Catchup Titles Archive (Updated to March 2024)
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@hyferzftw I don't believe any light novels come plastic wrapped by default.
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@hyferzftw They don't, at least not from Amazon. The only books I've gotten from them that was shrink-wrapped are manga with particularly risque contents.
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This is now officially posted on the homepage. First post updated with Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash & How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom.
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Added August 2018 titles: Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension & My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World.
I wasn't expecting to see a complete series listed for catchup.
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Nice. I haven't finished Big Sis yet. Maybe I'll get to that this month (going to be a lot of series to finish for September 15th I think though).
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I’m surprised Second Path has never had a catch-up month yet. Though I guess since it’s just 2 volumes and we have no news on volume 3, there’s not much to “catch up” to haha.
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@terabyte Sweet I've been waiting for Mixed
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I'm going to read Mixed Bathing but I'm unsure about big sister because from what I heard I won't like the ending. Do you guys think it's still worth reading?
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I bought the first four or five and read the rest on prepubs as I'm a premium.
I think they're fun, but yeah, the end is a bit eh. I think unless you can't turn your brain off on some bits, skip it. It has some great bits, but the end story is just annoying, if not as annoying as Demon King Daimou.
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I liked Big Sister quite a bit, anyone who hasn’t read that should check it out.
I haven’t read Mixed Bathing yet, so I’ll probably try to get to that. I’ve been surprised at some of the positive reviews, so I’ll go in with an open mind.
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@lazyproblems Yeah, I've read quite a lot of positive reviews about it too. The only negative thing I've read about is that the author is really slow in getting new volumes out.
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@lazyproblems said in Catch Up Titles (August 2018):
I haven’t read Mixed Bathing yet, so I’ll probably try to get to that. I’ve been surprised at some of the positive reviews, so I’ll go in with an open mind.
It's basically a fairly standard story about someone who gets summoned into another world and gets an unusual ability set that he manages to use in creative ways to solve problems. It's just that the protagonist has this weird mental association of "to be friends, we must bathe together".
The other characters also think it's weird, but mostly in a "well, that's just a little eccentric" kind of way, rather than "wait, what?" So it ends up feeling like the author went looking for a random title generator for their light novel, came up with "Mixed Bathing", and ran with it. It helps if you just think of it as the protagonist's little odd ritual of friendship, especially since he doesn't seem to obsess over the fanservice (at least for now).
Personally I like it because the story handles the other summonees well. They come across each other now and again, and they get along and interact with each other as characters of their own, rather than plot devices. For example, the protagonist can't really handle the summonee who's the Traditional Hotblooded Hero, but that's just because the Hero is kind of impulsive and dumb, rather than because he's a bad person, and they're quite friendly with each other. The girl on most of the covers is the Saintly Heroine type of summonee, and probably the one who supports the protagonist the most. (There's also mention of an Otome Game Heroine summonee, but we haven't met her yet.)
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@terabyte I have to agree with that second statement, sigh. I was really surprised how much I came to love Mixed Bathing, seeing as I avoided it for the longest time bc I judged it by the covers. And while yes, there are ecchi moments due to the bathing scenes, it is ironically a very wholesome series. The MC won't do anything without the girls' permission and consent.
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As funny as Big Sis is most of the way through, that ending annoyed me so I'll probably reread Mixed Bathing, if I have time to reread anything.
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@smashman42 Neechu's ending was anti-climatic, to put it mildly. I'm too busy reading all the new stuff to re-read anything right now, but if I were it would be Mixed Bathing.
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I got book 1 but merely got the sense of "meh" while reading it, so discontinued from reading it. It wasn't a bad story, but it didn't compel me to read more.
Defo goona look up Mixed bathing this month :)
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@fozzedout said in Catch Up Titles (August 2018):
Defo goona look up Mixed bathing this month :)
No spoilers but
In my personal opinion the story doesn't "git gud" till after they get to the dessert, so stick with it till then at least. (Volume 1 stuff)
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Fully agree on Mixed Bathing being both being really good and suprisingly wholesome. Protag has his weird hangup but he refuses to push anyone past their own willingness to be exposed. To the point where he starts having bathing outfits that are meant to allow the girls to keep themselves covered in the post wash soak appear in his bath.
Plus he wont directly look at any of his female companions when they are in vulnerable situations unless they tell him to. Don't know if I would have had the same willpower at his age. -
I know we are waiting for Vol. 6 of Mixed Bathing to still be released, but are there any ideas to when that will be? I think I read a month or two ago somewhere that there was enough webnovel content out now to release the next volume, though for all I know it was just hearsay.
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@chris-n there is enough material for a new Volume, however so far there is no official release date, so no idea when V6 will come out.
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