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Avulsion posted:That sucks, I don't know where else it might be but she saves the world with potatoes. I did not know there were more chapters. I thought the story ended[spoiler] with her dying from poison arrows and the rebels conquering the kingdom.
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brainwrinkle posted:I read 14 chapters of Release That Witch. It's extremely boring because all conflict and challenge have been surgically removed from the setting. The conflict between modern values and life in his new setting would be interesting, but the author totally undercuts it. All of the minor characters are cool doing stuff that should get them killed by the Inquisition. The MC demonstrates no skill at persuading people but succeeds regardless. Almost as if the author is some shut in nerd lacking social skills.
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I read it. It is legitimately funny. I actually didn't enjoy reading Harry Potter (the actual books), but oddly enough, I loved this fan fiction.
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I am in another world! Wow! Surely my social awkwardness /aspergers / elementary education will turn me into a hero / harem king! I definitely won't be a lazy shut in like my old life! After reading the GBS China thread, I can't tell if the Chinese light novels are also mostly written by horrible shut ins, or if the selfish dumb protagonists are just standard mainland China values. In good light novel news, I decided to check in on the best spider story again. God drat, spider girl got strong! Bastron I love your translations. Both of them.
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I recommend the English web novel Savage Divinity. Magic low tech Chinese kung-fu setting with a good reincarnated protagonist. One of the latest chapters had the MC lamenting why the gently caress he didn't read some physics text or something useful. In the MC 's defense, he lost most of his memories after reincarnation.
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Ytlaya posted:I think in the case of pretty much all Japanese/Chinese/Korean web novels, it's less "the values of Chinese/Japanese/Korean people" and more "the values of teenage boys", at least with respect to the whole "loser ends up becoming a badass with a harem" element. "I'm Really a Superstar" is the story of a man transported to a world with a slightly different history, so he used his amazing powers to plagiarize his old world's works to gain fame in his new world. It is a Chinese Web novel.
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golden bubble posted:Since it appears non-anime time travel is now a part of this thread, Doomsday Book by Connie Willis isn't bad. What is this from?
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Autonomous Monster posted:Anyway! I'm up to date with Honzuki now (Maine actually turns it around in chapter 24. I have never self-owned so hard in my life Given how strong her family and Lutz's family reacted to that money, they will rip her apart if she pays them more.
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), and it's all good, but now I have a new problem. Maine seems to be really concerned about charging a fair price to the customer... but also perfectly content to bilk her craftmen- her own family. Girl, your priorities are exactly backwards.
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Bakanogami posted:Boy this discussion about Maine's ethics will get heated up when the translations get up to part two when she starts exploiting child labor in sweatshops while basically only paying room and board. There's even a spot where she's like "Boy, this would be terrible on earth, good thing labor rights suck here!" The only thing Maine loves as much as books is exploiting the proletariat!  Let me guess, she starts an daycare and puts those brats to work. Edit: OK, posted my guess right after someone explains the details.
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Ytlaya posted:These quick Re:Zero translations are moer competent than I expected, but are sometimes pretty hilarious and end up with things like tihs: This is a good translation.
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Desuwa posted:I have one WN that I've been reading for a while that hasn't been mentioned in this thread, Akuyaku Reijo Ni Koi Wo Shite. I think it's held up pretty well so far. A man gets reincarnated as a slums child and ends up serving as the butler to a pair of noble siblings. It's a game world, but it's not a game he was familiar with so he doesn't realize it until later, and those noble children end up being the designated petty villains that get taken out by the protagonist before dealing with the demon lord. It doesn't have levels or stats and actually does something with the idea of being a character in a game with a pre-determined plot. I find it changes things up enough to avoid getting stale and there are some significant events with real consequences. This is a fun read. It feels like the story is really building up to a grand finally, like Count of Monte Cristo Japanese web novel style.
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darkgray posted:I'd completely missed there was already a trailer for the January anime of Death March: I finally decided to check out Death March even though it looks like something I would not enjoy at all. The story begins with the main character, an extremely plain Japanese boy, committing genocide by accident for no reason. This genocide does not lead to introspection or any character development. It is just an excuse by the author for leveling the character up to OP status. I assume it just gets worse from there.
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I am enjoying Release That Witch. It is a Chinese web novel, but the protagonist is not a sociopath and the plot doesn't revolve around a series of face contests. It is easy to forget it is a Chinese web novel, until the latest chapter (646), the hot pot chapter.
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Bakanogami posted:https://imgur.com/a/2aMVUqC LOL. That was pretty good. I like the potential hero selection.
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jwang posted:Cultivation Chat Group is like the 1% of the Xianxia genre, so it's in its own category. I'm talking about the general murder-hobo stories, where the go-to resolution to any problem is the kill the poo poo out of anyone that looks at you cross-eyed. I read a hobo murder story called Reverend Insanity. It's like xianxia but with pokemon too. The protagonist pursues the unabashedly evil demonic path and recognizes that he is 100% evil. It was kind of refreshing. No thin justifications for murder or pining about being moral and right for robbin' and murderin'. Just murder hobo doing what a murder hobo does best. Protagonist muscle wizard travels back 500 years in time to his childhood and get's a second chance in life. He uses this chance to nab treasures before anyone else and screw over everyone. In the later chapters, he takes two children hostage, who have done nothing to him ever, and kicks them into a fire to burn alive so he can get a super rare xianxia pokemon. edit: It's baaaaaaaad. But I kind of like dude just being straight up "Yes I am evil." Deadly Ham Sandwich fucked around with this message at 01:02 on May 18, 2018 |
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BadMedic posted:I decided to calculate how much stuff costs at webnovel.com, and I'd like to start off by telling bullshit microtransaction currencies to gently caress off for forcing me to use a spreadsheet to calculate how much poo poo actually costs. LOL just sign up with a temporary email address, like temp-mail.org. They give you ~70 spirit stones when you sign up. On PC the new reader gift shows up as a little present box in the bottom right corner. Click on it to collect spirit stones and read.
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Tunicate posted:isekai transporter finally got chapter 5 translated "Can you drift?" Oh jeezus. This is a great manga.
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