Thread:Ashleyien/@comment-918376-20150707020140/@comment-918376-20150713225051

Oh, right, that part. I actually did see that one (surprise, surprise). By that point, I didn't focus that much on what they were actually saying, and was more disappointed that they were just going back to old and busted jokes that didn't even make sense. I haven't checked the web novel to see if it's in there, but I have a feeling Mamare probably didn't add it since he doesn't write Nao that way.

From what I remember, purchasing/downloading the game as a new player will automatically give you the newest expansion. It's just for old players who want the newest stuff who have to pay for the expansion, plus the monthly fee on top of all that. Since the ET one-week pass was to promote the Homesteading the Noosphere expansion, I wouldn't be surprised if they automatically downloaded the expansion when it was released. However, I'm quite surprised that Tohya and Minori's parents allowed them to play games at midnight. I would've thought that they'd be more stringent on when they're allowed to play, even if it's for Tohya's sake.

I guess that's true. We just never saw Serara mention anything about them; all we heard of them was from Maryelle, which left their fates rather ambiguous. Unless Maryelle told Isaac/someone in the Round Table, they might not have known to look for them.

Yeah, popular series rarely interest me. There's nothing usually worth talking about with those shows, and I can't really relate to the characters. I like Sketchbook (the manga) and Sketchbook: Full Color's (the anime), which is a slice-of-life about kids in an art club. It's not published in the U.S., though, so it's rather obscure (although somewhat recently, some English distributor picked up the anime to re-release it in DVD, so I might hunt that down). I worked at a library in the past, and surprisingly enough, they actually recognized that the manga was mostly for teens (since they separated kids' graphic novels and teens' graphic novels/manga). I've heard middle/high school kids make fun of manga and people who read it (i.e. me). Luckily and/or unluckily, that stigma is going away ... although that gives kids more opportunities to wreck the books. Dog ears, spilling water on the pages ... every librarian's nightmare.

People seem to forget that Tet's mostly acting everything. I highly doubt she's actually as extreme as she is here, she just decided it would be entertaining. In a sense, it's not different from Mari at the beginning of the series, who was faking her upbeat personality and yet nobody could notice.

And oh, a ton of people don't know there's a light novel. You can't even imagine how many times people have asked me "I want more LH, should I read the manga?" NO. DON'T READ IT. DON'T DO THAT. I have an FAQ in my ask page, but if people click on the "Ask LHFF a question" button at the bottom of any asks I respond to, then they can't read it. Also, because people don't actually read the FAQs, somehow. Even the Japanese fans can read it. I've straight-up deleted asks because they asked something that was already answered, if they bothered looking through my page's links. (I'm still incredulous that some people somehow are watching a show that revolves around talking/words, yet can't be bothered to attempt reading pages.)

I'm pretty sure Minori and Tohya are their real names, considering Naotsugu's real name is ... Naotsugu. Shiroe's is from his name, Kei Shirogane. Maryelle's is from Marie Sakamoto. Yeah, some of those early names were pretty obvious ones, not that most people would know, since it's an MMO and all.

It was from an image Hara sketched up before volume 7 was released (I think?), with the "beta designs" for them, which listed their heights. If not from there, then probably the Settings Book, same with her birthday.