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Hell Mode Novel 1
Hell Mode does play a few isekai tropes a bit differently, but it also clearly wears its influences on its sleeve. So yes, this is another one of…
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By Shelley Pallis. Kenichi is a gamer suffering from that common modern malaise, a frustration with games that make life too easy for him. He’s just spent three…
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It doesn't beat a fan translation or official release, but for unlicensed visual novels it's the best you can probably do.
Hell Mode ~ The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing, Vol. 1
By Hamuo and Mo. Released in Japan as “Hell Mode – Yarikomi Suki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musō Suru” by Earth Star Novels. Released…
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First and foremost, Rune Factory and Story of Seasons fans need to be aware that Silent Hope is not a farming game. Yes, those are Story of Seasons…
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Classroom For Heroes has two primary ways of operating: fast and loud, often concurrently. Whether introducing new characters, throwing jokes at the wall, or
The Pig Isekai Light Novel Is Heartbreaking, What the Hell?
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Hell Girl (Manga) Volume 1 Review
Plot: A horror anthology that chronicles the stories of the clients of Hell Girl – a mysterious girl behind a website where you can input the name of…
Hell Mode ~ The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing, Vol. 2
By Hamuo and Mo. Released in Japan as “Hell Mode – Yarikomi Suki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musō Suru” by Earth Star Novels. Released…
Hell Mode ~ The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing, Vol. 3
By Hamuo and Mo. Released in Japan as “Hell Mode – Yarikomi Suki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musō Suru” by Earth Star Novels. Released…
Hell Mode ~ The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing, Vol. 4
By Hamuo and Mo. Released in Japan as “Hell Mode – Yarikomi Suki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musō Suru” by Earth Star Novels. Released…
Boys Love Visual Novel Masquerade: Hell Academy Available For Pre-order
The newest title from JAST BLUE, the Boys Love division of JAST USA, is now available for pre-order on jastusa.com and Steam. Masquerade: Hell Academy is a classic BL visual novel…
Demo mode: Tevi
It’s Next Fest time again at Steam. Nuts to Valve, as usual, but where else are indie devs going to post their games for sale? I love itch.io,…
My Happy Marriage Novel 1
Set to become an anime series, check out this variation of the Cinderella story about a down-trodden girl as she embarks on a fantasy romance with a side…
Soup Forest Novel 1 Review
Soup Forest is a story to read when you want to escape from the horrors of the news cycle. It's truly cozy in the sense that it's like…
Dahlia in Bloom Novel 1
Dahlia in Bloom feels less like a complete novel and more as if the author had a collection of really interesting ideas and decided to just throw them…
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Hell Baby
A horror manga about a hideous newborn who is thrown away by the father. After spirits possess her dead body she revives as a monster who must constantly…
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Demo mode: Hookah Haze
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Happy Nudist Beach (Volume 1) – Who The Hell Cares?
It’s been a couple of years since Ichigo Mashiro broke up with her girlfriend and during that time, the world went into lockdown. Craving human contact, she found…
Hell Warden Higuma
Can you make a character based on only using the Dungeons and Dragons spell Mage Hand? This episode we, and our guest Zane, creator of the Jonathan Frakes…
Hell Warden Higuma
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Wonder Egg Priority #04 — Boy Hell and Girl Hell
…What? Impressions: The idol stuff didn't get any better this week. It may have actually gotten slightly worse with the sacrifice being shrugged off as nothing, the…
25: Marquez Goes Guesto Mode
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Synduality Noir #12 — Dark Mode
Boy, what a threatening antagonist inert rock that was. Impressions: I had assumed this broadcast was continuing right on into fall because… its broadcast is continuining into…
Demo mode: Another Next Fest
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The Sickos welcome Dylan, a true homie and big time sicko. We discuss Dylan's inexplicable love of fighting games, his incredible cog stories of having an actual murderer…
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Fluffy Paradise Light Novel Vol. 1 Review
Fluffy Paradise's publication is the latest to show that a love of animals can be happily combined with the isekai genre.
Raven of the Interior Palace Novel 1
If you watched the 2022 anime adaptation of Kōko Shirakawa's Raven of the Inner Palace light novels and wondered how faithful it was to the source material,
The Detective Is Already Dead Novel 1
The book does suffer from its tenuous use of actual mysteries, a couple of which rear their heads and are almost painfully obvious in their solutions.
When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace Novel 1
When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace is both precisely what it claims to be and nothing of the sort. See where the anime started in our review of the…
Cross-Dressing Villainess Cecilia Sylvie Novel 1
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Holmes of Kyoto Vol. 1 Novel Review
A welcome break from isekai.
Clean Sweep Volume 1 Graphic Novel Review
This is a sponsored review. I was contacted by Andrews McMeel Publishing and given an advanced review copy. Ilona Andrews is a particularly famous author-duo (a husband and…
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Fluffy Paradise's publication is the latest to show that a love of animals can be happily combined with the isekai genre. Even just in Cross Infinite World's
Reborn to Master the Blade Novel 1
For all of its strengths and interesting decisions, Reborn to Master the Blade does have its issues as well. The volume is one of the more repetitious light…
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Raven of the Inner Palace Novel 1
Raven of the Inner Palace's first novel should please fans of its adaptation. It's easy to see what changes were made and understand why they happened, and it…
Chronicles of the Hidden World Novel 1
If you have the patience to wait for the story to unfold, this is a fascinating book, and watching it unfold in subsequent volumes should be an interesting…
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Shion “Okigae Mode” 1/7 Scale (Tensura) By Ques Q [Figure Review]
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Excitement arises as tensions clash and hosts go toe-to-toe! We dive into the tortured pasts of our three mic-wielders, and you'd better believe there's plenty of fanservice!
OVA October: Hell Target
With this entry, I had a note that the anime youtuber Hazel mentioned this title at some point. I’m not sure in a good or bad way, but…
The Panorama of Hell
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