Current Events > Light Novel General v0.01 "Not as good as Mushoku Tensei"

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Or you know what, a guy is reborn into the world as a girl model, and his biggest advantage is being able to give the greatest blowjob in the world. I think I'm onto something here
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That kind of scenario would be classified as an erotic novel rather than a light novel. Just saying.

On a different note, my order arrived and I finished MH volume 2.
The story is more personal this time around, compared to the first book, which was mostly about MH world's lore and a bit about the MC. The hunting scenarios are more intense and varied, which is a big plus.

The new character might in fact be MH1's player character, considering some her past exploits and a certain weapon she owns. She's also given a pretty extensive backstory. Quite a bit more than the main party, actually.

The author's notes section is pretty entertaining too, especially the part where he complains about the mandatory online for guild quests, and wishes there's a MH1.5 that gives access to guild quests when offline (and he never got it, since MHG still requires online for guild quests). He's also apparently a big fan of the comic book Nightmares & Fairy Tales.

I'm pretty certain MH3U and on had offline guild quests. I did all of G stuff on MH3U solo.

But if he's talking about any MH older than 3U, I'm not sure
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Well, by the time he wrote that, MH had only one game. Like, MHG wasn't even announced yet.

The only MH games that required online for guild quests were the ones on PS2 and Wii, if I remember correctly.

barnnn posted...

Well, by the time he wrote that, MH had only one game. Like, MHG wasn't even announced yet.

The only MH games that required online for guild quests were the ones on PS2 and Wii, if I remember correctly.

Ahhh I got it confused for Monster Hunter Generations :P
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legendarylemur posted...

barnnn posted...

Well, by the time he wrote that, MH had only one game. Like, MHG wasn't even announced yet.

The only MH games that required online for guild quests were the ones on PS2 and Wii, if I remember correctly.

Ahhh I got it confused for Monster Hunter Generations :P

Ah, ok. MHG was never localized, so that's understandable.

It's funny, the rebirth genre is written in a very drastically different feel when the reincarnated person is a girl. It basically just has all the same cliches, but it reads like a shoujo manga
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Huh, I just noticed something in the MH novel. The first book has a guild receptionist in Minegarde named Becky, which is the same as the Minegarde Sweetheart NPC.

This might be where her name (and her hidden Guild Knight status) is first revealed, since the novel came before the first Hunter's Encyclopedia art book.

Slightly off-topic, but I just saw the short clip of the Monster Hunter movie. It's... quite depressing that it's gonna be the first mainstream adaptation that is released in the west (assuming the clip is real, that is). Especially when there are way more faithful MH adaptations out there in the form of manga and novels, and only Orage (just ok), Flash Hunter manga (good), and Ride On (bad CGI but otherwise enjoyable) were the only ones that were(/will be) released in the west.

I won't judge the quality of the movie just yet, but it's Anderson, so I don't have much faith.

On topic - I finished book 3 and read two chapters of book 4.
Book 3 is the weakest book out of the first three, but it really shows how much the MC has matured from the events of the first two books. The new characters are also pretty cool.
Book 4 is more like an epilogue story, where the main cast gather in a bar to party and tell stories of their most memorable hunt, that kind of stuff.

Oh wtf... I can't find any trailer for it but OH GOD IT'S THE GUY WHO DID RESIDENT EVIL MOVIES!!! WE'RE FUCKING DOOOMEDDDD NOOOOOOOO
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It's just a ~5 seconds clip.

From 2:37 to 2:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70b9H12sGcY

8 cuts in ~5 seconds and inaccurate monster models. And it really does take place in the real world.

Rathalos... and Gore Magala... FIGHTING IN A FUCKING... MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLL?!?!?!?!

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Yup. When I read the synopsis, I thought it was too ridiculous to be real. Then I saw that clip.
At this point I wouldn't even complain if this gets canceled and Mezeporta Reclamation gets adapted instead.

I refuse to see such a disgrace. I don't understand, the guy compliments how great the world building is in this series and then... completely does away with the world. What a fucking jackass. His latest movie resulted in limb losses and death. This guy doesn't deserve the MH franchise
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He really contradicts what he said. At first he praised the world building of MH and the potential to create a cinematic universe that has multiple stories of completely different groups of people, and then he makes the movie a "monsters coming to the real world" thing which doesn't have a lot of potential for side stories on top of being completely out of place in general.

Given how much MH emphasizes the importance of coexisting with nature and monsters being an essential part of the ecosystem, it just feels... wrong.

Yeah, not to mention, these monsters have been known to have phenomenal environmental impact. I can't even fathom what kind of bullshit they're gonna pull. If it's like these monsters came from a portal, they're literally forsaking a movie in a much more interesting world (probably to save money tbh). If they existed secretly in the modern days, fucking bullshit.
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Oh yeah, I started my attempt at translating Yuuki Rin's Monster Hunter novel. It's just something I impulsively started over the weekend, but I kinda want to finish it. At least the first book, anyway.
I'm currently at 10 pages right now, out of about 210.

The translation is still very rough and I had to take a few liberties to have it make sense in English though.
And I also seem to have a tendency of getting the tenses mixed up.

Oh wowsers. I'm sure it'll be leaps and beyond better than 95% of the translations out there, since most translations are machine translations with tweaks
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Finished the first scene of the first chapter. Not proofread yet though.

https://goo.gl/24qNN0

Reading it now. Gonna sleep soon but I'll def read by tmrw
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Thanks a lot!
It's my first time doing something like this, and I'm not very creative when it comes to writing, so I'll need all the feedback I can get.

It's very easy to read. I've been through some seriously bad grammar, and man, yours is a very fresh air.

Yeah there was always something odd about towns only having ways to repel the monster. I dunno if the older MHs had the likes of Dragonator though, which most definitely should kill things. Not to mention the concept of repelling is kinda dumb, since we basically get the mission to kill whatever was repelled a few moments later. What changed?

It's only Ch. 1, so obviously there's not too much craziness yet, but I love the world build up already. It made me realize that the Monster Hunter's singleplayers could be a LOT better. Rather than usually only having one big overarching plot, and killing monsters is all to figure out how to solve that one thing, there could be more character developments like there already is in this chapter, and your own character could have a characterization that works despite the game's classical RPG approach.

If not that, just develop more likeable side characters. The games always have had a lot of interesting looking and generally recognizable side characters, but they are never developed at least to the point of actually being able to call them characters. A guild that specializes on hunting Yian Kut-Ku (and even a small nod to the speedrun hunting community I think) is simple but already more interesting than the generic guild that only does generic guild things for the sake of the story.

You should try to contact baka tsuki or some host site somewhere and publish these, maybe even earn some small ad bucks as a bonus :P.
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I think you should pick a better way to emphasize game terms/items than double quotes since that's what you're using for dialogue. Like, italics or something
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Thanks for the feedback.

I'm still undecided on what to use for emphasizing terms and items. The original used square brackets.

While translating this, I realized that the start is a pretty slow burn. It will be a while until it gets to the action.

I plan on hosting this somewhere if I complete the first book.

Certainly the half square brackets that Japanese people like using would work perfectly. The quotation mark certainly does have a Dr. Evil feel.
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I simply don't have a current LN obsession right now. I'm still chugging through Death March thinking "what's the fucking point of this LN exactly?" I know good LNs are countable with fingers, and it's sort of all about indulging in the cliches and dumb fun, but dumb fun wasn't even found. Maybe I'll migrate to Slime Datara Ken, but I dunno how much I'd enjoy it in a non-manga form
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I guess you haven't found the type that you like most? I also had that problem when I started collecting manga. When I found the kind of thing that I like, it really narrowed down my choices. That actually helped me find good stuff easier.

I don't really know if there are that many translated LNs out there though, so I'm not sure if it will work out for you or not.

There's the problem with the range of choices, too. Either the translations didn't make it that far or is dead, which I hate cuz I would wanna know what happens next, or there aren't enough out there. I also dropped a bunch of ones that simply weren't that good. Usually the ones with a lot of chapters are pretty decent, since they actually need to be able to carry an audience to continue presumably. But yeah it's hard to find the right one, unless I learn to read Japanese

Actually, I do read Korean, and I'm pretty certain there are more official Korean translations vs. Eng to JP. But I wouldn't know what to search for that
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Korean, huh? There are quite a lot of official translations released there, yes. I don't know any reliable import sites for those though.

Anyway, MH chapter 1 is finished (first draft, anyway).
I also re-uploaded the first scene to fix some typos and missing words.

https://goo.gl/TBamE3

http://novelplanet.com/

Holy crap, a gold mine of translations here. They have a lot of Korean stuff, but to be frank, I don't always like the Korean style of writing. Very different values and all, and there's a reason why I refuse to work with Koreans, despite being one myself. But if there are ones heavily influenced by Japanese LNs, might be worth my while. They're a little less shy about sexuality, too, so perhaps... yeah it would do me well to explore.

Also, good translation so far. They actually sort of try to explain why some monsters get stronger as you rise through the ranks. Makes me wonder how carting works in the older games though. People just don't die very often in MH, despite getting mauled regularly
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Damn, they got the first volume of Bungaku Shoujo. It's a pretty good read.
The novel version of Fate/Zero is also great.
I haven't read Welcome to the N.H.K. yet, but I liked the anime.

Wait a sec... they got a novel version of Onani Master Kurosawa? I wonder how it's handled in text form.

I think Onani Master Kurosawa in novel form is the sequel to the manga. It tells the story after the timeskip and him getting together with that one girl. Sadly, she barely appears, and it's him dealing with the depressed girl again, but it is a satisfying conclusion. I dunno if there was a novelization of the original manga tho
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It's a sequel? I guess I should finish the manga first.

Anyway, I managed to find scans for most illustrations and updated my files. This series doesn't have that much, but they do look nice. The armor pieces are detailed and look almost exactly like their game counterparts.

Fap note is a blast
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Wow, I found a good manga, but it's based off of a LN supposedly.

Konjiki no Moji Tsukai Yuusha Yonin ni Makikomareta Unique Cheat

It really knows how to write characters first off, and the world is pretty interesting. It also does the Tate no Yuusha/Arifureta thing where there's a hero party and the main character's party that pretty much completely overshadows them.

MC's powers are a bit overpowered, but they make it up by pitting him against people much stronger than him. There's also an implied restriction, but they haven't gone over that yet.

It's good. I actually feel good about this, compared to most of the LNs that I try to pick up.
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Chapter 2 Scene 1 done. Just a little more until we get to the action.

https://goo.gl/NSdJDy

oho
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Regular old plain bump
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Well, I tried the first 5 episodes of Youjo Senki. Didn't hook me, but it's pretty nice. I kinda prefer the salaryman's exchange with god in this version to the manga.

Tanya and Viktoria's designs are the only ones that look off, but they work really well in the Youjo Shenki comedy shorts.

Supposedly the LN implies that the salaryman was a chubby kinda old otaku looking guy. Manga and anime has a much sleeker version of him. I think all 3 versions work well. As far away from Tanya the look is, the better
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Hm... the redesign was made to make him fit his personality better when fully illustrated, perhaps?

It doesn't matter that much in text form, but physical appearances do affect a viewer's perception on a character's personality.

Chapter 2 done.

https://goo.gl/NSdJDy

Yeah I'm gonna try to read it over the weekend. Hoping there's some hunting soon
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Thank ye master m3sterybumper. Your bump is most appreciated
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Gah, I seriously need to get around to reading your ch 2 translation. Gonna be really busy, haven't even been reading much LN in general...
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I understand that the author probably wants to push stronger battles faster, since this doesn't seem like one of those 100+ ch series. I was certainly expecting a slower grind up, since Monster Hunter for me is more of a "start from the bottom of the barrel" type of series. I was hoping to see more solo and self learning, but the camaraderie is an important aspect of MH as well.
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Well, this novel wasn't even planned as a series as first, so maybe that's why. You can only fit so much into one book, after all.

For me, the first volume is... pretty different from what I expected from MH, so to speak. Especially chapter 3 onwards. But I think it's an interesting read regardless.

The novel does go back to the basics a bit in volume 2 and 3, and the "starting from the bottom" kind of thing is in volume 4, strangely.

Anyway, I finished Scene 1 of Chapter 3. It's short, but I got stuck at a whole lot of points.
https://goo.gl/PRadYp

I guess they were fishing for interests in the first volume, or the author was going for a "sneak peek" style where you start with something big so that you know there's actually something to look forward to. I don't mind it, but it is certainly very different from what I was expecting
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From what I gather, the novel was released as a tie-in to the first game to expand on the game's world and to give it some story.

The author was let in on some yet-unrevealed details of the MH world, so it's possible that Capcom had him write a story based on those concepts.

Baby bump
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