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Anyone got any thoughts on The Extra's Academy Survival Guide? It fits pretty solidly into the "wake up in a villain/villainess body and try fix poo poo" isekai subgenre, but dude wakes up in a VERY minor side villain that already got his rear end kicked/kicked out of the dorms right at the beginning of the hero's scenario. Now he's living in the woods, trying to build a hut and fish while still going to classes every day, and is just trying to keep the hero's story on the rails while keeping his head down. Artwork is really clean, great use of colors, I think AuraScans' translation and typesetting is pretty decent, and the story has remained interesting for 23 or so chapters so far. Mangadex has it listed, but what used to be a bunch of sequential chapters got nuked I think, so now I'm reading it on AuraScans' site itself, which seems to be fine with uBlock Origin or similar adblockers, and was mostly fine even without an adblocker on my iPad. Mangadex (like I said, something must have gotten nuked recently from a translator slapfight or something so it's only like the past 6 chapters) AuraScans (if it's not ok to post translator's sites I'll delete this)
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I enjoyed the Survival Guide webnovel a lot, unfortunately it's stuck on Yonder so uh, good luck reading it.
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May 7, 2024 07:05
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LibrarianCroaker posted:I enjoyed the Survival Guide webnovel a lot, unfortunately it's stuck on Yonder so uh, good luck reading it. Story is pretty dang good so far, and like I said I love the art. Can you tell me approximately where the webtoon is in comparison to the WN? The comic is currently at the end of the first summer break, right after the Ophilis Hall dorm fire plot masterminded by Lortelle and right as Janica helps Ed to contract Mug as a spirit.
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May 7, 2024 08:10
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The Ophelis Hall arc ends around chapter 40, so if summer break is over, I'd say about 45
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May 7, 2024 21:11
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Another chapter of Speedrunner Isekai Would be a good end to this if the slime decides to leave the demon army to pursue a career in speedrunning. But the fact that they have eaten countless people probably means giving them such an ability would lead to everyone in the world being in danger.
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May 10, 2024 14:02
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Where did this whole idea of doppelganger slimes come from anyway? I feel like I've seen it fairly regularly in more recent works.
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May 10, 2024 14:55
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Clarste posted:Where did this whole idea of doppelganger slimes come from anyway? I feel like I've seen it fairly regularly in more recent works. I mean, it's not uncommon for shapeshifter/changeling archetype characters to 'not have a form of their own', slimes fit that mold pretty nicely. Though it probably became a lot more common post reborn-as-a-slime, which is probably the biggest example of shapeshifting + slime I can think of, off the top of my head. I know one of the obligatory 'fierce monster turns into teenaged girl to hang out around protagonist' monsterpals in Middle-aged Hunter is similar, though there it's more a thing any sufficiently skilled monster can learn to do, seemingly.
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May 10, 2024 15:20
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It's less general shapeshifting and more "eating people to be able to replicate them perfectly."
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May 10, 2024 15:22
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Yeah, that one I blame on reincarnated as a slime.
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May 10, 2024 15:24
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Clarste posted:Where did this whole idea of doppelganger slimes come from anyway? I feel like I've seen it fairly regularly in more recent works. Ditto from pokemon is the first example I can think of from a purely japanese perspective so it's been around for a long time. The assimilation aspect reminds me of 1980s 'The Thing' but it's a much, much older concept than even that. But like SubNat said, the idea that a shapeshifter has an indeterminate form of their own is old as dirt.
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May 10, 2024 17:05
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Clarste posted:Where did this whole idea of doppelganger slimes come from anyway? I feel like I've seen it fairly regularly in more recent works. Probably an uptick since people played Elden Ring.
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May 10, 2024 19:38
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Paracelsus posted:Probably an uptick since people played Elden Ring. Was about to comment on that since I immediately thought of the Mimic Tears.
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May 10, 2024 19:51
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I feel like people are misunderstanding me a little: I didn't mean the existence of shapeshifters who can melt, I meant the conflation of "slimes," as in the classic fantasy monster originating from D&D's oozes before being forever changed by Dragon Quest, with shapeshifters. As in, they are called slimes instead of shapeshifters and identify as slimes in a world with generic fantasy monsters. Edit: I ask this partly because there's another work I follow featuring a shapeshifter who the fans are calling a slime despite that word never being used, and it's confusing the heck out of me.
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May 10, 2024 20:31
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Could it just be translation goofiness?
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May 10, 2024 20:35
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Clarste posted:I feel like people are misunderstanding me a little: I didn't mean the existence of shapeshifters who can melt, I meant the conflation of "slimes," as in the classic fantasy monster originating from D&D's oozes before being forever changed by Dragon Quest, with shapeshifters. As in, they are called slimes instead of shapeshifters and identify as slimes in a world with generic fantasy monsters. The fans might just be pousoned by recent fiction. Its like if it was made circa terminator 2 and the fans started calling that character a t1000
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May 10, 2024 20:52
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Like a lot of things these days, it's probably down to some subtle shift in the light/web novel zeitgeist.
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May 10, 2024 20:59
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Clarste posted:I feel like people are misunderstanding me a little: I didn't mean the existence of shapeshifters who can melt, I meant the conflation of "slimes," as in the classic fantasy monster originating from D&D's oozes before being forever changed by Dragon Quest, with shapeshifters. As in, they are called slimes instead of shapeshifters and identify as slimes in a world with generic fantasy monsters. I do see what you're talking about; I recently started following a mediocre villainess story where the mc is a slime who possessed and inhabited a dead girl's corpse. I would be inclined to blame Rimuru too but I don't have any particular hidden knowledge here.
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May 10, 2024 21:22
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nrook posted:I do see what you're talking about; I recently started following a mediocre villainess story where the mc is a slime who possessed and inhabited a dead girl's corpse. I would be inclined to blame Rimuru too but I don't have any particular hidden knowledge here. I'm reading that one too. It seems alright. Not sure how much Tense Slime had a hand in the recent trend, but I wouldn't doubt it given it's sheer popularity.
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May 10, 2024 21:55
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The X-Parasites from Metroid Fusion (c. 2002) is another gaming iteration of this with the assimilation aspect baked into it. While they aren't called slimes outright they are still the Sci-fi equivalent
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I'm Originally From the Gamma Quadrant and Found Myself On a Deep Space Station As the Security Chief While Being a Changeling
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May 10, 2024 22:21
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Odo's just going to be here in his bucket.
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captain innocuous posted:I'm Originally From the Gamma Quadrant and Found Myself On a Deep Space Station As the Security Chief While Being a Changeling I'm An Almighty Wizard But The Clown Is Too Robust
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I was Reincarnated as the Weakest Job, Butt I Turned it Into the Butt Annoying and Butt Butt Honk Butt.
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here is a mundane, fanservicey isekai with a guy who collects a group of monstergirls. it's nothing much but I do really, really like Shiro's character Monmusugo!: Living in Another World with the Strongest Monster Girls with Translation Skills  _______________________________________________________________________________  weaponized motion sickness 
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three new chapters of sufficiently advanced medicine is indistinguishable from magic. I wasn't too hot on it abruptly shifting from the current events and the surgery on the doctor's shoulder to a flashback of the six priests uncovering the cause of a death at a barony, but I wound up immediately getting drawn into that too. this series is so drat good and holy poo poo this series is good at getting brutal without warning.  and then it pulls you right the gently caress back out of it with yet another characters utterly, utterly ridiculous getup ah yes, the regalia of archbishops, Elton John heart sunglasses and a horned crown straight out of dark souls or elder scrolls  mannnnn the translator does a great job but I loving hate the little notes they leave all over the pages
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May 12, 2024 08:36
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New Giant Sister Being Eris is suffering.  This chapter had a lot happen but we're starting to understand why otherworlders are brought over here now. With some obvious embellishments in the reason given. But it sounds similar to how the Ride-On King's elves used humans from earth as well.
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Captain Invictus posted:here is a mundane, fanservicey isekai with a guy who collects a group of monstergirls. it's nothing much but I do really, really like Shiro's character I have also been enjoying this extremely stupid manga. There is basically nothing interesting to say about the writing but the goofy humor and how willing the artist is to make shiro do weird things in the background of the duller conversations makes it stand out.
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Finally got impatient and decided to catch up to current with Surviving the Game as a Barbarian with non-official translations as the webtoons.com official dripfeed drops every Saturday, and the first season has actually been done since back in early February. That makes their lag about... 5 months at the pace they're going? I really enjoyed this first season of it, and hope the artist keeps it up. I like how it's a bit of a "I've played this game a hundred dozen times and know all of it's secrets and tricks" power fantasy, but dude has bad enough luck that poo poo constantly goes WAY more sideways than it would have if he wasn't there, so it's a great balance. The art is pretty great, and the official translation is pretty good without being too localized; the characters and writing are a great blend of serious and comedic, and it mixes slapstick and bloody violence without tipping too far toward one or the other. I really hope it keeps up the quality for season 2, which should be happening any day now.
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