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They are both strange and dangerous, but I think it is pretty obvious who the overwhelmingly strange one is.
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Kumo-chan finds a new delicious thing to eat. 
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Largepotato posted:Kumo-chan finds a new delicious thing to eat. Kumoko... Please do not eat babies. Kumoko and Ariel make the best comedy duo. I love how obnoxious Ariel is just from having half of Kumoko in her psyche while the real Kumoko has all that potential but gets to be stoic and beautiful because she's so drat awkward. I hope they don't separate for a while, it's too fun to read.
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Oct 12, 2015 19:15
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Kumo-chan only cooks with the highest quality ingredients.
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Oct 13, 2015 16:37
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Hey, looks like Meng Hao finally found a bit of peace. Though that will only last until vexation pops out of the mask with a bunch of corpses.
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Oct 13, 2015 16:56
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Largepotato posted:Kumo-chan only cooks with the highest quality ingredients. Every time I'm worried Kumo's story is going to make a turn towards the worse, it comes back to prove me wrong. Even the side stories, which had been kiiiinda sketchy for awhile, had a satisfying end in their most recent arc and now I'm endlessly curious as to what happens next. Kumo is really good
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Oct 13, 2015 17:00
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Thanks for the ISSTH recommendations; I was finally able to enjoy something without having to wade through psychopathic protagonists, rapists and other terrible attributes. I even had found some humor, which is really rare in this genre; though those poor guys in the mask that are stuck with Mr. Meat Jelly are in the worst form of hell.
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Furious Lobster posted:Thanks for the ISSTH recommendations; I was finally able to enjoy something without having to wade through psychopathic protagonists, rapists and other terrible attributes. I even had found some humor, which is really rare in this genre; though those poor guys in the mask that are stuck with Mr. Meat Jelly are in the worst form of hell. Douluo Dalu is another good one in this vein. It's a lot more shonen-esque though. With the exception of the weird rear end Grandmaster's love plot it's pretty tame insofar as horrible stuff goes.
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Oct 14, 2015 03:47
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Also on the topic of novels with female (well, sorta, in this case) protagonists that are pretty good Tilea's Worries is pretty good. It's a bit more comedic but quite pleasant. A NEET with bad chuunibyou dies, reincarnates as a girl, and says this time he'll work hard and not gently caress up his life. But now her little sister starts having "chuunibyou" outbreaks and "pretending" she's the reincarnation of a demon general.
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I might have found a new favourite web novel! It's called Honzuki no Gekokujou and is the story of a 22-year-old librarian who literally drowns in books during an earthquake, but laments so not having read enough books in her lifetime that the gods (?) take pity on her and she's transplanted into the body of a sickly 5-year-old girl in a medieval fantasy world. Unfortunately her new family is poor townsfolk, and there are no books in sight, so she struggles long and hard to reinvent paper, ink and eventually the printing press, so she can fulfil her dream of surrounding herself with books again. Along the way her otherworldly innovation gradually raises her from rags to riches, as she climbs the social ladder and discovers at long last that there is in fact magic in this world. Unlike other reincarnation stories, this barely features any monsters or magic early on, and focuses instead on social aspects and economic development, with far more political tea parties than action-filled battles. It's been going since late 2013, gaining enough popularity to warrant the release of paper novels last year, and they have the most adorable covers:   As of today it's about 4 million Japanese characters long, clocking in at 8300 pages. When the 5th arc started last month, the author announced that it would be the final part of the series, but she expects it to be as long as the 4th arc, which was around 3000 pages long, so there's a fair bit to go. For comparison, Kumoko is currently at 750k characters and 2000 pages. A manga adaptation is in development as well, apparently. I don't know if there are translations of this yet, but I hope someone out there will get sick of the MMO stuff and take a look at this instead. Being written by a (married) woman and featuring a female protagonist makes it pretty refreshing after all the boyish action harem stuff.
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Oct 14, 2015 18:44
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That looks pretty cool, so naturally there are no translations.
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Oct 14, 2015 19:00
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In unsurprising news, Kumoko is the meanest drunk. 
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darkgray posted:In unsurprising news, Kumoko is the meanest drunk. upcoming chapters posted:Oni 5 The trampled one I cannot wait Adelheid fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Oct 14, 2015 19:44
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Adelheid posted:I cannot wait It's mostly Blood 21 where it gets proper crazy, so slightly longer wait.
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Oct 14, 2015 19:52
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darkgray posted:I might have found a new favourite web novel! Thanks for the recommendation. Bookmarked for when I'm caught up with the Kumoko (just started today)
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Oct 14, 2015 19:57
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Tamba posted:Thanks for the recommendation. If you have a Kindle, you can use Aozora Epub to drag Narou links straight into the application window and it will poop out a combined Kindle book file. Really handy for long reads. Just wish the Kindle's word highlighting software wasn't so insanely bad. Also, Honzuki can be pretty slow, spending hundreds of pages describing paper refining processes, so a spoon of patience is helpful. Still love it, though.
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Oct 14, 2015 20:09
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darkgray posted:If you have a Kindle, you can use Aozora Epub to drag Narou links straight into the application window and it will poop out a combined Kindle book file. Really handy for long reads. I have one. The problem can be "solved" by sending the files to that amazon address that syncs them to your kindle. If you do that, it adds whatever is necessary for the kindle to know where the words end instead of always selecting the whole line.
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Oct 14, 2015 20:17
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Tamba posted:I have one. The problem can be "solved" by sending the files to that amazon address that syncs them to your kindle. If you do that, it adds whatever is necessary for the kindle to know where the words end instead of always selecting the whole line. Uuuuh, sure wish I knew about this months ago. So much time spent trying to move those goddamn highlight edges. Doesn't seem entirely smooth to mail myself the same 21MB book every day when there's a chapter update, however.
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I haven't found a way to do it locally, sending it through amazon seems to be the only way so far.
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Oct 14, 2015 20:40
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I found a thing, but I guess they gave up immediately?
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Oct 14, 2015 20:41
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darkgray posted:I found a thing, but I guess they gave up immediately? That's unfortunate. I was looking forward to reading it after you posted that blurb above.
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The librarian novel seems interesting and it's too bad we don't have a will donate for translations thread.
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Yo I'm actually starting to build up enough steam with retranslating Kumoko that I might legit work on this librarian thing as well. I'll take a look this weekend to see if the first few chapters are within my meager abilities.
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blastron posted:Yo I'm actually starting to build up enough steam with retranslating Kumoko that I might legit work on this librarian thing as well. I'll take a look this weekend to see if the first few chapters are within my meager abilities. Whoop. Best of luck.
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Oct 15, 2015 16:51
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Largepotato posted:Oni 5 loving Summoner.
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Kumoko definitely shouldn't have been so lenient with him.
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Oct 15, 2015 17:27
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Oh I didn't even realize he was the same summoner from earlier. Yep, his death will be satisfying.
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That was incredibly brutal and it is going to have an incredible resolution. I am excited. Also, Kumoko is the best mom.
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Oct 15, 2015 18:45
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While MGA certainly isn't high literature and far from the best mentioned in the thread at least the author seems like a genuine nice guy as he was approached by RWX and even made a video for the English Fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tM2SuwwZG0
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The last few chapters of Tales of Demons and Gods have been something special allright. Good lord. Even in the creepy world of creeper LN protagonists, this is spectacular.
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Bad Kumo-chan, bad. No eating the baby.
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Hai to Gensou no Grimgal anime announced. PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpEaUKQVE00
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Largepotato posted:Bad Kumo-chan, bad. No eating the baby. Ha ha, she got a peek at the real Kumoko and was horrified.
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I'm gonna read whatever kumo chan is once someone tells me what it is and gives me a link to read it and some fanart
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Namtab posted:I'm gonna read whatever kumo chan is once someone tells me what it is and gives me a link to read it and some fanart It's about a goony girl who reincarnates as a giant spider: http://blastron01.tumblr.com/tagged/kumoko/chrono Does the picture of a spider at the top of the page count as fanart?
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Silver2195 posted:It's about a goony girl who reincarnates as a giant spider: http://blastron01.tumblr.com/tagged/kumoko/chrono No, but I'm definitely gonna block it out
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Namtab posted:I'm gonna read whatever kumo chan is once someone tells me what it is and gives me a link to read it and some fanart Here you go 
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Captain_duck posted:Here you go Yeah, it's got those crazy eyes. Acceptable!
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Captain_duck posted:Here you go Accurate, except for one thing:  Spider gotta eat!
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