Editor for and Demon Sword Maiden!
Gentrified NEET and siscon.
Currently looking for an imouto. Applicants must be under the age of 16, cute and with long hair.
Optional traits are: Neko, princess and/or maid.
For some reason last night I found myself reading some more of Arifureta After.
It’s been literally over a year since I touched that web novel.
I think it must have been around when the anime was airing?
Not sure why I read it. I must have been really starved for a read and none of my current favourites have updated in a while so I dragged up something that had a lot of unread chapters.
That’s the only reason I can think of.
Keep in mind I read it at like 4am on autopilot in bed.
I scheduled this chapter while listen to Ibasho by Mori Calliope or Calliope Mori depending on which half of the compass you’re from.
That’s the mini song she released as part of the Hololive EN x Princess Connect Global launch collab.
It’s not a bad song, she sings pretty well.
But I’ve noticed recently that bilinguals have more jarring transitions between English and Japanese in songs.
I think it’s because they adjust their accent and pronunciation for the language, rather than carrying over their natives intonations?
Not sure how to explain it…there’s probably someone more musically and linguistically knowledgeable than me who knows the right words.
I’ve come across a new quote recently that I’ve fallen in love with.
That’s:
“Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!”
I really like this because when I write my fantasy fiction I always approach magic as unmethodised science.
I make sure it’s rooted in a sense of scientific application but that the wielders are unaware of that.
I think that GATE does this pretty well, Magi’s Grandson also and of course in novel-space you have Otherworld Magic Is Too Far Behind.
I was meant to be scheduling this chapter and got distracted by a bunch of iron man youtube videos for some reason.
Don’t know why the algorithm threw those at me.
Well whatever the reason, it worked. I ended up watching them.
I mean technology is cool!
Maybe I should write a novel of something like “In Another World With My Iron Man Suit”
I think that’d be pretty fun.
Perhaps “I Reincarnated As A Warforged”
Apparently ReZero is getting a new gacha game or something.
I think it was by the folks who did KanColle?
I can’t remember exactly since I could only go off the Japanese youtube trailer.
Ah speaking of ReZero, that reminds me I still need to buy that VN they released for it!
Honestly ReZero is a story that’s a perfect format for VNs, since whenever you die it can send you back to a checkpoint and you can make different choices. And based on what choices you’ve previously made, new choices can unlock! And by piling up choices upon choices you can reach an ending!
I want to write a scifi story about androids again.
Probably similar to the apocalyptic one I abandoned months ago.
I spoke about it in some older prechapter rambles on the other novels I post.
But it was about a guy who’s consciousness gets entangled with a combat android from a war in the distant future, and then having to survive in the wastes of civilization with the remnants of humanity. Then eventually getting dragged into the still smouldering embers of that war. Eventually culminating in an epic battle with the future at stake! Something like Fallout meets Honkai Impact?
While I was scheduling this chapter it came to my attention that I had not in fact read or edited the previous chapter.
So I have read these last two chapters backwards while preparing these.
Was a weird experience.
A lot of stories lately seem to be falling into a trap of chronology though.
Lots of them seem to just strictly follow a chronological format… or they jump around to be kind of ‘stylish’ and it ends up just being confusing.
Sigh, there’s nothing like the Greek classics anymore.
I spent most of today plowing through various mangas to see if there were any interesting ones to read.
Honestly though mangadex has been awful to use lately.
So many crashes and failures to load.
The alternatives aren’t much better since batato or whatever it was called went byebye too.
Kind of sad really.
I miss the golden days of pirates!
My internet connection has been shoddy most of this week. It worked fine for a really long period today though!
Then like clockwork at 11pm it just died again.
Which is really annoying since I usually schedule these chapters gone midnight so that the timezone difference is easier to calculate!
(If I schedule it at midnight I can set it to schedule “tomorrow” on site time even though it’s “today” in my time)
My brother has been playing this vehicular construction game called Trailmakers or something.
It’s like lego but you build vehicles.
I’ve been helping him with this sort of challenge mode where you have to build vehicles to recover vehicle parts to build vehicles.
I have created three masterpieces!
The first is a dolphin submarine. (Later modified so it could also fly)
The second is a crane.
The last is a flying drone!
Apparently my creations assisted partially in his completion but his own built submersible car did the heavy lifting usually.
This chapter was an interesting one because it was far longer than a normal chapter but not quite long enough to split into two parts.
Anyway you’re getting the full chapter so don’t worry.
My prayers go to you translator-san.
Make sure to give them your gratitude and appreciation!
It’s an important part of being a reader.
For example you can turn off your adblock to keep the site running, or you could be more direct and give money straight into their pocket via patreon.
Or you can keep leeching like the internet scum we all know we are!
Oh no!
I just realised that I missed the J-Novel announcement stream.
Tsk now I will just have to wait until tomorrow most likely to see the tweet responses about what they have licensed.
Oh well, that’s a bit of a shame.
Well I guess it saves the surprise? I wonder if anything nice got licensed…
J-Novel tend to get relatively good isekais so I have hope!
Gimme more isekai trash!
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While scheduling this I somehow managed to get lost in watching a three hour long video on Pokemon Sword and Shield.
Look, just don’t ask.
Someone linked it in discord, I started watching it. Twenty minutes in I realised it was three hours long.
Decided to cut my losses and watch the whole thing. Surprisingly didn’t even realise the first hour go by!
After that hour though I became very aware of how delayed my scheduling was getting so I became more conscious of the time.
For some reason today I spent hours reading a bunch of korean webtoons.
I guess this is the natural progression of my desire to read more manga to fill the gaps while waiting for novel translations and such.
There are quite a few good webtoons, it’s funny how all the ones I stumbled on that I enjoyed all involved mmo style dungeon raids.
They’ve really made a subgenre for it.
I also started to catch up on a few novels I read that have had anime announcements, just to get back into the groove.
Also a few webnovels I dropped years ago got picked up again…so I might try to reread those…maybe?
Someone find me a novel or manga with cute imouto romanceeeee!!!!!!
My imoutonium levels have reached critical!
Need more cuuuuuuteeeneeesssssss!!!!!
I started reading two today but one of them turned into some weird bdsm fantasy and I dropped that one immediately and the other have really chibi art that wasn’t cute at all so I dropped that also!
