Any Buzz Words In a Description that Makes You "Nope" Out of Participating With A Series?
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@drone205
What's really weird is that there's enough material to write a series not just one ecchi volume... -
@bloodygaikotsu said in Any Buzz Words In a Description that Makes You "Nope" Out of Participating With A Series?:
I am looking forward to Yen press' "Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon" even it sounds stupid~xD
Did you get the Spider reincarnation?
Yeah, I like oddball premises. There's a few where the MC reincarnates into animals, including a Polar Bear. But I also like romance... And that seems difficult when your hero is a Skeleton or a spider. =P
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@terrence
Not yet.
I am trying to catch up with Monogatari and Oregairu first.Well, a friend is a huge fan of the series so, he's on my case alright.
(Yen got spider and slime and JNC got a skeleton now)Well, found another premise I shouldn't have known it exists....
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/when-i-woke-up-in-the-morning-i-became-a-silver-haired-loli-vampire/ -
@bloodygaikotsu said in Any Buzz Words In a Description that Makes You "Nope" Out of Participating With A Series?:
Well, found another premise I shouldn't have known it exists....
Vampire: Nope
Silver Hair: NOPE
Loli: Oh My Gah, Nooooooo!You just found 3 big nopes for me... But is it a dude reincarnating? That makes it slightly less nope, but still no. xD
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@terrence
Sorry, I wasn't so clear...the huge NO isn't in the synopsis but the reviews...
However, I am wondering why you're so against "vampires" when the Japanese presentation is quite different from the American one, I think vampires' immortality makes a base for fine psychological drama.
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@bloodygaikotsu said in Any Buzz Words In a Description that Makes You "Nope" Out of Participating With A Series?:
@terrence
Sorry, I wasn't so clear...the huge NO isn't in the synopsis but the reviews...
However, I am wondering why you're so against "vampires" when the Japanese presentation is quite different from the American one, I think vampires' immortality makes a base for fine psychological drama.
It depends. There are plenty of vampire / demon stories that read like typical Shoujo, with really bland looking leads (who may have just as dull a stoic personality outside of their taste for blood) that happen to have fangs, and the girl basically gets toyed with in a triangle of relationships with them until she chooses the guy the author decides to try to make good (which is often the bad boy / harrasser at the start who has a change of heart / was protecting her all along). I mean, it's got the foundation of some stuff I like, triangles and drama, but those designs, the dialogue, the personalities, they don't do it for me.
Vampire and demon territory with Shoujo looking covers is a no go. Stuff like My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World is ok (though, out of principle, I'm still rooting against the pink haired vampire forced lead as love interest; rooted for the alien in My Monster Secret too). =P
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I also tend to avoid anything obviously Vampire themed as well, and slavery at the very least gives me pause, but that can be hard to avoid...
I generally give a wide birth to both Sengoku-era stuff and modern day high school romcoms.
Finding the “rape” tag attached is what generally makes me nope the heck out though. -
@terrence so you do not like vampires. Can you really say no to this?
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Pretty easy to say...
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I definately nope out on Horror of any type. Add LitRPG gets an almost instant rejection.
I have to read the sinopsys and internally debate when I see Game-like-mechanics, due to the flood of trash tier LitRPGs flooding the Kindle store, but a decent premise will get me to try it.
Sis-con/Bro-con/Incest creeps me out, I have siblings and cousins who I grew up with.
Isekai has flooded the LN/WN scene, bringing some premise burnout with it. Not saying I'll nope out but it needs to be something other than "Hero summoning OP time" to get me interested.
Rape is touchy. I won't skip over that label if it is a story about a victim overcoming the fear and trauma it caused. They can be truly powerful and moving stories.
However, if you have Rape & Victim to Lover..... Burn the novel. Now. -
@jampodevral said in Any Buzz Words In a Description that Makes You "Nope" Out of Participating With A Series?:
I have to read the sinopsys and internally debate when I see Game-like-mechanics, due to the flood of trash tier LitRPGs flooding the Kindle store, but a decent premise will get me to try it.
Have you read Dendrogram yet?
I honestly don't like Shounen game type stuff, like Sword Art, but this Dendrogram is alright. It's got world building, it has damage numbers and levels, it has a lot of intriguing plot threads in the background. The only thing that's a bit iffy is the Embryo mechanic being sort of all over the place, kind of a wish fulfillment summon that is randomly created from your unique brain signature. It's fun, but it doesn't make a lot of sense from a balancing perspective (and I do think that could be a plot point).
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@terrence I have read it and I do like it. The thing I loathe is when an author use Game Mechanics as a substitute for good story. Dendro has a good story, and it uses RPG mech since it's about a MMORPG. It makes sense in context and is used to show progress and push the story, rather than wieghing down the story.
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@jampodevral And the author (finally) dragged the real world into the story, which makes it more interesting.
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@paul-nebeling Im only in V2 of Dendro
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@jampodevral It takes a couple more volumes, but he does get there. Not saying anything more than that here.
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Yuri and yaoi are instant NO, same for shounen ai and shoujo ai. Tragedy is a big warning, if it refers of some tragic backstory I can live with it, but if there are chances of a tragic ending it's no. Shoujo and Josie are usually no, since I'm an old guy.
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I feel like "Demon Lord" alongside "harem" and "fantasy world" is becoming a temporary Nope from me.
"JK" (Highschool?) is quickly becoming another term in JP marketing, especially on covers, that makes me pause.
I noticed this marketing image and realized they got me in the fold of the "29 to JK" publisher somehow with their Twitter marketing because I've picked up or been following two of the four works (one involves a guy traveling back in time to HS to confess to his teacher afaik; the latest series is about a 27 year old Office Lady who poses as a HSer for some reason that the synopsis keeps vague...). x(
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@terrence do you know what those four series are called? I know the 29 to JK one (it has been on the top 10 LN in Japan), this sounds interesting.
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The first one is the 27 year old one.
"~ JK who I came to like was 27 ~"
https://bookwalker.jp/de09e3bf3f-53f0-48e7-bbf0-7d4eb0b082a1/?acode=WpfPW3yk
The second one I didn't look into much:
"Do you like to be caught by lovely girls?"
https://bookwalker.jp/debe67e786-77a6-48bc-97da-8b5882ca431a/?acode=WpfPW3yk
The last one beside 29 to JK is the one where the guy goes back in time to ask his teacher out:
"Time leaped to high 2, the result I told the teacher who I liked then"
https://bookwalker.jp/ded27d6ae2-0faa-46f3-b3de-f77e2a12498a/?acode=WpfPW3yk
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Reading the 'There Are Too Many Isekai' thread, and it got me thinking... I don't think I posted "Slime" yet. Slime is kind of iffy right now with all the reincarnations and killing slime stuff. Can't say I wouldn't read one, but if volume 1 was generic, it'd get very little second chance.
There's a novel where a Dragon hides as a slime... And I can't say I'm not interested, ha ha. But generally speaking, Slime is really overused (getting two novels with Slime in the title from Yen Press slightly close together, along with Spider Reincarnation near Slime Reincarnation was a bit much to me).
I feel like if we ever start getting mascot lit (Fairy Helpers, Panda + the Prime Minister, the pet Lizard one, insert other furry creature light novels), I'll get sick of those too. For now though, bring 'em on.