Blast Off with July's Catchup Selection!
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Whether you're launching fireworks, launching into our new announcements at Anime Expo, or launching into a new season of anime, JNC members should make sure they don't forget to check out our catchup series too!
Ready to see the battle maniac in action? Black Summoner's anime starts soon! After blasting away his memories for better skills, Kelvin wakes up as a summoner in a new fantasy world. As he travels and adds companions, he also discovers a primal urge... to seek out more and better battles!
Also airing this season is My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex! A boy and girl fell in love, dated, then broke up... but later, now both in high school, their parents married each other! Mizuto and Yume have to pretend to be friendly for their parents' sake, but past experience has already proven that they can't possibly get along! How will these catty new siblings launch into their new daily lives?
The rest of the lineup is also bursting with excitement! In Her Majesty's Swarm, a college girl finds herself not only in another world, but also as the queen of the grotesque Arachnea, a race from her favorite RTS game. Can she survive and keep control over her new swarm? With the manga adaptation of Der Werwolf: The Annals of Veight, reexperience the legendary rise of Veight, a vice-commander of the demon army, as he blows away all enemies with his unique werewolf constitution and modern scientific knowledge!
Finally, have you fallen in love with the Tearmoon Empire manga that we launched in May? If so, then here are the novels that inspired it! Princess Mia of the Tearmoon Empire is executed by rebel forces. Then... she wakes up, nearly a decade earlier, way before the revolution. Does she use her knowledge of the future to steer her country in a better direction? ...Nope! She just wants to ensure her neck stays as far away from a guillotine as possible! And if she happens to save the country in the process? An unintentional but happy coincidence! Check out this fan favorite now!
Members get access to over 30 volumes on catchup, so get to reading now!
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This is where I shamelessly insist that everyone read my favorite series on JNC, Tearmoon Empire. Not only is it expertly written, with wit and wordplay beyond anything I have ever seen in any other light novel, but it has amazing characters that go on actual arcs! A lot of LNs have static characterization but watching the main character and her friends grow and change is a treat. It’s a wonderful story of goofy misunderstandings with a solid heart, which at its core has the heartfelt beliefs in second chances and the goodness of people! And it has a snarky narrator, and how can you go wrong with that.
Join us in extolling the virtues of the Great Sage of the Empire!
Let Mia-itus reign supreme!“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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For those curious (like me) the anime for Black Summoner and My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex! starts in six days and three days, respectively.
I’m not a huge fan of battle junkies but Black Summoner is a fun enough read. I’ve only read volume one of Tearmoon Empire so I’ll be giving that another shot since it’s got quite the
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Nice, fell behind on black summoner and tearmoon, so this is my chance to catch up again.
With so many novels and more being added, it's hard to decide which ones to keep reading and which ones to drop. Great problem to have, I guess.
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@Lily-Garden Good read, but I think it will be like marmite for people, because of how disbelievable the whole series is. If you just accept everything its a great read.
If you think about it for a while and have an ounce of critical perception against it, then you realize how fanciful the whole thing is.
Thankfully I'm in the former situation and enjoying my time uwu
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@Lily-Garden said in Blast Off with July's Catchup Selection!:
This is where I shamelessly insist that everyone read my favorite series on JNC, Tearmoon Empire. Not only is it expertly written, with wit and wordplay beyond anything I have ever seen in any other light novel, but it has amazing characters that go on actual arcs! A lot of LNs have static characterization but watching the main character and her friends grow and change is a treat. It’s a wonderful story of goofy misunderstandings with a solid heart, which at its core has the heartfelt beliefs in second chances and the goodness of people! And it has a snarky narrator, and how can you go wrong with that.
Join us in extolling the virtues of the Great Sage of the Empire!
Let Mia-itus reign supreme!I can definitely see for myself the values you extoll for this series. I have a personal hang up on the mental gymnastics that the characters have and at times the narrative feels exhaustive as the scenarios are repeated one too many for my taste. However, I can see the charm of the series and will continue to read to see how it goes in the next volume.
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My second favorite after Bookworm.
I'm still riding that high from vol. 7. So many great moments in that volume. The new pact between the moon and stars, said moon wearing a certain purple dress, walking up the golden slope, the bread-cake declaration, and that adorable castella story.
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@degeneratesock I'm still reading through the tournament arc of the first volume. But it sounds like the story is going to head in an entirely new direction before we get to volume 7.
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@Kurzaa You're in the Princess and the Guillotine. Sock's talking about, IIRC, three arcs later. The directional change is less a change in direction and more a natural development given things we learn later in the story. Including the enemy's true nature...
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@Lily-Garden said in Blast Off with July's Catchup Selection!:
This is where I shamelessly insist that everyone read my favorite series on JNC, Tearmoon Empire. Not only is it expertly written, with wit and wordplay beyond anything I have ever seen in any other light novel, but it has amazing characters that go on actual arcs! A lot of LNs have static characterization but watching the main character and her friends grow and change is a treat. It’s a wonderful story of goofy misunderstandings with a solid heart, which at its core has the heartfelt beliefs in second chances and the goodness of people! And it has a snarky narrator, and how can you go wrong with that.
Join us in extolling the virtues of the Great Sage of the Empire!
Let Mia-itus reign supreme!yes. well said. and I agree. It is my opinion that tearmoon is the best story on j-novel
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LegitPancake
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Got the chance to read some black summoner. The narrative conflict from the get go of no-memories and I remember cultural references within the same volume is hard to ignore. After reading pass that, this series definitely falls under the generic isekai with all the tropes OP protagonist (not-Kirito), who doesn’t want to stand out with his overpowered abilities, harem babes from all races who are also OP, I’m gonna die (psyche!), the heroes became my apprentices, and much more! I’ll keep on reading to see what the fuss is about, but this will fall into the low brow section.
Following: Ascendance of a Bookworm, D-Genesis, Housecleaning Mage, Dahlia in Bloom, Rebuild World, Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom, TRPG
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@marcus_atticus I'm glad I read this. I was about to test it out since it doesn't have the harem tag but since it seems to have harem elements I'll just pass. I'm getting tired of harems in stories they're rarely ever done well imo
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@marcus_atticus, I only took a look at Black Summoner because the anime was just starting, and it really did seem utterly generic isekai at first. But reading it was kind of addictive somehow, and after just a few days I'm part way through volume 9.
After reading something captivating, book lovers simply need to talk about it with someone.
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@Campbella I’m glad it helped you out, unfortunately non-harem LN feels very sparse in my limited sampling of LN. Despite my limited exposure to LNs, I am not a fan of harem for harem’s sake. I could tolerate it if there’s a good organic narrative build up to it or used sparingly. LNs can’t be blamed though as it caters to a particular demographic.
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@Angelus I could certainly see the appeal and I’ve come to endearingly adapt the terminology used in anime-viewers. The term is ‘Thrash isekai’ which is analogous to thrash TV. There is nothing more entertaining than reading a slightly different rehash of a familiar story to find the golden nugget that made it divergent from the tiredly overused tropes such as
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A few words on the Der Wolf manga, the unique style reminds me of oversaturated photos and makes it physically exhausting to the eye. Other than the minor visual hindrance, the manga works well and got me excited to read the LN (it is now on my reading list). From my impression, the story itself borrows some generic isekai tropes, however it is used in a way that is grounded to the story and it’s own world. That is, if you remove the isekai trope elements it can still function as a contained standalone story. I’m looking forward to see where the story goes.
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Just a reminder that catchups will be changing next Monday! Better finish reading July's selection before they're gone!
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