This week's consoomer poll is about what type of materials we are currently, have already, or will be reading.
As per title, the mediums and subjects are up to choice: books, light novels, web novels, manga, comics, websites, etc.
Feel free to include as much detail as you wish, including any impressions if you care to share.
Books: Madness Of Angels, which is a... weird read. It's a modern fantasy setting about an urban techno-druid, more or less. But what is weird is the book is written primarily in free-writing first-person, which honestly, no book should EVER be written in free-writing (that is, writing literally anything that comes to mind, no matter how on or off topic it may be). Still, once you get into the cadence and tempo of it, it's a fun modern fantasy story.
Manga: Dungeon Meshi, which is clearly a D&D party going off their DM's rails but the DM going along with it anyways because they're at least pretending to follow the plot. It's about brave Standard Fantasy adventurers exploring... And preparing meals from the remains always seeking out weirder foods, done in a comedic (but not "comedy") style.
Also Creature Girls, which is a semi-bio-realistic take to the isekai and monster girl genres. A lot of worldbuilding, minimal plot so far, but I like how they try to explain how a Spider Woman could mate with humans, and how that bizarre biology framework comes about, or how harpies could possibly fly.
I also powered through all of "The World Of Moral Reversal", but I think that's a bit too... cultured for this group. Person is isekai'd into world where men are treated as women, and women are treated as men. Comedy ensues. The regular-ecchi manga is a female MC, the 18+ doujin H version is a male MC, they have crossovers (meaning the doujin is canon). A bit interesting to see how a Japanese author considers gender roles, but it's "cultured" reading for sure.
It was a pretty fun read (caught up to the scanlation). I've seen multiple moral reversal titles before on Syosetu, 1 of them might even be the basis for this, but this manga really balanced humor and raunchiness
Yeah, that definitely had the perfect amount of plot and culture. Thanks!
I think you underestimate this group's collective desire for culture, mate. Noted and will read.