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Ottumon posted:Legendary Moonlight Sculptor has a strange charm to it. The prose or translation is nothing to write home about, but there's also nothing aggressively bad about it. It's... mediocre in most aspects, I think, but I still like the author's enthusiasm. It's like a 6-year-old kid describing his dream game in a very Not a harem but the Seoyoon stuff gets creepy enough. I just finished volume 20 and it ended on a scene that did shock me. Not as bad as most LNs (yet) but I'd found LMS to be really low, though not completely free of it, on creep before that.
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Are there any good horror LNs? Stuff like Digital Devil Story, that sort of thing.
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Finished Mokushiroku Arisu. That cliffhanger at the end of vol3  I really want to find out what happens next. Also, is it just me or is it pretty obvious that the person Shiro is after is the genius that made Holy Sword?
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Desuwa posted:Not a harem but the Seoyoon stuff gets creepy enough. I just finished volume 20 and it ended on a scene that did shock me. Not as bad as most LNs (yet) but I'd found LMS to be really low, though not completely free of it, on creep before that. Eh. There's still a long way to go until I'm there. Hopefully it'll keep the humor up. Geomchis are still the best. Other than the at-times godawful translation, my biggest peeve is the numbers. The author, on some deep level, doesn't really seem to get numbers. It's like he tosses in whatever he feels like. It makes keeping track of time really hard too, since there's some sort of faster gametime going on, and it's never obvious whether they spent 36 in-game or real hours grinding. You can't even go for the common sense option of obviously in-game hours since the author earlier threw out something like "Weed once spent over 200 hours straight playing Continent of Magic!" It's not a very important issue, but it's really confusing when you stop and think about it. I get that VR games are a Big Thing in the setting's future, but really, $4200 for a mid-level unique weapon? Was there a period of hyperinflation in Korea where money's value dropped to a thousandth? Are they living on a different planet, since Weed mentioned something about working 6000 hours in a month? 
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I mentioned this in another thread, but the basic premise of lms just plain doesn't work. Weed exhausted himself working menial jobs as his family's sole support, so exactly when did he have time for all those absurd marathon sessions in that non-vr mmo?
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The prologue to Vol 2 of Knight's and Magic was translated: http://skythewood.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page.html
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Serious Frolicking posted:I mentioned this in another thread, but the basic premise of lms just plain doesn't work. Weed exhausted himself working menial jobs as his family's sole support, so exactly when did he have time for all those absurd marathon sessions in that non-vr mmo? That's a really good point. I guess it is indeed set on another planet where a month has 6000 hours! To be honest, I didn't pay much attention and forgot most of the first chapter. Either because of the writing style or translation, the human drama of Weed having to work his rear end off in sweatshops didn't interest me at all. I mostly think of it just as a way for the author to easily give Weed an appreciation of hard work and the value of money. And sewing skills too, I guess.
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Ottumon posted:That's a really good point. I guess it is indeed set on another planet where a month has 6000 hours! To be honest, I didn't pay much attention and forgot most of the first chapter. Either because of the writing style or translation, the human drama of Weed having to work his rear end off in sweatshops didn't interest me at all. I mostly think of it just as a way for the author to easily give Weed an appreciation of hard work and the value of money. And sewing skills too, I guess. It doesn't really bother me much, actually. The contradictory background stuff is directly related to Weed's personality, so even though it makes no sense it is necessary to the story. Lms is a blatant wish-fulfillment fantasy, only unlike the vast majority of light novels that fantasy is to have great big adventures in a vr game so advanced it is basically magic. Most of the rest is awkwardly translated jokes and grinding. The most obvious example of the harem poo poo not being important is that Weed became good friends with his first party, but none of the girls in that group fell madly in love with him. gimme the GOD DAMN candy fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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Ottumon posted:Eh. There's still a long way to go until I'm there. Hopefully it'll keep the humor up. Geomchis are still the best. Other than the at-times godawful translation, my biggest peeve is the numbers. The author, on some deep level, doesn't really seem to get numbers. It's like he tosses in whatever he feels like. It makes keeping track of time really hard too, since there's some sort of faster gametime going on, and it's never obvious whether they spent 36 in-game or real hours grinding. You can't even go for the common sense option of obviously in-game hours since the author earlier threw out something like "Weed once spent over 200 hours straight playing Continent of Magic!" You can see traces of that korean mentality all over the story. Starting from when Weed started out in the dojo "for a month straight!" e; by Korean mentality I mean the beleif that when its good to do something for one hour, it must be ten times better to do so ten hours straight. See crams chools in Korea etc.
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R0ckfish posted:The prologue to Vol 2 of Knight's and Magic was translated:
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Good lord the quality of the LN translations vary widely. Some are excellent and some look to be pure machine translation.quote:Naofumi: "Even though the level reset was unexpected, was a stretcher not necessary?" Ah, yes, the frail making.
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So today I learned that Kenkyo Kenjitsu o motto ni Ikite orimasu is a thing- a light novel with a protagonist who learns that she's mysteriously been reincarnated as the evil 'ohohoho' laughing villainess of her favorite shoujo manga and is determined to be a decent person so she doesn't hit that character's bad ending. Sadly only like 4 chapters of the first volume of been translated but just the premise is amazing.
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Is Wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon worth a flick through? I'm a sucker for the Durarara illustrator and that caught my eye.
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I'm trying to find Modern Magic Made Simple as I was reorganizing my Music collection and found the OP of it, which reminded me that this was a vastly underrated anime and now that I realize there's a light novel series behind it I want to read it now so bad. It's basically Magic as Computer programming, which is one of my favourite things, with a female lead and is generally pretty chill.
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unseenlibrarian posted:So today I learned that Kenkyo Kenjitsu o motto ni Ikite orimasu is a thing- a light novel with a protagonist who learns that she's mysteriously been reincarnated as the evil 'ohohoho' laughing villainess of her favorite shoujo manga and is determined to be a decent person so she doesn't hit that character's bad ending. Sadly only like 4 chapters of the first volume of been translated but just the premise is amazing. That sounds legit amazing and at least it's not another dope guy protag.
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Compendium posted:That sounds legit amazing and at least it's not another dope guy protag. I think I'll check it out as well, even better if the situation is actually legitimately pushing her in that direction so there's conflict.
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Just finished 'All You Need Is Kill' kind of surprised that the movie actually expands on the book rather than the other way around.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I'm trying to find Modern Magic Made Simple as I was reorganizing my Music collection and found the OP of it, which reminded me that this was a vastly underrated anime and now that I realize there's a light novel series behind it I want to read it now so bad. ConanThe3rd posted:Is Wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon worth a flick through? I'm a sucker for the Durarara illustrator and that caught my eye.
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Raenir Salazar posted:I'm trying to find Modern Magic Made Simple as I was reorganizing my Music collection and found the OP of it, which reminded me that this was a vastly underrated anime and now that I realize there's a light novel series behind it I want to read it now so bad. I had never heard of this before, probably because at first glance it is just another generic magic high school thing. It is on crunchyroll, so I'll have to give it a shot. But man, that "viewers also liked" listing bodes ill. Edit: This show is terrible. gimme the GOD DAMN candy fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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Serious Frolicking posted:I had never heard of this before, probably because at first glance it is just another generic magic high school thing. It is on crunchyroll, so I'll have to give it a shot. I remember it being something somewhat of a slow burn, but it was interesting in premise and apparently from what I've read the MC's powers become way better further down the road. ED not the OP The song has these wonderful stutter like sequences in it.
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I'm reading Madan no Ou to Vanadis. Ignoring the at times bad translations and minor  -isms, it reads like Fire Emblem but more anime. Ignoring all the art makes it much better than with it, unless you read such things for the chainmail bikinis.
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Sakurazuka posted:Just finished 'All You Need Is Kill' kind of surprised that the movie actually expands on the book rather than the other way around. Wait, in what way was that? I don't remember anything like that at all. Also, as an aside, I really preferred the book's ending. I totally understand why the movie was that way, hollywood being hollywood and all, but it just felt like a bad mark on an otherwise really good movie.
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Maybe expands was the wrong word but practically half the film was original stuff not in the book, unless I'm remembering wrong.
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Oh, yeah, most of the film was original stuff. They changed the way the looping worked, character traits were shuffled around a lot, and a bunch of stuff was added. I don't think going for a straight adaptation of the entire novel would've been the best route to go for anyways, if just because we got to avoid child Rita.
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here is a manga thing i was linked into that seems along these lines. the writing is dumb but the ultimate premise made me laugh. it'll probably end up being dumb but whatever anyway, with that sterling recommendation, go ahead and read it. try to not read the url
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For those still in the sunk-cost train that is Mushoku Tensei, all of volume 23 has been translated (It's apparently been done for some time now, I didn't expect the author to put out a new volume over Christmas/New Years). DunMachi (otherwise known in English as Is it Wrong to Pick-up in a Dungeon?) arrived in the mail today  When I'm caught up on MT I'll give it a read and get a write-up posted.
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Why read web novels made for middle-school students?
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PaulMorel posted:Why read web novels made for middle-school students?
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It's a good question. Why?
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PaulMorel posted:It's a good question. Why? Why watch Disney movies? They're made for kids.
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PaulMorel posted:It's a good question. Why? Why do people read those Harry Potter books, anyway?
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Knights and magic volume 2 chapter 1 is up. This series is a lot like I wanted Mushoku Tensei to be, at least thematically. Sort of the Log Horizon to MT's SAO, though improved in a different way by taking the creepy poo poo out.
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Desuwa posted:Not a harem but the Seoyoon stuff gets creepy enough. I just finished volume 20 and it ended on a scene that did shock me. Not as bad as most LNs (yet) but I'd found LMS to be really low, though not completely free of it, on creep before that. I read until volume 20 and I don't see what's so shocking about Seoyoon and Weed re-enacting some video game wedding? Or is the shocking scene the part where the translation group reveals that the author doesn't want it to be translated further? 
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Ottumon posted:I read until volume 20 and I don't see what's so shocking about Seoyoon and Weed re-enacting some video game wedding? Or is the shocking scene the part where the translation group reveals that the author doesn't want it to be translated further? The Seoyoon plot in general just really creeps me out. Perhaps surprise would be a better word than shock. It's the kind of scene that I'd expect more from a sleazy harem series or something.
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Desuwa posted:Knights and magic volume 2 chapter 1 is up. In other news I started DunMachi and it's harem-y as expected, but the setting is actually quite interesting. Essentially gods got bored of sitting in the overworld and started watching the people of the lower-world like it was some sort of reality TV show, then decided that going down there to join them would be much more fun than watching (and a lot better than sitting around doing nothing!). They themselves don't have their crazy powers as a self-imposed rule, but instead give their 'blessings' to the other races and form 'guilds', more or less, full of adventurers they have bestowed the blessings upon them. I like it so far, we'll see how the rest of it goes, I've only gone through a chapter and a bit thus far. EDIT: Just a reminder to keep your spoilers tagged, I've received a PM about it already so just be a bit more careful in future. Basic overview stuff is fine (the sort you'd see in a blurb, for instance), just make sure to cover up anything you wouldn't have wanted to see when you first started reading through a series. Keep in mind that LNs take a fair bit longer than watching the latest episode of whatever it is you're watching this season, so it's better to be cautious with stuff you think might be spoilers. HiveCommander fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Boogaleeboo posted:Why do people read those Harry Potter books, anyway? Because they are middle schoolers
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Desuwa posted:The Seoyoon plot in general just really creeps me out. Perhaps surprise would be a better word than shock. It's the kind of scene that I'd expect more from a sleazy harem series or something. . I'd like to say I'll withhold judgement until I see what comes out of it but apparently this is that one case where the author doesn't want fan translations to continue and the translators are respecting that?Is there anything else that's e: I realized I'm talking about light novels Ottumon fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Having read Mushouku Tensei I have to admit.. sure, the main character can be KIND of a creeper sometimes.. there comes a point where he hits his stride and is actually a fairly likable guy. I wonder how much of his wandering paws can really be attributed to the fact that the Greyrat family is basically comprised almost entirely of replicas of Rance...
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I agree, Despite the creeper moments, holy poo poo I do not expect those Turning Point chapters to play out like they do. It's also cool that the author managed to mess around with time travel without completely screwing the story with plot holes. EDIT: Also, that side-story in the latest volume gave me diabetes 
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