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[Disc][Spoilers]How would you explain your favorite LN/WN/etc to a person who has never read one?

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Also they have no experience with Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc cultures.

I'm kind of bored and I was just curious how some people might go about solving this problem.

For me: Coiling Dragon, imagine a universe of immortal supermen with varying levels of power who can control the elements and train themselves and battle against each other in hopes of attaining enlightenment and thereby powering up to even higher degrees while also obtaining powerful artifacts. Oh, and they also like to start battles over nonsense such as not liking another person's face.

So, how would you explain your favorite LN/WN/etc?

Posted Jul 19, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

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mudkipwastaken•

me: dude, u gotta join me wit my new hobby

friend: uh sure man, what's it this time?

me: you know those cults who pray to aliens and black magic?

friend: uh huh... where are we going with this? dont tell me you're in those cults mudkipwastaken?

me: no no no, dont bunch me with those wackos.

friend: ok... what is it?

me: reading

friend: ... mind reading? star reading?

me: novels on reincarnation

friend: reincarnation?

me: yes reincarnation

friend: @_@

me @_@ intensifies

and thats how i got my friend into light novels

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LeodeusOP•

Best friend ever

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hebi912•
  • First use the bait (Slice of life LN with decent plot) to catch the person.
  • After catching use the taser (tear jerking wuxia) to stun the person.
  • Then use some ropes (korean fantasy novels) to tie the person.
  • And finally use poison (xianxia) to finish the person.
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AtriusII•

0.0 wow... that's exactly how it went for me. I didn't even realize it since I curated it all on my own.

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hebi912•

I don't remember my first Japanese novel. First wuxia was condor heroes. The first korean novel Moonlight sculpture. And first xianxia Douluo Dalu.

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alpenmilch411•

Dude you are on to something

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krolk88•

"Such as not liking another person's face"

rofl

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Kahandran•

"HEY! I don't like your face"

Talk about throwing down the gauntlet...

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TUSF•

Mushoku Tensei:

Middle-aged jobless loser is kicked out of his family's house, only to die, and be reincarnated with a second chance at life. He decides to take life seriously this time. Also he has some destiny about having a lot of kids.

And polygamy is alright in this new world.

So is pedophilia. Just ignore it.

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LeodeusOP•

Lol, I think that would turn a lot of people away from reading Mushoku if you told them that, especially:

and polygamy is alright in this new world. So is pedophilia.

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Falark•

Well, it turned me away from it to be honest.

It was hard enough for me to read it when he was a perverted kid (at least the plot was interesting), but I dropped the series when it became essentially a RomCom with lots of fucking, submissive women, perverted thoughts in the most inappropriate situations and an overall weird, penis-navigated MC.

I have issues with the depiction of women in all asian literature I've read so far though I can stand it as long as it's not the basic plot, so I might be special that way lol.

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Bananwar•

my favorite cliche usually appears in CN where some random guy gets angry at the mc for being close to the heroine.

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TheKitsch•

start battles over nonsense such as not liking another person's face.

YEah that sounds about right.

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llye•

when you read it you won't know whether to laugh or cry

killing a friend will destroy your family

MC become godlike

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krolk88•

Well that describes most xianxias if not all of them...

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duburu•

Want a book that is not the typical book we have nowaday for Fucking SUMMER READING? read light novel it like the typical one that everyone in the state keep churning out but more etertaining than twilight, hunger game, 50 shade of grey and other teen drama.

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Izbiz95•

The cynic in me would say foreign YA novels with new overused tropes you haven't learned to hate yet: training, accidentally pissing off strong people, than eventually murdering them for wuxia and pandering to otaku fantasies for JP LN. But the DD/MGA/CD addict in me would say epic tales of grand battles, revenge and the quest to attaining undying immortality and ultimate strength

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LeNexus•

I told my friend that I was reading, he asked what I was reading. I proceeded to tell him things that make you cry and make you wish for more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more.

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gg533•

People die.

Magical drugs.

FLYING.

TALKING ANIMALS.

MAGICAL DRUGS.

I think I explained it fairly well.

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GentlemanJae•

Think of DBZ with more intense reaction scenes and more levels of super saiyan. - coiling dragon

Youre like a pokemon trainer specialized in one type, but instead of catching pokemon you kill them so you can use their skills yourself. And you got a maximum of 10 in your party... - doulou dalu

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