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Bobulus posted:I think 'stuck in a timeloop' counts as a special ability. Honestly, you're going to have a hard time finding stories where the protagonist has absolutely no advantages, because if they didn't, then some random extra could duplicate their feats and do the job better than them. About the closest you're going to come is a story where the protagonist has above-average will power and is willing to go through some extremely strenuous training that anyone is theoretically capable of doing, but most would consider too painful to attempt. You have plenty of stories in every part of the world about plain old boring people who happen to have slightly less ordinary experiences. Sure, anyone else could have had those experiences, but then that someone-else would have been the protagonist instead. A character is protagonist because they play a part in a story. Unrelated, I've almost finished reading part 1 of Honzuki now. It's a slow process, about an hour and a half per chapter, but very enjoyable. I'm repeatedly surprised by how much of a nerd Urano is/was, especially with her commentary during her baptismal ceremony. And to think it's only about 1/10th of the story published so far... nielsm fucked around with this message at 21:58 on May 15, 2017 |
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jon joe posted:Then I'm thinking action stories are probably a no-go. People don't seem all that excited about drama when it comes to web novels. Not sure why exactly, but maybe it's difficult to write a longrunning drama story, and if they're short nobody has time to take notice. On top of that it's just hard to find translators for things, more so when they're not popular to begin with. The closest Japanese web novel I can think of is Nikubenki, which is probably a human drama at heart, but it's also highly pornographic. Then again, almost all the dramas set in the real world seem to be posted on the adult site. You're probably better off looking for light novel translations instead, since the genres are a bit more varied there. Stuff like Golden Time, Toradora, or Oregairu?
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jon joe posted:Then I'm thinking action stories are probably a no-go. I like Sugaru Miaki's stuff, though it can be a little depressing: http://www.novelupdates.com/nauthor/sugaru-miaki/ All of his stories (or at least the translated ones) are romance/dramas, sometimes with some supernatural plot elements. edit: I'm not sure how much they really count as web novels. I think they were originally posted on 2chan and then published as light novels, so they aren't from Narou (or similar sites) like most of the other stuff people are mentioning.
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jon joe posted:Are there any stories where: Bathroom Goddess is about an ordinary woman whose bathroom window keeps linking to different parts of another world where she feels compelled to help people pretty much just because she can.
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darkgray posted:Does Kenkyo Kenjitsu count? She has no powers or anything, since it's just the regular world. Not much of an adventure as such, mind. jon joe posted:Are there any stories where: Also there are a few where the main character is just some average guy who migrates to fantasy land for whatever reason like this one about a NEET who gets trapped in a fantasy world and only his handsome and powerful dog can protect him(the dog starts leveling up and stuff while he doesn't because he's a worthless NEET) I dropped it really early because the chat log format in some chapters was really annoying so I dunno if it's actually any good. Or this one about a guy who wins the lottery and also finds a magic portal to fantasy land which he uses to mess around with the medieval peasants who live on the other side(read: "Help" them). Or this one about some guy who meets a hot girl from a fantasy world and she wants him to come marry her for reasons and blah blah blah... this one is actually a bit better than the one sentance blurb does it credit. All the early drama sort of centers around his queen/wife not wanting to lose any power in her patriarchal fantasy world so to do that she marries a complete political outsider (the MC) who it's ok for her to marry for *reasons*. Then it's just him sort of bumbling around trying not to screw things up for her too badly. A tiny bit more mature take on the girl-falls-out-of-the-sky sort of genre.
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jon joe posted:Are there any stories where: Raptor Wife is a pleasant slice of life romance.
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LibrarianCroaker posted:Raptor Wife is a pleasant slice of life romance. Raptor Wife, although I never finished it, is a cute romance story about living as hobos in an igloo. No real super powers for the MC aside from him being a super hunk pretty boy.
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the leads in raptor wife are superhumanly adorable, which is the most powerful special ability of all so i don't think it qualifies
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May 16, 2017 08:57
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Hey where's the dinosaurs? I feel cheated
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May 16, 2017 09:25
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the dinosaurs were in your heart all along
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jon joe posted:Are there any stories where: The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria.
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jon joe posted:Then I'm thinking action stories are probably a no-go. There are quite a few out there, Narou has categories for drama, non-fantasy romance, etc. I think the problem is that Because they're less popular they don't attract translators as much. Argue posted:In Honzuki, the main character doesn't even know they have powers for a while, because it manifests as an illness. I'm not far enough to say if her powers are unique among the people of that world but nearly a hundred chapters in all we really know about her powers is "she has mana." She's successful because she's basically a walking encyclopedia, and applies her earth knowledge to stuff. In the Honzuki world Nobles are basically Harry Potter wizards and Peasants aren't born with magic except in rare cases, of which the protagonist is one. So Maine may be special among the peasants, but uh, the "Ascendance" in "Ascendance of a bookworm" comes from 下剋上, which is specifically a word for a person of lower class rising through the social ranks and reversing the relationship of servant and master. It's in the title that she's not gonna stay a peasant forever. Also, in the later parts (Not really spoilers, but just in case)Maine does become pretty overpowered in her own ways, but only in that she has a ton of mana and a unique perspective on the world. And even then it's not like other OP protagonists. She still can't really fight or anything. And despite that, the only thing she really has that other characters couldn't possibly get is knowledge of earth, and she doesn't use it all that much later as she does in part 1. Part 1 is kind of different from the rest of the series.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the dinosaurs were in your heart all along I KNEW IT! More webnovels should have dinosaurs imo.
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ISSTH is not at its best right now but I'm starting to really like this Jin Yunshan guy: “You can try to hide it,” he thought, “but my Flame Eye can see your greedy nature. Hmph! I’ve already given you a bracelet of holding, so if you look at me the wrong way again, then I’ll remind you about that fact to make sure things don’t go too far. And if you really get out of hand… well, I’ve prepared five more bracelets of holding. Don’t think I won’t be able to handle you this time!” Snorted coldly inside, Jin Yunshan stuck his jaw out, looking as proud and lofty as ever. and in the next chapter Soon, the coldness around them intensified, and cracking sounds could be heard as the ground began to ice over. Endless numbers of ghosts began to swirl around Meng Hao, forming a vortex. Everyone was shocked, especially Jin Yunshan, who shivered and pulled out a bracelet of holding. lmbo
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Yeah this whole sequence just feels forced and boring. Jin Yunshan understanding Meng Hao's greed has been the only entertaining part. I really thought we were going to end with the God, Devil, and Immortal realms fighting and that would be the end of it essentially. Now we have the Vast Expanse and the Vast Expanse Society which exists outside of the Vast Expanse and All-Heaven. Very little of this was ever hinted at so I feel like it is just the author trying to end the story tying together his other web novels and it has made me far less interested.
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Er Gen absolutely needed to switch the main viewpoint character of these last chapters in ISSTH to Yan'er with only occasional bits from Meng Hao/Fang Mu. Alas, he did not do so.
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Kumoko finally has a new chapter after months! http://raisingthedead.ninja/tag/kumo-desu-ga/
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Yeah, and the next novel release date was announced (June 9th) so we'll probably get a few weeks of web novel updates until the author disappears again, unless they actually end the story this time. e: Volume 3: 2016/07/09, Web novel activity from 2016/06/16 until 2016/07/29 Volume 4: 2016/10/10, Web novel activity from 2016/09/06 until 2016/11/14 Volume 5: 2017/02/10, Web novel activity from 2017/02/16 until 2016/03/18 Tamba fucked around with this message at 10:00 on May 19, 2017 |
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Captain_duck posted:Kumoko finally has a new chapter after months! yes, but it is starting yet another flashback arc! goddamn it, kumoko.
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The original translator of Common Sense of a Duke's Daughter has started releasing chapters again.
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SummaryAnon just finished translating the last bits of Arc 4. 
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I was reading one of the negative reviews for Kumoko on Novelupdates and found this funny (spoilered just because it implies a spoiler):quote:The MC has no personality, I felt like I'm reading a actual spider with a human intelligence not a human reborn as a spider
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I imagine Kuro as a bald black man (as in the race) and nothing can convince me otherwise.
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Heh. I've got a bookmarked reddit search for Kumo Desu Ga, since it's the easiest way to check if any new manga/webnovel translations are up. Apparently some 4channer decided that a whole month hiatus was too long and 'no one' was translating Kumoko at the moment. Sorry, Blastr0n, looks like you're out of a job. 
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sunken fleet posted:Or this one about some guy who meets a hot girl from a fantasy world and she wants him to come marry her for reasons and blah blah blah... this one is actually a bit better than the one sentance blurb does it credit. All the early drama sort of centers around his queen/wife not wanting to lose any power in her patriarchal fantasy world so to do that she marries a complete political outsider (the MC) who it's ok for her to marry for *reasons*. Then it's just him sort of bumbling around trying not to screw things up for her too badly. A tiny bit more mature take on the girl-falls-out-of-the-sky sort of genre.
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http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/licensing-issues-of-wuxiaworld.37613/ http://www.wuxiaworld.com/wuxiaworld-formal-response-to-qidian-licensing-issues-post/ Qidian changed their mind about letting WW license all the most popular novels after putting up their own english site, shocking. Sindai fucked around with this message at 21:09 on May 22, 2017 |
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i'm inclined to believe ww if only because their version actually makes sense.
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well, went through the gods are bastards. not terrible, though there were some parts that made me roll my eyes very emphatically. magic autistic cowboy shows up in every volume after his introduction and absolutely everyone he meets instantly loves and adores him. he is often completely irrelevant to whatever story is going on but he still gets pointlessly tossed in. i don't much care for incredibly blatant pet characters. then there is the weeaboo kingdom, but the less said about that the better. overall there is a whole lot of tumblr tokenism, where various rainbow characters are introduced like the author is going off a checklist rather than because they have any particular relevance to the story.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:well, went through the gods are bastards. not terrible, though there were some parts that made me roll my eyes very emphatically. magic autistic cowboy shows up in every volume after his introduction and absolutely everyone he meets instantly loves and adores him. he is often completely irrelevant to whatever story is going on but he still gets pointlessly tossed in. i don't much care for incredibly blatant pet characters. then there is the weeaboo kingdom, but the less said about that the better. overall there is a whole lot of tumblr tokenism, where various rainbow characters are introduced like the author is going off a checklist rather than because they have any particular relevance to the story. I hope one day you are free from your urge to read bad books, or learn how to read them for the internet
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Namtab posted:I hope one day you are free from your urge to read bad books, or learn how to read them for the internet nah, despite its flaws tgab isn't bad at all. it's not exceptional, but pretty good is very high praise in the garbage fiction for garbage people thread. an author constantly trying to show off how progressive they are is an incredibly minor fault compared to some of the lovely fantasy novels i read in my youth. a few years ago i tried going back to read some of my favorites from way back when and many of them were awful even by the standard of poorly translated webnovels.
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Should I try out reading the Wortenia Senki WN/LN?
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Grouchio posted:Should I try out reading the Wortenia Senki WN/LN? Probably not.
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New trailer for Knight's & Magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4gSzsfTsFA Looks like they're spending money on the visuals, at least. Rie Takahashi has managed to be the main character in 3 WN adaptations already, and the boom has barely started yet.
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You know what I want? A real Chinese medical web novel, with real medicine like in Team Medical Dragon. I'm tired of healthcare playing second fiddle to murder and rich douches.
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jwang posted:You know what I want? A real Chinese medical web novel, with real medicine like in Team Medical Dragon. I'm tired of healthcare playing second fiddle to murder and rich douches. that will never happen because it would necessarily include a glowing endorsement of tcm, which despite the name has nothing to do with medicine.
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That's what makes me so mad, since we already have stories that improves the quality of life of historic periods via modern health practices, such as sanitation, pasteurization, and proper hygiene. Why not take it a step further and do what Jin (manga) does?
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