$7 was a small price to pay for mai waifu Myucel's further adventures. This book was action packed, which is to say nothing really happened. Obviously this isn't the sort of story where people kill or die, so action just means meaningless hostage rescue scenarios, daring escapades, car chases, explosions, and eventually everything returning to the status quo.
I hate action scenes like these precisely because they're such an enormous waste of time. Imagine a fist fight that lasted an hour long in a movie where both martial arts experts dodged each other's punches for the entire hour. Is that exciting? No. It's a waste of an hour of your life.
The spectacle of combat is only entertaining for a couple minutes. After that you must have narrative progress, or at least dialogue, to keep things interesting. Outbreak Company volume 10 didn't have much of anything to keep the action entertaining, except some really lovely pictures of all the girls. I'm such a sucker for Myucel art, that I'd say the volume paid for itself right there. Even the cover is a beautiful picture of Myucel.
Shinichi's imouto was also very pretty and featured heavily. The book could be summed up as, "Shinichi gains his family's respect and returns to Eldant where it's safe." Perhaps taking an entire volume to stress how dangerous Earth now is for Shinichi, and why he should stay in Eldant from here on, is a worthwhile investment. With 18 volumes I guess it's okay to take the slow and winding path.
Anyway, I can't help but keep buying and reading more volumes because I'm emotionally invested in Myucel and Shinichi's romance. I assume the payoff will only occur in the last volume, so I'm stuck until then. I just hope the translation doesn't stop short like what happened to Unlimited Fafnir.
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