• Mercuri@ani.social
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    20 days ago

    Dagashi-ya Yahagi: Setting Up a Sweets Shop in Another World: Volume 2

    Oof… sounds as bad as some indie books I’ve read on Kindle Unlimited. You can tell they’re writing chapter to chapter and whole plotlines go unresolved because the author forgets about them.

    Survival in Another World with My Mistress! Vol. 7

    Reminds me a bit of one of the indie fantasies I was reading. MC slowly builds a harem (basically one new girl every book) but by volume 9 it was reading like bad fanfiction. The author couldn’t properly juggle all the girls so they all ending as one-dimensional caricatures of their former selves.

    The rare series I’ve seen as an anime before reading the LN.

    I actually go both ways. Sometimes I see the anime and go “wow, that’s so cool! I want to know more!” and then get into the LN. Other times, something shows up on my recommended and I get into it that way and then later on the anime comes out and I of course watch it. I love that in this case the anime was so forgettable you forgot you’d watched it before picking up the LN though :D

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      MC slowly builds a harem (basically one new girl every book) but by volume 9 it was reading like bad fanfiction.

      This is worse. It’s volume 7 and he has 20+ mistresses that come in all shapes and forms. I’ve read this volume to maybe the half point and every chapter was just some discussion about which group of girls get to fuck MC next followed by an orgy. The next chapter then starts with a recap of the orgy in some roundabout way which I can only assume the author writes while constantly giving what he thinks are suave winks. Stuff like “The last night was a war of attrition but in the end everyone won if you get what I mean…”. And then it repeats with another group of girls fighting for his attention. Fanfics have more class than that.

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        20 days ago

        I am laughing so hard at your description. It’s like a crazy parody except the author is trying to be serious.