What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?
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I just started "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?" potential Oedipus complex fears from the title notwithstanding (a topic that would cause an automatic NOPE from me ) This turns out to be a hoot. Its a parody/ deconstruction of isekai/ transported into a game tropes, OP protagonist tropes, harem tropes, and the far to common (IMHO) weird cringe-inducing incest fetish fuel in some LNs (brocon/siscon etc)
Instead we get a single mother and her teen-aged son participating in BETA testing a MMPORG (and transported in) where to purpose of the came (according to the creators of the game) is
hilarity ensues
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@jon-mitchell That little details in spoilers & the previously mentioned parody/deconstruction stuff sells this series to me more than all the previous stuff that's been written about it. Might have to take a closer look.
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I read banned books
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First chapter of 86 is free to read on Bookwalker right now, as well as some pre-order bonuses: https://global.bookwalker.jp/ex/feature/86-eightysix/
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The death mage that doesn't want a fourth time is absolutely amazing and I couldn't recommend it enough.
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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 12 (DANMACHI)
latest volume is 'back on track' (I felt that some of the previous volumes wandered around a bit and didn't have the same 'flavor' that I liked in the earliest volumes)
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picked up volume one of Rising of the Shield Hero
I liked the anime and figured I'd like to see the differences (and hoping to catch up to the anime episode 11 of 25 has recently aired) then continue w/ the web novelization thereafterI know this probably isn't best from a continuity point of view but I wanted to support the author (hence buying a LN volume)
I read banned books
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@jon-mitchell In case you didn't know the LN and WN of Shield hero are massively different, like the 2 have really different the world building, some important character are totaly different, some don't exist in the 2 versions, some big arc don't exist in the WN, ...
Since the anime adapt the LN, depending of how much is adapt the 2 story may have totaly diverge at that point. So it's probably better to either switch to LN or start the WN from the start.Do you like death, war and misery ?
Do you like badass op loli who let nobody got in their way ?
Do you like vengeance story?
If so then then vote for The girl who ate a death god -
thanks for that- I'll probably read the LN's (first) then
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Finished Another World's Vampire Apocalypse from Cross Infinite.
The story is complete in one stand alone volume 330pp. It is not gruesome, but still feature zombie horde, large zombie monsters and wacky characters with one or more screws lose. Pacing was nice and never got depressingly dark. The illustrations are a bit below average but still able to draw cute girls
Recommend if you either like zombies, or looking for something light to read.
Author also wrote an afterward just for the translation.
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@renofury said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Finished Another World's Vampire Apocalypse from Cross Infinite.
You mean Zombie apocalypse, right? (Just making sure) - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-04-26/cross-infinite-world-to-release-another-world-zombie-apocalypse-is-not-my-problem-light-novel/.146172
Amazon has been recommending it to me for awhile but their recommendation algorithms are terrible so I ignored it. It sounds like I might enjoy it after all.
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Yes is that one, I have no idea why I wrote vampire. I liked it as I mentioned I found it light hearted even thou it has a lot of zombie action.
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@renofury said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Yes is that one, I have no idea why I wrote vampire. I liked it as I mentioned I found it light hearted even thou it has a lot of zombie action.
I read it and enjoyed it. It was fun, and not grimdark or gory at all. 180 degrees away from Highschool of the Dead.
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Has anyone read The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, Vol. 1? There are no reviews on Amazon, and the sample they sent to my kindle was too short to get a sense of it.
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@harmlessdave I've read it, I found it very funny in a slapstick type of way without being overly hard on the cast or relying on excess stupidity. I love KonoSuba, but I find that this kind of humor lands better, as in I find more of the jokes funny. It has good comedic timing, and it also has interesting seeds for a larger clandestine plot. The main schtick, Seiya being ridiculously cautious, is interesting because it's easy to understand conceptually, but it's mined for humor in ways you may not expect, though are obvious in hindsight.
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The story is told from the perspective of the goddess and not the hero, which is ok but not my preference for this type of series.
I just finished Vol 1 and will dropping the series unless someone can convince me the Hero changes.
The 'overly cautious' part of his character is fine and can be rather entertaining at times and personally I like many OP MCs/Heroes stories. What I can't stand is how much of an asshole he is to 'allies' and non-enemy characters, and at the same time somehow the goddesses just seem to fall for him just because of his looks. Even the main goddess is treated like crap the entire volume, but if he does something like grab her wrist she thinks about kissing. When he says he doesn't really eat anyone's cooking except hers she thinks how shes the happiest wife even though they aren't married. Any other time she is just complaining about him to him or others, trying to cover for him and smooth things over while constantly accepting his verbal abuse.
He 'just knows' everything about himself. There is no character building, no trial and error, no explanations. He just does a little weight training in the hyperbolic time chamber. (This does change a bit when he actually trains with gods, but you are never given any insight to the training except for him going UFC on the sword god and that the goal with the war goddess is her ultimate move). He not only has random useful skills but the knowledge how to use them and how powerful they are. He can use a skill to hide all his stats, or spoof them. It all just feels like a giant crutch for the author, since you are never told his stats or skills in advance. Story is from goddess's perspective who he spoofs his stats from and attacks her verbally and physically for attempting to "peek" at his personal information without his permission, and yet he without her knowledge and therefore permission sneaks into her room while she sleeps and takes/plucks her hair for making weapons.
Some of his shitty character can be exused as part of his 'overly cautious' side and part of the "comedy". Like when using the holy water, but it feels to be less than more.
A few examples I found rather annoying and couldn't just accept it as "comedy" or part of his overly cautious nature. Going around burning innocent civilian bystanders, their shops and churches down just to be extra sure an enemy is done for and then just shrugs it off like it's not his problem or worth his time. Someone generously donating money to him for saving their life just to demand for more, to the extent of emptying their pockets. His excessively rude attitude and way of talking to not only to the gods/goddesses but just anyone in general. Ordering around the head goddess and treating his 'party' and the god training him like dirt.
I will usually finish a volume I've started even if I think I'll drop the series, but I was honestly close to just stop reading this one mid volume.
This ended up being a rather negative review, I know that there were parts I liked and enjoyed of the novel but they were just too few and far between and got outweighed.
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Thanks @myskaros and @khaos -- it sounds like it's not my cup of tea.
It's too bad only JNC has prepubs and catch up months, sometimes I need to read a full novel before deciding if I like it enough to support the author and keep reading it. I was on the fence from reading the short kindle sample and you've moved me to the not-buy side.
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So I recently finished The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life.
As a laid-back slice-of-life story, it's not bad. The emotional core of the story is definitely there, and I did overall like seeing how main girl Mariela finds her place in an unfamiliar place, as well as her growing relationship with others, especially her slave Sieg (more on that later).
However, man did this novel have a ton of info-dumping. Literally every detail about how alchemy works in the world, including all sorts of background info on each of the various plants and other ingredients, gets explained in way too much detail, and it really hampers the pacing. And it's not even like, say, the cooking stuff in cooking novels, which at least might be of some practical use at some point in real life. I feel like the author mainly wrote this book in order to indulge in their own world of alchemy rather than as a story in and of itself.
And yes, this is also one of those novels where the main character buys and owns a slave, albeit with the normal genders reversed. Still, a lot of the usual tropes, like the slave Sieg turning out to be rather handsome, and falling in love with Mariela because she treats him like a human, are the same. Their relationship is pretty sweet regardless, but if you're not a fan of slavery used in this way, this is another one to avoid. But hey, at least now the whole kind slave owner protagonist trope is equal opportunity for men and women, right?
MAL
Beneath the Tangles (the blog I write for)
