J-Novel club is in the middle of going through a site overhaul, I wonder if silva will murder me if I link to them?
Well basically they’re looking for feedback on the beta version of their new site, which you can find if you go to their forums on their normal site!
Please do give them lots of useful feedback because right now the site has some weird flaws and minor annoyances.
The ones I’ve picked up have already been mentioned by others so far I think, so it looks like the process is going well.

Also you should totally buy some novels from them.
I’m not saying this because sometimes I proofread for them at all.
They’re a genuinely good company.

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The Atelier game got officially announced huh.
The reaction on the internet has varied from leading scientists calculating the exact percentage increase of thigh volume on the main heroine…
all the way to the elitist scum hating on the Ryza newcomers.

I actually got into a fight with one of those elitist fans and they were not impressed.
I really hate gatekeeping in fandoms so haha. Take that sucker.

I’ve never actually played an Atelier game, probably never will either sadly.
Just not enough time and not enough appeal.
I’m already overstretched with all my anime, novels and game backlog!

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I finished reading Warlock of the Magus World today.
Didn’t really like it. The story was okay but the character writing just wasn’t right to me.
The author seemed overall competent but was trying too hard to make the main character different.

I get that he was a pragmatist but there was a lot of plot threads and character development in the supporting cast that were just cut because of his decisions, and it felt really pointless.
Like they spent several chapters developing one character only to abandon them and that never get mentioned ever again.
Or entire groups developed only to use them as fodder for the MC to stand on.
Or he’d give a boon to some random character for whatever reason, then that character would never show up again.
Or there’d be foreshadowing of an event but the main character would just sidestep it entirely making all the buildup null.

It just felt…pointless?
Why bother getting invested in any characters that will probably never be relevant again.

The lack of romance killed it too, but that’s a minor gripe. When A Mage Revolts is far superior and that also didn’t have romance.

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