|
EVIL Gibson posted:
Nice old school D&D reference. I have all the old Dark Sun books, and even played the computer game. One day, I hope they bring it back in a new edition. My high school friends and I had such an epic campaign in that setting.
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 17:27
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 09:42 |
|
|
How did this get traction outside of this thread https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/572873887998672896/1064106142608928848/John_Brown_Isekai.mp4
|
|
#
?
Jan 22, 2023 21:09
|
|
|
John Brown is a historical figure people have wanted reflected in Anime for years. Isekai getting this popular and the sheer amount of slavery is just a logical way to both get him 1:1 and get him murdering racists while spitting out bible verses.
|
|
#
?
Jan 22, 2023 21:50
|
|
|
But does he hang them from a sour apple tree?
|
|
#
?
Jan 22, 2023 23:04
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpodBKYHy4 But he's blasting an anime pretty boy.
|
|
#
?
Jan 23, 2023 05:15
|
|
|
RareAcumen posted:How did this get traction outside of this thread I need to write more of my cringe john brown light novel.
|
|
#
?
Jan 23, 2023 14:50
|
|
|
That one's on me, I just assumed that was an idea only on here.
|
|
#
?
Jan 23, 2023 19:40
|
|
|
gimme the GOD drat candy posted:fyi Namtab posted:I have said all I need to about the issue of slavery back in chapter 305 General Isekai Thread: I have said all I need to about the issue of slavery back in chapter 305
|
|
#
?
Jan 25, 2023 12:16
|
|
|
That’s the cooking isekai manga with Fenrir? what the gently caress
|
|
#
?
Jan 25, 2023 15:10
|
|
|
Oops all slaves.
|
|
#
?
Jan 25, 2023 16:31
|
|
|
I wanna write a 10,000 chapter light novel about a cool guy just so chapter 10,001 can be "So this guy bought some slaves"
|
|
#
?
Jan 25, 2023 16:35
|
|
|
Captain Invictus posted:General Isekai Thread: I have said all I need to about the issue of slavery back in chapter 305 For those wondering what chapter 305 says it says "it's not chattel it's only indenture".
|
|
#
?
Jan 25, 2023 17:15
|
|
|
Waiting for the fanslations going "actually slavery is pretty based and poggers in this world!"
|
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 05:04
|
|
|
Fellis posted:That’s the cooking isekai manga with Fenrir? what the gently caress Yo what the gently caress I like that series what the hell
|
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 10:34
|
|
|
Here read this other cooking isekai with a wolf(girl) companion
|
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 12:09
|
|
|
I would if they put chapters out  Otome Game Survival had a new chapter which finished an arc: https://mangadex.org/title/f30a2fd3-cf2c-4f77-9910-51a908459a82/otome-game-no-heroine-de-saikyou-survival This is the one where the MC isn’t a reincarnator, but learns she is the otome heroine from one that she encounters early on and uses the info to go “gently caress no” and survive on her own. I read the LN and it’s pretty good for awhile, then gets a bit boring with how much powering up they have her do before plot happens again. The manga seems to be going at a fast pace though so hopefully will cruise by that
|
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 15:54
|
|
|
This translation is absolutely filled with typos, grammatical errors, and sometimes just using incorrect words (thought instead of taught for example), so even if the series itself is good it's being let down by the scan group. At one point, although it seems to have been corrected now, they used three different variations of the same name on the same page. I suspect they're machine translating it to make that kind of mistake. Cirina fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jan 26, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 16:59
|
|
|
Machine translations usually bother me more because they typically choose to typeset in some weird font, rather than any errors. I think having spent the majority of my life in science/engineering and working with folks doing their best with english has given me a lot of tolerance and ability to decipher. Errors that completely change the meaning, character names, etc. I really can’t have any understanding of unless I hit up the LN later (which has been more frequent because christ i read too much manga) E: oof yeah i forgot the early chapters were really rough on that one
|
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 18:26
|
|
|
Cirina posted:At one point, although it seems to have been corrected now, they used three different variations of the same name on the same page. Oh hell yeah I love Quality
|
|
#
?
Jan 26, 2023 22:31
|
|
|
I take this back because the recent MTL of Wife Guy Isekai is so bad i wanted to die. Apologies https://mangadex.org/title/fac7bdc7-c1f3-4595-82f5-b5bfb002b933/risou-no-himo-seikatsu
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 20:10
|
|
|
Fellis posted:I take this back because the recent MTL of Wife Guy Isekai is so bad i wanted to die. Apologies I have never seen so many people come in to slam an update like that; it was very cathartic.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 20:14
|
|
|
Wtf the wolf cooking manga went slaves too. Why japan why.
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 21:25
|
|
|
Kyte posted:For those wondering what chapter 305 says it says "it's not chattel it's only indenture". He links to the wiki for Slavery in the Roman Empire and is like "it's a complex issue"
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 23:27
|
|
|
Fellis posted:I take this back because the recent MTL of Wife Guy Isekai is so bad i wanted to die. Apologies Also I loving love Wife Guy Isekai. I am a sucker, clearly, for the fantasy/isekais that eschew power fantasy in favor of political wrangling, and this one does it so well. I love the metaphor that one guy used in the series, where trying to politically outmaneuver Zenjirou is like being in a swordfight with a regular-looking guy only to realize that his brains and sense organs are in his foot, his head is a decorative attachment, and he's got a third arm with a second sword behind his back -- nothing looks out of the ordinary and you do something that would be a killing blow, only to suddenly realize that you did no damage, your sword is stuck, and he's attacking you from an angle you couldn't possibly predict. It's such an excellent encapsulation of what the manga does so well, in letting Zenjirou keep his modern values and making them an asset, because concepts like "equal rights" and "it's okay to take a loss of face if it advances your interests" are as natural to him as breathing and he's in a society where neither exists, so someone will set up this elaborate trap to impugn his honor and he'll just go "haha yep I sure do suck and am weak, now I'm gonna go talk to the servants and they'll tell me exactly what your deal is, be back in a bit to wreck your poo poo forever". Also, the reversal of the harem dynamic, where the world is constantly throwing gorgeous women of every possible type at him and he's just like "please please please, I actually love my wife, I want to spend time with her and our kids, I don't want more women" and his wife's going "okay but like... I'll try to avoid it for your sake, but I may have to force you to take some concubines" and he's going "but I don't wanna" and spending like half his time scheming to make sure nobody else ends up in his bed? That never stops being hilarious to me.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 09:05
|
|
|
There's a now dead western web novel called A Hero's war which is one of those isekais where 2 people get summoned but one was summoned unintentionally. At one point the summoned Hero realizes that one of the kingdoms he's supposed to save has slavery, goes "fuuuck this" and basically goes John Brown on their asses and helps start a slave revolt. I liked that web novel, it was like a better version of release that witch.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 11:45
|
|
|
it definitely had some problems, though. the isekai slave revolts which actually sounded interesting were mostly a subplot that took place off-page. the main story was almost entirely about magitech weapons development, which isn't necessarily a bad idea but it was very dry.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 11:53
|
|
|
Isekai Spartacus when
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 16:19
|
|
|
MonsieurChoc posted:Wtf the wolf cooking manga went slaves too. This needs answering, I really liked that one.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 07:16
|
|
|
drilldo squirt posted:This needs answering, I really liked that one. I honestly feel like a lot of it comes down to laziness, with healthy dash of copying what other popular authors did. I want to add a member of a fantasy species to the cast but have only written about humans so far? Add them as a slave to the MC. I want the MC to set up a unique business but don't want to deal with figuring out how their cheat powers won't get revealed? Just use slaves. I've written an extremely unlikeable MC but their gimmick requires them to work with other people? Have them buy some slaves. I want to quickly show that my MC is a "good" person who cares about everyone? I'll have them buy slaves but they'll treat them like employees. Now obviously sometimes it's clearly the author's fetish or just that they're a misogynistic piece of crap, but I see it crop up so often as a kind of passing afterthought that I can't shake the feeling that people are using it as some kind of lovely One Weird Trick.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 14:33
|
|
|
The entire isekai genre is defined by using tropes without thinking about why. Like, every single thing about it, from top to bottom.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 14:50
|
|
|
Isekai Apocalypse MYNOGHRA updated, and I love the direction it's taking. At first the sickly protagonist is dropped into a world that operates like an RTS or MOBA. then an antagonist faction appears that acts weirdly and has really bad tactics and drop money when their troops die. turns out they're some other group from a "primitive"(by the protagonist's faction's level) NES or SNES-era RPG, where the troops can't fight more than 4 or 5 at a time(because that's all that would fit on screen) but the RTS soldiers don't operate by that rule so they massacre them. it's culminated in the latest chapter with one of the Big Bads of the RPG army turning it around on the MOBA hero, activating a [SCRIPTED EVENT] which forces the MOBA hero and two NPCs from her home base into what feels like an FF4 heroic sacrifice cutscene 
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 18:23
|
|
|
Captain Invictus posted:Isekai Apocalypse MYNOGHRA updated, and I love the direction it's taking. On the one hand I find this setting and conflict more and more interesting. On the other I saw it coming a mile away but gently caress you for killing Bug Mom in front of her adoptive daughters. They already have enough maternal trauma as it is.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 19:02
|
|
|
Brought To You By posted:On the one hand I find this setting and conflict more and more interesting. On the other I saw it coming a mile away but gently caress you for killing Bug Mom in front of her adoptive daughters. They already have enough maternal trauma as it is. Ireally liked bug mom and decided that was where I was going to drop reading the LN.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 20:28
|
|
|
I think I remember bailing for the same time, same reason. The story was getting a little too edgelordy for me, I was way more interested in reading about alien demon monsters integrating into society than yet another story about trauma-powered anime super-children. The nation-building stuff was definitely a lot of fun while it lasted, though.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 23:48
|
|
|
I also checked out of the LN at this point; it was late at night and I didn’t want to deal with a feels bad chapter, then never managed to go back. Since the manga has spoiled a bit of what happened I guess I should at least finish the novel since I already own it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 23:57
|
|
|
Greatest Estate Developer is very good this week. Good faces, Javier being completely gobsmacked by Lloyd, and a challenge for the MC that he (possibly) can’t just BS his way through https://m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/the-greatest-estate-developer/episode-65/viewer?title_no=3596&episode_no=65 I do love the ‘elves love plants so much they are strict carnivores’ as an inversion of the trope and actually having ladies who pull bowstrings constantly be ripped as gently caress Fellis fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jan 30, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2023 19:09
|
|
|
Fellis posted:Greatest Estate Developer is very good this week. Good faces, Javier being completely gobsmacked by Lloyd, and a challenge for the MC that he (possibly) can’t just BS his way through The wood elves from the Elder Scrolls series are like this. They're religiously bound not to harm plants and so all they do is eat meat.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2023 20:15
|
|
|
They can also perform a ritual to transform participants into a horde of gibbering monsters that devour all non-plant life in an area before devouring each other. And they're also just straight cannibals, who aren't above killing you and feeding you to your friends.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2023 20:31
|
|
|
a wild last boss appeared updated in what feels like forever and I gotta say, the plight of the demons is probably my favorite part of it. just an entire race of figments of a goddess's imagination, trying to find a way to make their existence concrete rather than one that evaporates the moment they die is really fascinating.
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2023 09:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 09:42 |
|
|
Captain Invictus posted:a wild last boss appeared updated in what feels like forever and I gotta say, the plight of the demons is probably my favorite part of it. just an entire race of figments of a goddess's imagination, trying to find a way to make their existence concrete rather than one that evaporates the moment they die is really fascinating. I'm glad to see this isn't dead, it's been over two years since the last update.
|
|
#
?
Jan 31, 2023 17:02
|
|
