Time to Fall for February Catchups!
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@Ran said in Time to Fall for February Catchups!:
@HarmlessDave said in Time to Fall for February Catchups!:
For Ragnarok it's the parts that show how much of his success is his intellect and character (leadership, strength and kindness) not his ability to use Google and the Kindle reader app.
This description actually makes me want to check the anime out. (But with how widely panned it was, I shall resist. š)
Just in case it wasn't clear, I'm talking what's good in the LN. The anime just shows some ordinary kid looking up things in Google on his phone while other people around him do things. The visuals aren't bad though.
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@HarmlessDave Google/The Internet/Wikipedia as the ultimate Isekai cheat just sounded pretty great. :) An actually likable protagonist is even better, though.
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Can confirm that Master of Ragnarok (the LN, of course) is quite good. Especially Volume 14. The ending to that volume was amazing.
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It might work better to read the LN first (up through volume 4) then watch the anime. That way your mind will fill in the missing bits and you'll get the visuals of the action.
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Keep in mind that the anime of ragnarok covered like 9 volumes of content... so you will get to a point very quickly where you will start to spoil the LNs.
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@Timmaaah ...that is a large amount of content for just twelve episodes, although I guess it's still not as bad as Hakyu Hoshin Engi cramming 23 volumes of shonen battle manga into 23 episodes of shonen battle anime...
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@TheGrimLich Yeah, there is a number of reasons Ragnarok's anime was considered a dumpster fire, and a big one was the pacing and leaving out content. From memory volume 3 had like 5 minutes of air time.
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@Timmaaah Seems kind of like what's going on with the Promised Neverland's anime right now where they seem to have decided just to slash out the middle of the story and go strait to the concluding arc.
In any case I enjoy Ragnarok, though I'm still on the fence about buying premium editions for that series.
It's too bad about Economics of Prophecy, I like that one, and if the WN is really fully complete, it seems strange they're holding back on publishing unless the don't really like how the WN ended up and want to make sweeping changes to the story.
It's kind of nice there's nothing I really want to sample this month though, I'm so busy with work, I don't think I'd have the time to read anything on top of the pre-pubs I'm currently following.
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Just wanted to ask but is there any news as to when the magic in this other world is too far behind volume 10 is gonna be released? Also is the author still even working on this series bc a bunch of people i asked on reddit r under the impression that the author dropped this series bc of how long we have had to wait and still have to wait for even a volume 10 announcement.
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@Leg3ndaryGamer7 The author hasn't touched the original web novel in over two years, and there's not enough content for a 10th volume. So I think the author has abandoned it. It's possible he could go back and work on it again, but don't get your hopes up.
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@LegitPancake That may be true but I've seen authors deleting their web novel while they are publishing the LNs or just advance the LNs and forget about the WNs so you also shouldn't be pessimistic about it.
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@LegitPancake iirc, the author had a habit of uploading new chapters after corresponding light novel volume was out (with the exception of the latest volume where he gave up on the wait), so WN is not really representative of author's activity on the novel. He may still work on the new volume or at least have plans to return to it someday. Or not.
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@Wellwisher Does the author have a Twitter? Maybe we could ask him there if he does?
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@TheGrimLich
https://twitter.com/hitsuji6155
I don't have a twitter account and don't speak japanese, so can't help any more wirh that. -
@Wellwisher Unfortunately, my Japanese is basically only good for getting simple directions, recognizing anime catchphrases and meme phrases, and telling VTubers "ganbare!".
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Finished Far Too Behind just in time. That magic system(s) was weird.
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Just managed to scrape in Economics of Prophecy before tomorrowās turnover. I was intrigued by the concept but somewhat unimpressed with its execution.
I also got pretty bored of The Magic in This Other World after just two volumes, I rather quickly didnāt vibe with its pacing and hearing peopleās comments on later volumes just killed my interest I guess lol.
At least Bookworm manga was there to appreciate <3
