Syosetsuka ni Narou Discussion Thread

[Poligrafowicz]

Originally Posted by Breimoon

In a few pages earlier there was a summary of web novel version i think.

I tried searching using the search option, but that failed miserably (I couldn't find anything for keyword Ryouridou). Searching the name in kanji also failed (seems the fulltext search option treats every kanji as a separate word and that is bound to fail). I searched manually the last 10 threads (or so), but I found nothing.

[Breimoon]

Here is link
https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=131916

[Poligrafowicz]

Originally Posted by Breimoon

Here is link
https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=131916

Thanks, I guess I couldn't find it because the author of the thread wrote ryori-do with a dash...

[aohige]

Originally Posted by cabman11

you know what never gets addressed in these web novels
>going to the bathroom and toilet paper
> oh and Male characters that become female, they never cover the period problem

Originally Posted by Solistia

THIS. It's the exact reason I started writing this: http://www.royalroadl.com/fiction/1050

I would love to see more novels that actually touch on the problems inherent with living in the middle or (even worse) dark ages. Even with magic, you're gonna run in horrible and gross stuff D8

If any knows a good narou novel like that, link meh =u=b

One of the novels I have bookmarked called Dream Life - Yume no Isekai Seikatsu - spends a significant amount of the early days improving on the horrible conditions of the bathrooms and developing sanitary restrooms with modern standards.

The protagonist is also an avid drinker, knowledgeable in beer and wine brewing, and he also spends even more significant time developing advance brewery.

On the whole Dream Life is a gaiden (side-story) to Trinitas Mundus, taking place in earlier time in the same world.
While the main story "Trinitas Mundus" is a more straight forward adventure story with a young teenage summoned protagonist, Dream Life focuses on a comfy Slice-of-life story of a mature salaryman protagonist who reincarnated into this world with instruction by the gods to prepare to guide a messiah who will come to the world in the later years (most likely either the hero of TM or someone equally important).
So in a way, Dream Life protagonist's role in the overall story is sort of like Rudeus in Mushoku Tensei.

[cabman11]

http://ncode.syosetu.com/n4925cg/

iron and steel cars in a different world

I got a good one here.
basically the main character wins the lottery and then dies a year too early than what he's supposed to by an accident from God. in order to repay him back she sends them back to earth and says he gets to live his remaining year and enjoy his lottery money and then once the year is up she will repay him by sending him to another world allowing him to take anything he wants with him. he did spend his remaining last year with his family who also know he's going to die in a year and spends time buying a lot of stuff to take with him. (God gave him an item box) he brings a lot of stuff but the most important thing he brings his with him is an armored car.

now he's driving around adventuring in a different world with an armored car
(and internet access)

WARNING MCs death and parting with family will give you so much feels

[Kaito Yamakage]

Originally Posted by cabman11

http://ncode.syosetu.com/n4925cg/

iron and steel cars in a different world

I got a good one here.
basically the main character wins the lottery and then dies a year too early than what he's supposed to by an accident from God. in order to repay him back she sends them back to earth and says he gets to live his remaining year and enjoy his lottery money and then once the year is up she will repay him by sending him to another world allowing him to take anything he wants with him. he did spend his remaining last year with his family who also know he's going to die in a year and spends time buying a lot of stuff to take with him. (God gave him an item box) he brings a lot of stuff but the most important thing he brings his with him is an armored car.

now he's driving around adventuring in a different world with an armored car
(and internet access)

WARNING MCs death and parting with family will give you so much feels

Also known as Transporter 4, whether it be goblin or orc, he'll drive right through it to get you to your destination.


The pace on that one was a bit hard for me to read, it's more of a slice of life/naisei cheat one where he brings tons of heavy vehicles and machinery with him to the other world.

Similar to the other lottery one, but quite different, he can't go back and forth in this one though he pretty much loads all of the PBs of data on the internet onto disks before he goes, 1 year to prepare and tons of money so he's limited on that end but already has all he needs before he goes.

[Himasugiteman]

Originally Posted by laon

Here's another decent WN from my perspective : ニートだけどハロワにいったら異世界につれてかれた Neet Dakedo Haroniwa Ittara Isekai Nitsure Tekareta

I wonder if there is any English translated version for this WN?

[xatom12]

could someone check this novel: http://ncode.syosetu.com/n1447bx
released on : March 28, 2015 to be LN http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/book/bk_de...d=321409000109
Genre: RPG.Zombie.[the Real World turning to fantasy with status or skills] that i checked using by MT
reason: the full cover of this LN is cool on pixiv.

[cabman11]

the one thing that pisses me off about that one MC's attitude to not hurting women at all in ANY situation.
JUST KILL THE ZOMBIE BITCH.

[aohige]

Originally Posted by xatom12

could someone check this novel: http://ncode.syosetu.com/n1447bx
released on : March 28, 2015 to be LN http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/book/bk_de...d=321409000109
Genre: RPG.Zombie.[the Real World turning to fantasy with status or skills] that i checked using by MT
reason: the full cover of this LN is cool on pixiv.

I follow it.
The title is called "The world turned into a Deathgame, and it's fun!"

It's not a standard "travel/summon/reincarnate to another world", it's actually what if OUR world suddenly became video game world.

It's a zombie apocalypse but also with monsters, dragons, and video game rules.
As with any zombie apocalypse, majority of the mob characters die and become zombies of course. Any surviving humans can participate in the game, and killing zombies awards exp, and you can use real world money to buy various items and incentives.

It's ok. There's a disgusting amount of wish fulfillment but that's nothing new in Narou novels. The protagonist's edge and chuuni-ness is annoying and the story isn't all that well written, but the unique setting keeps it decently entertaining.

[xatom12]

thanks for the info....

[makarich]

Originally Posted by Poligrafowicz

Thanks, I guess I couldn't find it because the author of the thread wrote ryori-do with a dash...

I'm sorry! I just took the name out of GT - I don't know how it's written, really! T_T

[makarich]

Originally Posted by Poligrafowicz

Anyone read Isekai Ryouridou and can write a word or two about it?

I can guess more or less what the novel is about, but I'd love to know if there is some actual romance in it and if the MC is a pervert or not.

He is totally not a pervert! He is a good guy!

[cabman11]

anyone got anything new to read?

[travelingbum]

even though I am a different world dungeon! got a rewrite.... it was pretty minor that the first 3 chs are pretty much the same

only thing that changed is she is now a dark elf and cannot hear him.
and then after that it's different...........

so yeah just 6 chs.....

[El Rue]

So I've just started reading through Elf Tensei's spin-off sequel.

Kinda' cliche' opening but it's interesting enough. I do have mixed feelings hearing spoil-ish future events for the main story from it (sure it's probably in its last arc but...*shrugs*)

-----

Oh, also started reading "Uchi no Musume no Tame Naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Mao mo Taoserukamo Shirenai" (long titles are loooong).

It's quite cute...me likey.

[jaydreadzz]

Spoiler for too bored to make some summary:

CLICK HERE

[sasuke706]

Suppose I have another recommendation.

Sevens (セブンス)
Status: Ongoing with daily updates (over 150 chapters currently)
Summary: Lyle Walt is a young noble boy and heir looking forward to the day he can inherent his family's territory. Except around when he was 10 year old, his parents started neglecting him more and more in favor his little sister, Celes. On his fifteenth birthday, he is challenged to a duel with his sister to see who will inherent the household and horribly loses, being cast out of his family. Afterwards, he gets treated by the family groundskeeper and receives the family heirloom Gem from him that Lyle's grandfather had entrusted to him. From there, he begins an aimless journey with his childhood friend and former fiance, Novem, and the Gem-turned-Jewel that houses the memories, personalities, and Skills of seven of his ancestors.

Random fun notes and stuff:

Spoiler for Spoilers ahoy:

The series is a working-your-way-up from nothing story. Lyle, having only book-learned knowledge and his own inborn talent as an extremely sheltered noble boy, grows with the sometimes not-so-helpful advice of his ancestors. The characterization is well done for all the characters and Lyle's growth is pretty evident as the story goes on.

Spoiler for Harem?:

Yes, it's a harem story, but the harem isn't as played on as you might think or even hope. Lyle, for better or worse, has no backbone to be assertive with women. To top it off, the story tends to not give them, or at least show much of, romance between the heroines and Lyle. It generally focuses on the plot and doesn't do random chapters of just Lyle and the heroines having a date or something. Whenever they do have a date (it does happen, but rarely), generally something plot-related happens in the middle of it.
One example of it not focusing on harem stuff is that Lyle gains a skill called Connection, that makes it where you can share senses, info, talk etc across large distances with people he's had a "deep" kiss with. Except every time he wants to use it, he has to kiss them. The author only uses like 3 of the heroines as an example for this, and afterwards every time he uses Connection, the kissing and the heroines' reactions to getting kissed are done offscreen. So essentially no on-screen romance.
There are 8 harem members so far, with a couple of them having fun attributes like one of them being a shapeshifting unicorn, or a tsundere all-purpose ancient automaton maid (that was clearly made by a Japanese person).

As a side note, Lyle himself isn't interested in a harem to begin with and only wants to be with Novem. Except Novem's the one pushing for him to have a harem and makes it happen and it's gotten to a point where he more or less has to accept them all, but hasn't given much thought to it.

Spoiler for Interesting development:

One of the more interesting developments with Lyle and his harem is that at one point in the story, his harem split into factions because of a kind of? manipulative heroine and the party atmosphere becomes tense. So Mister Lyle (see the Fantasy spoiler) uses his Connection skill to take his harem to a training room (can't actually get hurt) inside his Jewel where he has them just kill each other to get the hard feelings out of the way already. He doesn't actually watch them do this since they would be hesitant with him watching, so he just casually drinks tea while they do this. According to his ancestors, it was extremely brutal, but they all felt refreshed afterwards save for one.

Spoiler for Fantasy world and game elements:

It's a fantasy world where being able to use magic means the person has noble blood, seeing as magic is more or less monopolized by them, though not always the case with fallen noble houses and whatnot.

To note, the world does have a level up system, but there's no stat screen or anything like that. The people refer to level ups as Growths, and they're identified by a person becoming very worn out for a long time for seemingly no reason, and then go into a state where they're essentially hyperactive and really happy. This is a major cause of embarrassment for most characters, especially Lyle who's level ups are fairly extreme in every regard. His ancestors begin to call Lyle after his level ups "Mister Lyle" and hold Best Lyle Awards for the stupid things he does during them. Lyle's leveled up 4 times total in the story, as he generally requires more experience than most people even with a skill that increases experience gained.

Everyone apparently has one skill given to them by the gods, and these skills have 3 tiers. Not everyone awakens to their skills, but they're divided into Melee, Ranged, and Support skills. Lyle and his ancestors all have support skills.

Spoiler for Plot spoilers:

The plot goes from Lyle just trying to manage a solo life as an adventurer to recently challenging kingdoms, and hinted to eventually challenge some of the women that people probably revere as goddesses. Lyle's goal is to beat Celes and to do so in a way where he won't be politically responsible for all the damage she's caused, being a male family member.
The story has some emotional-ish moments to me as well. Those parts for me are when he parts with an ancestor inside the Jewel. Once Lyle masters the 3 tiers of an ancestor's skill, that ancestor disappears and is replaced by a weapon that symbolizes them (that Lyle can use in battle). Currently 3 of the ancestors have vanished.

Spoiler for Antagonist / Goddesses:

The antagonist of the story is Lyle's little sister, Celes. She has the ability to mesmerize most people who see her, with women sometimes showing resistance to this. She's immensely strong and very whimsical and in the current story, is taking over the protagonist's home country that he has fled from to gather forces to stop her. She, like Lyle, has a Jewel with a personality in it, but only one in it called Septem. Everything about Septem is still relatively unknown except that she was likely the woman who destroyed the country 300 years ago.

Now here's the fun part, granted some of this is my interpretation. Septem is likely one of the revered 9 gods (7 goddesses, 2 evil gods), and apparently there's a 0 goddesses as well. They apparently are named after the Latin numbers 0-9, with Septem, Octo, and Novem appearing in story so far. But wait, Novem is Lyle's childhood friend, you say? I'm glad you noticed! Novem is a big part of the harem's discord as she keeps a lot of secrets, and for most of the story she was hiding her actual abilities (and still is to an extent, it seems).
She's extremely loyal to Lyle and proves it time and time again but often shows suspicious behavior. Throughout the story, it's hinted that she has the memories and personality of one of the women that people revere as goddesses (but it's hinted she herself is sad at being deemed one), is referred to as a traitor to humanity by Octo (Octo refers to themselves as the 10 traitors to humanity or something like that. All women, mind you.), and she clearly knows Septem. Novem herself never wants to elaborate on any of this and Lyle doesn't make her.
She generally keeps Lyle in the dark of a lot of things, like how she had a promise with Celes to not harm Lyle, how an estate they bought was haunted and had a room researching immortality (that she disposed of), or how she secretly met with her brother to get family heirloom staff, hiding her actual abilities, etc. Lyle himself doesn't care because he knows she's loyal as fuck, but it annoys another particular harem member quite a bit.
Novem's entire family has supported the Walt family ever since the founder, and have been extremely loyal for unknown reasons. It's mentioned in story that they're known for being loyal to the Walt family instead of the crown, and have had numerous chances to take over the Volt family but have never tried.

I had way more to write than I thought I did. Holy god damn.

[El Rue]

^Sounds interesting...my finished to acquiring ratio concerning WN's is just like my gaming backlog: a losing battle.

----

Just discovered the translated chapters of "The Reincarnated Princess Strikes Down Flags Again Today." & liked it.

Just like Kenkyo & Otome Game’s Burikko I'm hooked.

[aurel1]

can anyone give me spoiler about this

Spoiler:

http://novel18.syosetu.com/n0153ce/

...? just read ch 1 of the manga version and hook me up