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I just finished reading through what's been released of Endo and Kobayashi’s Live Commentary on the Villainess https://mangadex.cc/title/38123/endo-and-kobayashis-live-commentary-on-the-villainess It's not strictly an isekai, but the premise is that two high school students (guy and girl) are commentating on an otome game and one of the main characters in there can hear them. They decide to use this to their advantage and make sure everyone gets a happy ending, especially the villainess, who similar to Katarina dies in all but one of the routes but is more of a tragic, misunderstood girl than outright villainess. Unfortunately, she's cursed with being a Soon D'rey.  It's actually got some actual depth to it, for example, the high school dude has a backstory of loving playing baseball but ended up getting a career-ending injury trying to push himself to the limit. He didn't want to continue playing because he knew he'd end up hating the sport, but also didn't want to completely give it up. The main girl pointed out to him that it's still possible to participate in the sport even without being a player, like being coach or a commentator. He really appreciates her for this, and thus their relationship has way more to it than 90% of other romances.
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Japanese doesn't have many direct insults, only progressively ruder ways to call someone "you" (since the language and culture is usually very particular about correct forms of address based on social standing), so most slurs/insults/swears are inserted by translators based on context.
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I checked out The Tale of the Noble Girl Who Will go to a Monastery After her Engagement Annulment from the otome villainess anthology and it was super good. Wish it had a bit of a continuation.
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Nov 20, 2020 21:09
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Read through Fortune or Woe, it's good.
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Yeah I really wasn't blown away even though this is literally one of my favorite tropes in the world: fantasy turns out to be sci fi
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Feb 26, 2021 04:08
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Sestze posted:certainly a descriptive title. The horrors of selective breeding.
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Not exactly an isekai but adjacent to it, Endo and Kobayashi's Live Commentary on the Villainess has a wonderful use of "support magic" by the otome game's main character:    
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Have there been no updates to Witch's Servant?LorneReams posted:UGGGG, I'll just tell her it ended then and they all lived happily ever after. The show got her through a deep depression and I don't want to ruin that for her. Sucks that you have to do that, but good on you.
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Do you like isekai? Do you like xianxia genre? Do you like isekai protagonists who, gasp, retain modern morality including but not limited to:
Then I recommend Beware of Chicken https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/beware-of-chicken-xianxia.910799/ quote:In which a transmigrator decides the only winning move is to get the hell out of dodge. I've really enjoyed reading this. Very good combination of humor, fighting, and wholesomeness. The isekai part gets attention because the protagonist obviously wants to bring in some modern things, but it doesn't overshadow it because he's realistically limited to what he knows as a mostly average joe and some concepts were already known by the world. While the protagonist just wants to build a farm, it doesn't fade into "nothing happens at all" mediocrity because attention is given to how hard just being a farmer is (even if being superhuman helps a ton), as well as the conflicts that come from wandering cultivators. The characters are all fun to read about and their interactions are both very human and also great.
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Nemo2342 posted:The numbers in this one are just absurd. At one point he's killing 100 goblins a day, and later on he wipes out 10,000 in a month. That's pretty Xianxia TBH.
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Nihilarian posted:because she's a girl Where is this revealed because I must know.
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That doesn't really change much TBH?
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Jan 1, 2022 03:59
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Just wanna let you know you're on a forum and not Discord.  Should fix those spoilers.
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RareAcumen posted:I've started reading Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom/ I'm Only a Stepmother, But My Daughter is Just So Cute! After putting it off for a while and it's actually a fun one. It's got that Beware the Villainess, If You Lay a Hand on My Brother, You're All Dead, energy to it. Can second this rec, it's pretty cute and good and apparently later on the female "rival" gets into a lesbian relationship with an expy of the Little Mermaid so I'm looking forward to that.
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Ragnar34 posted:Oh hell yeah. Muh boy Rentt will gently caress poo poo up. The maids are great too and (spoilers for the fan translated bit that Tapas hasn't gotten to yet) her falling for Abigail because Abigail just keeps treating her with kindness is really good. Way better than the typical "irredeemable female love rival acts like an rear end in a top hat forever" in other works.
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Venuz Patrol posted:if you want good non-isekai fantasy, my favorite recently has been The Spark in Your Eyes. It's about a pharmacist from a recently conquered nation that moves into the empire to find work, and ends up being contracted to assist in treating a rare illness being suffered by the general that conquered his lands. It's a competent romance, but what really hooked me about it was how deftly it explored themes of racism, loyalty, and vengeance. really good art, too How gay is it? That pic of what I assume is the lady knight and a maid(?) Is getting my hopes up.
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LibrarianCroaker posted:Not very. That's her sister. Ah well.
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What's that about?
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I stopped reading for whatever reason but not because it was bad. He does sure love his wife.
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maltesh posted:At any rate, thanks to the thread for the recommendation on The Holy Grail of Eris. Wound up burning through the first three volumes of that over the past couple weeks and enjoyed it. Is that gay in any way? Or is it a het romance?
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I mean it's not entirely unrealistic given what happened in 2016 with an old MMO game called Tibia. https://www.pcgamer.com/after-12-years-one-player-has-exposed-the-truth-behind-this-mmos-biggest-mystery-and-it-sucks/
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Elfface posted:Supposedly, 'secret techniques' are still very much a thing in the Japanese speedrunning communities, where if a group discovers a new glitch they'll keep it secret as long as possible to use it for a new record. poo poo like this is always so cool.
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Jagged Jim posted:I wish actually playing MMO's were even a tiny percentage as fun as all these crazy stories make them out to be. It's much like real life, there's a ton of boring/mundane stuff that's occasionally punctuated by the most batshit events to occur.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Also, because PvPers are all portrayed as absolutely insane psychopaths for the crime of engaging with the mechanics the game has. Unless of course they are some sort of noble Player Killer Killer. I think that's mostly a product of SAO's legacy (along with its "MMO becomes real" copycats) where doing PvP for fun when it actually does result in the deaths of people in real life means you're in some way hosed in the head.
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People are absolutely willing to do simple/repetitive/mindnumbing logistics stuff like mining or transportation for others' benefit as long as they can see the fruits of their labor in action, I feel. Foxhole is a great microcosm of it.
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