If my monsters are imagined, why do they trigger the motion sensor lights?

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  • I think you can see why so many source readers dislike the anime adaptation. It’s not bad but it’s lacking in every department. Endearing character traits are just not there, details that are essential to the world-building get cut, and tonal shifts to make the anime more lighthearted where the source always did a balancing act between depressingly dark and laugh-out-loud funny. I think the anime adaptation does a terrible job at representing the books. Which is really okay for source readers to see the scenes animated, but it’s bad for people for whom this is their first contact.

    That all being said, I look forward to the next season animated by Studio WIT. I hope they will not treat it as something that’s delegated to the apprentices to make some quick cash but something to sic their A-Team on!


  • I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too, Vol. 1 - I was in the mood for something shitty and I remembered that I disliked the anime of this series. And oh boy, did this series deliver: if shitty you want, it’s shitty you get. Seriously, it was hard getting even through the prologue. The type where MC’s parents criminally neglect him as a little kid Cinderella style and mean kindergartner gangs are beating him up because he’s pudgy. In general, everyone around him is sadistic and tortures MC with the only exception being his grandfather who dies and MC now inherits his house, which is a convenient setup for MC to live alone in a house as a middle schooler. #justMCthings. Anyway, a few chapters later, MC now starting high school spent his cheat ability points in the isekai world and is now about 8000x more athletic as his previous pudgy self (his initial stats were 1 across the board and now he’s in the 8000 range). He basically beefed up to the extreme and had to get new clothes and everything but when everyone is looking at him he is convinced that it’s just because he is fat. It’s like “oh look at my rock-hard abs and how my clothes aren’t fitting anymore and don’t forget my mega huge junk (<- no joke)” and a chapter later he goes “Oh no, I’m so fat that everyone is looking down on me”. Oblivious and a full-on victim complex - just what I love in my main characters.

    I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too, Vol. 2 - Yes, second volume. I’m in my self-hate phase and don’t deserve good books. It’s the only explanation. Anyway, at the end of volume 1, he picks up a sumo-ringer gang member with one hand, juggles him a bit, and then throws him several meters away. In chapter 1 of this volume, he gets a sword as an item drop and the description reads “someone with average strength cannot even lift it”. MC is completely baffled how someone as pathetic as him can lift it then. What the fuck does he think “average strength” is. And it’s not even written in a funny “ha ha look at how oblivious MC is” parody type of way. No, this entire series lacks complete self-awareness. MC is not somewhere on the autistic scale, he is the scale. All of it. It’s an achievement. Another example? Sure why not: he wonders why he gets so many rare item drops. In the first volume he literally spells it out and from then on explicitly puts most of his stat points into his luck stat because it affects item drops. “Oh let’s put all my stat points into item drops because that makes item drops better” -> “Gosh jolly, I really wonder why I get all those rare item drops. It’s really beyond me…”. The chunii wish fulfillment is also getting more extreme. MC is literally what a pre-pubescent kid would dream up what a “cool guy” would be. “Wow, he lives alone and he is super strong and, and when he walks through the mall he gets asked to model for a photoshoot and he always wins at crane game and every girl loves him, the guys want to be him and his hot, female teacher want to marry him and presses her hihihihihi breast against his arm when they link arms huehuehuehehehe, I said breasts!”.

    Tearmoon Empire: Volume 14 - The translator seems to have found their step since the translation didn’t stick out negatively even when being conscious about it. This volume was more of the usual Mushoomancer Mia shenanigans. There’s one part that I didn’t like when something happens to little kids but it is resolved very quickly so I let it slide.

    Dagashi-ya Yahagi: Setting Up a Sweets Shop in Another World: Volume 3 - this time there’s a robot fight tournament and a huge metal dinosaur that needs to be revived by jolting it with the mana of a lightning strike (taking exactly 1.21 jigomatts of mana ;) ). It’s an entertaining series even though the weaknesses of the past volumes didn’t improve. There is still just the right item added to the store two sentences before it is needed.






  • A homeless man gets killed by a group of sadistic rich frat boys for fun. A seemingly benevolent god shows compassion for his ordeal and offers to reincarnate the man in a fantasy world. Our MC was a hikkikomori otaku before he got kicked out of his home and jumps at the opportunity with visions of all the imaginary adventures he’s been on when he used to consume otaku culture en mass.

    But alas, the world isn’t a fantasy novel and even the gods are even worse than frat boys. Instead of loading him full of cheat skills and sending him to a fantasy world full of big busted elfs and 1000-year-old lolis, he is send to a desolate hellscape inhabited only by hellish goat-deamons where our MC now have to survive with nothing more than what he can forage.




  • She could scream “sexual harassment”, cancel him on social media, then the local and national news get involved, his family disown him and after he commits suicide near the end of the novel the ghost girl tries to pick him up as a ghost but he’s angry and she get rejected. The twist is that it’s the ghost girl that has to forget that feeling someday instead of the boy.




  • Yuuki met a ghost girl at a bus stop and misinterpreted her friendly demeanor as a romantic interest. After he tries to kiss her she shoots him down and he now can’t forget that embarrassing moment. Later he tells a waiter “Thanks, you too”.

    Since it’s a Yoru Sumino novel it is mandatory for the reader to assume a fetal position when reading.




















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