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  • The Otome Heroine’s Fight for Survival #4 & I’m not the final Boss’s Lover #5

    Posted on February 28, 2025 12:16 am by Offkorn Comment

    The Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival series continues to hold up well in its fourth entry. It marks the end of the titular game’s prologue and the action will apparently be shifting to an academy setting in the next novel, which is something I’m not looking forward to… but I guess we’ll see how it goes.

    Checking on a whim, I was quite surprised to find that Choejong Boss’eui Aein’irani Ohaeibnida was back up on Amazon. Even more surprising was that the fifth entry turned out to be the series’ conclusion. Unfortunately, it’s not very good at all and makes me wonder if it just rapidly deteriorated here at the end or I happened to be in a particularly forgiving mood at the time I read the first four books.

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  • EASYGOING TERRITORY DEFENSE #4 & The Strange Adventure of a Broke MERCENARY #10

    Posted on February 18, 2025 1:42 pm by Offkorn Comment

    Not much to say about the fourth Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei novel, as it’s much the same in atmosphere to the prequels. So if you greatly enjoyed the character behavior up to this point it should continue to deliver. Personally though, the titular optimism is starting to wear on me.

    The tenth Kuitsume Youhei installment feels phoned-in. It’s not bad exactly, but just comes across like filler. It seems to only exist as an excuse to inform the protagonists of the missing dark gods’ names… but you could’ve just had the known dark god list them off and not have bothered with this otherwise pointless trip.

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  • Dimension Wave #2 & Mercedes and the Waning Moon

    Posted on February 13, 2025 3:43 am by Offkorn Comment

    The second Dimension Wave novel goes in completely different direction from the first, right into solo base-building territory. The main problem with this being that it doesn’t make any sense at all for a single person to get transported to the island instead of their whole party, especially in what’s supposed to be an MMO, let alone be indefinitely trapped there and completely isolated from the outside. Probably going to drop it here.

    Kaketa Tsuki no Mercedes has a misleading English subtitle (The Dungeoneering Feats of a Discarded Vampire Aristocrat, the Japanese subtitle is perfectly on-point though) considering that she’s never discarded. Quite the opposite. It’s the variety of overpowered protagonist series where due to certain circumstances they don’t actually realize how overpowered they are, and in general mood it reminds me a bit of Moto Ansatsusha, Tensei shita Kizoku no Reijou ni Narimashita minus the romance elements.

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    This entry was posted in Book Related and tagged Aneko Yusagi Dimension Wave Fantasy Fire head Kaketa Tsuki no Mercedes Science Fiction Young Adult Novel
  • WIEDERGEBURT #1-5 & Privateer’s Commission

    Posted on February 3, 2025 12:58 pm by Offkorn Comment

    Another series that’s been floating around my recommendations page for ages, Brandon Varnell‘s Wiedergeburt novels (subtitle: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior) mimic Asian LNs in structure.

    The first book starts off quite awful with an exceptionally clunky writing style only to improve a shocking decree after the time warp. From there through the fourth book it remains a fairly entertaining overpowered protagonist series, the only issue being the rather arbitrary flashbacks (which the author freely admits at one point were just an excuse to include sex scenes). The fifth one however comes across as more forced than usual and future event developments look to continue on in that mold.

    Randi Darren‘s Privateer’s Commission is one of the few books that survived the purge of anything that looked like it might be a fanservice-first series from my recommendation page, and I’m rather glad it did because it turned out to be a lot of fun with some hilarious ‘comedy of errors’ sequences. Not sure it’ll hold up if any potential continuation gives into consummating the harem… but as a stand-alone it works incredibly well.

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    This entry was posted in Book Related and tagged Brandon Varnell Fantasy Paranormal Romance Randi Darren Romance Science Fiction Wiedergeburt Young Adult Novel
  • Isekai Walking: Elesia Kingdom Arc & Housekeeping Mage from Another World #8

    Posted on January 10, 2025 3:31 pm by Offkorn Comment

    I will never understand why so many Japanese LN authors are obsessed with detailing their characters’ eating/cooking habits. It’s just utterly nonsensical, particularly for a series like Isekai Walking (English subtitle: Walking around the Otherworld). With that kind of name you’d think the book’s greatest focus would be on traveling, but no. Instead it’s a quarter food porn, a quarter walking with the related stat blocks, and half basic questing with some action. Worse is that while the protagonist’s base skill is indeed ‘Walking’, for some inexplicable reason leveling it allows him to instantly learn any other skill he wants; alchemy, swordsmanship, dimension magic… all are fair game.

    The eighth Kasei Madoushi novel is quite good, and I’m impressed with how the author manages to continuously expand upon earlier events so naturally. This installment focuses mainly on the start of spreading housekeeping magic to other interested parties while also fitting in a bit of action and wrapping things up by getting our core group of characters all caught up with each others’ pasts.

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  • My INSTANT DEATH ability is so OVERPOWERED: After Story & Sword Saint Adel’s Second Chance #3

    Posted on January 8, 2025 3:29 pm by Offkorn Comment

    Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou sugite‘s Atoshimatsu-hen installment, oddly, starts off by detailing the healer’s first isekai adventure which occurred before the series proper began. Why? Who would ever care about that? From there it moves on to briefly address the other classmates before focusing on the one beastkin guy and the ninja duo. Little time is spent with the assorted Dannoura’s, and the protagonist barely appears.

    The third Kenseijo Adel no Yarinaoshi novel is basically a mess. It starts out with far too much unicorn/pegasus fanservice and then ends with a ludicrously forced boss fight. Just the most hamfisted resolution possible.

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  • Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World #9 Canto I-II & From Villainess to Healer

    Posted on December 30, 2024 12:47 pm by Offkorn Comment

    The tenth and eleventh TRPG Player books are once again a split volume. The focus this time is on bringing down a drug cartel while facing off against a team of assassins, assassins who moonlight as love interests in the second half’s surprisingly sex-centered alternate timeline segment (the first alternate timeline segment features the protagonist as a pirate-hunting privateer). Nothing much to complain about in either half.

    Kaifukushoku no Akuyaku Reijou meanwhile is an extremely light-hearted and low-stakes adventure with basically zero believability that looks like it’s going to end up more travelogue than dungeon-crawler. And though the ‘healer’ part of the title is well-represented, you can completely ignore the ‘villainess’ part since the only villain in this story so far is her former fiancé.

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  • The Water Magician: The Central Provinces Arc III & Dimension Wave

    Posted on December 19, 2024 12:46 am by Offkorn Comment

    The third Mizu Zokusei novel is much like the first two. If you enjoyed the banter in those then there’s no reason not to continue on through this one.

    Dimension Wave is a story in the vein of Free Life Fantasy, except with a protagonist who’s obsessed with fishing rather than crafting and isn’t (yet) notably overpowered. There isn’t anywhere near as strong a focus on game mechanics either, with it being more ensemble-based with a greater emphasis on character interaction… and fairly strong hints of future harem development.

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    This entry was posted in Book Related and tagged Aneko Yusagi Dimension Wave Fantasy Mizu Zokusei no Mahoutsukai Daiichibu Science Fiction Tadashi Kubou Young Adult Novel
  • The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! #8 & Free Life Fantasy: Online -IMMORTAL PRINCESS- #8

    Posted on December 16, 2024 10:52 am by Offkorn Comment

    I picked up this eighth volume of Isekai Mahou wa Okureteru! after seeing the series had finally come off hiatus only to promptly drop it ~15% of the way through after being reminded of everything I didn’t like about it.

    Speaking of things I didn’t like, I still have no idea why I keep following Immortal Princess. Somehow despite coming within a hair’s breadth of dropping it at the beginning of the eighth installment, which starts off incredibly randomly, I ended up at the end with an ambivalent “may as well keep reading to see where it goes”. Can’t even begin to explain how that happened.

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    This entry was posted in Book Related and tagged Akisuzu Nenohi Fantasy Free Life Fantasy Online Gamei Hitsuji Isekai Mahou wa Okureteru! Paranormal Romance Science Fiction Young Adult Novel
  • The Strange Adventure of a Broke MERCENARY #9 & HOW I BECAME KING BY EATING MONSTERS

    Posted on December 8, 2024 5:55 am by Offkorn Comment

    After the disappointment of Kuitsume Youhei no Gensou Kitan’s eighth novel I wasn’t really expecting anything (besides further disappointment) from the follow-up. Fortunately though it turned out pretty decent and more or less on par with the earlier books. Guess I won’t be dropping the series just yet after all.

    Picking up Monster no Niku o Kutteitara Oui ni Tsuita Ken on a whim, I ended up pleasantly surprised that it’s primarily a misunderstanding-based comedy somewhat in the vein of Nageki no Bourei wa Intai shitai. The protagonist here however isn’t a dissembling coward and it gets quite a bit more graphic in the combat department. That said, the beginning is pretty rough with how he basically gets brow-beaten into adopting his training regime and it doesn’t truly pick up until after he becomes king about a third of the way through.

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