Saturday 5 July 2014

July 2014 KLNs

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July 2014

New releases:

 


http://www.novelengine.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=17963621 Title: 여고생과 일하는 방법 (How to Work with a High School Girl)
Author: 가랑 (Garang)
Artist: DS Mile http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=795196
Publisher: Novel Engine

Premise: The protagonist, an aspiring light novel writer, achieves his dream by getting a contract to complete a light novel. The publisher assigns him an artist, who turns out to be the neighbor-- a high school girl who also works as a freelance artist. The two must learn how to work together to succeed.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
This seems to be something like in autobiography, detailing the life of the artist and the author of 우리집 아기고양이 (Baby Cats at Our Home), and also of this book. The biggest mystery is, of course, whether or not DS Mile looks like that IRL

Post-Read Thoughts:
Things to be learned from the book:
1. DS Mile was 15 when he got his first illustration job.
2. DS Mile is now 18 or so.
3. DS Mile is not a 'he' and actually a cute tsundere high school girl.
4. Nothing to be said about the author because he's a dude who's also a dude in the book.

Post-Read Low-Quality B&W Image:
The twist is that the inspiration for the author was a white cat, despite the main girl being a black cat in his book.



Sequels:

 


http://www.novelengine.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=17963603 Title: 요희전기 2 - 불의 공주와 반성하는 용병 (The Record of Great Princesses 2 - The Princess of Fire and the Regretting Mercenary)
Author: 크레파스 (Crepas)
Artist: Mx2J http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2059725
Publisher: Novel Engine

Premise:
The MC's berserking mecha begins endangering its owner's life. Knowing its history of leading eight different pilots to death, the MC decides to go find a new mecha. Unfortunately, he receives another mission before he can do so, and now he must find a captured princess with his own strength.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
...First volume was posted back in April, with the name  The Princess of the Moon and the Undying Weapon. ...And then a simpler name got added (요화전기 - Record etc. etc.), which is a huge relief because it would be absolutely ridiculous to keep calling each volume by their long, long titles. Word salads are terrible things.

Post-Read Thoughts:
Amazing story, if not for the protagonist suffering from a severe case of angst every 5 pages. The limited edition short stories were absolutely perfect, though, and I might end up translating them just because of that. Short stories are great because authors aren't afraid to give it sad, sad endings.

Post-Read Low-Quality B&W Image:
Whatever you think it is, it's not what you think it is.


 


http://www.novelengine.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=17963618 Title: 삼학연의 4 (The Romance of the Three Schools Vol. 4)
Author: NEOTYPE
Artist: Natora
Publisher: Novel Engine

Premise:
After the bold move by Emperor Xian of Han that broke every faction into pieces, the school is left in chaos. Every student tries to gain power for themselves, and so the entire school is filled with random, small-scale skirmishes. Meanwhile, Zhou Tai and Sun Ce begin taking back the lands previously owned by the Eastern Han dynasty.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
No more historic battles, I guess.


 


http://novelengine.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=17963631 Title: 불행소녀는 지지 않아! 2 (The Luckless Girl Will Never Give Up! Vol. 2)
Author: LawBeast
Artist: 영인 (Youngin) http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=122497
Publisher: Novel Engine

Premise:
Pool episode.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
...The teaser doesn't really say anything more than that.
...It might help if the teaser didn't just say things that are complete nonsense to people who haven't read the previous volume.


 


http://www.novelengine.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=17963615 Title: 주먹다짐 스킨십 3 (Fistfight Skinships Vol. 3)
Author:이가빈 (Lee Gabin)
Artist: JUNA http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=66655
Publisher: Novel Engine

Premise:
Final volume. The MC does his best to suppress his problem that causes him to act violently towards the opposite sex, but the two girls in his harem make it worse by fighting with each other daily. The situation get even worse when MC's childhood friend gives up on calming down the two girls, and the MC finds out why his friend's attitude changed.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
Third volume's the final volume? It looks like the author's campaign to promote gender equality through equal opportunity fistfights had failed.


 


http://www.novelengine.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=17963605 Title: 정염의 아이젠릿터 2 (The Fiery Eisenritter Vol. 2)
Author: Rava
Artist: Ells http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=4543324
Publisher: Novel Engine

Premise:
An A-rank Eisenritter transfers over to the protagonist's school and immediately tries to get close to him, for whatever reason. As competent fighters, the two get very close to each other after a series of duels. The chairman of the school decides to spice things up by suggesting that the girls should try to openly become the protagonist's girlfriend.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
...Which all sounds strangely like the other book, the Assassin of the Summoners Academy, where the protagonist is the only boy in a girls-only school that teaches how to fight with magical means.


 



http://www.seednovel.com/pb/module/board/view.php?code=seedadv&didx=537245
Title:퀸즈 나이트 카엘 8 (Queen's Knight Kael Vol. 8)
Author: 토돌 (Todol)
Artist: fratolm
Publisher: Seed Novel

Premise:
Final volume. There are no great evils, impending doom, or world-ending crisis anymore, and all that's left for Kael is to live happily forever with the girls. As always, it's not that easy.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
Another completed series from Seed Novel... and one step closer to death. It should be obvious from the way Seed Novel had been barely publishing anything this year.


 


http://www.seednovel.com/pb/module/board/view.php?code=seedadv&didx=537456 Title: 언매지컬 마법소녀 하춘식 3 (UnMagical-Girl Ha Chunsik Vol. 3)
Author:온점 (Onjum)
Artist: 모밍(Momin) https://twitter.com/nomalalien
Publisher: Seed Novel

Premise:
The friendly relationship between the villains and the local magical-girl finally takes its toll; the girl's manager stops by to end their friendship... violently. To make things more difficult, the manager is a very powerful war veteran, and also the original cause of the villains' downfall into poverty.

Pre-Read Thoughts:
Crossdressing in China Dress Edition.

Post-Read Thoughts:
Serious storyline? Actual sense of danger? In a novel based around switched common gender roles and comedy through poverty?!

Post-Read Low-Quality B&W Image:
Classic game of 'spot-the-girl-and-the-boy'.




3 comments:

  1. crossdressing? thats a TRAP?!

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  2. Overlord doko

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  3. The Record of the Seductive Flowers 2... DAT art design ;$ xD

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