#INFINITE STRATOS LIGHT NOVEL ENGLISH SERIES#

Flawfinder has this tag on his post that goes: вЂњI play something straight and reference it. For instance, Draggle liked it and Flawfinder didnвЂ™t. Like with Baka and Test, there might well come a point when the humour becomes relatively stale, but with only ten episodes, I donвЂ™t expect NoucomeВ to run out of steam.Д«y the way, if youвЂ™re looking at critic reviews of these series, for the most part, itвЂ™s actually really easy to predict. I didnвЂ™t laugh at every joke in Noucome, but when I did laugh, I laughed very hard. I do think Baka and TestВ had the better first episode, but both of them are very creative in using the visuals to enhance what might otherwise be jokes that are in poor taste. There are even similarities in the overall direction style, where both of them bombast the viewer with random and repetitive comedy. ItвЂ™s no surprise that NoucomeВ reminds me a lot of Baka and Test, another screwball school comedy thatвЂ™s actually a lot cleverer and more insightful than youвЂ™d initially give it credit for. If we see ourselves as the protagonists of our own lives and narrow down our choices, suddenly itвЂ™s easier to just live with all the crazy things we might do. Unless we feel as if we are forcedВ to make a choice, most of us take a passive role in our lives. The idea that the main character has to pick between two equally stupid-sounding choices at certain points in his life both satirises the whole Visual Novel genre and actually says something clever about human nature, too.

See, the basic concept of NoucomeВ is that choices define our lives.

And you know what? I think we have a winner. This year, we had Sakurasou no Pet na KanojoВ and Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru, to name just two.ДЄll of that said, how do the latest anime measure up? Ore no Nounai Sentakushi ga Gakuen Love Comedy wo Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru is yet another in a long list of light novels with absurdly long titles.

#INFINITE STRATOS LIGHT NOVEL ENGLISH SERIES#

Most of them are pretty crap, but at least once a season there comes along a light novel series that succeeds in what I think is the aim of this brand of literature in general: taking seemingly difficult literary ideas and synthesising them into something easily accessible to otaku readers. This is partly because the current anime market is just so saturated with mass-produced light novels that even casual English-speaking fans canвЂ™t help but take notice of them, but itвЂ™s also partly because my own ambivalence about their writing quality drives me to learn more about them. I seem to be writing a lot about light novels lately.

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