Is this weird reading pattern for guy?
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This is what I read this month.
So You Want to Live the Slow Life? A Guide to Life in the Beastly Wilds Volume 2 light novel.
Cooking with wild game volume 2 light novel. Currently reading 3 and bought the 4 volume.
The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Tales of Blue Dias and the Onikin Alna volume 1 manga. I planing to buy the light novel too.
Me and My Beast Boss volume 1 and 2 of the manga.
Chained Soldier manga volume 2 and reading 3. Bought volume 4 and volume 5 too.
My Wife Has No Emotion manga volume 1 and 2.
I bought Cooking with the Enoch Royal Knights volume 2 light novel. Maybe I read it.
Monster musume manga volume 4. I may start reading it or read instead Creature Girls: A Hands-On Field Journal in Another World manga volume 3.
Currently reading Blue period volume 1 but not feeling it. I currently thinking of buying Lucia and the Loom: Weaving Her Way to Happiness Volume 1 Light Novel. I not sure yet though. Can anyone tell me why I can't settle on genre? Or is there commonality among these series I not noticing?
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You like fantasy and food. I see no issues with this.
I enjoyed Lucia, only to discover that it's a spin-off of Dahlia in Bloom. Which claims to be about a female inventor in a fantasy setting but is mostly an excuse to write about the food she and her beast hunter boy toy cook, eat, or both 😁
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Two of those I'm reading.
So You Want to Live the Slow Life? and The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects.
Oh, wait, three.
Lucia and the Loom. I'd already been reading the other works in that setting.Food isn't that big a thing in The Frontier Lord so far, but it is in the others, although more peripherally with Lucia than the Dahlia LN and Manga.
Beastly Wilds and Frontier Lord both have inter-species relationships.
I don't know much concerning the others.
A couple clearly have a strong food focus.
Monster Musume...Monster Girls R Us, don't know about the food aspects.They aren't sweeping epics with OP characters who did nothing to deserve being OP.
Dias...the backstory supports what he's now capable of...and his not being ambitious for himself.
They aren't out to change the world, at least not rapidly.Dunno what more I'm qualified to say, given the number I only know of in passing.
The ones I do know something of, it doesn't seem craziness to be interested in at the same time. -
Speaking as a man in my 30s...
@JRPG-Nation said in Is this weird reading pattern for guy?:
Can anyone tell me why I can't settle on genre?
Why would you? Genres are a very arbitrary way to classify books, even ignoring how few of them fit entirely into a single genre and how wide the genres can be. As a result, few people will find all the books they like falling within a specific genre.
For comparison, my pre-pub reading list this month to date has been:
- Young Lady Albert is Courting Disaster (LN and Manga)
- Dahlia in Bloom
- Tearmoon Empire
- The Tales of Marielle Clarac
- Lady Rose Just Wants to Be a Commoner!
- Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga and LN)
- Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time
- The Apothecary Diaries
- Peddler in Another World
- Making Magic
- Death's Daughter and the Ebony Blade
- The Invincible Little Lady
- The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power (Manga and LN)
- The Crown of Rutile Quartz
- My Magical Career at Court
- Villainess Level 99
- Cooking with Wild Game
- Through the Viewport
And off this site, I've read through volumes of
- Fafnir the Recluse
- The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent
- Hitomi-chan is Shy With Strangers
That list is a little shorter on Science Fiction than I'd normally be, but that's less a lack of interest and more because I've been getting my Sci-fi fix from other sources (such as Star Trek Adventures games, Stellaris, and Starfield).
@JRPG-Nation said in Is this weird reading pattern for guy?:
Cooking with wild game volume 2 light novel
Ahh, the long-running love triangle between Asuta, Ai Fa, and Giba Meat. Yeah, I read that one too, albeit its not a series I purchase but one I've read on catchup months and in pre-publication.
@JRPG-Nation said in Is this weird reading pattern for guy?:
Monster musume manga volume 4.
A thoughtful reflection on monster anatomy, culture, and the challenges they both pose with integrating into modern Japanese society, mixed with a bunch of stock Harem Comedy plots and absolutely stuffed with giant-breasted girls (plus Darling, Papi, and Manako). I quite enjoyed it myself. For something similar but with less boobs, I'd recommend Interviews with Monster GIrls.
@JRPG-Nation said in Is this weird reading pattern for guy?:
I currently thinking of buying Lucia and the Loom: Weaving Her Way to Happiness Volume 1 Light Novel. I not sure yet though.
As the others said, its a spinoff of Dahlia in Bloom (or Magical Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More if you want to look up the translated-by-a-different-company Manga.) Lucia's not nearly as full of food as the parent series, but they were both pretty good.
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Why is what other people think about what you read important? Are you reading for their sake, or your own?
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@kuali I not sure but I think I trying to find something that is more than enjoyable to read.
Like some people can eat pizza all day. So I trying to narrow what sort of pizza I can eat all day. I not sure if that make any sense. -
@JRPG-Nation Kind of... though honestly, I think you're looking at it wrong. To stick with your analogy - If you can eat a bunch of different pizzas and you want to keep eating all day, the answer isn't to torture yourself trying to pick one type, it's to rotate between them. Embrace the diversity!
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@SomeOldGuy I simple curious. I seen girls be confuse or happy that I am aware of otome games. Or be weird out because I read bit of The king's beast manga.
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@kuali Like video games? Play what fun and what you want. Stop when is not fun.
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@JRPG-Nation Yes, exactly like that 😁
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@JRPG-Nation I decided years ago that it doesn't matter what "that" I like, I'll encounter people who don't like "that", do like "that", or don't care about "that".
Radios? Talk about those with that interest.
Cars? Same.
Books about [fill in blank]? Same.Sometimes you have to probe their interest, other times they'll probe you. Or one of us doesn't care what the other thinks... we just talk, talk, talk.
I have a friend that doesn't like Japanese books in general, but is happy to talk about certain ones. I have another that will spend an hour talking about how a certain phrase is handled in 57 different languages (except Japanese), whether I care or not.
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My dude, stop worrying about what other people think about what you read or your interests lay and just enjoy them. At the end of the day you'll impress far more people with your enthusiastic enjoyment rather than worrying about what anyone thinks. Most people's opinions don't matter. Consider the manga My Dress Up Darling, people will come along who appreciate your jam, just look for them.
