/a/ - Animu & Mango

>>743998

Page 280 on volume 1.

>>744000

What happens?

>>743992

I just finished volume 5 of grimgar, it's being slowed down by official translators. I have a love/dislike relationship with grimgar I find it really engaging with nice worldbuilding but it suffers the re:zero problem of the main plot never getting resolved, addressed, or ever fucking moving forward. I call it the ME2 recruitment problem, ME2 starts off with you recruiting your team to fight the collectors little did you know that recruiting your team is 99% of the story and fighting the collectors is 1% of the story.

I REALLY want to know how they got transported to this world, when, if they can ever go back, etc but looking at the plot synopsis it looks like that doesn't happen for the next 5 books at more which is fucking ridiculous. Meandering and unfocused narratives seem to be a huge problem in light novels. At least grimgar gets the core stuff right with them being a bunch of vulnerable kids struggling their way through.

>>744004

He had a pair of horns initially, but one was cut out as a punishment earlier when she was thrown out for some bullshit reasons along with her father by the community she was born into. So later she had only one because of that, and kept it hidden from strangers with her hair, because that would be some kind of mark of shame among her kin to have only one horn.

>>743992

'Reika-sama' wasn't reincarnated, she possessed the body of the host girl that got in trouble for bullying her love rival. Is the translation still going? I have read it maybe a year ago. I recall it to be pure SoL with nothing overly dramatic happening along. I found Common Sense of Duke's Daughter to be more engaging between the two.

>>744025

*He had --> She had

>>744018

I never got the impression that Grimgar was ever going to address the isekai element, which I liked because as just a comfy/suffering/adventure story about living in an MMO logic world it works great.

Then I started reading the LN and now that I'm just starting vol.3 I'm kind of disappointed to see they are going to bring that up. I thought the whole "I try to remember but I can't so whatever" was a hint to the reader that you should just ignore that whole thing.

Are you reading the raws or the translation? I'm curious because it seems like the official translation is actually surprisingly good, although my only other experience was comparing the raws and yen press translation of Konosuba so I don't have much of a frame of reference.

>>744036

The translation.

It seems cruel not to solve/address it with them mentioning words from the other world and haru even having a flashback with a girl. There's no point to them being isekaid if it doesn't get addressed and them being magically unable to recall only makes me more interested though I guess it shifts focus of the story. But with the daybreakers wanting to learn how to revive people it seems a given that they'd be uncovering a ton of secrets especially with them entering another world in volume 5 with a strong hint of more worlds

I was reading some bloggers translation and now the official yen press translation that gets leaked. I wouldn't call the logic mmo logic so much as fleshed fantasy logic even the skills behave somewhat realistically with the blessings of the light God no longer working when they enter a dusk world and the dark spells getting a boost there's nothing very gamey about it you don't even get health or mana potions!

>>743992

There's 298 chapters of fanfiction here:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12561123/1/Kenkyo-Kenjitsu-wo-Motto-ni-Ikiteorimasu

>>744025

>reincarnation vs possession

Oh, I seem to have mixed up the events from Common Sense and Kenkyo, Kenjitsu. It has been a while since I've read both.

>ALEISTER becomes a loli who keeps making dirty jokes and coming onto a guy who punched her at least twice in the same day

>The Number 1 top dog gets wrecked by a fake widow wearing cat cosplay.

>The End Of The Century Emperor becomes Kamen Rider, finds a baby while getting pursued by the police and said number one top dog and causes mental damage to his girlfriend repeatedly while an yandere AI tries to make him suplex said girlfriend

Sausage Kamachi, volume 19 of Index is an adventure into the deranged mind of a man who would crash like a plane if he stopped writing.

I've been picking up random LNs/WNs here and there in my free time. Since the vending machine one my time has been limited.

I did happen to pick up Sevens lately and that's been pretty fun as a before-bed read. It's about a dense fuck who's ancestors tell him how he's an idiot/grant him their former skills through a gem around his neck. Considering reporting Zirus in to Patreon for being an unethical hack these last two months/not following through on his promises (don't TL for money if you ain't gonna TL on a schedule, fag). Thank fuck I don't donate to patreon schemes.

Other one I recently started up was Maou-sama no Machizukuri! ~Saikyou no Danjon wa Kindai Toshi~ but I can't tell you much other than MC shoots a wolf demon to death in the prologue.

>>744047

>Only Sense Online

Why do you torture yourself like that, anon? I mean a chapter once a month of an LN that has typically 7+ chapters per volume? That's way too much waiting.

>>747377

From what's been translated so far, she has only not been a loli for a few minutes.

>>743992

That's actually kind of an interesting turn for the genre. I might look into it if I find the time.

Personally, I'm picking up the new Shield Hero light novel volume that drops today. The story at this point has mostly diverged from the WN so I'm not terribly worried it will end the same way.

>>747381

What? How did my post contain anything about OSO? I haven't read it and don't intend either. Read slowly the title I had in mind: Common Sense of Duke's Daughter.

>>743992

106 volumes in now, and i have a few things to say about the story.

I wish we got to see more of Reika-sama being an aristocrat and playing the game than we do. most the focus is on the benign shit she does, and the more commoner aspects. everyone thinks highly of her and discusses how she gets shit done and has a way with being an aristocrat, but we only get glimpses. In the setup, i was expecting it to be more like Overlord, where our lovable idiot Reika sasuga's her way to power by accident, and we get to see all the steps. Unfortunately, all those important steps are either skipped over or handled by her posse who bully people off screen (as discussed in one of the alt-perspective parts, i believe the girl with a name, boy with no name)

i dont hate it or anything, but it is quite honestly too banal to be terribly interesting. i think it could be really something if the author had some editorial oversight.

I like that the inept protagonist is inept across both her lives, and doesnt magically develop a super reverse harem because she is the MC. It actually handles her struggles with relationships pretty well and gets points in my book for her really acting like a love struck loser at times.

>>748115

>>748121

The only thing I'd warn is that the author doesn't really understand gun terminology, but he understands it better than most nips so he tries to convey these things to the reader under the assumption that they live in nofuns countries. He also uses fake gun names.

>>748112

>>748121

>>748126

I have to say anon, I was impressed. It really does give the feel of Dungeon Defense if Dantalion hadn't gone full BEACHES AND SHORES on us and he had guns and could make his own lolis instead of collecting them from the world.

Overall I had a lot of fun in the first volume, and the only thing it lacked was an illustration of Stolas's despair when what awaited her after the 2km corridor of .50 death was another one exactly like it

I started reading A certain magical index. I'm on volume 5 now, I really like it a lot.

>>748112

It's The Demon King's Urban Development, anon. Don't make it more difficult than necessary.

I just want a LN about someone who is /fit/. Is that too much to ask for?

>>748256

Unfortunately Dungeon Defense got really full of itself really fast in a reddit tier way.

>>748626

Maou-sama can be translated both ways.

>>748692

But you won't find it on novelupdates if with 'lord' in the title.

>>748537

It'd be grand if Marcho was revived as a loli monster. She wouldn't be stuck with a time limit too.

Volume 3 was overall pretty cool too, a pity Morax was a two-bit rapist instead of a true master plotter. At least there's still hope for Viscosity.

Still, between technical promises and straight up decapitating someone while she wasn't even looking at them, Aura was somehow more edgy than a goddamn dragon of death, and that's saying something.

I keep waiting for Wight to go Sasuga Lolicell-sama on me.

Shame he got dumped

>>748665

Really makes you think when a series with Urban Development in the name has more dungeon defending in it than the one called Dungeon Defense.

>>748542

You're going to see a lot of crazy shit before you catch up anon, I can tell you that much.

>>748732

I google it as lord and the TL's site is the first result.

>>748795

Maybe, but direct search on the site gives 0 results.

>>748796

on the site -> on novelupdates

>>748795

>>748796

Not to mention that translators themselves use king, not lord:

>「Of course, I know. You are a newly born demon king. You’re a demon king just like me.」

>>748758

Do you mean catch up as in new testament?

>>748758

Yeah, was a little upset about Morax. The author started out the volume with him as a pretty cool bro who liked to scheme, and made [Steel] Demon Lord out to be the 2 bit rapist, but it was disappointing to see the schemer turned into a standard rape villain. At least Viscosity might learn from his mistakes all things considered, and could even become friends with MC one day from the way the Creator left it off. Aura was definitely edgy that chapter, but I think it's painting out how the elf's the closest to a ruthless villain in its own sort of gap moe way. Sebas Wight was more edgy IMO, he just gets a pass for being edgy due to the shit he has to put up with/being best non-loli.

I get the feeling it'll be an ongoing gag of the dwarf trying to fug him. I've only started chapter 4 since I'm working on finals, so it sounds like you're gonna be ahead of me right now, anon.

>>748873

Catch up as in reading the latest released volume.

Though The End of the Century Emperor will show up when you get to the second season's ending.

>>748879

Good luck with your finals anon

>>748758

>Really makes you think when a series with Urban Development in the name has more dungeon defending in it than the one called Dungeon Defense.

Defending a dungeon is kind of like fighting foreign terrorists. If there is no immediate threat you take the fight to them, bomb the living fuck out of them, and stop them from organizing. Its about prevention.

konosuba. Probably babby's first LN, the anime was so good and another season is so unlikely it made me give in and start with the LNs. I do read books mind you but I just couldn't picture modern literature being good at all, and a japanese piece of media that isn't anime or pre-2007 vidya being good on top of that. I don't even mind the translations being shit, I've completed all chapters up to 4 and I'm reading the megumin side story, loving the nonstop chuuni service.

Last night I dreamed I was a crimson magic clansman and I guilt tripped Yunyun into kissing me on the cheek, then we held hands from her house to the school. It was a very lewd dream, it ended right when we arrived at school and exchanged looks with Megumin. I don't speak jap so my brain couldn't come up with a fitting crimson magic name, but I think my name in there was akatsuki, It was written on the outside pocket of my cloak.

>>749503

So pretty much space marines meets old fantasy meets The Man in the Iron Mask?

Will keep it in my backlog

Read Sevens. It was okay, but while I liked a lot of parts and I can't say I really disliked anything about it, I can't say that it's awesome or anything.

>noble scion gets kicked out due to strange circumstances and must get his shit together

>featuring 7 of his awesome ancestors talking about what a spoiled little shit he is

Mr. Lyle best Lyle.

Also reading I am Monarch and it was okay until they started introducing Mana and magic skills. Now, it's getting pretty boring what with ancient spirits showing up and a blockhead-type MC trying to be a chessmaster.

>>747369

>>Kuro no Maou. Just enough edge. Yandere spam in later chapters.

Kamen Rider: EDGE EDITION

>Reincarnator

Whew.

The Chinks are kinda crazy, but I can't say I didn't like this one. Humanity got fucked over big time as they all started being thrown into an inter-dimensional meat grinder. But on the verge of total extinction, the last remnants of humanity find a way to send someone back in time, so they send the guy with the greatest potential for growth with all the collected knowledge they managed to scrape together.

It's pretty grim, but the fantastic elements are truly fantastic. MC is not very multifaceted, but it kind of fits his jaded veteran persona.

>>748908

Just got caught up after finishing finals. Did... Did Lolicell just unintentionally NTR Dantallion? Dant couldn't have made that child between his and Marcho's medallions if not for [creation] medal after all.

Why do the nirmalfags keep insisting Lolicell is in a romantic relationship with his Daughters? Nothing about his relationship with his covenant is romantic, and at most he's just an ecchi father who recognizes that his daughters have a complex.

>>749639

I think it explicitly said that his elf daughter liked him in a different way than the other two.

>>749643

She likes him like that, not the other way around necessarily.

>>749656

Sounds like a typical elf to me.

>>749639

Now I see what you mean.

This is some advanced cuck shit, like, at least a tier above "My wife's son".

Still, gotta respect a man so devoted to having his waifu's daughter.

>>749794

You pretty much have to have crippling assburgers to become a magician.

Meanwhile, Kiharas (and by proxy the science side) are the Chads of the To Aru world.

>>748112

>>747380

I tried, I can't read this.

It trigger my inner /k/ommando so much, every trivia written about guns, combat and shooting is wrong. Stereotypical BS of no-funz teens that believe they know guns because they play cawafdooty and read a wikipedia article.

I dropped it when they started speaking shotguns bore (because so far I just assumed the TL didn't know the technical terms and was making honest mistakes) it's when it became painfully obvious the author has no knowledge of guns whatsoever.

>>749973

Shut up, Canada. Shit's kawaii as fug.

>>749973

If you keep reading the author stops writing about real guns and moves on to magic guns, so maybe if you stick with it it won't trigger your gun autism too much. There are a few bits here and there where the author has obviously pulled most of his knowledge second hand from somewhere, but it's fairly easy to ignore and get caught up in the making a city / defending dungeon stuff.

>>749973

Seems like the author is gonna branch into either missiles or vehicles here soon. Author gets better about it as time goes on, and I did kinda warn yah here: >>748126

Also new chapter is out.

I just started Volume 14 of index. It is clear to me now that Tsuchimikado is one of us.

>>751967

An aniki to strive for.

Delta force and the EotCE are the reasons you read raildices.

>>752101

I don't understand.

>>752107

Is the correct response.

>>752101

>Vol 12

>He's still sitting on the fence

>Has shared a bed with all three now.

>Still a virgin

Kazuma is all talk, he doesn't have the balls to back up his reputation.

>>752228

This. He's a perv until shit gets real, then he backs out like a little bitch.

>>752101

It'll go nowhere with each of them twat swatting each other or being twat swatted by Aqua. I'm guessing both quotes are extremely out of context as per usual RomCom.

>>752225

Wait until you get to WW3

>>750566

So Lolicell is starting to turn into Teencell huh?

They grow up so fast, brings a tear to my eye.

>>753015

Not sure how I feel about that since lolicell implied they grew up like normal children previously. Ancient Dwarf better stay a loli, damn it. Wonder what will happen once the characters all mac out their levels in a volume or two? I can't imagine the author not making an ass-pull on that end.

There will never be a psychic gestalt as best girl as Will-tan

>>753320

>loli harem story

I dont see how this can change, only "morphs into 17y/o form" bullshit.

>>751967

>>Alright, so you are about to start what is pretty much a suicide mission...

Sounds like Trigun.

Just realized Urban Development's author is the same author as Slime Tensei... It all makes sense now.

>>754575

Man if you consider that low res, you should try and read some manga scanned before 2010. Hell the furigana is perfectly legible.

>>757606

Bickers keep reading, child error.

>>757648

That actually looks remarkably well done for an upscale. I've never actually used waifu2x so i didn't realize it worked so well.

I'm so upset that out of all the esper powers shown in Index, there hasn't once been a prominent display of psychokinesis. You could do so much cool shit with it for a level 5, like having the dexterity to control the movements of individual atoms with your mind.

>>758058

Could be the Number 6's for all we know.

It's either that or some psychedelic british spy powers.

Shame there is no Rising x Rydeen translation.

I remembered enjoying the manga a couple of years ago, but a search for the translation turned out fruitless.

>>758058

That power's always broken no exceptions, why not just pop someones jugular or use psycho bullets? In both the x-men and fantastic four they counteracted this at first with the pheonix and invisible woman just not being able to exert that much force but powerwankery shredded that.

>>758364

Psychokinesis is practically the stereotype of esper powers, everyone knows about it. You could easily put limits on it just like kuroko has teleportation weight and distance limits like you could only move objects with your mind a certain weight and distance, or have to be able to see what you're moving.

>>758364

Also, even Kuroko can already use her power to teleport objects inside people, so she technically should be able to instantly kill someone by just teleporting something inside someone's brain.

I think the way I'm thinking it could be explained is that the Psychokinesis user would only be able to move objects that they can see. So that eliminates popping someone's brain. And they could wear special magnification goggles that let them zoom in on individual atoms to be able to control the movements of atoms, but without that they would be limited to the classic usage of the power like moving real world objects around.

I caught up with konosuba and now I started with overlord.

I easily memorized every volume of konosuba as I read them but I'm on page 30 of the first volume of overlord and already gave up, there's too much to remember and too much detail. It's a good thing, but I won't be able to recall most of it.

>>760198

Well, Konosuba has a rather small cast that increases slowly and the entire geopolitical situation can be summed for the most part by Axel and most other places Kazuma & Co visit

are inside the kingdom of Belzerg (except Elroad, but that's like one volume and after the tenth one or so).

Meanwhile Overlord starts out with Ainz, his subordinates and the Pleaides and there are a bunch of people they meet in different places, some of which have conflicting interests.

>>757747

>accelerator constantly protects last order, like a guardian angel

>gets white wings and a halo, just like an angel

Poetry.

For other anons reading index, do you have any idea how close new testament is to the series being finished? I haven't started reading them yet because I'm obsessive about only starting a completed series. It's at volume 18 and it looks like he averages 3 novels a year so if it's like old testament it should be done next year?

>>761180

The thing about Kamachi is that if he wants to he can continue Index simply by creating a new villain. Time and again the biggest threat at the time to Touma has been defeated just for someone else to show up and fuck his attendance. Hell, Kamachi has done so more times than you can count on your hands.

This is a man(?) who has downright stated he would figuratively crash and burn if he stopped writing.

So chances are he won't finish To Aru anytime soon.

Besides, We still haven't even gotten to New Year's yet. Nor has Touma become a second year in high school. And it hasn't even been a full in-series year after Touma got brain damage from Index.

>>757714

Hmm I remember dealing with something like that, I fixed it but can't say how. Good luck anon I believe in you.

>>763229

There are actually plenty of ways in which Touma's hero streak is deconstructed in New Testament.

He himself acts as he always does most of the time after a brief slump but the interesting part is how others, mainly the villains, act around and even use his selflessness.

And how he is willing to sacrifice his everyday peace and make a temporary enemy of Index to save someone else

The End of The Century Emperor is still the saviour of To Aru, of course.

>>764167

My problem with Touma is that there isn't a sense of urgency or devotion to what he protects like the other 2 protags. Accelerator's entire character arc was about redemption and relying on the girls he was mercilessly slaughtering before that, and Hamazura is a true love story. Touma is protecting a mooch that fell on his balcony and treats him like shit, so it's hard to feel like his cause is as genuine when he says he's doing something to protect Index's smile.

>>757660

I use it for all kinds of stuff. It's great for everything except pixel sprite upscaling and even that will work so long as you don't have to edit it afterwards.

>>757714

Ran into that issue, downloaded a different copy. I got it all the way to the point where it was installed, was running in jap locale, and it fucking crashed because my videocard wasn't compatible. The only thing more frustrating than trying to get muv luv installed is VH.

>>761001

>Last TL update was a year ago

Yeah, no thanks.

>>764254

My thoughts exactly. It's almost as bad if someone rec's something that only has a couple of chapters translated.

>>764191

Index isn't really that much of a special case besides the fact she is rooming with Touma.

It's more like Touma has an almost pathological need to protect anybody whom is deemed to be in need of being "saved", Index being close at his side and often a target, and that's his real defining character trait. He isn't really doing this because seeing them smile ultimately makes him happy, he's doing it because that's what he does.

Which is why there are so many events that are orchestrated to induce someone that needs "saving" around him. It isn't helping Index that makes him Kamijou Touma, unlike Accelerator who protects Last Order or Hamazura who "protects" (for a rather loose meaning of protecting) the ITEM members. It's helping anybody (mostly girls) he meets. I said earlier it was an almost pathological need because he would have killed himself over it if objective best girl(s) hadn't convinced him otherwise

>>764267

>>764254

Dendro went official with J-Novel Club in summer and the translated e-books are coming out every 2 or so months.

It's way ahead of whatever fan TL you're looking at.

I have marathoned through Ashita, Boku wa Shinu, Kimi wa Ikikaeru today. What an emotional rollercoaster ride. It would make a very good anime, I think.

>>764307

I'm not reading this shit if i have to pay for it anon.

>>767782

Piracy is always an option.

>>767990

Pirating western materials is asking for a fine.

>>748112

H-HEADPATS!? I'm starting this right now!!

>>768476

SHE'LL RAPE HER WAY FROM LOSER TO WINNER ON NEXT YEAR'S KAZUMABOWL

>>768476

I honestly can't tell if that's Darkness or Aqua.

>>768476

I haven't read these yet. Who is genuinely winning the Kazumabowl?

>>768820

Megumin.

>>768820

Megumin, darkness is barely second place. Third is Chris who is rapidly closing. Sewer girl hasn't even qualified yet.

>>768820

Megumin

Darkness got his first kiss though

>Reflexively, Tatsumi turned to face the direction the voice came from.

>Standing there was an old man.

>His height seems to be about the same as Tatsumi. Tatsumi’s height is 168 cm, so the old man might be fairly tall.

My sides hurt. Resisting the urge to sing "Big in Japan" while giggling.

Ah, and the greentext is from a LN "My pet is a holy maiden". Nothing special besides this unintentional joke.

>>768123

As long as you don't make money off it, they won't pursue that too strongly. Not worth the necessary effort.

>>769487

As long as you use a VPN you won't get caught either. It's a civil matter so the police won't investigate unless you are commercial.

>>769486

The translation is dubious.

I should read more like this:

>He seemed to be as tall as Tatsumi. Since Tatsumi was 168 cm, the man was fairly tall for an old person.

Still, even with a hunched back most Westerners break 5'6'' with ease.

>>771144

Hasn't Champion Scans picked it up? Or are the raws only available on Paytreon™?

>>764305

>Index isn't really that much of a special case besides the fact she is rooming with Touma.

He also has lewd thoughts about Index.

>objective best girl

I see someone enjoyed the end of the othinus arc.

>>747372

Sounds like I've got some catching up to do.

>>771448

>He also has lewd thoughts about Index.

Probably the most average high school boy thing Touman has.

>I see someone enjoyed the end of the othinus arc.

You bet I did

>>771471

Best part of all was the ending to the volume.

Getting jobbed as hard as Coronzon was should be criminal.

>>771207

I meant the LN translation

>>771144

For once, I want a weak hero to stay weak and use their brain to adapt to the situations presented around them.

Preferably with no harem faggotry to distract from the fantasy.

>>774305

DELICIOUS

FLAT

CHEST

I don't keep a list, but if I'm sticking to recent reads that I can recommend:

>Main Character Hides His Strength

I normally avoid anything with a title that has less effort put into it than what someone puts into figuring what they'll have for breakfast, but I'm glad I didn't with this one. It's one of the few web novels I've encountered where the main character isn't a teenager (or younger), actually acts his age and doesn't suffer giant personality shifts for the author's convenience. Not to say he's one-note, while he is bitter as shit, as the story progresses we're shown the nuances in his convictions. The second arc (Magical Academy) is rather dull though, feeling like a retread of the first. Thankfully it's not all that long, and the climax is decent whereupon it picks back up.

>Hunter of the Ruined World

Decent premise and characters, but there's something off making it less than the sum of its parts. Like it meanders between being slice of life, fleshing out its world and having an overarching story with impeccably bad timing. Still, it's early so it might have a payoff.

>About the Reckless Girl Who Kept Challenging a Reborn Man Like Me

Oneshot. Working class nobody dies of natural causes in his late twenties feeling unfulfilled. Enter the reincarnation, as he ponders how to change his life for the better and be a positive influence on those who surround him. Nothing really deep, it's mostly a cute/fluff read and the ending is rather plain and matter-of-fact. You could do much worse if you're looking for something to kill your time with.

>Night Ranger

Chinese novel with DnD inspired setting; mc is a dual wielding rogue with a plan to kill half of their pantheon before the world ends, while still at level 5. It's fairly interesting, though very little character interaction of note as most are just kind of boring. Fights are quite good and the basis of DnD mechanics gives it a lot more stability than most other fantasy WN have.

>Death mage doesn't want to die a 4th time

Pretty good. Set up scenario where shit flows into the utter dumpster fire that the beginning of the novel is, with the various character-types building it all up. Suffers a little from the "Japanese MC builds utopia"-syndrome, but given that he is literally growing into a god who brainwashes all creatures which fall under his attribute, it does make some sense. Fights are so-so, the characters and harem is okay but not very developed. Honestly a shame that the mother died like 10 chapters in, because she would have been a really interesting limiter on the MC all things considered.

>Monster that Levels Up

Shit.

>The Amber Sword

The fights are a chore and the MC sucks.

>>773724

This concept is intrinsically conflicting with dominant narrative trends in Japan, so you'll have a damn hard time finding anything like what you want; the shadow of D&D is stretches long and weighs heavy. The Chinese have tried some stories like that but the quality tends to be subpar, and the Korean writers are off doing their own thing anyway.

>>757714

Keep in mind that it doesn't run on Win8. At all.

Currently reading Library of the heaven's path.

It's crazy repetitive, but the power fantasy is real.

>>757714

Sounds about right. There's a certain distro being distributed that only works on old computers (vista and prior) and windows 10, then there's another distro being distributed that works on Windows 7/8. Unfortunately the only way to know which you have is to download the big-ass file and test it yourself.

what's with madokami? browsing works, dl doesn't (401 pls)

>>777196

>>777643

Just get the steam version. Damnit.

>>779178

>Steam

>For anything saucy

Steam is where H goes to die.

>>779278

Reminds me.

>buy "if my heart had wings" for the at cripple-chan

>Faggots at Jast are selling the stupid seam censored version outside of the places i expected it

>spend hours getting it patched and running.

Fuck licensed translations and all the fuckery that they do to good VNs.

>>752101

>Less than lovers

Is Megumin a slut?

Does anyone have any infographic type lists of LN and WN that are not super terrible? Im looking for something to do in my off time these days but cant find anything I really feel like reading.

>>779427

Less than lovers mean no fucking if that's what you're asking.

>>781657

looks like there's a bunch up on madokami. I'm guessing you can probably make your own way there.

>>781667

I've never used madokami but I know what they are more or less.

Unfortunately I can't register right now according to their irc topic. It's 7am and I'm going to die if I stay up like this again, but thanks anyway anon.

>>781657

I'snt that the artificer Isekai story? How is it?

>>781907

It's Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou

I've been following the manga and it was almost as gripping as tate no yuusha when I first read its manga. The art was also impressive so I thought there might be good base material. Unfortunately, still no pdf untill madokami allows registration for newbies I guess.

>>781946

woops, didn't mean to sage

>>781657

https://durasama.wordpress.com/arifureta-chapters/

https://elementalcobalt.wordpress.com/table-of-contents/

Aren't these on wordpress?

>>782120

Or just filter out the translation groups that you dislike here:

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/arifureta-shokugyou-de-sekai-saikyou/

Use the button with the funnel icon in the same line as the words "Latest Release".

>>782219

Also, I think J-N club only allows previews, though I could be wrong.

maybe volume 1 only has 1 part.

>>782219

I started reading it to find I had already read a lot of it already, so I skimmed ahead and then I realized why I dropped it. Just a heads up it super devolves into generic shit really quickly.

>>782253

Such is the way of the nipnog powerfantasy.

>>782253

The same, tired old, tropes like blue-ball moments with 5 other girls? Does he at least meet up with his highschool sweetheart again and get revenge on whoever betrays him? don't spoil the identity

That was the main thing that peaked my interest and made me think it had potential.

>>782254

>powerfantasy

I assume you already know this is a femenist term and are ready to back this up somehow.

>>782258

>femenist term

Lolwhat

If you're going to twist my arm and make me explain a joke, you autist, I'm using term "Power fantasy" (which i forgot to put a space between, sorry for that) as a synonym for isekai. I do this because there is a widespread theme in these stories of seemingly powerless or humble men, such as Otaku or gamers (to who me the primary audience can self insert), with powers or abilities that look weak at first becoming overwhelmingly powerful, to the point where they quickly outpace the people of the new world in skill or ability.

This in and of itself is not bad, per say, but tends to be used as an excuse to have a shitty, generic harem or paper thin story, focusing only on the massive destruction that the main cast is capable of. I understand how fine trends and symbols like these must be hard for you to keep track of, you sperg, but I'm sure if you read just a few more shitty webnovels you'll finally have enough examples to connect the dots yourself.

As far as the the words "Power Fantasy" go, they were selected because of the above focus on powerful main characters and a double entendre with regards to the fantasy setting that is common in isekai stories and the purpose of allowing nips to feel some power in their life amidst the crushing corporate lifestyle and general status of your average slant. No consideration at all was made for the screeching Bulldykes or their low test rapists in the modern feminist movement.

So, aspie, how is that? Joke sufficiently explained, or do I have to explain the practice of synonyms and word changes on Mongolian moving picture forums to you to (you see, I know your slow, so I'm explaining again that the last sentence there was a joke that's supposed to have me avoid explaining the last part in any more detail).

>>782258

I won't spoil too much if you're going to read it, I'll just say that it becomes bad in my mind because the author falls into the same trap as every other isekai authors, he makes the main character too powerful too quickly. It basically devolves into MC is now so fucking OP nobody can do anything to him (and not in an interesting way) and he gets a harem, i.e every fucking generic isekai. It kind of feels like marvel shit where the most interesting thing is the origin story, but they try to fast forward through it as fast as possible to get to that part where they fight generic bad man in order to get mcguffin.

I think isekai author's need to realize that while being OP is part of the fun, it quickly becomes a slog when the reader realizes that the protag is never in any danger, which is why I rate kumo and shield hero pretty highly, at least the heroes have a long journey to being OP.

>>782300

forgot to mention the MC in arifureta somehow becomes blander than when he was at the start of the story, which is got to be some kind of feat. He basically turns into an unironic chuuni once they leave the abyss

>>782269

Alright anon, relax. I just couldn't think of anything but a femenist using the term. Usually one would hear something like self-insert gary stu or something. but yea, it makes sense to call some isekai power fantasies rather than heroe's journey stories which femenists often call male power fantasy.

>I know your slow, so I'm explaining

>your

Anon I...

>>782300

>>782301

>MC in arifureta somehow becomes blander than when he was at the start of the story

>He basically turns into an unironic chuuni once they leave the abyss

Aw fuck, seriously? He was starting to seem like he had gone through a character change for the better (not as naive, less trustfull, more mindfull, serious). When you say he becomes an unironic chuuni, do you mean he says shit that's usually a joke like, "MY LEFT EYE TREMBLES" or "MY RIGHT ARM THROBS WITH EVIL"?

>>782351

More of the generic "I don't care about anybody but myself grr, but actually I'm going to help you anyway." Also he loses an arm which is replaced by a mechanical arm, loses an eye and his hair turns white.

>>782351

>>I know your slow, so I'm explaining

>>your

>Anon I...

While misspelling "hero", "feminist" and not using proper capitalization.

<he who lives by the grammar, dies by the grammar

>>782269

What you call a power fantasy, I call wish fulfillment. And I am not the anon arguing with you before.

>>782388

Ah, yea. That basically what's in the manga right now. I don't mind that too much even if it's trope bullshit.

I just want a conclusion to what he left behind. (his gf, finding out who threw a fireball at him)

You don't have to give details but, did they eventually get to that where you were reading?

>>782428

Touche

>>782388

>>782301

I've read further than you and it's in fact that the author doesn't know what it wants.

It starts of as a nice story about "you don't need to be a hero for heroism", then it goes "Linkin Park EDGE 2000" then it tones it down and tries to build up to have a nice moment with rabbit family and all... but ruins it completely by bad attempts at (bad) jap comedy.

It feels like something written by a committee or the author writes the next chapter after reading the comments on jap reddit...

"It's too nice more edge! Too much edge more story building! Too serious more comedy! Etc..."

>>782553

It doesn't help that the WN/LN author doesn't have the same level of expertise at worldbuilding, suspense, 'edge', harem shenaningans and comedy.

>>782554

You don't even need to be that good at all of that (well being good at comedy is definitely something you have to be good at or else it falls flat). The author's just have to realize that conflict + tension = good. You instantly lose tension as soon as your character becomes a god, so you have to either work around this (Have other characters who are still potentially in danger) or else make sure your character never becomes OP or else delay it as long as possible.

>>782619

Shield hero and Kumo are pretty good for their first halves so I'd say they're worth putting in OP/edgy shit. Also Mushoku tensei for SoL.

>>782622

>Shield Hero

Was planning to read Shield Hero soon. I've heard good things about the first half. Will include in the list.

>Kumo

RaisingTheDead is one of the better machine TLs, but he's still a machine TL. Can it really be trusted?

Only thing that sucks is with the exception of Sevens/Spice & Wolf, I don't think I've found a completed LN/WN series that was fully translated that wasn't either complete garbage story-wise or TL-wise.

>>782635

Also thinking of including chinkshit "My Disciple Died Yet Again" under QUALITY since it was enjoyable garbage for late-night reading other than the viruses that I got on my computer from the websites it was hosted on. Thoughts?

>>782635

Kumo translation is pretty garbage, but raising the dead is significantly better than what the early translation is like. It is kind of hard to recommend now that I think about it, since I'm sure there's a lot of stuff I missed because of the shoddy translation.

>>782636

Haven't read it, I generally don't enjoy the chink shit that much.

>>782428

My shame is unknowable.

I typed it on my phone, and my big fat fingers cause me to misspell almost every third word. I'm surprised that block of text was legible at all.

>>782437

That's another perfectly fine definition. I would tend to do the same, but I covered that under the whole "double entendre" part.

>>782635

I've read all of Shield Hero WN and all the translated bits of the LN that I've seen.

They roughly follow the same events until the spirit tourtise fight, then diverge.

WN was fun but the end got trippy and sub par, the LN is holding better average quality and is in general shaping up to be a better experience. I hope it doesn't fall apart at the end.

>>782622

>>782635

As long as you stop in the dungeon Kumo is fine. Translation is shit, but Kumo is a qt and there is a yandre brocon imouto so it kinda makes up for it.

>>782636

I tend to avoid the chinamen but that doesn't mean there can't be good series out there. I've never read the one you are talking about, what's the synopsis?

>>782638

Honestly, I've grown to prefer chink novels over Jap ones.

>>783005

I think the only korean novel I can bring myself to read and actually enjoy doing so is Everyone Here Belongs in an Asylum i.e. Your and My Asylum.

And though the MC probably has autism to the point of savantry to be able to survive and actually thrive, he has no desire (or means) to kill others, he doesn't have a level, keeps his edge neatly tucked inside his own memories, and he sure as hell doesn't get any power ups, a breath of fresh air in the middle of the powerlevelling and murderhoboing festivals that are Korean novels.

>>783005

Ah, nevermind. I just encountered the point where the Kumo WN took a turn from amazing to garbage. Fucking "pride" skill.

>>783005

>Korean Novels

They seem to be pretty fucking edgy overall, not really sure why. I read Dungeon Defense from a recommendation and I kept cringing until I couldn't take it anymore. The part that did me in was when there was a bit where bitch was repeated in every other sentence or something.

>Japanese Novels

I've just grown dozens of pet peeves over the years that make it impossible for me to read one without getting extremely annoyed. Like how they keep using the word cheats to describe some kind of power or ability. Or katanas. Please help, it's been like this for 4 years

>Chinese Novels

These seem to be right in my tolerance zone. The only real issue I have with them is when I come across phrases like "Break for me!" or bullshit filler sentences like "It all took a while to describe but it took as much time to drink a cup of tea". I can't stand those.

A lot of the "westaboo" chink novels are pretty good. I dunno how to explain it, but when they get into western-ish settings, often with nobility systems and culture's very different from Asian ones, the stories tend to be pretty interesting.

>>783123

Got any titles?

>>783066

It only gets worse.

Just wait for the space ship. Between the translation and the WTFery, I had no idea what was happening.

>>783005

Was that "Xioshit" Xianxia or Xianhuan? I want to know what to avoid.

>>783138

I don't know anything regarding the difference between Xianxia Wuxia or Xuanhuan but I think two of them just implies the asian equivalent of low fantasy and high fantasy.

>>783123

>but when they get into western-ish settings, often with nobility systems and culture's very different from Asian ones, the stories tend to be pretty interesting.

In what way and why? Is it because they are interpretting it from their confucian pov? Do they find it strange? Do they just take it to be something similar to their system so that it's easier to write about? (since it's more familiar that way)

>>783219

All I know is that after you read Coiling Dragon, you've read every single Wuxia novel.

>>783138

>>783219

Xianxia Wuxia sounds right. That's the shit where everyone goes on and on about "cultivation" or whatever they call it if I remember right. It's even more worthless garbage than OP Isekai in most scenarios since they don't even have to work for it at all, which is saying something. Even OP MCs in Isekai stories generally have to put some effort into it.

>>783890

She escapes unharmed if i remember correctly, through sheer hax

These chapters actually get somewhat revisited later on through a different perspective and make them slightly more interesting.

>>783650

The majority of isekai novels I've seen usually has the MC start with some kind of very powerful trait anon.

>>783903

Powerful trait yeah, but they generally have to work for it.

>>783901

Yeah, on chapter 138 now, partially realizing that arch arachne bullshit fight. Think it's both bullshit and preferred.

>>785725

Power creep is a hell of a drug. Authors need to stop being tempted to make their characters more powerful for the sake of it because then it just because mind numbingly boring. Or else they need to make their world and daily lives interesting enough to keep reading.

>>785730

On the other hand, without escalation, how do you keep your story and readers engaged without eventually burning out?

>>785731

You gotta actually make the readers care about the characters, that way the powers and everything else is just fluff. If you dial up their power level to insane levels, the reader stops caring because there's no stakes involved or the stakes are too ridiculous it's hard for the reader to relate.

Taking shonen shit as an example, The most interesting characters were the ones who weren't necessarily that strong compared to the other OP as fuck characters and win despite their supposed weakness and have to actually use their powers effectively instead of just hot blooded determination and punch through everything.

I use balabolka and an ivona voice to turn my LN/WNs into audio books, it's super convenient when you listen to it on the bus I've finished Goblin Slayer (I'm skipping vol 4 since it's filler) and I'm currently listening to mishoku tensei.

Goblin Slayer is half-great, some of the japanese cliches seem really out of place and from an objective perspective he's not as clever as the story keeps claiming he is (especially when he pushes forward into danger instead of pulling back and assessing the situation). Under the water city and in the ogre dungeons I felt like there were pretty big fuckups he made that could've been easily fatal, even chasing after the goblin leader at the farm with just priestess was foolish (he almost died from it too). And I can't get over how this retard goes to dinner trying to shove food through his helmet visor, it's just impossible I know it's supposed to show how 'prepared' for an attack he is but there's no great risk in having a helm with a movable or detachable faceplate and there's no fucking way he doesn't get rotten food and drink every fucking where in that thing. And why the fuck wasn't he interested in a short sword that never dulls? Or a free fucking gate device?

Mushoku Tensei is something I love more than think is great, I'm getting a little WN/LN fatigue in that it feels like there's only at most a handful of events of note in each volume because they plan to push out volumes and volumes of this crap so they'll spend forever detailing an event of little consequence and then speed through shit you'd rather they spend more time on. I still enjoy the shit out of it and am in the middle of vol 6 of the WN, it's nice to know it ends too and doesn't drag on forever like Re;Zero which has mystery after unsolved mystery.

I need to update my balabolka dictionary though, when they use symbols or numbers or "H-h-hey" "hmm" it really fucks up the machine reading.

>>785762

The main issue with this chart when applied to light novels is that most of them don't end, they go on forever.

>Read Dungeon Defense because everyone here is talking about it

>Picks my curiosity autismo, even with explicit warnings from peoples

Fucking shit, they don't even defend fucking dungeons...

THERE'S NOT EVEN DUNGEON DEFENSE IN DUNGEON DEFENSE

Only edgefest, a glorious top tier secretary, a waifubait edgyshit loli, lelouch 2.0 and the token foreign princess mary sue.

What a HUGE waste of time.

>>786097

Go read Demon Lord's Urban Development Plan, that has both Dungeon Attacking and Defending.

>>786104

Urban Development was written by the guy who wrote Slime Tensai. Just keep that in mind.

>>786105

Ah, sorry he wrote a Slime Tensei story in the past, and I assumed it was Slime Tensei.

>>786105

>>786106

How's our favourite Slime doing, by the way? Are you talking about the lewd Cave Slime? Our hero?

>>786107

If only I was talking about that cave slime. I've actually failed to read past the 2nd volume, so unsure on that one. I dropped the other slime some time around the time when time travel and stuff came into the picture.

>>786108

You guys mentioning time travelling on isekais reminds me of Spear hero's groundhog day quest to get Shield bro to not be a traumatized mess so he can get his blessing to marry his bird.

>>786111

LOLICELL CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

>>786099

So, I'm this anon here >>786097 and >>786104

I read it all as per your recommendation, and I have some things to say:

>1. It reads as if the author has anime production in mind, he clearly create the scenes and interactions like it was an anime. This may be good, or bad, I found it shallow.

>2. Which comes to my second point: this author is a horrible writer. He writes with a teen-level quality of dialogue and interactions.

>3. And also with the tired Asian power syndrome: the MC is vastly OP, everyone is envious of it, and is sure to demonstrate it, the girls all flock to him while they do that out of some sort of benevolent stockholm syndrome (they don't have motives nor drive, their actions are driven by the author's will).

>4. I really don't like the archetypes the author chose for any of the 4 girls. In fact, best girl to me, personality-wise is Dwarf Smith. Felsias got it going for her waaaaay to easy, cheaply too. But they're all good girls, hey, that's because

>5. The author is a fucking loser. You can see that the whole story is about his fantasies, specially when Aura killed the [Evil] guy. At that moment, it became as clear as water that the author has a pathetic worldview, he didn't even realised how similar [Evil]'s behaviour was from MC's, the only difference being that the MC's girls entered submission by the author's forces, not by MC's. The whole "soft feminist" thing (I know it wasn't intention, it's just the case that it's already part of this guy's worldview) was cringe too.

>6. The plot is not bad actually, and it's quite nice. I'm referring to the whole idea now of the Dungeons, Medals, Monsters, etc - not how the author managed and wrote them.

>7. Fuck off with the retarded Gun trivia, the super-ultra Orihalcom mega blaster things. No one cares.

>8. "It was like cheat". "That was a broken ability". Lazy writing all the time, specially because he has full control of all of that. Again I'm to emphasise how much of a bad writer the guy is. Dungeon Defense was a cringe edgefest, but at least the author knew how to write better.

Overall, it was likeable precisely due to the plot and due to the arc-based anime movement that gave it a sense of progression, and indeed the whole "urban development" thing is a must to contribute to the story's appeal.

It's readable, but as a delicious guilty pleasure and is not to be mistaken by something that hold its own as good. And when I say delicious, it's specially because I like incest, although the author doesn't know how to handle such device very well, he manages to deliver something.

Now,

>>786111

>>786112

That was insane. Since the whole Marcho [Rebirth] thing I thought that the MC was digging his own grave, specially because of the Fel stuff that happened earlier.

If [Time] doesn't do anything, and the author makes MC gets away with it, it will be just another bullshit in the list of crap so far. The [Dragon] guy will be quite angry as well, remember that he had explicit intentions of uniting MC and Stolas and even thought of getting them married.

Again, either this won't end up good (as it should) or the author is retarded.

Procell also lied to Rorono about the baby thing, will this get buried like that? And the Water Diva girl, how did she fell so easily for MC? That was imbecile as well, with cheap/no development other than she was so kind of dirty-minded tomboy with trusting problems inclined to such to begin with. Yasashi my ass.

>>786243

Fuck off then.

>>787910

It would be more world-breaking if it started out with proper spelling/structure/grammar as an Orc. It does improve obviously, and will continue to improve until maybe one day being on par with non-niggerspeak.

>>788478

Anime will always have the "advantage" of conveying an emotion or fan service, but the LN is superior in terms of conveying the story, not rushing things, and being halfway decent. Vanadis anime is to the LN as Familiar of Zero anime is to its LN.

>Re:Monster basically already did that though.

Never read it since I heard it was shit.

>>788752

I think everybody here read it. It's highly divisive in opinions, but if there's a "King of all Isekai", it's Mushoku Tensei.

I, particularly, find it extremely gratifying to read and hold it extremely highly.

>>788756

I wouldn't call it king because then people would assume the novel is actually decent but when I think of other world novels then Mushoku Tensei would be the first I think of.

>>788756

>highly divisive

>positive

>>788807

>positive

>>788832

>negative

You see, it's "highly divisive". And yes, people should think it's decent, more than decent in fact.

We're not consuming a medium who has the intent of producing things like The Death of Ivan Ilyich or Notes from Underground.

Mushoku Tensei is the best there is in what it is.

For instance, would you prefer reading the Monogatari Series of novels? It's regarded as highly intellectual and hip with japanese teenagers. But in the end, it just passes as pretentious and edgy, and not much enjoyable.

Mushoku Tensei is very enjoyable.

Now, it's your opinion, and I respect it, it's your taste and I don't expect you to be forced to change it.

>>789076

Is it true that Yunyun and Megumin had sex?

>>789226

>Dust spinoff

I knew it would be thing from consulting with this masked devil but is a translated version already out?

>>789220

I've read everything except that dust spinoff I haven't heard news of, and the answer is no.

>>789653

>I knew it would be thing from consulting with this masked devil

Meant to say the 2nd megumin spinoff.

>>789656

Continued Explosions volume 1 is completely translated.

A Time in the Limelight for this Fool is being translated, with the prologue and first chapter out.

>>789702

>>789653

>>789656

So what you're saying is author-san is out of ideas and looking for excuses to earn money instead of write further chapters?

>>790149

Not really since he's forced to put a preview of the next volume at the end of each volume.

So there are at least some ideas.

>>788184

Be advised, if you do that you'll be hurting your own writing abilities.

>>790300

I've been writing nothing but technical manuals and smut for the last two years (previous work being an exception), so I doubt it could be much worse. I'll keep that in mind while immitating pidgin speech. Orc-san progressively becomes better at writing through the story and I plan to write side stories filling in the parts he doesn't mention in the journal, so I'm not just writing shitty writing from Rod's perspective.

>>791769

At parts, you just gotta love Rudy. It's interesting how well it was balanced. Get ready for that reunion.

I'll definitely make sure to read all the side stories!

>>791875

Got there, honestly it kind of pissed me off since up until this point author-san seemed to be using his own experiences. As a piece of trash who's dad is also a piece of trash, even a piece of trash shouldn't act like that during a reunion like that no matter the crisis. I can't related. Also pissed that Rudi didn't give his imouto a clay figurine or toy or something.

How was the ending for Helck? Did it wrap up nicely?

>>792239

Just even more asspull plot twists and then he fucks off with his merc girlfriend who, through another asspull "twist" right at the end, ended up perfectly restored. Waste of a good premise. It was technically a "happy ending", but wasn't satisfying in the slightest.