Catchup Titles Archive (Updated to March 2024)
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I'm trying to read Bakarina / All Routes Lead to Doom! and have bounced twice.
Without spoilers, does the MC ever stop being a Homer Simpson level of idiot?
I don't mind lacking common sense, Mile in Abilities Average is often adorable and I loved the first Zoolander, but so far MC just keeps doing stupid things over and over. It's much more annoying than amusing to me.
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@harmlessdave said in Catch Up Titles (July 2019):
Without spoilers, does the MC ever stop being a Homer Simpson level of idiot?
THATS AN INSULT TO THE GREAT HOMER SIMPSON!!!
Also no, not really
I got tired of it by the end of V2 (still reading it though cause I don’t wanna drop any series I start)
I also got tired of Average Abilities by the end of V2 (same situation)
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@harmlessdave For me, the appeal is in reading the misadventures of someone who is Clever but not Perceptive. (Plus a healthy dose of The Power of Nice. ^_- )
Comparison with Homer Simpson is kinda instructive, for me, because I don't think they're much alike at all.
Homer is lazy and doesn't think much period, and is a very passive character; he rarely makes things happen, things happen to him instead. He gets things wrong because he can't be bothered to think about them.
Katarina, OTOH, is often thinking about her situation and trying to improve it, making plans and taking action; her problem is that she usually starts from assumptions that are cockeyed or flat-out wrong, so her Clever Plans are answering the wrong problem. Or if they're answering the right question, they do so in an overblown way that isn't what she intended... which she doesn't notice, because she's still fixated on her initial assumptions.
Active vs. passive character, IOW. And for me, the fun is the comedy from watching her plans and actions go out of control in ways she totally wasn't anticipating. :)
(That's why I think the segments from other characters are important; they not only highlight how her assumptions are wrong, they show the kind of chaos her actions cause.)
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@travis-butler said in Catch Up Titles (July 2019):
Active vs. passive character, IOW. And for me, the fun is the comedy from watching her plans and actions go out of control in ways she totally wasn't anticipating. :)
(That's why I think the segments from other characters are important; they not only highlight how her assumptions are wrong, they show the kind of chaos her actions cause.)Those are good points.
I think the difference for me between Abilities Average and Doom! is that Mile is smart and in many ways super-competent but clueless about how her actions will be perceived, while in what I've read of volume 1 of Doom! Katarina is average at best, not particularly competent, and even more lacking in common sense and awareness about her actions.
In what I've read of volume one Katarina is a trainwreck of cringe-comedy as she
I don't mind flawed characters, but she doesn't seem to be making any progress in overcoming her flaws or even to recognize that she has them.
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@harmlessdave I like Average Abilities but I got kinda bored with Bakarina around volume 3. Apart from the story, what killed it for me were the continuous different POVs that kept repeating the same scene over and over. I decided to keep reading it for a while and it got a bit more interesting around the end of volume 4. I'm still considering whether I should drop it or not based on what's gonna happen in volume 5 though.
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@harmlessdave If you ask me, if you think
is "cringe" instead of adorably hilarious, Bakarina probably isn't for you.
For me, none of the things you mentioned are anywhere near "cringe"; they just show how Katarina doesn't care about conforming to the social norms of noble society.
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@stardf29 said in Catch Up Titles (July 2019):
@harmlessdave If you ask me, if you think
is "cringe" instead of adorably hilarious, Bakarina probably isn't for you.
For me, none of the things you mentioned are anywhere near "cringe"; they just show how Katarina doesn't care about conforming to the social norms of noble society.
Yep, different people find different things funny. I can't stand some violence-slapstick comedies others love (Ah My Buddha, Love Hina, Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs) but like other equally violent slapstick like Jason Statham's Crank and Clive Owen's Shoot 'Em Up (he is a wascally wabbit).
The one you list above didn't bother me taken by itself, just as a part of her overall behavior.
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@harmlessdave Depends on how you define 'competent', I guess. So for example:
So she gets lots of points from me for being proactive, caring, and concerned; and the way the consequences escalated out of control didn't bother me because it fed directly out of her good motivations.
Then reading the events from Keith's viewpoint and seeing how he reacted to what happened put a capper on the incident, showing just how the Law of Unintended Consequences kicked in... to delightful effect, for me.
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im guessing realist hero 10 will be out when vol 11 in japan release like vol 9
it will never catch up huh? XD
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@mvpkost Well, technically, since you can't start translating until the volume is published... this is as "caught up" as you can be.
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Are you saying that JNC can’t start translating a new volume until the previous volume has been released as an e-book?
Or are you saying JNC can’t start translating till the Japanese Edition has been released?
Cause the Japanese Edition came out in June.
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@rahul-balaggan I'm saying they can't start translating it until it comes out in Japan. And there may be a lot of it translated already, unofficially.
June is "just" 23 days ago. V9 was just released 2 days ago here.
Are the contracts all in place? Has JNC received the published copies to translate?
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@someoldguy said in Catch Up Titles (July 2019):
Gotcha
Are the contracts all in place? Has JNC received the published copies to translate?
Not sure I haven’t been checking Discord much lately (not that Realist Hero’s status necessarily came up in the convo)
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Updated first post with August's catchups list. All complete titles this time around, well... almost. 2 series are complete and the other 2 are on their last volume.
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@terabyte said in Catch Up Titles (August 2019):
Updated first post with August's catchups list. All complete titles this time around, well... almost. 2 series are complete and the other 2 are on their last volume.
Thanks for doing this every month.
I liked the Demon King Daimaou anime, so I'll finally give this one a try.
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Didn't quite get to finish everything I wanted to last month because I started a job, but nothing I desperately wanted to finish. This month I'll probably try Last and First Idol and Beast Head and then try and catch up on my pile of non-JNC physical novels and manga that have piled up. I'm not really interested in the other two catchup series, although if I had more time and a smaller backpile I might've checked them out.
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That's a lot of reading for this month's catch-up. I'm not interested in Beast Head, but the others I'll give a try, though I doubt I'll manage to read both Demon King and Apocalypse.
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Updated the first post with September 2019 catchups.
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Faraway Paladin and Mixed Bathing were both great.
Paladin reached a decent stopping point though I do wish it had continued on. It's also one of my favorite fantasy examples of a Paladin acting in the service of their god in ways other than "me strong fighter with <alignment of god>!" the other :ahem: shining example being Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy.
I was too lazy to give Crest of the Stars a read when volume 1 came out but I liked the anime so I'll use this second chance.
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Updated the first post with October 2019 catchups.
Not a fan of horror so I'll skip Ao Oni as usual, and I'm all caught up with the other 3 series.
