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NEWS: J-Novel Club Licenses Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Novel

I really like the manga! It has exactly the right amount of darkness and pain that i want! Hope this gets anime sometime soon!

GoldenKey_ wrote:

I really like the manga! It has exactly the right amount of darkness and pain that i want! Hope this gets anime sometime soon!

Just from the description it sounds an awful lot like rising of the shield hero.

And while I love shield hero just knowing that it's another "transported to another game world" makes me look at this skeptically.

Maybe a reviewer from ANN will take a look at it and give a rating

, but I ultimately dropped the web novel as a result of one of the stupidest deus ex machina the story had managed to throw out.

While I would normally agree with you, this is one series I absolutely would not write off. The stuff the protagonist has to go through is dark, very dark and it does enough to make it stand out on it's own (the only similarities it has to shield hero is basically the idea of a naive protagonist going to another world and getting fucked up, that's pretty much it). I'd recommend giving the manga a quick look (only 10 chapters anyway), but if you loved shield hero, this series will be right up your alley.

TUSF wrote:

, but I ultimately dropped the web novel as a result of one of the stupidest deus ex machina the story had managed to throw out.

dunno I will give it a try , I read the exact same thing about mushoku tensei and it was the fault of the reader as he was not intelligent enought ot put the peices together and understand the "deus ex machina" and how it tied everything up.

maximilianjenus wrote:

TUSF wrote: , but I ultimately dropped the web novel as a result of one of the stupidest deus ex machina the story had managed to throw out. dunno I will give it a try , I read the exact same thing about mushoku tensei and it was the fault of the reader as he was not intelligent enought ot put the peices together and understand the "deus ex machina" and how it tied everything up.

It wasn't a matter of missing some key information or anything. I'm not the only one who felt "this" came out of no where either.

spoiler[Hajime basically pulls a Lava Submarine out of his ass, at the most convenient of times, without prior notice that he had ever built it. Even the girls who are with him 24/7 apparently never saw him work on it.]

Honestly it's questionable that an average highschool student would be able to build a fraction of the shit he makes, so from that start you have to suspend a TON of disbelief, so honestly it was just a matter of time before I decided I was tired of holding up the aforementioned disbelief.
Some people will completely ignore this aspect of the story without question, and you know what? That's perfectly fine. But keep in mind that if you're the type bothered by unexplained plot holes and Deus ex machina, then you may find various aspects of this story VERY tiresome.

Edit: Oh, and of course there are people bothered by blatant harem stories, so yeah.