JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook
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I’ve been needing to pick up vol 6 of How NOT to Summon and was waiting for a good month of catch-ups in order to resubscribe and get it. This month did it and I’m loving SOAP so far. Hope to finish that and read a volume of Zero Believers. Great selection of catch ups!
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I have caught up to D-Genesis and am streaming it as it comes out (I am happy to report).
I should have the fourth Land Minds Volume completed later today. I do not think I will be able to catch up totally on the series but am fine with it. I like the story but it does get long in the tooth due to whole parts being only about food. I do not mind some slice of life in my rpg story (I really enjoy those parts) but I it does feel the story is longer than it has to be (for me). I suppose if I wasn't streaming so many books and had a huge backlog of other books I would have the time to try and push it until the end of the month. I will simply wait until it comes back on catchup.
I also read the first two volumes of Soap but will not officially finish it. I did go ahead in the last volume by reading a few parts and then skimming through it. My thought is that it was all about sweetness on one hand but I keep thinking it got a bit heavy handed in certain events in V3 which really turned me off (though as I mentioned above I did want to read the ending).
I have read 72 books through the premium service so far (started in January) so I am getting my money's worth from catchups, streaming and the coins we get as part of the package (which I use to rent books).
I also got hooked into playing Diablo 4 (My adult kids are all playing and it is quite fun being with the family co-op). That has shortened my reading time on the last third of June.
My grandkids are coming to visit first week of July so I am hoping that there will not be as many series that I want to read in July (never thought I would think that). I bought Curious George and Thomas the Tank Engine collections (They are almost 2 & 3 1/2 years old so that should be fun to read to them).
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@geetop said in JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook:
I also got hooked into playing Diablo 4 (My adult kids are all playing and it is quite fun being with the family co-op). That has shortened my reading time on the last third of June.
A worthy pursuit! I'm level 67 and currently the only thing left to do is grind to 100. No new content unlocks at Tier 4 (aside from unique items), so I'm taking a break until the first patch, then I'll get back into it for season 1 in July.
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Finished and really enjoyed Soap- now I’ve just finished the first volume of Full Clearing and despite having a very standard Isekai set-up, I liked it a lot better than I expected to. Will I have time to read Vol 2 before the month is up?
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@the-green-death said in JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook:
Finished and really enjoyed Soap- now I’ve just finished the first volume of Full Clearing and despite having a very standard Isekai set-up, I liked it a lot better than I expected to. Will I have time to read Vol 2 before the month is up?
The cast of not at all normal characters is what makes zero clearing fun for me.
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@HarmlessDave said in JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook:
@the-green-death said in JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook:
Finished and really enjoyed Soap- now I’ve just finished the first volume of Full Clearing and despite having a very standard Isekai set-up, I liked it a lot better than I expected to. Will I have time to read Vol 2 before the month is up?
The cast of not at all normal characters is what makes zero clearing fun for me.
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@HarmlessDave Yep, it's fun. I can't believe that I didn't start it before. Now I'm all caught up and when my budget clears up, I might even start buying the books.
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A bit late for a reminder, but June catchups will be changing on Monday, July 3, around morning US time. Get your catchup reading done before then!
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I just finished volume 4 of Zero Believers. Not sure I'll catch up by the end of the month, but it's going to be fun to attempt it. Although it is quickly heading into the territory of a full-on harem, I must say this is one of the best-done harems I've seen in a long time. The first two girls did fight with each other a bit when it first became obvious that they both liked him, but they eventually settled on sharing him, and have been best friends ever since (and have even gotten a bit romantic with each other a few times - ironically they've been more intimate with each other than they have been with the MC so far). As new people have been added to the harem, the existing members express disdain initially that he's picked up yet another girl, but once they actually join in, they're welcomed to the club and they all get along. The MC seems to care more about them getting along with each other than he does about actually being in love with any of them himself. He got hit with the proverbial clue-by-four at the end of volume 4, so he actually understands that he has a harem now and not just a bunch of girls he's friends with. :-) I've always enjoyed cooperative harems a lot better than the ones where everyone's constantly vying to be first on the MC's list all the time. I'll have to see if it remains that way throughout the rest of the story as he will obviously pick up more, or if any of them will become combatitive with the peers.
Of course, the best part is that him collecting a harem isn't even what the story is about, that's just a sideshow to keep us entertained between plot points. :-) There is actually a real plot going on in the foreground with the journey to unravel the harm done by the consolidation of power to the celestial gods 1000 years ago, and the MC has actually been doing a fair bit of fighting on his own without the assistance of his super-powered harem.
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I actually was able to complete Land Mines this week though a little behind on my weekly streaming.
I didnt try to read Zero Believers as I was reading the Manga for it (was it on a catchup recently - cannot remember).
See everyone on next month's catchup thread!
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@pcj said in JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook:
I just finished volume 4 of Zero Believers.
and now Volume 5... and half that stuff I gushed about it got tossed on its head. But the writing style is still fun, and I'm enjoying the hell out of reading it.
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@pcj I should really do an analysis on catch-up readers to identify who the biggest procrastinators are and post a ranking ;)
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I’m a little over halfway done with Full Clearing vol 4 and despite not being that into harem isekai I'm really enjoying it. A lot of why I like it is because the author keeps jumping into different directions guiding largely by whim. I’m in the mafia section and it’s just so goofy I can’t help but be won over. I’ve had a busy few days but really hope I can finish vol 5 by tomorrow night.
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@the-green-death I'd say it works better than a lot of harem series because each character has their own personality and they aren't just their to hang on the MC's arm. The characters also see development over time.
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Plus, what crazy madness will the MC use to solve the latest crisis this time? Noah: No! Bad Tackie!
Spoiler: he keeps doing new, wilder things that are not entirely sane.
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Now the only question is, will the July catch-ups be made available on the 3rd, or later.
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Hello,
It was noted earlier in the topic the changeover will occur on the 3rd of July.
https://forums.j-novel.club/post/292112
Thank you
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@pcj said in JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook:
@pcj said in JNC's June Catchup Travel Guidebook:
I just finished volume 4 of Zero Believers.
and now Volume 5... and half that stuff I gushed about it got tossed on its head. But the writing style is still fun, and I'm enjoying the hell out of reading it.
I managed to finish volume 7, so I made it in time. Volume 9 is current, but Volume 8 is still in pre-pub until July 17, so I have a couple weeks to catch the rest of the way up.
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