Lauren Reacts! Solo Leveling 1x1 'I'm Used to It'
Added 2025-03-29 17:00:09 +0000 UTCStarting something new while I wait for Alek to get back and to put some space between me and the next season of Castlevania!
I got...way more invested in this than I expected, ngl.
As always, this first episode will be available to all paid members.
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I shall applaud. This was awesome! I'm gonna have to copy it into a google doc so I don't lose it, lol. That troll hunter thing sounds AWESOME
Chicago Reacts Movies & TV
2025-04-02 04:16:09 +0000 UTCThis is essentially a genre called LitRPG. Literature set in a world with RPG elements. It's really been taking off in Audiobook form, as the creators often decided to make them into radio plays with voice actor casts and sound effects, instead of just a narrator. Solo Leveling was one of the earlier ones. It rode hard on novelty. I read it in novel form rather than it's original web novel form, and found the plot to be a C+. It took off as it's original form had A++ art. But there's been much better written forms of this with a similar lay out. Other forms for those interested: Dakota Krout: Do you want to get into the nitty gritty? Do you want to know WHAT an exp point is and what it does? What a level is and how it's measured? How the magic rubs particles together to make fire? His Divine Dungeon series may be for you. He constantly makes up new power systems just to write a world around them so he can play with them. For example, his Full Murderhobo series envisions a world where RPG "classes" each have another world which is the only place they can level up or grow stronger, so access to them is heavily regulated, to keep people from being powerful enough to conquer the world. The titular main character ends up with a class no one has had for millennia, and so his world is savage and inhospitable to life, as no one has been there absorbing mana or killing the monsters for millennia, while his friends all have safe, well trod worlds with others of their class to teach them and provide safe harbor. James Hunter Troll Nation series: A wizard fighting an evil emperor that murdered his parents is flung into another world by the Emperor right before he can kill him. All he knows is he needs to get strong enough to cast a portal back to his world and get his revenge, using this new world's WEIRD magic system. But the world he was sent to is an MMORPG, and he's a level 1 troll in the first dungeon of the game. Oh well, it seems you can only get stronger with whatever this "exp" is, and there's these "players" who come back from the dead that you can farm infinite "exp" from, so this shouldn't be so hard! It's rather fun to see someone who has no idea what an RPG is be stuck in one. Neven Illiev Everybody Loves Large Chests: Boxxy T Morningwood is a mimic that became strong enough to become self aware. The dungeon that created him, which can no longer control him, kicks him out to fend for himself. A very entertaining comedy horror series. This is an evil campaign. You're following the BAD GUYS! And since there are other bad guys for the hero to tear apart and eat, it's a raucous good time! I'd say it's 30% intrigue and scheming since he's a shape shifter, 50% LitRPG action, 19% comedy, 1% horny. The comedy is almost... angry Monty Python? Evil Mr. Bean? It's hard to describe. One of the running jokes is that the completely asexually reproducing wooden box does not care about sex. A lot of other characters are very horny. Boxxy does not care, he does not have a sex drive, he's a box. The first chapter of the first book is the longest and most explicit form of the joke. They get shorter and less explicit each time because it's a running joke. The whole series is not the start of book 1. This is also one of the first LitRPG's that I mentioned that did the Full Radio Play production instead of a narrator. Andrew Rowe: Arcane Ascension series: I have two ways to describe this series, and it's second sister series Weapons and Wielders. 1) Arcane Ascension is a Harry Potter LitRPG where you go into towers built by the gods, and if you clear enough floors are granted magic powers, and are then sent to wizard school to learn to use them. Weapons and wielders are the same world but following the Sirius Black esque Character 2) When Patrick Rothfuss decided to not finish The Kingkiller Chronicle, Andrew Rowe replied, "Fine, I'll do it myself!" The main character really has to use his head, get creative, and plan everything in advance. There's no easy victories where the hero swoops in and wins effortlessly. And if you think there was, well that's going to come back later, to bite them. Also completely unrelated to LitRPG's, the video game Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi is essentially a solo leveling videogame. Thank you for coming to my TED talk about an obscure thing you will never look into past this point. I enjoyed writing it, you may now applaud.
Louispul5
2025-04-01 21:57:37 +0000 UTCSO EXCITED!!! This anime is GOATED!
Timmetry
2025-04-01 01:23:40 +0000 UTC
