New Year 2021 catchups!
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@myskaros said in New Year 2021 catchups!:
@Emiru Regular members too!
Thank you for the quick reply!
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As of now, I've either read (Picnic, Sweet), dropped (Daughter, Potions), or am not interested in (JK Haru) everything thus far except Teogonia and Swordsman, both of which I haven't tried yet.
Teogonia sounds like it might be more up my alley, but it has a gore tag and I'm a bit squicky. Penny for anyone's thoughts on which of the two they'd recommend?
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Picnic, Potions, and Teogonia for me.
I have to read some Faraway Paladin in between.
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Just a reminder that January catchups will be changing on Monday the 1st around 1800 UTC, so get your backlog reading done before then!
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@MasterLillyclaw said in New Year 2021 catchups!:
As of now, I've either read (Picnic, Sweet), dropped (Daughter, Potions), or am not interested in (JK Haru) everything thus far except Teogonia and Swordsman, both of which I haven't tried yet.
Teogonia sounds like it might be more up my alley, but it has a gore tag and I'm a bit squicky. Penny for anyone's thoughts on which of the two they'd recommend?
A rather late reply but Teogonia for sure. How can I put it... the gore in it is more like you'll find in Princess Mononoke, for example, then in something like Gantz. It can be a bit brutal at times when he's fighting, but it's a brutal world... It doesn't feel gratuitous and it's never fetishized or excessive, but if you are fighting giant ape creatures, for example, you aren't likely to just sing them to their sleep.
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Many thanks to J-Novel Club for making these catch-ups available. I would never have picked up Otherside Picnic otherwise, since the description is so far outside my usual interests. I ended up giving it a go because I saw a favourable review of the anime adaptation that made it sound interesting and ended up mainlining the whole thing in 4 days.
I've now bought the books to support the author and the translation team and am eagerly awaiting news on volume 4!
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I might get through the second volume of Picnic. >->
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I'm almost done with Teogonia v3 and have thoroughly enjoyed this series, very glad it was on catchup. I might spend a couple credits to support the author, it was really good.
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I stormed through Potions Loli this month and was darn glad I did... quickly became one of my new favorites.
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@myskaros Hi! I have a question, this is the first time I hear about Catchup so just to be clear in what it consist of... Do you have a previous post or something stating what it is exactly?
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@Alejoaranguren Normally, whenever a full book is released, the parts that you get to read week-to-week are expired and members cannot read them anymore. "Catchup" is a set of series that members can read entirely from volume 1 on our site even after they've expired. The different series change every month, and these news posts and the front page of our site list which series are currently on catch up!
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@myskaros Thanks!
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@Alejoaranguren - the first post here lists previous months in the "spoiler" section, click to view them: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1060/catchup-titles-archive-updated-to-january-2021/2?page=1
Every month the list changes and you have a chance to try something new.
If you read more than a few JNC books I recommend getting the Premium membership. You get 1 book credit per month to use on a Premium Edition of a title, and you get a discount on buying more book credits ($6 each, no taxes).
The list of bonus features included only in the Premium editions of books is here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/305/premium-e-book-bonus-contents-list?page=1
Of them my favorite is the bonus stories from the Realist Hero novels, because they're nice additions to the overall story not just 2-page throwaways or what-if stories.
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Was able to catch-up on Potion loli so that made me happy. Wanted to catch up on that series for forever.
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Read all 3 volumes of Teogonia (man they are beefy) and damn, so many unresolved plot points :(
We really need at least one more volume to conclude the story.
