The World Is Full of Monsters Now, Therefore I Want to Live As I Wish
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Found this a few days ago and enjoyed immensely the 100 odd translated web novel chapters. It is a mixture of elements from Pacific Rim, Gate, Grimgar, fantasy and apocalypse.
One day, for no reason, monsters start to appear in the world. Whomever kill monsters, can gain experience, jobs and skills. Electricity, internet, phones, civilisation as we know it is gone. The world is overwhelmed in matter of hours by randomly spawning monsters. The story revolves around Kazuto and his struggle to survive using his wits. From time to time, we get POV of other survivors, but most of them has a very short life expectancy.
I never felt bored while reading it, writer knows how to build suspense and keep the character on their toes. The side characters has enough depth to them to make you as a reader, root for their survival. However, the story is very cruel and gives off the feeling like you are witnessing the last days of mankind as they get eaten, mutilated and destroyed by monsters.
There is 100 odd translated web novel chapters, go read it yourself. Kazuto abusing Item Box for all its worth by squashing monsters with heavy machinery never gets old.
Spoilers for why monsters has appeared
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https://bookwalker.jp/deafd077fa-2b50-4087-b87f-a39ec9743d1a/
A fourth volume of this released in September (I believe the previous volume was February 2019, so quite some time between releases). I don't know why I thought this was over, but I guess not. We'll see how much more story it has to tell.
Edit: Even looking at the reviews, it seems Bookwalker listed the series as complete with volume 3. So the manga revived it? Idk, lol.
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@facelessone Um... You posted the wrong stuff. Volume 4 came out over a year ago. What's coming out December 14th is Volume 5.
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This sounds fun. Even more so now that we know it has a continuing story.
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I still think it's interesting that the manga resurrected this seemingly.
Like, volume 3 was definitely listed as complete at one point, and people were thinking it was discontinued.
"Bookwalker says it's finished, but is it discontinued? In the Bookwalker ebook, it ends pretty much halfway through. The mystery hasn't been solved. Does this mean that I should read the rest of the story on Narou? The story is slightly different, though."
"It's a shame that the end of the book was 'Our battle is just beginning'. I wanted to read the rest of the story."
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New spinoff novel in the same universe, but with a focus on a cat. xD
https://twitter.com/yoshyaa/status/1524685095860604929?s=20&t=U7d7Ucj32gwEvvNrgH3Reg
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Giving this a bump because Volume 6 is coming out March 15, 2023
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The wait for more chapters on Manga UP Global is torture. Having the LN to read would help alleviate that..
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Cover for the recently released volume 6.
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Would be nice if this got licensed cause I just realized today that there are no System Apocalypse LNs licensed at this time.
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Proving to people that this series is still alive, Volume 7 has been listed for a release in March.
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This series looks interesting. I read a bit of the WN via MTL. Would love to see it licensed.
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An official cover for volume 7 is out now.
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MAL You can track down author, illustrator links from there.
GA Bunko Volume 1 There doesn't appear to be a dedicated series page.
