Changing to September Catchups with the Changing Seasons

SamW77

So things are starting to cycle around again since I joined in 2021
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Isekai
https://forums.j-novel.club/post/119821
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
https://forums.j-novel.club/post/145948

Catchup Titles Archive (Updated to August 2023)
https://forums.j-novel.club/post/19375

Maybe I can catch some of the ones I skipped last time around :)

pcj

Girl's Kingdom is one of the better yuri series I've ever read. Nothing like action and adventure in the middle of a school campus full of nobles and maids in modern Japan. (nobles being basically daughters of extremely rich people).

A chance encounter on the way to school on the first day has Misaki meeting up with one of the most famous and respected girls on the entire campus, who is intrigued by her and gives her a badge to wear saying it'll prove her connection to her, but without explaining what the badge really is. As the premise snippet alludes to, it turns out to be the proof that she's chosen her as an exclusive personal attendant with the intent to hire her after graduation. Which in that school is a really big deal, and generally not offered until you've been there a year or two, and here she is getting it on her very first day. It's a position of respect which would be coveted by many and the source of much jeallousy. Of course, she has to learn what that really means and do a hell of a lot of on-the-job training.

The down side is that the series got discontinued before all of the plot was resolved.

TheGrimLich

@pcj They dropped the mother of all

spoiler

reveals in our laps and had the gall to cancel it.

EDIT: But apart from that, it's an extremely good series and the characters really work. And in a character-driven genre, you need that.

Zakrhune

Can't say I'm interested I this month's catch-ups. Seventh lost my interest in vol 1 because all the characters were so unlikeable, I've lost interest in realist hero at vol 18, and the others just don't seem appealing.

geetop

I am currently reading Mother of Learning and really enjoying it.

I might try the Hitchhikers Guide since it is only one volume but most likely I will pass on this month's selections.

Glad to hear that others are excited to try some series.

Lex

Seventh is from the author of Mobuseka, a series I love, so I might enjoy it, but is on hiatus and might never be concluded...hard decisions to make.

Zakrhune

@Lex Seventh's WN was finished, I believe, but the author is currently writing LNs for his other 2 very successful series, Intergalactic Empire and Mob. So I wouldn't hold my breath for the Seventh LN series to ever be completed.

Lex

@Zakrhune I thought that maybe the success of Mobuseka could reignite interest in Seventh, but apparently the author is making more Mobuseka spin offs instead. I guess the best option is to read the ending from the WN, assuming the story isn't too different.

Zeteni

Already breezed through Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie! Just delightful.

heimdal7

@pcj Didn't it go on indefinite hiatus?

I really wish it would pick back up as some major mysteries and secrets were heavily alluded to that is killer not being able to find out what they actually are.

heimdal7

@TheGrimLich Did Girls Kingdom get canceled? I thought it was a indefinite hiatus?

Either way it kills not being able find out what all those ongoing secrets were.

TheGrimLich

@heimdal7 I mean, for the audience, that's a distinction without a difference.

heimdal7

@TheGrimLich Ya pretty much but with listed as hiatus instead of canceled means there is still that 1% of hope to hold onto.

HarmlessDave

I almost never read LNs set in ordinary Japan, but Yashiro-kun's Guide to Going Solo was surprisingly enjoyable.

It's only 2 volumes, so you still have time to binge it.

JRPG Nation

How many volumes are out in Japan for Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie! Manga? I see this got 3 volumes ou already over here. So I wondering if it is short series or long one.

GeorgeMTO

@JRPG-Nation there's a 4th volume out, but it only tends to release one volume a year. I think there's more material that isn't yet a part of a volume, but unsure if it's enough for a full volume yet.

JRPG Nation

@GeorgeMTO Thank. I probably buy it, look interesting to me.