Late responder here, but my take on it. It is, as previously mentioned, a very "world building" focused novel. The main only shows doormat in the first chapter and after a good cry gets over it. Essentially, as mentioned, he isn't so much reincarnated as he is imbued with memories of a college graduate from Japan.

He does have some honor or principles It mostly in the form of loyalty to and protection of companions He isn't above revenge spoiler

Hope that helps

Yeah, I would happily drop money into a KickStarter to get the author of Second Life to write a completion of the story.

Just started watching the anime, and it become immediately obvious that the original material was a novel. Went looking to find out if I could buy and read it somewhere, but to no avail. As such I would love for J-novel to get the English novel rights!

Yes! We need some crossdressing/Otokonoko light Novels licensed and translated into English!!!

Ah, I forgot that it would probably be a good idea to get a synopsis of the main story too. Done.

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@terrence In Search of the Lost Future is soooooo underrated. I know that the CGI can be off-putting for some people, but the story was awesome. Too bad the ending was so rushed and we didn't get the full story. I'm pretty sure the VN is worth reading.

I really want to read the VN. Dunno if it's one that's been fanslated or no, I should look into that.

Rumbling Hearts VN is also one I need to see. Only ever found a few subtitled videos of it on YouTube, and I guess a fan project to translate the latest version of the game is in limbo. Apparently, the people that made the Japanese VN are the same people behind MuvLuv, "âge". So fans were hopeful that if Muv-Luv did well we'd get Rumbling Hearts... but Muv-Luv is no longer an active project from American localizer Degica (they gave the full reigns to another company to complete the Kickstarter rewards and republish the games on Steam). So I don't know how hopeful that is now. =[

At least we got Shuffle.

@raddevlin The chicken sandwiches were tuna in the original Japanese version of the game (this comes up in this interview). :fish: :stuffed_flatbread:

Yeah, I played 999 first (bought it with Red Dead Redemption, and thought 999 was the better story experience), then watched playthroughs of the Infinity series on YouTube (in order, starting with Never 7).

My favorite Ever17 moment is when:

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I think I'll play chicken to celebrate: Piyopiyo, piyo. Upukupu, upukupu!

https://youtu.be/M3r08_Cw-3M

Someone also has a Visual Novel Book Club slowly going through the game and commenting in a video with friends after finishing a portion of the run through (no gameplay though).

https://youtu.be/i8OA5ubrwf0