Syosetsuka ni Narou Discussion Thread

[omegasereon]

I read the first 2 chapters of 異世界迷宮で奴隷ハーレムを and it seems interesting. Have you read it before and if you did, can you provide a quick plot summary? All I know is that the guy got sucked into some game world when he wanted to suicide and he was customizing a online character game.

[amatsunagi]

Yeah, I read that, 10 or so chapters and stopped, reason: Protagonist is dull, or at least that's my initial impression. The story: The protagonist had enough of his life, so he decided to do a suicide. By chance he discover a site which could "Send the player to a world of game". without second thought, he decided to create his own character and "poof!", there he goes to world of game. At first his mind is hazy, he found himself in a barn, then there's bandits attacking town, he then killed 3 or 4 peoples (his mind still think it's game) however after feeling the real sensation and he can't logout, he decided it's not game (also reminded of the notice before he enter the game world "that he cannot return back"). He then decided to live in this world to the fullest.

I've read to the part where he moved to the big city, and found a Slaves shop, he wanted to buy one but doesn't have enough money. Talking about ability, the protagonist receives: "Ability to read status either people or thing" and "Ability to change class or title" and other game system abilities like opening menu, accessing inventory items, learn, equip and unequip skills, allotting experience points, etc. He also receives bonus items from start (special weapon with high stats). Another impression I got is: icha-icha rom-com?

The protagonist is dull, there's no special thing about him that I like (just my subjective opinion tho'). Well, since this title is published by Hero Bunko, I'm planning to read it again, maybe this time I will found the charm of this title? If you're going to read this, and if its good, please do tell me, so that I have more motivation to read this again.

As for now, this title is in my backlog.

[omegasereon]

Originally Posted by amatsunagi

Yeah, I read that, 10 or so chapters and stopped, reason: Protagonist is dull, or at least that's my initial impression. The story: The protagonist had enough of his life, so he decided to do a suicide. By chance he discover a site which could "Send the player to a world of game". without second thought, he decided to create his own character and "poof!", there he goes to world of game. At first his mind is hazy, he found himself in a barn, then there's bandits attacking town, he then killed 3 or 4 peoples (his mind still think it's game) however after feeling the real sensation and he can't logout, he decided it's not game (also reminded of the notice before he enter the game world "that he cannot return back"). He then decided to live in this world to the fullest.

I've read to the part where he moved to the big city, and found a Slaves shop, he wanted to buy one but doesn't have enough money. Talking about ability, the protagonist receives: "Ability to read status either people or thing" and "Ability to change class or title" and other game system abilities like opening menu, accessing inventory items, learn, equip and unequip skills, allotting experience points, etc. He also receives bonus items from start (special weapon with high stats). Another impression I got is: icha-icha rom-com?

The protagonist is dull, there's no special thing about him that I like (just my subjective opinion tho'). Well, since this title is published by Hero Bunko, I'm planning to read it again, maybe this time I will found the charm of this title? If you're going to read this, and if its good, please do tell me, so that I have more motivation to read this again.

As for now, this title is in my backlog.

Ok, thanks!

[amatsunagi]

Original Title: 八男って、それはないでしょう！
Romaji: Hachinan tte, sore ha nai deshou!
Author: Y. A
Illustrator: Fuji Choco (藤ちょこ)
Publisher: MFBooks
Status: Started on 2013/06/01 - ongoing
Link: Here

Ichinomiya Shingo, a young worker of firm company (25th years old, single) while thinking of tomorrow busy working day goes to sleep. However the moment he woke up, it's a room unknown to him. He then learn that he is inside a 6-years-old boy and taking over his mind. He then learn a lot from the memories of the said boy: he was born as the youngest child (8th son and 10th children) of poor noble family living in backcountry. Having no administrative skill, he can't do anything to manage the vast land his family have. Fortunately, he is blessed with a very rare talent, talent of magic. Unfortunately, while his talent could bring prosperity to his family, in his situation it will only brought disaster. Yes, this is the story of the boy, Wendelin Von Benno Baumeister, opening his own path in harsh world.

This is the most complicated Narou title that I have read. Complicated as in hard to tell the value of this title, It's interesting, but also uninteresting. In short this title tell the story of a boy blessed with very rare talent, but is born in difficult situation. Wendelin is the youngest son and was never hoped to be useful to his family. Although a noble, his family are very poor, even though the territory of Baumeister are large, they don't have funds nor manpower to cultivate them, moreover, their land are infested with monsters and dangerous animals. The villagers hate his father, due to his failure that led to their falls. The most fortunate thing Wendelin have is the talent of magic, but... this talent could lead to dispute inside and outside of his family. Therefore, his parents just let him do as he likes (more like, ignoring him) and he hid his talent, living the role of lazy and selfish boy, while preparing himself to set his foot outside the cage.

Fantasy world with monsters and magic. This story are not focused on adventuring, but more on the relationship, conspiracy, and politics of nobles in that world. It has some fighting scenes which unfortunately are not that good. The flow of story is like flat road with small bumps here and there, however it strangely draws you in to keep reading. By the way, at first I was surprised to see that earlier chapter are short in text, and then it get longer and longer and later, the amount text for just one chapter is just...... wow.

Again, I just want to say that this title might be interesting, or uninteresting depending on reader taste, as for me, I guess I like this~

Ah! yeah, this title is gong to be published by MFBooks, and I really really expect a lot from Fuji Choco (Miss Fable of Armas Gibble), I really love her illustration with wonderful setting~

[HasNoLove]

^ so its has political issue like madan no ou..??

[amatsunagi]

Yeah, mostly it's about struggle of rights though (property, inheritance, lands, etc). Up until the latest chapter, the other country still haven't make their appearances yet :|

It seems Fujimi fantasia decided to publish titles monthly starting from this march. They already select 6 titles in their lineup (up until August). Can't wait for Konjiki Word Master~!

And finally I found a title which is not the usual templates that I read (but still template on it's own). It still new, so there's not much chapters yet, a sneak peek of the story:

Final Quest is a famous VRMMORPG with medieval setting, one of it's player, Yamada Shinichi [Shin First] is watching a battle royale between 4 of his party: magician Mana, elven archer Rule, Thief Mel, and Lancer Akira. they fought to decide who is going to marry Shin's. After the battle, Akira comes out as winner, however... Akira is a guy, and a gay as well. Thinking that it marriage with no love, Shin agreed to the proposal. One week later, Mana, Rule and Mel wanted to marry Shin as well, and Shin entered Bigamy relationship with 4 of them. This anger Akira and another dispute breaks which cost the lives of 107 players. To settle the "Carnage of Love", Shin must choose one of them as his legal "wife" and his first step, is to attend their party first offline meeting.

And impression: typical netoge but more focused on shuraba and comedy (off course~). This kind of title tend to appeal the characters, which in my opinion, is quite fresh.

- Mana traits are "domineering ojousama-tsundere-patient of love-M gap-pettanko"
- Rule traits are "calm oneesan-madly in love-half foreigner-bakunyuu-yandere"
- Mel traits are "innocent youjo-energetic-jailbait"
- Akira traits are "Hentai-cool and manly-bold and daring-gay"

Rule yandere-ness and referee play placed her as the second, while Akira cool but daring advance and hentai gap makes 'him' a great nocturn material which placed 'him' as my number one favorite character of this title. Author is quite good with comedy especially nocturn one which cracked me up, his previous title are also the same, having good comedy (that "yaranaika" is just LOL). Also, his yandere characters are always charming~ I'll be looking forward to his next updates

[Seitsuki]

Holy Christ a non harem title? Could it be just maybe the industry can still be saved!?

No? Was worth a shot.

[amatsunagi]

Non harem title eh? There's Magicraft Meister, and then... Arc Encounter, Risou Himo, Immortal X Sword (similar to Berserk I guess?), etc etc

[bludvein]

I've got a rec of my own. Been going down the ranking list to find one that looks interesting, and today I read 異世界で強くなりながらニューゲーム. GT translates this as New Game while becoming strong in another world, which is probably inaccurate, but its the best I've got.

It's not exactly excellent yet, but it is kind of noteworthy for doing something new with a template. The premise is a combination of "summoned to another world" and a "time loop". Obviously neither of the two are new, but I've never seen them combined quite like this. Makoto(the MC) relives the day before his summoning as part of the loop, so he has access to modern books and tools if he can get to them. Despite the possibilities, he doesn't have access to modern weapons, so he is stuck learning the sword and spear for the moment.

There isn't really any happy go lucky harem hijinks if your wondering, at least so far. The time loop just offers the author more cruel ways to kill characters. Its really pretty damn morbid tbh.

EDIT: Oh, here is the link btw. http://ncode.syosetu.com/n5966bz/

EDIT2:

Spoiler for ...:

My only problem with it so far is that the MC advances way too fast. He still isn't beyond amateur, but he is already physically much stronger than he was starting out and its only been a couple loops so far. There might be an explanation later, but the protagonist doesn't seem to think its suspicious that he is practically twice as strong as he was a week before. I wish exercise was that convenient. Oh, and it seems one of the potential love interests got brought into the time loop somehow when he accidentally killed her. His super bitch summoner teleported him a mile into the air and she tried to catch him, which killed them both instead of just him. I don't mind the idea of another looper, but I wanted more time for Makoto to become stronger first. Then again, its not confirmed whether she will keep her memories every time or not from now on or just the once.

EDIT3:

Spoiler for ...:

Holy shit, that psychopathic BITCH! Ok, she is fucking evil and Makoto needs to work out a way to kill her in one of these loops. For now though, he needs to either keep him mouth shut or escape at the beginning of loops in the near-future. If he wasn't close to broken already, his mental state probably went down the gutter after being dissected while alive. He needs to just skip the talk and cut her head off in the future, i'm serious.

This chapter was from the POV of the girl he crashed into before, who used her "prophetic dream" to try to save him. Too bad the bitch had already messed him up something bad.

This is getting kind of interesting in a creepy way.

[amatsunagi]

Finally finished reading several titles until the latest chapter.

First: Isekai de Tsuyoku Narinagara New Game, this title is too serious and gloomy (compared to Re:Zero), well, a "good" torture for reader, since we will ask "when he is going to go musou!?".

Spoiler:

While Makoto did become stronger and raised his level: I think he is still pretty weak, considering he has low stats than norms and low experience and I guess that will not really change much for at least 6-8 chapters... The appearance of Marie change things though. With characters that have deep connection keep appearing (Makoto's father, Shidou; Arisa) I'm eager to see how they will meet again, and how the story will develop from that. By the way, I hate orcs.

Second: Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku, the first narou title going to be published by Fujimi Fantasia and released this month. It tells the story of Satou, a staff programmer suddenly entered a world of game... or maybe another world and goes on an adventure there.

Story wise, it's kind of honobono, wandering from city to city, so the pacing of story is kind of slow. Then, is there any plot other than just adventuring? Yes there is, but it revealed slowly. At first I have little bit difficulty reading this, dunno why (maybe it's problem of adjusting to writing style). There are also intermissions and SS that implement the story which is interesting ^_^

Protagonist wise, Satou is a gentlemen, calm and mature. He starts very strong, so there's no complain on his ability. I'm very glad he is a Magic-Knight type~ This guy lacks desire most of time, so it will be hard for girls who locking on him

Spoiler:

As far as I know, there are... umm, more than 10 girls that falls in love to him, more than 20 girls that like him and more than 100 girls who is interested to marry him

Character wise, I think what interest me the most are the personality of the girls around him. Almost all of the main characters are cute and interesting: Alisa, loli shotacon; Lulu, ganbaru-ko; Pochi & Tama, duo energetic kemona; Liza, cool nikudere; Meeya, taciturn kuudere; Nana, innocent girl, etc, etc. I get most of laugh from them. These girls also grows to be strong and helpful to Satou (but of course, Satou is the strongest).

Overall, this title is interesting for adventure type, uum, I guess I'll rate this 7 or 8 out of 10.


Next is latest update from other titles:

Spoiler for Monster Master:

After almost-death-experience of Takahiro, Lily and Rose patched their relationship with Gerbera. Lily states that even though they are enemies before, they are family now and Gerbera is her cute little sister, so she will believe her. Rose who reject Gerbera the most, also acknowledge Gerbera as her little sister. Then, the next chapter, Takahiro feels that he is a failure as a leader. Lily console and convince him that she will always follow him, for what he is. This helped him to reshape himself and not shouldering everything alone. In the end, Takahiro indeed didn't go back empty handed as another family members showed up: parasitic plant (no.4) and Balloon Fox Child (no.5). As usual, I love the expression of characters and I can really feel their emotion. Can't wait for next chapter at Friday to see the new monsters~!

Spoiler for Gun Ota:

The end of daily life part and the start of new part, the story continues! Well, not much that is revealed. Sadly, this title changed it's frequency into "every 2 days update" :/

Spoiler for Shinka no Mi:

Tsukkomi manzai! I ROFLed at the new stats after the final evolution. That lamb butler is irritating, but then again, I laughed again because of him. Somehow, I get the feeling that this Lamb Butler is actually a girl... Well finally they out of the forest and go into civilization~ also expecting this one

Spoiler for Konjiki WOrd Master:

the appearance of "possible-heroine", Victorias are finally taken over by the real enemy. Both Demon and Man-Beast, along with the survivor of Victorias must joined forces to fight against them! As for Hiiro, he acquired new power that will surely help him against his adversary!

Well, at least that's for now~

[Alesio33]

About "Master of Monster" who are the Antoganists in this one?

[amatsunagi]

No antagonist yet. there is this three character though who raped Miho and Mana, Takahiro killed them. And then there this guy who is his classmate and sit beside him. This classmate of his, tricked Takahiro and tried to kill him, so that he can have his way with Miho (Lily). Takahiro of course, already expected that, and ordered Lily to kill him.

[Avrorrange]

Just noticed the following novel getting serialized. Apparently, it has A LOT of views on Syosetsuka.

Spoiler for Cover of the novel:

Just read the prologue and it sounds a bit like Mushoku Tensei -Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu but way funnier and crazier.

Spoiler for the novel:

When the Goddess confronts him with the option of living in a boring heaven, reincarnation into a new life with no memories or sent to another world as a hero to fight against the Demon King in exchange for any power he wants, he chose the goddess to be that power and forced her to tag along when he got annoyed by how apathetic she is.

[amatsunagi]

Aa, megami Shukufuku. I read this title way far before I know about Narou (which makes this is the first narou title I read). I won't say this similar to Mushoku Tensei...but I do agree this is very funny. I ROFLed so much at the prologue (poor Kazuma LOL). Hmm, it's a though choice to choose Aqua, Megumin, or Duckness~~ umumumumumu~~ =_=

[bludvein]

Originally Posted by amatsunagi

Finally finished reading several titles until the latest chapter.

First: Isekai de Tsuyoku Narinagara New Game, this title is too serious and gloomy (compared to Re:Zero), well, a "good" torture for reader, since we will ask "when he is going to go musou!?".

Spoiler:

While Makoto did become stronger and raised his level: I think he is still pretty weak, considering he has low stats than norms and low experience and I guess that will not really change much for at least 6-8 chapters... The appearance of Marie change things though. With characters that have deep connection keep appearing (Makoto's father, Shidou; Arisa) I'm eager to see how they will meet again, and how the story will develop from that. By the way, I hate orcs.

Spoiler for reply:

The orcs are pretty disgusting, but not even they are as chilling as the witch that summoned him. At least half the reason I am reading at this point is to find out how Makoto will get even for the shit she is putting him through.

I think the MC has potential, but he isn't getting any time to learn. Now he is stuck to Marie, which means there probably won't be much progress on that front this loop. At least on the bright side, he might be able to get Marie to at least not volunteer extra information when the witch asks. Getting her on his side will help a lot later.

[amatsunagi]

Spoiler:

Dissecting while still alive? brrr~ >_< "all of science" is so scary~
the problem of for him is he lack the time needed, just 1 day on current world and a few hourse on another world. He will need to gather information faster (like places to train, or where he can obtain good item like "berserker blood" but of course, that drug potion is a bad item), get as many resources as he can, swiftly. I feel bad for the girl he accidentally killed with (when he falls down from the sky). She have to repeat worst experiences many times (with each times span half years or so) and can't even do suicide.

[bludvein]

Originally Posted by amatsunagi

Spoiler:

Dissecting while still alive? brrr~ >_< "all of science" is so scary~
the problem of for him is he lack the time needed, just 1 day on current world and a few hourse on another world. He will need to gather information faster (like places to train, or where he can obtain good item like "berserker blood" but of course, that drug potion is a bad item), get as many resources as he can, swiftly. I feel bad for the girl he accidentally killed with (when he falls down from the sky). She have to repeat worst experiences many times (with each times span half years or so) and can't even do suicide.

Spoiler for ...:

Well, he actually will have more time in the other world if he lives. The dissecting thing took like a week, right? Its just that he keeps dying.

At least he felt no pain(which kept his sanity intact thankfully), although that's not really an act of compassion on her part. The witch is so indifferent that its pretty horrifying...and now he can't even avoid her manipulations, because Marie will tell her everything.

The girl(I think her name is Arisa, but I'll need to check) got the shortest straw so far, but she hasn't had to repeat it yet. Hopefully she can avoid it this time.

[amatsunagi]

Spoiler:

Well, if he has teacher, he will have to convince them as fast as possible, well~~ he do have eternity, so it's okay... new chapter is out: Emilia... I'm starting to gee~~t really irritated by her now

[DoomCalibur]

Man...can anyone tell me does this web even have the link to see a full list of series? Seeing how little knowledge do i know about Japanese, using the GT is giving me a full headache........
Man how can you guy be so good at japanese? Mind showing me some tips in learning it?

[Avrorrange]

Originally Posted by DoomCalibur

Man...can anyone tell me does this web even have the link to see a full list of series? Seeing how little knowledge do i know about Japanese, using the GT is giving me a full headache........
Man how can you guy be so good at japanese? Mind showing me some tips in learning it?

Some of us are reading Chinese scans(me),some people know Japanese while others use online machine translators.