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Library of Heaven's Path is a fun read, but very shallow. If you enjoy reading stories where the MC just stomps all over the opposition, this is something you would enjoy. I read it because it's less garbage than most other crap out there, but it only ranks slightly above IET works for me because it's very predictable but amusing.
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jwang posted:If you enjoy reading stories where the MC just stomps all over the opposition, this is something you would enjoy. That's literally every web novel I've read so far.
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Mar 9, 2018 23:32
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Megazver posted:That's literally every web novel I've read so far. I mean there's... there's... ...Grimgar? Is that it?
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Mar 10, 2018 06:38
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The girl in Kusuriya no Hitorigoto is too busy injecting herself with snake venom to do much stomping
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Mar 10, 2018 14:44
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The MC in Release That Witch doesn't do much stomping himself, he's an engineer who gets his witch girlfriend to use her fire magic to smelt steel. He then uses that and his engineering knowledge to bootstrap his kingdom from the middle ages to Napoleonic technology. His standing army does the stomping while the opposing knights wonder what those weird metal tubes are.
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Mar 10, 2018 15:25
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Konstantin posted:The MC in Release That Witch doesn't do much stomping himself, he's an engineer who gets his witch girlfriend to use her fire magic to smelt steel. He then uses that and his engineering knowledge to bootstrap his kingdom from the middle ages to Napoleonic technology. His standing army does the stomping while the opposing knights wonder what those weird metal tubes are. Well, yes. The stomping discussed is indeed not literally the physical action of stomping.
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Mar 10, 2018 15:55
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sunken fleet posted:I mean there's... There's Walking my Second Path in life, if that's your sort of thing. (It is extremely my jam.)
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NinjaDebugger posted:There's Walking my Second Path in life, if that's your sort of thing. (It is extremely my jam.) Cain being the only one who knows the whole picture but being stuck watching as everything plays out is extremely my thing.
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NinjaDebugger posted:There's Walking my Second Path in life, if that's your sort of thing. (It is extremely my jam.) Irisize posted:Cain being the only one who knows the whole picture but being stuck watching as everything plays out is extremely my thing. Good enough to pay for?
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Mar 14, 2018 03:11
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Autonomous Monster posted:Good enough to pay for? I did, but I already knew I liked it from the first couple volumes fan translated. The J-Novel Club translation is significantly better than those.
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Mar 14, 2018 04:54
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This dank maymay amused me: 
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Mar 14, 2018 20:21
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Megazver posted:This dank maymay amused me: been posted, but also funny enough that it should be posted many times so it's cool it sums up both sides pretty well
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Checked out a few more titles. I have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World is about a guy who gets the ability to teleport back and forth between modern China and the post-apoc future China that's a thinly veiled Fallout rip-off and bring physical goods with him both ways. I like the idea of it - bring the now-useless valuables and future tech back to modern day, bring extinct luxuries to the future, grow rich and powerful in the process - but the execution is sorely lacking. The author is obviously a dirt-poor incel in real life and spends a significant amount of time describing how he'd spend money if he became a millionaire and how much pussy he'd crush, in a manner that makes it obvious he has no experience in either. But what really killed it for me is how stupid the protagonist and his schemes were and how little understanding the author showed of the poo poo he talks about. In the chapter I stopped reading, he, like, bought some pre-war techies as slaves and had one earnestly explain to him that he could turn the modern-era phones ten times more productive by switching them to D++, the more productive programming language, and it'd only take him a week, because of how ancient those phones were. Ugh. Gourmet Food Supplier is about a guy who wakes up with software in his brain (installed by aliens, I think?) that will make him the best chef in the universe... eventually. For now, it gives him missions which reward recipes (sometimes) and sets ridiculous restrictions on how he has to handle his business that he has to obey if he wants to benefit from it. I wanted to read something light-hearted and slice-of-life-y and it's that, I guess, but it gets old quick. The protagonist is passive as gently caress, because his every step is controlled by the software and he just spends his entire days cooking, doing whatever the current mission is and not having a life outside of it, despite quickly becoming filthy rich off of it. Furthermore the story's structure is repetitive as gently caress: he finishes a mission and gets a new recipe, cooks it, then the ever-increasing cast of regulars comes in one in one to pay their monthly salaries for one meal and have full-body orgasms each time they take a bite, then someone new decides to check out the restaurant, scoffs at its bizarre rules, menu and prices, then is converted into a fanatic fan as soon as the food makes contact with their mouth, rinse, repeat. Forty Milleniums of Cultivation is a sci-fi cultivation xianxia. There are two ways to work magic and/or other weird poo poo into your worldbuilding. One, you can take whatever it is, let's say teleportation, and try to work out how it would affect the economy and the infrastructure and the society, etc. Two, you can just go "okay, so watches and computers and trains exist, but they run on Magic Energy now, it's the modern world but with magic users". FMoC goes the latter route, which I found a bit disappointing, but the worldbuilding is otherwise decent and what you'd expect from "near future sci-fi with mechas and combat ships and robots, etc, but also with cultivators". The author couldn't resist the temptation to make the protagonist a transmigrator from our world but it literally comes up once, when it saves him from being possessed and gives him his Obligatory Cheat Power, and he never thinks about it again for the entirety of the currently translated chapters. The story is decent so far and I like the characters, including the romantic interest. The one thing that worries me is that it's apparently an ongoing story with 3000+ loving chapters already written, which at the current translation rate of maybe ten chapters a week means it'd take, like, at least six years for this to get to the finish line. Stop padding, Chinese authors, yeesh.
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Megazver posted:Forty Milleniums of Cultivation is a sci-fi cultivation xianxia. There are two ways to work magic and/or other weird poo poo into your worldbuilding. One, you can take whatever it is, let's say teleportation, and try to work out how it would affect the economy and the infrastructure and the society, etc. Two, you can just go "okay, so watches and computers and trains exist, but they run on Magic Energy now, it's the modern world but with magic users". FMoC goes the latter route, which I found a bit disappointing, but the worldbuilding is otherwise decent and what you'd expect from "near future sci-fi with mechas and combat ships and robots, etc, but also with cultivators". The author couldn't resist the temptation to make the protagonist a transmigrator from our world but it literally comes up once, when it saves him from being possessed and gives him his Obligatory Cheat Power, and he never thinks about it again for the entirety of the currently translated chapters. The story is decent so far and I like the characters, including the romantic interest. The one thing that worries me is that it's apparently an ongoing story with 3000+ loving chapters already written, which at the current translation rate of maybe ten chapters a week means it'd take, like, at least six years for this to get to the finish line. Stop padding, Chinese authors, yeesh. man i wish someone would have the balls to go like super sci-fi xianxia "captain's log, stardate 90163, as with the previous 900 years we are still being chased by a space wizard who wants to refine our ship into a magical treasure. in addition chief engineer radiant dawn won't stop barfing blood upon seeing the replicator's incredible heaven-defying properties, despite having seen them every single loving day before now"
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Yinlock posted:man i wish someone would have the balls to go like super sci-fi xianxia I'd read this.
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Yinlock posted:in addition chief engineer radiant dawn won't stop barfing blood upon seeing the replicator's incredible heaven-defying properties, despite having seen them every single loving day before now"
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Megazver posted:The one thing that worries me is that it's apparently an ongoing story with 3000+ loving chapters already written, which at the current translation rate of maybe ten chapters a week means it'd take, like, at least six years for this to get to the finish line. Stop padding, Chinese authors, yeesh. Bookworm's got 677 chapters. Blastron's done 67 of them. At his currently fortnightly release rate, it will take him an actual quarter century to finish.  Speaking of stories which take vast fantastical premises merely to recreate the modern world with bells on, Crossing to the Future, it’s Not Easy to Be a Man, is a (deep breath) cross-dressing space opera xianxia isekai with mecha, for girls. And maybe a political intrigue aspect? There's a lot going on here. There's so much going on here that the blurb mentions events that have not yet happened, one hundred and fifty-two chapters in. 152 chapters and we're still in the prologue. I wouldn't call it slow-paced, exactly, but there's nothing here that couldn't be abbreviated if the meat of the story is much later on. It's also kinda... gross? The setting's this horrific fascist dystopia where people are sorted into castes at birth based on their genetic potential and military service is the highest, only source of merit. Even the youngest of children are expected to solve all disputes by violence and form rigid hierarchies among themselves. But I'm not certain the author knows she's describing a dystopia? But for all that it's probably still better than Every Morning the Most Popular Girl at School Sits Next to Me on the Train. Yeah. So, I had no expectations for this one whatsoever. I saw the title on Novel Updates and thought to myself, "That has got to be the most pathetic self-fulfilment fantasy I have ever heard of." And, lo and behold, it turned out to be the weakest-rear end five-yandere pileup in history. But for all that it was pretty inoffensive until this happened: quote:Currently, I have questions about why such a beautiful girl is dating my son. Then, what was most surprising, was that my daughter liked my son. Of course, this wasn’t the “like” used between family members, but the type of “like” that you would be using for your love interest. Flawless parenting. Please do not read this novel, it's terrible  I did end up putting down money to read Walking My Second Path in Life!. It's alright. Light, fluffy- I was looking for something with a bit more bite but it's solid slice-of-life nonsense. Fie strikes me as far too innocent and child-like for a sixteen-year-old, especially a sixteen-year-old princess, but that's the genre. Jackard posted:Dwarf Fortress Xianxia? Fey moods that have kill-counts in the billions...
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Autonomous Monster posted:Bookworm's got 677 chapters. Blastron's done 67 of them. At his currently fortnightly release rate, it will take him an actual quarter century to finish. I try very hard not to think about this.
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Autonomous Monster posted:Bookworm's got 677 chapters. Blastron's done 67 of them. At his currently fortnightly release rate, it will take him an actual quarter century to finish. I think the author knows, but it's somewhat hard to tell because chinese values are somewhat in awe of dystopias, so....
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Autonomous Monster posted:Crossing to the Future, it’s Not Easy to Be a Man, is a (deep breath) cross-dressing space opera xianxia isekai with mecha, for girls. And maybe a political intrigue aspect? There's a lot going on here. There's so much going on here that the blurb mentions events that have not yet happened, one hundred and fifty-two chapters in. 152 chapters and we're still in the prologue. I wouldn't call it slow-paced, exactly, but there's nothing here that couldn't be abbreviated if the meat of the story is much later on. Just sounds like your regular Young Adult novel, tbh.
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Megazver posted:Just sounds like your regular Young Adult novel, tbh. the difference is that those are always about fighting the system, whereas that wn sounds more like "gently caress yeah, this system rocks". i haven't read it, though.
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blastron posted:I try very hard not to think about this. Well, even the published paper version of Honzuki has already taken 3 years to get just halfway through the story. Can't really demand you keep up with that. They recently announced a second manga illustrator for the adaptation, though, who's starting at arc 3. The original artist will still adapt arc 2, so they should be doing some kind of parallel publication soon, which might reduce the estimated manga conclusion by like a decade.
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release that witch is p.good, if only for the scene where an old-timey alchemist discovers basic chemistry and has a lovecraftian meltdownblastron posted:I try very hard not to think about this. your cultivation base will be enormous after you have achieved immortality in order to translate more webnovels for idiots on the internet
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In 40K the MC and his love interest are actually about to have..... the sex. Gasp!quote:Ding Lingdang was dazed. Her eyes were filled with ripples, like a lake which had been stirred by spring breeze.
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Also: https://www.patreon.com/posts/plotline-to-all-17336005 Translated by StarveCleric posted:The Plotline to All Xuanhuan Novels
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I thought that was xianxia. I guess I don't know what xuanhuan means.
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Xianxia but less daoism.
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World of Cultivation's translation ended, and it was bad. It had been pretty weak for a while but that ending was quite lame.
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Like the entire last ending arc thing was largely tedious time wasting, but if the second to last chapter had the author only giving a thousandth a poo poo they did at the beginning, the last chapter feels like he gave as much less of a poo poo compared to the second to last. It's just "Well you're all hosed, guess this fight is over, also that's the end of the story". Like a good dozen characters that were important parts of the story before that point just disappeared for like the last hundred chapters. There's no touching base with them, there's no internal reflection about anything that's happening, there's no personal moments. Just wrapping things up in the most checkbox manner possible, without even pretending there are any stakes to any of it. It's real weird, and I wonder if they got burned out or if they wanted to move on to something new. Or if it was just insanely unpopular and not making money for them.
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Autonomous Monster posted:Crossing to the Future, it’s Not Easy to Be a Man, is a (deep breath) cross-dressing space opera xianxia isekai with mecha, for girls. And maybe a political intrigue aspect? There's a lot going on here. There's so much going on here that the blurb mentions events that have not yet happened, one hundred and fifty-two chapters in. 152 chapters and we're still in the prologue. I wouldn't call it slow-paced, exactly, but there's nothing here that couldn't be abbreviated if the meat of the story is much later on. In the more recently translated chapters, it turns out that the Evil Empire they've been fighting unending war with for decades is literally the Japanese.
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Tobermory posted:In the more recently translated chapters, it turns out that the Evil Empire they've been fighting unending war with for decades is literally the Japanese. Yeah china novel. Fishing the Myriad Heavens has that also, I just really laughed about a MC that had the super power of a fishing pole going into crazy xainxia worlds pulling crazy bullshit up with his fishing rod.
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Tobermory posted:In the more recently translated chapters, it turns out that the Evil Empire they've been fighting unending war with for decades is literally the Japanese. poo poo, I knew that from the moment they were the Twilight Empire. Also the main character just dunked 3 ace pilots at like age 10. Which to be fair is far away from the record of becoming incomprehensibly strong at a super young age in a reincarnation story.
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Perfect World eventually got boring but at the beginning it was pretty funny having the protagonist run around killing and eating monsters starting at like age 3. And it's not even a reincarnation story.
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Sindai posted:Perfect World eventually got boring but at the beginning it was pretty funny having the protagonist run around killing and eating monsters starting at like age 3. Pathetic, if your protagonist doesn't go on a killing spree minutes after birth you can't even call it a power fantasy.
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Tobermory posted:In the more recently translated chapters, it turns out that the Evil Empire they've been fighting unending war with for decades is literally the Japanese. oh so it's irregular at magic high school, except chinese instead of japanese Yinlock fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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There's now an ISSTH manhua, wherein things will take a very long time to draw, but will have happened in just an instant!
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Deathblade tweets about it pretty often, the art is pretty bad!
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Silento posted:Deathblade tweets about it pretty often, the art is pretty bad! This seems to be true of a lot/most of the Chinese comics I've read. I guess the industry just isn't as developed there or something. Every one I've read also feels weird and disjointed, like someone who read a cultivation story 10 years ago was trying to recall it while delirious from a terrible fever. Like it's just this series of seemingly disconnected events awkwardly hitting the various plot points of the story. I haven't read the actual cultivation stuff like ISSTH these are based off of (I've just read MDDYA which doesn't play the genre "straight") so I don't know if the original story is as bad as the comic's, but it just comes off like a story some random kid with a poor imagination and a lot of exposure to cultivation plot-lines came up with while playing with action figures. edit: Also, I feel like these things, including CN web novels, have much poorer translation than most of their Japanese/Korean counterparts or something. I can't help but read everything that is said in my Chinese coworkers' accent (which is fairly heavy), while I don't have this issue when reading stuff translated from Japanese/Korean. It also feels like the dialogue/prose has this "spastic" feel to it that is hard to describe. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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I feel completely the opposite when it comes to translations. I've read a lot of both (something I am sad to admit) and it really feels like most of the translations of Chinese novels are far better as far as readability goes. Japanese fan translations I've read often feels like something that has been run through a machine translation or done by somebody with a poor grasp of English. Chinese translations are, however, far more filled with cliche phrasing. Maybe Japanese translations are better these days, but one of the key reasons I started reading more Chinese stuff is that RWX and Deathblade produced such excellent translations. This isn't really a universal thing I admit, and I think a lot of it would depend on what exactly you're reading and who is translating.
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