New Year 2021 catchups!
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@mystyk Ha! I may have ruined myself from ever re-reading it because now you've said that, I probably will as well.
I mostly read at night before going to bed and there are certainly times in Otherside Picnic that left me feeling all wigged out when turning out all the lights and getting into bed. Not all of what they encounter, but there is some disturbing stuff in there.
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Damn I just bought all of Potion lolli last month because I was sick of waiting for it to be on catch up.
I mean it's a good read and I'm happy I own it but still still slightly annoying. -
I stomped through JK yesterday. Honestly I don't know what to think of it. It certainly is very explicit, edging close to, but not quite reaching "smut" category. Certain aspects about the MC sort of irritated me but still... enjoyed it.
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I started reading Potions a while ago, but got bored of it after a few volumes, and I'm not planning on touching If It's For My Daughter at all.
I didn't like JK Haru, and if it were more than two books long, I probably would have dropped it, but I think I just went in with the wrong expectations. 'Typical' isekai stories have a bunch of tropes that make me roll my eyes, but I read them anyway if the rest of the work is good. JK Haru is different from those stories. The moments that made me cringe or roll my eyes were different and unfamiliar, and I judged it more harshly as a result, but looking back on it, they're not worse. I'd give it a recommendation for anyone who wants something different, but with the caution that different doesn't always mean better.
Otherside Picnic turned out to be an absolute treasure, and I'm now eagerly awaiting the next volume. If it ever gets a print version, I'd probably buy a few copies for some friends and family who don't do the ebook thing.
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@rsog412 said in New Year 2021 catchups!:
Otherside Picnic turned out to be an absolute treasure, and I'm now eagerly awaiting the next volume. If it ever gets a print version, I'd probably buy a few copies for some friends and family who don't do the ebook thing.
Print edition came out last month (in two volume omnibus), with the second omnibus planned for August 2021.
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Hello everyone. Are the monthly catch up for Premium Members Only or for regular members too? Thanks!
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@Emiru Regular members too!
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@myskaros said in New Year 2021 catchups!:
@Emiru Regular members too!
Thank you for the quick reply!
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As of now, I've either read (Picnic, Sweet), dropped (Daughter, Potions), or am not interested in (JK Haru) everything thus far except Teogonia and Swordsman, both of which I haven't tried yet.
Teogonia sounds like it might be more up my alley, but it has a gore tag and I'm a bit squicky. Penny for anyone's thoughts on which of the two they'd recommend?
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Picnic, Potions, and Teogonia for me.
I have to read some Faraway Paladin in between.
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Just a reminder that January catchups will be changing on Monday the 1st around 1800 UTC, so get your backlog reading done before then!
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@MasterLillyclaw said in New Year 2021 catchups!:
As of now, I've either read (Picnic, Sweet), dropped (Daughter, Potions), or am not interested in (JK Haru) everything thus far except Teogonia and Swordsman, both of which I haven't tried yet.
Teogonia sounds like it might be more up my alley, but it has a gore tag and I'm a bit squicky. Penny for anyone's thoughts on which of the two they'd recommend?
A rather late reply but Teogonia for sure. How can I put it... the gore in it is more like you'll find in Princess Mononoke, for example, then in something like Gantz. It can be a bit brutal at times when he's fighting, but it's a brutal world... It doesn't feel gratuitous and it's never fetishized or excessive, but if you are fighting giant ape creatures, for example, you aren't likely to just sing them to their sleep.
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Many thanks to J-Novel Club for making these catch-ups available. I would never have picked up Otherside Picnic otherwise, since the description is so far outside my usual interests. I ended up giving it a go because I saw a favourable review of the anime adaptation that made it sound interesting and ended up mainlining the whole thing in 4 days.
I've now bought the books to support the author and the translation team and am eagerly awaiting news on volume 4!
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I might get through the second volume of Picnic. >->
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I'm almost done with Teogonia v3 and have thoroughly enjoyed this series, very glad it was on catchup. I might spend a couple credits to support the author, it was really good.
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I stormed through Potions Loli this month and was darn glad I did... quickly became one of my new favorites.
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@myskaros Hi! I have a question, this is the first time I hear about Catchup so just to be clear in what it consist of... Do you have a previous post or something stating what it is exactly?
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@Alejoaranguren Normally, whenever a full book is released, the parts that you get to read week-to-week are expired and members cannot read them anymore. "Catchup" is a set of series that members can read entirely from volume 1 on our site even after they've expired. The different series change every month, and these news posts and the front page of our site list which series are currently on catch up!
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@myskaros Thanks!
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@Alejoaranguren - the first post here lists previous months in the "spoiler" section, click to view them: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1060/catchup-titles-archive-updated-to-january-2021/2?page=1
Every month the list changes and you have a chance to try something new.
If you read more than a few JNC books I recommend getting the Premium membership. You get 1 book credit per month to use on a Premium Edition of a title, and you get a discount on buying more book credits ($6 each, no taxes).
The list of bonus features included only in the Premium editions of books is here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/305/premium-e-book-bonus-contents-list?page=1
Of them my favorite is the bonus stories from the Realist Hero novels, because they're nice additions to the overall story not just 2-page throwaways or what-if stories.
