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Man, when I hit the University arc in Mushoku Tensei I felt like throwing my monitor through a window. It wasn't spectacular until then, but the incredibly retarded Fitts-senpai bullshit that drags out for a year after it is blatantly obvious who Fitts is a few sentences into the arc just annoyed me to no end. I'm on volume 18 and the fact that the MC still constantly goes "Well, everyone else is better than me" is so incredibly dumb.
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Started reading Konjiki no Wordmaster and while the premise is the same as all the other light novels coming out these days(Well, except the MC deciding to go gently caress around instead of saving the world from the evil demon people), the lack of creepiness astounds me. Only 26 chapters translated so far, but there's pretty much been zero creep factor from the MC or anyone else. It's weirdly terrifying and I'm just waiting for the hammer to fall.
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Jan 15, 2015 19:06
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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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Jan 23, 2015 04:35
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Knights and Magic is great, but this sentence ending shows up just a tad too often.quote:because of his incredible processing ability and a background in software engineering
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Apr 1, 2015 00:25
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All the stuff currently being translated on wuxiaworld is pretty good. ISSTH, BTTH, MGA and ATG are all great . Coiling Dragon is a bit more eh, but after 20 volumes, I'm suffering from a severe sunk cost compulsion to read it.
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Aug 14, 2015 17:26
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Serious Frolicking posted:Well, I have to disagree about MGA. The protagonist is a vicious sociopath and a rapist. Yes. Yes, he is.
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Aug 15, 2015 00:57
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Serious Frolicking posted:Well, that's another lovely wuxia wn dropped. Long Live Summons had terrible writing, the story and setting were all over the place, and the protagonist was an arrogant little poo poo. Still, for killing time I've read worse things and will continue to read worse things. But abusing a dog? There was just a chapter dedicated to this rear end in a top hat beating up a dog that never harmed him in any way. I can't handle that crap. It wasn't offensively bad until he suddenly decided to treat anyone not an attractive female as NPCs at best, with no indications that he was actually in a game. And then it just went further and further downhill from there. I stopped reading it ~10 or so chapters ago, glad I dropped it when I did. Also, read the latest ISSTH for better dog reading.
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Aug 24, 2015 17:40
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Taboo broke Kumo-chan.
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Aug 29, 2015 18:11
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It was going so well as a happy go lucky slime story and then it sort of went off the rails, shot off the cliff and slammed into the abyss in very short order.
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Aug 30, 2015 17:31
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DeafAsianQT posted:I'm surprised there isn't more talk and translations of legendary moonlight sculptor, isn't it really popular? It is pretty awful reading, even among the poo poo we consume in here. Doesn't help that the translation quality went from good to unreadable to worse half way through what is currently translated. It's an MMO story where the only motivation(and most of the character) of the MC is greed. Which might be interesting if greed in an asian MMO wouldn't mean absurd amounts of grinding. Most of the time it perfectly recreates the mindless tedium of grinding in early asian MMOs, so it channels its roots pretty well. At least it is better than Ark, which is the same story, just dumber and worse.
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Aug 30, 2015 18:35
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poo poo, if you want to read about nerds living the game, Quan Zhi Gao Shou is probably your best bet. Instead of this full dive true VRMMO "oh noes, the company can't control the game" drama that makes no sense, have a story about the terrible world of pro World of Warcraft players(they're not playing actual WoW, but something like it).
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Aug 31, 2015 08:03
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Tsubasa2004 posted:Has anybody checked out Play to Live? It's written by a Russian, and professionally translated. I started reading this and 10 pages in I was faced with this unsettling feeling of wrongness. 10 pages later I finally realized what it was. No typos. No tense errors. I could just read, without having to parse everything several times. How strange
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Aug 31, 2015 23:48
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ShieldBro is awful. The MC starts as a betrayed person relying on magically enforced slavery to keep relationships going. And then he never gets over it and all his companions stay slaves or people he has enough leverage over that they might as well be. Add that the ending is a complete wet fart of epic proportions even when compared to other works in the genre and you have something truly special. Mushoku Tensei is somehow worse. I can't put my finger on exactly which of its many faults grates the most, but I have not finished reading the entire thing and I hopefully never will.
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Sep 4, 2015 16:08
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Shukaro posted:I've been reading that russian trapped-in-an-mmo story Play To Live and it's actually pretty good, so maybe read that instead. Yepp. I've been reading it too and it's not awful.
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Sep 4, 2015 16:25
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ConanThe3rd posted:I sort of want to read that if only to find out why she thought Eating an Energy Field constituted a good idea. Does wonders for the hair.
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Sep 5, 2015 23:29
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Kuang Shen is weird. It doesn't read anything like his other works and is much more similar to other Xianxia works, with the ruthless protagonist, escalator power creep and oodles of women throwing themselves at the glory that is the main character. Douluo Dalu is a lot better. While the MC is the equivalent of a DnD 3.5 optimized monstrosity with templates and classes coming out of every orifice, it's fun to read, the characters are great and there's tension.
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Sep 7, 2015 06:55
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The next volume of OSO should be out soonish according to the TL. Can't wait, it's such a chill read.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:42
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Kaja Rainbow posted:So I read I Shall Seal The Heavens and the spider story. Those were quite enjoyable reading, though I didn't really like the recent sexual peril plot in ISSTH. Fortunately, it was quite short. But otherwise ISSTH's been quite a blast. Anyone else have stories of similar quality to recommend? I also rather enjoyed OSO. Ze Tian Ji is awesome. It's a very atypical Chinese cultivation story, even more so than ISSTH. The main character still hasn't successfully cultivated.
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Sep 9, 2015 17:02
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Fleve posted:This is delightful. There's a strange quality to Ze Tian Ji that reminds me of other works I've read but always had difficulty describing. Soothing might be a good start though. Like painted in faded water colors. In a way this feels more daoist than pretty much every other xianxia I've read. King Shura has the same sort of feel, so if you haven't checked it out yet, you should.
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Sep 13, 2015 17:04
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Serious Frolicking posted:Tales of demons and gods is a mostly generic reincarnation story, with the mc reincarnating as himself in the past. However, it has the most remarkable twist. Basically, the mc keeps bribing people until they worship him. It isn't phrased as such, but that is absolutely what it is. Plus, he woos his lost love but she is now 13 years old and he is a creepy old man in a child's body. His suave technique consists of bribing her and hinting that he has seen her naked. It is unintentionally hilarious. It also uses the old crappy wuxia webnovel technique of having everyone who opposes the mc in any way being a doublehitler. Yepp. And instead of warning people about bad poo poo that'll happen, the guy just wanders around making absurd amounts of money and powering up himself and his crew.
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Sep 14, 2015 11:35
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Oh my god, Sevens is amazing. It's your typical unassertive Japanese protagonist in fantasy land with 7 of his ancestors constantly ragging on him. Where I'd normally cringe at the protag being a little bitch, the ancestors do it for me. It is wonderful.
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Sep 14, 2015 23:26
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Man, Only Sense Online is such a chill read. No drama or forced development between characters, just people playing a cool game.
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Sep 25, 2015 11:59
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The Lord of Hats posted:I think we should all take a moment to congratulate Kumoko on her recent acquisition of hands and vocal cords. It's a big step forward for her! Classic human supremacist thinking all up ins. Trading 6 eyes for 2 limbs seems a poor trade.
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Sep 25, 2015 18:55
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~~Spider drunk, spider drunk, forgets whatever a spider drunk does~~
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Sep 28, 2015 16:45
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dipple posted:The entire thread has been nerd goon wish fulfillment self inserts. I'm the only person out of a billion that understands any mechanics in this mmo, I reincarnated and woops im a badass, People treated me like crap till I found a macguffin that let me fight an endless stream of arrogant gokuhitlers, etc. etc. Yeah, complaining about self-insert power trips in the Web/light novel thread is pretty hilarious.
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Sep 30, 2015 14:00
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The last few chapters of I shall seal the Heavens have been amazing, good lord. Recommended reading for everyone.
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Oct 2, 2015 02:35
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Desuwa posted:Also what the gently caress happened to Sue? I mean I know she's didn't reincarnate but Shun just completely forgot about his sister and hasn't even mentioned her once. She's still taggging along with mind control rapist guy.
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Oct 2, 2015 17:29
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The best part about ISSTH is that Meng Hao is a person, not a caricature, unlike say Chu Feng from MGA who is a schizophrenic psychopath at best. He just does things. Doesn't do the same thing every time. Treats people differently based on how he likes them. He's inconsistent in a very human way, unlike most Xianxia protagonists who are inhuman in a very consistent way. It's also why I like Ze Tian Ji and King Shura so much, because it's not all about "Find doohickey, get stronk, murder bad".
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Oct 7, 2015 22:39
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I was looking for something new to read on Novelupdates when I clicked a link for Unlimited Fafnir. The blurb for it is amazing.quote:With the sudden appearance of the monsters that came to be called dragons, the world had completely changed. Before long, supernatural girls with the power of the dragons, called “D”, were born within the human race. The secret existence of the only male “D”, the boy Mononobe Yuu, was forcefully thrown into the school where the girls of “D” gathered – Midgard, where he saw the naked body of one of the students, Iris. I sort of want to read it solely to find out if there are a bunch of "D" quotes to misconstrue horribly. BlitzBlast posted:The translation of volume 6 of OSO is done. OSO keeps being an amazingly chill read. THE PENETRATOR posted:I'm reading retarded korean garbage, the legendary moonlight sculptor. It's literally about poopsocking in an mmo. I love it You should read Ark. It's the same thing, but even more Gary Stu. Or Quan Zhi Gao Shou, which is literally about people playing a WoW-like at the pro level. Keyboards and everything, no VR here.
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Oct 9, 2015 07:34
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rizzen posted:Quan Zhi Gao Shou == The King's Avatar? If so, it's actually been pretty entertaining for me. It's certainly a different take on the whole gaming thing. Yepp. I like it a lot it more than most of the "I am trapped in a game/need to play a game for a living/transported to a game-like world" drek out there, but it is weird to realize I'm enjoying reading about some other guy poop socking in 'generic fantasy MMO'. It helps that it has the only remotely plausible reason for why the MC is clowning everyone at MMOs though.
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Oct 9, 2015 08:04
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Arkeus posted:ISSTH... I haven't kept up to date with it in fact because I felt there was an annoying lack of characterisation. I'm guessing it got a lot better, but from the time he left the sec (Chapter 30 or so?) to chapter 120 he was basically alone 99% of the time and it never felt like it was going somewhere. Oh boy have you been missing out. It's most definitely going places.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:35
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blastron posted:Yo I'm actually starting to build up enough steam with retranslating Kumoko that I might legit work on this librarian thing as well. I'll take a look this weekend to see if the first few chapters are within my meager abilities. Whoop. Best of luck.
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Oct 15, 2015 08:36
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The last few chapters of Tales of Demons and Gods have been something special allright. Good lord. Even in the creepy world of creeper LN protagonists, this is spectacular.
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Oct 16, 2015 14:49
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Blastron is truly the hero animus don't deserve. Banzai.
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Oct 22, 2015 07:04
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I stopped reading Lu Bu when the translator dropped it and an MTLer took over, but then picked it back up when I realized the drop in quality wasn't very significant. Some guy is going over, editing the MTL chapters, but is quite a few chapters behind. Edit: Also, OSO v7 is being translated now 
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Oct 26, 2015 08:36
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I'd been holding off on reading When I was going out from my house to stop being a Hiki-NEET after 10 years, I was transported to another world because I was expecting awkward loli scenes, but someone told me it had none, so I read it. It is legit hilarious. A shutin nerd ends up in a fantasy world, with the twist that his house and dog also come with him, along with internet and electricity. He then posts the best E/N thread ever.
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Oct 26, 2015 11:55
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jwang posted:Double post, but I think I found something interesting on Novel Updates. The ideal sponger life is sort if similar, in that the MC isn't an overpowered turd and ends up doing kindomy stuff, as a Prince Consort.
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Oct 30, 2015 03:06
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Oh my god, I just started reading Kung Fu and it is amazing. A modern wuxia story with the best old man ever.
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Nov 3, 2015 22:42
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Cynic Jester posted:Oh my god, I just started reading Kung Fu and it is amazing. A modern wuxia story with the best old man ever. Okay, fair warning, the ending is a bit of a fart. Supposedly it's book 5 in a series, but everything up until the ending stands well on its own. Jesus gently caress what a downer ending. What the christ Cynic Jester fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Of IETs works that are translated in decent numbers, Desolate Era and Swallowed Star both have good translations and are easy reads. It's still rampant power fantasy though, but considering you read through Coiling Dragon, I doubt that's a problem. Douluo Dalu is also pretty good and in a similar vein to IETs works, with a good translation. The rest of IETs works don't have translations that are far along, so I can't really comment on them. The Great Ruler I also like, mainly because the MC is somewhat self-aware in the vein of ISSTH, though it's not quite as good. There's a bunch more reads, but these are the Xianxia stories that I feel have both good translations and comparatively decent content.
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