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i don't think being reincarnated into a modern game setting has ever been done. couldn't the protagonist just say "gently caress this noise" and go off to do literally anything other than dealing with awful otome game scenarios?
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Hell, even in non-modern settings that's an option. Common Sense of a Duke's Daughter is basically exactly that. "Oh snap, I'm the evil bitch and this is the bad end? Well, gently caress that noise then, I'ma go off and invent chocolate, peace out assholes."
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Aug 18, 2016 21:47
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Akuyaku Tensei Dakedo Doushite Kou Natta or in English I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? has a really generic title, but not so generically it starts out with the MC massively derailing the plot by poisoning her evil family.
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Aug 18, 2016 22:57
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Oh no. Im current with ISSTH.
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Aug 19, 2016 00:25
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Meme Emulator posted:Oh no. Im current with ISSTH. RIP
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Aug 19, 2016 00:31
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Kaja Rainbow posted:Akuyaku Tensei Dakedo Doushite Kou Natta or in English There are few things more frustrating than when people link badass novels in the thread that have been dropped halfway through the translations. 
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Aug 19, 2016 00:38
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that's why i don't bother to start reading new wn's with really irregular release schedules any more.
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Aug 19, 2016 00:42
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It looks like that group hasn't released anything, period, in nearly three months. Ah well. At least Demon Girl's updating pretty regularly now.
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Aug 19, 2016 01:21
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oh right, dungeon defense. the dad was in a modern dating sim, though as the protagonist and not an antagonist so he just played it straight and went for the harem ending. also, volume 2 was mostly unremarkable aside from having a great ending.
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Aug 19, 2016 01:24
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poo poo is going off the rails really quickly in My Disciple Died Yet Again, but the writing is still as top-notch as it's always been.quote:On the day he left, those ball-shaped creatures in the yard were all very unhappy, as they came to send him off altogether, and had even chased after him for several hundred meters. Especially that plump celestial crane with its floppy wings, which fell down from the sky time and time again, only to pick itself back up and chase after him again and again. That scene where it sent him off eighteen miles away was simply too touching. Edit: Romance RPG has just hit it's penultimate (or close to) chapter, and the climax of the story is so frikkin' sweet it makes my teeth hurt. 
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Aug 19, 2016 05:18
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How is "I’ll Live My Second Life!"? I've read about 20 chapters and it's pretty enjoyable so far (better translation than most, too), but it's still technically in the beginning plot-wise so it's hard to say what direction it'll take.
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Aug 19, 2016 20:37
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Ytlaya posted:How is "I’ll Live My Second Life!"? I've read about 20 chapters and it's pretty enjoyable so far (better translation than most, too), but it's still technically in the beginning plot-wise so it's hard to say what direction it'll take. I read 28 chapters, established that I was bored, and moved on to the next title.
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Aug 19, 2016 20:41
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I think it's kind of similar in tone to The Man Picked Up by the Gods, in that the story basically has no real point. Like, the main character does have a concrete goal... but that goal is "To live and be happy" which she's already doing... so... yeah. It's almost like a slice-of-life story, except it's not? I don't really know how else to explain it. I like it, but I also like a lot of crap so maybe I'm not the best judge.  Edit: A Hero's War updated, and the new chapter is pretty drat good. The Fuka's progress is nice, and seeing the dark side of Minmay along with his burden kicks rear end, I think the best of all is watching the relationship between Cato and Lamdar finally start to grow some legs. I am such a sucker for burgeoning love stories between two people who have absolutely no loving idea what love is. 
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Aug 19, 2016 22:46
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Ytlaya posted:How is "I’ll Live My Second Life!"? I've read about 20 chapters and it's pretty enjoyable so far (better translation than most, too), but it's still technically in the beginning plot-wise so it's hard to say what direction it'll take. It's fine, just dumb fun.
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Yeah, there's not really any overarching plot to speak of so far (I'm at chapter 60-something now) other than possibly figuring out what the deal is with her sister*. I'm actually enjoying it, even though I don't usually enjoy these more aimless/slice-of-life WNs. Some of the jokes are pretty funny. I find that I have an easier time tolerating non-action shoujo WNs than ones aimed at a male audience. *I'm mostly curious about the contradiction inherent in the fact that we're repeatedly told by everyone, including the protagonist, that Fiiru is a really kind person, but Fiiru apparently did nothing to help Fii despite Fii being treated like poo poo throughout her entire childhood. It isn't really plausible that Fiiru somehow was unaware of Fii's treatment. They might try excusing it as Fiiru thinking that Fii wouldn't want her help, but that would be kind of BS; Fiiru could have at least expressed to her maids/etc that she wanted people to be nice to her sister. Given how we're explicitly told how everyone wanted to curry favor with Fiiru, it seems like Fiiru simply expressing fondness towards Fii would be sufficient to make other people treat Fii kindly. So I guess I'm kind of holding out in the hopes of there being some sort of conflict involving her sister, even though I don't think there's going to be one.
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I've been enjoying tempestous stellar war a lot, wish it was updated more frequently though
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Aug 20, 2016 02:49
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Hero's War really makes me realize that being dropped into a medieval setting (even one with magic) is functionally like coming out of a fallout shelter after an apocalypse. You have to figure out how to put back together a functioning modern society as we know with bare bones knowledge of how things work and far too little tools to do it with. In a sense, being transplanted from one world to another that's on a much lower tech level is a personal apocalypse by itself.
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Aug 20, 2016 03:31
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There's a reason they call it "going back to the Stone Age".
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The thing I like the best about A Hero's War is that the protagonist actually depends on the people around him. Even among stories that are similar, like the one about the Blacksmith that ends up on a medieval island or 1632, the protagonist(s) simply works his/her/their way through setting everything up alone. Sure, allies are recruited. A lot of time expectations are lowered or dropped. But AHW is one of the few gems that actually has the protag adapt to the world, and depend on its inhabitants to meld the previous knowledge into the new world. Every time Cato gets excited about someone else figuring out a way to implement modern knowledge into the fantasy setting it just reinforces how good a protagonist he is. Edit: Looks like Oniichanyamate has picked up a new series, The Pseudo-Kunoichi From Another World. Only three chapters so far, but it features the rare lesbian protagonist, so it might be interesting? Even though there's already girls throwing themselves at her by chapter three, Oniichan doesn't usually translate out-and-out smut, right? I can keep my hopes up for this one, right? Captain Bravo fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Captain Bravo posted:Edit: Looks like Oniichanyamate has picked up a new series, The Pseudo-Kunoichi From Another World. Only three chapters so far, but it features the rare lesbian protagonist, so it might be interesting? Even though there's already girls throwing themselves at her by chapter three, Oniichan doesn't usually translate out-and-out smut, right? I can keep my hopes up for this one, right? I'll grant you I don't think I've ever read anything there which is out and out porn, but he named his website "Onii-chan yamate!" dude. All hopes should be pre-dashed and stowed safely in the overhead compartment.
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In other news, with the latest update of I Appear to have been Reincarnated as a Love Interest in an Otome Game the translator has finally finished the final side story, completing the series. So for those of you like Serious Frolicking, who don't read anything but completed series, time to get on this poo poo. It's a really good story, aside from the slightly confusing swerve into homophobia for the final few chapters, and the troubling penultimate Side Story which ramps that up another notch. But who cares, in the end all the people who matter end up in loving, fulfilling, consensual relationships so yay!
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Aug 20, 2016 12:51
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i read a lot of incomplete series. i just don't like getting into something only for it to be abandoned.
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Ascendance of a Bookworm continues to be excellent and i thought i'd post my appreciation for it and it's translator here.
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Aug 20, 2016 18:26
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drat this morning would have been a good time for a double chapter of ISSTH, I'm excited for the reaction shots and how many spirit stones Meng Hao is going to take from the guard.
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I've started reading Swallowed Star, and while it's trippy as all gently caress I kind of like the fluff about how civilization treats the pseudo-cultivators. "You bastard, you attacked someone else in their home for little to no reason? Go to jail. Oh poo poo, wait, you're kind of strong? Nevermind, you're released from jail and here's your apology letter, would you like us to arrest the person you assaulted yesterday?" There ain't no toadying like institutionalized toadying! Edit: gently caress me, xianxia/wuxia is just so goddamned silly sometimes. quote:“Speed!” was the largest and most prominent word on the page. As if facing an approaching blade, Luo Feng’s heart skipped a beat. This instruction manual is just a copy of the 《Nine Stage Thunder Blade》, but the copied handwriting was enough to freeze Luo Feng. My god, he wrote the word speed! Just thinking about how powerful this man must be, to write the word speed kind of large, is horrifying!
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Captain Bravo posted:I've started reading Swallowed Star, and while it's trippy as all gently caress I kind of like the fluff about how civilization treats the pseudo-cultivators. "You bastard, you attacked someone else in their home for little to no reason? Go to jail. Oh poo poo, wait, you're kind of strong? Nevermind, you're released from jail and here's your apology letter, would you like us to arrest the person you assaulted yesterday?" From all the XianXia I read I'm surprised that a justice system or cops even exists in one novel. Then again that would hold the self insert Marty Sues accountable for their actions, and give power to the powerless through regulation instead of being at the whims of MC warlords, and we can't have that in our me > you always stories.
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Oh no, don't worry. The system is still hosed as all hell if you don't have strength or money.quote:Just like how you can donate to the Dojo to earn contribution points, you can also donate to the country to earn contribution points. It's just gleefully open about the bias, instead of tediously roundabout like most xianxia.
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Captain Bravo posted:Oh no, don't worry. The system is still hosed as all hell if you don't have strength or money. Yeah that's why I kind of loathe XianXia, other stories find a system they don't like and proceed to smash it to bits like Kumo or any cyberpunk novel. XianXia protagonists LOVE the corrupt anarchistic world system, the system basically rewards them for selfishness, bribery, manipulating people, reputation over lives, they can be the bullies, enemies basically frame themselves, "friends" are mere choirboys/trophy doll wives, the Confucian ideal that older = better, scams, preventing information to be spread, ignore Buddhist teachings until it benefits them and no one weaker than them can ever oppose them or dare even to disagree. Oh and don't forget it's okay to topple people, but when the antagonist topples a "maiden's place through trickery" it's bad. Nie Li you are literally no better than the Spirit Emperor. This offends me on every personal worldview I hold. It's by every way I slice it, Chaotic Evil, purely chaos and anarchy. If you replaced XianXia with the word "hell" and "demons" from DnD or any other Fantasy TRPG, nothing changes. Annointed fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Aug 23, 2016 |
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Aug 23, 2016 10:50
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Yeah, I loving love it when xianxia protagonists get all umbraged and pissed about somebody flaunting their wealth or subverting the system, then when they flaunt their wealth and subvert the system, everyone claps and cheers their cleverness and talent. I mean, ok, if your whole moral system revolves around "What's good for my family is good period" that's fine and everything, but you don't get to claim any loving moral high ground when other people apply the same loving value system. In other news, Swallowed Star is going Full Zoolander. quote:The other members of the fire hammer squad immediately followed Luo Feng, ferociously turning to the left.
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jwang posted:Hero's War really makes me realize that being dropped into a medieval setting (even one with magic) is functionally like coming out of a fallout shelter after an apocalypse. You have to figure out how to put back together a functioning modern society as we know with bare bones knowledge of how things work and far too little tools to do it with. In a sense, being transplanted from one world to another that's on a much lower tech level is a personal apocalypse by itself. Jackard fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Aug 23, 2016 |
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guardians of the flame wasn't a very good series of books, but i always thought the premise was rad. they didn't careen between various generic evil world ending threats like the usual fantasy novels. instead, they dedicated their lives to ending slavery.
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No but I'll check it out. I did remember the name of one series, "The Warlock in Spite of Himself" by Christopher Stasheff. A space traveler with robot sidekick ends up on a medieval style magic world.
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The part in Ascendance of a Bookworm where Maine bakes the clay tablets and they explode was hilarious. edit: You know, one thing I notice about just about every reincarnation WN that involves the person starting as a toddler/young child is that children tend to behave like they're WAY older than they actually are. In Ascendance of a Bookworm, the main character and the kids she knows should only be 6-7, but they talk like they're at least 10+. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Aug 23, 2016 |
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Aug 23, 2016 22:20
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Has Bookworm been collected into something I can read on a kindle? I need to get in on this explosive clay action
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Captain Bravo posted:I've started reading Swallowed Star, and while it's trippy as all gently caress I kind of like the fluff about how civilization treats the pseudo-cultivators. "You bastard, you attacked someone else in their home for little to no reason? Go to jail. Oh poo poo, wait, you're kind of strong? Nevermind, you're released from jail and here's your apology letter, would you like us to arrest the person you assaulted yesterday?" To clarify, the way he's trying to describe the word "speed" is referring to the Chinese calligraphy symbol for speed, 速, and usually in calligraphy they usually talk about how it holds the "dao" of that character when it's very well written. It's something that's lost in context when translated, so I understand if you think it's kind of hilarious that simply writing a word in huge font is amazing.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Has Bookworm been collected into something I can read on a kindle? I need to get in on this explosive clay action I've been working on a script to generate an ePUB from my Tumblr posts, but it's kinda on the back burner. I'll post here when I get something together. Don't hold your breath, though.
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I really dont know where to post this, but after finishing up ISSTH and having loved ROTK I went back to the west and started reading Le Morte d'Arthur. I think I tend to subconsciously think that people from ages past were a little more reserved and dignified but this line is another reminder that no matter where you are in history, people have pretty much always fundamentally been the same: "and he slew a great giant named Galapas, which was a man of a huge quantity and height, he shorted him and smote off both his legs by the knees, saying, Now art thou better of a size to deal with than thou were, and after smote off his head. " Even in the 1400s people wanted thier king to deliver Schwarzenegger style quips right after wrecking someone.
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I like medieval literature. It can be very direct and blunt and occasionally comes with an endearing kind of sarcasm. Like when Simon de Montfort died at the Siege of Toulouse during the Albigensian crusade, and a not-so-friendly southern author recalls the event: "…there was in the town a mangonel built by a carpenter and dragged with its platform from St Sermin. This was worked by noblewomen, by little girls and men’s wives, and now a stone arrived just where it was needed and struck Count Simon on his steel helmet, shattering his eyes, brains, back teeth, forehead and jaw. Bleeding and black, the count dropped dead on the ground. (...) How many knights and barons you would have heard lamenting, weeping under their helmets and crying out in anger! Aloud they exclaimed, “God, it is not right to let the count be killed! How stupid to serve you, to fight for you, when the daring count who was kind and daring, is killed by a stone like a criminal! Since you strike and slay your own servants, there’s no work for us here any more!"
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I love how the difficulties in "reinventing" various products/technologies are actually accurately represented in Ascendance of a Bookworm. I think it's the only WN with this premise that doesn't involve the protagonist just magically making everything work without any trouble. edit: The one thing I find kinda funny is that I'm pretty sure Maine could accomplish her goal of reading books a lot faster if she just focused on making as much money as possible in order to afford books (instead of trying to make the books herself). The shampoo alone would probably net her a small fortune, and once she has more money there's no limit to the number of relatively simply modern things she could reinvent; her main limitation currently is her poor constitution and lack of materials. Obviously she would want to eventually facilitate the switch from parchment to paper, but that would be a lot easier with money and employees. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Aug 24, 2016 |
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