These are short (novella-length) works that come out rapidly and are targeted at middle- and high-school students. This is a light novel, called a ranobe (ラノベ) in Japan (though this one is Korean). The translation is not excellent, but it's good enough.
The first 20 volumes of Legendary Moonlight Sculptor have been translated by fans.
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I read this in a free translation, which you can find here. I don't have much hope for the translation being awesome sauce, but I do hope the story potential blooms into a mass of ridiculous fun. So, hearing his inner thoughts and the stuff he ends up doing in a vast virtual reality MMORPG is terrible & hilarious! 50% terrible humor mixed with regular hi-jinx that are funny within context. Between Korean cultural aspects and the dystopian spin for the story setting, he's rather clueless when it comes to interacting with people as friends, worked numerous jobs to take care of his family (grandmother & little sister), never dated and only played games for fun. Due to circumstances, Hyun is socially stunted as a person. While he is not the nicest guy, I like the way he will make a plan and work his butt off to attain his goals. That said, I really like the main character Lee Hyun and the trials of becoming the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor in the game. The writing/translation is a bit rough.
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This will be my 2nd, Korean translated LitRPG light novel series that I've read. I continued to read (I got partway through volume 2 before I finally stopped) in the hope that it would improve but I couldn't get over that statement. If you master the cooking skill in the game, you will become a fabulous chef IRL), he lost me. And when the author says that learning skills in the game carries over to real life (i.e. But then he looks down on players when they don't play as 'efficiently' as possible or make what he thinks are mistakes.Īlso, lots of the small plot points are ridiculous almost anything Weed does is unique and never thought of or done by another player. He's playing the game to make money, so he plays differently and views the game differently, than someone who is playing it for fun, which is probably most of the other players. Way.īasically, Weed is the only characters, everyone else is a cardboard cut-out that shows up when needed, then disappears again. How many college kids could afford to by such an expensive device just for video games?!Īnd who would buy a character from a outdated game and platform for 3 million USD?! Or even tens of thousands of dollars? No. Also, the party Weed joins occasionally is made up of college kids. Yeah, right, like enough people are going to shell out $10,000 for a video game console to make it viable. Unless the translation was wrong, it said that the VR units cost 10 million won (which roughly equals 10k USD). The plot, characters and writing (although, some of that is probably the translation) would have put it at 1 star. I am giving this 3 stars because, for some reason, I enjoyed reading it.
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