Web Novel megathread: 90% fantasy settings, 90% repressed nerd fantasies

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Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Yea buddy take a look around, full steam ahead.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2016 01:24

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 18:41

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

How could I ever overcome my disgust of spiders enough to read this? Gross!

# ¿ Oct 5, 2016 22:41

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

darkgray posted:

Eh, if you won't read it, I don't quite see the point in spoiling it, but oh well.

Dude between your avatar and this thread in general, nobody gonna read four-five arcs of trash for some nebulous payoff

# ¿ Nov 29, 2016 16:49

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

There are some good links but this thread has also recommended weird poo poo like a Chinese lich torturing people, so

# ¿ Nov 29, 2016 19:10

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

I liked it too, especially the parts with the mundane policewoman against the magical world. Shame that it was abandoned during what seemed like the last book.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 15:21

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

7c Nickel posted:

I remember a one shot by the Hinamatsuri guy being kind of in that vein.
The Life of Mitamura Sakurako (Alias)

This was also good.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 15:34

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

The Sandman posted:

1 - KonoSuba
2 - Grimgar
3 - SAO
4 - Re:Zero
5 - Overlord
6 - Mahouka
7 - Gate
8 - Danmachi
9 - Honzuki no Gekokujou
10 - Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

Hm, nearly all of em used a fantasy setting.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 14:34

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Ytlaya posted:

I can't actually think of anything where a guy reincarnates and is supposed to defeat a demon lord and the story is just about his journey to do so.

Does traveling back in time from a pyrhhic victory count? Protag isn't from Earth though.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Tsuyokute+New+Saga

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 19:43

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Avulsion posted:

The entire 1632 series is available online. It's about a small town full of West Virginian coal miners that get teleported back to 17th century Germany and decide to gently caress up history.

Thanks a lot!

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 02:37

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Avulsion posted:

The entire 1632 series is available online. It's about a small town full of West Virginian coal miners that get teleported back to 17th century Germany and decide to gently caress up history.

Just finished 1632. You said this is a series? Where is the rest?

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 21:46

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Avulsion posted:

The series is huge, the reading order can be confusing, and a lot of it is written by different authors so it may not measure up.

Thanks for read order, my search results were confusing and I didn't want spoiled

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 23:00

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

jon joe posted:

Yeah, I think stories where the protagonist strives to a better world, not just a better self, tend to be the best. Some of the Japanese web novels promise that, but then it turns out a "better world" really means "show off how awesome I am by improving technology" and possibly "create a cult of personality around myself".

Argue posted:

I love Bookworm and was excited to learn that this was an entire genre, but then yeah those others were nowhere near as good, for those reasons you mentioned. Bookworm does have an element of "show off how awesome I am by improving technology", but it by no means comes easily; Maine really has to work hard for it, and frequently screws up too. In all the other web novels I've tried, they're born as rich people with a lot of people swooning over them by default, and they keep inventing new things without problems--if someone wants to invent chocolate, they'll have it by the end of the same chapter they thought of it.

I think having a single protagonist is part of what makes them fall flat - there is some cheesiness in the 1632 series, but having multiple viewpoint characters on opposing sides makes the progression feel more genuine.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 03:27

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

1632 is good if sometimes cheesy. I'm on book three

Ytlaya posted:

I feel like such a [game-like] WN would only work well if the system it worked on were truly explicitly defined beforehand (ironically that Harry Potter D&D fanfiction mentioned earlier in the thread comes to mind, since it uses skills from an actual game in ways they could be used in reality), but this would usually be tedious and even then you'd run into the problem of there being no clear rhyme or reason to the character leveling up.

That one also included statblocks and dicerolls (although I never bothered checking them)

Jackard fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Mar 20, 2017

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 14:43

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Annointed posted:

It's what these nerds want. They want to appear like they are master of rules and work hard in a system but in reality they just want power handouts for being special snowflakes.

Just binged the first season of Danmachi (since the second comes out in April) and there was a scene in the last battle like this

Near the end of the fight, several supporting characters unleash finishers that basically do nothing, and the effectiveness of MC's "hero strike" felt cheap in comparison.

at least the final blow was satisfying

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 18:01

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Ytlaya posted:

Same goes for stuff like senpai/kouhai, which I can't really think of an English equivalent for.

I figure you just go with something like senior/junior when on its own, or not at all when tacked on the end of a name (because repeating it isn't that important once the relationship is established)

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 23:16

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Back in my day you had five minutes to schmooze in the hallway and walk half a mile... and we liked it!!

E: but seriously that does sound like rear end

Jackard fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Mar 30, 2017

# ¿ Mar 30, 2017 02:20

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Arkeus posted:

TBH translating names is an instant "throw away the book" offense to me. Translating Kuro/Shuro is in the same degree of horribleness, to me, that Translating Snape to Rogue in french is. gently caress that.

Sounding a little crazy here. Why would anyone "translate" Snape's name in that way?

E: if Japanese Rowling had a dude with an obvious pun name like 黒天狼, you wouldn't want to let English readers in on the joke when romanizing it?

Jackard fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Mar 30, 2017

# ¿ Mar 30, 2017 14:52

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

sunken fleet posted:

Or this one about some guy who meets a hot girl from a fantasy world and she wants him to come marry her for reasons and blah blah blah... this one is actually a bit better than the one sentance blurb does it credit. All the early drama sort of centers around his queen/wife not wanting to lose any power in her patriarchal fantasy world so to do that she marries a complete political outsider (the MC) who it's ok for her to marry for *reasons*. Then it's just him sort of bumbling around trying not to screw things up for her too badly. A tiny bit more mature take on the girl-falls-out-of-the-sky sort of genre.

Vaguely reminds me of the Christopher Stasheff series "Warlock in Spite of Himself" where a space explorer ends up settling on a medieval fantasy planet.

# ¿ May 20, 2017 08:33

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

People gettin judgemental here of all threads? :shibewow:

# ¿ Aug 8, 2017 20:30

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

devildragon777 posted:

Uchi to Musume seems cute, and it's fantasy so definite world building. I haven't read enough to see whether it becomes awful or not...

Comics

# ¿ Aug 19, 2017 02:02

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Piell posted:

Blastron is better

I've never read this series before but blastron's format/writing is nicer and it provides additional context.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2017 13:35

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

The story would mostly focus on him bumping his head in doorways, having trouble sitting down and drinking from little cups.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2018 22:53

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Hm! Are there any other fantasy stories where the protagonist isn't a. overpowered and b. a piece of poo poo?

# ¿ Feb 3, 2018 11:43

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Tornhelm posted:

I believe the term you're looking for is 'misery porn'. Either that or maybe something more focused on romance, which is misery porn in its own way I guess.

That seems like a big leap from "not overpowered"..? No, I'm not looking for something like Grimgar.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2018 18:01

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Myriad Truths posted:

I wasn't sold before, but Zhizhi suddenly became amazing.

Haven't read so not sure the context but sounds kinda like the dead parrot edit of Deegan

^{Make him an Ex-Deegan}

# ¿ Feb 13, 2018 05:32

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Anime is just sharting out whatever now

https://twitter.com/Thomasintokyo/status/725672231494279168/

Jackard fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Feb 27, 2018

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 13:03

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

I pretty much skip anything Chinese aside from Cultivation Chat Group. The writing and setting feels impenetrable, their dao is too strong or something

Jackard fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Mar 3, 2018

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 02:53

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Chronische posted:

Dudes flying around on swords (or without them),

So that's where this came from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WFtOOj8G8

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 04:38

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Now this sounds like my jam

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 08:56

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

drilldo squirt posted:

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-wizard-raised-through-trpg-is-still-the-strongest-in-the-other-world/ is the chill DnD wizard novel for reference.

this translator has never heard of John Carter. Too much time reading weeb novels!

# ¿ Mar 3, 2018 11:28

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Yinlock posted:

in addition chief engineer radiant dawn won't stop barfing blood upon seeing the replicator's incredible heaven-defying properties, despite having seen them every single loving day before now"

Dwarf Fortress Xianxia?

# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 01:13

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Sure doesn't sound like we're missing much

# ¿ Apr 20, 2018 16:33

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Meme Emulator posted:

You absolutely have an obligation to the original author.

The noble thief!

# ¿ Apr 21, 2018 01:49

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Whew! Some folks here getting all demanding with their translations, now they casting stones

# ¿ Apr 22, 2018 08:41

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

blastron posted:

If you find yourself translating a series that goes straight off the deep end into ultranationalist screeds or really uncomfortable fetish scenes, you can, uh, stop translating it.

He did!

# ¿ Apr 23, 2018 11:07

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Uhh that looks like a margherita pizza.

# ¿ May 8, 2018 23:28

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

UberJew posted:

That's basically the concept of this harry potter fanfic, the protaganist is isekai'd there from tabletop dnd, but that's the only one like that i can think of

Someone posted a fic earlier where the dude isekais into a generic fantasyland... as his d&d character.

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-wizard-raised-through-trpg-is-still-the-strongest-in-the-other-world/

But he's overpowered so its ~~kinda~~ meh.

Jackard fucked around with this message at 13:28 on May 9, 2018

# ¿ May 9, 2018 13:24

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

Bakanogami posted:

Just spent the last few days reading through Tensei Shoujo no Rirekisho. It's good! It reminds me of a kinda more serious and extreme Ascendance of a Bookworm, especially the later parts.

They have the same basic worldbuilding premise: a class of wizard nobles ruling over an uneducated muggle populace, who are faced with the problem of dwindling numbers of wizards. The difference is that Rirekisho cuts all the book parts and replaces it with an emphasis on class struggle.

I'll also give Rirekisho some extra points for actually having a very positive representation of a trans character, when most WNs use them as uncomfortable, unfunny jokes.

The reviews are complaining that everyone aside from the MC is really lazy and stupid, is this accurate?

# ¿ May 13, 2018 13:33

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

What site do you check to find new and upcoming manga?

# ¿ May 16, 2018 09:58

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 18:41

Jackard: Oct 28, 2007; We Have A Bow And We Wish To Use It

The Sandman posted:

Here, something actually good to read.

Yes, even given the setting. And it fills that "MC who isn't overpowered without it turning into Grimgar" request from a few pages back.

I don't really mind fanfiction, but know nothing about Bleach and this seems pretty deep into it. Thanks, though.

Jackard posted:

Hm! Are there any other fantasy stories where the protagonist isn't a. overpowered and b. a piece of poo poo?

Jackard posted:

That seems like a big leap from "not overpowered"..? No, I'm not looking for something like Grimgar.

# ¿ May 17, 2018 09:14

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