- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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Is that the one where the guy reincarnates as a goblin that can eat anything? Supposedly the translation group actually wrote their own sex scenes and inserted them without telling anyone. I have no idea if it's true or not.
At the moment, the list of LNs that don't involve one of A) an otaku main character who may or may not B) be reincarnated/trapped/transported to a fantasy world/MMO where C) he develops a vast harem appears to consist of Spice & Wolf, and Baccano-guy's stuff. Oh, and All You Need is Kill I guess. Irrespective of quality and availability of professional translations could we get a list of stuff that doesn't include any of those things?
There's Fate/Zero (I gets you could argue it counts as a harem, but that's a stretch).
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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The Three Body Problem owns. Ironically, part of it takes place in an online VR game.
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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From a couple pages back but I read this cause I was bored and it was linked in this thread (well, read to the current translations) and I dunno I feel some really weird cultural dissonance or some poo poo. The main character is a slime, and is explained as a predator, like eats other things to get stronger predator, but the novel just constantly entirely skirts around death of any sort. Which is cool, not every story has to be monsters grimly chowing down on each other and exploding each other with ultimate techniques or whatever - if the author wants to tell a light-hearted story more power to him. The main character gets increasingly powerful throughout the story without ever really having to 'dirty their hands' to use a dumb cliche. And the whole 'slime eats things to gain their form' is dropped pretty early on after he acquires like 5(?) forms (including a human form from a peron who wants to be eaten for reasons; read: author wants a human form but doesn't want a murderer MC) and the whole consumption angle is just a power-stealing mechanic from then on (like 'eat a guys hand > steal his powers') which is still pretty morbid but played in a very shounen type of way.
And the whole story is constantly throwing around these massive numbers of monsters warring with each other and just being insanely optimistic (the army of 10k fights the army of 200k for 4 days and there are 0 casualties) I mean how else can you read that but the author not really wanting to write about any of the depressing poo poo an actual war entails - which again cool whatever. Then at a certain point the slime is the head of a monster city and a human army is coming to purge them because racism so a group of fanatical humans goes into the city, declares war, and then kill 100 monsters while making their escape. In response MC loses their poo poo and singlehandedly massacres the 15000 humans that are en route to invade, just one-sidedly wipes them all out from the sky before they're even aware they are being attacked. Then through some shounen mumbo-jumbo he powers up and resurrects all the monsters the bad humans killed and the novel takes a little break to jerk itself off with some torture porn involving the king of the human army and the group of fanatics who killed the subsequently resurrected monsters. It's just so loving weird. Like the novel is clearly written so as to say that the MCs actions are perfectly justified and not at all morally reprehensible and....
Ugh it made the thing no fun to read after that, like I can deal with light hearted and fun monster, I can deal with spooky evil monster but the whole 'I just genocided some folks, but I'm STILL the good guy, promise' type monster is just weird as hell. Like playing all these shounen tropes (power of friendship type stuff) completely straight all the time with a brief detour down genocide lane is just odd and uncomfortable.
Anyone else read this poo poo? I'm not crazy right? That was some weird as hell tonal dissonance wasn't it?
Haven't read it, but I'm a little confused. How is killing the soldiers of an invading army genocide?
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Aug 30, 2015 14:56
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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He is also awesome in real life and for some reason his sister probably wants to gently caress him or something. The whole thing reminded me of that anime about technical magic with the guy whose sister also wanted to gently caress him and he also was superduper awesome at everything and also in the military and also a famous magical thingamabob creator. For some reason I kept watching that train-wreck for far too long, but I can't even remember the title.
You're probably thinking of Mahouka.
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Aug 30, 2015 21:41
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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I'm gonna read whatever kumo chan is once someone tells me what it is and gives me a link to read it and some fanart
It's about a goony girl who reincarnates as a giant spider: http://blastron01.tumblr.com/tagged/kumoko/chrono
Does the picture of a spider at the top of the page count as fanart?
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Oct 16, 2015 20:39
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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I read most of the first volume of Terror Infinity and wasn't quite sure what to make of it. I'll post my thoughts in bullet point format, as seems to be becoming my habit:
- I haven't seen Resident Evil, or almost any of the movies mentioned in the list of volume titles, although I'm familiar with the general concepts of pretty much all of them by osmosis. Still, they did a good enough job of explaining the plot of Resident Evil that I never felt confused by it.
- On the other hand, there were a few places where the narration style was confusing, like the description of the Hunters coming before the protagonists actually see them.
- There was also some odd treatment of the passage of time; a couple hours apparently passed at one point without it being very clear where the time went (the protagonists got a chance to rest, but it seemed like the fairly short conversation they were having began right after they were safe and ended when they were in danger again).
- The translation is quite sloppy. Grammatical errors are all over the place!
- I really like the general concept, even though I would be more interested if it was applied to something other than horror movies.
- It's funny how some elements are very different from what a Japanese writer would have written. The rather casual attitude towards drug use, for example.
- The Resident Evil portion was very tense. If the author can keep that up for the other horror movies, that's good.
- Terror Infinity actually made me realize the virtues of an "intentionally incomplete character" (not a fan of The Oatmeal, but I can't think of a better term) as a protagonist. As a bored Everyman, without any depth or backstory, Zheng was fairly relatable (everyone gets bored sometimes), and I was interested in seeing how he reacted to events. Then it's revealed that he's depressed because his girlfriend died when he was a teenager, and I think I'm less interested in him.
- Then there's the whole creating ideal women to bang angle, which skeeved me out. At least they had the female party member rolling her ideas at the whole idea, and I assume that aside from Zheng's girlfriend it won't be prominent.
- Speaking of which...really not sure how to feel about that character. She's uncomfortably young compared to present day Zheng (at least Wikipedia informs me that she is above China's age of consent), and while it's good that she has a mind of her own, she's hardly in a position to drive the plot at the moment, so "has a mind of her own" in this context ends up meaning "is a tsundere" so far.
- I do wonder how the author will keep up the tension despite the power-ups the characters are getting. Jiang did mention that Resident Evil is one of the few horror movies where you can survive using straightforward physical force, but it seems obvious that giving Zheng a weapon that lets him hurt ghosts is likely to change that, and the boosts to agility and durability should come in handy even in Final Destination-type stories where there's no corporeal or ghostly enemy to punch. Plus characters who survive a few more movies should be able to boost their speed beyond the limits of Hollywood special effects, get anti-magic amulets, etc.
- An idle question: did the Chinese release of Nightmare on Elm Street change a lot? Jiang talks about about Freddy Kruger as though he was a nameless and inexplicable bogeyman.
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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There are lots of things to be uncomfortable about with Zheng's girlfriend. The story will acknowledge very few of these, and gleefully add on more when given the chance. 
Oh dear.
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Tension is something that will never be in short supply in Terror Infinity.
This is good to know, though. I think I'll keep reading.
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Sep 2, 2016 03:47
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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I've resumed reading Terror Infinity and gotten to the part where Xuan the ultra-nerd is introduced. I'm pretty sure computers don't work the way the author thinks they do...
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Sep 5, 2016 05:59
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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The one that makes me cringe the most is when they write "tens" of, because using "dozens" would make it sound so much better. 
"Dozens" implies slightly more than "tens," though. A minimum of 24, instead of a minimum of 20.
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- Silver2195
- Apr 4, 2012
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There's a separate thread for English-language webnovels in TBB, though.
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