One thing I do miss is GENTLEMEN memes. Funny how I'm actively looking forward to seeing new posts on this general now more than I ever did on 4chan in years.

>>71712 Why ask for pictures for the bake if you aren't going to post any, faggot? Also we aren't even off page 1

>>71712 Slow life with catgirl slaves is the only correct answer.

Sucks the threads here are slow, that means less ritualposting lol.

>>71725 Is there even that many series with slave catgirls? Feels like while there's slaves the girls are far more varied.

>>71726 >>71727 >First we take most of the board's PPH. >Then we take most of the board's threads. >Then we absorb the seasonal threads because most stuff is isekai/LN adaptations anyway. Truly a board domination plan.

>>71729 >the gacha isekai Do you have any idea how little does that narrow it down?

What is the general consensus on KR novels here? Do you guys read any?

>>71731 There are not as common as they should be and they are rarely the main heroine but if there is a harem and slaves are allowed, there is usually a cat somewhere in there.

>>71738 A main heroine kot sounds boring honestly, they tend to have little personality even by main heroine standards.

>>71740 Kots bad, dragon good.

>>71740 >>71741 Kots bad, princess good.

>>71740 An aloof kuudere kot would be the perfect main wife.

I think kuuderes SUCK.

Why kots?

>>71740 Kots bad, witches good.

Because we can share epubs here I can just post this, because it was FOTM on the isekai general on 4chan a while back. Have fun guys.

>>71756 >we can share epubs here Holy shit.

>>71740 You don't have to say kot. Main heroine is all you had to say. Females should be mc or should be minor characters. I hate females that exist to job to everything while bloating out all the roles of side characters to protagonists onaholes. Men really hate one another

>>71758 For all intensive purposes, random orbiters are minor characters.

>>71759 Not if they're on the cover and tied to the mcs arc

>>71760 That can still be minor character stuff tho.

>>71756 Gonna ask the old question of is this good? Say it be somewhat of an FOTM on 4chan but I assumed it was because it sounded like hunterkuso which appealed to the gookshills.

>>71769 Depends on what you mean by "good". Do you mean cinematic and easily impressing normalfags? No. But the worldbuilding is really interesting for something effectively happening in modern times/very near future and the plot is decent. Also it's not hunterkuso, it's more like SMT with extra steps.

>>71770 Yeah I don' care about shit that impresses normalfags, so good to know. Will check it out at least.

>>71769 gookshit readers are more likely to post academykuso than huntershit in my experience. Then again a lot of academy overlaps with hunters >>71735 I read a few in between waiting for new releases of JP novels, dunno if anyone here is interested in discussing them though since that would probably just trigger the menhera who thinks that any korean discussion is automatically anti-japan astroturfing by indian shills or whatever

>>71786 IMO, the discussion of korean stuff should try stay on /kr/ for the benefit of everyone involved. There's way too much of a grudge among JP otaku thanks to the constant "korean shit will replace japan in 2 weeks bro" astroturfing, which to play the devil's advocate also means legitimate discussion of KR stuff is impossible without dedicated places for it due to people telling you to go away.

>>71788 Personally I think dividing "JP otaku" from KR in this context is arbitrary menhera behaviour because KRkuso (and a lot of CNkuso) draws so much of its lineage from nip media thanks to much of it being created JP otaku in both those countries, hence the large amount of crossover in isekai threads and BA topping the doujinshi charts at comiket after comiket. So I'm still not convinced that the "JP otaku" who hold a grudge isn't 99% one guy and the "korean shit will replace japan in 2 weeks" isn't just blatant trolling rather than any sort of coordinated paid poster campaign because it's way too easy to get a rise out of that one guy. But yeah the low population of this board means that the one guy makes any discussion even more impossible.

>New bread. >KRkusopers already trying to invade.

>>71789 This board is big enough that you can make individual threads for CN and KR shit if you don't want to go to /cn/ and /kr/ respectively. We both know you won't tho, because CN/KR shit can't sustain discussion on it's own and requires being parasites on JP media threads to barely be alive.

>>71791 >>71790 ochitsuke menhera.

>>71786 He's already here: >>71790 >>71791 As always, filter out retards using Filter ID+ I have zero issue with KR posting so long as it isnt being forced.

What is there to talk about KRkuso? The gayshit spam of the day?

>>71806 You mean you don't want to talk about yet another otomeshit setup for GB that will get forgotten even by shills within a week?

>>71806 >>71815 Don't forget about the towershit lol.

>>71816 KRshit is so bad I would rather talk about almost anything else. I would even take marieniggers over KR shit.

>>71789 Make it 2 people at least. All that shilling about how gacha killed japan and how BA replaced JP media started to sour me on gook shit but the PM rug pull was the final nail in the coffin.

Well that took quite the googling. Apparently this place is making 4chan shit it's pants, the fuck is the faffing about?

>>71819 What doesn't make 4chan shit it's pants these days?

>>71818 >how BA replaced JP media Oh god you are making me have flashbacks to when it was airing and it's threads had anywhere from 500 to 2000 deleted posts by the time they hit bump limit. All off banning anyone that so much didn't worship the bloody thing.

>>71786 >>71789 >>71803 I just wanna point out the increasingly unhinged "NOBODY IS GONNA LEAVE FOR ALT CHANS" tantrums whenever this place gets mentioned on the 4chan general are rather amusing to me.

>>71822 Is the guy over there still trying to gaslight people there's no bias against japanese media in 4chan even after the leaks?

>>71823 Yes, and it's fucking hilarious.

>>71822 I genuinely don't understand the sheer desperation gooks have with shilling their crap. If something is good it will stand out on it's own merits, just look at how lobco and ruina grab people and make them loyal to PM despite the gacha grift. Yet those types of tales in korean media seem absurdly rare compared to any random ass manga or LN from japan seems to have an unhinged and loyal fandom like that if you know where to look.

>>71825 They don't care about loyal fandoms, they care about mainstream acceptance. You know how shounenshit basically ruined itself trying to pander to the west? That but on a country-wide scale with a side serving of inferiority complex about japan. It's telling when their biggest and only notable piece of media (blue archive) desperately wants to be japanese.

>>71825 >If something is good it will stand out on it's own merits, I wouldn't be so sure about this, I routinely read JP media that blows even the most shilled westoid shit out of the water like LOTR, yet even so called "otaku" still scoff at said stuff.

>>71826 >they care about mainstream acceptance. Yeah pretty much. Korea is way too corporate to let real soul thrive, everything has to be a mainstream bestseller and it's written from the ground up to be soulless enough to be one.

>Open what is supposed to be a jp /a/nime board general. >Most of the posts are whining about gookkuso.

>>71829 Nigger at least let me whine about it a little now that we are allowed to talk about it outside the CR gestapo grounds.

>>71829 Eh in all honestly, fair point. I will stop at least.

>>71829 IMO just let the fags with a grudge rant, constantly trying to release the pressure on the valve as a stopgap is how you get the /jp/ LN general being stuck in the exact same okamalator argument for literally half a year. At this PPH is hardly even annoying, it doesn't compare to skimming 80% of the thread when shit gets bad on 4chan's /a/.

>>71832 Fucking thank you. Now imagine I'm going to scream "FUCK GOOKNIGGERS" for the next hour because holy shit feels nice to say it without constantly being gaslight directly to my fucking face.

>>71832 To be absolutely fair, what can even be said that wasn't already said a million times already? >Gooks astroturf as naturally as they breathe. >Gooks have constantly ruined discussion of japanese media. >Gooks constantly clog aggregators with garbage not even they give a fuck about. They are so bland there's not much variety to complain about.

>>71834 >Gooks astroturf as naturally as they breathe. Reminder they literally got away with breaking steam's TOS regarding not asking for reviews when BA released, and that was after the game was already one of those extremely rare examples of getting approved after a steam ban. "There's no anti-japan agenda" my goddamn anus.

>>71832 >is how you get the /jp/ LN general being stuck in the exact same okamalator argument for literally half a year. It actually lasted most of 2024. And literally the only reason it stopped around april was because of the hack's downtime kneecapping most activity on niche boards.

>>71832 >>71836 Those translation arguments have always been a thing to an extent to be fair. I still remember when dinosaurs still roamed the earth people arguing about translation details on BT and constant arguments between subbing groups.

>>71837 Gonna throw some good on the fire and mention something funny. I don't think I have seen a single person into korean stuff be legitimately serious about learning korean to get the original intended experience. Not even after basically everywhere on 4chan where japanese stuff is discussed you WILL get at least one guy smugly (and frankly rightfully) point out translations are dogshit and you should know japanese already. But for korean stuff? Radio silence, most people can and will wait for TLs even if it's literal MTL. At most I saw one 3dpd whore into kpop learning a few phrases but forgetting about it once she was out of that fad.

>>71837 I mean, can you fucking blame people when translations keep being increasingly dogshit to the point of absurdity? Pretty sure there's multiple twitter accounts documenting shit anime sub TLs at this point. Also that time CR got caught using literal MTL, or whoever gave them the subs did, I don't know nor I care, and apparently neither do them.

>>71839 Not quite, but at some point I do have to wonder why even have the argument on /jp/ of all places, "yes, we know, we have known JP for x years now" should be the normal response at least there.

>>71840 Akshually I think it's a legitimate argument when discussion gets messy due to people talking about two different series released under the same name. It was a problem back during the end of eva movie, and it's a problem today still.

>>71841 It's not really about it being a problem or not, but about preaching to the choir for literal months.

>>71842 Yeah that's what I was saying. Let people bitch about it in peace, then we can come to an agreement like rational adults that after an hour or two we drop the KR topic and that's that. Instead of having the fire constantly come and go let the bitching burn out completely in one go.

>>71843 Do whatever the fuck you want, I'll just head to sleep.

>>71843 I have to admit I don't have much to whine about beyond this, I could bring up sad penis promising great things and crashing and burning, but what's the fucking point?

>>71845 Blame that one on the dungeon master genre being cursed. Yes I'm still mad about wicked trapper.

>>71846 >dungeon master genre being cursed. Is that an actual thing or a forced meme like persona 5 collabs killing gachakuso servers?

Anyway, hope you fags got your pent up grudge about KR shit out of your system to actually talk about JP stuff now.

>>71854 Sure, will try to keep that bitching to 4chan, because it actually pisses off gookfags there.

Gonna change the topic: >WATCHAN? (anime) >READAN? (manga) >MORE READAN? (LN/WN/VN) >PLAYAN? (vidya)

>>71859 >WATCHAN? (anime) Unironically seasonalshit like sakamoto, don't think there's any isekai airing right now. >READAN? (manga) There's fucking nothing updating nigger, even fan TLs seem to be dying. >MORE READAN? (LN/WN/VN) Finally got around starting bookworm, but feels like I got tricked into reading something for women. >PLAYAN? (vidya) Good ol' civ 4.

>>71859 >WATCHAN? Gonna watch konosuba's newer season one day >READAN? Meikyuu right now >MORE READAN? Probably going to get into Sunrider >PLAYAN? Modded Starsector it feels like an isekai fever dream with many fucking isekaijin invading the sector of the shipgirls.

>>71846 I hoped for something a lot different than what that became. Even if it abandoned the dungeon master part or traps being used like they should be expected to, other parts could have been better.

>>71843 Seems like an old man yelling at clouds circlejerk to me but you do you

>>71859 >WATCHAN? A-party aka protagonist's onaholes. Hardly a masterpiece, but there's worse stuff to put in while vegging out. >READAN? Coping with whatever chapters get TLd of the isekai I remember. >MORE READAN? Got into dendro as my first LN to try read raw, that was a fucking mistake, just reading a page is exhausting, and that's when I already knew the plot from reading it in english. I legit don't know how can some of you fags start from zero and stand looking up every single kanji and conjugation. >PLAYAN? Haven't had much time to vidya recently now that I finally tried to get into learning japanese. Last I played was probably mindlessly grindan on disgaea 7.

>>71863 Abandoning the dungeon master part was what made the story spiral out of control too hard. Ramping up the powercreep too fast also was an issue, no way to outsmart people if they can just facetank everything. The author legit wrote himself into a corner I think.

>>71861 >Meikyuu right now That hardly narrows it down. The one with an MC called michio?

>>71859 >WATCHAN? Rewatching overlord for the kino. >READAN? Got bored of manga. >MORE READAN? Space mercenary which got shilled last thread so I finally gave it a go. >PLAYAN? Factorio 'tism.

>>71863 Maybe the dungeon master genre really is cursed.

>>71859 >WATCHAN? (anime) Mynoghra and water mage are the only isekai I am watching this season. Also I guess Koujo denka, Watanare, silent witch and Outcast Restaurant if we are talking LN adaptations in general. >READAN? (manga) Does rape zoids count as isekai? >MORE READAN? (LN/WN/VN) Shishunki na Adam. It's been pretty fun so far. >PLAYAN? (vidya) I was trying to do a Gen 3 living dex but got bored and ended up replaying Cyber Sleuth instead. May end up completing that dex instead.

>>71872 >Also I guess Koujo denka Is it actually fun_ or do people just read it for le cunny?

>>71873 I watch it because I enjoy seeing little girls doing their best. I doubt it will have much loli fanservice.

>>71874 Hold on, watch? When did it get an anime?

>>71859 >anime The last anime I watched was Deltora Quest. I know that the story was written by an australian but that's probably what makes it so good, an asian author would give Lief a holographic status screen and cheats. >manga I just read up the latest chapter of Amateur Vigilante today. It's been a while since I liked a manga as much as this, it left me on the edge of my seat. I want the next chapter to come so I can see Ojiro kill those bastards. I hope he fucks Marisa at the end. >LN/WN/VN Haven't read one in years. >videogames Underrail.

>>71875 It's airing this season.

>>71867 Yes

>>71877 Big if true holy shit.

>>71859 >WATCHAN seasonals, sequels, cant convince myself to start gundam wing movie >readan mynoghra >more readan mynoghra LN, otome sekai no arukikata VN >playan Mechabellum, warthunder. Can't get into anything and no good roguelikes recently. Can't be arsed to find and update the starsector mods again

I'm seeing a lot of seasonalfagging that's not just me. Thought that was looked down upon even outside of 4chan.

>>71881 Oh yeah the mynoghra anime finally happened. Been putting it off because of how awful adaptations tend to be, how is it?

>>71884 Likely very awful, last episode was stills and face shots throughout, like really godawfully horrible even for shitty isekai adaptation standards. Paladins arc finale this weekend so we'll see if they can get anything animated. I do however have a ton of Atou screenshots from it, so there's that at least >>71883 speak english, if you're trying to say discussing seasonals is bad or looked down upon anywhere then skip to jumping off a building

>>71884 I've seen worst. The seiyuu and OST are at least genuinely good.

>>71885 >speak english, if you're trying to say discussing seasonals is bad or looked down upon anywhere then skip to jumping off a building No need to be so hostile out of the blue. I'm basically saying normalgroids consider seasonalfagging a bad thing, and largely so did 4chan, so I find it weird people here do it when it universally seemed looked down upon.

>>71891 There are seasonal discussions every day on both 4chins and casual spaces like plebbit and twarter, try not using retarded /r9k/ lingo like "normalgroid" if you want to be taken seriously

>>71891 >makes up random shit that didn't happen >weee why did you tell me to fuck off dont be rude uwu roof express

Not gonna lie, being around on a far slower board is rather comfy, I expected I would get bored within a day and leave but even just being around without shitposter spam is nice even without posting much.

>>71712 It's different than traditional isekai, and it gives me both more to explore and a place to use my knowledge. Of course I'd pick a high-spec ship and adventure. I could be like Harlock or Tylor.

I like how Michio and Roxanne building up their life.

>>71906 comfy

>>71906 Honestly I'm glad they didn't rush the adaption of this one like it always happens with manga, the actual and unironic slow life pacing is part of the appeal IMO.

I know it's sherry on the right side but who's the mystery nigga on the left?

>>71922 Slave dragon girl. She may appear before the end of the decade.

>>71924 That seems way too optimistic. Wouldn't the elf arc alone take almost 5 years with this pacing?

>>71927 Roughly 2 volumes of Sherry took about 60 manga chapters. If it keeps that slow rate, it's close to 5 years for dragon and 10 years before the elf might appear.

>>71929 Oh the dragon was before the elf? I forgot. Probably should give it a read again, the manga skipping the menhera paranoiac's parts of michio's monologues was a bummer.

>wants to hang rugs on the wall >first meal she makes is potato based dish >above average breast size >absurdly strong even though she was the weakest member where she came from >literal cyka(female dog) It may be asked before but is Roxanne's kin meant to be resemble russians?

>>71954 Thought the wall rugs shit was more of a SEA thing.

>>71958 No that's more of a ruskie stuff to do. I suspect some of turkic folk got relocated into commies blocks and they couldn't put them down to the floor and since these rugs were familiar relics or too highly priced for them to sell off they hanged them to the walls prolly inspiring the russians into doing the same.

New LN releases this half-month. >>>/jp/3952

>>71712 So did Mezamatara (from OP) stop getting TL'd? I was following it on mangadex but the last update was months ago. Same story for the Mitsubishi PHEV isekai (picrel).

>>71977 Both have more translations elsewhere. PHEV was completed.

>>71977 In the first place, gookdex is dead after the mass DMCAing. And in second place, TLs of jp media are dying in general thanks to jeets slowing down to a chapter per 3 years people realizing they can just MTL themselves but as someone already mentioned this one has TLs in the gorillion kekalot clones.

>>71977 I also joined the raws club these days after mangasee died and I was too lazy to change my bookmarks to it's replacement.

Are we back?

>>72029 It's seems like so.

This world is so fucking real with all of these fucking taxes

>>72047 Maybe there's an extra cost or deposit if someone wants to see more of what he buys before purchase instead of after.

>>72049 To be honest I'm kind of amazed how quickly Alen wanted to pass her off to michio has he thought she has an absurdly short lifespan because of her thin ears or was her inability of getting master smith job thus being useless plus high tax cost?

>>72050 He didn't have her long, so he could have made more more keeping her for some training first. The age could be checked, so only another dwarf should care about the ears if someone wanted her for her appearance. The only reason to sell her so quickly would be to keep a repeat customer happy who could make a lot of money in a short time, and hope for future business.

What the fuck was the downtime for anyway? .se told me it was maintenance but .moe was dead due to a expired certificate too.

>>72052 IIRC Mark said something about .se's server having some sort of fuckery going on which they couldn't fix yet and .moe's cert has expired. Shit happened.

>>72050 >>72051 She would've been kind of a tough sell in a normal situation. Her education isn't finished, looks like a hag and is lacking on the main perks one would want in a dwarf. I don't think a normal man operating with the common sense of that world would want to buy her. Allen was clearly hesitant to sell her at first, to the point he was willing to send him to a different store, and Sherry was quite desperate trying to appeal to him. More training would've raised her price a bit but it wouldn't fix her appearance or give her a good job. I think only a "weirdo" like Michio would buy her. Thats why Allen tried so hard to sweeten the deal, he didn't thought she was a good enough product and was not ready for Michio to actually want to buy her, making the sale go overly smoothly.

>>72056 The lack of training would be a problem for some people depending on what they expected to get, but the main reason it was a problem would be it decreases her sale price, when he could potentially get more profit with some training. For some of the reasons a person would want her, being a dwarf wouldn't matter, except for those who wanted large breasts. Not everything requires training beyond what someone would already know. Michio was primarily looking for that hard to find dwarf job, and with secondary use for combat, so suggesting he look elsewhere when he only had one dwarf who he thought wasn't suited for combat made sense. If he came asking for a cheap dwarf for sex who could also help around the house there would be less reason to suggest looking elsewhere first.

>>72057 Maybe if making a quick buck was all he cared about that would be the case but I believe Allen has higher standards than that. He seems to genuinely care for his costumers and mercancy. I think not souring his business relationship with Michio by selling him a bad slave was more important to him than profitability at the moment. Sure, there may be a market for cheap dwarves but I don't think Allen is running that kind of dollar store. Remember that the training she was receiving was not general education, it was brothel education. Specially when it comes to sex or domestic slaves, people would want them to know how to serve properly. Michio, like us, sees Sherry as cute and wants to fuck her so it seems like a bargain but the vibes in the room were that she was a weird purchase. Being a virgin and her willingness to enter the dungeon were her only selling points, everything else about her was, in their eyes, a demerit.

>>72058 Discouraging him from making a possible mistake is better for long term business, and so is letting him have an untrained girl cheaper if he knows what he's getting. A repeat customer who earns money quickly might come back later with a higher budget and a difficult request that could be met. The purchase was a little weird because Michio first asked for a master smith, then a dwarf that would be good at fighting, and wasn't getting either. He immediately focused on the sole dwarf being a girl after that, so it is a little like forgetting why he came there.

Dworf has big club Dworf is happy

Sherry is cute

>>72061 >The purchase was a little weird because Michio first asked for a master smith, then a dwarf that would be good at fighting, and wasn't getting either. He immediately focused on the sole dwarf being a girl after that, so it is a little like forgetting why he came there. From an outsiders perspective without context, he effectively got scammed with a shit slave lmao.

>>72067 As much as I hate the dog, this was cute.

>>72070 No one should see it as a scam when he was warned there was only one dwarf girl to choose from that didn't have anything he wanted or to make her stand out besides being large for a dwarf. Someone might see him as having little self control with his money when he sees a girl he likes, since he could have spent more time looking at other options first.

>>72073 >Someone might see him as having little self control with his money when he sees a girl he likes That's not even wrong either.

>>72067 >>72071 Roxanne paizuri

>>71986 >>71977 Thanks. I had the sense something was up but I wasnt really following. I ended up figuring out I can just use Kotatsu to search a ton of sites at once. While searching for Mezamatara, I accidentally stumbled into "Isekai Metara" which was a funny enough concept I had to read it. It's short and nothing special but it's amusingly earnest.

>>72083 >I ended up figuring out I can just use Kotatsu to search a ton of sites at once. The what now?

One thing which I've found funny in Michio's story that him getting existential crisis over that random ass guy dying when he personally killed least a dozen men. This shit goes to become absurd when a group of explorers die in front of him but I guess that's okay because they were checking Roxanne out? This aspect of selective empathy of his is a interesting stuff. Is this different in webnovel or ln version?

>>72085 https://kotatsu.app/ Tachiyomi-style reader app for android. Makes it easy to read manga off various sites and can alert for updates, etc.

>>72089 >Phoneshit. Damn, thought it was some PC thing. But on PC I can just use any of the gorillion aggregators I guess.

>>71714 I miss GENTLEMEN shit too, and OC in general. Actually I don't think 4chan has done any notable OC in years.

>>72083 >>72084 >>72089 >heavy metal isekai How close is it to Brutal Legend?

>>72089 Is there anything like this for PC?

>>72126 Truly great wisdom that can even be easily applied to real life.

>>72095 >>72120 I actually dont know shit about good PC readers/aggregators. I mostly read manga while slacking off in the work shitter or sitting in bed and can't sleep. But I probably should try to find a good one. >>72114 Not very, he's a metal guy in generic dragon quest fantasy world, not metal themed world like brutal legend. Although there is a running gag of places/monsters looking exactly like album covers and he has an isekai rock music rival. Actually it's kind of brazen filling your manga with explicit copies of art owned by record labels. Don't expect an official release for this one. It's also very short... 19 chapters in 4 years unless theres a lot more untranslated. Which is another surprising thing, it apparently started publication in 2021, even though it's kind of basic and played *completely* straight. I would have guessed it was from 2009. It relies so much on visual gags I think it might be a manga original... But I wasnt curious enough to attempt some deep research dive lmao.

>>72132 PC clients/readers would likely be worthless unless it's a full blown store/proper aggregator like a lot of mobile ones tend to do, same with the third party spootify/jewtube clients. Given how unstable TLs are these days I also don't see the point in doing that for translations, it would only really work to be a manga raws client.

>>72132 >I would have guessed it was from 2009. A lot of stuff these days feels like that for some reason. I would have guessed about the same from komarin but that turned out to be surprisingly recent as well. There's still some stuff that feels modern despite explicitly being a lookback to old stuff like red ranger isekai but there's also a lot of shit that feels like it's actually that old.

>>72141 >komarin Sucks the manga for that one is so damn slow, it may have gotten axed already.

>>72145 Just read the novel?

>>72163 >A nigress. But why tho.

>>72172 It's either a niggress or being a japanese salary man

>>72176 Pretty sure most people would rather be a wagie man than a nigress. I don't think even the gay GB gooks on 4/a/ would want to be a nigress.

>>72178 I'm glad I still have the mental capability to differentiate 2d from it's 3dpd shithole counterparts seems this getting rarer with every passing generation of man.

>>72179 Blame a decade of ghetto culture worship making even 2d nigresses gross, not me.

>>72180 >no it's not my fault that I get influenced like some niggercattle by kuso media lol

>>72163 I read this for a little bit, I got bored at some point though. It's just OK. Some of the scenes feel like they use 5 pages to explain how he saves face at a party. >>72172 >>72176 >>72178 All of you motherfuckers wouldn't fuck Cleopatra if you got the chance? Don't even use "I'm racist" as an excuse, the best White man who ever lived fucked Cleopatra. If you wouldn't, youre a beta male.

>>72184 I mean she was northern greek/macedonain with probably a tan at best but would regardless

>>72181 I don't like shitskins, it's that simple.

>>72184 >All of you motherfuckers wouldn't fuck Cleopatra if you got the chance? Egyptians weren't niggers despite what kikeflix told you. Also I'm not into tanned girls either, I just don't actively despise them.

>>>/jp/3977 Biweekly release post.

>>72210 Thanks bro.

4/a/'s isekai thread is being shittier than usual. So how have you been fags?

>>72240 >4/a/'s isekai thread is being shittier than usual. Let me guess, gook gayshit again? >So how have you been fags? Been too busy with vidya recently. Finally got into mario kart **8___* and it's surprisingly fun even solo.

Pretty dead not gonna lie. Not like 4chan is any better these days though.

>>72257 Even the 4/a/ isekai general slowed down a lot these past few weeks. I think due to the recent happenings people are just starting to have internet fatigue.

>>72261 Wouldn't surprise me, too many pajeets, too many shills. People are probably talking to AI now because at least AI is not extremely judgemental for the slightest shit like westoids tend to be.

>>72263 Anon, the AI chatbot are pajeets too.

>>72272 Nah pretty sure the generic chatbots are actually AI, they are too eloquent to be jeets.

>>72273 Considering the track record of the companies pushing the tech, as long as a warehouse of pajeets is cheaper than a warehouse of PS5s, it is safe to assume the AI is pajeets.

>>72272 >>72275 With how stupid AI still is (even GPT6), what would be the difference?

>>72276 AI can be run locally uncensored, pajeets are a plague to be dealt with.

>>72278 That reminds me, did AIkuso ever get good enough to actually translate with?

>>72282 No, IIRC it stopped around N3 but then it started degrading again due to AI rot and hallucinations.

>>72210 >鬱展開大好き主人公VS優しい世界 1　欲望のまま生きていたら聖人君子と崇拝されてました <MC loves stories where protagonists go through hellish suffering and pull through into a happy ending <gets isekai'd and sets out to find the most suffering and depressed people to watch them This MC sounds like some nutjob you'd only find in isekai generals.

>>72294 Kino.

>>72210 Thinking of it, wonder why did the sadboy trend didn't last. I remember a year or two ago people were still hyping up that shit as the genre that would finally overtake isekai once and for all only to just quietly fizzle out.

>>72309 Who would want to read glorified telenovela shit when they could just read shit for women if they really want that?

>>72312 Not even actual otome shit had drama as forced as some of the sadboy shit.

>>72261 I can relate on the internet fatigue, been taking a break myself lately, I think this week is the first time in years I haven't been constantly checking 4chan every 10 minutes. Sucks this place doesn't have more activity outside of /gacha/ and /vyt/ just to escape all the garbage floating around on 4chan these days.

>>72287 Sucks, I remember people shilling AI translations like mad a year or so ago. Or you could, you know, learn Japanese, that way you don't have to worry about TLs being gibberish due to AI hallucinating or waddling from the usual MTL shit.

>>72324 Isn't sadboy shit basically written for women? >>72325 I've been taking a break from 4chan too, basically all threads are unusable shitholes now. Even /vg/ doesn't even pretend to talk about gameplay anymore. >>72326 It's not like anyone has the brains to learn Japanese that easily anon, it's easy to be lazy and expect AI to save your ass.

To think of it, did the JP learning resources improve this decade or are they still shit and rely on you "figuring it out" through years of immersion?

>>72331 Given there's another wave of isekai le bad spam thanks to one of the main ecelebs making a video about it, /a/'s post quality somehow managed to get even lower than before.

>>72326 The times of BT with autismos learning because of the likes of DaL and raildex are long gone grandpa. For a while now people just randomly consoom and move on to the next thing.

>>72332 OCR is objectively much better now and works even with noisy backgrounds. Good OCR makes it much faster to learn JP from manga, because looking up words from a dictionary used to be the slowest part.

>>72348 Are you talking about poricom or did a better one pop up?

TIL chans other than 4chan and that japanese one exist. Sup bros.

>>72350 Was there another spergout on the isekai general?

>>72351 Got told about this place on a random isekaibad thread actually.

>>72352 Gonna guess it was from that eceleb video parroting the same shit ironic weebs have been saying for a decade and counting.

>>72353 If it's the one I'm thinking of, probably. We have had constant isekai bad threads all week.

>>72358 Hate using a jewtuber as a conversation starter, but from where the fuck do normalfags get the idea that literally all isekai MCs are loser otaku for the purpose of self inserting? The only examples I can think of are mushoku, rezero, and konosuba. And arguably mushoku doesn't count because the MC turned out to have talent for everything, he just gave up too early on all hobbies.

>>72359 From the same place they got the rest of the proto-isekai myth. Their self-gaslighting anuses.

>>72360 Did they already give up on trying to find that "original" isekai?

>>72359 The short answer is ecelebs. The long answer is probably still ecelebs but in a more roundabout way. For one part, anime going mainstream in no way improved the reputation of anime as a medium or anime fans. The hobby is still pretty much characterized as this weird and creepy thing losers engage with. This is of course further aggravated by how social media works, where the only kinds of discurse that thrive are rage bait and corporate propaganda. There you have several ecosystems of people whose entire livelihood depends on pretending to care about things they don't give a shit about. Most anitubers, specially the "old" ones, are people who could not hack it in the entertainment or news industry and initially saw the anime community as a convenient, temporary, cash cow. Unluckily for them, anime blowing in popularity in the west and mayor corporations now backing them up meant they are now trapped talking about dumb chinese cartoons for the rest of their lives. If they were not bitter about anime before, and none of them were really "fans" to begin with, they are certainly bitter now after almost two decades of doing nothing but shill the lowest common denominator series to the lowest common denominator audiences while all of their other projects burn in flames. Discourse about anime on the english speaking internet was always defined by a mix of shame and self-hate fueled by poor literacy and american exceptionalism. Corporations and social media making the loudest voices in the space be the most ashamed and hateful ones only made things worse. It doesn't really matter what the genre is actually like or what its merits or shortcoming are when you have a group of people who hate the community pandering to a community that hates itself by badmouthing a genre with a bad reputation. All isekai MCs are loser otaku because all isekai fans are loser otaku in their eyes. If you disagree, you are a creep and your opinion doesn't matter.

>>72361 They never even tried, try corner an "isekai bad" fag about the sources for their claims and they will either scurry away, ignore you, or just tell you to "do your research" when you point out the mythical original isekai of >Loser NEET otaku gets trucked, somehow "reincarnates" with their earth body into another world after meeting a goddess that gives him cheat skills, arrives into a DQ world while riding the Hero class and eventually gathers a harem to beat the demon lord and goes back to earth to be a wagenetorare for samsung. has never been found and nothing even remotely similar (at least 90% similarity) has been found either. Mind you they will constantly try to spew out shit that meets 1-2 points out of a dozen in the criteria while trying to pass it off as "good enough" but given how extremely consistent the isekai bad opinions are pointing at the proto-isekai, just that is very much not good enough.

>>72362 >Unluckily for them, anime blowing in popularity in the west and mayor corporations now backing them up meant they are now trapped talking about dumb chinese cartoons for the rest of their lives. Funnily enough I felt that on the basementnigger eceleb video. Just off his voice alone it's clear he's sick of watching anime and would rather literally do anything else, but it's stuck with it because he wouldn't get hired anywhere else. > they are certainly bitter now after almost two decades of doing nothing but shill the lowest common denominator series to the lowest common denominator audiences while all of their other projects burn in flames. This I doubt, it feels they were always bitter about everything that was not "art" like the modern audience was mad about anything that wasn't a moviegame like TLOU in the gaming industry. Which is also likely why generic arthouse trash like sonny boy has such massive followings in the west despite being throwaway projects. >Discourse about anime on the english speaking internet was always defined by a mix of shame and self-hate fueled by poor literacy and american exceptionalism. More so the past few years with so many people going full mask off lol. >All isekai MCs are loser otaku because all isekai fans are loser otaku in their eyes. If you disagree, you are a creep and your opinion doesn't matter. The problem is you would expect them to even TRY get some actual list of examples, but it feels they don't even try to pretend they aren't outright gaslighting.

>>72362 >>72365 You're missing the forest for the trees. A lot of it is the westoid habit of "I saw this one example I hate, therefore everything in this category is like this". I remember a time period around early covid where all the isekai bad niggers were pretending MCs always got isekai'd with a phone and a free unconditional internet connection, showing they only watched smartphone and thought every isekai was like that. The other half of it is just the mass self-gaslighting from ecelebs and ledditors, just like how they pretend all JRPGs are about killing the christian creator god (despite that only counting for two SMT games, and they start to move the goalposts to just a god when you point this out) they pretend all isekai are DQ clones where the MC is a neet loser and end up believing it from so much in-group repetition.

>>72362 >Come here from 4chan's /a/. >Instantly see this discussion. I happen to be an expert in this subject bros :^) A lot of it comes from recap videos being straight up fanfics playing into the memes like pic rel.

>>72362 And trust me, it can get really fucking bad. This pic alone is ancient, it's likely even worse nowdays.

>>72368 I refuse to believe this shit is real and you didn't photoshiop it.

>>72369 Go to youtube and look up "anime recap S-rank" and have fun if you don't believe me.

>>72367 >>72368 You can post up to 5 images/videos per post here, based retard. Audio webms and mp4s work here too btw.

>>72370 >A lot of it is just gook trash people are trying to pass off as japanese. >A decent amount of goddesses with cheetos too. >If my guess is correct, that's from where the "neet incel nerd loser" stereotype come from too. I see how it is.

>>72368 It took me a while to notice all of those are different channels. The thumbnails are all so similar.

>>72373 I didn't even notice that. That's somehow even more fucking stupid.

>>72368 >>72370 Looking at these it's weird nothing too old shows up, not even if I do manga recap. I think the oldest JP stuff I found was otome mob. You would think the gazillion battle harems of old would be free content.

>>72375 Older stuff actually tends to have a cult following, I imagine it's hard to pull the "literally all isekai is about incel nerds getting a harem with their SS-rank level 999 status screen skill" gaslighting with the likes of remonster, tsuki ga, or even spellblades without getting called out by said fans. Also trying to do this with DaL or rakudai may break the "old battle harem good, new isekai bad" narrative too hard.

>>72376 >Also trying to do this with DaL or rakudai I looked it up. That is indeed a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-P2mVYnOUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5all0XCbLik

>>72377 Why the fuck does the rakudai video have 5 fucking million views? Do ironic weebs even actually watch anime instead of recaps? Oh and the comments are worse. >Aniclimax always finds a way to make me laugh uncontrollably. He's the only guy I'm always looking forward to watch whenever he drops a video >I love how you change the script to make it more interesting Is this just the new age of abridged shit?

>>72378 Tried listening to them, it sounds like cringe western humor all the way through, so I stopped watching. It is probably just even lower effort abridged shit, watching Trigger anime would be a better waste of my time than watching this shit.

>>72378 >do ironic weebs actually watch anime instead of recaps The normalfags I know are watching every long running battle shounen series at 2x speed dubbed while playing games or only watching whatever show is the next big thing and latching onto it until it is completely milked dry, which most recently was jjk. Of the second group, I'd say over 90% of their anime consumption is from snapchat/tiktok/youtube with actual watching being a rarity. Every time I've tried to probe them on their opinions it's just repeats of whatever they hear on social media. They also complain about fanservice and the age of characters completely unprompted if anime comes up in conversation, especially around others that don't watch anime. I've had two of them tell me to watch abridged series, so you're definitely not far off in that guess

>>72378 >>72379 Gonna make you guys menhera even harder from what I can tell due to being around pisscord communities with zoomzooms. Those are not to "watch", those are to leave in the background on a second monitor or a phone while grinding gachakuso or fortnite. Same with all those 12 hour restrospectives/reviews/lore dumps, they are to "multitask" and feel like you watched/played something while doing something else.

>>72376 >spellblades Probably a bad time to ask, but people shilling the ever loving shit out of it on /jp/ back on 4chan put me off this for a long time, probably thanks to contrarianism. If I liked stuff like dendro and rezero will I like this? Reading it in Japanese is not a problem I can read it just fine, if slowly.

>>72380 >>72381 What is even the goddamn point in of "watching" something like that? It's somehow even worse than the faggots that went on to tv tropes and speedread a series' page to pretend they watched it. Do they even get any enjoyment out of it? Because they clearly aren't getting any depth out of it, and now that I think about it it's even more fucking absurd they are complaining about depth in the already butchered adaptations when they are doing shit like that.

>>72382 IMO it's closer to mahouka or even raildex than it is to dendro, but if you liked dendro for the fights then you will likely like spellblades. >>72380 >The normalfags I know are watching every long running battle shounen series at 2x speed dubbed But why tho. Dubbed I somewhat understand, because the average westoid these days is to stupid to even read subs, but why double speed? >Of the second group, I'd say over 90% of their anime consumption is from snapchat/tiktok/youtube with actual watching being a rarity. Is it from not knowing how to pirate? I just don't get it.

>>72383 Did you think shit like picrel was a joke?

>>72383 It's all to stay in the in-group they perceive themselves to be a part of. I knew a guy that would only play games when others were on and the moment it was just him he'd never a touch a game. I can get away with having never watched any of the anime they talk about because just the bits and pieces I pick up from being imageboards is enough to hold conversation and impress them. They seriously don't watch anything beyond clips on social media and it's terrifying how easily you can fool them >>72384 >but why tho I have no idea >is it from not knowing how to pirate? They use streaming sites, cr and netflix. I've known a few that pirate but they basically never use it and prefer to stream. Why I mentioned snapchat/tiktok/youtube was because they don't even watch the full show most of the time, just clips of fights/"hype/aura" moments/etc so they can hold conversation with other normalfags and say they are a fan

>>72384 >IMO it's closer to mahouka or even raildex I have read neither bro... >but if you liked dendro for the fights then you will likely like spellblades. That sounds enough for me, will reserve some time to read it soon at least. Gonna put my trust in your taste bro.

>>72385 "Analysis" essays like that mother's basement isekai bad video being based on recap shit would explain a lot. Today I lost the last bits of trust and respect towards the ironic weeb community that I didn't know I still had. >>72386 I'm losing my fucking mind here, I don't know how can people even live like this.

>>72388 Were you there for the halfchan thread where an anon wrote details on every mention of anime he's heard from normalfags in a spreadsheet? Other anons also chimed in and it was a sight to behold

>>72389 I wasn't actually, 4chan has been so bad since the hack I'm not even on the isekai general 24/7 anymore like I used to. You got an archive link?

>>72390 https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/280366997/#280385380

This place is alive again? Thought it flatlined like a month ago when the thread itself was made after hitting bump limit.

>>72391 Being mostly a /jp/ hermit really dulled me to how shit the rest of the site has gotten, the entire thread is giving me secondhand cringe.

>>72393 I thought things couldn't get any worse after everyone settled down from the hack. Then the panmenhera, ai spam, and absolutely fucking horrendous op posts that retards see as vaguely related to [show] hop in as their general all over /a/ killed my interest in even keeping a tab open

>>72391 >He's keeping track of all mentions down to the goddamn minute. Now this is the good kind of autism holy fuck.

>>72395 >Get me out of this godforsaken hellhole. I can perfectly relate to that. I'm preparing myself with knowledge hoping I die in my sleep or something and get isekaid.

>>72388 >"Analysis" essays like that mother's basement isekai bad video being based on recap shit would explain a lot. You didn't notice after he called yogiri a neet loser?

>>72417 Yogiri from instant death? Wasn't that the guy that turned out to be a literal keter SCP?

>The 4chan /jp/ LN general has been on life support for months. >The isek/a/i general is starting to massively slow down even during prime burger hours and devolved into just sexposting. Guess we are going the way of gacha and inevitably moving here to avoid the shitposting spam, not even at the cost of speed either given how slow things are. As a conversation starter let's shake things up to avoid preaching to the choir. What do you guys think leads people to not have this weird anti-isekai complex and actually look at series individually for their own merits in the source material, even going as far as learning japanese to do so?

>>72419 Not being brainwashed by leddit opinions if I had to guess.

>>72419 From what I'm hearing, enjoying media and n9t just trying to speedrun it to have something to talk about with other normalfags.

>>72418 That very same. He also showed clips of hajime (arifureta) and cid (eminence) when saying "the isekai element never matters, the MCs are always incel losers".

>>72422 >Hajime or cid. >A NEET loser. I feel like there's something stupider at work here.

>>72419 Media that isn't video and audio tends to be solitary hobby stuff. Anime, movies, tv shows, that's the sort of shit you watch in a group, or watch alone to then talk about it in a group, at least most of the time. LNs are largely solitary experiences because that's just how reading books works, at most you got book clubs with like 5 other loners tops. Prioritizing group "engagement" is normalfag shit. Prioritizing your own enjoyment and wanting to know what happens next is a selfish pursuit for oneself. I don't think it's that complex of a thing, it's like the difference between living to work and working to live.

>>72419 In my opinion breaking through your own retarded preconceptions about a literary genre requires a combination of emotional maturity and luck. You need to run into a story that profoundly resonates with you and allow yourself to enjoy it. Being relatable or entertaining isn't enough, it needs to be an experience that shakes you to the core and leaves you wondering what else you are missing out. That being said, I believe checking source material and learning japanese is a work of spite. Sure, you are going to end up loving it but you have to really hate how a story is adapted or a translation is handled in order to want to read a japanese LN. Just liking the language or enjoying reading isn't enough.

>>72426 >In my opinion breaking through your own retarded preconceptions about a literary genre requires a combination of emotional maturity and luck. You need to run into a story that profoundly resonates with you and allow yourself to enjoy it. Being relatable or entertaining isn't enough, it needs to be an experience that shakes you to the core and leaves you wondering what else you are missing out. I'm actually not sure that is enough, from my experience all that results in is in the given ironic weeb or normalfag ending up with a "one of the good ones" complex. It happened to DBZ fags back in the day. It happened to evafags. It happened to coyboy bebop fags. It happened to Triggerfags (TTGL, LWA, etc). To skip a long list of examples I will just point straight to chainsawmanfags, then mushokufags, and as most recent, maomaofags. Basically the opinion changes from "anime bad and for neet incels" to "anime bad and for neet incels, except these ones I like". >That being said, I believe checking source material and learning japanese is a work of spite. Sure, you are going to end up loving it but you have to really hate how a story is adapted or a translation is handled in order to want to read a japanese LN. Just liking the language or enjoying reading isn't enough. This is absolutely fucking true, most of the time people claim to want to learn japanese but never truly get a fire under their ass until they start TRULY seething about a particular okamalation which then causes the chain reaction to realize everything is okamalated.

>>72426 >Just liking the language or enjoying reading isn't enough. This is the kind of shit that makes me feel old. Back in the day it was indeed enough, are newer generations just far weaker willed?

>>72428 Spite is one of if not the biggest sources of motivation all things considered.

>>72426 There's some fucked up irony in how the biggest motivation to learn japanese for english speakers is JP>EN localizers.

Jokes etc aside, feel like there's 3 types of LNs. >Those that either end quickly (or get axed) within relative normalcy. >Those that end up in a perpetual semi-status quo and continue on forever only with the occasional powercreep after grinding enough literal who villains of the week (looking at you slime). >Those that are long and do have an end (eventually), but end up among the most menheraphrenic insane bullshit imaginable, but you don't realize how batshit it is until you go back to a new series and feel the contrast of "normal" again. Wonder if the ones that REALLY grab people are largely the third category or if that kind of autismo fan can also be on the second category.

>>72427 I wouldn't describe the average fan of any of those series as emotionally mature. Shounenfags and dubfags are the poster child of autistic manchildren. But I agree that went it comes to certain series, specially those that appeal to general english speaking audiences, it is not enough. This kind of fanbases are usually the type to not really engage with the material and only consume it in social settings. Thats kind of what I had in mind when I said relatable or entertaining isn't enough. If you are watching DBZ for the memes, eva because Shinji is literally you or klk because all your new okama friends recommended it, you are probably not engaging with it in a meaningful way.

>>72435 >This kind of fanbases are usually the type to not really engage with the material and only consume it in social settings. Would explain the proliferation of recap shit at least. Why bother spending about 5 hours (per cour) of full attention to really take in what is already a butchered and watered down version of the source material when you can watch 30 minutes of a glorified abridged fanfic of it trying to pass off as the original? I didn't notice how stupid the situation is until I typed all that out trying to take the piss, except it's not just me taking the piss that's just actually what happens. For a food analogy, these niggers really are complaining their wine tastes bland after taking a bottle of source material, pouring like half a glass of it into an anime barrel full of water, then pouring that barrel into an industrially cleaned pool, and then drinking glasses served from the pool water after some eceleb adds some corn syrup to the glasses as flavor enhancements.

>>72435 >Shounenfags and dubfags are the poster child of autistic manchildren. Wonder what do you think about the seasonal romcomfags because I find them just as bad if not worse than shouneniggers and that's saying something. Which is a particular kind of impressive when said shit has everything the ironic weebs usually whine about isekai but in spades. >MC that never has so much a second to accept girls are interested in him, let alone actually fuck, despite 90$ of the screentime being about how much girls want to fuck him. >Constant pointless status quo plots with "conflict" that will get forgotten by next episode like a western cartoon. >The MC is actually, unironically a bullied loser most of the time (often by the aforementioned main girl mind you) and still has half the classroom on his dick by episode 3. >Suddenly the MC will get any random ass skill at absurd levels of mastery after a 3 minute/page sad flashback to help the main girl with whatever random bullshit she needs help with. I would just complain about nagatoro and similar gutter trash but it started to spill over to shounenshit like dandadan and oshit no ko too.

>>72438 >dandadan That one would be insane discussion if those people applied the same absurd standards they do to isekai, just saying. >MC starts off as a literal bullied loser incel guy that felt so lonely he tried to contact aliens (they ignored him too). >Meets 10/10 popular girl. >Shenanigans happen. >He ends up with the powers of one of the strongest youkai in existence while having one of the strongest mentors on the planet. >Instantly becomes a gigachad with even NPC girls aiming for his dick and every new (somewhat relevant) female character trying to suck him off for being so strong, with at least two willing to literally fuck him on the spot if he just so much asked. >Never even tries to progress romance with any of them because the MC has oneitis for the first girl and takes shit so slow to the point even battle harem MCs would call him out for taking too long to date (207 manga chapters in, the main duo still has yet to even acknowledge they are a couple). >Also goes from a meek netorare to murderous gigachad in seconds for the fights and this gets excused with the youkai powers messing with his personality. Yet it gets a pass because normalfags can self-insert into the relatable bullied loser MC like they do with mushoku and rezero.

>>72438 I honestly don't think about them. I read a bunch of romance manga but I never really bothered with any of their threads, much less the ones for their adaptations. I do lurk some yuri threads but thats its own brand of mental illness. If romcomfags are anything like that, I'd hardly call it autism. >>72439 I haven't read dandadan but that sounds like a pretty generic shounen. That greentext could be describing anything from yugioh to naruto.

.>>72440 >I haven't read dandadan but that sounds like a pretty generic shounen. That greentext could be describing anything from yugioh to naruto. That's like, the point. Pay attention to the usual isekai bad stuff and the specifics on what they describe and you will realize they are either actually complaining about shounenshit, battle harems, or straight up korean trash. I vaguely remember one isekai bad video that had weird stick figure sprites or something like that that said "all isekai fights get solved with a power of friendship asspull".

>>72440 >That greentext could be describing anything from yugioh to naruto. IMO not really but dunno how explain it. There's definitively been a change in "modern" shounen for the worse, with only a few exceptions not falling into the problem. Dunno how really explain it honestly but it's like they are speedrunning the story in a way? And this only results on the plot feeling like the MC is being given everything in a silver platter. In yugioh (the OG) while yugi met yami and rather quickly started to be a gigachad winning shadow games, he still started on bad footing and had to be used to the situation, even in the iconic first big duel against kaiba yugi struggled a fuckton until luckshitting exodia. Naruto was also a goddamn jobber early on until like the second arc where he started to be less of a jobber. Meanwhile DDD has the MC and FMC job to ayylmaos and a ghost granny, then the FMC instantly makes the ayys and the granny eat shit without much effort, gets nerfed somewhat, some villain of the week shit ensues, then basically 2v1 the granny who is hyped as absurdly strong by running away to the set trap. The weirdly fast pacing just makes fights feel far less of a struggle and more like a checklist of things to do before moving to the next hype moment (what zooms these days call aura farming) and the next, and the next.

>>72443 Are you sure this isn't just playing into the "old good new bad" bias?

>>72444 No, because even relatively newer stuff can be good, KnY is relatively new and feels like it came out alongside jojo in the 00s (for both good and bad reasons), and shit like sakamoto also feels like old shounen like ygo, bleach, naruto, etc. I wouldn't even call sakamoto or KnY particularly good, they just lack the plot speedrunning I'm talking about. IMO I feel like this is more common in LNs, I remember feeling really fucking shocked at seeing that neet vampire princess LN wasn't published alongside raildex in it's prime and was very recent. Water magician is also airing right now and it also feels like it was written alongside early date a live and only recently got an adaptation but it's from 2021.

Got here to this /jp/ because of a post on 4chan's /jp/. Then I got bounced here because of a post on this /jp/. At least this doesn't seem as dead, sup guys. Is activity here why 4chan's /jp/ has been so dead lately?

>>72446 Not really, everyone has been leaving both sites entirely as far as I can tell

>>72447 In a way that really sucks, but I don't blame people with how shit the internet has gotten the past year. Hope I can at least get to talk about LNs and various Japanese series with you guys.

>>72448 At least there's a place at all, which is better than nothing. Though the relative "blank slate" of the general at the moment without the memes and usual shitposts is giving me nostalgia towards the days when people were using the threads to follow TLs of the slime WN. Not gonna lie, I kinda do miss having one big yet niche thing to follow around and seeing what happened next, I think the last one we had on 4chan was zero believers.

>>72450 Dunno about f/a/gs, while I understand liking memes and shitposting, but the reason I stopped going to /a/ was to have a chill place to talk without all the white noise, and /jp/ was perfect for it until the korean shills found it. >>72443 Don't worry, you get plot speedrunning on LNs to, the entirety of hell mode is what you describe but in book form, and it is as shit as it sounds. >>72440 Really depends on what romance series you're talking about, some are chill, some aren't, probably the most shipping wars there can be, the shittier it will be, if there's just a main couple and nothing else it will be the chillest fanbase ever, if there's a ton of people each with their own relationships expect trouble. With one exception, if there's a small but solid love triangle (think twilight with the girl, the vampire, and the werewolf) then it's going to be fucking unhinged no exceptions. >>72419 Probably the autism, particularly of the contrarianism kind. In the 00s you got people bullied for liking anime at all or even knowing it existed beyond DBZ (if that) which lead them to be contrarian and go in even deeper and finding out their favourite anime actually comes from a book, which of course has no official translations anywhere, if at all. Once again in the 10s you got people in the SAO hate craze, which once again lead natural contrarians to actually watch/read SAO, either it or any of the dozens of anime shows caught in the hate crossfire from anitubers trying to be cinemasins, and ended liking it. And now in the 20s you get anything that isn't the FOTM shounen get called isekai/native isekai trash and shunned for their shit taste, what do you think it's gonna happen? >>72391 >>72389 Oh boy sounds like a fun thread to read.

>>72451 >Don't worry, you get plot speedrunning on LNs to, the entirety of hell mode is what you describe but in book form, and it is as shit as it sounds. I remember that getting shilled to me on the isekai general back on 4chan like a month ago or so? Mostly because of the RTS summons sounding like an interesting idea. There's no way it's actually shit right? >Once again in the 10s you got people in the SAO hate craze, which once again lead natural contrarians to actually watch/read SAO, either it or any of the dozens of anime shows caught in the hate crossfire from anitubers trying to be cinemasins, and ended liking it. This was me. I started reading SAO ironically thinking I would have fun laughing at how shit it was. Ended up liking it unironically.

>>72452 >This was me. >I started reading SAO ironically thinking I would have fun laughing at how shit it was. >Ended up liking it unironically. I do find it funny how relatively common that is. Not just for SAO mind you, in general for JP stuff.

>>72452 >I remember that getting shilled to me on the isekai general back on 4chan like a month ago or so? Mostly because of the RTS summons sounding like an interesting idea. >There's no way it's actually shit right? Just read it then and find out anon. Let's be honest, are you really doing anything else? >>72452 >This was me. >I started reading SAO ironically thinking I would have fun laughing at how shit it was. >Ended up liking it unironically. Kino.

>>72456 Aren't chans intended to be procrastination places?

>>72457 It was not like that back in the day, when your niche board only got 20 posts top a week it was hard to lose all day arguing in 4chan like it happens today.

>>72460 Want to disagree but guess not. After dropping 4chan a little I found myself still not reading, because my free time was consumed by vidya instead. IMO still think people wasting all day procrastinating on social media (and yes, 4chan is social media at this point) is also part of the reason there's no real discussion about specific series anymore there, be it positive or negative.

>>72461 Not just for isekai, if faggots whining about JP stuff in general at least pointed at specific stuff it would be easier to take seriously. As annoying as the LDMnigger is at least he has a seething grudge against a real series and not imaginary anime in his head.

>>72462 AI has ruined/finished the digital world as a place to interact with humans.

Too much metaposting. Post something good you have watched/read recently. And something shit you have watched/read.

>>72468 >Post something good you have watched/read recently. Been rewatching tsuki ga, it's still as comfy as I remember it. >And something shit you have watched/read. The lazy dungeon master sequel, which is as shit as advertised.

>>72468 >something good I read vol 3 manga of Eminence of Shadow it's fun some two page arts are fucking cool. >something bad I started with a manga about a guy having a sex dungeon under his house and he has to have sex then I dropped it since sex/plot was really dry.

>>72468 >Good. I recently found out date a live's anime is still ongoing, so I have been watching it. It's been a really weird experience to say the least, it feels like an anime director from the early 00s got revived from the grave to direct something with modern animators. >Shit. Heavy knight isekai. Fell for the clussy meme, the actual story is honestly bland as fuck. It's not even good for LE GRINDMONKE because I would rather just read something from shinkou instead.

>>72470 >Eminence of Shadow WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NEXT LN VOLUME REEEEEEEEEEE

>>72472 Talking about fucking next ln volume has Overlord ended yet?

>>72473 Don't think so, otherwise the 4chan general would have been talking about it for a month straight.

>>72473 Still radio silence since saying on twitter "next volume in like 6 months" when vol 16 released in 2022. After that according to his tantrum over filthy gaijin pirating his gaiden story, it ends on vol 18. He's probably waiting for the sales to completely flatline and no more money can be squeezed out of it to release the ending. >>72474 Why would the westoid used goods and gook gaybending general talk about JP isekai?

I just checked the wiki, apparently he released two new gaiden volumes around 2024. They sound like literal filler despite being two volumes. >The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains (カッツェ平野の幽霊船) is a special edition novel in the Overlord series. Written by Kugane Maruyama and illustrated by so-bin, it was released on September 20, 2024 to September 26, 2024. It details Momon and his team of Darkness' mission in seeking the Ghost Ship of the Katze Plains. From skimming the info on the wiki there's not even anything that would progress the plot or worldbuilding like fighting a dragonlord or something of the sort. It's unironic literal filler. Damn it hackuyama, why the fuck are you like this?

>>72475 You would think they would at least try to keep up the pretense so the jannies don't delete the thread for being off-topic.

>>72476 >inb4 mf takes Kamachi Kazuma's route and milks the series with fuck load of spin offs

>>72479 Isn't that what he tried to do with the gacha? I feel like this series has a surprisingly high amount of spinoff content all things considered.

>>72479 >>72489 Gacha was a mistake, that's also what's keeping the eminence author too busy to write the next volume.

I miss when overlord was good.

>>72493 In retrospect feel like overlord was never that good, even before it went downhill since volume 2 it became too meandering and only volume 1 and 3 were actually great.

>>72496 Nah I will argue the real downhill point was the dwarf country expedition. And while the holy country volumes weren't bad, they were full of writings on the wall over what would happen. Then things hit the bottom of the hill with the ruined country volume despite the decent fight against riku.

Gonna give posting here a try, it's not any less dead for discussion than the 4chan general is right now anyway.

The biweekly new releases post arrived. >>>/jp/4015

>>72502 Pretty slow half month honestly.

>>72497 I started typing up a long argument but then I realized it's overlord so I don't care much. So I will just. >The pointless lizard fucking arc, the kingdom falseflag dual volume, and the crypt invaders volume. >Good. In retrospect they are even worse, all the characters that were introduced in them either became pointless NPCs or died, making it all a waste of time.

>Try look back at 4chan because this place is pretty dead and I'm used to much faster activity. Now I get why there was so much metaposting, the general there is nothing but gookkuso now.

>>72505 Unironically do wonder how much of that is just one guy spamming. It wouldn't even be the first time either, they already did something similar on solo leveling and BA threads.

>>72506 Posts about other more relevant series get ignored a lot, which isn't helping either.

>>72508 Looking at it, it feels the guy is trying to replicate the hype waves of the zero believers/ankoku days or similar. Pretty cringe honestly.

>>72506 >>72508 >>72510 Feels like the gookspammers are getting more desperate recently, wonder what happened.

>>72510 I mean, I miss those times too, they were fun.

>>72514 You aren't the only one, even in 4chan people have been trying to make something on that scale happen again since what, otome mob?

>>72514 >>72516 Personally, the thread right now feels like very old 4chan, I'm talking about pre-2012 4chan. Either that or pre-vtuber /jp/, whichever is a better point of reference. Frankly I don't got much complaints to give, especially when this place is somehow more active and more on-topic than the 4chan /jp/ thread nowadays.

>>72517 Not gonna lie bro, I can't get used to the lower activity. Even the 4chan isek/a/i thread is starting to die nowadays, feels like the gooknigger really did scare off everyone.

>>72518 Go do something else. Ignoring reading LNs or learning japanese (in case you haven't, and you sound like you haven't) you can go start chipping away at your vidya backlog (that we both know you have, we all do) or rewatching/rereading older anime and manga. There's legitimately no value in arguing on 4chan all day and you can check these 2 threads here once a day.

GENTLE MANNE ISEKAI BAD

>>72522 These stupid ass memes were probably the last good OC to come out of /a/.

How do we purge the gooks from the isekai threads? Any ideas?

>>72527 Is the flipfag still at it?

Welp, looks like the situation on 4chan is not going to get any better anytime soon, if ever.

>>72530 Let's be honest, did you expect anything to improve there?

>>72531 Sorry for expecting gookfags to not act like apes.