Catchup Titles Archive (Updated to March 2024)
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@harmlessdave said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
@terabyte said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
I'm caught up with the 4 ongoing translations and I remember losing interesting in Blueesteel around volume 2 (and hearing the series got axed/ending rushed made me drop it even faster). I'm interested in reading Big Sis so I just need to find the time.
I enjoyed Big Sis. Some people thought the ending was weak but I thought the final battle was fine and fit the rest of the story. There is also some sly humor now and then including jokes that just happen and are never explained, a little like Monty Python or Buckaroo Banzai ("what's with the watermelon?").
Hopefully that isn't over-selling it.
Big Sis was fun at first, but the premise really didn't support the length of the series; and as it started slipping into a more straightforward story, I started losing interest.
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@travis-butler said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
@harmlessdave said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
@terabyte said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
I'm caught up with the 4 ongoing translations and I remember losing interesting in Blueesteel around volume 2 (and hearing the series got axed/ending rushed made me drop it even faster). I'm interested in reading Big Sis so I just need to find the time.
I enjoyed Big Sis. Some people thought the ending was weak but I thought the final battle was fine and fit the rest of the story. There is also some sly humor now and then including jokes that just happen and are never explained, a little like Monty Python or Buckaroo Banzai ("what's with the watermelon?").
Hopefully that isn't over-selling it.
Big Sis was fun at first, but the premise really didn't support the length of the series; and as it started slipping into a more straightforward story, I started losing interest.
For me it was about the right length. I could see it being one book shorter with good editing but not much more than that.
I was happy that it didn't drag on like Little Apocalypse which went on 5 or 6 books past its welcome for me. The author seemed to be plugging in some other type of stock character just to crank out a new volume instead of having any fresh ideas, and didn't have the courage to advance the relationships at even Smartphone's glacial pace.
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@harmlessdave said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
@travis-butler said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
@harmlessdave said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
@terabyte said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
I'm caught up with the 4 ongoing translations and I remember losing interesting in Blueesteel around volume 2 (and hearing the series got axed/ending rushed made me drop it even faster). I'm interested in reading Big Sis so I just need to find the time.
I enjoyed Big Sis. Some people thought the ending was weak but I thought the final battle was fine and fit the rest of the story. There is also some sly humor now and then including jokes that just happen and are never explained, a little like Monty Python or Buckaroo Banzai ("what's with the watermelon?").
Hopefully that isn't over-selling it.
Big Sis was fun at first, but the premise really didn't support the length of the series; and as it started slipping into a more straightforward story, I started losing interest.
For me it was about the right length. I could see it being one book shorter with good editing but not much more than that.
I agree. Big Sis was a fun series that was more or less the right length that used concept that worked well for the story and characters. Some of the references are explained in the guides that come with the premium version so there is value in getting them if you enjoy the series.
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I was happy to be able to bridge the gap between physicals and prepubs for Grimgar last month. Didn't get to Arifureta Zero but that wasn't a priority for me. Was already caught up on the other two, although I haven't made my way to the newest volume that's currently in publication for Campfire Cooking yet.
For this month, I'm caught up on The Unwanted Undead Adventurer and am working my way through the current volume of Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! I dropped Seirei Gensouki and have no intention of picking it back up since I found it boring after the first bit. I dropped Lazy Dungeon Master too, in that case since it seemed to be getting increasingly lewd. I'm interested in Bluesteel Blasphemer and will probably check it out. I may give My Bis Sister Lives in a Fantasy World a shot too, but it's not high on my list and I have a lot of physical backlogs I'd probably rather work on.
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I think Big Sis was better before the final "Fate" esque story in the final few volumes.
It would have been nice if romance went somewhere in it.
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@terrence said in Catch Up Titles Archive (Updated to February 2020):
I think Big Sis was better before the final "Fate" esque story in the final few volumes.
It would have been nice if romance went somewhere in it.
That had some fun and clever moments though, like !!MASSIVE SPOILER!! do not read before finishing the story!!
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Cool, I've been wanting to read Ms Elf volume 2!
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realist hero latest vol still not start?
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@mvpkost not yet
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Updated the first post with March 2020 catch ups (10 series this time around, lots of single volumes though). I also added a few notes for the complete series. If I got any of those wrong let me know and I'll fix them.
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Updated the first post with April 2020 catch ups.
I'm already caught up on everything this time around though, so nothing new to check for me. I think I'll focus on some 7S or YP series I'm behind.
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Wortenia War and Villainess for catch-up for me. Not gonna worry about them until the 16th though.
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Nothing for me this time around... The only two I'd care about are Bookworm and Villainess and I keep caught up with both.
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Updated the first post with May 2020 catch ups: 6 series this time.
I'm already caught up on 4 of them and I'm not interested in the other 2 so nothing new to check out this time either.
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Anyone want to give me their evaluations for the catchup titles? I've already tried and dropped Kokoro Connect and Magicmaster, and I've read the businessman one (found it to be so-so and probably would have dropped it by now if it had continued), so I'm mainly interested in the other three, Cooking with Wild Game, Outbreak Company, and My Little Sister Can Read Kanji.
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Cooking With Wild Game is currently my favorite series on J-Novel Club.
It definitely is not for everyone, there is a plenty of cooking related content in every volume. It is not to the point where you have to be a professional chef or even a active cooker to be able to keep up, but if you have no interest in cooking at all you might not like how much cooking these LNs have.
Beyond cooking, this is a slow paced slice-of-life story, a bit of action, some mild humor, sprinkled with romance throughout.
I call it slow paced cause (and I will put it in a spoiler tag, but it is a very mild spoiler that doesn’t take anything away from the story to know before someone chooses to read)
Other then that at what Volume did you drop Magicmaster, can’t say that it is the greatest story ever told, but it is a story that I can say it gets better with every volume, the latest translated Volume is in my opinion the best so far.
Some of the biggest issues I had was its the story (2 characters in particular) have finally (to me) stopped becoming major drags on the story.
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@Rahul-Balaggan Thanks for the input! How would you say Cooking With Wild Game is compared to the other cooking series JNC has? I like that one decently as a casual read even though I normally don't go for slice-of-life-y things. I've had some cooking-related anime that I've enjoyed too such as Restaurant to Another World.
I think I dropped Magicmaster sometime during the second volume. I'm trying to limit the series I'm following now so I have more time for other things, so unless there was a pretty extreme turnaround I don't think I'll pick it up again.
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It is quite different from Campfire Cooking.
Campfire Cooking is really heavy on these multiple cooking breaks and a bit of adventure in between. Also to me it seems like it is a bit of a chore in Campfire, and he basically pulls it all out of his a**. Also I agree with you it is a very casual read for me as well, Wild Game would fall more into the drama category though.
Wild Game is less about cooking for the sake of cooking (like a chore) and more about the MC trying to accomplish an objective and he tries to achieve that through cooking.
I would say Wild Game is more similar to Restaurant to Another World then Campfire.
Certainly can’t say it was an instant and dramatic shift, but now looking at V5 now it is very different from V1, and all the characters have changed quite a bit.
Magicmaster is definitely more of an “invest” then other series of it doesn’t click with you right away.
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@Rahul-Balaggan Sounds interesting. I'll definitely check out Wild Game, then, although with everything else going on I don't know if I'll make it all the way through this round.
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I hope you enjoy!
