Monday, May 8, 2017

A Veterinarian in Another World (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

A Veterinarian in Another World (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): Ongoing
My Reading: Reading & On Hold
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Ch 0 (Translated), Web Novel RAW Up to: Web Ch 259 (Google Translated)

Atmosphere: Light w/Professional Tone
Type (Transported to Another World): Summoning
*Purpose for Summoning (if any): to make the territory prosperous
*Summoner (If known): Magic User (Sacrifice Required)
*Initial Abilities Gain when Transported (If any): None
Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Fantasy Magic & Sword World, Medieval. There are monster and other race.

Main Character: Male, 26 year old, Japanese Nationality, Veterinarian
*MC role in this summoning: Hope the person can "make the territory prosperous"
MC Personality/Character: A standard Japanese Character, love his work, dense person
MC Ideas, Creations, and/or Recreation from his previous life (Either make it himself or have someone else make it for him): Veterinarian Bag and Tool (have it with him when summoned), Thermite

Mature Content (Subject, Topic, Content, and anything that may be inappropriate for general reader):
  • Killing (normal)
Romance:
(Based on the original web novel). Our MC is dense, so you can forget about him seeking any and look at the female instead that look at him (MC). The 1st girl to confesses (to us reader) that like MC die in combat, she was a slave knight demi-human. The Priestess girl is like a fan girl who like her job and admire the MC that part of her job but later she have deeper feeling for him (love). The wolf girl, a slave knight, is between loyalty and maybe a hint of liking him (romance sense).    

My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: Based on the original web novel, it was stated that the light novel change a few detail and event around from the original web novel with added stuff. Read the "Description" on any of the above link and that the start. In the other world, our MC is not the first to be summon. With that said that mean communication and knowledge was past down to other and so our MC can communicate with a selected people of that world who know how speak "Japanese" as he learn how speak the other world language. Fast forward of what I just said, MC is treated well while learning about this world first while be remained how to help "make the territory prosperous".

In a first cases, he solve a "Ghoul" problem in the slum which turn out be some thing like "rabies infection". He track the main source from a cave which contain a rotten poison nine head dragon that already half dead.

After awhile, I don't remember much but MC fought some golem which in the end finish it off with self-made thermite.

After awhile, MC went to place where dragon live as well as meeting someone who is blooded related from the previous summoning person.

After awhile, MC encourage someone with a certain magic that they have that seem weak in combat but very helpful in the field of medicine.

After awhile, MC meeting priestess girl parent. Then political marriage with the priestess girl but didn't finish and it seem force. (note: it not like the priestess girl hate MC, she by now love MC but it seem force). MC got kidnapped at the wedding hall.

After MC got kidnapped, the kidnapper request MC to solve a problem of their. Forest problem. The Web novel stop updating right around time when it flashback story of a certain character.
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Overall, it a good read

Stranger's Handbook (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Stranger's Handbook (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): Ongoing
My Reading: Reading & On Hold
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Ch 1-103 (Translated)

Atmosphere: Semi-Serious
Type (Transported to Another World): Summoning (Group)
*Purpose for Summoning (if any): Seeking People with Potential
*Summoner (If known): Magic User
*Initial Abilities Gain when Transported (If any): None
Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Fantasy Magic & Sword World, Medieval. There are monster and other race.

Main Character: Male, 32 year old
*MC role in this summoning: None, it group summoning
MC Personality/Character: A nonstandard Japanese Character, go with the flow and can read the air.
MC Ideas, Creations, and/or Recreation from his previous life (Either make it himself or have someone else make it for him): Woman's Bra

Mature Content (Subject, Topic, Content, and anything that may be inappropriate for general reader):
  • Sex (imply)
  • Killing (normal)
Romance:
The MC (32 year old) marry to a female noble girl (human, 16 year old) with each out out of mutual love.

My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: It odd how the image (from the LN volume 1 cover) that the MC look young when he 32 year old. The prologue tell you what the MC will become while the rest of the story recall his past. Anyway the story go like this, MC and a bunch of people got summon. There the people who summon them split them out apart and start moving them into a different room. The MC was selected as one with potential later while telling him the other (summon people) are either killed or sent away. The MC will be adopted into a noble family and he will marry into one as well. MC will be train as a Mage and will live in this work from now on.

The early part of the novel we got MC facing "death flag" at the end of every single chapter but later on as he "go with the flow" and following the same attitude as his father-in-law family, there less laugh to the story but it not like there isn't any. I would love to say it mostly revolve around "aristocrat politic" after that but it not, at least most of the time. There laugh here and there but not as much as it was from the start. The "noble way" seem so be like watching a mafia  dealing with normal people.

The few funny they try to maintain are: woman are scary, people will wet themselves if scare enough, and there are bunch of oddball people working under MC.

Story so far:
  • Get summon, get pick and get train. met future fiancee.
  • Met king. get marry with fiancee. created spirit
  • train solider. manage own territory.
  • defend border. win war. gain new territory that a former country. vocation and meet former summon people that survive.
  • dealing with political marriage with the country princess and elf prince. 
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Overall it an ok read but it got it up and down for the funny because the tone keep changing. However it could get boring at time because of the "noble way".

I Won 4 Billion in a Lottery But I Went to Another World (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

I Won 4 Billion in a Lottery But I Went to Another World (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): Ongoing
My Reading: Reading & On Hold
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Ch 1-67 (Translated)

Atmosphere: Light
Type (Transported to Another World): Gate/Door (able to travel between the world)

Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Parallel World, Medieval. There are monster but no magic or other race seen yet.

Main Character: Male, 25 year old, salary man turn rich
MC Personality/Character: A standard Japanese Character
MC Introduction from Earth (Thing from earth that MC brought to other world): too much to list but all are mobile or built able on the other side.

Romance:
There one girl (village girl) so far that see MC as romance interest

My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: The "Description" from both link tell everything you need to know about this novel. The only thing I find annoy is that the MC is an idiot of a sort, not as an idiot but as an ignorance idiot. Even if doing it out of good will his action to bring thing from earth is not well thought out. If he know what he doing or know the consequence of his action then I wouldn't care if he continue to do what he doing but he don't. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, then let give an example. If this was "Star Trek", he already breaking the "Prime Directive". Click the link and you understand what I'm talking now, maybe. The people of this other world who met MC  will refer to him as "God" so what you think. He act all normal even when they call him "god" in secret while the only person who know he not that he told is the village girl (who in love with him but he don't know that). Other then that, this is simple "slice of life" genre in another world. 
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Overall, it an ok read.

Conquering Hero's Heroines (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Conquering Hero's Heroines (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): Ongoing
My Reading: Reading & On Hold
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Ch 1-46 (Translated), Web Novel RAW Up to: Web Ch 215 (Google Translated)

Atmosphere: Light
Type (Transported to Another World): Reincarnation
*Cause of Death (if known): cardiac arrest (heart attack)
*Reincarnation: A male human child (at the start of the novel, novel skip his birth and baby event)
*Initial Abilities Gain after Reincarnated (If any): dark elemental magic, able to summon junk/trash/broken things from MC previous world.
Previous Life Basic Information: A Male, adult, Japanese Nationality, Neet (former bank employee)
Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): (Adult RPG) Game World. Medieval. There Monster, Magic and Other Race. (*Note: This is an R15 novel, not R18 so no worry)

Main Character: Male, age unknown, adult (previous life), A human male child, 13 year old [at the at the start of the novel, novel skip his birth and childhood part] (new life)
MC Personality/Character: A standard Japanese Character
MC Ideas, Creations, and/or Recreation from his previous life (Either make it himself or have someone else make it for him): food, gasoline, refrigerator, motor vehicle (truck), 

Romance:
There are no NTR (stated even by the author) but MC did made a few of the heroine (yet to be hero's heroine) fall (love) for him.

My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: The Main Character die of a heart attack while playing a video game. While his soul was in limbo, the goddess from the video game world request him to save her world (that video game world) from the hero and heroine. The goddess explain to our MC that the Hero and Heroine who save the world from evil, cause an economic collapse after they became King and Queen. The MC reincarnated as one of the game antagonist, set in the timeline before the hero become a hero and the heroine become the hero heroine. There he will try change the future of this world by capturing the hero heroine heart. With the help of his all mighty grandpa (prime minster and head of a duke family), the MC plan begin. The first heroine fell for MC as a little sister character. The 2nd heroine deal with his cousin, 1st by helping her family financial problem before making her do work (paying job). This will open her eye about the world a little. The 3rd heroine is where he save her life while helping her family financial problem from being cheated into debt and making her starting creating a new business to help her own family out using her skills. The 4th heroine is from a recent fallen noble family from the desert; our MC met her, save her, save her family, and save her family territory, and teach her the basic of economic. The 5th heroine have met with the hero before and was a pamper maid girl that work for the mother of the hero; her return to her hometown because she was fired as well as other that work for that mother. Our MC brought this heroine over to work as a maid after getting know the situation and explaining the situation about the hero to the girl guardian. While working as maid, her eye open up to the world about economic. From this, this heroine may not like MC but she now doesn't hate him either. The 6th Heroine met and travel with the Hero as they self-righteous do what they think is justice (as the 5th heroine saw).

As the great evil looming, the hero ran away after finding out his attack didn't work along with the 6th heroine leaving the other five heroine behind. Meanwhile, our MC is training with his master husband (male dragon). The MC master is a female dragon (who can transform into human form and a mother). There MC learn and somehow become a dragon. By becoming a dragon, MC will beat his own destiny and the world with the ability to beat the great evil without needing the hero. The web novel stop when MC just arrive to confront the evil.

Heroine (The suppose Hero's Heroine the MC must win over, there six of them):
  • Village Girl: MC met her in his childhood, treat her like family (little sister) [to win her over]. brought her over to his grandpa house and turn her into his maid
  • MC's Cousin: know dark elemental magic, became MC fiancee after several met and greet to win her over. Give her some job to do.
  • Inventor/Builder (Dwarf): look like a child but already adult age, win over her heart and interest (build stuff). Another MC fiancee to be
  • Only child of noble family from the desert part of the kingdom: warrior girl, won her over after saving her family and family territory. Another MC fiancee to be.
  • Child of a noble who own a wealthy port in their territory: Yet to win her over (by MC), brought her over to his grandpa place to train as a maid after telling her guardian some interesting fact about this child love interest (hero). Her guardian willing to agree and hand her over to MC place as it seem safer with him then with the hero.
  • 6th Heroine: (I forgot who she was), This heroine met and travel with the hero. MC was too late to meet her.
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Overall, it a good read. It a good example of contrast between ignorance and those with knowledge.

The web novel being taken down by the author as the light novel being publish, so there no more web novel. It feel like it was going to end soon too on the web novel.

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Isekai Onsen e Youkoso! (Novel) [Dropped/Canceled]: [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Isekai Onsen e Youkoso! (Novel) [Dropped/Canceled]: [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): Dropped/Canceled
My Reading: Reading & On Hold/ Finish
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Ch 1-36 (Translated)

Atmosphere: Light
Type (Transported to Another World): [Class] Summoning (Group)
*Purpose for Summoning (if any): Hero
*Summoner (If known): Magic User
*Initial Abilities Gain when Transported (If any): Drilling (non-combat magic, unique, hole digging)
Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Fantasy Magic & Sword World with Game Element (RPG), Medieval. There are monster and other race.

Main Character: Male, 17 Year Old, Japanese Nationality, High School Student, Otaku
*MC role in this summoning: class hero summoning
MC Personality/Character: A standard Japanese Character
MC Ideas, Creations, and/or Recreation from his previous life (Either make it himself or have someone else make it for him): Food

Romance:
There is a female classmate (popular) that is worry about our MC since he got reject out of the castle to do labor. She a secret otaku.

My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: The MC and his whole class got summoned in hero summoning. Because MC skill is useless in combat he was reject out of the castle to do some mining. There at the location where he was going do some mining he met several character that will help him later in the novel. As he was digging, unbeknown to him he killed a sealed dragon as well as discovering a hot spring. With permission from the castle he was allow to build a hot spring business there as long he still continue to dig for ore as he was task to do. Still unbeknown to the MC, when he soak in the hot spring (where he killed the dragon), he slowly got stronger (status).

As when his hot spring business was becoming a hot topic in town, some of his delinquent classmate came to check out and start harassing other customer to cut in line before our MC uses forces on them and knock them around. With recorded evident, classmate was force away. Later a worries female classmate came to visited our MC. 
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Overall, it an ok read but since it dropped/cancel you can't go beyond what translated or available.

That Person. Later on...(Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

That Person. Later on...(Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): LN (Ongoing) & WN (Complete)
My Reading: Finish (WN RAW) Plus Extra
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Chapter 0-110 (Translated), Web Novel RAW Up to: Web Chapter 217 + 4 Extra After-story Chapters (Google Translated) 

Atmosphere: Light
Type (Transported to Another World): Reincarnation (non main characters of this novel)

World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Fantasy Magic & Sword World, Medieval. There are monster and other race.
Reincarnated Person Ideas, Creations, and/or Recreation from his previous life (Either make it himself or have someone else make it for him): Foods and Bathroom Product

Main Protagonist: Human (maybe - you understand later if you read his status as it keep changing) Male, Commoner, 15 year old (at the start of the novel)/ 17 year old (from here fore in the novel). Green in the romance department but he quite a smart and sharp minded person if sometime ignorance due to lack of knowledge. If someone explain something to him, he will comprehend quite well. In term of love I feel that the author design the MC as a "sensitive" person meaning their emotion as a whole is quite weak. They can easily get depress or sad when they feel rejected. MC has an average face, stated by everyone in the novel. Our MC never seem to have time or remember to upgrade his guild card so it still the lowest rank.

Romance:
People fall in love here and there, but of course our MC with his lack of experience in this department will have emotion that will "go through the roof" and "crash down like a ton of brick". All misunderstand will be solve later as MC gain a harem without him knowing. Even after they confirm their feeling, our MC is weak to women pressure but not to point of losing his reason while protecting himself as a "herbivore" from those "carnivore" women. Even the goddess are "carnivore" women.

MC's Harem and designated future wife: (they all get along, wife alliance)
  • Female Elf: warrior, was confess to first among the female by MC.
  • Female Prostitute: human, 19 year. The second person MC confess to among the female
  • Younger Twin Princess: human, magic barrier specialist
  • Older Twin Princess: human, close combat specialist
  • Female Dragon Human: A human with dragon blood, related to real dragon. Hero, The first to kiss MC (steal 1st kiss) while have her 1st kiss.
  • MC's Younger (blood related) Sister: Reincarnated person from earth, Brother Complex, CEO of a merchant company.
  • Female Beastman (feline): Blood related to royalty (her uncle a king). A lady and sword expert user. 
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: If you read the "Description" from the 1st link, and you might be confused. Let start from the beginning to restate the description"; On MC 15th birthday he saw his childhood friend (female) who he made a promise to (stay together) is kissing the hero in a back alley (unknown if force or willing - kissing). Due to his uncontrollable emotion in his heart, he ran away and toward "the mountain" (a no name mountain at the center of the continent). Reason: probably wasn't thinking at all. Somehow survive for 2 year up there until he wanted human contact again and came back down. His first contact with people is a group of elf and a group of human holding a elf child hostage. And here where the story begin. I don't want go into detail but our MC became "overpowered" after he came down the mountain and only when he sign up at the guild and show his status that he (and us as the reader) know why he overpowered and how come he survive up there for so long (WN Chapter 13).

Here how the story break down so far as I see:
  • Start of the novel (go read "description from 1st link)
  • Encounter a hostage situation when coming down the mountain. resolve hostage situation. get invited to elf village. felt in love with an elf. that elf was challenge in a duel for her position in the village. duel got out of hand but MC resolve it while making a confession to that elf. that elf response cause a misunderstand to our MC who though he was reject and ran away before she finish her word.
  • Enter a town and sign up as adventurer. Found out he strong, shining light on his ignorance. Solve several emergency and normal request/quest in this town. Became a town hero of sort. Was intro to a certain brothel and met a certain prostitute. Event happen every time MC went there just to chat, until one last event where MC also resolve and confess to her at the same time. Thing didn't turn out well as that prostitute and few other escape town the next day due to that last event involve the lord of that town. The messenger to MC from that prostitute give their own interpretation which in turn give another strike to MC heart. A male friend got him on his feet as they travel to the capital city together. Another misunderstanding was created when that prostitute found out what her friend (the messenger) said and want to correct that by looking for him. She encounter the elf who also seek the MC out with the same goal.
  • Travel to the capital city with a friend (handsome male) as he trying join the knight. Encounter problem along the way. Got a request from a person they save which turn out to be a princess. Resolve that problem but MC was force to head out right away as one of his companion got kidnapped. The twin princess plan to follow the MC footstep (who already left) met the elf and the prostitute, they join hand as they have the same goal, harem created. 
  • MC arrive at where his kidnapped companion (baby dragon) was at. There was no fess with returning the companion but the MC did need to dual someone just because. MC dual that person and save her life as well. Also after the dual since MC won where the made up rule stated that whoever won her in a dual will become her husband. Since that person is not against it, the MC can only do nothing. While have such discussion after the dual, a friend of that person request help from her but because she still healing in bed, she point to MC as her replacement. And so they (MC) head toward a beastmen country. Not long after MC left this city, MC so call harem arrive and met the new girl, new girl accept.
  • MC and companion arrive in the beastman country. First sneaking around before got betray and then finally fight broke out, of course MC resolve (with brute force). Finally met all harem member and holding MC down to resolve all misunderstanding which they did. MC then head to another country to help the beastman country out.
  • MC and companion arrive in that other country. Sneak around before just using brute force on to the kingdom doorstep. Remove and replace the King and save the people. New harem member join MC. MC and harem head toward "the mountain".
  • Spend time up on top of "the mountain" at the Dragon king home. Crafting weapon and armor for harem member.
  • Return to his hometown to face with his childhood friend (female). Having to deal with a princess marriage problem and knowing that his childhood friend truly felt in love with the hero who she feel bad about breaking her promise with MC while she explain it to MC face to face. Left town after dealing with everything.
  • Team God & Goddess Plus MC vs Team Evil Spirit. Team MC harem vs Mob monster.
  • Ending: MC marry all his harem member, hinted that MC finally slept with a women (on the night after their marriage been done), visit (greet) all the place they travel to. They live at the dragon king place, also the goddesses pop up now and then as they can't stay for very long on the mortal realm.
  • Short after story: MC honeymoon and meeting a traveling bookstore clerk
To me there like a running gag in this novel that show up just for the laugh and those are:
  • Reading the MC's Guild Card Status
  • Random highwayman/bandit that show up
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I see this novel as an good read. The ending is more of a wrap up of everything, giving info on characters and what they end up as.

Extras Note: A user comments (That I pick) that (best) describe the differences between the LN & Manga vs WN (edited by me).

User: reivatin (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=135760) [June 11th, 2017]
[The manga version is using LN as basic which have different approach, while the story is the same. While WN is, you can say, is a trial and error without editor version. Which pure the author best thought in letter, it have a downside for me (user: reivatin), it can be said as spoiler.


In WN version, yes the first heroine, MC's osananajimi (Childhood friend), fall in love with the Hero (literally this world hero, not MC), she is not faithful and choose hero instead of MC. There's event after a few arc when the this osananajimi (Childhood friend) reject MC truthfully and say it just a child promise and ask him to move on, which he really move on, or run away.

While in Manga and LN the MC's osananajimi 
(Childhood friend) is faithful and refuse the kiss (in this case the MC ran away first as he didn't see the later part of her refusal) and search the MC together with his imouto (little sister)

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Next Life (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Next Life (Novel): [My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers]

Link:
Status (of the novel): WN (Complete-main story) LN & WN Extra Story(ongoing)
My Reading:  Reading & Stop
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers are Based on: Web Novel up to: Web Vol 1, Vol 2 Ch 1 (Translated), Web Novel RAW Up to: Web Vol 8 + Extra Chapters [04-07-13] (Google Translated) 

Atmosphere: Light
Type (Transported to Another World): Reincarnation
*Cause of Death (if known): Avalanche
*Reincarnation: Game Character (RPG: magic user class)
*Initial Abilities Gain after Reincarnated (If any): able to uses magic, have unique equipment on
Previous Life Basic Information: A Male, age unknown, Japanese Nationality
Other World Setting (World/Backdrop Setting): A Fantasy Magic & Sword World, Medieval. There are monster and other race.

Main Character: Male, age unknown but probably young adult (previous life), Game Character: human Race, Male, young man of adult age (new life)
MC Personality/Character: A standard Japanese Character
MC Ideas, Creations, and/or Recreation from his previous life (Either make it himself or have someone else make it for him): None/Not Yet.

Mature Content (Subject, Topic, Content, and anything that may be inappropriate for general reader):
  • Sex (imply)
My Comments/Reviews/Spoilers: The web novel of the main story is already over (finish) while the extra, the after story, are still ongoing. I don't want to re-read the whole web novel again because even reading the google translated text was mundane (story wise). It not exciting. I will write what I remember from the beginning and the end of vol 8. 

The MC die on a mountain while having fun with friends. He then get reincarnated as one of his game character with broken like status (cheat like status) in a fantasy world. He conveniently come across a royal family and save them using his overpower ability. From then on (I can't remember much) but he work for the kingdom. I think (don't remember) he marry the princess he saved (the one from the beginning) later in the novel, not sure if he marry more. By the end of the web vol 8, the MC fought a GOD and won that which have to do with saving the world.
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Overall, it a mundane read. This novel is quite mundane even if it follow all the cliche of  "transport to another world". It lack depth and even sometime detail, and because the MC is overpowered from the beginning. It often uses as a convenient in the story as if it explain everything. More like there lot of convenient in the story. It feel like there no personality on any characters.