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Fellis posted:Greatest Estate Developer is very good this week. Good faces, Javier being completely gobsmacked by Lloyd, and a challenge for the MC that he (possibly) can’t just BS his way through 
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I started reading The Faraday Paladin (light novel). Watched the anime that released a while back and loved it. Read the available manga chapters then saw the licensed light novel at Barnes and noble and picked it up. It reads much different than others light novels, much more like a regular fantasy book. Might be obvious, but while the anime was neat, there is so much more details in the book talking about how the religion of the world works and the people living there
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Bremen posted:I'm glad to see this isn't dead, it's been over two years since the last update. The artist suffered a hand/wrist injury iirc
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Faraway Paladin wrapped up really well with book five but I hope one day the author can get back to writing because there is some neat stuff set up if he continues.
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GateOfD posted:I started reading The Faraday Paladin (light novel). I just had this image pop into my head of a lightning knight completely covered in chain mail with grounding straps sparking on the ground... The Faraday Paladin. It was pretty great.
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Yeah, Faraway Paladin's one of the best representations of how faith in a pure fantasy world where gods are real, and absolutely the best representation of how a true Paladin-sort would act and what they might have to deal with. It's definitely stuff that needs to have a lot of thought put into it when you're building a world but often doesn't.
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Asimo posted:Yeah, Faraway Paladin's one of the best representations of how faith in a pure fantasy world where gods are real, and absolutely the best representation of how a true Paladin-sort would act and what they might have to deal with. It's definitely stuff that needs to have a lot of thought put into it when you're building a world but often doesn't. Wholeheartedly agree, ditto for it being one of the best depictions of a second chance at life. Still overwhelmingly pissed about the anime adaption and how the series was received in places.
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doomrider7 posted:Wholeheartedly agree, ditto for it being one of the best depictions of a second chance at life. Still overwhelmingly pissed about the anime adaption and how the series was received in places. I was going to watch that over vacation, did they butcher it?
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I haven't watched the whole thing but it was just sort of meh?
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SystemLogoff posted:I was going to watch that over vacation, did they butcher it? First half of the episode count was quite good though some of the battle scenes like the fight against the skeleton army that Stagnate summons could have been better as well as a general animation and quality bump the later episodes were just very poor and stilted and for how amazing the series is, it deserved so much better.
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good isekai series fans are eating good lately, with faraway paladin, last boss, mynoghra, and now Fabiniku updating over the last few days. and what an update! I can hear the Tables Turn in my head while reading the recent chapters!
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and now isekai uncle updates as well, and reminds us it's totally capable of having really badass pages as well, that it will probably immediately turn into a gag, but still, that page rules
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Captain Invictus posted:good isekai series fans are eating good lately, with faraway paladin, last boss, mynoghra, and now Fabiniku updating over the last few days. and what an update! I can hear the Tables Turn in my head while reading the recent chapters! Fabiniku is really hitting it out of the part lately, what with Tachibana and Jinguji admitting their feelings for each other and Tachibana being like "Well...I know he's fighting to turn me back into a dude but maybe I like being a girl?" THIS IS MY poo poo!
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Captain Invictus posted:I can hear the Tables Turn in my head while reading the recent chapters!
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Jackard posted:This track comes to mind whenever protagonists manage an unlikely comeback
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heroic tracks need that soft strings or smooth beat if within the same series example, I would go with this track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpc8K-zQoYM comeback tracks need a really good tempo shift in the middle like that one good danmachi track the anime keeps spamming after the first season undeservedly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWlfyXi0KYs
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Captain Invictus posted:good isekai series fans are eating good lately, with faraway paladin, last boss, mynoghra, and now Fabiniku updating over the last few days. and what an update! I can hear the Tables Turn in my head while reading the recent chapters! drat he's just like me fr
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If we're going with jojo comeback songs why not bring up the GOAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2L4r0Aelvg
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New Matter Regarding the Female Knight Who Came to Live With Me in the Countryside and yeah. I don't like the older brother but I get where his anger is coming from.
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That series really did just shove 'she's literally half his age' under the rug and ignore it huh.
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Cirina posted:That series really did just shove 'she's literally half his age' under the rug and ignore it huh. I still read that one "Starting over on the frontier from zero" one or whatever it's titled. It's not very good or interesting but in it a man is told that he is now married to a child and immediately says "I absolutely the gently caress am not" so I kind of feel like I owe it to the series to persevere.
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Your standards should be higher than "does not endorse pedophilia"
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An Isekai where the main narrates his experiencing waking up in another world with his trusty P90 and it gets to the part where the Royalty presents him with his Slaves Wives (as is customary for heroes). Then it cuts to a jail cell with him going "and then I started blasting". In anime news, latest EP of Misfit of Demon Academy threaded the needle perfectly with the dumb poo poo reveal cliffhanger and I love this goofy show.
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FilthyImp posted:An Isekai where the main narrates his experiencing waking up in another world with his trusty P90 and it gets to the part where the Royalty presents him with his Slaves Wives (as is customary for heroes). That's just a half-remembered jumble of Stargate SG1 episodes.
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FilthyImp posted:An Isekai where the main narrates his experiencing waking up in another world with his trusty P90 and it gets to the part where the Royalty presents him with his Slaves Wives (as is customary for heroes). made me realize that I would absolutely read "dude gets isekai'd into harem-ready fantasy world where everyone is unreasonably horny for him and hates it". Issue 2 could be him going to the slave market full of beastwomen and just flipping poo poo all "are you fuckers SELLING PEOPLE"
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Arc Hammer posted:That's just a half-remembered jumble of Stargate SG1 episodes. In my mind I'm thinking this one from season 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjlCVW_ouL8 And this one from Season 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ce7iZ_zCKQ
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Brought To You By posted:In my mind I'm thinking this one from season 5 Add in the season 1 episode where the space Mongols kidnap Carter and take her as a slave wife because she dared speak.
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Arc Hammer posted:Add in the season 1 episode where the space Mongols kidnap Carter and take her as a slave wife because she dared speak.
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Spanish Matlock posted:I still read that one "Starting over on the frontier from zero" one or whatever it's titled. It's not very good or interesting but in it a man is told that he is now married to a child and immediately says "I absolutely the gently caress am not" so I kind of feel like I owe it to the series to persevere. I believe you're thinking of Ryoumin 0-nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushusama. I disagree with your assertion that it isn't good or interesting, but it is a slice of life story so I definitely understand if the pace isn't to your taste. Brought To You By posted:I don't need it to be science fiction, but are there any isekai that do feature traveling to different worlds sort of like Stargate, Star Trek, or even Sliders? I feel like it's a missed opportunity especially since serialization would work hand in hand with jumping to various locations for both episodic adventures but overarching ones. First one that comes to mind is "I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched" WN / Manga where the central concept is the MC going back through the 100 different worlds a 2nd time to get a better ending.
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Nemo2342 posted:First one that comes to mind is "I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched" WN / Manga where the central concept is the MC going back through the 100 different worlds a 2nd time to get a better ending.
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read a bit of the both the novel and manga version sof 'The Academy's Undercover Professor' I always quite dug the professor/magic teacher settings, but man, I started rapidly losing interest right at the start of the first major arc with the werewolves.
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GateOfD posted:read a bit of the both the novel and manga version sof 'The Academy's Undercover Professor' probably because the story was incredibly dully predictable just ask yourself "whats the most cliche possible development" for every scene and story arc and then the author did exactly that
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I liked the setup of it. The magi-punk world is interesting, his assumed identity being some secret society executive is a good twist and in the first few chapters there’s a great sense that things could go disastrously wrong at any moment. But it never does. Instead, it quickly pivots to him effortlessly clowning on people. But it still wastes people’s time pretending he’s an underdog. It feels like if he got into a fight with Johnny Smallfry or THE KING OF ALL DEMONS, it would take the exact same number of chapters to resolve, just he’d have to pop more pills in the latter scenario. The only person who feels like any threat to him is the academy principal, who he’ll probably manage to keep as an ally anyway. It also feels like his schemes don’t really make sense and things kind of just happen arbitrarily: I will destroy this gang (okay) to bring all the other criminal groups to heel (?) and turn them into legitimate businesses (??) that somehow make more money (???). I’ll kill a werewolf with fire (okay) then kill this gang with fire (??) despite being able to use every element (???) and when the authorities investigate any connection I’ll throw them off using a plastic hand covering during a handshake (????) Or when it introduces his own secret group of super special subordinates. And it’s unclear what any of them do* since the guy can do everything himself. Or why they were even following him. *Except the engineer girl who makes his gadgets. I don’t hate it, but I do think it squanders most of its potential. Even with all those flaws it might still be okay if it felt like the MC had to work for his wins and had a clear goal in mind.
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Well he does have a goal, but it's comprised maybe 2% of the comic's runtime so far and he barely has any idea how to complete it, so kind of gives the impression the story is going to drag on an arbitrary amount of time.
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I was really with the idea when he started the first class, and wanted him raising the students similar to stories like 'The S-class heroes I raised' or even 'The Returners' magic should be special' but it seems like he's just doing the side jobs and the students see him in the middle of it and go 'wow, he's so mysterious and strong' maybe later arcs will have that, but as I said, the first major arc was a downgrade for my expectations. In other isekai news, went to Barnes & Noble and picked up vol1 of 'The Other Worlder Exploring the Dungeon' vol1. Read the first few pages and liked the prose enough. '
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I started reading that isekai where the MC can kill anyone/anything with just a word, and it's more interesting than I thought it'd be. I'm a couple dozen chapters in and I like how it's turned into oh poo poo, the people who yanked that busload of kids into their world to create more "sages" accidentally happened to pull in the Grim loving Reaper in human form, the literal manifestation of death itself, able to kill literally anything regardless of their power or status with a single word, and not a single person understands this until it's too late It reminds me of One Punch Man with it introducing characters, their motivations, backstories, dramas, etc and it means gently caress all since he just says "die" and that's it lol
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Captain Invictus posted:It reminds me of One Punch Man with it introducing characters, their motivations, backstories, dramas, etc and it means gently caress all since he just says "die" and that's it lol You haven't even begun to see the silliness.
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Captain Invictus posted:I started reading that isekai where the MC can kill anyone/anything with just a word, and it's more interesting than I thought it'd be. I'm a couple dozen chapters in and I like how it's turned into oh poo poo, the people who yanked that busload of kids into their world to create more "sages" accidentally happened to pull in the Grim loving Reaper in human form, the literal manifestation of death itself, able to kill literally anything regardless of their power or status with a single word, and not a single person understands this until it's too late Something nice about this one is that it's centered around a core romance and it takes both sides of the romance seriously. It's not perfect but the female lead is very much the deuteragonist, and she has a strong dynamic with the main character, with her as the everywoman (despite her own ridiculous background) and him as the mysterious, vaguely tragic love interest. I think that's one of the things that makes it rise above its compatriots.
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