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kirbysuperstar posted:It bugs me that J-Novel Club refer to Potions as "Potion Loli" in their release list. Yeah, I get the feeling they pay a bit more attention to the fan community and pick up the occasional odd thing from them. In the actual product I've been pretty happy with their translations. (Bakarina, Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf, Cooking With Wild Game, Walking My Second Path In Life and, even though I dropped it due to the father-adopted daughter elements, I thought the translation for If It's for My Daughter, I'd Defeat a Demon Lord was good. Still haven't read Potions...)
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Onean posted:Then there's the MC from Potions, who is, uh, well there's a reason "war crimes" was mentioned by two different people in this thread when she's come up. The wanted poster citing the specific articles of the geneva convention that potion girl violated is very funny in a “oh those are literal war crimes” way
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Feb 23, 2019 16:22
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Onean posted:Double post, but my other post is long and I hadn't seen yours. on a scale of 1 to Tanya, how much war crimes are we talking here
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Feb 23, 2019 16:30
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So I read the first few chapters of Wiseman and it turns out it's super skeevy! The titular Wiseman looks like a teenager because he fell asleep after using a cosmetic item to design his "ideal girl." Later, his new body is described as looking to be "between eleven and twelve." Pass.
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Feb 23, 2019 16:41
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I know this is the good isekai thread, but people were reccing Wiseman here earlier so I thought I'd give a heads-up to anyone on the fence about reading it
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Feb 23, 2019 16:42
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I don't know how far Tanya goes, but here's that Wanted poster that was made as a joke: For a little more explanation: She uses nitroglycerin and napalm to ambush and destroy an invading army's supply convoy. Then, she evacuates villages along the army's route and poisons their water wells and any extra food lying around with a poison that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting. (Minor plus, the poison is temporary and will leave the wells pure after about 10 days.) She also kills three soldiers for beating up the orphans she's caring for, one by filling his lungs with water, another by filling his stomach with acid and a third with total paralysis. Edit: Elephant Parade posted:So I read the first few chapters of Wiseman and it turns out it's super skeevy! The titular Wiseman looks like a teenager because he fell asleep after using a cosmetic item to design his "ideal girl." Later, his new body is described as looking to be "between eleven and twelve." Pass. Yeah, but that's pretty much dropped immediately in the manga (which I think is better about a lot of things) though and the character doesn't do anything about it afterwards so I don't mind it as much there. I gave up on the LN pretty quickly because it carries it longer and is really skeevy in general. Onean fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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Feb 23, 2019 17:02
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Captain Invictus posted:MC's a bit of a psychopath I feel like, though. Onean posted:Double post, but my other post is long and I hadn't seen yours. LN spoilers, feel free to avoid but I couldn't resist: You have no idea. She eventually realizes she can cure cancer by teleporting people and leaving the tumor behind and she bribes everyone that finds out to secrecy because she doesn't want millions of people begging her to cure them. She also pretty shamelessly lies and cons people for her own benefit, though that's pretty much a FUNA MC thing. So yeah, though it never drove me off or became outright villainous, she's just a bit ruthlessly pragmatic.
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Feb 23, 2019 19:58
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Bremen posted:LN spoilers, feel free to avoid but I couldn't resist: You have no idea. She eventually realizes she can cure cancer by teleporting people and leaving the tumor behind and she bribes everyone that finds out to secrecy because she doesn't want millions of people begging her to cure them. She also pretty shamelessly lies and cons people for her own benefit, though that's pretty much a FUNA MC thing. So yeah, though it never drove me off or became outright villainous, she's just a bit ruthlessly pragmatic. Wouldn't this method not be reliable at all for any sort of advanced cancer due to the cancer metasticizing? There's a reason why you can't reliably just cure all cancers by cutting out the tumor in real life.
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Feb 23, 2019 22:05
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I like the isekai about the guy being reborn as a godly pharmacy owner in a fantasy world, because he is just pretty nice. I have a question about VRMMO stuff though: why are all of them written so that every support skill is secretly OP and makes you way too amazing, yet everyone ignores them? I was recommended the legendary moonlight sculptor, and I kinda liked it, but I feel it is an ur example. Is it just done because there aren't many excuses to let a MC be mysteriously OP?
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Feb 23, 2019 22:13
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KittyEmpress posted:I like the isekai about the guy being reborn as a godly pharmacy owner in a fantasy world, because he is just pretty nice. Only Sense Online has the mc taking all the ignored skills, and they discovers combinations that nobody else has heard about!!! that are pretty decent at best and you're periodically reminded that the character i sd actually pretty mid tier in general, if not lower mid wrt combat ability, and she's only notable in one specific niche. And even in that there are better.
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Feb 23, 2019 23:19
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Ytlaya posted:Wouldn't this method not be reliable at all for any sort of advanced cancer due to the cancer metasticizing? There's a reason why you can't reliably just cure all cancers by cutting out the tumor in real life. Also if the tumor is big enough or in a bad spot removing it will just kill you.
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Feb 23, 2019 23:39
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So far in Handyman Saitou the MC is extremely underpowered and has mostly a support role in the party since he has no combat skills or magic whatsoever and is also very low level compared to the rest. I haven't read a huge number of isekai stories but it stood out to me as being fairly unique since he's just using his real-world job skills not some weird OP cheat. also I am very concerned about him after the last chapter and really need an update!! 
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Feb 23, 2019 23:51
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KittyEmpress posted:I like the isekai about the guy being reborn as a godly pharmacy owner in a fantasy world, because he is just pretty nice. The reason is because the main purpose of the stories is as a power fantasy (just....a really lame one where the fantasy is "being strong in a video game"). Having them become strong through using some uncommon skill is just an attempt to make it seem more "fair" than outright giving the MC powers that no one else has, though in practice it's basically the same thing.
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Feb 23, 2019 23:51
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KittyEmpress posted:I like the isekai about the guy being reborn as a godly pharmacy owner in a fantasy world, because he is just pretty nice. because these authors have never actually played a mmo or read mmo forums. people who play mmo's try out every conceivable detail and generally end up doing poo poo the gm's never imagined was possible. a skill or class being completely abandoned based on a beta test is ridiculous, and demonstrates a poor knowledge of what a beta test even is. one especially dull example is the summoner is going, where due to flawed balancing and character creation ui the mc ends up as the only summoner in the entire game, despite there being nothing in particular wrong with summoners. in lms, regular sculptors do suck. it's just that weed stumbled on to a super special advanced version of the class that can also fight. lms does better on this front than most vrmmo webnovels, because it acknowledges that a immersive vr fantasy world is better with non-combat roles. there are artists, mountain climbers, sailors, farmers, etc. lms still has loads of problems and dragged on far, far too long, but it did do that one aspect well.
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Feb 24, 2019 00:17
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Ytlaya posted:Wouldn't this method not be reliable at all for any sort of advanced cancer due to the cancer metasticizing? There's a reason why you can't reliably just cure all cancers by cutting out the tumor in real life. Why? If the cancer has metastasized it seems like it would be the only way to cure you, since it would remove the cancerous cells all over your body at once. It does seem like for a large enough tumor just having it disappear from your body might kill you though, but I'm no doctor so I can't say for sure. But anyways, the point was about the morality of the protagonist, not a debate on magical cancer cures. Bremen fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Feb 24, 2019 |
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Feb 24, 2019 00:47
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Ytlaya posted:The reason is because the main purpose of the stories is as a power fantasy (just....a really lame one where the fantasy is "being strong in a video game"). Sindai fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Feb 24, 2019 |
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Feb 24, 2019 00:53
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You would be amazed at how many of these VRMMO stories have a disclaimer in their original Japanese synopsis that the author has never played an MMO, and it shows. Ytlaya posted:Wouldn't this method not be reliable at all for any sort of advanced cancer due to the cancer metasticizing? There's a reason why you can't reliably just cure all cancers by cutting out the tumor in real life. The way her powers work is that she doesn’t seems to have any limits on being able to specify what does or doesn’t teleport with her, or on size, so she can teleport stuff like ships, planes, and buildings. So she doesn’t specify “the tumor”, she specifies “all cancerous cells”. She does the same thing with harmful viruses and bacteria. The whole thing started as an explanation of why she doesn’t transmit communicable diseases between worlds.
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Feb 24, 2019 01:45
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new chapter of that overly-cautious isekai
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Feb 24, 2019 04:33
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A new translator has picked up however we're shortening the glitchy one with Train-san
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Feb 24, 2019 04:52
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Feb 24, 2019 06:53
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I really like the don't even leave a single cell existing attention to detail, don't take any chances
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Feb 24, 2019 07:17
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It's another otome villainess reincarnation isekai: And also a cooking manga maybe?? This one has the MC not being able to avoid the banishment ending of the villainess she reincarnated as even though she did try, but she's finding church life not too bad as she not so subtly introduces foods from her past life. Will probably have a growing harem. Seems like cute mindless fluff I can get behind and the head knight guy seems cute.
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Feb 24, 2019 07:20
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Vorpal Cat posted:FFTA on the other hand commits one of the worst Isekai sins. "Thou shall not try to turn thy isekai into an alagory about escapeism." That wasn’t its problem. The problem is that the story downplayed the very obvious stuff that was going down (Mewt’s bullies being turned into zombies) in favour of telling its parable with someone, whose biggest problem is that mummy doesn’t pay him quite as much attention as he thinks he’s owed thanks to her being concerned for his wheelchair bound and possibly terminally ill younger brother, going around telling off people who have some genuine poo poo to process through up-to and including being wheelchair bound. Marche isn’t the villain, he’s just an rear end in a top hat.
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Feb 24, 2019 08:19
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lol jesus the first chapter of potion isekai is heavy as gently caress Guess that's a trend with this author, huh. Right off the bat it's extremely brutal, either physically or emotionally, both potion and planeswalker isekai (since the teleportation one is basically that) just go right for it immediately Hilariously with potion isekai it's not "oh no truck-kun!" but whoops god hosed up and you exploded. Start new game? Y/N
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Feb 24, 2019 16:25
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Huh, I hadn't put them together but you're right. Average Abilities MC also has a kinda bleak life before reincarnating. She's really smart and good at studying, so while her immediate family treat her normally and stand up for her, her extended family fight over who gets to take care of her and place all of the hopes of both sides of the family on her shoulders. She also has no friends at school because the other students feel like she's way out of their league. Then a child gets knocked into the street in front of a truck and she's the only one to react and dies saving the kid, who turns out to be under the protection of a god (she's going to grow up and discover the way for mankind to travel the stars) who also semi messed up and couldn't save the kid himself. Finally, the god twists her request in a way she doesn't want, making her stand out even more in her new life.
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Feb 24, 2019 17:39
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Apparently Kenja no Mago is getting an anime, so I looked it up. I searched the thread and didn't see it, so I figured I'd mention it. I've only read a few chapters and so far it seems OK. The basic premise is the MC is a salaryman who dies, and is reincarnated. He's found by an old magician who raises the MC as his own grandson. He teaches the MC all sorts of amazing magic, but then when the MC turns 15 Grandpa says "Whoops I forgot to teach him common sense" and thus the MC goes off being the most ridiculously OP person of all time. It's fairly light-hearted about things, hopefully it stays that way though if it goes off the rails in a terrible direction please let me know. https://mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-131181
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Feb 25, 2019 08:24
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khy posted:Apparently Kenja no Mago is getting an anime, so I looked it up. I searched the thread and didn't see it, so I figured I'd mention it. It handles its romance a bit awkwardly, but I haven't seen anything bad in this one yet.
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Feb 25, 2019 09:52
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khy posted:Apparently Kenja no Mago is getting an anime, so I looked it up. I searched the thread and didn't see it, so I figured I'd mention it. I read it a while back and from what I can remember it's not bad in the "slavery, rape, and torture" way, but it is kind of bad in just the normal way. I thought the story was kind of dull and predictable and few of the characters held my interest. Opinions may differ, though.
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i wanted an isekai where the protag has to fly cold war birds in a weird civil war but then I realized that was just area 88
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ConanThe3rd posted:That wasn’t its problem. The problem is that the story downplayed the very obvious stuff that was going down (Mewt’s bullies being turned into zombies) in favour of telling its parable with someone, whose biggest problem is that mummy doesn’t pay him quite as much attention as he thinks he’s owed thanks to her being concerned for his wheelchair bound and possibly terminally ill younger brother, going around telling off people who have some genuine poo poo to process through up-to and including being wheelchair bound. Even if we ignore the numerus unfortunate implications and personality problems the story still has the problem of trying to fit a message about escapism into a video game about kids transported to a magical fantasy land. It's like trying to put an anti-masurbation message in your porn video, or a message about why enjoying senseless violence and explosions is bad thing in a Michael Bay film. Even if your message is well intentioned its still going to come across as hypocritical.
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Feb 25, 2019 15:27
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New chapter for Max Defense, and the two friends finally get to play together!
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KittyEmpress posted:I have a question about VRMMO stuff though: why are all of them written so that every support skill is secretly OP and makes you way too amazing, yet everyone ignores them? One reason I like Middle-aged man VRMMO is that after he finds out that certain skills are really good other players start to use them, and in some chapters he mentions others doing much better then him as a team.
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Feb 25, 2019 19:34
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How badly am I reading Bakarina if I think Katarina's obliviously to turning all the girls into capture targets as well?
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Feb 26, 2019 17:37
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Sounds like you're reading it...completely right?
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Feb 26, 2019 17:51
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l-l-lesbians???????
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Feb 26, 2019 17:52
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Bakarina is the ultimate OP bisexual and doesn't know it.
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Feb 26, 2019 17:59
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RareAcumen posted:How badly am I reading Bakarina if I think Katarina's obliviously to turning all the girls into capture targets as well? This is not something the novel goes out of its way to hide from you
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arisu posted:This is not something the novel goes out of its way to hide from you I'm reading the manga I kinda got mixed up in the later parts. Like 'wait maybe Mary actually does still have a thing for Alan afterall?' But I might just need to go through it again. Something like that. But anyway, I found another one that I'm looking forward to seeing more of later. The Vengeful White Cat Lounging on the Dragon King's Lap It's a lot like +a no tachiichi in that two girls get pulled into another world but there's complete animosity from one as the other has basically tormented them all their life by somehow having sycophants at every turn and never being able to escape her. 'Gimme your doll because I want it' (They're four years old at the time) 'I got lost on a field trip but you're in trouble for not looking after me despite us not being in the same class.' Then once she gets to the other world she finds out that fairies absolutely adore her. Can't get enough of her, so if you're looking for a protagonist of modest skill this ain't it. She immediately blows out some Robosaurus flames while entertaining the idea of possibly casting magic and that was on accident.
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Sword Dad updated. The current arc is over and Fran gets her new armor. Plus best shadow doggo.
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RareAcumen posted:How badly am I reading Bakarina if I think Katarina's obliviously to turning all the girls into capture targets as well?  The less she knows, the better off we’ll be.
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