If you could only read five JNC series- what would you choose?

geetop

I am a stream reader and there are only so many titles I can read (at my highest I was reading about 23-25 at one point) but I have narrowed it down to 5 series at a time.

Currently I am reading the following series:

Let This Grieving Soul Retire
D-Genesis: Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared
Rebuild World
The Apothecary Diaries
Zilbagias the Demon Prince: How the Seventh Prince Brought Down the Kingdom

The main three series I would always keep on this list are:
Rebuild World
The Apothecary Diaries
Altina the Sword Princess (would be my third choice if is wasn't on hiatus).

Which 5 J Novel Club series could you not live without having read (besides Ascendance of a Bookworm which I think everyone will feel that they will need to mention - I havent read it because there are too many volumes at this point)

kuali

@geetop I'd have Apothecary Diaries in my top 5 too.

For the rest of my list, in no particular order:

VTuber Legend
Tearmoon Empire
The Tales of Marielle Clarac

Bookworm would have had the other spot in the top 5, but you didn't want everyone to pick that, so... I think I'd probably put The Crown of Rutile Quartz in its place, as my favorite new-ish series...

Lily Garden

Currently running series or is this including completed/hiatus series too? My answer would change depending on this

SomeOldGuy

It would also depend on whether the "top 5" were "only available online", "currently being streamed", or "top 5 all-time". I'm currently working my way through 3 or 4 series that I've purchased but not completely read, so that list is different from the all-time list. Several series have been read multiple times.

Outinthegardener

Off the cuff, and ignoring any great titles I might not have read yet, these are the five that bring me the most joy

Ascendance of a Bookworm
Dungeon Genesis: 3 Years after the Dungeons
Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom
Tearmoon Empire
Villainess Level 99: I may be the hidden boss but I'm not the demon king.

Honorable mention to Dahlia in Bloom, which hasn't updated a year and a half, but is very good.

geetop

@Lily-Garden said in If you could only read five JNC series- what would you choose?:

Currently running series or is this including completed/hiatus series too? My answer would change depending on this

The thread could be either books that one could Stream OR the five series you could not live without.

Arcene

Ascendance of a Bookworm
Full Clearing Another World Under a Goddess with Zero Believers
Dungeon Dive
Lazy Dungeon Master
Survival Strategies of a Corrupt Aristocrat (assuming it will continue eventually)

I'd probably replace those last two with an ongoing series I haven't started yet - either because I want more volumes out before I start it, I'm waiting for the upcoming anime to check out the series first, or I want to binge it in one go and haven't had the time yet.

geetop

@SomeOldGuy said in If you could only read five JNC series- what would you choose?:

Several series have been read multiple times.

Oh, which series did you read multiple times? I do not think I can think of any where I would read the book format twice (but have read the manga version for the art).

sorvani

D-Genesis: 3 Years after the Dungeons Appeared
Lazy Dungeon Master
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom
To Another World with Land Mines

Honorable Mention:

The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill
Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools

If Otome Heroine keeps up as it has been it will probably edge out one of my 5

GeorgeMTO

Well if you ask us to avoid Bookworm...

Infinite Dendrogram
Cooking With Wild Game
D-Genesis
Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World

This fifth spot is a bit of a struggle, it likely changes a bunch based on my mood, but I think at present I want it to be

Haibara's Teenage New Game+

Lily Garden

I had to think long and hard about this & came up with two lists

For ongoing series my 5 (excluding Bookworm) would be:

Tearmoon Empire
Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World
Full Clearing Another World Under a Goddess with Zero Believers
Butareba
Apothecary Diaries
honorable mention goes to Gushing Over Magical Girls as it's a manga and I was limiting myself to LNs to make things simpler

For completed/indefinite hiatus series my 5 are:

Deathbound Duke's Daughter
The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress
Lazy Dungeon Master
Altina the Sword Princess
The Faraway Paladin

Lex

I'm not good with these kind of lists because I like many things and I'm sure that the answer I'll g8ve now it's not the same I'd give next month and that would be different from what I'd say next year.
Having said that, I'm going to cheat a bit and make two different lists based on two different criteria. The common thing is that I'm excluding series that are complete or canceled or in hiatus, so no Arifureta, How not to summon a demon lord, Monarer tamer, despite being among my favorite.
The two series I'm not going to give up no matter what are Rokujouma and The misfit of the demon king academy. I love both of them, and the former is the one that brought me to this site. As for Misfit...did you really think I can give up my weekly dose of Anos?
So, for the other mentions. The first list is made of series that are ending and I'd be crazy if I miss the conclusion. Those are Zero Believers, Realist hero and You like me, not my daughter.
The second list is instead made of series that I think will keep going for a while and would give me a food amount of content to read. Those are Infinite Dendrogram, Elf bride and An introvert hookup hiccups,

saffire

There were some hard choices made here, not gonna lie.

Infinite Dendrogram
A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life
There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!
Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte
VTuber Legend

Secret Org deserved better and I will forever carry that torch.

SomeOldGuy

@geetop

Oh, which series did you read multiple times?

Typical Bookworm volumes are "several" times, and most books I buy are read on-line when they're being published, then after download at least once. Realist Hero is on it's third or fourth read-through now, and Lazy Dungeon Master is in my queue for a third read-through in a couple of months (doing a first read-through on Stepmon's Daughter this month).

If I had to chose 5 series that would be ALL I could read, I'd pick long series. If it's limited to JNC titles, they'd be:

Bookworm
Lazy Dungeon Master
Realist Hero
Full Clearing Another World
Marielle Clarac

But, I don't want to just have those five.

b.scot.morgan

@saffire said in If you could only read five JNC series- what would you choose?:

Secret Org deserved better and I will forever carry that torch.

Same here!

yuu1412

ascendance of a bookworm
campfire cooking
reincarnated prince herscherik
sweet reincarnation
rving my way into exile

I uh... certainly have a type lol.

JNC just has a very good collection of isekai series that I genuinely enjoy lol.

Lily Garden

@saffire said in If you could only read five JNC series- what would you choose?:

Secret Org deserved better and I will forever carry that torch.

Oh I have a list of series that deserved better, chief of which is Deathbound Duke’s Daughter
The things I would do to see the rest of the WN made into translated light novels, what dark deeds I would wrought…

endoftheline

I'd probably go with these:

Full Clearing Another World
In Another World With My Smartphone
Invaders of the Rokujouma!?
Seirei Gensouki
Sometimes Even Reality Is a Lie!

My primary discriminant is essentially related to how much I've reread a series (as proxy to how much I enjoy a series) and these are all ones I've reread 5+ times in part or entirely. And if the world ends tomorrow and I'm stuck with whatever volumes I could preload onto an ebook reader, these would be the series I'd make sure to take with me.

There are probably a dozen or so other series I've reread multiple times, but they didn't quite make the cut. Mostly because they scratch the same itch as one of the above series. If I wasn't limited to 5 series, I'd be adding By the Grace of the Gods since that covers something different.

I've read many of JNC's other series, but they aren't things that I'd go and decide to reread tomorrow. They fall into the I-want-to-read-something-what-pique-my-interest-today barrel. Some of these actually fall into stuff that I'd consider higher quality than what's in my list, but for some reason considering them for reread just isn't something I'm enthusiastic about.

Paul Nebeling

I'll play.

Invaders of the Rokujouma
In Another World with my Smartphone
Series Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

The last one is hard. It's a serious tossup between Cooking with Wild Game and Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill. Heck. I'm gonna make a change.

~~How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom~~
Cooking with Wild Game
Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill

Those are my five.

Zeteni

Ascendance of a Bookworm
Min-Maxing my TRPG Build
Zilbagias the Demon Prince
D-Genesis
Rebuild World

I've reread most of these or am in the process of doing so for some of them. If I must exclude Bookworm, then the next one in the queue is probably Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom.

Honorable mentions to: Pale Moon Reverie, Dahlia in Bloom, Otome Survival, and Crown of Rutile Quartz.