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You know what this action scene needs? Another 5 seconds of reused animation to show the umbrella transforming into a gun.
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darkgray posted:For the heck of it, I went through a few months' worth of manga adaptations, and it seems isekai is pretty popular these days: Who's to blame for this?
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Synthbuttrange posted:Who's to blame for this? humanity
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May 16, 2018 09:25
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What site do you check to find new and upcoming manga?
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Argas posted:You know what this action scene needs? Another 5 seconds of reused animation to show the umbrella transforming into a gun. We all know RWBY sucks, but I didn't think it was a WN too?
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May 16, 2018 13:06
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Jackard posted:What site do you check to find new and upcoming manga? You can set Amazon.co.jp to show manga releases from the past 90 days.
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May 16, 2018 15:32
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Argas posted:Got into The King's Avatar WN after watching the OVAs, which were much better because they didn't feature much if any of the 5s animation of an umbrella turning into a gun. It's good and it gets better as it goes. It manages to consistently have the always good main character is shameless and scams people segments from chinese novels while keeping the scams fresh and since it's in a video game you never have that ohh dear the protagonist just killed thousands of people for his plot.
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May 16, 2018 15:35
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Synthbuttrange posted:Who's to blame for this? Someone could probably write a paper on Japan's poor economy resulting in millions of young people fantasizing about dying and being reborn as someone with a ton of power and money.
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:It's good and it gets better as it goes. It manages to consistently have the always good main character is shameless and scams people segments from chinese novels while keeping the scams fresh and since it's in a video game you never have that ohh dear the protagonist just killed thousands of people for his plot. The trash talking is part of what makes it really fun to read. They're swearing up and down with anger but it's clear that it's more frustration and mindgames than actual vitriol.
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May 16, 2018 22:10
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Shanakin posted:"Unfortunately young miss, third-female-lead I can see a problem with the mana in your body" the man sternly warned. God bless you.
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I decided to calculate how much stuff costs at webnovel.com, and I'd like to start off by telling bullshit microtransaction currencies to gently caress off for forcing me to use a spreadsheet to calculate how much poo poo actually costs. So, to start off:
Putting that all together, you basically get to read 1 novel for free, and have to pay for every novel after that. Assuming you buy spirit stones in the largest amounts possible, it costs at minimum $8 per novel per month, or $96 per novel per year to keep up, not including periodic mass releases. That just seems insane to me, paying nearly the cost of netflix to read a single webnovel. *I didn't bother collecting much data, I just based it on the 3 novels I follow.
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BadMedic posted:I decided to calculate how much stuff costs at webnovel.com, and I'd like to start off by telling bullshit microtransaction currencies to gently caress off for forcing me to use a spreadsheet to calculate how much poo poo actually costs. You can earn low 30's or so spirit stones per day by using the app (5 for voting, 5 for voting for upcoming novel, ~10-12 for login reward, ~10-12 for watching a 30s ad), which is enough for reading 2 books. In related news I now read 2 books on webnovel, after I dropped reading two stories because I don't want to pay.
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BadMedic posted:I decided to calculate how much stuff costs at webnovel.com, and I'd like to start off by telling bullshit microtransaction currencies to gently caress off for forcing me to use a spreadsheet to calculate how much poo poo actually costs. lol just make an alt
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i just wait for the free releases. while i read some series on qidian, there's nothing terribly exciting.
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We Xianxia now.
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May 17, 2018 02:34
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is that even an official source? or just "translators" charging for other people's work?
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The Sandman posted:Here, something actually good to read. I'll second this. I really enjoy Number None and what it does with arrancar society and some of the lesser known hollows. Also Nemo is adorable. Argas posted:Got into The King's Avatar WN after watching the OVAs, which were much better because they didn't feature much if any of the 5s animation of an umbrella turning into a gun. I like the WN better than the OVAs mainly because the OVAs and anime season really streamline everything. It does get a bit annoying while you're waiting on updates, but Ye Xiu's shameless plans, especially in game, are better appreciated in the WN (partially because they're actually shown but also because they need time to play out).
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Katreus posted:I'll second this. I really enjoy Number None and what it does with arrancar society and some of the lesser known hollows. Also Nemo is adorable. It's definitely one of those things that change with different mediums. Not that animation can't do scheming and poo poo (Death Note) but the animation couldn't even do action scenes very well. Apparently there's also a live-action adaptation of TKA. Wonder how they're doing in-game scenes.
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The Sandman posted:Here, something actually good to read. Jackard posted:Hm! Are there any other fantasy stories where the protagonist isn't a. overpowered and b. a piece of poo poo? Jackard posted:That seems like a big leap from "not overpowered"..? No, I'm not looking for something like Grimgar.
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there's tons of "kingdom-builder" type fantasy stories where MC personally isn't very strong but makes up for it with his amazing knowledge of soy sauce or whatever (for example I Won 4 Billion in a Lottery But I Went to Another World, Risou no Himo Seikatsu, Cooking with Wild Game, Realist Kingdom Reform) all of which are pretty ok if you like the genre. But for more straight "fantasy hero on an adventure" nothing really springs to my mind. I was a sword when I reincarnated maybe? I've heard it's good and that the MC duo become much less overwhelmingly powerful relative to their opponents a little later into the story. Dungeon Defense? The MC is pretty bullshit with his "social engineering" you might call it, but he's personally one of the weakest characters in the setting. Akuyaku Tensei Dakedo Doushite Kou Natta? This one fits bet I think, it' very "low fantasy" and the MC isn't super strong except for her (relatively) high social standing.
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sunken fleet posted:there's tons of "kingdom-builder" type fantasy stories where MC personally isn't very strong but makes up for it with his amazing knowledge of soy sauce or whatever I very much prefer this; what can anyone recommend that also has a good translation? The more detailed the explanation and narration is of how they recreated earth thing with magic thing (a la Honzuki), the better.
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dungeon defense is entertaining because it's about huge pieces of poo poo hamming it up and digging themselves deeper all the time. sword reincarnation is mostly inoffensive, but unfortunately has long stretches with godawful machine translations. i thought 4bil lottery was really bad, because it was about some random dude buying stuff online being worshipped as a living god. i'm not sure of the right terminology, since it is a textbook white savior fantasy but the mc is japanese.
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Argue posted:I very much prefer this; what can anyone recommend that also has a good translation? The more detailed the explanation and narration is of how they recreated earth thing with magic thing (a la Honzuki), the better. if you're more interested about how to get technology and a fair society running than specifically technomagic i'll point to the 1632 series of actual-factual novels as a good thing to read in that genre, it counts as a WN imo since the first couple are available free online: http://baencd.freedoors.org/Books/1632/1632.htm
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quote:I, Who had Arrived in Another World, Will Live As I Like With My Hypnosis Ability (The Girls who will become Lewd Female Toilets) I love Japan.
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UberJew posted:if you're more interested about how to get technology and a fair society running than specifically technomagic i'll point to the 1632 series of actual-factual novels as a good thing to read in that genre, it counts as a WN imo since the first couple are available free online: http://baencd.freedoors.org/Books/1632/1632.htm Yeah I've read some of those. American recommendations are fine too actually! I did reach my limit with Wizard's Bane though; that was way too insufferable. (also as long as we're talking about that topic then I'm giving Ryan North's upcoming book a good faith recommendation as he's a good writer and as far as I can tell this is going to be the book to memorize if you're ever worried about getting stuck in the past without technology)
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Argue posted:I very much prefer this; what can anyone recommend that also has a good translation? The more detailed the explanation and narration is of how they recreated earth thing with magic thing (a la Honzuki), the better. I'll be honest with you, Release That Witch is not well translated at all, but the story and the general lack of, let's say, creepiness, are good enough to compensate for it. Argue posted:(also as long as we're talking about that topic then I'm giving Ryan North's upcoming book a good faith recommendation as he's a good writer and as far as I can tell this is going to be the book to memorize if you're ever worried about getting stuck in the past without technology) Looks good. And Ryan's great, yeah. There's also The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm in a similar vein, that's already out.
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Argue posted:I very much prefer this; what can anyone recommend that also has a good translation? The more detailed the explanation and narration is of how they recreated earth thing with magic thing (a la Honzuki), the better. I haven't found anything quite as good at that as Honzuki, whose author actually did research and had Maine have to go through trial and error. Most stuff the MC just kind of waves their hand and makes soy sauce or flush toilets or whatever. From the above list I will give a shout out to Risou no Himou Seikatsu. I'd been turned off by the description a bit, but I really loved it once I got into it. The translation's pretty good and only a couple volumes behind the raws. I will say that if you're looking for specifically technological development stuff it's kind of a secondary focus compared to dealing with the cultural gap of marrying into fantasy India royalty and your standard nobility drama stuff. They do go pretty well in detail during the technological development parts, though, and there's interesting twists like utterly mundane earth goods becoming top secret strategic resources because of how they interact with magic. If you liked Honzuki I might also tentatively recommend Tensei Shoujo no Rirekisho. It's got a very different style, but the basic concept is quite similar to Honzuki, only the MC is a lot more capable than Maine and not obsessed with books. Rather, it focuses more on the implications of a small minority of wizards ruling over vast numbers of uneducated peasants. The translation isn't very far along, but I don't remember it being too bad. IIRC it's a bit slow to start, though, and it doesn't go into much technical detail. Only Sense Online and Frontiers ~Chronicles of Bucket-san’s Detailed Pioneering~ also both go into a decent amount of detail about making stuff, but there it's an MMO crafting system rather than reproducing earth technology. sunken fleet posted:But for more straight "fantasy hero on an adventure" nothing really springs to my mind. I was a sword when I reincarnated maybe? I've heard it's good and that the MC duo become much less overwhelmingly powerful relative to their opponents a little later into the story. Swordguy is one of my favorite straight up adventure stories and I'd recommend it, but the MC is still fairly overpowered. After the author settles in after the early parts, they seem pretty devoted to making sure that the MC is not quite as powerful as the strongest people/monsters in the story, but only one small step down, and still more powerful than everyone else. So they'll wipe the floor with everyone they meet except the big boss at the end of each story arc, basically.
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Megazver posted:I'll be honest with you, Release That Witch is not well translated at all, but the story and the general lack of, let's say, creepiness, are good enough to compensate for it. From people I have talked to the original is really poorly written, and the noble houses names are GoT references. The more I hear the more I'm like ohh dear so that was worse in the original.
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:From people I have talked to the original is really poorly written, and the noble houses names are GoT references. The more I hear the more I'm like ohh dear so that was worse in the original. I mean, there's really just the one royal family, the, cough, Wimbledons. There are some other noble families as minor characters and I suppose the translator could have just changed things to make it less cringe, but I'm trying to come up with any parallels to GoT and I can't really think of any.
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Argue posted:I very much prefer this; what can anyone recommend that also has a good translation? The more detailed the explanation and narration is of how they recreated earth thing with magic thing (a la Honzuki), the better. "Tales of the Reincarnated Lord" also falls under the readable quality kingdom building novels like Release the Witch and Tensei Shoujo no Rirekisho.
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Why do some translators use Japanese style quotation marks (「」) in place of English style ("") for dialogue? It's something I used to see in LN translations years ago, and I've seen it in a few WN translations too.
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You know deep down in your kokoro, you baka.
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and i must meme posted:Why do some translators use Japanese style quotation marks (「」) in place of English style ("") for dialogue? Because it's a 「cheap trick」 to make stand names look cooler.
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jwang posted:Cultivation Chat Group is like the 1% of the Xianxia genre, so it's in its own category. I'm talking about the general murder-hobo stories, where the go-to resolution to any problem is the kill the poo poo out of anyone that looks at you cross-eyed. I read a hobo murder story called Reverend Insanity. It's like xianxia but with pokemon too. The protagonist pursues the unabashedly evil demonic path and recognizes that he is 100% evil. It was kind of refreshing. No thin justifications for murder or pining about being moral and right for robbin' and murderin'. Just murder hobo doing what a murder hobo does best. Protagonist muscle wizard travels back 500 years in time to his childhood and get's a second chance in life. He uses this chance to nab treasures before anyone else and screw over everyone. In the later chapters, he takes two children hostage, who have done nothing to him ever, and kicks them into a fire to burn alive so he can get a super rare xianxia pokemon. edit: It's baaaaaaaad. But I kind of like dude just being straight up "Yes I am evil." Deadly Ham Sandwich fucked around with this message at 01:02 on May 18, 2018 |
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Thanks, I read through a bunch of Release the Witch and I think I'll read more. I have to say, being reincarnated as a noble doesn't do it for me because whenever this happens in a story everything just seems to fall into the main character's lap, but I'm enjoying the parts where he invents earth things with the help of magic users enough to make up for it. I don't think I'd want to try reading this raw though. Rirekisho is next but wow the translations of these first 6 chapters are awful.
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Megazver posted:You know deep down in your kokoro, you baka. ＴＨＩＳ ＭＵＳＴ ＢＥ ＴＨＥ ＷＯＲＫ ＯＦ ＡＮ ＥＮＥＭＹ 「ＴＲＡＮＳＬＡＴＯＲ」！！
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Megazver posted:I love Japan. Is this like, a parody or something?
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khy posted:Is this like, a parody or something? No the world is just full of perverts. Some of which apparently feel compelled to translate and share text based erotica for reasons that are unknowable to the likes of me.
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i don't really understand translating erotic fiction. like, there's plenty in your native language already, no matter what that language may be. heck, as google just confirmed this includes esperanto.
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