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

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  • NineSwords@ani.socialMtoLightNovels@ani.social•What light novel(s) have you read last week, and what do you think about it? [March 24 - March 30]English
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    14 hours ago

    <Management of a Novice Alchemist: Volume 4> - Not-Ryza is still at heart a cute-girls-doing-cute-things story, but in this volume, the dialogue is incredibly stilted, the general plot is fragmented, and the pacing is all over the place. One example would be the “sitting around the table flashback arc”. Imagine the girls sitting around the table and telling the story of what happened last week. Everyone in the room was there and involved, but they’re speaking like they are explaining what happened to an invisible listener (us, the readers). I can follow the story easily enough, but if you actually imagine that scene playing out, the dialogue between those characters would be so incredibly abstract and out of place. It’s like those instances where info-dumps are forced into a dialogue: “Hello, Gertrude, youngest daughter of my long lost brother Manfred, whom I secretly killed out of jealousy”. It’s the same here, just that a small sub-story gets delivered in this unnatural way. And going by how awkward the placement is, I would guess that this was something added after the fact as padding for the novel version. It does not fit into it, it breaks up the main arc, and the delivery is terribly written. I would rather they had made it a normal" bonus chapter at the end if they needed to fill a couple more pages. Bath time illustration btw.

    <My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 10> - Winter sets in and the family is having some winter fun. They also get a new member in the form of a fire spirit. But it’s a strange volume since, for some reason, suddenly and without any indication why they seem to have become paranoid and start to set up traps and gear up for a potential attack. There is no in-universe reason for them to suddenly think they’re going to be attacked. From a meta point of view, the volume ends on some potential adversary starting to produce fake knives with the group’s insignia, so there might be some struggle on the horizon for which this gearing up was set up. The problem is that they didn’t know that yet, so it’s strange that the comfy group suddenly prepares for war.

  • NineSwords@ani.socialMtoLightNovels@ani.social•Midweek discussions - Here there be tearsEnglish
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    5 days ago

    She’s learning something new, but I think she understands it now. Or at least I’m at the end of my rope trying to teach her and need a break.

    Anyway, putting a series title between less than, greater than signs should trigger her to look up the title and reply with the volumes. she’s currently running on my PC but once I have the energy to mess with linux services I’ll move her over to the Alexandria server where she does her other tasks.

  • NineSwords@ani.socialMtoLightNovels@ani.social•What light novel(s) have you read last week, and what do you think about it? [March 17 - March 23]English
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    8 days ago

    They Don’t Know I’m Too Young for the Adventurer’s Guild: Volume 1 - Really strong first volume. The side characters have a real personality and quirks, their own agenda, wishes, and dreams. MC is likable and looking through his eyes I, as the reader, get some of the sense of wonder and adventure as him (even though the world-building itself is just from the usual, basic fantasy kit). If someone likes character-driven fantasy with a realistic (read, non-overpowered) MC then I highly recommend this LN.

    Imperial Reincarnation: I Came, I Saw, I Survived Volume 1 - Terrible writing style. Reminds me of Finding Avalon with a world-building info dump that feels more like disoriented rambling without any correlation to what’s happening in the story or where it’s going. And then the same info dump gets repeated when there’s a chapter from a different character’s POV. Roughly 90% of the info dump is unrelated to the situation at hand. In contrast to finding Avalon though it doesn’t get better throughout the volume. The shitty info-dump writing style continues and just switches to new topics once the earlier topics have been exhausted. Dropped after 60%.

    Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 23 - Satou takes a step back to let the party gain some independence. At the same time, he somehow became an employee of a small shop selling adventurer tools and gear. I wish they had taken the time to at the very least spend a paragraph or so on how that came to be after just offering to help out for a bit at the beginning. Feels like there’s missing a bit there between helping out and somehow working there as a live-in-employee. But there are 3 cute hamster-kids so it’s all good. On the other hand, no Karion and Urion which is a letdown.

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