Novel pick-up request for the "YASEI NO LAST BOSS GA ARAWARETA!" Light Novel series
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Sounds interesting. Haven't read a plot of the mc being reincarnated/transformed into the opposite gender yet.
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Guess I'll describe the series since I read the manga adaptation being fan-scanlated.
Yasei no Last Boss is about Lufasu (Protaognist's Character Name). In the game Exgate Online, players can wage war and conquer territory. The protagonist is one such player that has done so well for himself that he conquered all available territory with his Angel-Character. (Conquered the world) In the game, the developers use a system which picks up player actions and eventually incorporates them into the world history as events and short stories. With a world that's been united, it can lead to stagnation and boring new players. So the protagonist and a bunch of other higher ranked players get together and start their own event where "7 Heroes" overthrow the Protagonist's rule. After the story was finished and his character was "sealed", his login page changes and when he accepts an invitation, he's transported into a world based off the game and its history many years later. Now he is the character he played as in a world which has looked at the history of his uniting the world in their own ways. As the Demon Races are active, the protagonist goes on a journey to find all of his servants and to potentially find someone else that is a player in this world.
The protagonist's character Lufasu is a Demon Lord kind of character in history of this world. Or more like a great ruler. So the protagonist is genderbent into playing as his overpowered character in this world.
Similar series:
- Log Horizon - Player Actions have long since been accepted into the history of the world.
- How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord - A world based off the game, except with a history without any players.
- She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man - Pretty much exactly same setting of player actions influencing history of the world. Only real difference is how there are many players in Wise Man.
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Do you know if the blue haired girl learns that the blonde was a man (and does this happen early on)?
@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up request for the "YASEI NO LAST BOSS GA ARAWARETA!" Light Novel series:
@terrence Not really. MC is pretty much just fully committed to playing as his character.
Dang, I don't know if I like that, but good to know.
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@terrence Not really. MC is pretty much just fully committed to playing as his character.
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So not too dissimilar to Overlord or How Not to Summon in that the MC sees himself as a male human, but he plays the female role for others to see him as? I can see how this could go bad (invited to an Onsen; sleeping quarters). Of course, I had machinations about Vending Machine playing up the lewd, and those turned out wrong for the most part (and that has a pretty good representation of someone reincarnated accepting they are no longer a male human, and that their male urges are dead; maybe we'll see something like that here).
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@terrence There's been no real ecchi in the manga. Not even a bath scene as far as I can remember. So I don't think it's a problem in the series.
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I've read both the manga and the currently available WN translation, I'd describe the series more as "Overlord meets The New Gate". I'd also absolutely love for this series to get licensed, it's right up my alley.
I don't think there's that many parallels to Isekai Maou, the protagonist of Last Boss is way more overpowered than Diablo, and she isn't transported into a completely unfamiliar world: it really is the world of the game she's familiar with, just 200 years later. It's far more like The New Gate in that respect. Unlike Diablo, she also isn't a fake. She really did conquer the entire world (albeit as a game character) and remembers doing it, her stats really are so absurdly high that the world's demon lord is considered a chump in comparison (hence why other players considered her the REAL last boss instead of the demon lord), and she is not pretending to be anything she isn't. Many of the characters that she interacts with either know who she is, or might recognize her if she wasn't in disguise.
In terms of the genderbend, despite a male player getting isekai'd into a super beautiful female body, the male/female thing surprisingly hasn't really come up yet in the manga or currently translated WN. The protagonist is pretty comfortable as his character since he created/designed her and played as her for so many years. The story takes itself somewhat seriously such that an onsen wouldn't really fit, and the protagonist is currently focused on getting herself acquainted with the current world situation, learning about how history remembers her, and trying to gather her scattered familiars.
@myskaros I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I saw some spoilery comments on the subject, and without getting specific,
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@guspaz said in Novel pick-up request for the "YASEI NO LAST BOSS GA ARAWARETA!" Light Novel series:
and she isn't transported into a completely unfamiliar world: it really is the world of the game she's familiar with, just 200 years later
This is exactly what happened in IsekaiMaou. He's in the world of the game, just based in reality.
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Right, but the protagonist of Isekai Maou is basically a fake, both in terms of what he is, and in terms of his personality. Neither is particularly the case for the protagonist of Last Boss. Also, the world that Diablo gets sent to is only very loosely based on the game, while the world of Last Boss is quite directly copied from the game (much closer to The New Gate).
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I swear every time I see someone say Isekai Maou, I have to double take and make sure they didn’t say Isekai Mahou, and vice versa lol.
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It sounds interesting, i have been enjoying isekai Maou greatly and the only place i get let down is with Diablo when he opens his mouth.
So a story with a similar but slightly varied premise and an MC who is not.... sounds like something i can greatly enjoy.
If JNC licenses it i will certainly give it my attention.
Plus the covers look great!!
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Shurim has translated a few of the web novel chapters (14 chapters, IIRC?), and IIRC the quality was decent, so you can take a look at that to get a feel for the story.
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Ah I would love to see this translated. I've read the Manga and part of the translated WN online and its really good!
Best is that he isn't a pervert and just accepts that he is now his chara (as a female) :)
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The manga is intriguing and I'd love to know how exactly this plays out. It has my vote.
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Just thought to check for a thread about this, and am glad to see that one exists. Adding my vote to the pile.
What intrigues me about this story is that Lufasu is a player who gets transported into the game world as the (female) Demon Lord he was roleplaying as, so on and so forth... except that Lufasu also has another set of memories consistent with the setting, as in what might have been the "true" memories if the game was a real place.
So Lufasu the player has their knowledge of the game world, but Lufasu the character has their own history and background, and it's implied that the player didn't deliberately come up with them back when he was playing the game.
For example:
It's a mystery that interests me greatly, and keeps me reading. I don't actually know much more than what the manga scanlation has gone up to (since the fan translation of the webnovel hasn't progressed that far), so I don't know if there will be a good payoff, but that's why I'm hoping JNC will licence this.
Although to be honest, what really endeared me to this story was right at the beginning, when Lufasu was summoned "by accident", and everyone is terrified that they have unsealed the Demon Lord. And Lufasu (or rather, Lufasu's player roleplaying) just goes "well, yes, I was the Demon Lord, but I lost. So now I'm just an ordinary woman who lost her dreams. I bear no grudges, and wish you no harm. Live free and in peace."
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This sounds pretty great, I must have missed it when the forum first got flooded with separate licensing suggestion threads. Thanks for bumping the thread, @unsynchedcheese
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Yeah, I love the Manga of this and would love to see the book released. Another vote from me.
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Well, the be specific, she's isn't/wasn't the demon lord, because there is/was an actual demon lord... but everybody basically considered her to be more powerful than the actual demon lord, and she went and conquered the entire world, hence why they called her the true "last boss" :P
(all of the above is the initial premise, explained right at the start).
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Yeah I could get behind this one, seems interesting.
