Thank you all so much for your condolences and well wishes to me and my family. My grandfather’s funeral is February 19th, so I’ll be out of town that weekend.

I’ve been reading a lot of manga (I got a massive order in from Rightstuff of preorders that had been delayed by the supply issues) but there is one Light Novel series that i have to talk about. The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real! Volumes 1 & 2 were phenomenal.

It’s all about this thirty-year-old guy, a NEET as they call them. A shut in that hasn’t really left his bedroom in his parents house for a long time. He has no job, barely any money. He only gets things by entering into online contests. One day, he gets a video game to beta play called God of Fate.

It comes on a single CD-ROM (yes, a CD) and yet when he boots it up, it has the most realistic graphics over. It’s a God Simulator where he can make miracles with faith points (and those collect slowly unless he wants to pay some very predatory micro-transactions). Once a day, he can give a message to his followers.

Any message that he can type. And they listen.

The AI is too advance. The characters too real. There’s only five of them, a married couple, their young daughter, a warrior, and his little sister who’s the priestess. He has to help them survive against the dangers. In real time. There’s no fast forwarding.

And when they start giving him blessings, they appear in the mail, sent from a remote part of Hokkaido. But this game is changing his life. It’s really good. I got invested in it, and Volume 2 ended on a hell of a cliffhanger. I can’t wait for book 3. This is a great light novel with mystery and stakes. If he doesn’t help them properly, they’ll die.

In Manga, Parallel Paradise 8 came out. I love this series. It’s very explicit. Yota appears in a fantasy world full of women that die at twenty-one because of the curse of the Jealous God. His presence turns these women on, and if he touches them, they get so wet they gush juices.

The story is really moving along. We’re getting into the deep mysteries of the series while the stakes are rather high. Characters can die pretty quickly. But that plot twist at the end.

Damn. I can’t wait for Parallel Paradise 9.

Call Girl in Another World 3 is another one that I read. It’s a fun read. A call girl from the red light district in Ikebukuro, Tokyo appears in a fantasy world. To save the world, she has to satisfy a list of different type of men.

And she’s an expert at her task.

It’s a naughty series. This volume focused on a side character, a catgirl, that ended up in Ikebukuro and starts being a call girl in our world. It was a fun little side diversion, especially with the poor guy that fell for her.

It had one of the funniest and saddest moments when a portal opens and is sucking her in. He grabs her and says he’s never letting her go. He’ll go with her into danger. And she says, “You’re such a great friend!” And he goes, “What?” then they vanish into the portal.

Poor guy.

Might as Well Cheat: I Got Transported to Another World Where I Can Live My Wildest Dreams Volume 1 is about a guy who appears in another world then just uses his powers to make money to enjoy the brothels.

With some fun adventures. It was a quick, fun adventure. Nothing too special, but I had fun with it.

For iStrippers, I haven’t share my favorites. What I would have picked last time is Sia Siberia’s Re:ward Time, which is a fantastic parody of Rem from Re:Zero. She’s sexy and hot in her Rem cosplay. A real hot one that melted my computer.

For this time, it has to go Belka cosplaying as Mai from King of Fighters. Kink of Fighters was a hot show. Belka’s got the tits for the role, and she uses them to her advantage.

And I’m doing a runner up is Sybil in My Dildo Academia. Now, I don’t know this series at all, but I do know she looks hot in her schoolgirl uniform no matter which character she’s cosplaying.

Some real great choices!