Is it just me?
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@Zeteni Otome Heroine is amazing I read up to vol 6 on the fan translation and it maintains the quality all the way through.
But I will try some of the others, I’m currently reading I can parry everything and slogging through the first vol as everyone says it gets better.
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I'm simultaneously elated by the idea some of you might try something at my recommendation and crestfallen that they had gone unnoticed. To be fair, it was trying out Avalon and being so surprised that got me to commit to trying (nearly) everything that comes out of JNC going forward.
I'll take this opportunity to once again shill Zilbagias which is my favorite since Pale Moon Reverie came out. In fact, it's now in my top five series overall, the others being Bookworm, Min-Maxing my TRPG, D-Genesis, Rebuild World, and I'll squeeze in a bonus non-JNC series for good measure, Secrets of the Silent Witch.
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I've never thought the titles J-Novel Club sells are interesting.
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@Zeteni said in Is it just me?:
I'm simultaneously elated by the idea some of you might try something at my recommendation and crestfallen that they had gone unnoticed. To be fair, it was trying out Avalon and being so surprised that got me to commit to trying (nearly) everything that comes out of JNC going forward.
Yeah. It's getting harder to do, given how much JNC's catalog has exploded, and I've ended up passively letting some series slip away after one or two volumes just because there's so much to go through. But I try to give every LN series at least the first two parts to get me interested, unless they're so off-putting that I quit in disgust.
(I also admit that as JNC's catalog has ballooned, I'm getting less and less tolerant of chunni fantasies. It's not even the OP that bothers me; it's the blatant wish fulfillment, where either everyone fawns on the MC, or everyone dumps on the MC with the MC swearing he'll show them all. Worst are the ones that combine the two, where the MC gets dumped on and then acquires fawning groupies to support them in their revenge.)
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@Travis-Butler said in Is it just me?:
Worst are the ones that combine the two, where the MC gets dumped on and then acquires fawning groupies to support them in their revenge.)
Looking at you Backstabbed!
...except I've read the first 5 volumes and will probably get to the rest eventually. The edgelord gacha waifu harem master part is impossible to take seriously but the world and story is somewhat interesting.
It's kind of like watching Tales From The Crypt or Creepshow where bad things happen to bad people, except the avatar of vengeance is gacha addict wish fulfillment self-insert.
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@HarmlessDave said in Is it just me?:
Looking at you Backstabbed!
...except I've read the first 5 volumes and will probably get to the rest eventually. The edgelord gacha waifu harem master part is impossible to take seriously but the world and story is somewhat interesting.
I never gave that one more than V1 of the manga. I can put up with crap for interesting world builds that I can snipe ideas from for my D&D games :P
I will have to rethink my decision.
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@HarmlessDave I thought the exact same thing! - I also stopped after V5 (I think) - V10 Just came out today on bookwalker.jp
It's weirdly better than I thought, but not good enough to stream, after V1? - I did have to give it a chance, the starting bit was not good.
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@Travis-Butler said in Is it just me?:
I also admit that as JNC's catalog has ballooned, I'm getting less and less tolerant of chunni fantasies. It's not even the OP that bothers me; it's the blatant wish fulfillment, where either everyone fawns on the MC, or everyone dumps on the MC with the MC swearing he'll show them all. Worst are the ones that combine the two, where the MC gets dumped on and then acquires fawning groupies to support them in their revenge.
I recently asked about something along these lines. I basically said, "It's no surprise JNC got its start pandering to fans of wish fulfillment. But do those really sell enough to justify the 500 that were licensed?" I was told yes, the majority of those 500 chuuni fantasies sell enough to cover the cost of translation. I expected a more diverse catalogue as more titles were added. J-Novel Heart is just the same thing but for girls...
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@Cid - I suspect the cookie-cutter Isekai Tensei and Noble On The Brink of Ruin sales might be what allows licensing more niche titles like Goodbye Otherworld, See You Tomorrow and The Sidekick Never Gets the Girl, Let Alone the Protag’s Sister.
Big-name actors do that all the time in Hollywood, they join a blockbuster movie in exchange for getting some passion project funded. Stephen King books pay for a publisher printing a few Pulitzer-bait Serious Novels.
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@Zeteni said in Is it just me?:
I don't know what your habits are with new batches but I've found more than a few times that if I try out everything (or at least close to it) I'll end up liking something I either had no particular interest in or even outright scorned based on the premise.
I do something completely different with the same result - I open every single part and chapter, and sometimes just glancing at that first page is what hooks me. Zilbagias is one of those, with After-School Dungeon Diver and Strongest Exorcist being two other recent ones. ...I really should go back and read the beginnings though. Though my impression from the comments is that Dungeon Diver basically starts abruptly anyway. But given that I've actually gone to Kakuyomu to read a few chapters ahead in Zilbagias at times...
Others haven't hooked me, but they're still worth skimming through to get a chuckle. (Looking at I Could Never Be A Succubus!)
@HarmlessDave said in Is it just me?:
Big-name actors do that all the time in Hollywood, they join a blockbuster movie in exchange for getting some passion project funded. Stephen King books pay for a publisher printing a few Pulitzer-bait Serious Novels.
And also to take risks on first-time unknown authors.
