Now that translations have caught up, it's time to read The Bugle Call

It's the 12th century so it's normal for that time period.

The fact that the 27 year old woman is mentally a 9 year old girl makes it better

It takes a lot for me to be so invested in a story that I’ll accept MTL garbage just to see what happens next. Bugle Call might be the first of it’s kind. Highly recommend, this is the good shit.

that bitch is not to be trusted

But she apologized!

Anyone who doesn't agree that she should have won should kill themselves.
Best girl by literal miles and miles.

How much of this Zoe development is genuine, and how much of it is because of her flowering?

Need an edit of her getting killed by LetMeSoloHer.

The translation is pretty much the same as Wizard Scans.

According to Akira she's borrowing way more time from the future now than before. And we've seen her heal herself (or at least timeskip injuries) without seeming to understand.
So she's possibly healing her mind at an accelerated rate without even realizing it.

The MTL job can’t even keep track of who’s saying what in a single conversation, and these pages are almost obnoxious enough to sink it on their own.

That’s what I figured. Ominous.
Does this explain how she dodged that one mirror cut too?

Does this explain how she dodged that one mirror cut too?

Thats what I was thinking of about her timeskipping injuries. She probably unknowingly did that a bunch against Mirror Melenia.

They make it up with these pages.

Udo actually survived

Consider my expectations utterly subverted

Spoiler that shit, anon, that’s a big moment.
And nah, begging people to read it on Mangadex so he gets the views when it’s just shit anyway makes it worse.

She does look more mature in that shot. Could be just Lucas-proximity determination, but could also be foreshadowing?

Need an edit of her winning and beating Akira/the Empire's Pope.

Luca (リュカ, Ryuka) was born with a supernatural power called "branch possession". Abandoned by his parents, he was raised by Gerhard, but in order to fulfil his dream of becoming a musician as a bugler, he decided to protect the Papal territory and the tower.

It begins.

Viz?

Viz.

kek

I liked the localization choice with Rami.
Interested to see if VIZ can come up with something that elegant.

The paneling in this manga is so cool, thankfully an anime adaptation will never happen so they can't butcher it.

I'm gonna have a hard time not reading it as Ranni.

The entire mirror fight was magical.

I prefer reading things that aren't translated.

Yeah this manga could have been better, author kinda lost it after the few first chapters

The time travel stuff is weird.
I don't like Akira as a villain either. I'm sure that they'll give him more depth and all, but so far he's done nothing but give a bad impression with too edgy of a persona.
The battle scenes between armies are really where this manga shines. And the conceptual 'modernist' take on the super powers aren't bad either. The Mirror Rami using her portals to make a rail gun is a fun bit, even if the idea was basically inconsequential. Heavenfall was cool, if again, it was all spectacle without consequence.

What do you mean?

Maybe that Zoe sees Lucas as a daddyboyfriend, while Lucas just thinks of her as his womanchild GF in a way that makes it hard for a mutual romance to exist.

Women want husbanddads just like men want daughterwives so I don't see why not

The time travel stuff might have been rough if they just dropped it in, but the story eases you into over such a long period of time that it went over fine. For me, at least.
I like Akira as a midboss villain, some big strong guy that's out fucking stuff up, but less so if he turns out to be the Empire's leader like I'm predicting and the actual big bad.

Eh, it's there form the getgo and Lucas seems alright with waiting. I don't see any issue really, besides time

I have this horrible feeling that the manga is going to end with Zoe massively overexerting herself and Lucas having to wait years and years for her to wake up

It's that or she does this time skip/advance move and uses up her entire life. She's mentally 9 now, she does something crazy like punch a garland meteor back into space, then suddenly she's mentally 101, sad goodbye, dead.

I really like this series, but it's too bad it's almost certainly getting axed (even with the Viz licensing). Sales are abysmal and it's always at the back the magazine. Shoulda serialized it in an actual seinen publication.

They do that with a manchild 19 year old and a ten year old girl with her 16 year old self's personality and memories this very season

Amusingly enough, for example the Italian translation went for "Ramiensis" or something like that. Kind of stupid considering the Latin heritage of Italian, they should have simply kept the fan idea and not mangled it.

Despite the quality being still good, it feels like we're running a tad too much on plot development and lore dumping.
The Zoe tries to be a real human being chapter was great, but we aren't rushing to the conclusion for avoiding the axe, right?

I think an anime has potential to make this more popular and I hope they can see it too.

The mystery boxes are getting tied off more and more right now.
Which is good. We're like 9 volumes in. Can't leave everything for the end.
But it wouldn't surprise me if the writer was aiming for a graceful finish by cutting to the chase between Lucas and Zoe.
Really the biggest jump isn't her storyline, but the reveal about the Popes. That one was a big thing to just dump on the lap of the readers.