Can we have a WN/LN Thread? What are you reading, recommendation, Isekai bashing, etc

Can we have a WN/LN Thread? What are you reading, recommendation, Isekai bashing, etc.

I just read Nigotta Hitomi no Lilliane, it's comfy as fuck but so damn slow. 25 chapters in and the MC is still 1 and a half years old.

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Isekai is trash all around, but I tolerate Kumo
The less generic NEETs are able to self-insert, the greater the quality

I've been following the manga version of Kumo, and honestly it's sorta feeling like a drag now. The monkey fight seemed to take forever.

I heard that there's some sort of twist in the story that will suddenly turn the whole plot around. About how far are we from it?

Eh, many of the old school Isekai was good though. It's the NEET self-insert isekai one that is mostly trash.

>I heard that there's some sort of twist in the story that will suddenly turn the whole plot around. About how far are we from it?
Still much too long for that. For comparison, the latest chapter of the manga has her gain a new evolution. The twist is about 2 evolution away. I actually enjoyed the monster grinding version of Kumo. Because once the twist kicks in, it's no longer monster grinding and survival, but Spider-Batman according to keikaku storyline

Honestly, the monkey fight seems to take forever because it wasn't updated as fast as the WN.

Slime has gotten pretty bad but I'm still enjoying it. Only other LN series I'm reading is Overlord and the Mahou Shoujo series from last season but I haven't started on it yet.

There's a mahou shoujo novel?

Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku is the full name. There have been a good number of threads always on whenever I'm here but I never go in because of spoilers.

>Pure Love Insult Complex
The story of guy who will find true love thru a criminal organization

I want to like this, I really do. I like rape and mindbreak stuff, but the girl's reaction is heartbreaking sometimes.

I hate that faggot boyfriend though.

it will turn vanilla and healing a little later though

I like isekai

About to finish The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya. I'd love to see things like Sasaki and College Haruhi animated.

List of objectively shit isekai wn that everyone agree:
Arifureta
Death march
Re:Monster

Anything else?

Depending on how much condensing will be done perhaps another 30 - 40 chapters at the current pace.

There are too many to name

just make a list with the good ones that everyone can agree on. I'll start.

List of objectively great isekai wn that everyone agree:
Mushoku Tensei

oops, looks like I finished it

Never really got into MT. Sorta whited out at the scene where the MC's dad admits he fucked the maid and somehow Rudeus manages to talk his mother into not doing a thing.

I mean, I get it. An isekai where you start from scratch. But it could be done better.

>Mushoku Tensei

Pretentious shit, atleast the others are entertaining.

>4 months for new vol
Kill me

You should really try to read more than that. At least to the first turning point.

Mostly just the Kamachi works when they update on the weekends.

What's the worse Isekai?

Death march? (boring)
Dungeon seeker? (crawling in my skin!)
the maou one with the slave girls? (meh)
re:monster? (wish fulfillment shit. at least it's fappable.)
The new gate? (boring)

I like shield hero, overload, kumo, and slime.

worst

gunota
kumoko
overlord
deadmarch
re:monster

We all talk about fappability, but which LN artists really do it for you?

If you're going to read one Chinese cultivation series, real Upgrade Specialist in Another World. It's well written, well translated, and the MC isn't a godmoding asshole lone wolf who gets off on humiliating everyone in his path. Instead he cleverly leverages his one cheat and make real connections with friends and mentors whom he genuinely respects.

I enjoy Isekai Maou Shoukan, it has just the right amount of lolis.

Anyways there are way worst isekai than the ones you listed, Dungeon Seeker is by far the worst of the ones you listed though but even then there's worst considering how many fucking isekai there are, you just listed trending ones that have gotten discussion lately.

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Sorry but no. It was ok. First off, development of harem was shallow (love after being nice and shit or saving Roxy and so on), the absurdity of the fetish really got to my nerves (/ss/ with your own nephew, really author? What was the point, Either way, the damage was already done regardless of deletion), time travel (this is not good, this lacks responsibility in storytelling), having too much of a head start (hydro pump attack at a young age, oh boy), introducing the villain half-way into the story through time travel (very lazy attempt to get an image of hitogami) the narrative style being too simplistic (it was pretty jarring at times having to read the writing style), and the comedy was pretty bad, let's be honest, I did not feel like laughing from the old wise pervert. It was above average. Eh.

Honzuki
Infinite Dendrogram

Botsurak Youtei, the Blacksmith one
Beginning was pretty good, but even the translator dropped it after volume 3 because it was terrible

Still looking for readable wuxia/xianxiashit with non-homicidal MC and with something original added to a bunch of generic xianxia tropes.

>25 chapters in and the MC is still 1 and a half years old.
Origin stories are my favorite thing. I've read the first few chapters of so many w/lns. I'll pick this up.

>the monkey fight seems to take forever because it wasn't updated as fast as the WN

Yeah, I read about 14 chapters all at once and the pacing didn't feel like a drag at all. I might put the series down for a while and wait until there's a bunch of updates since the chapters can be pretty short.

Kumo is the same though, especially as it progresses later into the story. I mean essentially they are the same type of story.

It was good at first, but then the mc became a bitch. What happened to his fanbase? What of that attitude that we admired for wanting to get slim and shit? I'm reading piggy duke at this point.

Death flags
Falling in love with the villainess
duke's daughter
lvl 999 villager
my pet is a holy maiden
Spear hero spinoff
kumo
overlord
slime

The ones im reading currently

>reading WNs and LNs

>says user on Sup Forums

How the fuck is Kumo pretentious?

Are there any WN/LNs based around NTR? There's 'Sisters Violated In a Dream and in Reality', which ain't bad.

Growth cheat and death mage I'm enjoying right now.

Yeah, and the fucking dog, what the fuck?

Death flags is great, sucks that the translator disappeared

novelupdates.com/series/the-experimental-log-of-the-crazy-lich/
This is probably my favourite isekai novel currently being translated. Starts 300 years after the protagonist was first reincarnated into an MMO world, during which time he's died thrice and became undead, and he's gone more than a little loopy from all the bullshit that's been heaped upon him during that time, mainly from the passive-aggressive cheat system that forces him to choose between doing something petty and humiliating (steal candy from [x] amount of children) or blatantly evil and ultimately suicidal (massacre a town of minimum [x] population, which would inevitably lead to a holy army coming after his head) and if he does neither of these things he gets penalized.

That said Roland is a fucking incredible protagonist, and I can liken the story to Legend of Sun Knight in that the protag is a master of deception and keikaku and seemingly simple things turn out to be rather complicated later on.

Dungeon Seeker's edge is what makes it entertaining for me.

I like pragmatic mcs.
Did you get started on this?

I Shall Seal The Heavens. Meng Hao is the lord of con artists, and while he'll unhesitatingly kill anyone who tries to fuck with him, if he can get away with it he'd much prefer to scam the fuck out of them instead. His stated goal is to have everyone owe him money rather than become the strongest in the world. He also lives by a code that's basically if someone's nice to him, he'll be nice back, and if someone's a jerk to him, they're going to get fucked.

not yet, all of a sudden college started heavy. will get to it soon however.

Lazy King, it doesn't get mentioned as often as it should because it's already fully translated.

Dungeon Defence.

Reading as released:
The New Gate
Rokujouma no Shinryakusha
Slime
Death March
Mahouka

Waiting for TLIf I wasn't so damn busy I'd start learing Japanese and read them raw.:
Hagure Yuusha
Shinmai Maou
Rakudai Kishi
SAO

Release that Witch

the translator is still there, she's just a lazy piece of shit, even another translator picked it up because they where tired of waiting for her to get her lazy ass up and translating.

I dig MT as well despite all the hate user. Funny how the views are so split up with that title but here's my take on it.

Has pretty good world-building, decent adventure portions, banter, development of the heroines especially SylphyThough Roxy got none because she's a whore!. The final vols and asspulls were rushed as hell but the ending made up for it. Definitely my top 5 as far as narou isekai stuff goes. Besides how many series has that actual, real harem despite being called 'harem' non of them focus on the family aspect(Even if it's not done particularly believably), heck the author even made one of Rudeuses sons as the MC in jobless oblige and we can absorve their harem lifehood with more detail.

I know a lot of people hated the MC because he was a literal Manchild. But thats how he was supposed to be in the begining. You do remember the shit he did before he got reincarnted right? Its really not that easy to change and even though he said "I'm gonna live better in this life" it really shows that he's missing that 'common sense' an adult should be endowed when his mentality is that of a child.

After a while though and very very slowly, some of his extremely perverted and bizzare inner monologues start to fade away and are replaced with ones with more common sense(Still a fucking pervert though) he even starts thinking about this real family and finally realises later into the story the mistakes he's made in his past life. Though they should've been pretty obvious for a normal person Rudeus was anything but that. In the end he ven tries to at least send a letter but that eventually fails with nanahoshi.

I'd say it was certainly better than like 90% of the narou titles on that website since author actually tried here.

Cultivation chatroom, it's slow tho

>my pet is a holy maiden
update when?

those are just some of the isekai some people thing are okay and some think are bad.
not even close to some of the trash the genre has to offer.

>Sisters Violated In a Dream and in Reality
>6 chapters to go but all of the translators are missing
RREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh man, cultivation chatroom is great. I'm way way behind on it though.

wasn't there some drama where she stole the project from another translator and wouldn't give it back?

Such a shame, the skill system in that is so fucking good

is lv999 villager good? i saw a shit ton of low reviews on NU and the 5 star reviews where fucking literally
>"Looks really good, we got our OP villager that might bring peace between demons and humans, he is the stongers human alive too XD... And he got a loli red haired demon too =P (LOLI GET!!) "

fucking never. Damn shame.

Its basically One Punch Man but played straight.

I don't like Slime it broke the #1 fiction taboo.

You know what I really fucking want to update? Kono Sekai ga Game da to, Ore dake ga Shitte Iru. Fucking phenomenal game isekai where the game in question is a glitchy, broken piece of shit, and it hasn't updated in half a year.

Goddamnit.

>i saw a shit ton of low reviews on NU and the 5 star reviews where fucking literally
the top 1~3 reviews with the most "liked" are generally pretty accurate.
also anything with an overall score above 4.5 is worth a shot

Any LN that can be used for fapping just by the words not pics?

Dungeon Seeker is pretty good. The edge is fucking great.

What's that?

Instead of lv999 villagers, [That person, later on...] Is better. It's still kind of One punch man toned down but the Goddess chat is amusing at least.

i wouldn't recommend using japanese literature targeted at HikkiNEETs as fapping material.
its one of those series that is so bad it wraps around the bad edge and becomes good

If you're a gentlemen with refined taste of NTR, try If you're a /d/, try Asuka of the Scarlet Sky.

UPDATES NEVER EVER!

Question, do you want edge that isn't boring?

When I first started reading things from novelupdates I thought I was 'too good' for chinese/korean novels like some faggot.
I ran out of things to read fairly quickly, there's a lot of shit to sift through

are we posting series that are already KILL and have no chance of getting more translations?

Bringing someone back from the dead with no consequences. If I remember correctly they even became way stronger after that as well.

Is that the one where his childhood friend gets surgery to be a giants cocksleeve. Choked on my drink for like ten minutes god damn

Headbanging in a chapel is a fun way of skill powerleveling.

i was also pretty pissed off by that, atleast it was just a 1 time thing that hopefully will never happen again (if time travel wasn't fucking introduced)

I meant they were the same type of story in the latter parts. I didn't think Mushoku Tensei was pretentious or Kumo. I liked them both so you would have to tell me.

indeed.

If I had to take a shot for everytime a random schmuck say a good ending makes up for asspulls or some shit, I'd be dead. There should be a limit to that, since you must have within a story that builds up into a climax. Otherwise, the idea of asspull that leads up to a 'good ending' is obsolete. So no, that notion is invalid and by no means should be used to excuse bullshit. Also, people could care less about pov of a son or some focus of family aspects just because you can attempt to excuse it as 'comfy' (this has been used countless times by multiple fags who like to turn off their brain and confuse boring shit for comfy, blissful ignorance), also,
> good worldbuilding
it's the typical medieval kingdom crap with adventurers and some shit. There's nothing unique beyond that and the whole naming 'god' within a title lacks a sense of effort.
> Sword god
10/10, how creative.

Korean novels are unironically some of the best shit on the site. They're like Jap novels, but without all the annoying neet pandering cliches.

Dungeon Defence, Dungeon Hunter, Everyone Else Is A Returnee, Revolution of the 8th Class Mage and Seoul Station's Necromancer are some of my favorite things on Novelupdates from the last year.

Is Overlord really all that bad?

B..but muh Dragon Ball!

It's not a taboo, it's just greatly lessen the impact of someone dying/dead in the later event.

>Liking NTR.

Yep, I've been reading dungeon defense lately
It's really something

But I detest NTR, user

Yep best fucking edge I've seen in a long time.

I just can't read korean or chinese novels, those fucking names, man.

>naming 'god' within a title
I was so confused at this because of the Water God. I realized much later that there're 2 Water God titles, the magician one and the swordstyle one.

MT is NTR.
You like MT.
Thus you like NTR.

Generally, a good rule to keep in mind is that if you find a Chinese/Korean novel doing something that you'd expect a Japanese novel to be doing, its going to be really good.

You get used to it quickly enough. You got used to Jap names, didn't you?

Though a lot of the Chinese/Korean novels I'm following use western names instead of Korean ones.

This sounds fucking ridiculous but still believable from what I've seen of it so far

Your and My Asylum
same focus on rhetoric, almost feels like the same author. only one volume out though

Not as ridiculous as that Vending machine isekai. But damn, as ridiculous as it sounds, vending machine is an entertaining read.

what is this?

What NTR is in MT?
I don't remember that

Best part of MT and the clearest thing I remember is the beginning.

Speaking of reincarnation into inanimate objects, I'm enjoying Sword Reincarnation far more than I expected. The beginning was a little rough, but when the daughteru showed up things got really great.

I think he's referring to how Eris was supposed to be someone elses girl?