<The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects>: Volume 10 - Another great volume. The series is getting better and better with each volume.
<Management of a Novice Alchemist>: Volume 6 - action leaning volume. Also, MC is mellowing out. She’s talking about having no mercy for bandits for most of the volume, but when there’s an actual encounter, she’s suddenly all “oh if I use my weapon on them I have to heal them later… blah blah”. In earlier volumes, she just nonchalantly killed groups of bandits she encountered. I wonder where the sudden change in attitude comes from?
<Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat> Volume 3 - The series is devolving hard. There is a subplot similar to the modern-day stuff in Assassin’s Creed, and it works about as well as it does there.
<I Shall Survive Using Potions!> Volume 11 - The First third of the volume is still cleaning up the narrative mess from a few volumes back, but later on, it seems to find its stride again in the new setup. The new setup is the same as the old one, though, so I wonder if FUNA won’t grow bored with it again soon and try another reset. I hope not, since I really disliked the reset and all the plot problems that came with 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:
The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Management of a Novice Alchemist by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Mercedes and the Waning Moon: The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat by J-Novel Club: 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3
I Shall Survive Using Potions! by J-Novel Club: 📖 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 🖥️ Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
I’ve started on “I told you to make my abilities average in the next life!” And so far it’s been pretty solidly entertaining. FUNA in general seems to be a safe bet for my tastes and now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder how they have so much time to write.
In the afterword of the last Potions volume, he said that it was his 82nd. published work (including manga and spinoffs) and the 41st novel since he started writing 9 years ago. On average, he would finish a novel every two and a half months and was very proud of not having missed a single deadline.
That’s an incredible track record, but in all fairness, all his works are basically the same, so it’s more diligence than a wellspring of creativity that’s the driving force here. I’m always joking that if you like one FUNA series, you like them all, which I personally see as a good thing. The flipside is true as well, though.
yeah like Light Novels… photons and waves man… doh
Sounds nice, not a lightnovel though.
DOH
I did not look at what I was posting in, haha guess your community hit the front page of All.
Nice. We could use some more foot traffic here.
Since you’re already here and obviously a reader, can I interest you in the wonderful world of Japanese lightnovels? The closest thing to compare them to would be Young Adult novels. Not exactly Pulitzer Prize contenders, but really easy to read and entertaining. Especially if you haven’t had any contact with them yet, it can feel really refreshing to get a whole different set of genres and tropes to read through.
I may have already - does “The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn’t a Guy at All” count? One of my kiddos suggested it.
I’m not familiar with that series, but it looks like this is a manga. Think Japanese comic books. Light novels on the other hand are just written words with the occasional illustration here and there (usually around 3-5 or so throughout a volume). They share the same origin country and light novels often get adapted into the manga format, so trope-wise, that would indeed be a first contact.
