Giving Thanks with November Catchups
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@Lily-Garden said in Giving Thanks with November Catchups:
Everyone please check out Tearmoon Empire
I agree that Tearmoon Empire is very well written, it is one of my favorites. I discovered just last month that S-ranked daughter is another that is very well planned and written (well, as far as I got into reading it, haven't caught up with streaming).
Side thought: Bookworm is an outlier and should not be considered in this kind of discussion.
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Will start with ISSUP this month (as I am already up to date with the top choice, Teamroom). The manga was light and enjoyable. The anime that has opened this season mirrors the manga style but I can't call it anything more than "watchable, middle of the pack".
I'll try and give Isekai Tensei and Faraway Paladin a look this month.
Edit, so that I don't spam too many new posts ...
- I remembered there was an anime after Faraway Paladin - and I found in my Fall 2021 section the following "7/12 ok-ish. But do I care about it?" 7/12 means I have watched up to episode 7 and dropped it. But - as a good advice that I sometimes fail to follow - no assumptions should be made about the source light novel based on its anime.
On ISSUP - I like the LN illustrations much better than the style of the manga and the anime. However, do yourselves a favor and look at the statue of Celestine in either the anime or the manga. It is well worth it.
- I remembered there was an anime after Faraway Paladin - and I found in my Fall 2021 section the following "7/12 ok-ish. But do I care about it?" 7/12 means I have watched up to episode 7 and dropped it. But - as a good advice that I sometimes fail to follow - no assumptions should be made about the source light novel based on its anime.
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Isekai Tensei- volume 1 starts out with weak prose (often reading like a wikipedia summary to me) and a somewhat generic but serviceable story. 2-on the prose improves as the author learns their craft, but the storytelling remains generic and often predictable.
Aside from the prose in volume 1 it's never terrible, but to me the story is rarely exciting. Things happen, then more things happen. It has the blandness of a McDonalds hamburger or typical frozen dinner that's edible but nothing to care much about. I'm still reading it but the prepubs are at the bottom of my priority list.
The number of posts in the discussion topics offer a hint at how uninteresting the story can be -- the terrible LNs have many posts skewering their badness, the good LNs have many posts debating the finer points of the story. The meh LNs have 0-1 posts per week because the readers don't care enough to post any thoughts. That's what you'll see for the current volume of Tensei.
(As always, an LN being unexciting to me is not a comment about the JNC staff, who do good work with the material they've been given from the original author.)
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Tearmoon and Faraway Paladin are both well worth reading. I enjoy reading Tearmoon more, but that is simply taste -- going by objective quality, Faraway Paladin is near the top of what J-Novel Club has to offer.
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I guess I've now joined the cult of Mia Luna Tearmoon :)
The first two volumes are fun, with similar silly misunderstandings and warping of probability as in Me? A Genius? and Grieving Soul, though all 3 have distinct MCs.
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@HarmlessDave said in Giving Thanks with November Catchups:
I guess I've now joined the cult of Mia Luna Tearmoon :)
Welcome! Have a mushroom cookie 😊
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Of this month's selection...two I were already reading, two I'd tried and disliked, I don't do horror...
Which leaves The Faraway Paladin, which I started into today.
And have purchased.
The entire five volumes.
...I had to purchase the first volume so I could see if some errors I came across had been fixed in publication (they were.)
I'm now far enough into volume 1 that I don't foresee not wanting to finish the series; I'm 75% done with volume 1, so, yeah, taking a break before a certain climatic altercation (dinner and such first seems wise.)I hadn't taken a look at this series previously, I guess out of fear that it would be done poorly; the premise could go either way depending upon how it was handled.
The author (and the translation team) has done an outstanding job.Now for the aforementioned dinner and such to get my mind properly prepared for what's coming up...as I don't know how it will turn out, but have my hopes and fears.
Having had dinner, I've now completed Volume I, and am moving on to Volume II.
Hopes and fears, as I said.
Fairly close to spot-on, to the extent I'd articulated them in my mind.
Fairly close.
Which deity he'd hook up with had been a no-brainer for a very long time.
The ramifications of that...no great surprise there; sadness mixed with gladness, to misquote Tom Lehrer. -
@Geezer-Weasalopes - adding to my list of reasons why I love this series, it has one of the more nuanced and sympathetic portrayals of the dead, the undead, and their gods. Volume II has some moments that I can't recall reading anything like before, and I've been reading western fantasy for (mumble) decades.
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Robina Goodfellow?!
...a merry wanderer of the night, perhaps?
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so what's echo about? the synopsis doesn't actually say anything about it.
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