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Яeverse
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 6:47 pm
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"Doing My Best to Pet Fluffy Things in an Alternate World." would read.
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Videogamep
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 6:56 pm
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| Quote: | | "The Chronicle of the Male Virgin Who Travels to the Alternate World Chiirem [cheat + harem] and Gains Healing Magic." |
Gee, I wonder what this one's about?
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Lemonchest
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 6:56 pm
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I missed the chance to submit my new story: "An alternate world where webnovels aren't shit"
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Treeborn
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 6:56 pm
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| Яeverse wrote: | | "Doing My Best to Pet Fluffy Things in an Alternate World." would read. |
That too caught my attention. Still, if I were made to sit down and read from entries from one contest, I would choose to read material from the contest that banned alternate worlds. Right off the bat I know I would be exposing myself to a broader selection.
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Chagen46
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:01 pm
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Okay, you never know with LN's, but I'm pretty sure half of these are jokes. Stuff like "This Alternate World's Magical Language Looks Just Like Japanese" cannot be serious.
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Vaisaga
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:05 pm
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So, how to interpret this? The cynical "They only write alternate world stories because that's what sells these days" or the more positive "they love alternate world stories and wanted to write one of their own."
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Hameyadea
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:10 pm
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| mentioning some of the titles, ANN wrote: | | "Alternate World Brothel Manager," |
Not sure it author is grasping at straws for attention and publicity, or meta-remark on the abundant [harem] tag that usually comes with most LNs of this theme 
Also, personally, I don't think that SAO is a "travel to a alternate world" series, due to its VR settings, which, by the way, rose and was subsequently smothered by all the [alternate world] titles. While I do think that its popularity was one of the reasons that this all type of LN started, it is part of a niche sub-genre.
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Yuvelir
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:32 pm
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I want to joke against such plots but then I remember how many of them I'm enjoying to bits and well, damn.
Re:Zero, KonoSuba, Grimgar, Overlord, Hataraku Maou-sama...
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KH91
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:39 pm
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These got damn kids these days with their alternate world stories.
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Hoppy800
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:40 pm
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It's better than the magic school harem stuff, I mean talk about 85% of bad LNs that fall in that category, where there are some good alternate world fantasy LNs, GATE was good, Outbreak Company was decent despite the dated art, Dog Days while an anime original at first that got LNs was great to the point that I have all 3 seasons on BD, it's just the uber popular ones that are really bad.
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Asterisk-CGY
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:42 pm
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| Vaisaga wrote: | | So, how to interpret this? The cynical "They only write alternate world stories because that's what sells these days" or the more positive "they love alternate world stories and wanted to write one of their own." |
People are not very creative irregardless of their intentions. It's hard to be original.
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Z-Raid
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:43 pm
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| Яeverse wrote: | | "Doing My Best to Pet Fluffy Things in an Alternate World." would read. |
If I was a judge I would have chosen that as the winner based off the title alone.
On another note, if contests can ban alternate world entries, can they ban entries from having a freaking long sentence as their title? It's supposed to be a title, not a brief summary of the written work. It's kind of funny at times but the sheer number of sentence-title series is getting ridiculous.
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Yuvelir
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 7:55 pm
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| Z-Raid wrote: | | On another note, if contests can ban alternate world entries, can they ban entries from having a freaking long sentence as their title? It's supposed to be a title, not a brief summary of the written work. It's kind of funny at times but the sheer number of sentence-title series is getting ridiculous. |
As far as I know, those are encouraged by editors and publishers to gain notoriety. Writers are just following the trend since stuff like "The secret of the blue witch" won't be noticed or liked nowadays.
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CrownKlown
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 8:19 pm
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Yes the same concepts get used over and over, but that happens with any show. The moe shows with the all girl cast and yuri teasing like K On, there are at least handful of those every year, we already got one this season, the one about the gaming or anime company. What about SJ, Hero Academia is close to generic SJ work as I have seen, I mean if you told me the writer was really Kishimoto, I would be like okay makes sense. I mean honestly the number of works that you could say have any originality at all a year are maybe one or two, so its kind of moot to single out alternative/magic school because you just happen to not like that genre.
If that is what people want to write and what people buy so be it.
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Pierrot.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 8:50 pm
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You know, I'd rather have more isekai stuff like Konosuba, Re:zero, Grimgar instead of some forgettable magical school harem we get each season.
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