Ever read a LN and it started to drift into a direction you were not okay with?
Closest I had was “Rise of the Weakest Summoner”
I’ve commented on this book a few times, but usually about the really bad harem writing in the later books. But let me tell you about my experience with book one before the harem is established.
MC is a summoner but his magic power is so weak the most he can summon is a bunny. But one day MC gets attacked by big scary monster and somehow pulls on a secret hidden power and summons a mega-powerful catgirl. Specifically a were-panther. So extra fuzzy.
Now, this is all fine. Right up until a full moon hits and it’s stated that she’s in heat. It only gets more graphic and lewd from there.
Its like we’re in this crazy fantasy adventure and then suddenly… BLAM! Furry porn. So of course I read the next six books too.
That last bit was a joke. Actually the author marks the lewd chapters with heart emojis so you can skip them.
Actually the author marks the lewd chapters with heart emojis so you can skip them.
That’s actually something I like when authors do that. For example, in Campfire Cooking the recipes are marked so that readers can skip them if they don’t want to replicate them.
Neat! Watching the anime I was like “I bet these are real recipes you can do”
Goblin Slayer and My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer
But, in retrospect, it was less that they “got worse” and more that they didn’t “get better”.
Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside - I am currently reading “Take These Talents Elsewhere: A Delightful Demotion to the Countryside”. Sounds like a typical comfy slow-life LN, right? Maybe not:
Spoiler
Chapter 1: Middle-aged MC gets told that he gets demoted from his fantasy office job and is supposed to take over a job somewhere in the boonies. <-- all good so far. I like comfy, slow life novels.
Chapter 2: turns out he has to take the teenage princess with him in secret because she is in danger of being assassinated by political rivals. Cut to a flashback to MC’s school days, where he is secretly in love with a classmate, but she ultimately marries another classmate because he’s the crown prince. Back to the present, and the princess here is the child of his first love and the crown prince who died under suspicious circumstances. <-- here is where I start sweating. Please don’t tell me that this is going into the “if I can’t have my school crush, I’ll just get with her daughter instead” territory.
Chapter 3: They take a carriage, and she’s making constant suggestive comments, etc… Flashback to 8 years prior, when the princess was 6 years old, and she sees MC talking with her mother. She then develops a childhood crush on MC based on the stories she hears of MC from her parents. <-- My last hope that this would take the wholesome adoptive father route is shredded. Dropped
