I’ve mostly watched anime for the past two years and got a craving for a book.

I’m mostly watching comedy and battle shounen, but I’m also enjoying Orb: On the Movements of the Earth this season. The last series I’ve been reading is Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive (don’t worry, I know about Mistborn, I’ll get into it during holidays).

Horror bores me, and I dislike romance in general. I can tolerate it as a side plot, but will cringe anyway. And if I see a love triangle or the MC going on and on about the butterflies in their stomach…

It would be nice to see a hard system world mid or post-industrial revolution, but it’s not a must. I also prefer a more masculine PoV, because I’m more used to it.

I’m currently thinking about getting The Powder Mage trilogy or Discworld, but I’ve been out of the loop for so long (if you consider regular visits at the library as being in the loop) that I want to see if I’m missing something more up my alley.

Originally I wanted to get Dungeon Crawler Carl, but it’s not translated, so I’ll wait. I’ve tried reading a book in English, forgot the title, but I had to drop it because it was too mentally demanding for me.

  • ludrolAEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    I will shill my favorite series: “Ascendance of a bookworm”

    hard magic ✅
    early industrial revolution ✅
    no romance ✅
    female mc
    isekai so it would be right your alley
    for the word of warning, It’s very slow.

    hop on to !lightnovels@ani.social if you want more japanese stuff

    • Gutek8134@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      10 hours ago

      TBH I’ve never read a light novel, partially due to trash isekai stigma.

      I’ve already heard about it due to anime adaptation. I’ll probably watch it after Dr. Stone ends, since I’ve heard they are quite similar, Honzuki being more realistic of the two.

      • ludrolAEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        Yeah I could count non trash isekai on the finger of one hand.

        Edit: The anime is really low budget so the quality isn’t the best sadly.

        • Gutek8134@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          9 hours ago

          Random fact: I can count to twelve with one hand

          Edit: I didn’t have any problem watching Detroit Metal City, and that one feels like it had the budget of a pack of cup noodles per episode

          • ludrolAEnglish
            2·
            8 hours ago

            random fact: I can count to 31 on one hand but 11 is really hard to pull off, I also can count to 12 on one hand and dozenal system is clearly superior than decimal system.