Back to the comfy village life while Theo waits for exam results.
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Daniel Clark
Leo Foster
If you somehow hadn't noticed yet, Theo and Tifa's parents are probably dead\ rather than deadbeats.
Jonathan Cooper
Luis Russell
Gavin Ross
Josiah Adams
wasnt Theo refereed as orphan once? I think it was pretty obvious
Samuel Parker
We'll wait years for this flashback, but how Little Tifa here and Theo got together is going to be a gutpuncher I just know it.
David Smith
I've learned never to overestimate the intelligence of the average user. Or anyone on the internet really.
Grayson Nelson
Luis Price
Bentley Martinez
cant blame you, I learned the hard way why many movies and serie NEED, someone to give exposition even to the most obvious of things
Nicholas Young
Robert Rogers
Jeremiah Diaz
Joshua Foster
My favourite chapter with my favourite spread.
Jack Fisher
Logan Hill
Jayden Miller
Nice, I was waiting.
Brody White
Adam Ward
Aiden Martin
Goddamit Theo, you don't just shove your new lover in the face of your first waifu
Leo Rodriguez
Logan Evans
soo this thing is basically Theo moms or something now?
Nathan Richardson
IT'S NOT FAIR
Charles Richardson
Carson Johnson
Goddamit, Tifa is truly the most beautiful girl in the series.
Jayden Jackson
Andrew Taylor
Mogged by ex
Gabriel Russell
>instead of going to the elves (who would be normally glad to have more people to help out their low population numbers), goes to the humans
100% guarantee the elves killed the parents because the hatred over the attempted genocide and race traitors is strong and powerful
Ryder Harris
Cooper Cooper
the most unrealistic part of this manga is that Theo isn't a siscon
Brandon Clark
Depends on which end of the continent she was on, 9 year olds can't walk very far or very fast.
Juan Walker
Jacob Butler
Camden Lopez
Jaxon Cox
The Elven Black Hand sent out a ruffian to wherever the parents were and "cleaned" up the filth
Aaron Murphy
Elijah Nguyen
Liam Stewart
Nathan Edwards
I love the monkey and wish there was more of him being straight man to people's bullshit.
Kayden Torres
Wyatt Anderson
Jose Gutierrez
Chase Diaz
Connor Cruz
I am actually surprised is not Theo pet
Anthony Bell
Gabriel Miller
merchants were actually hated by some people because they disturbed the rigid social hierarchy of nobles and peasant, since Merchant could end being even richer than nobles at times and gain a lot of influence despise in theory still being peasants
Mason Kelly
Cooper Reyes
Oliver Smith
Elijah Scott
Benjamin Gonzalez
Charles Butler
Jonathan Barnes
Nolan Lopez
Bentley Brooks
This illiterate 12-15yo girl is spitting wisdom that some adults could not articulate to a child.
I love the author for how well she has people frame life advice because not only does she focus on the harsher realities like a lot of factors that influence our lives are determined before we're even born. But stuff like this. Theo is at a crossroad but he only got here because he was pushed, and pushed himself to experience hardships and overcome barriers. Even if he fails the exam he can take it again or settle down at home and become something else. He's got a lot of potential but only because he took the time to build skills that opened those doors.
Jordan Lewis
Tyler Peterson
Michael Morris
Henry Anderson
Monke could not believe the bullshit that boy was spewing.
Ayden Davis
Oliver Taylor
Jace Taylor
Asher Howard
she wants the D
Thomas Peterson
Matthew Campbell
Gavin Lewis
Dylan Cook
Caleb Jones
Gavin Hughes
Noah Wood
Luis Davis
Julian Taylor
cute loser
Juan Watson
Carson Hernandez
I kinda wish we would have seen more of the reaction
Brandon Lewis
Probably got cut for time, this chapter is already 70 pages.
Connor Watson
Nathan Sullivan
This is sedona's fault, that monster
Lucas Fisher
Liam Perez
Landon Reed
Theo could also just be an abandoned elf rape baby
Angel Garcia
Nathaniel Ross
Aiden Rogers
How can any other girl possibly compete
Chase Hughes
Sebastian Collins
Adam Kelly
Charles Moore
Blake James
my heart
yep that's a common theme in many works
She can't compete with the Li
This page works as a metaphor for him overcoming the wormwood too
She really does tackle stuff like this beautifully. I've had similar notions conveyed to me growing up by hard working less educated relatives and it really resonates. Especially the subtle anger here ().
And there it is. What a spread.
Austin Phillips
You've probably seen this in a OPT at least once.
James Jones
Ryan Flores
Jose Walker
Jonathan Reed
Part One of Magus of the Library is now over.
Camden Jackson
>no a confesssion
I guess she chicken out
Adam Evans
Jordan Martinez
And that's all for today and for volume 3. I was told that dragon women always have breasts, my life is a lie.
Bentley Adams
Just look at this angel, even her angry face is 10/10
Jackson Allen
I have never liked these kind of designs for furry characters, the weird mix of human anatomy and animal just look weird and uncanny.
Noah Robinson
thank you so much. This is great!
Adam Wood
thanks OP, I actually hope Theo doesnt forget about all the people of his town and actually visit or something
David Ramirez
no... think of the copyright holders!!
Gabriel Collins
Religion is a big hot topic in Magus world (pic from Eden)
Joseph Baker
I just want to say that I started reading this after seeing these threads and it's basically better than 98% of all the shit I have ever read in manga.
And I been in this shit for 20 years now
Jacob White
What a slut
Nathan Rivera
Just look at this chad, if her imagination turns even half true he will flood whole villages with those (b/l)ooks.
Isaiah Hill
she wanted to be flooded alright
Luke Nguyen
I have nothing to add to this sequence. My heart strings were plucked and that is all.
Matthew Lewis
Can you really blame her? Just look at THAT She knew that those half genes were wasting in Amun.
Grayson Johnson
BEST GIRL
Colton Reyes
>still sleep with his big tiddy sister
unf
Landon Clark
She doesn't know that he's ripped so thre's also that
John Perez
>Li
-terature?
Easton Parker
probably never visit him while working, wouldnt be surprised if took some clothes off to fight the heat sometimes.
Alexander Sanders
If only Sedona had heard him calling himself a hero, she would cream herself on the spot
Adrian Thompson
spoiler: he is having in a class full of cute girls and completely forgets about her
Tyler Brown
is she that much of a chuuni?
Tyler Bennett
She really groomed him perfectly
Isaac Sullivan
Oh, you'll see. Especially at the last chapter of vol.4
Landon Cox
You have no idea user. Buckle up because next volume will be a treat.
Hudson Lewis
;_;
Dominic Carter
I read every instance of "books" as "boobs". Just wanted you to know.
Henry Wilson
and just in 2 days
Eli Evans
Sebastian Stewart
L-Lewd
Jose Powell
can i get a tldr on this before I buy it
Austin Powell
books
Brandon Smith
librarians rule the world
Matthew Ward
Reading is RAD
Cameron Russell
Sedona is so flat it's kinda annoying to look at
Evan Gutierrez
Flat is justice!
Oh wait
Bentley White
Only those who desire children may have the bust
James Foster
mother of six
Ethan Williams
Or mother of nine by volume 4.
Juan White
does that make their libraries brothels or dairies?
Lucas Lewis
I wonder who is the one asking for it, she or her husband
Michael Bailey
how does she find the time?
do we know the working hours of kafna? is it 9-5?
Samuel Hall
She's liasons office IIRC, they probably fuck like rabbits the nights before she sets off again.
Joseph White
>do we know the working hours of kafna? is it 9-5?
So far it's pretty vague and I assume the library has something like a 24/7 staff rotation as out of the departments we know of groups like the Protections office are round the clock security and escort. And I imagine the restoration offices have people constantly at work maintaining texts that pass through the library as well as stuff on the stacks.
I do see the Liason office where mega mom resides being more flexible with responsibilities, and more forgiving towards pregnancy since she could be moved to deskwork as opposed to having to go out on expeditions like in the first volume.
Grayson Jenkins
Poor osananajimmy never stood a chance
Zachary Green
She never really try to be honest
Kayden Parker
She wants it and makes it a point of pride for the hubby to please her more and more
Carter Reyes
is this harem shit
Benjamin Nguyen
MC is a charming lad so it's okay
Cameron Moore
Not yet, the only ones with actual crushes are the comic relief animal and the left behind childhood friend.
Parker Butler
you know damn well that a harem is forming
Lucas Ramirez
I will keep my hopes of Ohgga being the nonromantic bro character up until the day the author makes it unambiguous.
Jason Rodriguez
The seething cuck routine is funny but it'll get old fast if she does it too much.
Nathaniel Reyes
Since this is the start of the end of the start of Theo (or something), how old do you think he'll be at the climax of the story?
Eighteen? Nineteen?
Thirty?
Carter Ward
The calendar has five years left to go on the countdown so probably around eighteen.
Brandon Ramirez
I refuse to believe it. It's just aya.
Liam Reyes
She's greedy but even she can't win against those playboy magnetism.
That water mana affinity just makes the lady wet.
Jordan Howard
You have to unfuck your brain from haremshit and recognize that Theo's interaction with 99.99% of the female cast is innocent and non-sexual. Even in a series where the number of male characters that have names is like sub-10 Theo is here for the books not the ladies.
Justin Parker
At this rate, Ohgga gonna rope her into threesome with Theo as some sort of "cultural exchange"
Benjamin Reyes
>Theo is here for the books not the ladies.
>GS only cares about goblin genocide
>Mao Mao only cares about poison
Why are autistic MC soo based?
Mason Sullivan
user...
Henry Kelly
So is there more on the magic loli in the raws?
Ethan Wilson
I bet Uira is going to turn into a cute magus girl once she gets enough mana from Theo
Jason Watson
Cute emissary of wormwood*
Evan Torres
What is wormwood anyways? Whatever they fought, was just an "emissary, what is the actual wormwood
James Adams
Chapter 25 and 30 have stuff with her IIRC.
Connor Scott
he's ripped
Chase Ortiz
Poor Uira
Daniel White
>some people
nobles aren't people
Easton Thompson
unf
Jack Russell
I think Theo/Tei will be a parallel to Tifa/Theo. Makes a lot more sense as a sibling relationship than a romantic one.
Sebastian Nelson
Next chapter will begin to actually show what the wormwood wrought.
Aaron Jenkins
Isn't it depressing how some students know they will end up being farmers who will never be able to use the knowledge that they gained from school while others are already talking about marriages? Is this how school graduation was like in ancient times?
Ayden Miller
You mean like how it is modern times? The vast majority of people today don't put any of the knowledge they learned at school to use in their jobs.
Jaxson Moore
I see school more as teaching "common knowledge", the basics of everything soo you will have a rudimentary understanding of daily life and skills with university being the place where you learn the stuff for specific jobs.
Juan Evans
in that we agree
John Rodriguez
>Acat
Is brother is Adog, I gues?
Carter Sanchez
Well, few weebs are aware that Japanese children often sleep in their parents' bed until 6 or 7 years old.
Jacob Gutierrez
>smart Acat going for the well paid job instead of the wageslave one
Hunter Sanders
What does sleeping on big brown oneesan boobs feel like?
Samuel Cook
biting yourself to blood sounds painful
Nathaniel Lopez
>the pomf run
Gavin Perry
If lips are dry because of climate and not the greatest health and no chapstick or lotion or cooking oil to spare, it can happen pretty easily
Dry climates are not fun :(
Christopher Cook
maybe, but its probably easier thanks to your teeth, I always wonder how strong does one has to grip a sword or the like to blood, since it quite common to see that in shonen.
Austin Allen
>I wanted him to be hung up on me for a while! Ten years, at least!
Easton Green
I'd post that fafnir spread from Rosen Garten, but last time I did some overpaid jannitor got angry
Matthew Ross
>1 volume per year
Cameron Edwards
>english translation released a year after the japanese one
>most recent japanese release is volume 5
>no word on a release date for volume 6
>new volume realistically is 2023 for EOP.
Parker Ward
the end of time is planned for 5 years in the future, we can assume it will correspond to the climax
Nicholas Nelson
Dylan Watson
Anyone else here have a feeling that the author's favorite character in Final Fantasy VII is Cloud Strife?
Owen Hernandez
>Eden
you must enjoy suffering, Beserk is a joke in comparison to this
Nolan Bailey
Thanks for the dump like always OP.
Chase Jackson
Wormwood is a star mentioned in the book of revelations. Going by the whole 'emissary' thing, you have to figure the creature is from outer space
Lincoln Taylor
If Sakiya Menes decided to become a full time merchant, then she actually has an excuse to travel to see Theo instead of simply being a librarian.
Thomas Carter
>Theo has some free time for once
>The girls try to accompanie him to the market or something
>Suddenly, surprise reunion with dear childhood friend
>Cat fight intensifies
Sebastian Morris
In fairy tales, you usually have some female royalty or nobility abandon her baby after her family loses a power struggle with a rival political faction. The baby then grows up being unaware of his or her origin, while being raised by somebody else.
However, if you don't want things to get too complicated, Theo's mother could have been cheating on her husband and Theo is the result of an adulterous relationship. There could be many possible scenarios in why Theo was orphaned in the end.
Sebastian Torres
We still do not know the mystery of how dinosaurs such as brontosaurus have sex without physically injuring themselves. Therefore, why can't female dragons have breasts?
Jason Cruz
Maybe the rakta girl?
Dylan Morgan
has another realistic touch, the people who tried to fuck you over taking credit for your success
Kevin Bell
>the people who tried to fuck you over taking credit for your success
Didn't the guy tutor him? He was pretty grateful after Theo saved his life
Juan Brown
I assume the common development would be that Theo parents were of distinct social classes, no only race, and Tifs being a close servant to whoever of the 2 was noble, once the affair was discovered, shit went down, and Tifa was asked to take Theo away and never return.
Hunter Brown
The only people to truly support Theo in my eyes, are the masonery troupe, Ganan, Tifa, the childhood friend, and the teacher at the school. The librarian warmed up to him after being saved, but I dont feel the did that much, the other kids, I cant trust them once a bully always a bully.
Noah Gomez
What about a Romeo and Juliet situation except both parents are still alive but Juliet has to abandon her baby due to her entire clan disapproval and Juliet's father wanting her to marry another man instead of Romeo?
Nolan Torres
Well, there must be a very good reason why Tifa is traveling with baby Theo deep in the forest and avoiding public roads. Tifa would not need a walking stick at all if she was walking on a flat public road so this leaves us with a big question.
Is Tifa avoiding public roads because of bandits and thieves or assassins? What do you guys think?
Wyatt Carter
>once a bully always a bully
They were little kids. You can't hold it against them.
Caleb Scott
Yes, that's how he picked out the book back in chapter 7.
Xavier White
Sex with Sedona
Angel Smith
Theo please, go back to read erotic noveld
Luke Wright
kek
Dominic Price
Thats a possibility I guess, but given the whole "elf genocide" probably no going to happen
Isaac Lopez
You just wait, until when he is asked what his ideal girl looks or something, he just end describing his sister without realizing it himself, probably only the white rat thing knowing who he is describing.
Ethan James
I fucking sure I can, little shits
Caleb Murphy
Now, this is certainly novel. The covers of each volume of Magus of the Library have a prominent subscript: “Based on Kafna of the Wind by Sophie Schwimm. Translated by Hiroto Hamada“ they proclaim underneath the title. That piques your curiosity – a English novel, translated into Japanese, adapted into a manga, then re-translated back into English? What a fascinating game of Chinese whispers! It’s like when you run a paragraph through Google Translate ten times consecutively to admire the machine-mangled automatic poetry that emerges out of the other end. It also engages your deeper interest – manga adaptations of English books outside of Holmes, Shakespeare, and whatever else a tourist might pick up on their guided tour of Old London Town are comparatively rare, so if this Kafna of the Wind was prominent enough to break out into foreign audiences halfway across the world, it must have been quite remarkable indeed and this manga is more likely than most to be a good one and worth a purchase.
If you look for the original source material though, that’s where you’ll hit your first snag. Go through the library catalogues, search Amazon high and wide, you won’t be able to loan out or buy a copy of Kafna of the Wind anywhere. Wow, that’s even better – it’s a rediscovered treasure of a rare book that’s been long out of print! That makes the manga even more special, it’s not just a comic it’s a literary rescue mission!
It’s a lovely tale to tell, but as tales go it’s a tall one. You won’t find Kafna of the Wind in any library for simple and more prosaic reason that Kafna of the Wind does not actually exist… the attribution is fake. Sophie Schwimm, Hiroto Hamada, and their book are all completely fictional!
Henry Gray
Reminder to everyone here that Mitsu Izumi's Magus of the Library is employing the same technique used by William Goldman in The Princess Bride in case anybody here is still searching for Kafna of the Wind by Sophie Schwimm and translated by Hiroto Hamada, and the technique is called abridgement.
The Princess Bride is a 1973 fantasy romance novel by American writer William Goldman. The book combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, drama, romance, and fairy tale. It is presented as an abridgment (or "the good parts version") of a longer work by the fictional S. Morgenstern, and Goldman's "commentary" asides are constant throughout.
en.wikipedia.org
An abridgement (or abridgment) is a condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form while maintaining the unity of the source. The abridgement can be true to the original work in terms of mood and tone, capturing the parts the abridging author perceives to be most important; it could be a complete parody of the original or it could fall anywhere in between, generally capturing the tone and message of the original author but falling short in some manner or subtly twisting their words and message to favor a different interpretation or agenda.
A written work may be abridged to make it more accessible to a wider audience; for example, to make an adaptation of it as an audio book or a television show, to make a more convenient companion to an already-established work or to create a shorter reference version.
Unabridged is the opposite of abridged. A common example is an unabridged dictionary.
James Davis
Kukuo is a good boy and entitled to his belly rubs you fucking weasel rabbit.
Nathaniel Wright
I don't think you need to do research to figure that one out, buddy.
Easton Harris
Take your bets!
Did Uira do something so totally bad and evil to warrant dying as a animal without dignity?
Something fairly awful and wrong but the punishment was just the witch being a psychopath?
Treason against her group?
Wrong place, wrong time, wrong flavor of tea?
Elijah Richardson
The panelling in this series is so beautiful. Slows the pace due to taking up page space for sure, but this stuff that emulates movies and the like really is great
Brayden Cox
Definitely. His sister being named Tifa may just be a coincidence, but I can't think of any other prominent blonde guy as a protagonist in Japanese media, they're usually all black/brown haired
Nolan Perry
That doesn't go to say that he's necessarily based off cloud though of course, it's just that the combination of those two things makes it seem likely is all
Adrian Anderson
Huh I remember downloading this one. Only read 1 chapter though.
Wow you guys already have resident autist.
Luke Gray
Rather than an abridgement, my assumption was that Magus of the Library shows the true events that Kafna of the Wind is based on since a lot has happened that Sophie couldn't possibly know about. That way it's still "based on Kafna of the Wind", since Kafna of the Wind is itself based on the events that Sophie experienced. It would be pretty weird if what we're reading is a fictionalized retelling of the events that Sophie experienced, i.e., most of it is just shit that Sophie made up to fill in the gaps.
Also, while we are on the topic of metatextuality, there's a book called Sophie's world where Sophie, the MC, realizes she is in a book called Sophie's World. Thought it was a pretty funny coincidence.
Jonathan Lopez
In Mitsu Izumi's previous manga, 7th Garden, not only does Awyn Gardener, the male protagonist have blonde hair but his main weapon is a buster blade just like Cloud Strife so it would not be a stretch to assume that Mitsu Izumi is a big Final Fantasy fan.
Elijah Bennett
Everyone but Theo seems to get some real bad vibes from Uira so probably something fairly awful.
Nathan Scott
It's a land with seven different main languages, and god knows how many different branches and spin offs and spontaneously developed languages have appeared over the years. And systems of writing aside from over the centuries?
The library is a massive headache. Anyone who wants to keep texts from across racial lines is in for one hell of a brain test.
Also dragons and elves have lazy lazy alphabets
Jason Robinson
The problem with that is that one guy says he's the youngest of nine children and he's already the same age as Theo. So one of the numbers is a typo (6 or 9) or she's one of the sisters that became a kafna and shares a similar temperament to their mother. I'm guessing that their family is just really blessed with fertility.
Leo Sullivan
You try doing fine details with a claw.
Blake Jones
the haupi alphabet is modelled on Mesopotamian cuneiform, which is appropriate since they're supposed to have the oldest humanoid civilization
Connor Garcia
That'd imply there's a clan of women out there keeping their names after marriage and each having a soccer team of kids.
Nathan Torres
Early Bronze Age: 3rd millennium BC (approximate dates shown). The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC (classical Sumerian). The earliest literary author known by name is Enheduanna, a Sumerian priestess and public figure dating to ca. 24th century BC. Certain literary texts are difficult to date, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which was recorded in the Papyrus of Ani around 1240 BC, but other versions of the book probably date from about the 18th century BC.
2600: Sumerian texts from Abu Salabikh, including the Instructions of Shuruppak and the Kesh temple hymn
2600: Egyptian The Life of Metjen, from Saqqara
2500: Egyptian Diary of Merer (Oldest papyrus)
2400: Egyptian Pyramid Texts, including the Cannibal Hymn
2400: Sumerian Code of Urukagina
2400: Egyptian Palermo stone
2350: Egyptian The Maxims of Ptahhotep
2270: Sumerian Enheduanna's Hymns
2250: Egyptian Autobiography of Weni
2250-2000: Earliest Sumerian stories in the Epic of Gilgamesh
2200: Egyptian Autobiography of Harkhuf
2100: Sumerian Curse of Agade
2100: Sumerian Debate between Bird and Fish
2050: Sumerian Code of Ur-Nammu
2000: Egyptian Coffin Texts
2000: Sumerian Lament for Ur
2000: Sumerian Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
en.wikipedia.org
Doesn't Egypt compete with Sumer for title of oldest human civilization since both civilizations have created ancient literature during the exact same time period yet in 2 different languages?
Sebastian Watson
>Trip and namefag complaining about autists
Noah Perry
>Doesn't Egypt compete with Sumer for title of oldest human civilization since both civilizations have created ancient literature during the exact same time period yet in 2 different languages?
Yes, but we think the Sumerians developed civilization slightly earlier(sometime around 3400 BC). Regardless of who came first, though, the point is that Haupis are ancient and they have a script to reflect that.
Xavier Cooper
No one that cute can be evil.
Nolan Cooper
should I read 7th garden?
Mason Phillips
Only if you're okay with picking up a series that doesn't have an ending. Some anons have griped about it going off the rails quickly too so there's that.
Josiah Butler
the oldest know civilization was whoever built Golpekli Tepe between 8,000 and 9,500 BCE, and there's a good chance the prot-indo-european language descended from whatever theirs was
David Garcia
This is the ending.
It leads to Mitsu Izumi being much happier with Kodansha, so, oh well what the hell
Dylan Butler
I feel that 7th Garden ended at a pretty interesting cliffhanger and should 7th Garden ever come back from hiatus, the story will reach its Part 2 Phase and I am looking forward to Mitsu Izumi's take on the Matrix in Part 2 of 7th Garden.
Nolan Sullivan
The things we do for love...
Jonathan Ward
Why would that even be a possibility?
Logan Parker
I don't think Magus is ending any time soon for 7th garden to come back
Christian Morgan
I wonder if they have lesbrarians in this series?
Ethan Hughes
It's a workplace with 9 women for every man (besides the support staff) staffed mostly by women looking to get away from the housewife role. Of course there are lesbians in the library.
Samuel Garcia
Fucking demons...