/lit/ - Literature

Series so far ranks a solid 5/10. MC is an MMA champ, crippled in the octagon and can only really live virtually. He must learn to bleh bleh actually just to live on in this new game, the purpose of which is to enable whites to larp as Japanese. Which is kind of fun...everybody larps as a medieval European in normal fantasy. Anyway, the setting is okay with Shogun in place of the king, warring nobles, samurai, ninja assassins, kitsune grils, bandits and the like.

It's a litrpg. Not stat-heavy, but rpg story heavy (help the young couple, put the soul to rest, etc). I've kept listening through my 12-hour shift today, sometimes tuning out, sometimes tuning in. I never once wanted to rage quit, and the good parts make me wish more of it were good parts.

The author can never quite pinpoint where the stakes are. It's punch depends on buying in to the in-game story, but there's never any shortage of characters saying it's just a game bro. I see that he loves this npc, but I don't see why I'm supposed to love this npc. So I'm supposed to care, or not. I don't know. But I've sort-of enjoyed many generic European fantasies and so I can sort-of enjoy the same thing only Japanese.

On goodreads, I might bump v1 to 3/5 for novelty. V2 might be an honest 3/5 for more of the same and an extended intrepid hero passage.