Supermoon Catchups for August!

topgnu

@pcj said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

Reincarnated Princess Spends Another Day Skipping Story Routes and Reincarnated as my Gag Character both get high recommendations from me.

I had placed Reincarnated Princess on my "will not read" list at some point in the past with justification "uninteresting" (I keep record and always put a blurb to remind me why I decided so; might start noting the date too). I'll give it another try.
I can't be that optimistic about Gag Character. We've had the precedent of j-novel making discontinued series available on catchup, if memory serves.

geetop

@topgnu

I am interested in knowing how large is your will not read list? I have a big enough problem with my want to read list! : )

geetop

With BG3 coming out this weekend I doubt I am going to have a lot of time to devote to this month's catchups. I may try Skipping Routes since it is small amount of volumes.

pcj

@topgnu said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

I had placed Reincarnated Princess on my "will not read" list at some point in the past with justification "uninteresting" (I keep record and always put a blurb to remind me why I decided so; might start noting the date too). I'll give it another try.

I don't remember if it's on J-Novel Heart or not, but it probably should be. It's very much a shoujo romance novel with a dash of adventure and magic and high stakes political maneuvering thrown in. That's kind of a specific niche and if that's not your thing it would definitely be uninteresting.

geetop

I clicked on skipping Routes and learned there are 8 or so volumes not 2 like I thought.

topgnu

@pcj said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

and high stakes political maneuvering thrown in

That makes it promising

Travis Butler

@topgnu said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

@pcj said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

and high stakes political maneuvering thrown in

That makes it promising

I dropped out sometime around vol 3 or 4. The romantic bits were somewhat squicky, with a lot of unhealthy fixations; but the last straw for me was her father being an incredible ass.

kuali

For some reason, Reincarnated Princess just never really grabbed my attention. I read the first three parts and... just didn't bother coming back the next week.

The only one this month I've fully read is Passing Beast Tamer which... is an awkward series to read, honestly. Its so very, very fluffy that its hard to read in bulk (at least for me; I'm not the most fluff-tolerant reader on the site, honestly), but if you read it in little bits like we did in pre-pub, the fridge logic starts to hit you...

spoiler

But if you need some fluff in your life and you don't mind turning off your brain and devouring fluff in big fluffy lumps, you probably won't be disappointed!

HarmlessDave

Hell Mode is the ultimate murder hobo grind series, in a good and fun way. It's more down-to-earth meat-and-potatoes than the literary fiction of TRPG. Monster girl romance free if that was something about TRPG that didn't work for you.

Gag Character is apparently cancelled, but I enjoyed the two volumes and it ends at a decent pause point. It was interesting to me in having an MC that at first acted as if bcoming their "gag character" was a tragedy, but through their behavior and some flashbacks we learn it was more like a blessing.

Passing Beast Tamer is fluffy, but isn't my cup of tea.

Princess Skips Story Routes

@Travis-Butler said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

I dropped out sometime around vol 3 or 4. The romantic bits were somewhat squicky, with a lot of unhealthy fixations; but the last straw for me was her father being an incredible ass.

I thought the first 2-3 volumes were very good, but I drifted away after that myself. I plan to give it another chance.

Private Tutor - the main relationship grated on me (not a fan of dom /sub behavior though it wasn't quite that) but it's otherwise an interesting story.

GeorgeMTO

@HarmlessDave said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

Monster girl romance free if that was something about TRPG that didn't work for you.

Literal romance free if you ignore a certain minor character's side stories. Allen is in a committed relationship with the grind, no time for anyone else.

rkkn

"Supermoon" title
control F "Tearmoon". Not found
a very sad day

(haiku)

topgnu

@geetop said in Supermoon Catchups for August!:

I am interested in knowing how large is your will not read list?

84 titles and counting - for a wide variety of reasons that I note down. They speak more to my tastes than to some attempt to fairly assess the writing. Sample - if there's a volume number, this is how long I lasted (you may be able to guess what some of the titles are, list in the alphabetical order from j-novel):

V2.6 – Excellent writing, unique story, vivid characters … that I don’t care about. Too many gods are in play
V4 – Don’t wanna read another Series of Unfortunate Events
… - most basic, base revenge; repudiating
V2 – entire cast of morons
V4.1 - Unrelenting deluge of new characters. Main is rewired every so often one does not know who he is
I am not sailing to Stockholm
anime is so much better!
V2.10 – I surrender to the aimless simplicity
V2.4 – dropped after the harem beat up the MC for accidentally walking in on them changing
mechas
V3 … too many roses
V4.6 … and dropped. they can all die in a forest fire and I would not care
(Manga) – does not rise up to the LN
(no reason listed)
infantile
not my cup of tea
managed to V4P3 and dropped. Too boring
discontinued after Vol 2
feels wrong
V2.5 – nothing happens
repulsively violent
V1.4 – Can’t plow through it
yuri

abcdave

Will the catch-ups change on Sept 1 or after the weekend?

Soul47

@abcdave
Not sure. Last month’s catchup was released on August 1, 2023 @ 10:45 am. It’s currently 10:33 am us mountain time. If it doesn’t release today it probably won’t be until Tuesday.

It would be nice to complete a few volumes over Labor Day.

topgnu

@abcdave In any case, check the updates here. The home page has been updated late on occasion