@Cosmic the story in two arcs. One where Miyabi builds the bathhouse for Trentz, and his train project. Then there are some more, like the character Alicia and the red party.

@unknownmat I share your same enjoyment of these types of novels. Death March was my first proper web novel and still one of my ongoing favorites.

I think there's a few factors involved that elevate these fics above other isekai novels. For one, the protagonist is mature and actually behaves like a responsible adult. Another aspect is that you can tell the protagonist actually enjoys helping others and takes pride in the development and growth of the students/children/teammates around them. The author also gives a sense of progress and accomplishment to the side characters.

Another minor aspect is there's often a focus of progress in not only skill/ability development, but also the equipment and territory. It makes sense why these fics focus at least a little on introducing modern knowledge and/or traveling to various places. Still, there's a few other unexplainable aspects that make these fics like capturing lightning in a bottle.

While not the same and not always meeting the criteria, I felt these fics to somehow satisfy a similar niche emotionally:

Dagashi-ya Yahagi: Setting Up a Sweets Shop in Another World
Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch Who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
By the Grace of the Gods

Chillin' Ina other world with level 2 cheat powers has polygamy but the protagonist himself is monogamous with zero hints he's going to change.

@doceirias the ones I'm reading do not have the audio version. Thank you

@Serah this is possible to do dynamically in CSS if they wanted to do it in the reader at run time:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { img { filter: invert(100%); } }

Of course, they'll probably want additional tags to decide which images to do it on because I'm assuming you wouldn't want to invert actual illustrations.

@urstrulypwn that's already been answered here a few times.

Hello,

The issues were unrelated. They are back up now, and we are looking into ways to monitor it differently. As well as if it can be automated to come back up.

Audiobooks in general are not for me, mostly because I can read much faster than normal speech, but also because the voices aren't what I'm expecting.

I have the same problem with a fair amount of YouTube instructional content. Videos are good for showing some things like setting up a computer in a specific case, but I'd much rather read text than wait for someone to slowly explain something.

Okay this sounds hilarious I'm giving it an upvote.

@yukie14

Hello,

I am sorry. There is no news that can be publicly shared beyond what has been said.

@doceirias As if waiting for me to make two posts in two days the obi of the new volume says this series total sales have topped a million, which is a LOT more than I'd been assuming. I guess this is a legit sleeper hit.

I think the last banner in the home page header has a link to the post discussing the new system. I also miss the catch-ups, though I don't think I actually "caught up" on anything in the last year or so. So knowing I can subscribe to read or re-read a series in the library at anytime is also potentially nice...assuming I ever find the time for extra reading.

https://j-novel.club/blog/important-update-new-subscription-overhaul-readers-library-now-live

@Rahul-Balaggan thanks, the download is indeed working for me now.

@doceirias said in Gosick:

Red Girls is split over two editions but has ~9000 and A Small Charred Face at around ~4000 (both still far higher than the average light novel.)

It sounds like J-Novel Club is missing out on tens of thousands of potential sales.

@sorvani Honestly I think it really comes down to too many things they want to get done, not enough devs to do it.