Damn, didn’t check if I had the topic already. :(

And speaking of Hitchhikers Guide, that reminds that I was thinking about re-reading Discworld.

My favorite novels are the eternally unfinished Kingkiller Chronicles Trilogy by Patric Rothfuss. Sadly it doesn’t look like it will ever be finished so I can’t really recommend anyone to get into it.

Instead I’ll recommend the Finovar Tapestry Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. I think this series is what cemented my love for isekai stories long before I started to read light novels. Many of the usual isekai tropes we see today were already there 40 years ago. The only thing missing are cheat skills and video game mechanics.

[META] The good Myne seems to work this week and if we don’t get repeated topics in the coming weeks I’m happy.

The trailer looked so great, but it’s by the studio that messed up the Zombie anime. I hope they’ve learned some lessons from that production and can deliver on Witch Hat Atelier.

sidenote: Honestly, I wonder who decides which studio gets which series. As I understand it Witch Hat Atelier is extremely popular and well-received, so how can a studio with a single anime under its belt (and with a botched production of that one anime) score such a high-profile series?

I see, like just looking at the broad strokes but not looking at the details. I.e. “MC sitting in room saying something” instead of “MC saying something while sitting at her desk with anxious body language and fiddling with a pen while the bin and floor are littered with crumpled sheets of paper”. I do that as well whenever I read a manga, but in Witch Hat Atelier I seem to linger on the details and zoom in from time to time to drink it all in.

And to be fair I often do the same with light novels where MC’s inner monologue is mostly rambling. I scan the pages for quotation marks and just read those when it seems like MC is going on an especially bad tangent.

or treating it like a novel and ignoring the drawings

okay, I have to ask… how?

Right now I finished 7 volumes and I think it’s so good that I am this close to buying the manga in physical form. <-- notorious physical hater

edit: I just finished volume 9 and I think I’m done with he series. Fuck it

Only one volume this week since I started with a Manga for once (Witch Hat Atelier).

To Another World… with Land Mines! Volume 9 - Still no actual land mines in sight. Not even a stray claymore. You get an out-of-context side story smack in the middle between two chapters though. There’s that… I suppose the story is mostly filled with filler and set up for a new arc that will start the next volume.

Maybe Victoria of Many Faces.

There isn’t a thread for Dahlia In Bloom so I’ll post here how much I HATE the voice of Volfred. He’s supposed to be the super strong and tough soldier that stands at the vanguard of a monster hunter division that laughs death in the face. And then they somehow decided to go with a breathy shota twink voice for him. I hope they haven’t ruined the LN for me.

Fair point. How can I change my name to Hartmut on Lemmy?

I thought the entire day about this and I don’t really can think of any isekai world I would reincarnate into when I don’t have control over where I end up and with what talent/skills/race/etc.

In the end I think I chose Konosuba’s world and you the Axis cult just to be on the save side. I always thought I would make a good cult member. And if I get lucky and get reborn into the crimson demon clan, I would make an even better chuuni.

So I’m a Spider so What?

Chances are you’d get eaten by your spider mom seconds after hatching.

Making magic was one that I thought about as well. I would like to live on the flying island as a dragonkin or angelkin (forgot their correct name) but I would be pissed if I reincarnate as a peasant in some random kingdom.

I thought about Tempest but ultimately decided that it’s too war-torn for my taste and the amenities are mostly just reproductions of what we have here on shitty earth. It’s like dying and just getting the same shit just left behind even if specialized knowledge could put you on a higher caste compared to here.

Could that harem route thing be around volume 3? I could see myself dropping it because of that.

I have that series sitting at 70% read of volume 3. I don’t remember if I dropped it or just something else came up and I never finished it. My notes don’t reach that far back either. Maybe I should pick it up again one of those days.

So You Want to Live the Slow Life? A Guide to Life in the Beastly Wilds, Volume 4 - About 5% actual story and 95% preserves recipes. I like the first 5% well enough, but the ratio between stroy and recipes is just too lopsided.

My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World: Volume 9 - The entire volume there is the question of whether or not this volume’s guest character is a spy. The usual comfiness never gets a chance to develop. I hope the next volumes will be back to form without having to second-guess every word.

For ongoing series only Isekai Tensei and Territory Defence. For the new series Lacey Longs for Freedom sounds like my kind of LN and Hero Syndrome looks to have an interesting premise.

Good point about Frieda and her benefactor. I don’t remember, was he ever named?

Regarding Ferdinand, I agree that he is a compelling character and he certainly didn’t deserve to end up with Detilinde, but I’m still not convinced that Myne is the best solution here either. I am internally fighting with me because on the one hand there is a guardian marrying his ward, but on the other side there are so many unconventional circumstances around this that it turns into a “yeah … but …” argument in my mind. Did he ever saw her a a child after learning of her previous life? Did Myne for that matter? I feel like her Urano memories are more like knowledge without the accompanying emotions behind it. Did she ever miss her Motosu family the same way she missed her Ehrenfest one? Would Ferdinand reading young Myne’s memory come away with the impression that she is an “adult in a child’s body” or that she is a “child with knowledge of an adult”.

This reminds me of my Ascendance of a Bookwyrm scenario for this Midweek Discussion a while back.

I don’t think I’ll reread the series anytime soon but I have grabbed the first volume of the manga and I’ll keep this in mind when I start reading it.

You also made a good point there about characters needing some antagonistic traits. I’ll steal that and throw it into the pool of Midweek Discussion questions.