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Can't for the life of me remember where I read the post, but apparently GATE ended and it was exactly as trashy and nationalistic as expected or something to that effect.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2020 23:01 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 15:55 |
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Artificer posted:Does the fantasy world become an official part of Japan? Apparently yeah it did and the other countries got jealous of the awesome cool superiority of the JSDF that they attempted to open up more portals, but caused some kind of apocalyptic event that may have destroyed the world outside of Japan and their annexed fantasy territory.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2020 01:57 |
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PringleCreamEgg posted:https://mangadex.org/title/41850/ihoujin-dungeon-ni-moguru Picked it up. Looks pretty good so far.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2020 05:59 |
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Fellis posted:Yeah that’s pretty boring/gross. There is some potential in the ideas but it just doesnt do anything interesting with them. I’m a Spider, So What?! says and does way more interesting things with the murder makes you strong, view everyone as experience psychopathy, wait isnt this world set up to be violent, why is that? (vague LN spoilers) plot point. It would be more interesting if the god of ethics was way more hands on and brutally resetting him again and again in a groundhog day-like fashion till he figures out the exact line of being a bastard but still “ethical”. That could have some interesting things to say about how moral actions can still be cruel, or something? Isn't that poo poo getting an Anime soon or something last I recall? I find those stories incredibly dumb as gently caress since, why? It's never made clear or explained WHY they betray or sell the protagonist out other than just because or to basically give him a reason to edgelord rear end in a top hat who has no issue using slave magic on them. At least something like Ubel Blatt made sense in that it was to cover up their own cowardice and profit from the event.
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 12:14 |
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Jackard posted:Japanese Witcher is so good Indeed. Lecan is good adventure bro.
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# ¿ May 29, 2020 07:54 |
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Newest Undead Adventuter LN volume is out. It's really good guys.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2020 10:58 |
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darkgray posted:Bit sad to learn that Ookami wa Nemuranai (Wolf Won't Sleep) seems to have been cancelled both as LN (vol 4) and manga (ch 16). The web novel is still continuing until the end, presumably, but I had the impression at least the manga was doing pretty well. Wait, WTF?! Why? Link to the info? I was under the impression it was doing well since it was consistently in the Top 5 on the raws website. Man, gently caress that bullshit, This was one of the few good mature fantasy stories/isekai out there and it gets canned?!! Edit: Found the manga stuff saying it was gonna continue in the novel. doomrider7 fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Sep 27, 2020 |
# ¿ Sep 27, 2020 01:34 |
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Jackard posted:I don't typically read those but will have to check it out. Thanks for the link. That's what I'm curious about as well. The authors other work, Bard Roen is doing quite well but that runs on a seinen mag I think. My theory is that it lacked a female "mascot" in the same vein as other LN's. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/POVBoyPosterGirl The trope above kind of explains. There was another that mentioned that people rarely give a poo poo about the male MC and are simply there for the female cover one or the interest lags do to a lack of obvious Romantic interest or attractive female character of that kind. Compare + Contrast with Undead Adventurer.
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# ¿ Nov 22, 2020 15:06 |
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Fellis posted:it gets much less wholesome. i stopped reading the manga cause it got so goddamn bad (and worse of all, boring) and i have horrible tolerance for poo poo isekai manga Brah don't leave us hanging on details about trashiness. What happens later on in it?
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2021 00:39 |
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Meme Emulator posted:Mushoku Tensei Spoilers That's the weird thing. Shay Guy, post: 23707609, member: 72524 posted:
Shay Guy, post: 23707657, member: 72524 posted:
Shay Guy, post: 23710011, member: 72524 posted:
He also posted a spreadsheet on this and yeah, MT wasn't really even the first at all per se. Maybe the kind of protagonist, but other than that, not much else so I legit don't know how to answer this one anymore. This reminds me of a video I saw on the movie Christmas Story's false nostalgia that might explain this better.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2021 23:47 |
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khy posted:Couple more Mushoku Tensei spoilers. It gets weird. And isn't wholesome. Still, not the worst I've come across by far. I remember reading some of these and I can't help but find all of this loving hilarious in a Bile Fascination kind of way. Like it's absolute garbage, but hilarious in how it looks and feels like the author is taking it seriously. This in turn leads me to becoming furiously angry that such amazing animation, modeling, character and scenery design is being wasted on the anime for this. Edit: Wasn't there some stuff with his dad dying too? doomrider7 fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jan 28, 2021 |
# ¿ Jan 27, 2021 21:29 |
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khy posted:There was a magical anomaly of some kind that went off above his hometown. Everyone in town got teleported randomly around the world. This happened when the MC was very young, and a large plot point from then on (Spanning years and years) is the MC trying to reconnect with all the people in his life after that. His mother got trapped in a dungeon, and eventually MC and his dad went there to rescue her. They fight a boss, the MC is about to get wrecked by the hydra and the dad pushed his son out of the way to save him. Dad died, but MC survived on. I'm finding the sort of worship that this is getting somewhat bizarre if not unsurprising since the amazing animation and character design with skeevy poo poo that's gonna "trigger" the "normies" and "sjw's" would guarantee popularity, I'm more curious about people seeing it as the kahuna, father, grandfather, or what have you of modern isekai since as darkgray showed, cursory overview shows that to not be the case AT ALL.
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2021 03:37 |
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darkgray posted:This is at least partially true -- Kenkyo Kenjitsu is arguably the grandmother of all isekai villainess novels. It's also one of the strangest anomalies on Narou. When it came out in the middle of 2013, there was one other semi-popular "villainess" web novel, Akuyaku Reijou Koukyuu Monogatari, which had started back in 2012 and was hovering around #45 on the overall ranking, but Kenkyo Kenjitsu's author managed to consistently post 1-2 chapters every day for six months straight, and as a result it rocketed up the rankings like nothing ever had before, reaching #2 overall within a year, and staying there just under Mushoku Tensei all the way until late 2017, when the author vanished without a trace and left the work unfinished. On my read list now.
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2021 04:24 |
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Well I guess Jobless DID have an impact in the isekai series that followed, just not a good one and not in the meaningful series that people always talk about. As an aside, someone elsewhere made a nice list of the stuff that scamp Rudy does throughout the series,quote:MC at the start is an actual pedophile. Anyone telling you otherwise is just in denial about it. Before he died, he was caught jacking it to hidden camera footage he took of his niece in the bath (this is revealed in an extra released towards the end of the series). Once reincarnated, he steals the panties of his teacher, the blue haired one who is a 40 year old member of a race who stops aging once they're around 13-14 years old, make of that what you will. He then proceeds to make a personal religion around worshiping said stolen panties, which is used a joke throughout the rest of the series. Jesus reading it over again, this is like a loving compilation of the worst and loving trashes aspects of isekai and animein general all rolled into one. I will say he missed the virgin blood addition and they do mention the GOOD the series had in that it was one of the more better built isekai worlds. Edit: I recall there was one other male character who was like his arch-rival who was a villain who sometimes threw him a bone that would often best him in battle and whatnot on top of the whole his kids being the ones destined to be the ones to defeat the Demon Lord a la Dragon Quest 5(this was a point of comparison I recall being made). Mod Edit: Spoilered accordingly. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 29, 2021 |
# ¿ Jan 29, 2021 20:01 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Pretty cool how pretty much the entire plot of Jobless, a series running currently this season, has been spoiled in this thread in big long screeds complaining about it. darkgray posted:Is there some kind of rule about how if you don't like something then it's okay not to use spoiler tags anymore? That was on me and honestly I thought most people were in the know about this already. khy posted:When people were talking 'jobless' I totally thought they were talking about the OTHER Jobless isekai and so I didn't realize I was spoiling the currently-airing show. I was a bit confused but assumed we were talking 2 different series with Mushoku Tensei. I knew it was airing, but yeah given how everyone was talking about it I figured, "well everyone knows so no point in tagging". Also, that one looks nice so bookmarked. doomrider7 fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jan 29, 2021 |
# ¿ Jan 29, 2021 23:25 |
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Fellis posted:I’ve always told my friends you need to drink a lot of bad wine to appreciate the good ones Given that according to reddit, everyone's favorite rape show about goblins is getting another season I may need those to wash away the pain. It would at least put your theory of savoring garbage to the test.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 18:29 |
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Guyver posted:Sorry but Fluff Saint has rape goblins as of chapter five. It belongs in this thread. The superior isekai thread. loving WHHHHHHHYYYYY?!! Onean posted:Edit: Please let this be the case FFS. Also, will definently check that out.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 19:02 |
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Guyver posted:That's what I took it as but I kind of dislike the wholesome thread. Just finished the first chapter and yeah that rape thing feels super sus now because I'm getting some major "Make My Abilities Average" vibes in terms of doofiness.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 19:17 |
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Onean posted:Oh, that wasn't in the Wholesome thread. I braved the MangaDex comments and saw it there. (Don't subject yourself to them, though. That's alongside about twice as many comments being all for rape goblins, of course.) I really hate the anime and manga fandom sometimes.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 19:59 |
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Finished all three chapters out and hope that if goblins show up, they're like the ones from Slime or that other new isekai with cute gobbos. Alternatively, Dungeon Nursery or Wasabi styled ones are also welcome.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 21:39 |
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dipwood posted:Slime is pretty wholesome but it's incredibly boring. Where you at if I may ask? Series is mostly fantasy Civ with fantasy Sims City mixed in with the occasional RTS JRPG fight or Tales styled fight from time to time.
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2021 05:26 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:https://mangadex.org/title/45729/time-stop-brave I love how it differentiates between the regular one and the nips one. Bro, we all know why this was written in the first place man.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 08:42 |
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You know what, instead of wasting space on that garbage, look forward to something nice like the other slime isekai. https://twitter.com/GA_bunko/status/1355812020939943938?s=19 doomrider7 fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Feb 2, 2021 |
# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 17:49 |
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dipwood posted:I'm just following the anime. I quite liked it a lot until it got to the child hero school arc. Demon Lord Lilim is also really annoying. If world building and progression like that are more your thing, I'd actually recommend the LN or the manga and it's spin-offs since they're more on that level. The anime committee screwed the pooch BADLY last season by skipping a lot of stuff that's on biting them on the rear end so they have to hassle back in line to damage control. And yeah I'm not fond of how they handled Milim at all here.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2021 02:21 |
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Onean posted:I posted about these in the Wholesome thread, but now that MangaDex is back up I figured I'd crosspost here too: I shall do the same then. Deathbound Duke's Daughter is an awesome one I rec from time to time. I have the first two LN's from Jnovel and they're very good. Her past life was very sad in a pestered by lovely assholes and rumor smeared kind of way which left her rather jaded on relationships so she's pretty dense thought it makes more sense than Bakarina if some ways given the context. The way I always describe is, Bakarina combined with GrimGrimoire for those familiar with the game with maybe a bit of Nancy Drew in the mix. The artwork is also super pretty for the LN.
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2021 16:49 |
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Onean posted:I came across a WN that piqued my interest and sitting right there in the first chapter was this: That feels so absurdly sexist in such an upfront way that I can't help but wonder if there's a sort of catch. Like she develops "Supreme Goddess" powers because yeah, holy poo poo that was hosed up.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2021 17:24 |
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Bought and read Vol 5 of Undead Adventurer manga. THEY GAVE EDEL A COCKNEY ACCENT IN THE 4KOMA AND HE SAID THE "YOU WOT M8?" Rentt is also still cool bro and LN8 is getting translated as well and should be out in June. Edit: The cover for LN8 is...rather eyebrow raising. Very much makes it clear that some poo poo is about change.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 22:36 |
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Eeepies posted:I immediately dumped it from my reading list. I dunno, but even his majesty is like, "WTF?! PHRASING!!" So I think it's a MASSIVE misunderstanding.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2021 19:08 |
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doomrider7 posted:Finished all three chapters out and hope that if goblins show up, they're like the ones from Slime or that other new isekai with cute gobbos. Alternatively, Dungeon Nursery or Wasabi styled ones are also welcome. Super weird quoting my own posts, but now I'm trying to recall which anime or manga this was. I think it might be the one with the Gandalf guy reincarnation himself as a child and being raised by a goblin tribe similar to Slimes, but can't recall the name.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 02:39 |
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:this one, probably? No not that one(but I will be reading it and you have my thanks). The MC was a local and reincarnated as a human raised by goblins. It got brought up either here or the other thread.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 03:40 |
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TheFlyingLlama posted:pretty sure you mean this one Yeah that's the one. Name means Reincarnated Mage Raised by Monsters or something to that effect.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 05:10 |
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Brought To You By posted:Ah yes, the cheat skill called not having the lifespan of a mayfly and yet again falling into a surplus of [skills]. MC is chill though and I like his rapport with the count but I'm also curious what caused Japan to really settle on Goblins being commonly depicted as hyper-evolving and adaptive creatures. Besides Slimes, they are the definitive Mook you demolish early in-game leveling up. That and since they're actually sentient, can also take the place of low ranked minions in the Demon Lords armies. Why such a specific thing I dunno, but I think it's the above of them being the other famous mook who gets the crap beat out of them becoming super strong.
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 18:07 |
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Literally Kermit posted:Now I want to see “I Reincarnated as that Orc Holding a Pie in a 10 x 10 room but I’m Stronger than the Heroes!?” Someone on Narou likely has that story already written
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2021 23:55 |
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Nemo2342 posted:Personally, I think it feels off because it's a villain manga that's pretending it's not one. The other races are all cartoonishly evil, but it's kind of hard to ignore that the protagonist is every bit as bad. Yet the story really wants you to root for the MC as some kind of righteous avenger. To add, unless I read it wrong he also explicitly says he wants to create a world only for humanity implying he wants to either subjugate or wipe out the other races which is pretty loving evil no matter how you slice.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2022 22:28 |
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Nemo2342 posted:The current plan specifically calls for cutting off the Elf Kingdom's strength, vanquishing them, and then subordinating them to get a feel for how the other nations are going to respond. It very much sounds like he intends to replace their old rear end in a top hat government with his own "enlightened" authoritarian regime. Haven't gotten that far. I'm just going by what I read when he fought the wolf guy in them first few chapters.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 01:20 |
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Captain Invictus posted:I feel like I remember people recommending a series about a skeleton warrior, possibly adventuring, possibly more laid back, but I do recall there being one people were consistently excited about with a skeleton as the mc or one of the mcs. Any ideas? Sindai posted:Yeah Skeleton Soldier is always better when Isaac is around because he functions as the protagonist's brain. Unfortunately he's not always around. I really enjoyed the recent chapters where he taught Skeleton to use his status windows as deadly weapons. For all its flaws I'm probably sticking with it to the end because the mysteries it's presented are interesting enough. Yeah it was either Undead Adventurer which was always consistently good or it MIGHT HAVE BEEN Skeleton Knight in Another World since people REALLY liked that he very brutally killed slavers and rapists with gusto which was always a welcome change of things given how slavery gets used in isekai so that might have been the reason for the positive recommendations. Skeleton Soldier also got brought up, but yeah it had a "Girl in Fridge" issue pretty much every time a female character got introduced as well as the gay stereotype thing. Edit: I dropped Skeleton Soldier fairly early due to the fridging thing so I dunno how it goes in later chaps. doomrider7 fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Jun 22, 2022 |
# ¿ Jun 22, 2022 11:53 |
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Captain Invictus posted:I think this was it, it's pretty highly rated so it's possible. Thanks! Good News! It's getting an anime! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxUhwthVdKU
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2022 19:24 |
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Ice Phisherman posted:Even though it's at the top of a number of lists already, I can't recommend The Faraway Paladin enough. The characters are compelling and deep, the setting is interesting, the stakes feel real and if there's anything that I love about the main character, it's that he's powerful without being so powerful that he just blazes through everything. At the same time, he's a kind, gentle, thoughtful person who has been taught that sometimes, you really can solve problems with overwhelming violence. He's often resolving problems with talking and negotiation and even with economics, but sometimes you just have to thump someone so they'll listen to you or just break something or someone. So if you're going to need violence as a tool, you should probably be really good at it, and the MC is really good at it. Some of my favorite parts are they scene where he's speaking with the dwarven elders about all that they endured felt very poignant just how crushed and heartbroken that a group of people who has father had talked about a being a race of proud warriors and artisans being so beaten and broken. The other was the scene in this cave where they speak with a crow avatar of Stagnate and the dwarf prince asks about his ancestor to which Stagnate laughsbat how fates wheel turns and reveals that this ancestor the last Dwarf King was a glorious hero who died a spectacular death taking the eye and severely wounding a dragon who was the equal of the Gods. All of the other moments shouldn't need an explanation since it's the moments with his family and growing up, learning to cope with death and dying, his vow to Gracefeel, the Goddess Mater protecting Mary showing she had always loved her, and him praying during his parents passing. The series is just a cavalcade of awesome and poignant moments. Marked just in case. Edit: You'd likely enjoy Undead Adventurer for similar reasons as Faraway Paladin. doomrider7 fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Jul 30, 2022 |
# ¿ Jul 30, 2022 23:37 |
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Captain Invictus posted:definitely try the manga, it's worth it, especially compared to everything I've read about the anime. Skeleton Knight is a VERY mixed bag. It has the whole violent sexual assault thing going on, but it very much shows that and slavery to be VERY bad and evil things and that's the best way to handle those kinds of people as sword and knife them a lot. It's definetly not one that goes on the wholesome Isekai thread.
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2022 00:24 |
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# ¿ May 16, 2024 15:55 |
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Jomo posted:I think I dropped it around episode 3 or 4, when the animation quality felt like someone's attempt at making a show in PowerPoint. I know nothing of the anime and am only commenting on the manga. @Faraway Paladin I'm still loving pissed about the quality. This deserved SIGNIFICANTLY better. The music was great though. The comments about Will being "whiny" because he cried when a Dark God smugly told him that this parents were going to die and have their souls harvested he him, his parents peacefully dying and moving back into the cycle, and him crying when his best friend is horrifically mutilated in a monster hunt gone awry also soured me, but more towards the entire anime and manga community in general.
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2022 01:52 |