Questionable Questing

yrsillar

Too Late. I Like Nie Li. xD Makes me want to poke at DQR's world some more.

Tavarokk

There's that DDR update hanging in the air =)

As for Tales, is there a decent translation of it somewhere? The one I found has much room for improvement.

yrsillar

I'm using mangafox, the first few chapters are pretty bad but the translation clears up fast

Bre Karn

Curses

Should have waited till next update before showing you that manwha

Still, if it nets us a DDR update, or even a non-tentacly quest in that universe, it would not have been in vain

Bre Karn

There was that CoC-like Quest set in DQR... almost forgotten... so much unexploited lewdness

Bre Karn

And yes the translations are atrocious. They start getting a bit better in the later updates, but it basically looks like a non-native speaker translating into English.

Tavarokk

I have mixed feelings about the mc. On one hand he leaves a strong impression of Naruto rip-off, on the other character design is actually a good deal better than Naruto's. I especially like the artist's work - he's no Murata Yuusuke, but Nie Li's facial expressions (non-comical ones, that is) are extremely well done.

Tavarokk

Also, super-grindy themes typical in Korean and Chinese LNs shine through, but it's thankfully a lot more subdued here than, say, in Moonlight Sculptor.

Bre Karn

I can sorta tolerate the source of the MC's 'cheat' (though him wanting to date his previous life's love is pretty creepy when you consider he has almost two centuries of experience?), which is not the case with, say, the prequel (Cult of Sacred Runes), which feels a lot cheaper to me.

Bre Karn

Oh wait scratch that, it's only the time he's spent wandering the world, with the magical hyperbolic time chamber book he may well be millennia old mentally.

yrsillar

Any other manga you would suggest Bre Karn? I tend to go through them quickly.

Bre Karn

Not right now, but I'll be sure to recommend any good stuff I come across

(Well, as far as classics go I'd recommend Shin Angyo Onshi if you haven't read it, it's... different from that one, but it is awesome.)

Tavarokk

Any genre preferences, Yrs?

yrsillar

Stuff in the same vein as Tales, but fantasy adventure is pretty much my bread and butter

Bre Karn

I seem to remember something called Id - The Greatest Fusion Fantasy, I didn't finish it but found it entertaining for a time, I should probably come back to it at some point.

Tavarokk

Not much of those on my list, unfortunately. The closest thing that's also fairly good would be Sword Oratoria.

Bre Karn

Try Thunderbolt Fantasy on Crunchyroll. It's a xianxia (fantasy wuxia) puppet show, directed by Gen Urobuchi. Totally over the top but with nice characters, music and VAs, and the artistic value is incredible.

Tavarokk

Man, what a disappointment, Nie Li turns into a massive asshat further into the novel. Hopefully manhwa will fix it, since it's apparently tweaking small things here and there.

Bre Karn

I've been mostly reading the prequel, but lack of spirit shenanigans is driving me away from it.

Bobs Beard

If you're still looking for wuxia/xianxia stuff, I've got a recommendation.

World of Cultivation.

It's thus far only an LN as far as I can tell, but it's managed to get about three hundred chapters in and remain quite enjoyably unconventional.