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I was iffy on this one due to the excessively powerful main character. But this page really hits the spot. https://mangadex.org/chapter/505162/32 Edit:Technically a spoiler, but you should be fine if you go from there to the chapter list. habituallyred fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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YESSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLY http://yaraon-blog.com/archives/145924?fbclid=IwAR2hBcwKMroCE8P17Ot9plLiLwcTPBhiKq6dx0G21zGWt1PpcE8jURVTLDA
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Captain Invictus posted:I'm reading the Re:Zero manga, on the "second" series now(just a continuation of the first 12-chapter series it seems, albeit with a different artist) and it seems good as hell. I remember hearing about the anime of it and how it's an isekai where the protagonist is just a schlub with no superpowers or typical isekai protagonist benefits, and that seems to be true, outside of being Anime Groundhog Day. It's a rather eccentric and weird series but charming too, all the characters introduced in the first series are pretty likeable(barring the villain, obviously). The anime adaptation is good and probably preferable to the manga, at least for the 3 arcs the anime covers. Re:Zero is good and probably my favorite isekai series. It has some dumb stuff (primarily related to romance), but the good parts are *really* good. Once you finish the 3 arcs covered in the anime/manga you should dig up the WN translations (they're floating around somewhere). The 4th arc is even better than the first 3, though it's really long (if adapted "faithfully" it would probably be at least as long as the first three arcs combined). The whole gimmick of the protagonist having to figure out an "answer" to dealing with opponents/situations far beyond his ability to directly confront is a good one, and serves as a motivation for him to learn about and connect with other characters (since he generally needs their assistance to deal with the enemies he faces). The author has a really strong knack for crafting exciting/memorable situations and creating characters with very distinct voices/designs. Even during post-anime content I find myself having a very easy time imagining the way the characters look and sound, despite having not actually seen them animated.
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habituallyred posted:I was iffy on this one due to the excessively powerful main character. But this page really hits the spot. That was a horrible cliffhanger to leave us on for a month.
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Mar 6, 2019 19:55
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https://mangadex.org/manga/34785 finally an english tl!! demon lord marries the hero's mom
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Mar 6, 2019 20:40
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Argue posted:YESSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLY Whoaaaa, I honestly was dubious this would happen. While Bookworm is probably my favorite isekai overall, it's long as hell and a lot of the best stuff is in the second half. It looks like they've changed up the cast from the audio drama. Maine is Yuka Iguchi intsead of Miyuki Sawashiro, and Ferdinand is apparently Sho Hayami? For that matter, if they're giving Ferdinand top billing then I have no idea what part they're actually going to adapt since he doesn't even show up until part 2.
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Mar 6, 2019 21:04
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Where does this Maou/Yuusha-trope even come from?
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Pondex posted:Where does this Maou/Yuusha-trope even come from? Fanfiction since the dawn of time.
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Pondex posted:Where does this Maou/Yuusha-trope even come from? Ostensibly Dragon Quest, though the terms were used in Final Fantasy and Zelda, too. While those series provided the most direct inspiration, they themselves were inspired by Lord of the Rings, which in the Japanese translation called Sauron a Maou. So it's all Tolkien's fault.
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Mar 6, 2019 23:07
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Argue posted:YESSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLY That website set off my antivirus.
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everythingWasBees posted:https://mangadex.org/manga/34785 lmao this rules
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drilldo squirt posted:That website set off my antivirus. Yeah, my work blocked it.
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Sorry about that, I didn't get a warning on my end.Bakanogami posted:Whoaaaa, I honestly was dubious this would happen. While Bookworm is probably my favorite isekai overall, it's long as hell and a lot of the best stuff is in the second half. Yeah my gut reaction was excitement but as I calmed down I realized I had no idea how this is gonna happen. If it's a 2 cour thing with 12 eps each they wouldn't be able to get anywhere important even if they cut half the WN chapters. If Ferdinand's been cast maybe they're gonna start with arc 3, since that's where a lot of isekai tend to start anyway. But god I hope not. And also I still have 50 chapters left in arc 3 so this might disincentivize my reading if it gets far enough... My current progress: Maine is now selling edutainment materials to noble children, and renting out books to the poorer ones in exchange for stories she can use in her next book.
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Ytlaya posted:The anime adaptation is good and probably preferable to the manga, at least for the 3 arcs the anime covers.
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Mar 7, 2019 09:56
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Novel Updates is the... aggregator? you'd want to look at. You can find links to the majority (all?) of fan translations that exist for Asian WNs or LNs. Here's a search for Re:Zero that pulls up both the WN and LN. I wish the search wasn't unusable if you're looking for anything other than a title, because they've got a lot of tags that I'd like to browse through in different combinations to find new stuff. At least you can look at one at a time, if you can find a series that has that tag.
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NU's search is pretty good if you can guess it's actually called "series finder"  https://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/Just change the tag combiner to AND and put in all the ones you want.
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Mar 7, 2019 16:53
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Sweet, thanks.
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Mar 7, 2019 17:13
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that demon lord and mommy got together awfully fast imo
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Mar 7, 2019 17:21
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Holy poo poo. I'd occasionally seen the "~best girl~" meme reference Rem but figured it was just oh she's the cutesy maid character, the typical moeblob type. I was proven wrong pretty quickly after her being introduced, but boy howdy, she's a hell of a character in her own right, maybe, indeed, the best girl. I'm in the rejection chapter right now, and drat it's good and painful. I also like that the series just finally outright goes for it and answers the question of just what exactly happens if Subaru tells someone about his respawn ability in the most brutal way possible. This is an excellent series, I'd always meant to watch the show but frankly I don't really have time to watch much anime anymore and kept putting it off. I'm wagering the anime isn't as just utterly grotesque with its gore, right? No hyper detailed cutouts of subaru's throat, windpipe, jugular, etc or half his torso being smash away by the ball and chain, probably heavily censored or offscreen right
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whew thanks, if I ever had any desire to read Re:Zero that wiped it right out
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Everything Burrito posted:whew thanks, if I ever had any desire to read Re:Zero that wiped it right out
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Mar 7, 2019 18:19
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The anime certainly doesn't have any detailed gore. It tends to go for occasional brutality to reinforce it's horror aspects, with the usual blurry shadows for something that would be excessive. It's distinctly horror-themed using it's Groundhog-day-esque setup to show Subaru just how badly things can go depending on his actions, but it mostly sticks to Subaru's POV, and he's the one who has the worst things happen to him, so when he'd pass out or die it's up to your imagination what it actually looks like after.
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I haven’t read the Re: Zero novel yet but the anime was really good. Subaru is a bit scummy but that’s by design. It’s a bit gorey or dark at times but that’s the kind of thing it’s going for.
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Haven't read the novel either (watched the anime) but I'll say feel like the gore aspect is necessary for the story. The main character's only power is coming back to life after he dies - if dying wasn't brutal and horrific then the story would have no stakes at all because he would be completely invincible (well, even moreso than he already is). Like if he wasn't terrified of and traumatized by death then he would just keep restarting over and over to get a "perfect run".
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Everything Burrito posted:whew thanks, if I ever had any desire to read Re:Zero that wiped it right out Edit: this series is really just fantastic for being about a character so purely powerless that he is ultimately forced to rely on others. Sure he can do stuff on his own occasionally, but almost every major situation requires him to negotiate and ally himself with other people. The current bit I'm on the whale hunt is a perfect example of this. He went multiple rounds trying to brute force his way through it all and realized that's not going to get him anywhere, and now we are here. It's great. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Mar 8, 2019 |
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The whole loop where he's catatonic is incredibly compelling and actually kind of hurts to witness.
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Not gonna lie, that just sounds like torture porn. Reasonably well written it seems, but torture porn nonetheless. Like yeah sure I get that the author wants to write a series seemingly to critique how soft writers are with Isekai MC's and what not or whatever it was, but this just sounds like grody, cruel, and mean spirited torture.
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Not really. It's just that when things go bad, things go REALLY BAD, and it's not afraid to show it instead of a blood splatter from offscreen or something. His ability to respawn upon death is one thing, but he also has save points it seems. It's an interesting idea. It's groundhog day but only triggered by dying, I'd recommend giving the first arc a watch/read to see how you like it, the one where he gets transported to another world and immediately gets mugged in an alley. Right now I'm reading through the white whale fight, and the way it uses/plays with the consequences of revealing his respawn ability to others is just fantastic. Esit: welp, Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Mar 8, 2019 |
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tbh if you're the kind of person who shies away from "torture porn" re:zero probably isn't for you. that's not an uncommon thing for people to say about it, and while i don't agree with it, i also can't think of much anything that i'd really properly consider "torture porn"
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Uncomfortable and violent things happen in Re:Zero but they never felt gratuitous to me. For comparison I ended up eventually dropping Overlord because it crossed the line in ways Re:Zero doesn't.
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Gratuitous is exactly the word I'd say depicts things like overlord but not re:zero. Re:zero's violence is horrific and extremely gory in detail in the manga, but it never feels like it's for the sake of being violent outside of one particular character (betelgeuse, who is just a sadistic madman in general). Stuff like overlord has grisly violence just because it can a lot of the time. For me, my reaction to re:zero's violence is often "oh, uh, gently caress" while overlord's is pretty much "this is trying to hard to be edgy". Just caught up to the manga translations where Subaru is perched on the white whale's horn, and I hope he just gets right up in its face and kills it by explaining his respawn ability or something equally ridiculous. exploiting his inability to explain why he knows so many things or what will happen to people by killing a godlike being with it would be the most ridiculous and hilarious outcome for this to me, but I'm sure whatever happens I'll enjoy, the whole battle has been fantastic. Was this adapted in the anime as well, or was this past where it ended? On to the webnovel! (or are there good light novel translations available?) Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Mar 8, 2019 |
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The anime ended there, and (do not read until you're sure you've finished the battle and its aftermath) the anime ends on a happy note instead of what he discovers about Rem moments after. If you can find a good quality translation of everything that comes after that please link, I'd probably read it since I guess they're not animating any more of it?
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What chapters in the web novel and light novel does the white whale fight take place?
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I thought Re;zero had a decent first arc but once it got into the mansion I completely lost interest because Hisui and Kohaku or whatever the maid's names were were so incredibly unlikable, and the story just went weird.
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Re:Zero isn't torture porn because the suffering isn't gratuitous--it happens in service to Subaru's arc. That said, it is a very violent and depressing story in places, and that isn't for everyone.
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Captain Invictus posted:Holy poo poo. I'd occasionally seen the "~best girl~" meme reference Rem but figured it was just oh she's the cutesy maid character, the typical moeblob type. I was proven wrong pretty quickly after her being introduced, but boy howdy, she's a hell of a character in her own right, maybe, indeed, the best girl. I'm in the rejection chapter right now, and drat it's good and painful. The fourth arc goes in a kind of interesting direction with how it deals with Subaru's whole mindset. The third arc is sort of about (broad/vague spoilers)him gaining the willpower to be willing to go through terrible experiences to ~protect what he loves~, but the fourth arc (similarly vague spoilers that don't reference any actual events) instead addresses the downside to him willingly subjecting himself to repeated suffering without any concern for his own mental and physical well-being. Arc 4 also reveals a lot about the broader setting compared with the previous arcs, with some pretty huge twists, though even after it there are still a bunch of huge mysteries. The mysteries are probably one of the most compelling things about the story; for whatever reason the author gives me confidence that the mysteries will have satisfying answers (partly because what answers have been doled out have been satisfying). I would recommend the WNs just because both 1. the manga will likely takes ages to finish arc 4 and 2. it will likely cut out a bunch (I believe some "lives" were even cut from arc 3?). The trimming isn't necessary bad from a story-telling perspective, but I'm kind of biased in favor of seeing every "run-through" because they all contribute a bunch in the 4th arc. The translation is sort of simultaneously bad and good. It's bad in the sense of having semi-frequent minor grammar mistakes and being kind of "overly literal," but it does a strangely good job of capturing characters' voices. Overall I liked it, but other people have had trouble with it so YMMV. Controversial opinion - I actually don't really like Rem much, even though her role in the story is fine. Largely because I'm not really a fan of (these aren't spoilers for Captain Invictus) love interests who are totally fine with the protagonist being in love with someone else and being "loyal" to them regardless. The way the story deals with the romance(s) with Rem and Emilia is probably the one thing I don't really like about Re:Zero, even if it's nothing particularly bad compared with other WNs (it just stands out in comparison with how good everything else is). doomrider7 posted:Not gonna lie, that just sounds like torture porn. Reasonably well written it seems, but torture porn nonetheless. Like yeah sure I get that the author wants to write a series seemingly to critique how soft writers are with Isekai MC's and what not or whatever it was, but this just sounds like grody, cruel, and mean spirited torture. Nah, it's good. Unless you're specifically averse to having any sort of bad events or tension, I can pretty unequivocally say it's significantly better than pretty much every other WN-derived isekai series (except arguably Bookworm). Any bad things that happen are also usually followed by some sort of "triumph," so the overall tone isn't really depressing even if specific events are.
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Let's subvert the trope a bit! https://mangadex.org/title/22875/goodbye-isekai-tensei Goodbye Isekai Tensei The protagonist is needed! A beautiful princess shows up one day to ask the protagonist to come save their world! Oh no! The evil demon lord's daughter has come to prevent the hero from being summoned! The twist, of course, is that the princess is trying to murder the hero and the monsters are trying to save his life. And another... This one is about 3 morons with the dumbest 'cheat' power ever. https://mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-100214379 Gal Tensei - Isekai Seikatsu Maji Darui It's a finished one, it's only 17 chapters. It's hilarious though. 3 morons get summoned to another world with the cheat power of twitter. Yes, twitter. They get stronger the more followers they have Naturally they screw up constantly in entertaining ways. khy fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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https://mangadex.org/title/33085/kage-no-jitsuryokusha-ni-naritakute The Eminence in Shadow Just like how everyone adored heroes in their childhood, a certain young man adored those powers hidden in shadows. Ninjas, rogues, shadowy mentor types, that sort of deal. After hiding his strength and living the mediocre life of a NPC by day while undergoing frenzied training by night, he finally reincarnates into a different world and gains ultimate power. The young man who is only pretending to be a power in the shadows... his subordinates who took him more seriously than he expected... and a giant organization in the shadows that gets accidentally trampled... This is the story of a young boy who had adored powers in shadows possibly eventually reigning over the world of shadows in another world. tldr: A chuunibyou obsessed with being the dark shadowy mentor type gets isekai'd; Everyone keeps taking his random LARPing seriously + His random BS keeps turning out to be accidentally true; he keeps accidentally saving the world while thinking he's still just LARPing.
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Gal tensei isn't particularly good and also got axed extremely hard right as it was gearing up another arc lol Immediately cuts from the beginning of a new adventure straight to an animal house ending pretty much I remember the anti-isekai being posted when it only had like three chapters, it seemed rather trashy but had promise(the whole "save the would-be isekai'd guy in our world so he doesn't become the dragon quest-type hero in their world" is a neat idea), good to see the fourth starts immediately with the princess looking like she's going to pull out her magic sword but basically yanks a ridiculously detailed machine gun out instead and is all "let's see how you take this world's weaponry", this is the sort of stupidity I can get behind Edit: the demon princess's horns are a cell phone, perfect Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Mar 9, 2019 |
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doomrider7 posted:https://mangadex.org/title/33085/kage-no-jitsuryokusha-ni-naritakute That was far more amusing than it had any right to be. I'm going to keep an eye on it, though it's hard to see how they can keep the gag going for too long.
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