Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Sweet, I've been worried about how we're starting to catch up on a number of series. -
Same, and that worried me as this place is great and I want it to succeed.
Glad to see Smartphone and Infinite Dendo's next volumes being done now too. :)
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I am so behind on almost everything that I don't even know if that's a good thing for me. I still need to check out the last 2 new series that we got (not counting Clockwork Planet), but for that, I want to catch up on older titles first. Help :cry:
Jokes aside, it would be great if it was a new series. It seems that J-Novel is more or less starting to get close to finish translating some titles and catching up on some of them. So a new series is great, I probably won't read it right away, but that way it will have a couple volumes when I finally start it which is also great :smile:
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@pmf96 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General:
I am so behind on almost everything that I don't even know if that's a good thing for me. I still need to check out the last 2 new series that we got (not counting Clockwork Planet), but for that, I want to catch up on older titles first. Help :cry:
I'm way behind too, though some series I'm just going to skip until a free week of prepubs (Saved too Many Girls, Isekai Smartphone, maybe even Arifureta and Bluesteel).
I was a bit bored looking at the current light novel line up on that English Light Novel database site, and really struggled looking for a new series to try (Asterisk War? I hear it's meh and not as good as the other light novel turned anime with similar designs Chivalry of a Failed Knight), so I could use something new.
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@terrence I decided to skip some series entirely and others I will do like you and wait for a free week to read them. In the beginning, I was reading a lot of them not because I enjoyed them, but because I could and wanted to read everything before expiring. Then I started reading them by the ebooks and I find it more enjoyable since I only buy the ones that I like (some exceptions).
I don't necessarily need something new, but is more than welcome :sweat_smile:
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@pmf96 I read more by Ebook now too, though with Paying to Win and Insekai Smartphone I am trying to read prepubescent as I don't know that I want to pay for either but find them entertaining reads all the same ( and I want to get some mileage out of my premium membership!)
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@terrence I am in the minority as I like Asterisk War because it's breezy and surprisingly fun despite its reliance on tropes. I'll usually read the latest volume within a month of release.
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@the-green-death I'm buying Paying to win since is short, up to 5/6 volumes I think... and I do enjoy it. Not much though.
I was considering dropping Smartphone, but one comment that I saw on YouTube left me curious to read volume 3.overall, despite me not reading the prepubs I feel like I have not been spending that much money. I try to buy at least 2 credis a month, which goes around $23 with the premium membership. That gives me 3 credits, where each e-book costs less than $8. I think that's good. And the more I buy the less each e-book costs :smile:
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@pmf96 $8 a pop isn't too much and it is nice to support J-Novel so I may follow suit with how you do it. 3 a month is probably how many I'll go through anyhow.
Just out of curiosity (not to go too far off the rails in this thread) but which titles do you follow?
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@the-green-death Well, I usually try to start the series that are still being published or almost catching up, after some time. It kinda is one of the reasons that I'm quite behind in them.
Well, the last that I read was volume 4 of Mixed bathing. I say this a lot, but is a series that I enjoy way more than I should... also I just realized that I caught up, and it seems that J-Novel also already caught up. I had not realized this. Really should have started it later :cry:
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@pmf96 That's cool, thanks for sharing!
I'm currently reading
Sorry for the small Novel of a response!
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@the-green-death that's a shame about grimgar, but hey man you do you. I'm sure I like things you don't XD .
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I have a love / hate relationship with Grimgar because of the reoccurring joke gags they do, and the pace (less so the broader pace, I don't mind that they're going to stay noobs for a while, moreso the pace of specific scenes and waste of time lines with Ranta + co).
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@terrence that's exactly how I feel. Having op characters can get boring sometimes (depends on the plot tbh, and also if the author is skilled enough to pull it off). I love Grimgar because we see actual character progression in which it is totally possible and not just straight up a huge power creep.
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@the-green-death I have to agree that Haruhiro was really annoying( in volume 4). I'd love to see more of the other characters thoughts. Like Ranta, sometimes I wonder what the hell he thinks. But it's still my favorite novel here :p
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@imilyaz I think(I read the translation before JNC licensed Grimgar) volume 2 gave us a POV of Ranta and it made me hate him less, but I still find him extremely annoying. Specially on the volumes after 2.
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@hyferzftw Ranta is really annoying sometimes. But then, he's the only one who's not serious all the time so I kinda like him
"I drowned a fish, killed a dead tree and made medicine sick"
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@imilyaz said in New Acquisitions Speculation General:
@hyferzftw Ranta is really annoying sometimes. But then, he's the only one who's not serious all the time so I kinda like him
Yume? Nyan! 😺
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@terrence omg haha how could I forget her. My memory is vague, but I remember a part where
It was both hilarious and confusing. (Don't know if it's even worth putting in a spoiler tag)On that note, why does some characters like to refer to themselves as third person? She isn't the first person I've seen doing that. At first I wondered if there was some deeper meaning behind it, linking it with that the only thing they rememberd about themselevs was their names when they arrived at Grimgar. But then I rememberd it happens from time to time. Like Kuro Usagi from Mondaiji-tachi
