I have a book recommendation that quite litterally blew me away with how it blows all the troupes and the mc always wins story telling away. It made me question and wallow in dispair on how the mc will wiggle out of his dire situations he finds himself in. Many times in the story i feel like the mc would genuinely lose for real, but he finds engenius ways to win. So please check it out. Its called Legend of the Arch Magus. The world, story telling, characters all made me fell in love and i would love for you to enjoy it as much as i did.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy personaly it one of my favorite ln with bookworm ( to be fair i love all story where people manage a kingdom) don't hesitated to do a video about it if you like and to check my second recomadation it probaly in my top 3 it so damn good
As someone who's only read the SAO LN (and i liked it. Some parts couldve been different but it was still interesting to me) i want to read more light novels and your recommendations will help me find stuff i may or may not like
I was actually going to start SAO but didn't. But I always say for any medium to try as much as you can and form your own tastes on things. There's definitely stuff I don't like and stuff I love that others don't.
@ThatLightNovelGuy I'm kind of surprised you haven't as that's one that everyone knows about. But I appreciate the reply! I'll look forward to more of your videos in the future
I said I didn't mind much about stat sheets as a response on your tweet the other day. I think I want to change my answer lol. I like stat sheets that showcase the character, I don't care about the ones that are just labels with loads of numbers, I'm not reading these stories for the gaming aspect, I'm reading them for the escapism/power fantasy aspect. As for your point about the world building and intro plot being basic and ripped from that one game, I think it's not gonna change and to me its a hallmark of the medium because it's immensely easy shorthand for epic fantasy without having to actually spend the 200 or so pages normal novels would take to lore dump the world. if you remove it or start with a massive bit of exposition it'll change the way the reader engages with those works. As someone that reads both, I'd probably stop reading LNs if they did more standard world building because it would remove one of the things I find to be a strength of the medium.
See I feel different. A lot of these games do the same as Light Novels by having you the player discover things as they go along. I don't see why they can have unique or interesting worlds and locations while LNs largely just retread the same ones.
Have you read mushoku tensei? A couple things you mentioned kind of show up at one point or another, but i feel like they are handled really well overall. Its my favorite LN though i can understand if some people dont have the patience for the MC.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy that is generally the main stumbling block since one of the main themes of the story is redemption and growth fro a really bad place. He is worst in the earlier volumes. But I thought of it when talking about the school arc thing. In MT there is a later school arc that I really love and it feels natural.
@@stephenrhoades8686has Rudeus been punished for being a Pedo at all in any part of the series? I don't mind him perving on older women but i seriously have to draw the line for under age children. I know that he has to grow to be a better person but him not being punished for sth so wrong is just frustrating. That's why i can only stand the grown up version of him in ss2 (i skipped ss1 cuz i read the manga already)
@@denyrush3270the LN is more of a coming of age story rather than a redemption story because he never really gets punished for what he did in his previous life
The last light novel I read was the first volume of Your Forma, which has an adult main character and an anime for it was just announced, so it would seem to have a decent following.
I love all of these, by which i mean I too am rather tired of all these particular tropes lol. I love your list is what i meant to say I've been enjoying 'Instant Death Ability' quite a lot. The most interesting thing about it is the tone. The main story is very light hearted, comedic and with the goal of returning home. Each book has a closing chapter about the (genuinely) omnipotent death god's childhood that is mysterious and seriously creepy and scary. It really puts a lovely accent on the main story. Not a light novel series but The Wandering Inn has one of the most unique and probably the most effective (for immersion and storytelling) ways of including LitRPG elements into the world. No pages of stat-sheets but people can gain classes like receptionist, gossip and [innkeeper]. The series also includes very effective use of creatures and people that exist in the world outside of the 'tame' litrpg system - these entities are often scary and creepy and wonderous in such magnificent ways. combining full folklore witchy magic together with litrpg magic in such a way as to make both elements thrive :)
yea I agree with a lot of this stuff. I'm generally ok with characters that might follow a trope but a lot of these cliches sort of dominate the story in a really uncreative and boring way. I think the boring protagonist is especially fatal to a book, where you are reading their internal dialogue pretty much 80% of the time. Anime and manga might get away with it, but not a LN. I usually just drop the book straight away when the protagonist clearly has no personality within the first 2 chapters. Give me a weird, interesting, or relatable main character and I'm ready to give it a try. I know that the blank slate characters are supposed to be generically relatable but honestly I'd like to think that I have a bit more personality than these bland MCs. I agree with this problem being partly from us not being the "target" demographic but to be honest a lot adult literature/fiction titles are just goddamn dry in my opinion.
I'll be honest here the only light novels I own are Sword art Online, A Certain Magical Index, Accel world, Spice and Wolf and Durarara! I've sonly seen the adaptations of Toradora, Arifureta, Rising of the Shield Hero and High School DXD and I never read the books. The only overpowewred protagonists I have problems with are the Saiyans and the other Otherworldly fighters from Dragon Ball Super. I only saw the adaptations of Wise Man's Grandchild, I have not finished That time I got reincarnated as a Slime and Overlord. I grew off of Rising of the Shield Hero eventually.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy I align Japanese literature with the rest of literature. There's a ton of prolific Japanese writers from Japan and if anyone wants to read a good one to start off there's the book that Vagabond is based on called Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. There's also Hideyuki Kikuchi who wrote the Vampire Hunter D series, Yashakiden: The Demon Princess series, and others. Haruki Marukami is the go to prolific writer that people tend to go to when they want to truly experience 'good' Japanese writing as well.
I think I might have a light novel/manga for you that has an adult protagonist. Have you read "The NPC's In this Village Sim Game Must Be Real"? It has an adult protagonist who I really enjoy. I read the manga which has great art work but there it also is a light novel. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
I actually covered this one a few times on the channel. Even in an underrated title about a year back. I'm a huge fan of this and the Vending Machine Isekai which the author also wrote. Thanks!
@@ThatLightNovelGuy Ah cool! I need to go back and watch then. I must have missed it. Thanks! Love the rebrand btw! I enjoy light novels more just because of the extra details in the story you can get so I'm all for you covering them more!
Stats aren't hardly ever implemented well and I know this because I literally study TTRPGs for more than half my life. If you're going to add stats then you have to put a ton of emphasis of their abilities and have the characters figure eachother other out to counter abilities or work around them. For example in D&D skeletons take extra damage through blunt weapons, in D&D 3.5 edition there's an ability that can be broken called attack of opportunity that allows you to get a free atack whenever anything moves within the spaces of characters and can be used with a glaive thay extends the space which essentially turns you into a wall, then how spells require a saving throw for them to work aginst creatures which doesn't always mean success whenever they are casted, and so many things. You have to make stats matter and you have to make the abilities emphasized during combat. It's something a lot and I mean like 99% of these novels get wrong oddly enough. I honestly think it's because they literally have a basic understanding of design when it comes to TTRPGs and don't totally have the understanding of the depth when it comes to rules and how to exploit them. It's why stats in these stories are a pet peeve of mine as well because I know how well they could implement in the story but just totally fail at it. It's just so bizarre.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy It can be but it's been done before to great effect and that's Yu-Gi-Oh. Card games have a ton of stats, rules, abilities, etc. I imagine with the right amount of practice and forethought someone can make it flow properly when written. You have to be really, really into the depth of those games to make it work though.
@@doublestarships646 Tbh if Yu-Gi-Oh was in Light novel format it would be the same. You'd have a page of Yugi explaining what a card does to Kaiba while each page is filled with stats and life points etc. Especially now when the cards themselves have walls of text
@@ThatLightNovelGuy That's why I would use card games that use keywords like Magic. You only have to explain the keyword once and the game doesn't have walls of texts as well. Magic is easy to explain too. Yu-Gi-Oh would be difficult because you literally have to play like 15 cards on your turn where in Magic it's usually 1-5. So I would create a game that uses keywords often, not much wording and each turn usually 1-5 cards are played to keep it from dragging on.
@@doublestarships646 I'd still argue that you'd have to explain what each card does which would be a wall of text. While stats (and abilities) are cliche. You kinda know what a Fireball is gonna do.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy I prefer Kindle e-books myself, so you may not have seen it on the shelves yet. But it’s the story of a salaryman reincarnated as a baby and hoping for a slow life, but ends up in a kingdom that is surrounded by enemies and is being slowly suffocated from within by a criminally corrupt bureaucracy. It would seem at first glance to push a couple of your buttons, but I think it will all be meaningful in the end. Yuri, the mc is smart and very driven, and seeing everything stacked against him is enough to make the month I’ll be waiting for the fifth volume enough to drive me nuts. Check. It. Out. I’d love to hear what you think.
Honestly, what's the Point about Character Stats being mattered in most Light Novel Stories especially the Isekai Genre (Including Video Game-Esque RPG Elements in mostly typical same tiring Medieval Fantasy World Genres) when it only depends on the Plot from a Writing standpoint of the Author, it just makes it all Worthless, It's just like any other Power Fantasy series in other Shounen Based Manga and Anime like Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tail and even My Hero Academia, Power Levels are all Bulls**t.
To be honest, I don't mind the typical LN fantasy setting all that much as long as the characters and plot are decent enough. Don't get me wrong, a unique world is always a plus, but at the same time if the world is relatively standard as an author there is much less to explain about the world and theoretically the author can focus more on characters and story. Granted, the bland fantasy world often comes with a lot of other baggage, but to me it is not a red flag. Note btw that I have as of yet not come across a world in LN that feels like D&D. It is all JRPGs and that includes the monsters (although that can be a bit difficult to judge since I am sure there are crossovers between the two with D&D designers playing JRPGs and Japanese authors likely playing western games and certainly watching western Fantasy). Sure, they avoid wacky looking critters, but lets be honest, that would be a pain to get across in the written word ;)
I'm fine with generic settings. My issue is a lot of the time generic plots come with. There are always exceptions to this of course. Goblin Slayer is definitely a DnD type setting imo.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy Don't know Goblin Slayer very well. What little I do know does not sound like D&D to me. For example, adventurer's guilds are not a D&D trope at all. But most of the D&D tropes have more to do with classes, powers, and the role of monsters and of that I know virtually nothing of goblin slayer.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy O, talking about non generic fantasy worlds: Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World. I rarely have seen an author making sure the non-humans feel like non-humans. Were it not for the none-D&D magic and the fact that Erich can solo adventures I would call that something close to a more D&D trope world.
Adult MC: Strange Adventures of a Broke Mercenary, the Unwanted Undead Adventurer, the Saint's Omnipotent Power, and a slew more. Most are not isekai since there adults tend to be reborn as kids.
I agree with the suggestion of Strange Adventures of a Broke Mercenary and The Saint’s Power is Omniscient as good examples of titles with adult characters. Also Hello, I'm a Witch, and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion. So You Want to Live the Slow Life? A Guide to Life in the Beastly Wilds. The Inconvenient Life of an Arousing Priestess. One series I like that hits some of those tropes but I think is done well is Death March. Adult is reborn as a 15 year old. He is OP. But he acts like an adult throughout the story in how he treats others and thinks things through and goes about accomplishing things. This one also has the slave aspect but he never treats them as slaves and is actively trying to find a way to free the two that are cursed.
I agree on Death March. I would add that he never actively sets out to buy them, the slaves, either. Three he rescues from a very crappy situation, and at the time he cannot set them free easily. He later on does free them (society in the book is not that kind and the MC is not the type to start a war for it). There he is offered the other two, who are cursed and one is a reincarnation from Japan. The curse forces them to become slaves to whomever they first meet if not owned. He hasn't found a cure yet. Mind you, Death March does suffer from the "everybody with two X-chromosomes falls in love with him (most are rescued by him) even though the MC himself does not feel the same way at least...
i dont mind the tropes, what i absolutely fucking hate is that they read like pictureless manga. they even include the "hehe" or "haha" and that bugs the absolute shit out of me.
What things in Light Novels do you hate? Let me know!
I have a book recommendation that quite litterally blew me away with how it blows all the troupes and the mc always wins story telling away. It made me question and wallow in dispair on how the mc will wiggle out of his dire situations he finds himself in. Many times in the story i feel like the mc would genuinely lose for real, but he finds engenius ways to win. So please check it out. Its called Legend of the Arch Magus. The world, story telling, characters all made me fell in love and i would love for you to enjoy it as much as i did.
for the lack of adulte i know one serie that is good that have adulte character it call The Ideal Sponger Life it prety good in my opinion
another seri i would advice is The Rebirth of Han Yuxi is a prety good chinesse web novel with a translation ongoing one of the best serie i know
I enjoyed the first Sponger Life. I need to check more out. @@azopeopaz3059
@@ThatLightNovelGuy personaly it one of my favorite ln with bookworm ( to be fair i love all story where people manage a kingdom)
don't hesitated to do a video about it if you like and to check my second recomadation it probaly in my top 3 it so damn good
As someone who's only read the SAO LN (and i liked it. Some parts couldve been different but it was still interesting to me) i want to read more light novels and your recommendations will help me find stuff i may or may not like
I was actually going to start SAO but didn't.
But I always say for any medium to try as much as you can and form your own tastes on things. There's definitely stuff I don't like and stuff I love that others don't.
@ThatLightNovelGuy I'm kind of surprised you haven't as that's one that everyone knows about. But I appreciate the reply! I'll look forward to more of your videos in the future
@@kevlingcustomtitantrons9375 yeah I haven't gotten to some of the long running mega popular ones yet. But it's not like they're going away
@@ThatLightNovelGuy that's definitely true
Want some Light Novels that I like? Why not try this Top 50 Light Novel video and you'll find something new! th-cam.com/video/a2as7RG5UJE/w-d-xo.html
I really enjoy this video 🤩 more like this please. 😁
I'll do my best
I said I didn't mind much about stat sheets as a response on your tweet the other day. I think I want to change my answer lol. I like stat sheets that showcase the character, I don't care about the ones that are just labels with loads of numbers, I'm not reading these stories for the gaming aspect, I'm reading them for the escapism/power fantasy aspect.
As for your point about the world building and intro plot being basic and ripped from that one game, I think it's not gonna change and to me its a hallmark of the medium because it's immensely easy shorthand for epic fantasy without having to actually spend the 200 or so pages normal novels would take to lore dump the world. if you remove it or start with a massive bit of exposition it'll change the way the reader engages with those works. As someone that reads both, I'd probably stop reading LNs if they did more standard world building because it would remove one of the things I find to be a strength of the medium.
See I feel different. A lot of these games do the same as Light Novels by having you the player discover things as they go along. I don't see why they can have unique or interesting worlds and locations while LNs largely just retread the same ones.
Noooo! That ending is such a cliffhanger 😭
Have you read mushoku tensei? A couple things you mentioned kind of show up at one point or another, but i feel like they are handled really well overall. Its my favorite LN though i can understand if some people dont have the patience for the MC.
Only read vol 1 and it was about 5 years ago. MC put me off but I understand he's to grow
@@ThatLightNovelGuy that is generally the main stumbling block since one of the main themes of the story is redemption and growth fro a really bad place. He is worst in the earlier volumes. But I thought of it when talking about the school arc thing. In MT there is a later school arc that I really love and it feels natural.
@@stephenrhoades8686has Rudeus been punished for being a Pedo at all in any part of the series? I don't mind him perving on older women but i seriously have to draw the line for under age children. I know that he has to grow to be a better person but him not being punished for sth so wrong is just frustrating. That's why i can only stand the grown up version of him in ss2 (i skipped ss1 cuz i read the manga already)
@@denyrush3270the LN is more of a coming of age story rather than a redemption story because he never really gets punished for what he did in his previous life
The last light novel I read was the first volume of Your Forma, which has an adult main character and an anime for it was just announced, so it would seem to have a decent following.
I read vol 1 of that and quite liked it. Bit like Psycho Pass
I love all of these, by which i mean I too am rather tired of all these particular tropes lol. I love your list is what i meant to say
I've been enjoying 'Instant Death Ability' quite a lot. The most interesting thing about it is the tone. The main story is very light hearted, comedic and with the goal of returning home. Each book has a closing chapter about the (genuinely) omnipotent death god's childhood that is mysterious and seriously creepy and scary. It really puts a lovely accent on the main story.
Not a light novel series but The Wandering Inn has one of the most unique and probably the most effective (for immersion and storytelling) ways of including LitRPG elements into the world. No pages of stat-sheets but people can gain classes like receptionist, gossip and [innkeeper]. The series also includes very effective use of creatures and people that exist in the world outside of the 'tame' litrpg system - these entities are often scary and creepy and wonderous in such magnificent ways. combining full folklore witchy magic together with litrpg magic in such a way as to make both elements thrive :)
I'm sure there's more things I'm sick of too. The samey looking otome/villainess ones coulda been on the list too.
Thanks for the recommendations
Do you have a anilist? I wanna get your recs from you because you look like you got good taste.
yea I agree with a lot of this stuff. I'm generally ok with characters that might follow a trope but a lot of these cliches sort of dominate the story in a really uncreative and boring way. I think the boring protagonist is especially fatal to a book, where you are reading their internal dialogue pretty much 80% of the time. Anime and manga might get away with it, but not a LN. I usually just drop the book straight away when the protagonist clearly has no personality within the first 2 chapters. Give me a weird, interesting, or relatable main character and I'm ready to give it a try. I know that the blank slate characters are supposed to be generically relatable but honestly I'd like to think that I have a bit more personality than these bland MCs.
I agree with this problem being partly from us not being the "target" demographic but to be honest a lot adult literature/fiction titles are just goddamn dry in my opinion.
Yeah I agree. Some of these things aren't exactly related only to light novels and also afflicting western media too.
I've only played Dragon Quest 6, 7, 8, 9 and Builders on My N3DS and PS4.
You need to play Dragon Quest 11. It's my favorite game of all time
I'll be honest here the only light novels I own are Sword art Online, A Certain Magical Index, Accel world, Spice and Wolf and Durarara! I've sonly seen the adaptations of Toradora, Arifureta, Rising of the Shield Hero and High School DXD and I never read the books. The only overpowewred protagonists I have problems with are the Saiyans and the other Otherworldly fighters from Dragon Ball Super. I only saw the adaptations of Wise Man's Grandchild, I have not finished That time I got reincarnated as a Slime and Overlord. I grew off of Rising of the Shield Hero eventually.
I highly recommend people to read normal literature between light novels to help not lettting these tropes get to you.
Or can just read Japanese novels. Plenty of variation in there too.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy I align Japanese literature with the rest of literature. There's a ton of prolific Japanese writers from Japan and if anyone wants to read a good one to start off there's the book that Vagabond is based on called Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. There's also Hideyuki Kikuchi who wrote the Vampire Hunter D series, Yashakiden: The Demon Princess series, and others. Haruki Marukami is the go to prolific writer that people tend to go to when they want to truly experience 'good' Japanese writing as well.
@@doublestarships646 I've been enjoying Tomihiko Morimi and Keigo Higashino's work recently.
@ThatLightNovelGuy May I recommend some Japanese Novels...
Shiki - horror
Twelve Kingdoms - isekai
Hyouka - School slice of life
Another -Horror
Personally I hate the "I'm weak but have strong powers" troupe.
But I do like Chivalry of a Failed Knight
Or 'this skill is useless but proceeds to break the game'
I think I might have a light novel/manga for you that has an adult protagonist. Have you read "The NPC's In this Village Sim Game Must Be Real"? It has an adult protagonist who I really enjoy. I read the manga which has great art work but there it also is a light novel. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
I actually covered this one a few times on the channel. Even in an underrated title about a year back. I'm a huge fan of this and the Vending Machine Isekai which the author also wrote. Thanks!
@@ThatLightNovelGuy Ah cool! I need to go back and watch then. I must have missed it. Thanks! Love the rebrand btw! I enjoy light novels more just because of the extra details in the story you can get so I'm all for you covering them more!
@@86-company thanks! All in on the LNs now so looking forward to where it takes me
I've only seen the adaptations of Kino's Journey
What I hate about those series, they are too long and they never end!
Stats aren't hardly ever implemented well and I know this because I literally study TTRPGs for more than half my life. If you're going to add stats then you have to put a ton of emphasis of their abilities and have the characters figure eachother other out to counter abilities or work around them. For example in D&D skeletons take extra damage through blunt weapons, in D&D 3.5 edition there's an ability that can be broken called attack of opportunity that allows you to get a free atack whenever anything moves within the spaces of characters and can be used with a glaive thay extends the space which essentially turns you into a wall, then how spells require a saving throw for them to work aginst creatures which doesn't always mean success whenever they are casted, and so many things. You have to make stats matter and you have to make the abilities emphasized during combat. It's something a lot and I mean like 99% of these novels get wrong oddly enough. I honestly think it's because they literally have a basic understanding of design when it comes to TTRPGs and don't totally have the understanding of the depth when it comes to rules and how to exploit them. It's why stats in these stories are a pet peeve of mine as well because I know how well they could implement in the story but just totally fail at it. It's just so bizarre.
To be honest the way you described it sounds like a nightmare too.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy It can be but it's been done before to great effect and that's Yu-Gi-Oh. Card games have a ton of stats, rules, abilities, etc. I imagine with the right amount of practice and forethought someone can make it flow properly when written. You have to be really, really into the depth of those games to make it work though.
@@doublestarships646 Tbh if Yu-Gi-Oh was in Light novel format it would be the same. You'd have a page of Yugi explaining what a card does to Kaiba while each page is filled with stats and life points etc.
Especially now when the cards themselves have walls of text
@@ThatLightNovelGuy That's why I would use card games that use keywords like Magic. You only have to explain the keyword once and the game doesn't have walls of texts as well. Magic is easy to explain too. Yu-Gi-Oh would be difficult because you literally have to play like 15 cards on your turn where in Magic it's usually 1-5. So I would create a game that uses keywords often, not much wording and each turn usually 1-5 cards are played to keep it from dragging on.
@@doublestarships646 I'd still argue that you'd have to explain what each card does which would be a wall of text.
While stats (and abilities) are cliche. You kinda know what a Fireball is gonna do.
All this makes me wonder what you think of "Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom."
Haven't head of that one
@@ThatLightNovelGuy I prefer Kindle e-books myself, so you may not have seen it on the shelves yet. But it’s the story of a salaryman reincarnated as a baby and hoping for a slow life, but ends up in a kingdom that is surrounded by enemies and is being slowly suffocated from within by a criminally corrupt bureaucracy. It would seem at first glance to push a couple of your buttons, but I think it will all be meaningful in the end. Yuri, the mc is smart and very driven, and seeing everything stacked against him is enough to make the month I’ll be waiting for the fifth volume enough to drive me nuts. Check. It. Out. I’d love to hear what you think.
I think J-Novel Club have it so it'll be on bookwalker I expect. I'll mauve look into it someday
Honestly, what's the Point about Character Stats being mattered in most Light Novel Stories especially the Isekai Genre (Including Video Game-Esque RPG Elements in mostly typical same tiring Medieval Fantasy World Genres) when it only depends on the Plot from a Writing standpoint of the Author, it just makes it all Worthless,
It's just like any other Power Fantasy series in other Shounen Based Manga and Anime like Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Fairy Tail and even My Hero Academia, Power Levels are all Bulls**t.
But how else will we argue who is stronger?
You should read oversummoned overpowered and over it
What's it about?
If you don't like Japanese light novels, you're going to hate Korean light novels.
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I'm happy it helped you
To be honest, I don't mind the typical LN fantasy setting all that much as long as the characters and plot are decent enough. Don't get me wrong, a unique world is always a plus, but at the same time if the world is relatively standard as an author there is much less to explain about the world and theoretically the author can focus more on characters and story. Granted, the bland fantasy world often comes with a lot of other baggage, but to me it is not a red flag. Note btw that I have as of yet not come across a world in LN that feels like D&D. It is all JRPGs and that includes the monsters (although that can be a bit difficult to judge since I am sure there are crossovers between the two with D&D designers playing JRPGs and Japanese authors likely playing western games and certainly watching western Fantasy). Sure, they avoid wacky looking critters, but lets be honest, that would be a pain to get across in the written word ;)
I'm fine with generic settings. My issue is a lot of the time generic plots come with. There are always exceptions to this of course.
Goblin Slayer is definitely a DnD type setting imo.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy Don't know Goblin Slayer very well. What little I do know does not sound like D&D to me. For example, adventurer's guilds are not a D&D trope at all. But most of the D&D tropes have more to do with classes, powers, and the role of monsters and of that I know virtually nothing of goblin slayer.
@@ThatLightNovelGuy O, talking about non generic fantasy worlds: Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World. I rarely have seen an author making sure the non-humans feel like non-humans. Were it not for the none-D&D magic and the fact that Erich can solo adventures I would call that something close to a more D&D trope world.
I hate when good series, especially comedies, get new translators who sucks. Killing Slimes 300 Years and Tear Moon empire are examples.
Adult MC: Strange Adventures of a Broke Mercenary, the Unwanted Undead Adventurer, the Saint's Omnipotent Power, and a slew more. Most are not isekai since there adults tend to be reborn as kids.
Thanks for the recommendation
adult as adult = gate
Someday we will get it over here (We will not)
Bro rebranded
I did a few weeks ago :) Even made a video on it and everything :')
@@ThatLightNovelGuy Guess I missed it. I think it matches your newer content better.
@@necrogem6405 yup! All in on LNs with the odd manga thing. Some exciting news to come
I agree with the suggestion of Strange Adventures of a Broke Mercenary and The Saint’s Power is Omniscient as good examples of titles with adult characters.
Also Hello, I'm a Witch, and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion.
So You Want to Live the Slow Life? A Guide to Life in the Beastly Wilds.
The Inconvenient Life of an Arousing Priestess.
One series I like that hits some of those tropes but I think is done well is Death March.
Adult is reborn as a 15 year old. He is OP.
But he acts like an adult throughout the story in how he treats others and thinks things through and goes about accomplishing things.
This one also has the slave aspect but he never treats them as slaves and is actively trying to find a way to free the two that are cursed.
Been meaning to read Death March. I'm sure I have vol 1...somewhere. but heard it was a very slow burn too
I agree on Death March. I would add that he never actively sets out to buy them, the slaves, either. Three he rescues from a very crappy situation, and at the time he cannot set them free easily. He later on does free them (society in the book is not that kind and the MC is not the type to start a war for it). There he is offered the other two, who are cursed and one is a reincarnation from Japan. The curse forces them to become slaves to whomever they first meet if not owned. He hasn't found a cure yet. Mind you, Death March does suffer from the "everybody with two X-chromosomes falls in love with him (most are rescued by him) even though the MC himself does not feel the same way at least...
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i dont mind the tropes, what i absolutely fucking hate is that they read like pictureless manga. they even include the "hehe" or "haha" and that bugs the absolute shit out of me.
Yeah I get that. Although I guess most are pretty much just pictureless manga as is.