to know her true name, only the one she offers her everything)
She says that he's the one who dominated her and made her his, calling him by his name (Jirou if you forgot).
And Satou tells her he was hers since the time she called him by his name (well, family name) in the classroom in volume 1. (chapter 8 in the manga)
He promises her he will definitely become a Villager inside Tales Universe and to wait for him. Not by chance, but by doing his best at a specialised university for Individualities Research.

Ends with the line: I'll become the Villager A!

And that's it. Personally, I really liked this novel, easy to read, nice comedy and some deep insight about the Villagers/Personae. No regret for buying it!

feel better about knowing what happen in this ln. if you ever get the time down the line, could u give the basic of volume 8-9. either way thx for the summary

Rinvelt · 2018-04-10, 19:34

Well, in a few sentences:

Spoiler for Vol 8-9:

VooXoo · 2018-05-02, 02:33

Thanks for the summary, really helped bring closure to this novel.

For all this years I believed a rumor of MC being a Sage Persona...

Rinvelt · 2018-05-02, 02:47

Haha, no, he's just a plain villager. And that's what's good about it, it's not some special BS, he's just used to interact with a Persona, Tsubasa, and thanks to that he doesn't have prejudices against them. That basically means that anyone could do what he did during the novel if they actually made an effort to interact with Personae.

2018-03-28, 07:09	Link #24
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	And I'm back! So, volume 4 is all about the play during the school festival. Spoiler for Gist of volume 4: Saitou (Satou's friend in charge of the script) finished the script and the Personae read it, but almost all of them were not satisfied. Reason being that their role in the play is different from the type of their Individuality. For example, the Magician is their class use magic by drawing magic circles on pieces of paper, but the one in the play use magic incantation. Healer is actually a manual one, and not one using magic. She can fight too. Knight wants to be assigned to the Hero by the King, and not just follow the Hero like a servant. Samurai wants a magnificient death. Ninja wants to be more Ninja-like (in the shadows, not showy). Ninja is a girl, so Kunoichi, and asks to have a glamorous scene, but doesn't have one in the end. Berserker wants to be more Berserk. She wants to kill both enemies and her allies. (So they make her kill the Samurai to give him his magnificient death.) The Dragon says she doesn't appear in the play. It's because her Persona is 龍 and not 竜. First one being the eastern kind of Dragon, like a God, whereas the other is the western dragon we all know. The others are fine because Saitou knows them through Satou, so he got their type and Individuality right. Anyway, it caused discord in with the normal classmates, and everyone just wanted to give up the play. Satou didn't want to give up yet, but he then receives a call from Ryuugamine. Ryuugamine tried to do something other than her type (Intelligent Maou) by becoming more violent by trying to destroy through violence, but her body instinctively reacts and she gets rash and urge to vomit. It's proof that you can't act a type different than the one you are without a huge shock like Yaguruma (Robot girl). Satou is even more decided to make the play a success after seeing that and decides to hold an interview (through Ryuugamine) with the Personae to know what they want. (kinda went with the wrong order, so see above) Thanks to that everyone is okay with their role, and it's time for the play! (btw, Satou is every role other than the Personae just to be sure that Tsubasa will be able to interact with him during the play. The other Personae speaks based on Tsubasa's signs as they don't perceive Satou) Everything is going fine until the end, where Ryuugamine and Tsubasa continue to fight disregarding the script. They use a trick to make Satou go on the stage without it being strange, and he tells them that they're destroying the efforts of everyone like that and should follow the script, which they do after that. Play is a success, and the other days of the festival Ryuugamine and Tsubasa follow the script without problem. At the end of the festival, their is the camp fire thing. Satou can't see Ryuugamine so he goes to their secret place. She's here, unsatisfied and resigned by the fact the the destiny of the Maou is to be defeated by the Hero. But Satou tells her that even then, she was amazing and is really jealous of the Personae who can be so lively. Ryuugamine happily says they're even like that, as they both envy each other. Then the music of the folk dance starts, she says she never danced before (being a Persona, they normally don't participate to the festival), then Satou offer her to dance. She accepts, and end of the volume. Aaaah, should never have said I would do summaries, it takes more time than I thought it would and it's a pain. Last edited by Rinvelt; 2018-03-28 at 20:08.

2018-03-29, 11:44	Link #26
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	Honestly I'm tired, but I want to write it before sleeping, and not after, so going to be really short without much details. Volume 6: Spoiler for Gist of vol 6: This volume is basically about the Medusa who wants to be normal. Her problem is that she thinks she's too special so to her the world is bland. To her other Personae are "normal" because they do their all to be what they need to be, whereas she doesn't do anything and can "harden" people easily. Anyway, Sensei begs Satou to help her, so he does. To perceive Satou, Medusa clings to him and sniff him to "imprint" his odor and warmth. Seeing that, Ryuugamine becomes jealous and do the same (she clings to him for hours while sniffing him). Medusa also shows her eyes to Satou and he "harden". The truth is, Medusa is so freaking beautiful that he's mesmerised and stop thinking and moving. Anyway, things happens and Satou gets the hint of the Frog in the well who doesn't know the world. He also gets a technique to not look at a girl eyes, but her nose to avoid being embarrassed (or mesmerised in that case). He uses it against Medusa, and seeing him not harden, she becomes really happy to be "normal" and makes her goal to "harden" him (so she tries to take him by surprise) At the end of the volume she comments that he isn't "normal" seeing Ryuugamine and Tsubasa hugging him on both side and fighting for him. On the relationship side, we learn a little more about Tsubasa. The truth is that she didn't want to be a Hero because it would mean being separated from Satou. I'm rather sad for her, because she basically endured all these years and did her best to be with Satou as much as possible, but she won't end with him. Still think the way she acts can be pretty annoying. For Ryuugamine, like I said, she now can cling to Satou "naturally" and even have him pat her! Images Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload? Writing summaries is really hard. I never realised that before. Guess it's a good experience.

2018-03-29, 12:37	Link #27
Ophis Dragon God Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Beyond the stars turning left and after passing by a Super Nova enter the Black Hole. House N°∞	Thanks you for the summaries. It's really appreciated. __________________ "Now, let’s open the curtains on our play. A hell fire banquet of fear and madness, where even the ashes will be burnt to nothing!" - One of 72 Demon Gods of Solomon, The Demon God Belial

2018-03-30, 09:02	Link #29
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	Gonna be short. And I think the next ones will be too, I'm just not motivated at all. Spoiler for vol 7: Chapter 1 is about love fortune using padlocks. In the end it was invented by Ryuugamine to make the girls confess, have them marry, have children, raise the birthrate and provoke starvation. Ends with Satou finding a padlock implied to be Ryuugamine's, and him hanging it to the fence for the fortune. Chapter 2 is Christmas. A party with the class with presents exchange. Yaguruma gets Satou's present and Ryuugamine is super jealous. Things happen. At the end, Satou runs towards Ryuugamine to give her a present he prepared just for her, but we don't know what it is and is never mentioned in the next chapters. Chapter 3 is about New Year and special food for that day. Things happen and during that Ryuugamine learns that Tsubasa gets to have Satou's cooking for New Year and is jealous. In the end, just before NY Satou goes to Ryuugamine's house and gives her food he made, then the year changes and they do the new year greetings to each other. Chapter 4 is first shrine visit of the year. Just a really short chapter which ends with Ryuugamine and Tsubasa clinging on both Satou's arms, then Tsubasa wishing to stop all Maou's plans, Ryuugamine wishing to exterminate humanity this year, and Satou to have a peaceful year. Chapter 5 is Valentine! Things happen with a plan similar to chapter one (starvation by over birthrate) but with chocolates. Ends with Satou getting the unsold ones from Ryuugamine. Inside there is a fortune saying "Your true love is always by your side" with Ryuugamine sitting just besides him. Epilogue is about how their first year ended and they are now second year. There are a few incoherences this volume, like in vol 2 (I think) Ryuugamine said she believed in Santa, but that's not the case in this volume. Also a thing about Valentine and how he normally received chocolate from Tsubasa each years before, but in this volume it's an horrible day where he has to do a quest to get it. Also, in this volume it's said that Personae can't marry in highschool, which contradict what was said in the previous volume (see above).

2018-04-10, 19:34	Link #33
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	Well, in a few sentences: Spoiler for Vol 8-9: Vol 8: New school year, the Strategist of the Demon Lord makes their appearance. Really loyal to Ryuugamine, but jealous of Satou (so yeah, recognise him), so cause many troubles and some people think it's Ryuugamine's fault. But these petty plans aren't like her, so they decide to hijack one of the Strategist plan to prove him that his help is unnecessary. Strategist is 12-13 and a girl, by the way. Skipped a few grades to be by Ryuugamine's side. She acts and dresses like a boy, so Satou was jealous of her for most of the volume because of how close they are. (and Ryuugamine using "kun" for her wasn't helping) Vol 9: Election of the Student Council President. Ryuugamine, Tsubasa and a Villager girl participe. Satou becomes the Class rep of the class too, but doesn't choose anyone as a vice class rep. In between there is the Sport Festival, with the Personae participing this year. They are participing on the side (because they can't recognise the others anyway), but the starting line is the same, so the normal students want to challenge them. Despair ensues because Personae have Olympic specs. But in the cavalry battle (hijacked by the Personae) Satou's group manages to win by chance. In the end it's the Villager girl who wins because "There is no way we would live our student life in the hands of a Persona". Then Satou says that the vice class rep place is still free to Ryuugamine (he thought that this would happen) and she accepts it.

2018-03-29, 01:27	Link #25
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	Volume 5: Spoiler for Gist of vol 5: This time it's outdoors school! Satou thought he would finally be able to rest a little, but no, just like for the play, this year it was decided that the Personae in his class could participate too! (+Tsubasa) Only 7 other than Ryuugamine decide to come (Tsukaya, Yaguruma, Samurai, Knight, Ninja, Berserker and Medusa). On the way to the campground, Ryuugamine hijack the bus threatening the smash a Durian fruit if they don't obey her. Things happen and when Satou try to catch it when the fruit is going to smash on the floor he injures his hand. To the campground, Ryuugamine uses dogeza and want to be forgiven, but Satou manages to convince her to do the cooking for him because of his hand. The day after, it's cooking time! Ryuugamine make all the Personae (-Tsubasa) cook with her. Everything is going smoothly, but Tsubasa appears and presents her fabulous curry she made in advance to taunt Ryuugamine. Ryuugamine then sees the bandaged hand of Satou and gets the (bad) idea to use the Durian fruit inside the curry. Panic occurs. Btw, that night Satou is asked if he likes someone (Ryuugamine for example), but he says that's it's impossible. He liked Tsubasa before her Individuality manifested, but after that he realised the difference between them, between Villager and Persona, and gave up. That's why even though we, readers, can see he's obviously in love with Ryuugamine, he can't because he can't help but think that's impossible for him to like her and be with her. Also apparently there is no known relationship/marriage between Villager and Persona, so it renforces the thinking that it's impossible. Anyway, next day aside from Tsubasa all the Personae can't be seen. Satou don't know what's happening, and think he'll be able to rest, but he's still worried. Then Tsubasa appears and take him with her on a treasure hunting quest. (she got the info from a Persona Site, so she says the info is legit) On the way there is a battle between Personae (who are also searching for the treasure), but Yaguruma uses a sleep granade to make them sleep. It starts to rain and everyone go back to the campground. Except that after a while, Ryuugamine still didn't come. Then Satou realises that the treasure hunting was planned by Ryuugamine so she should be where the map says the treasure is. He manages to find her crying inside the coil mine where she was hidden. On the way back, the mine starts to collapse and Satou throws Ryuugamine out of the mine to save her, but thankfully Tsubasa comes and maintains the beam of the entrance with her sword until Satou escapes too. Being drenched by the rain, Satou gets the permission to use the onsen to bath. Once in the water, Ryuugamine calls him from the other side and thanks him again for coming to find her. She says that to her he was like a Hero (she uses Eiyuu, not Yuusha like Tsubasa. Eiyuu being above Yuusha). Then she asks him to help her if something happens from now on. He answers that's of course he will, because he's the Vice Class President and she's the Class President (even though inside he thinks that he would help her because she's Ryuugamine). There is a little silence and Ryuugamine answers with her voice a little down. (probably a little disappointed by the answer) Other girls come in the bath, but Satou manages to go out without them knowing he was here. Then on the way back, Ryuugamine hijack the bus again! End of the volume.

2018-03-29, 20:37	Link #28
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	By the way, forgot to mention we learn that Personae are made to live in a special district for a few years after graduation and only family can meet with them. But Saitou says that if you marry them before graduation to become family you could get the right then. Then he follows by saying that Satou needs to choose between Ryuugamine and Tsubasa.

2018-04-10, 09:00	Link #31
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	Wanted to do vol 8-11 in one go, but shouldn't have because my memory is bad and my SSD died in between, so there was a blank of a few days. Oh well, will just say the end: Spoiler for End: In volume 10 Ryuugamine get kidnapped by another Maou during their school trip. Satou saves her, but ends up in the hospital for half a month. Volume 11 is all about the fact that Ryuugamine is suspected to not have engaged in Maou-like activities for a long time, and her position as a Persona is threatened. The cause being that she loves Satou so much that instead of thinking about plans to destroy humanity, she prefers thinking about him. Anyway, things happen and Satou decides to make a plan for her (by asking Tsubasa to make one). It helps her to make her her think more Maou-like again, and she even adds a step to Tsubasa's plan at the end proving she's back in the course. But because everything was planned by Satou in the back, to not have him being targeted by the government (because he has too much influence on Personae), Ryuugamine decides to ignore him as if she can't notice he's here, like all the other Personae. A year and 4 months later, it's graduation time. Satou goes to the garden and speaks to Ryuugamine thinking that she can't hear him anyway. While talking, he starts to get a headache (Villagers get a headache when thinking about romance with Personae), but he resists and finally realises that he likes her. Then Ryuugamine stops ignoring him and says the truth. Then KISS!!! Images Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload? Then Ryuugamine tells him her true name: Sakurako. (being the Maou, nobody is supposed to know her true name, only the one she offers her everything) She says that he's the one who dominated her and made her his, calling him by his name (Jirou if you forgot). And Satou tells her he was hers since the time she called him by his name (well, family name) in the classroom in volume 1. (chapter 8 in the manga) He promises her he will definitely become a Villager inside Tales Universe and to wait for him. Not by chance, but by doing his best at a specialised university for Individualities Research. Ends with the line: I'll become the Villager A! And that's it. Personally, I really liked this novel, easy to read, nice comedy and some deep insight about the Villagers/Personae. No regret for buying it!

2018-05-02, 02:33	Link #34
VooXoo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Rieti-Italia	Thanks for the summary, really helped bring closure to this novel. For all this years I believed a rumor of MC being a Sage Persona...

2018-05-02, 02:47	Link #35
Rinvelt 駄目人間 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: France	Haha, no, he's just a plain villager. And that's what's good about it, it's not some special BS, he's just used to interact with a Persona, Tsubasa, and thanks to that he doesn't have prejudices against them. That basically means that anyone could do what he did during the novel if they actually made an effort to interact with Personae.