New Year 2021 catchups!

I will have to think long and hard about whether I’m willing to engage this story now, because I tend to be a completionist, and will likely not be able to stop if I start.

db0ssman

@mystyk

It sounds like you should probably skip it...

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Wellwisher

Ah, yes, another holier-than-thou Uchinoko discussion.
Tbh, if you can handle the very idea of the topic, it's worth giving it a shot - the series handles it much better than people here are making it seem to be.

Argonauts

@db0ssman
You know that is just so cringe worthy

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LegitPancake

So how is Uninteresting Swordsman? I’ve been considering that one.

Wellwisher

@LegitPancake It's dull and boring... but not that bad. I guess the rest depends on how much your position on topics brought in the series aligns with the authors.

Argonauts

@LegitPancake
I like it so far, I’m not sure if there was an anime for it? I originally read the manga for this story and it was good, and once the LN got picked up I read it to see what the manga left out. It’ll feel like your basic op character nonsense, but it then changes viewpoint a bit and focuses on a more sweet story.

Rahul Balaggan

Hello,

If anyone wishes to keep discussing For My Daughter in detail please feel free to open up a new topic. As this topic is for monthly catch-up titles it is inevitable that there will be some discussion of book content, at this point it tiring into a For My Daughter discussion thread.

Thank you.

custodes

I think I'll have a non catch up month. Nothing there I've read or not own.
And, I absolutely love the If its for my daughter series. Lol, kind of bought the series 3 times, epub, paperback and in Japanese.

Terrence

Ah, Potions and Picnic could be good to catch up on.

Haven't tried Teogonia or Least Interesting Swordsman.

Vorthod

Hmm, I stopped For My Daughter after one of the main arcs finished up so that I could let it move forward a bit before seeing what they would get into next. Maybe now's the time to pick it back up.

Either way, I was just thinking about picking up Master Swordsman last week, so this one couldn't have been timed better.

xdrfiredogx

My only comment on For My Daughter is that you really should know by the end of vol 2 where it is likely heading if you are paying attention at all, out of 9 volumes in total. So if you are debating reading it and don't want to risk the spoilers here in this thread to see what everyone was talking about, know that you'll have to decide 2 or 3 volumes into it if that's an issue for you. It didn't bother me any for reasons that this isn't the place to discuss and I enjoyed the series throughout, but I can understand why it would for some so it's hard for me to sit here and wholeheartedly recommend it to new folks.

JK Haru is a very different and entertaining read, just be aware that there is no dancing around the Sex Worker part... I'd have to think it's the most explicit title J-Novel has. Expect some very frank discussions and descriptions of sex, though they are generally more in a clinical or documentary style as opposed to being titillating. It's well worth reading though, and the ending managed to surprise the hell out of me, which isn't something that happens very often, especially with isekai.

Teogonia is number 3 on my "please can I have another?" list, behind Deathbound Duke's Daughter and Clockwork Planet. It does some amazing world building, and the reincarnation aspect is used lightly as a tool for the plot, and not a driver for it. Squint hard enough and it's just a really good fantasy novel and not isekai at all. On the whole, it is a very different title so it's hard to think of what to compare it to... aspects of it remind me of a darker princess mononoke mixed in with some beowulf maybe?

Otherside Picnic: come for the creepypasta (which is done better then just about any other depiction I've seen) stay for the slowly evolving yuri!

As for myself, I've been waiting patiently for Potions Loli to hit catch-up ever since starting the manga. So finally, my time has come!

mystyk

@xdrfiredogx said in New Year 2021 catchups!:

Expect some very frank discussions and descriptions of sex, though they are generally more in a clinical or documentary style as opposed to being titillating.

You may have just cursed me. I will now almost certainly hear those scenes in my head as being narrated by Sir David Attenborough...

Otherside Picnic: come for the creepypasta (which is done better then just about any other depiction I've seen) stay for the slowly evolving yuri!

That... actually sounds kinda cool. Creepypasta had a cultural mainstreaming moment a few years ago (around the time Slenderman was in the news), but so much of it is just done poorly. A well-done one will truly be a breath of fresh air!

As for myself, I've been waiting patiently for Potions Loli to hit catch-up ever since starting the manga. So finally, my time has come!

I've been waiting for it too, but only because everyone around these parts keeps talking it up. Now I have to find out what people were so excited about.