Catchups for March 2020!
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Now that we're inching slowly toward spring, it's time to start fresh on some new catchup series!
One of our most popular titles, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom follows the exploits of Souma Kazuya, a summoned hero who revamps national policies and introduces new forms of entertainment rather than fighting monsters! (Though he does some of that too!)
It had a recent anime and has another season coming soon—rebel against the world with Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest! Hajime is betrayed and left to rot in a deadly otherworld dungeon, but sacrifices his emotions and values to forge himself into a powerful warrior. As he journeys, though, he meets irreplacable companions who help him regain what he lost as he searches for a way back home.
Last, we've got a plethora of short 1-3 volume series, for those of you looking for variety, or just something that requires less commitment :) Check out Brave Chronicle, ECHO, Gear Drive, Me, a Genius?, Yume Nikki, Occultic;Nine, Side-by-Side Dreamers, and Walking My Second Path in Life for a quick light novel fix!
That's over 30 volumes to read for J-Novel Club members! Check them out today!
New light novel prepubs launched in March:
- Arifureta Zero: Volume 4
- Kokoro Connect: Asu Random Part 1 (Volume 9)
- Bibliophile Princess: Volume 2
- Banner of the Stars: Volume 3
- An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride: Volume 10
- Outbreak Company: Volume 14
- The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar: Volume 11
- The Beloved of Marielle Clarac (Vol. 2)
- Altina the Sword Princess Vol. 4
- Record of Wortenia War Vol. 6
- Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! Vol. 4
- The World's Least Interesting Master Swordsman Vol. 3
- Seirei Gensouki Vol. 10
- Tearmoon Empire Vol. 2
- Her Majesty's Swarm Vol. 3
e-Book release schedule for March:
- Available Now!
- Campfire Cooking Vol. 5
- Combat Baker Vol. 4
- Can Someone Please Explain What's Going On?! Vol. 1
- Arifureta Short Stories (3/16)
- The Magic in This Other World is Too Far Behind! Vol. 9 (3/17)
- Bibliophile Princess Vol. 1 (3/17)
- The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap Vol. 1
- Outbreak Company Vol. 13 (3/28)
- The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Vol. 5 (3/29)
- Full Metal Panic! Vol. 6 (3/29)
- I Shall Survive Using Potions! Vol. 4 (3/30)
- Record of Wortenia War Vol. 5 (3/31)
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Just gotta recommend Second Path in Life to everyone! It's a super fun series and totally worth reading. Yea it left a lot of unanswered questions that were never resolved, but it didn't end on a cliffhanger.
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Oh i can look so to Arifureta so see if it's awful like the anime or not !
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I second what LegitPancake said about Second Path. It's a great read despite the series being stuck in hiatus. Ditto for Gear Drive. Both have fun, spunky girls as main characters.
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@legitpancake I really want to know how Fie would be able to get a divorce or annulment once King Roy figures out who Heath is... Or she finds out who Yore is...
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Great, I really want to give a try to Realist hero, see why it's so popular. Me, a genius also seems like a cool concept.
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Highly recommend "Walking My Second Path in Life" and "Realist Hero".
Also... this hits 5/6 titles that I initially passed on when they were going up, so I'm nearly qualified to critique the whole catalogue. :P
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@shiroiryu said in Catchups for March 2020!:
Oh i can look so to Arifureta so see if it's awful like the anime or not !
Thanks for that and thanks for Realist Hero and the short novels !Forget the anime ever existed and enjoy the LN from scratch ;)
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@legitpancake Sounds a lot like Me, A Genus? Though it ends on a Gear Up scene, the story in the chapter ended, but it started the next chapter's story.
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Never watched it, but I can see why Arifureta would flop as an anime. It isn't the kind of story that works in a medium with 24 or 48 minute episodes. Same goes for Realist Hero. A story like Ascendance of a Bookworm might be possible, but even that would be a stretch.
Sadly, there is only one title on this month's list for me to pick up. I have either read or am not interested in everything else. But that's somtimes what you get from a semi-free grab bag, so oh well.
Green's Theorem
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@piisfun It can work, but only if they don't cut out critical parts of the story rushing ahead. Just 2 examples: the anime basically skipped almost an entire volume in ~3-4 minutes of non-voiced static scenes and it contains the worst CGI scenes I've ever seen (those really ruined it the most for me, even beyond the butchered story).
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Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I realize it won't be an ending, but a good pause point is fine.
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@harmlessdave said in Catchups for March 2020!:
Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I've read Genius. I wouldn't say that the story felt complete so not a great stopping point, but on the other hand it was relatively short and was a comedy rather than a mystery so it's not like a huge investment of time was betrayed or anything. I still enjoyed what I read would still recommend people check it out despite it ending prematurely.
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Gear Drive ends with a scene like “and now my journey begins”
But it was not very satisfying to me, It had such a great start and flowed so well till the end of the book.
It left me wanting more.
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@harmlessdave said in Catchups for March 2020!:
Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I realize it won't be an ending, but a good pause point is fine.
For Me a Genius?, if you read it up until volume 2 it's kinda alright. But volume 3 ends with a cliffhanger and the author never wrote volume 4 (which was supposed to be the ending).
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Nobody's talking about Occultic;Nine.
I think I'll be reading that and ECHO.
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@shrike_al said in Catchups for March 2020!:
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Nobody's talking about Occultic;Nine.
I think I'll be reading that and ECHO.
I couldn't get through ECHO the first time but I too will probably try and read through Occultic Nine.
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@terabyte said in Catchups for March 2020!:
@harmlessdave said in Catchups for March 2020!:
Do Gear Drive and Me, A Genius? reach acceptable stopping points, since we might never get more volumes?
I realize it won't be an ending, but a good pause point is fine.
For Me a Genius?, if you read it up until volume 2 it's kinda alright. But volume 3 ends with a cliffhanger and the author never wrote volume 4 (which was supposed to be the ending).
I agree, sticking to the first two volumes would help minimise cliffhangers.
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@xdrfiredogx said in Catchups for March 2020!:
@shrike_al said in Catchups for March 2020!:
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Nobody's talking about Occultic;Nine.
I think I'll be reading that and ECHO.
I couldn't get through ECHO the first time but I too will probably try and read through Occultic Nine.
KAMERAD!!! *salutes in Russian
I think we're both the same in that case.
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