It really gets off the rails when the series starts giving numerical power levels to characters

You are further along than I, but this sounds a lot like the usual Power Creep. The bane of many long-running series. And the more convoluted it gets, the more it needs to be explained away.

Hello Bookworm! I looked it up, and the Library in Alexandria — which just so happens to be the greatest in all of Yurgenschmidt, nay... even the entire world — has the following entries:

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by Yen Press: 📖 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; 🎧 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

volume 22. 2 stars. I feel like 100 pages could be animated in 30 seconds. I don't think it's possible to draw the agonizing descriptions of how various powers work or how strong everyone is relative to each other so if they stick to stuff that actually happens we're talking like 20 key frames max for the last 6 volumes.

Hello Bookworm! I looked it up, and the Library in Alexandria — which just so happens to be the greatest in all of Yurgenschmidt, nay... even the entire world — has the following entries:

I Saved Myself with a Potion! by Hanashi Media: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4

The Tale of a Little Alchemist Blessed by the Spirits by Seven Seas Entertainment: 📖 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 🎧 Vol. 1, 2, 3

- Volume 3 by Akira Iwafune - ★★☆☆☆, 148 MynePages™ - MC is especially timid and lacks more self-confidence than usual in this volume. Not a fun read.

- Volume 4 by yocco - ★★★½☆, 143 MynePages™ - Good volume with a good mix of fluff, adventure, and overarching story.

No worries.

Oh.. Sorry 🤦‍♂️

hi there, this is a community for a specific type of novel:

This is a discussion-based community based around translated Light Novels and Web Novels which originate from Japan.

Just finished Paper Towns by John Green with very mixed feelings

I have been mildly irritated at the whole book right up to the last 30 pages where it kind if got better. I can't really put a finger on what has annoyed me, but it just feels wrong and somewhat artificial

lol. Yeah, that was a thought of mine to but the writer does provide some decent "details" lol

I never picked the series up in book form. I felt like without the, eherm..., physics simulation it would be lacking.

At the moment, I've been reading through the Highschol DxD series. I enjoyed the first season of the anime and I wanted to see how much the books were different from the series itself. I'm presently on the fifth book (as I splurged last year and bought all the way up to 15).

I've honestly been enjoying it. It kept the raunchy (which I wasn't surprsied) but I could feel the heart and the care the writer was putting into it.

Hello Bookworm! I looked it up, and the Library in Alexandria — which just so happens to be the greatest in all of Yurgenschmidt, nay... even the entire world — has the following entries:

See You at That Site of Grace After Work by Yen Press: 📖 Vol. 1; 🖥️ Vol. 1; 🎧 Vol. 1

Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; 🎧 Vol. 1, 2

Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

by Keiichi Hikami and lack - ★½☆☆☆, 169 MynePages™ - MC is an overthinking, socially inept, gamer caricature. Or, more precisely, how non-gamers imagine gamers to be. Which is strange since the novel is full of real Elden Ring references that only someone who has played the game would know. On the other hand, it is written so wooden that I wouldn't be surprised if you told me the author was just repeating bullet points about the game he heard from someone else or if their only point of contact was reading the official guidebook. The prose around everything in-game reads like that or a press release. As if someone took the text from a guidebook and wrapped it with a barely-there frame story. So, instead of "Next go there and there..." it is "Wataru then told Reito, 'Next you need to go there and there...'". And the frame story is also questionable. This social wreck who gets flustered because a colleague talked to him is somehow supposed to be in the sales department of the company? Really? But because he is a Souls gamer and starts to see his job as the game, he now somehow becomes the sales genius?

<Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want!> - Volume 13 by Hiiro Shimotsuki - ★★★★☆, 128 MynePages™ - Great self-contained volume. The story beats were predictable, but it was done very well, so I don't mind in the slightest.

- Volume 13 by Amagishi Hisaya - ★★★★½, 238 MynePages™ - Great volume. I don’t think there is currently anyone better at delivering emotional payoffs. Whenever they hit it feels earned. Since the romance is just dead in the water, it’s really great when a volume focuses on the other cast that isn’t as obtuse.

He was fortunate enough to have gotten his hands on a PlayStation 5, which allowed him to experience the game with superior specs and graphics.

Not only the original Elden Ring name, but also the original PlayStation name drop. Though that "superior specs and graphics" gave me a good chuckle.

• "hey Sony, can we mention your console in a novel?"

• "No! We sue you into oblivion if you so much as look in our direction"

• "how about we tell everyone that you get 'superior specs and graphics' on a Playstation?"

• "I'm listening..."

The Capital’s One-Man Golem Master Got Kicked Out!? Now Free, I’m Traveling the World with My Beautiful Heroine Disciples to Build the Ultimate Golem! Don’t Ask Me to Come Back. I’m Done!

Those titles man...

This might be interesting. And I just got my Elden Ring OST delivered on Saturday, so I know what I'm going to listen to while reading ;)

Hello Bookworm! I looked it up, and the Library in Alexandria — which just so happens to be the greatest in all of Yurgenschmidt, nay... even the entire world — has the following entries:

Cooking with Wild Game by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

I couldn't find a series with the name "GATE - Thus the JSDF Fought There!". Maybe you should write it and send a copy to my library. In fact, I think this is a great idea and you absolutely should do so. Right now. Chop chop.

The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

- Volume 35 by EDA - ★★★★★, 175 MynePages™ - Great volume that introduces a new character that I already like.

<GATE - Thus the JSDF Fought There!> - Part 1 Volume 2 by Yanai Takumi - ★★★½☆, 135 MynePages™ - Regardless of which medium I experience the story in, the moment when Itami saves Noriko is just pure bliss. In the anime, you get the pleasure of seeing it animated and voiced, but getting to read the key people's thoughts at that moment is also great.

- Volume 5 by Yanagi - ★★★★☆, 184 MynePages™ - Good volume starting a new mystery that got me hooked. I hope the wait for the next volume is not too long.

See You at That Site of Grace After Work

I was kind of caught off guard that this series is directly mentioning Elden Ring instead of something like Elder Wing or some kind of knock off like you usually see due to weird Japanese IP law.

Let's hope the manga doesn't do a Game-of-Thrones-type move.

Hello Bookworm! I looked it up, and the Library in Alexandria — which just so happens to be the greatest in all of Yurgenschmidt, nay... even the entire world — has the following entries:

The Eminence in Shadow by Yen Press: 📖 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; 🎧 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

- Volume 7

My patience for an official translation broke down and I finally dove into a fan translation of volume 7 of TEIS this past week. Overall, it was great and I had a hell of a lot of fun. Like basically every other arc in TEIS, Cid takes on a new persona/disguise and acts out some contrived chuuni fantasy of his. This is one of my favorites he has done so far and the climax near the end of the volume has me really excited to see it portrayed in the anime eventually. One main difference compared to past LN volumes is that this arc is not done yet. Every other LN volume for the series wraps up an arc by the time the volume ends. So, that is a bit of a change, but hopefully it means the author doesn't take almost three years to finish writing the next volume.

The manga is currently about halfway through adapting Volume 7, so I think we are going to run into a situation again where the manga will run out of source material to adapt. I will be curious to see what they do this time. Last time, it started adapting volume 7 before the official release. So, it was an interesting state where the manga was the furthest along in the story. With no date yet announced for volume 8, I think it is more likely that the manga will go on hiatus.

I couldn't find a series with the name "TsukiMichi: Moonlit Fantasy". Maybe you should write it and send a copy to my library. In fact, I think this is a great idea and you absolutely should do so. Right now. Chop chop.