A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment
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@Serah said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
I have never seen that series like - I mean the legal perspective thing.
Yeah. I'm not a lawyer, but I imagine that if you wind up temporarily responsible for a minor who was living on the streets, legally speaking, you are probably obligated to inform the authorities. And even ethically, it's pretty questionable to just let her live with you indefinitely.
Not to mention that children need medical care, school, and other necessities that you can't easily provide without being the child's guardian. "Found on the street" isn't an option in the "relationship" field anywhere.
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@Aquantis said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
I appreciate it. I hadn't really intended this to turn into a recommendations thread, but there are a number of series here I've never read or even considered.
Curiously, do you have any thoughts on the idea of a guardian as a form of self-insert wish-fulfillment?
Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside
Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains
The Countess Is a Coward No More! This Reincarnated Witch Just Wants a Break
The Eternal Fool's Words of Wisdom: A Pawsitively Fantastic Adventure
Now I'm a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon
Why Shouldn’t a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?!All good suggestions. Noted.
Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside - MC takes in a teenage girl to raise as his daughter. So far, she may have a crush on her adoptive dad, but he only sees her like a daughter.
I'll keep it in mind. The crush doesn't necessarily bother me, depending on situation. I will say that I had a hard time with Daughter S-Ranked Adventurer because of how age-inappropriate the daughter's interactions with her father were - way too immature for someone who's supposed to be adult-enough to put her own life on the line.
Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter
I see this one is recommended frequently. I get the sense that it's a great story. My only hesitation is that the series seems to have been cancelled.
Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
I only read to the end of volume one, but I was not impressed. I wish he had stayed low-key - you know, actually "chilled" - but by the end of that volume everyone knows who he is and how awesome his powers are.
Do they eventually have children? I didn't read that far.
I guess Demon Lord Retry
I watched the anime. I didn't hate it, but I don't remember it well enough to agree or disagree with your recommendation. I guess I'll keep it in mind.
Thanks for taking the time to write that all up.
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@Travis-Butler said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
(That's something that may reduce the intimidation factor... after volume 13, there are several side-story volumes that are fun digressions but don't add to the plot and can be skipped if you want.)
That does make it less intimidating.
I will say that every Rokujouma fan I've seen seems to really like it. That speaks well for Rokujouma and makes me positively inclined towards it.
But it sounds like I have to read several volumes at a minimum before it really "starts to get good" and that's a hard proposition for someone like me who mostly struggles to get started at all. My usual hook into a series - the anime - did nothing for me in this case, sadly.
Maybe if I could start on book seven or something, this might be enough to get me going.
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I like Reincarnated as a Sword a lot. I like everything I've read from the author Yuu Tanaka so far.
Another Yuu Tanaka series A Late-Start Tamer's Laid-Back Life has wish fullfillment in the form of being able to take time off work, garden, explore a game world and spend time with cute monsters.
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level by Kisetsu Morita has slime daughters show up without any romantic relationship or birth or early childhood parenting needed. Yet, the main character still can provide them guidance and have adventures with them.
I can relate to the feeling of wanting to read about mentor or teaching relationships.
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@unknownmat said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
@Travis-Butler said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
(That's something that may reduce the intimidation factor... after volume 13, there are several side-story volumes that are fun digressions but don't add to the plot and can be skipped if you want.)
That does make it less intimidating.
I will say that every Rokujouma fan I've seen seems to really like it. That speaks well for Rokujouma and makes me positively inclined towards it.
But it sounds like I have to read several volumes at a minimum before it really "starts to get good" and that's a hard proposition for someone like me who mostly struggles to get started at all. My usual hook into a series - the anime - did nothing for me in this case, sadly.
Maybe if I could start on book seven or something, this might be enough to get me going.
Hm... not sure I'd recommend that, as it really does build a lot on the character development in books 1-6. The way I look at it, volumes 1-2 are fairly typical anime/LN hijinks, but well-done enough to enjoy on that level. You could probably start at volume 3 without losing too much, though.
It all depends on what you mean by 'starts to get good'; I think it's pretty good from the start, but changes what it's good at. 1-2, fluff hijinks; 3-6, nakama building through shared troubles, also enjoyable and often heartwarming in itself; 7 when the metaplot starts kicking in. (3-6 is also when you really start seeing the mentorship/big brother aspect kicking in as Koutarou starts taking care of all the squabbling girls.)
The anime took all the stuff that was supposed to be surface-level and made it the focus, which I found pretty disappointing even from the standpoint of just wanting to see events from the LN as animated scenes.
...Cats are the proof of a higher purpose to the universe.
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@Travis-Butler said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
@unknownmat said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
@Travis-Butler said in A New Type Of Self-Insert Wish Fulfillment:
(That's something that may reduce the intimidation factor... after volume 13, there are several side-story volumes that are fun digressions but don't add to the plot and can be skipped if you want.)
That does make it less intimidating.
I will say that every Rokujouma fan I've seen seems to really like it. That speaks well for Rokujouma and makes me positively inclined towards it.
But it sounds like I have to read several volumes at a minimum before it really "starts to get good" and that's a hard proposition for someone like me who mostly struggles to get started at all. My usual hook into a series - the anime - did nothing for me in this case, sadly.
Maybe if I could start on book seven or something, this might be enough to get me going.
Hm... not sure I'd recommend that, as it really does build a lot on the character development in books 1-6. The way I look at it, volumes 1-2 are fairly typical anime/LN hijinks, but well-done enough to enjoy on that level. You could probably start at volume 3 without losing too much, though.
It all depends on what you mean by 'starts to get good'; I think it's pretty good from the start, but changes what it's good at. 1-2, fluff hijinks; 3-6, nakama building through shared troubles, also enjoyable and often heartwarming in itself; 7 when the metaplot starts kicking in. (3-6 is also when you really start seeing the mentorship/big brother aspect kicking in as Koutarou starts taking care of all the squabbling girls.)
The anime took all the stuff that was supposed to be surface-level and made it the focus, which I found pretty disappointing even from the standpoint of just wanting to see events from the LN as animated scenes.
I concur.
The first two volumes for me were like "classic uninteresting tropes", and I sort of pressured myself through them since there was nothing else to read at that time for me and the number of volumes speaks for the series (I think back then there were only 25 volumes released or so when I started to read).
Around volume 3-4 when the relationship and the characters were more fleshed out I got hooked.
With volume 7 when all of sudden with little to no warning the series jumped onto a genre I really, really love (GREAT SCOTT!) it was hard to let go of it.
I also liked the fact that the series got a proper ending - that is how I see - was it volume 32 or 29 so?
I mean one of the things I dislike a lot about serialisations is when series end up in "hell". As in: either it gets cancelled or the author just stopped it because they run out of ideas and never managed to wrap things up.
One more reason why I like How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom so much, that it has "endings points" at volume 4, 10 and now 20 where you just can stop.
@Aquantis if Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside like that, then I personally think If It's for My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord deserves an honourable mention as one of the "first gen" series.
The other titles you have mentioned... yeah, I have different opinions based on my point of views on them. Based on the titles I might be a tad surprised not to see I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level and/or Drug Store in Another World. Also, give I Got Caught Up in a Hero Summons, but the Other World Was at Peace! a try.
https://www.foxaholic.com/novel/i-was-caught-up-in-a-hero-summoning-but-that-world-is-at-peace/1/@unknownmat I think it is relatable - I mean that it looks/feels riskful to start a series with a reputation "it gets interesting later". Like: what if, if it is not interesting to you at all on a personal level - that would mean pressuring yourself through the first layers just not to find the treasure you are looking for.
In Invaders of the Rokujouma!? I can only say: a damn lot of light novels are like that.
I definitely also skipped the one or other series where I cannot understand why it has became so popular later on. While I also keep reading series people cannot understand the appeal of it, because they just have seen a bad anime about it.
(imagine my dissapointment regarding How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom - you love a series so much and kinda gets punished with that sort of anime while the manga is near perfect - same also goes for my stance regarding the Invaders of the Rokujouma!? or take e.g. Didn't I say to make my abilities average in the next life anime)
