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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Back before I Shall Survive Using Potions was officially licensed, it was one of the few fan-translated web novels that I was still keeping up-to-date on. I unironically feel that FUNA is a very talented isekai author… and I have now had to sit through three anime adaptations that have chosen to translate NONE of that talent from page to screen. I went into this one expecting to be disappointed, and I wasn’t surprised.
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Glordit
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Then there is me who tries to watch everything
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Terraziel
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I think a key point here is that the 'problem' isn't the novels themselves, it is the fact that it's become the start of content pipeline.
I can't bring myself to blame which ever bored accountant has written another story about bring double-entry bookkeeping to a fantasy world, the issue is them becoming fodder for low effort productions. I feel kind of bad for some of the works, because whatever the quality of the original works, the anime have been so.... perfunctory, like they aren't even trying to hide that they are just churning stuff out. |
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Rogueywon
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Three points here, I guess:
First, I think the Isekai Plague might actually be waning. Yes, there are still a few, but it's not the absolute torrent of them we were getting until recently. Traditional fantasy shows seem to be making a comeback. Some of them are terrible. But they don't have a modern Japanese teenager explaining their world's stat system to us. It's progress. Second, Tearmoon Empire will be really good if it follows the LNs closely. It's a very well written series and, thus far, they've navigated well around the very heavy narrator-voice that the novels have. It knows its history, but it also has good character writing and a few good original twists. Mia is the ultimate gremlin. And... I'm In Love With The Villainess. There's a LN series with... concept. It's not immediately apparent, but... it goes places. The tone and style they've chosen make me wonder if they've already decided to just do the first two LNs. If I'm wrong and they go to the very end (which would take 3-4 cours), it'll be divisive, but not for the reasons you might expect. |
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Shay Guy
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I have to wonder how Kakuyomu's culture has become distinct from Narou's, or other fiction sites.
Given how Narou's characteristic form of the genre is clearly a derivative of self-insert fanfic, I imagine the novelty may have already been gone by the time the site launched in 2004. Certainly by 2010, before fanfic was banned, there were plenty of stories about somebody from our world being sent to the world of The Familiar of Zero, or Koihime Musou, or Negima, or One Piece, or Gundam SEED… and that's just in the top 10 fanfics. Often becoming a child and/or gaining a cheat power in the process.
For those who don't know, FUNA is also the author of Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement and Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!. The other day, I copied the chapter publication dates for all three stories from their TOCs, applied some regex, and stuck all the dates into a calendar in JavaScript. The results tell a pretty interesting history of their writing career:
I can't help but be impressed by that pace, and the consistency they've shown over the past six and a half years. These stories all average around 3400-3500 Japanese characters a chapter, which I think would be over 1,500 English words. Maybe 2,000. I've been struggling to keep going on my current writing project even as consistently as 300 words a day, and that's not even fiction-writing, which has always been so much harder for me.
You could wait, like, two days for Maomao to enter the contest before calling it. |
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zztop
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Some of them can be surprisingly good. My personal favourite is Deathbound Duke's Daughter, whose author used the "reincarnated as the minor plot-device villainess of an otome game" template to springboard their story into a fascinating dark action-fantasy with plenty of intrigue and rich worldbuilding. https://j-novel.club/series/deathbound-duke-s-daughter Although the webnovel is still ongoing with enough material for multiple volumes, unfortunately the publication ground to a halt after just 2 published light novels (presumably because actual sales didn't match projected expectations). Which brings up the next point; that a good number of sloppily-written yet heavily pandering webnovels get all the readership attention instead of ones that have thought and effort put into them. |
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DamianSalazar
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One correction I have to make: Kadokawa doesn't own Shousetsuka ni Narou. Syosetu is independent. They own Kakuyomu however.
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Gonzo_Deluxe
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Is ANN boycotting "Let Me Check the Walkthrough First"? No coverage during the season previews, no coverage in the Isekai episode of TWIA... I may have missed a news story that explains the situation, but for me right now it's still a mystery...
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Dark Mac
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It's not anime. |
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TheSleepyMonkey
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I completely disagree with everything said about Shangri-La Frontier. I don't see how it's "missed potential" or how it "misunderstands" VRMMOs, specially since not once does it say anything about "playing bad games makes you good at great games", and I don't know where the hell the reviewers got that from. Sounds more like a problem of getting the completely wrong impression about the anime and anti-isekai bias kicking in.
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Glordit
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It actually is. This is funny, because they did a review of Castlevania Nocturne. Last edited by Glordit on Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:16 am; edited 1 time in total |
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RickyTheRat
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To be fair this has never stopped ANN covering various games, cartoons, or movies before. I imagine it just comes down to personal interest in what a writer wants to talk about or make an article for. I can see why a writer might want to talk about Castlevania Nocturne because it has topics and politics that align with more their views and something they want to discuss compared to a Chinese donghua that is essentially another isekai show that the staff are kind of known for disliking and probably have little interest in. All people would be asking for is an article trashing it like this one, although maybe some people do want that and just want to see a show they dislike get roasted. |
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NeverConvex
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Has it not? This is also the reason I understood ANN doesn't have any Link Click coverage, which came up a few times this season. |
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Takkun4343
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Such is life being a donghua. |
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Woozy
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Yet another season another lame TWIA where all the isekai get shoved in the same post.
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