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kirbysuperstar posted:I wish the translation/editing wasn't so terrible. I mean I've read worse, but it makes it really hard to get through. Hilariously, I originally thought some of the characters spoke broken English on purpose since sometimes the grammar was okay. It took me too long to realize that, no, it's just your typical lovely editing.
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Nalin posted:Hilariously, I originally thought some of the characters spoke broken English on purpose since sometimes the grammar was okay. It took me too long to realize that, no, it's just your typical lovely editing. I’ve been reading this garbage so long that my brain papers over a lot of bad editing. Bad cleaning/redrawing gets to me much more.
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Martial Arts Isekai time! Necromancer from...pretty much every manhwa with a system ever reincarnates as a martial artist in a murim world. Does silly poo poo with his necromancy powers while also learning martial arts skills. Surprisingly a lot better than I expected, the premise has worked really well so far and it's been drat fun to read: https://flamescans.org/series/reincarnation-of-the-murim-clans-former-ranker/ Spirit of a master martial artist gets sent to the RL world where dungeons are commonplace and there's a hunter organization look you know the drill. Gets tied to some jobber and the jobber becomes his disciple. Honestly I'm here for the Master and disciple dynamic more than anything, the fights are somewhat cool tho: https://www.asurascans.com/comics/heavenly-demon-instructor/ Dude gets isekai'd into Murim then isekais himself back to Earth and re-unites with his sister. poo poo went to hell on earth in the mean time with monsters arriving from portals making a world where dungeons are commonplace and there's a hunter organization- right. Read this one because it has side characters who are cool and useful (at least for now) and the lead and his sister have a fun dynamic: https://www.asurascans.com/comics/maxed-out-leveling/ This one has the absolute worst most generic loving name tho. Crazy martial arts dude eats a magic jewel and gets sent to the past, begins his ancient chinese martial arts grindset. He is a cocky, arrogant, sarcastic dick and seeing him reply to bad guys' taunts in kind was a breath of fresh air for the genre. Good art, though MC can be a bit too much of a oval office to people at times: https://www.asurascans.com/comics/9-the-return-of-the-crazy-demon/
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Crazy Demon is great. Thanks. To me Zaha hits just the right level of dick head to generally awful people that you never feel bad for them. Haven't started on the other two yet but Max Level is fun too.
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Guyver posted:Crazy Demon is great. Thanks. To me Zaha hits just the right level of dick head to generally awful people that you never feel bad for them. Mostly because Zaha is not a complete poo poo, and does not kill people without really having a good reason for doing so, Crazy Demon is also on I think Webtoon for legitimate reading purposes, or Tapas.
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Not sorting these, mangas, manhwas and manhuas all jumbled together. Play the isekai roulette responsibly. Dude and his class get sent back into the prehistoric era, have to learn to survive. You will not believe who the ultimate villain is. https://mangadex.org/title/e710f350-93a6-47fc-af29-7c5e0fcdc1f0/sousei-no-taiga Dude gets the ability to jump between worlds and ends up the lord of a town. gets a catgirl maid waifu who also has ninja skills. admittedly also helps murder some slavers so there is that. https://mangadex.org/title/1e3feba8-0c4d-4465-b3a3-e9a2a4451bd1/starting-from-today-i-ll-work-as-a-city-lord (Do not read the Manuhuas translation even if it's up to chapter 130 that group is loving incomprehensible trash. Literally sub-MTL quality) Villainess story (I mean, I guess she's a villainess??) where she gets sent back in time for the 7th time. This was after her previous lives of being a knight, merchant, doctor and so on. Honestly I'm just here for the FL's energy and because she's actually a smart person who does poo poo. https://mangadex.org/title/e326fcfb...er-seventh-loop Why do shoujo manga make their leads so loving useless and dependent on their quasi-abusive, impersonable male leads? I cannot imagine that must be fun to read for lady readers. Eh, anyway. Hero with Darkness-based magic gets backstabbed and level drained. Finds new friends and new reason to live, moves forward with life as a hero. https://mangadex.org/title/b1bfafc2-4429-457d-97bf-e5d40e2194da/shikkoku-tsukai-no-saikyou-yuusha The entire loving country of Japan gets isekai'd. it's a manga where JSDF STRONK but it's not as goddamned awful as GATE: https://mangadex.org/title/ef473f14-8c4d-435e-9015-b714512e69eb/nihonkoku-shoukan
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eh, abusive, controlling, emotionally unavailable male leads are popular because lots of people think that's hot. it's not great that a fantasy archetype serves to normalize abusive behavior, but that poo poo was already normalized long ago.
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Seraphic Neoman posted:The entire loving country of Japan gets isekai'd. it's a manga where JSDF STRONK but it's not as goddamned awful as GATE:   also, medieval-looking country with wyvern squadrons that have old-timey radio transmissions, sure, I like that angle for a fantasy country edit: ah, chapter 4, that's a  with the rape and torture and pillaging
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Mazumeshi Elf to Yuboku gurashi is your standard "no one in this world can cook, until a chef from Japan appears!" isekai. They somewhat justify it in that the elf tribe our MC gets scooped up into has the death penalty for wasting food, so no one's inclined to experiment. It's not very exciting, so I was plunking along reading a chapter or two between other things. Then, starting with Chapter 32, the author leaned HARD into the isekai weirdness. Starting with this cheese-eating spider that is actually a youkai half-girl half-spider life-energy vampire from Japan  And escalating in the Chapter 38 flashback:  
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Why do shoujo manga make their leads so loving useless and dependent on their quasi-abusive, impersonable male leads? I cannot imagine that must be fun to read for lady readers. Eh, anyway. I think this is a whole genre of female targeted romance in both Japan and the west, actually. So evidence indicates it's definitely a fun thing for some lady readers. I don't really get it either.
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Dude and his class get sent back into the prehistoric era, have to learn to survive. You will not believe who the ultimate villain is. Myok posted:Mazumeshi Elf to Yuboku gurashi is your standard "no one in this world can cook, until a chef from Japan appears!" isekai. They somewhat justify it in that the elf tribe our MC gets scooped up into has the death penalty for wasting food, so no one's inclined to experiment. It's not very exciting, so I was plunking along reading a chapter or two between other things. Then, starting with Chapter 32, the author leaned HARD into the isekai weirdness.
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Myok posted:Mazumeshi Elf to Yuboku gurashi is your standard "no one in this world can cook, until a chef from Japan appears!" isekai. They somewhat justify it in that the elf tribe our MC gets scooped up into has the death penalty for wasting food, so no one's inclined to experiment. What, it wasn't weird enough when Morgan le Fay should up? I do agree though, it can be a little plodding at times; I often end up skimming once the cooking starts.
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Hero with Darkness-based magic gets backstabbed and level drained. Finds new friends and new reason to live, moves forward with life as a hero. I really liked this one; despite the whole "everyone backstabbed me" start, the continues to want to go out and make the world a better place. It's quite refreshing since so many other series take that premise and have the MC refuse to trust again and just murder their way to ultimate power.
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Not sorting these, mangas, manhwas and manhuas all jumbled together. Play the isekai roulette responsibly. I really like this one so far. It reminds me of Blue Hole which I also liked. I think the art for the main cast is a little janky, like their proportions and stuff seem kinda off/amateur but the creature drawings are great! Really funny to see a kind of generic manga guy next to a well realized drawing of a prehistoric boar.
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i'm not gonna read another mori kouji manga, but who is the surprise villain?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm not gonna read another mori kouji manga, but who is the surprise villain? Actual spoilers the manga is not at click at your own risk: Isekai'd Hitler who is convincing the Neanderthals to secure the existence of their people and a world for white Neanderthal children. He even has a massive swastika carved into his cave.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm not gonna read another mori kouji manga, but who is the surprise villain? is there a reason? I'm only like 10 chapters in so far so if some heinous poo poo is gonna pop up I'd rather quit before I get too deep
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because his other manga are loving garbage
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i'm not gonna read another mori kouji manga, but who is the surprise villain? It has to be the meteor that killed the dinosaurs and wrecked the planet right?
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Seraphic Neoman posted:The entire loving country of Japan gets isekai'd. it's a manga where JSDF STRONK but it's not as goddamned awful as GATE: There's basically no characters whatsoever that I can remember, every villain introduced dies within a chapter or two, not a single jsdf soldier dies or is shown to be more than momentarily inconvenienced even when ambushed, and there's not a single instance of the ramifications of the entire country of Japan going to a new world on the actual people of japan. There's maybe 3 named Japanese dudes in the 18 or so chapters I read, the rest are essentially faceless mooks I stopped around the time it introduced a totally-not-fantasy-world-japan country and the remarks of the Japanese ambassadors were almost literally "wow, gaze upon this proud, noble warrior race, they harken back to our own japan's perfect unblemished ancestors, look at their glorious culture, here is a 1000-times folded katana as a gift(which is also remarked on as the perfect weapon lol)" I might concede it's better than gate, but that is by no means high praise or means it is worth recommending to others
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Speaking of JSDF isekai-likes, I remember reading part of zipang at some point. I can't remember if it was good, but at the same time I don't remember anything horrible. Has anyone else read it and can remember if it'd be worth going back through it?
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Are the otherworld names better or worse than "Princess Piña Co Lada"?
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gwrtheyrn posted:Speaking of JSDF isekai-likes, I remember reading part of zipang at some point. I can't remember if it was good, but at the same time I don't remember anything horrible. Has anyone else read it and can remember if it'd be worth going back through it? It's got some uncomfortable bits, since it's basically about a modern Japanese destroyer going back and ending up fighting the US Navy in WW2 and trashing them quite badly. That said, there's a bit more going on there - it's not nearly as nationalistic as it sounds, and the allied navy are honestly decent people reacting reasonably to the situation - attacking an unknown Japanese ship that refuses to surrender, just tries to run away, which is kind of what you do in war. Meanwhile the IJN is shown to be quite nasty and many of their officers want nothing more than to trick this strange supership that showed up and started trying to spread messages like "colonialism is bad" and "you guys should really just work out a peace treaty with the allies, trust us" and the enemy navy into wiping each other out so they can get on with enslaving the rest of Asia. I heard that eventually the IJN and the Zipang start fighting each other but the early bit is basically it playing isekai hero with the allied pacific fleet in place of goblins so that turned a lot of western readers off. Bremen fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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Mediocre isekai time. These are...uhhhh...readable? Kid gets isekai'd and gets a wildcard blessing that gives him a farming dimension. Wildcard blessings are frowned upon by the local religion so he gets left for dead on an abandoned island. Eventually starts building a harem of some ex-slaves on the abandoned island and decides to create his own nation. I'd like this a lot more if it wasn't a loving harem because christ the story's pacing takes a dive as more girls are introduced. also has slavery so take a shot https://mangadex.org/title/ad59c8bb...i-mujintou-life Girl gets access to dev_console.exe for reality and gets the ability to rewrite ID plates with her powers. ...That's really all I got, it's not particularly terrible but frankly it's kind of just...there. https://mangadex.org/title/e7c88847-9a61-4856-94db-fefae51a1d28/the-former-structural-analyst-s-otherworldly-adventure-story Don't get excited from the title, I dropped this series twice because of how loving awful the early chapters were. After 20 chapters (literally) this series finally finds its stride and I lowkey recommend skipping to about chapter 20 and reading from there. Even then, this story has a little too many reversals even for a murim story https://flamescans.org/series/the-heavenly-demon-destroys-the-lich-kings-murim/ Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Jan 17, 2022 |
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Mediocre isekai time. These are...uhhhh...readable? This one's not terrible. It's on my pull list and I don't hate seeing it show up. It's been a while since I binged through the early parts so I don't fully remember but I'm pretty sure that at the very least the main character has at least C+ ideas about slavery. Like "see me after class and we'll discuss about how slave owners are not people and therefore do not deserve the protections of the social contract."
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I fell like only with isekais do I find myself saying stuff like “it was a pretty decent story if you ignore all the sex”.
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Nemo2342 posted:I fell like only with isekais do I find myself saying stuff like “it was a pretty decent story if you ignore all the sex”. Counterpoint: Ringworld.
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Terrible Isekai List: Behold, every single trope people hate about shoujo heroines distilled into one person. Pathetic, helpless, easily fooled and constantly kidnapped. The story is insufferably slow as a result and takes absolute eons to get anywhere. Her actual powers are lame as gently caress and manage to straddle the perfect overlap between being too boring to care about and too overpowered for the story she's in. A comment from one of the later chapters: "newest chapter released and she gets kidnapped again" Also has slavery. https://comiko.net/series/86612/pathfinder I see this one recommended here from time to time but I personally think it's absolute trash. The writing goes nowhere and it spins its wheels far too much. The biggest issue is the harem elements; none of the girls have chemistry with the MC, he doesn't seem to particularly enjoy sleeping with any of them and on the whole it bogs down the writing really hard. I guess it's better than them steal glances from each other for 100 chapters, but ugh. Also has slavery. https://mangadex.org/title/879af0bb-ce30-47e4-a74e-cd1ce874c6e3/isekai-nonbiri-nouka
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Terrible Isekai List: Oh, I remember this one. It was ok at first, but like you said it gets really bogged down with the harem aspects. I got fed up around the time the author finally introduced some more males into the settlement, only to wink at the audience and go "oh, but none of them can have sex with the all the single women, so I guess the MC still has his work to do!".
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Terrible Isekai List: Oh, I started this one on tappytoon. Got up to (checks) Ch. 23, which is past where she gets owned by the first person she meets and slavery gets introduced and... I'm not sure why I gave it a pass just for having lip service about not liking the idea of slavery and the protagonist freeing one (1) slave who she was specifically sympathetic towards because she was reminded of herself. I guess all the potential catalysts for growth were wasted, then. Oh well, means I won't have to divert any money away from Returner's Magic.
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Seraphic Neoman posted:
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Started this new manhua called "I'm Really Not the Evil God's Lackey" https://mangadex.org/title/dbbca2b5-bdd1-4f2b-8b2e-d72bf7fd89a0/i-m-really-not-the-evil-god-s-lackey code:quote:Lin Jie is an otherworlder who manages a bookstore. He’s kind and always recommends soul-healing books for his dejected customers. Sometimes he’d even share his own works too. As time goes on, these customers start to respect him a lot. They bring simple local products every day to show their gratitude and ask for book recommendations. They even start telling tales of this ordinary shopkeeper. His respectful and cordial titles include “Hyena of the Evil God”, “Herald of the Flesh Gospel”, “Author of Cultes des Goules” and “Shepherd of the Stars”??? Guy really likes books and performs a ritual to own all books. The result is he is warped to another world to become a shopkeep of a book store in a Victorian/Bloodboune type setting where he wants to give good advice and make some money lending books out. He is always misunderstood in what he suggests always being taken as the advice of mysterious being and it really does not help when he lends out a general book about starting your own business is turned into a book about void magic or something else the person being lent the book really needs. EVIL Gibson fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jan 22, 2022 |
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The dude seems to have some kind of weirdness filter grafted onto his brain because he tries to perceive all the magical beings around him as normal. Found a good one but it only has 4 chapters. An alchemist, a cook and a prisoner of war crash-land on an island. They must use their skills to survive: https://mangadex.org/title/0b7f8a9f-091d-4fcf-9577-8c2e59b2379a/renkinjutsu-mujintou-survival
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Seraphic Neoman posted:The dude seems to have some kind of weirdness filter grafted onto his brain because he tries to perceive all the magical beings around him as normal. Yup. It's the ink being doing that plus that same being is taking advantage of the fact he has no clue what magic or rituals are so he is very thick. He is holding and looking at a book about self improvement. The book to everyone is how to learn Void magic. I don't think I got that until he gave The Little Prince and was wondering why the customer and his daughter were just flipping out about it. The gifts he gets I think he looks at as "oh these very kintzy things people around here make. Kind of weird, but I'll put it up to show I like the area". Things are actually very dangerous and he just thinks he is actually super good at interviewing/talking/convincing. EVIL Gibson fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jan 23, 2022 |
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Anyone know the name of a manga where a dad and three daughters wake up one day and everyone in the world disappeared? The further they got from their house the farther time had advanced. The local mall was grown over with a forest and lake where the parking was but the street they live on was normal.
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Guyver posted:Anyone know the name of a manga where a dad and three daughters wake up one day and everyone in the world disappeared? The further they got from their house the farther time had advanced. The local mall was grown over with a forest and lake where the parking was but the street they live on was normal. It might be Yurusaba or Yuru Survival.
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That's it, thanks. Updates stopped in 2019. Well guess that would explain why I lost track of it.
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Seraphic Neoman posted:The dude seems to have some kind of weirdness filter grafted onto his brain because he tries to perceive all the magical beings around him as normal. Yeah, I liked the story, but my biggest complaint was that it kind of tests my suspension of disbelief that he doesn't seem to know anything about mutants, elves, magic, etc despite somehow having done in-depth research on one of the major megacorps. It's one thing that he doesn't know about the books (thanks to Inky) or is so dense that he doesn't realize how dangerous his customers are, but the lack of setting knowledge by someone who technically has access to every book ever written was a bit much.
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Seraphic Neoman posted:Found a good one but it only has 4 chapters. An alchemist, a cook and a prisoner of war crash-land on an island. They must use their skills to survive: Oh this is cool, I love when manga add little diagrams of actual things. 
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