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I'd use the term "over-used to point of death" (as in the sub-genre is being killed by it's own over-saturation) rather than "genuinely terrible." There are a few I've found in that formula that I would have genuinely found to be pretty good were it not for the fact that they look so much like...

Whatever you may think, the fact that this post here is a lot more reasoned and moderate than your previous two means my approach here worked. It got exactly the results I was going for. I talked you down from your ridiculously extreme positions without having to get into the mud with you...

Ever hear about hipsters? The entire point of hipsters, at least as the internet has twisted the term to be defined, is that they don't like the things that everyone else likes. They just reflexively say "Oh, it's popular? I guess that means I can't like it if I want to remain a part of the cool...

Meh, it's just that you said something in most people's top 10 anime of all time was "the worst." I'm someone who likes dealing in objective reality, and you seem to be quite lacking in objectivity. And seething? More like griping because someone else brought up a good observation on the...

Funny, I remember both of those series got anime adaptations IN THE SAME FREAKING SEASON!!! And soon after, the trope started exploding even more. Anyway, the point I was getting at in the OP is that Shield Hero is a very dressed-up version of the trope... or rather, since Shield Hero was out...

Anyone in the Hema community knows the answer to this. MACHICULATIONNNSSSSSSSSAAAAA!!!!! Err... ahhh... excuse me, I meant to say "Shadow of the Conquerer."

Nitpick/technicality. Novel = narrative, either fiction or biographical. If it's an informative book, then you just call it a "book."

Well, so far as RPG-like systems go, I find stats are more compelling if double-digit numbers are considered absurdly high. D&D is probably a good model to look to for several reasons in this vein. They base everything around 10 being average, 18 being the peak of human potential, and it...

I actually really like the idea of a LitRPG system existing in a world as a support put in place by the godly ascended figures in a Cultivation world. Basically, it used to be a Cultivation world, but it turned into a LitRPG world because some ascendeds decided to create the system in order to...

Yeah, I've seen that before, people using SH as the hosting site with links from NU. FYI: Novel Updates doesn't host any of the novels that are translated there. It's 100% links. Nothing hosted natively.

In Taylor's case, it's all part of her plan to get Jack. Her deal is that she gets obsessive about things like that. It's what made her a villain, and it's also what made her stop being a villain so she could use the resources of the hero society. IMO, that kind of obsession is still pretty...

Right. I can relate to an argument that it's over-hyped, but 'the worst?' There is a saying about totalisms. They are wrong 100% of the time. But, in terms of Overlord, I think you'll be fighting an up-hill battle just to argue it's in the D-tier among Isekai. You'd have to toss it in with some...

There's a reason why a lot of people sing the praises of Worm. Well, several reasons actually. So many that if you asked 5 people for 5 reasons each, you'd come up with over 50 between them. But, one of them is definitely the fact that the author committed HARD to making it's main character a...

Not finding a good synopsis on that one to judge it by, I'd have to check it out to say for sure. (The effective lack of a synopsis that it gives in it's description is not very helpful.) Hmm... interesting observation. One can say Shield Hero made it's protagonist out to be a person unfairly...

Fine, I guess we're all entitled to our opinions. But how about by comparison to these more generic "kicked from the hero's party" plots? I mean, if you're comparing it to stuff like Overlord, Mushoku Tensei, and Re:Zero (titles selected on purpose for the fact they're contemporaries to Shield...

I'm saying the climb the tower plot is just like the MMO world that SAO is based in. Literally, they're climbing a 100 floor floating castle, each floor is it's own massive spanning biome with monsters and towns and even it's own sunlight, and each floor you climb up is an increased level of...

So, I just made a post in "looking for" a short time ago asking if anyone knows of a "kicked from the party" based story that doesn't follow the 9 point plot that absolutely every single one of them follow. It's ludicrous how every single one of those stories follows that exact cookie-cutter...

Oh, I forgot points 8 and 9 of the cookie-cutter plot. Once again, so frequently present that it's almost maddening that these precise 9 points are in almost every single one! 8. Hero's party is soundly defeated upon their first attempt at misguided vengeance, thus cementing in how much more OP...

So, I just asked about another theme that was spreading like a cancer a moment ago, but here's one I think would actually be pretty hard to find out there. The "Kicked from the Hero's Party" and, it's spin-off look alike, "Kicked from the S-Rank Party" are coming to be themes that are popping...

For these clarification points, I actually really don't care after being inundated by nothing but those 2 tropes I just mentioned seeming to latch onto the regressor theme like a cancer. I just want something different. That said, mentions of the genre particulars of what you're recommending...