What Are The Least Offensive Light Novels? Most offensive?
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@crimson-wise Yeah Rokujouma is a good call!
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Probably 'In Another World With My Smartphone', since at least 3 of the protagonists' fiancees are currently underaged (the biggest offender being Sue who is aged 10 or so), and Leen who might be 600 years old but has the physical appearance of a preteen.
Dr. Regina Babylon is also another potential eyebrow-raiser, considering her personality and recent developments concerning her character in the LNs.
That, and the author seems to have an extreme dislike of China or something, considering the way that Yulong and its entire populace were depicted in the story.
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well it's to late to cancel that anime lol.
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I honestly feel that Re:Monster is pretty offensive. Early in the story they establish that Goblins procreate by kidnapping human females and rape them to breed, and since Rou was a reincarnated human he wasn't too happy with this.
But then like fifty chapters later, Rou starts kidnapping elves and while he doesn't rape them right off the bat, he holds them in captivity and then drugs them until they "willingly" submit to being gang-banged by various goblins and monsters.
THIS IS NOT ANY BETTER! THIS IS ARGUABLY EVEN WORSE THAN BEFORE!
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You know what, I found a site that translates Japanese WN and they all look like they would make it here. The Site is called Bread Machine or something like that.
to give you an idea of some of the stuff, in one of the series, the MC gets 3 powers and uses them to rape the princess. I think one of them the MC kidnapped a girl and brought her to his secluded house and raped her. And finally, I am pretty sure there was one where the MC started a club or something, made the most beautiful girl in school his love slave essentially by tricking her into thinking he wants to give messages for his career!
Edit: I am pretty sure that last one is a VN originally.
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One of the worst I saw was by this 'healer' who gets treated horribly (yeah, he did but still) and somehow bullshit 'heals the world' so he goes back in time.
And proceeds to mindrape and rape everyone who hurt him, which I MAYBE could accept as revenge porn as they raped him first, but also proceeds to mindrape and rape good people and is basically a horrible person in general.
It reads like some edgy teenager trying to be XTREME, but without even the mitigating aspect of a good idea. It's just hackneyed, badly-plotted, and horrible.
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@dtta I think that is made by the same author as some recommendations I have seen. I forgot if they were from the general thread of the new series threads.
he wrote
Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
and
Cheat Majutsu de Unmei wo Nejifuseru
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@drone205 Something tells me those Light Novels are mostly written by unpopular horny high school boys...
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@drone205 said in What Are The Least Offensive Light Novels? Most offensive?:
You know what, I found a site that translates Japanese WN and they all look like they would make it here. The Site is called Bread Machine or something like that.
to give you an idea of some of the stuff, in one of the series, the MC gets 3 powers and uses them to rape the princess. I think one of them the MC kidnapped a girl and brought her to his secluded house and raped her. And finally, I am pretty sure there was one where the MC started a club or something, made the most beautiful girl in school his love slave essentially by tricking her into thinking he wants to give messages for his career!
Edit: I am pretty sure that last one is a VN originally.
Oh, if we're going by that criteria, then the most offensive LN series (which I'm glad is still unlicensed) that I'm personally aware of is probably Maou no Hajimekata by Yakan Warau.
I won't go into too many details, but the lead character (I refuse to refer to him as a protagonist) is quite possibly one of the most despicable mains that I've ever had the displeasure of encountering, going as far as to rape practically every single unwilling female that he comes across and/or force them to submit to his will through a combination of illusions, torture and/or psychological warfare.
In one example, he captured a party of four adventurers who ventured into his dungeon, brainwashed the three females into submitting to him and then proceeded to rape one of them violently in front of the leader (the lone male, who was also the lover of the hapless woman in question). Naturally, the man was enraged but helpless to do anything, and when his anger/despair was at its peak, he was promptly beheaded and turned into a restless dullahan in order to defend the MC's dungeon.
And if you can believe it, the MC has committed even worse atrocities than that, although I dropped the series barely a volume later as this was too much even for me.
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A non offensive sorry I read recently was Strongest Gamer - and it was a good read to boot
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@fozzedout said in What Are The Least Offensive Light Novels? Most offensive?:
A non offensive sorry I read recently was Strongest Gamer - and it was a good read to boot
The scene after Jenny gives Ann instructions gave me anxiety listening to it out loud, lol. While it's not super offensive, the main character constantly talking in those scenes about Ann's seeming age, and then in subsequent scenes with Ann's friend offering herself to him and his temptation could be read very creepily by someone walking by. xD
I guess it is inoffensive in that there's not much bad stuff going on and the protagonist has self-restraint.
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As someone who often reads on her train commute, physical volumes can be pretty embarrassing to read as well due to the covers. So many titles with fanservicey covers even when the contents aren't like that...
I think a lot of the most non-offensive/least embarrassing to listen to out loud titles have already been listed but my list would includes light novels like The Faraway Paladin, Spice and Wolf, Kieli, and Baccano along with some fan-translations like Mimizu to Yoru no Ou and serialised novels like The Legend of Galactic Heroes. Some of these titles are somewhat violent (Baccano especially, haha) but I think that's generally less embarrassing/offensive than novels with fanservice scenes or overt sexualisation.
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@l-sama You know, I actually was thinking about that series. It still doesn't offend me as much as Re:Monster, although I admittedly didn't read too much into it.
The big difference I think is that in Maoh no Hajimekata, we know off the bat that he's a bad guy. It's in the name of the title even, the main character is not supposed to be redeemable. Not to say it's good, but at least it's obvious up front what type of story it's going to be.
Re:Monster offends me because it sneaks up on you with that shit. It has the gall to give Rou some sort of moral objection to rape and then turn around and basically have him commit rape anyway. All the while comment about how virile and strong he is, it's revolting.
