A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life - Vol. 12 Ch. 92

[totallytotally]

Been a while since I have seen line art so perfectly mangled by an upscale. Those squirmy tones lol.

 

[Plain3r]

126?
but it only says 106 for me on rawkuma

That's probably due to the [previous / next chapter] (more specifically the next button being greyed out) icon being bugged af, so you'd sometimes have to check on the "chapter ui" (far left next to "full page") on what raw chapter you were reading to check if there's new chapters or not, also click on the series' title and check for the full chapter releases to be sure too

Had some series that I was checking on that bugged out as well due to that problem (happened to me on OSO on rawkuma before too), so you're not the only one who faced that problem

 

[Jackist]

Why does every single isekai have a giant wolf companion? It’s so common

 

[Chaos_Breaker]

That's probably due to the [previous / next chapter] (more specifically the next button being greyed out) icon being bugged af, so you'd sometimes have to check on the "chapter ui" (far left next to "full page") on what raw chapter you were reading to check if there's new chapters or not, also click on the series' title and check for the full chapter releases to be sure too

Had some series that I was checking on that bugged out as well due to that problem (happened to me on OSO on rawkuma before too), so you're not the only one who faced that problem

oh wait you said OSO
I thought you meant this series on rawkuma
you know... ossan vrmmo

 

[Plain3r]

oh wait you said OSO
I thought you meant this series on rawkuma
you know... ossan vrmmo

No worries, I also check on this series there too

 

[Otaku-Sama]

Yay! It's back and unaffected.

 

[Takane-Da]

Holy shit... TWO FUCKING YEARS?! I DIDN'T REALISE THAT!!

 

[vidopnir]

So its dead again after this...great.

 

[Nemo2342]

It's Silas, the guy works on comissions. But he's VERY efficient at what he does. Just check his other uploads. =/ He sometimes does mass ones too.

Yeah he's quite good at what he does, he just gets stretched super thin since he juggles so many commissions.

But hey if you have a dead manga, if no one else can translate, and if you can find them. Maybe you can hire, The S-Team.

 

[ISingTheBodyElectric]

Why does every single isekai have a giant wolf companion? It’s so common

But this isnt isekai, and his companion was a giant bird that could change size .....

 

[Jackist]

But this isnt isekai, and his companion was a giant bird that could change size .....

Do you not consider SAO an Isekai? How is this not “Another World”?
Do you require death and reincarnation for it to be an isekai? Because that’s the only thing missing.

 

[JJTheWeeb]

Do you not consider SAO an Isekai? How is this not “Another World”?
Do you require death and reincarnation for it to be an isekai? Because that’s the only thing missing.

sao was stuck in the game while here he can log out whenever. we just never see that logged out stuff.

 

[CraniumAmbiguity]

So the translation was dropped for 2 years, or was the manga?

The last I remember was that the series was licensed and so the translating groups fled. Occasionally we would get a rouge TL or commission but this is the best we can hope for.

 

[REMasher]

It was nice seeing this again. Hopefully someone takes him up on his offer or at least another group is reminded it exists.

 

[Jackist]

sao was stuck in the game while here he can log out whenever. we just never see that logged out stuff.

Here's the thing, 90% of Isekai's use an MMO "Skill System" strait from a video game. There are very few who don't dabble with those tropes, magical item boxes, pop up windows, etc. Its just too similar to me to draw a line in the sand.

We are even going through the standard isekai tropes, proud wolf and all. I guess I just read too many of these

 

[Nemo2342]

Do you not consider SAO an Isekai? How is this not “Another World”?
Do you require death and reincarnation for it to be an isekai? Because that’s the only thing missing.

I wouldn't call this series, Only Sense, Shangri-la Frontier, or Bofuri isekai just because it's clear the other world is a game that they can freely log in/out of and actions in-game can't affect the player in the real world.

Once you become trapped and dying in-game kills you out of game I'm more willing to consider it an isekai.

The sticking point for me is that the "other world" has to be real enough that the consequences of the character's actions persist and can't just be undone by logging out or rebooting the game/server.

 

[megaguil]

Thanks for doing this one Silas!!! It feels like it’s been years.

Man I have such a soft spot for this manga after the whole pet/fairy tournament arc. It really felt like such a good piece of storytelling. I might go back and reread this one just to get a catch up on things. Hope this gets picked up, I know it’s a lot of text for not much plot but as a casual read it’s great.

 

[JJTheWeeb]

Here's the thing, 90% of Isekai's use an MMO "Skill System" strait from a video game. There are very few who don't dabble with those tropes, magical item boxes, pop up windows, etc. Its just too similar to me to draw a line in the sand.

We are even going through the standard isekai tropes, proud wolf and all. I guess I just read too many of these

i mean, even fantasy stories use mmo skill systems, arguably it's more linked to that genre than isekai ime (im reading a few hundred isekai as well lmao).

The whole point is that isekai is normally used as a story-beat then usually not very important at all, so yea, "isekai vibes" aren't really a thing when it's really just a genre vibe (usually fantasy and video game skill system). the only ones you can kinda say is "superiour nippon technology", but even in regular fantasy stories without isekai we have katana praising and whatnot, so it's not isekai exclusive.

so yea, isekai is a misnommer in this case since you're actually refering to the fantasy genre, not isekai genre. And isekai itself really requires that "transfering to another world", as mentioned by a different comment

I wouldn't call this series, Only Sense, Shangri-la Frontier, or Bofuri isekai just because it's clear the other world is a game that they can freely log in/out of and actions in-game can't affect the player in the real world.

Once you become trapped and dying in-game kills you out of game I'm more willing to consider it an isekai.

The sticking point for me is that the "other world" has to be real enough that the consequences of the character's actions persist and can't just be undone by logging out or rebooting the game/server.

the other world being an actual separate thing matters. I don't exactly agree that this means "consequences persist" (see log horizon i believe, or video game manga that have persistent consequences too (there's some mmo stories where they do like "npc permadeath", might'vbe even been this one lmao, but that's persistent consequences)), nor the no affecting the real world (see destiny unchain online), but rather "the character's lifestyle changes to fit into the new world" or some aspect of this (this whole lifestyle thing should play a role into the story).

 

[Nemo2342]

the other world being an actual separate thing matters. I don't exactly agree that this means "consequences persist" (see log horizon i believe, or video game manga that have persistent consequences too (there's some mmo stories where they do like "npc permadeath", might'vbe even been this one lmao, but that's persistent consequences)), nor the no affecting the real world (see destiny unchain online), but rather "the character's lifestyle changes to fit into the new world" or some aspect of this (this whole lifestyle thing should play a role into the story).

That's fair, I'm just trying to account for some edge cases where the "game" really is another world but the MC can log/in out (one of the PSO2 expansions comes to mind) which is the equivalent of the stories where the MC just has a portal they can freely pass though.

Basically my thinking is that if the MMO could bring back the NPCs by rebooting/doing a reinstall/spinning up a fresh server it doesn't count as an isekai (even if the story never addresses it), but if the MMO is just a gateway to another world and the NPCs are real people then it counts.

Though this is probably the absolute worst series to have this discussion since it's the one where a PC fell in love with a NPC due to their new super AI and we had a whole chapter where people waxed philosophical about if loving an AI was valid.

 

[kingalthur]

thank you for picking this series up