@blueshift I don't really like the glaring light of tablets and I'm therefore trying to switch to a reading tablet. I also reqlly like the papery like screen reading tablets offer. Thank you for your answer anyhow.

Yeah I hate looking for lns to read on YP sites. Only way I find them really is if I know they licensed the series or on my recommendation list I get from googlebooks .

@raitoiro

Sorry about that. The 12 elements in there are based on the online cardgame at elementsthegame.com (it's free to play and easy to register)

We're actually having a heated debate right now as to how the elements should be divided (paired up). You can read more of it here if you want:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/literary-arts/gravity-and-entropy-don't-pair-up/

Death element in that game is actually something like slow acting poisons, so the story counterpart of that would be the kind of magic assasins find useful.

For the Demon Lord, I imagine him as something completely non human and uses hell-spawn magic that can't be learned by anyone. It contains darkness and death, but is also mixed with things only the Demon Lord can comprehend. (I actually took the evil element from another online game, DragonFable).

However, being darkness and death, the Demon Lord's magic also has some weakness to Light. Hero was not able to land any of his ultimate killing blows (that would've killed Demon Lord then and there), so when presented with the opportunity, he settled for the next best thing by casting a very powerful Light spell which takes advantage of Demon Lord having Death and Darkness element. Even though Hero was not able to finish the Demon Lord for good, dividing his magic into tiny little pieces is more than enough to say it's a victory.

But the thing is, attacking usually leaves you open to attack yourself, so Demon Lord, as a last ditch attempt, attacks Hero with everything he's got. He employs a similarly powerful curse that restricts the Hero from using full 100% of his powers (possibly ever again). Now his legendary strength is divided into 6 parts, and worse, each 1/6th is now a sentient being that can think for itself.
Not only do these 6 waifus hate each other (insert sexist joke here), they kind of think "I'm the strongest element there is, and everyone else is just a scrub. That's why I was the Hero's favorite."

That's why, instead of taking the usual direction of an adventure novel (the waifus journey to destroy all 10,000 Demon Lord remnants), the female lead first has to convince the others to join her cause, and the only way this could ever be resolved is by brute force.

So the focus of the story would be female lead challenging the other waifus in battle to prove her strength, one by one enumeration style, like the girls in Busou Shoujo or the Generation of Miracles in Kuroko's Basketball. Maybe sometimes she wins, maybe one time she loses, maybe she works together with another waifu to bring down the top waifu, who knows. They all have their own motivations and desires, and just tolerate each other at best. The character development would come from them coming to terms with each other. Maybe they can even recreate the Hero one time when they all work together, (and if they're too fixated on arguing, maybe a second Demon Lord emerges from combined scraps)

I haven't preordered either volume yet, I might as well enter this time around 😺

@_08 said in Premium Membership: how many credits are needed for an ebook:

@shiny said in Premium Membership: how many credits are needed for an ebook:

The novel is not out for pre-order yet so I don't know if it will cost 1 or 2 premium credits.

It's been availiable for three weeks at least. Same price as other novels.

Thanks for the information. I guess that's an indication that we will probably not see books cost more that a credit any time soon.

Congratulations, JNC.

(Also, looked at that list... are you telling me JNC never actually licensed 'My Little Ponii Can Read Kanji!'? Scandalous :P)

@pleco_breeder Conserning what you said at the end of your comment, maybe you should try "So i'm a spider so what", it kind of has what you're looking for and it's great overall. The published versions isn't far enough tho.

Nichijou
Zero Escape
Nozaki-kun
The Simpsons
Kirby

That's all. Everything else I could take or leave in this scenario, despite enjoying them.

I'm probably forgetting something though...

@stardf29 said in Mystery. Have it ever piqued your curiosity?:

I don't dislike mystery, and I'm certainly not inherently opposed to reading a mystery novel should one be licensed (as long as it's not also horror, because I generally dislike horror).

Don't worry, only 2 mysteries on the forums are horror (Shiki and Higurashi).

That said, I don't really think prose, or anything like film/anime/TV show is the best medium for mystery stories. If part of the fun of mystery is trying to figure out said mystery, then these sorts of "scripted" media limit that experience. At worst, you have the author intentionally hiding important information until the reveal ("unfair mysteries"), and even in cases where the unraveling of the mystery is done well, there's still the fact that the audience is railroaded as far as the actual process of figuring out said mystery, only being able to gather clues the way the protagonist does.

That's why, if you ask me, the ideal media for mystery stories are video games (or other interactive media). Good mystery video games give you the feel of being the detective, having to figure out where the clues are and how to get them on top of trying to put it all together. If I really wanted a mystery experience, I would probably rather get one such game than pick up a mystery novel or TV show.

For this, I have to disagree, it's all about understanding your medium and how to use it.
E.g. one of the reasons Another adaptation kinda failed (live-action was better but not that better) is the fact that the trick was based on the fact it's a book.

Each medium is quite unique and has its own element, understanding how these elements work and make use of them is a sign of a really good author/creator.

@drone205
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I thought Citrus was good (anime) I haven’t read a LN w/ “LGBTQ” as a major part of the story. That being said, I like how Pia’s Character (so far?) is being handled in Realist Hero.

I'll just say that taking in Japanese kids' media (especially the legendary stuff like Doraemon but not limited to that) is great for your pop culture literacy.

Also ups for Kitaro. The new show is fabulous (well, the older shows may also be fabulous but I haven't had the privilege of seeing them).

I had a similar issue on balancing over powered abilities with on race I wanted to create. The core concept was that they could manipulate perception, essentially having the ability to change how anyone in their range perceives the world. Not quite mind control, but perhaps a bit worse since the person is still otherwise of sound mind. Plus it's not just one person, but a whole population.

I balanced it out using social structures, both from within and without. I wanted to think on how things might evolve, especially since their powers also work on each other. From within, the race is deeply religious, with three religions that dictate how, when, and to what degree they use their abilities. One religion, worshiping truth and called seekers, all agree on a single interpretation of reality. Their abilities might alter perception, but never to a significant degree. The second, worshiping illusion and called weavers, tend to view the world from a personal lens, but they strongly respect others' perceptions as their own, and restrict any ability usage. The third worships both deities and finds a balance between them, but isn't particularly a focus in the narrative.

From without, things center around the fact that this entire race came from another world. The other races in the world are all terrified of them. So they walled the entire race in (literally) after a brief war, and established a police unit that babysat them whenever they left, using magic to make them immune to their abilities (but that has other side-effects). They also require them to be visibly marked in public. They're not particularly well tolerated so they rarely leave their designated land.

I've mostly stopped working on this stuff, but it amuses me to see so much of what I thought up come up in other stories. When I first though this story up (which is entirely several layers of isekai), I had never heard of the concept, and thought it rare. Clearly not so much any more! Plus I was floored reading Goblin Slayer and encountering the little side chapters with Illusion and Truth, because it was so similar to what I had thought up.

Not really new years resolution but I plan to make more homemade food and hope to make it the norm where take out and fast food is the exception.

@sinnoaria said in Problem with modern stories and how we consume them:

Basically, my idea is that everyone was given the freedom of choice.

And by that logic you are free to physically stop someone from say committing murder as you used as an example. Everyone exercising their freedom well rob some freedom from others, even if it is just a tiny amount. So just do whatever you believe is right. Everyone is the protagonist in their pen story with many antagonists; this means everyone alive is both a protagonist their own story and an antagonist in another person's story.

My pick would be Star wars, it's really generic and as a story it's not really good but i grew up with it and the univers is great.
Star war 8 and Solo are trash tho.

In LN i can't really find one, trully generic story tend to be okay at best but most of the time just boring or even annoying.

In manga DB and Naruto seem like good pick, cause while they're now really generic it's mostly because they've been so important for their genre.

There was a story I have had in my head for nearly my whole life. Ever since I was like 3 I had a story idea that was basically an Isekai. A guy who on his sleep is in a fantasy world with knights, magic, and dragons; while he sleeps in the fantasy world he is in the "real world." I put real world I quotes because the real world was basically a sci-fi world like our own but the main difference was everyone had a chip Implant that served as a TV, computer, and telephone in one where you can have an imaginary screen pop up in front of you and play Mario or metroid or something. Well basically the real world was like Accel world and the fantasy world was like any other fantasy world.

Edit: I have added way more over the years.

This bunch will enjoy Wen Spencer esp the Tinker series
Pratchett is phenomenal
Jim Butcher (though I recommend starting the Dresden Files on book 3)
Lois McMaster Bujold