The evolution of Brandon's enjoyment of food heists is a character arc for the ages. You can go back and see him barely being interested in them early on. Now, 100 episodes later, HE'S the one who gives Dan the food heist, as opposed to Dan always being the one to initially read/recite it to the audience in the previous 99 episodes (or however long they've been doing them).
@@warbrothers7745 only Dan and Brandon find them exciting. The rest of just pretend lol. It's a "we humor them, because we enjoy that they enjoy it so much". If there is genuinely someone who waits with baited breath every week for the latest food heist, I'm not sure they'd be a person I'd like to hang out with. Sort of like the pin collector from "Going Postal".
I actually didn't know about Mario 2 being a reskin, that made a lot of sense though considering how much of a departure it was from traditional Mario gameplay.
Does any Mario game ever show Mario actually putting mushrooms in his mouth? Because as far as I know, in the games Mario simply touches the mushroom to get a power-up.
Just wanted to leave this here: there's a one-page food heist RPG called "Honey Heist." You play as a team of bears trying to steal honey from a convention called HoneyCon. My friends and I are thinking of doing a one-shot with it at some point, and I thought y'all might enjoy checking it out.
Critical Role has 3 one-shots of this game with Trinket and a bunch of other bears (some other animals). Those are great episodes if you haven't seen them yet!
Ascendance of a Bookworm would be my primary light novel recommendation for you two to try. Brandon has talked about his impression of the isekai genre being formed by reincarnated as a slime (among other) as 'salary man gets killed doing a good deed and wakes up in a fantasy land with ridiculously overpowered abilities and gets to live a really easy successful life'. Ascendance is about a book obsessed girl who gets killed by her own bookshelf during an earthquake and reincarnates (somehow) as an extremely sickly 5 year old pauper with no access to any kind of book. With no OP abilities to make things easy she constantly struggles to improve her circumstances in order to try and access or create _any_ kind of literature. Her utterly chaotic influence on the world around her is a constant joy to read as she veeery slowly ascends through through society while constantly being on the verge of death. Or for a very different subversion of the genre tropes try Re: Zero. Teen finds himself in a fantasy land (somehow) and has a 'cheat' ability with a very heavy price. Whenever he dies he resets to an earlier point in his timeline with all the terrible memories of his (usually) brutal death intact and losing any progress he has made with the people around him. Death cannot be an escape and is never something he can 'get used to'. The story embraces the cost such an ability would have on a person's mind.
First he says Hades doesn’t have a story, then he says he doesn’t like Andor, now this, another in a long line of disappointments Dan! Just kidding, Dan’s a good guy, if a little perplexing sometimes, but that’s just part of the charm.
Concerning Japanese light novels, I think Brandon will like Ascendence of a Bookworm. Great world building, and the writing style improves over each book. I also really enjoyed So I'm a Spider, So what. Also has great world building.
To the newly-processed inmates of Food Heist Prison, they’re told by Milk Mafia to call the other gang the Gator Goons. No no no. Them boys will be quick to show you their name is Gator Gourmand. Taking after their Cajun roots, it’s a double entendres for both being exceptional foodies and Cajun slang for being viciously greedy.
I can't help but imagine that the leader of the milk thieves, being down on his luck, was at the store to get milk for his kid's breakfast. All while trying to come up with an idea to get some extra cash. He grabs a carton of milk, checks the label to make sure it's 2% and not whole. In a simple bold font, the label reads, "skim milk". And all of a sudden his face lights up with an idea.
If we're suddenly reccomending Light Novels then I wish to put forth Mushoku Tensei. It's more of a travelogue for the first several books. Unfortunately the MC is not a good guy in the start by most metrics. The story is more about his development as a person. Unfortunately the story suffers from the usual anime tropes throughout the series. The first book is also the slowest book in the series. Despite all that it's one of my favorite series of all time. It's also really well animated and I've watched it like five times.
I must once again recommend "Ascendance of a Bookworm" as the perfect Japanese light novel for Brandon. It's published in English by J-Novel Club, so easily available. I recommend because: 1) good clean story, nothing naughty that could offend BrandoSando's Mormon Sensibilities ;p 2) VERY good world building, loads of depth spent on the various aspects, it looks like a world actually lived in. Loads of time spent on the MC's early life, giving a lot of depth (Most isekai would jump from birth to school in a couple of chapters, here the MC goes to school in like the 4th book, so three books of worldbuilding where we are shown rather than told how people live, and every bit is interesting.) 3) Deals with the consequences of gods being real, magic being real, and the class system that ensues by having, or not having, access to that magic; plus magic has an interesting cost that keeps it on the side of soft magic but still has limits. 4) an actual clash between our world and their world "common sense". For example, to give vague spoilers, our MC's efforts to save orphans leads to a town being nuked(I will not explain further, RAFO ;p) and it's all her fault, and you are given a compelling reason why it makes sense, from that world's perspective. I recommend everyone who likes western fantasy to try Bookworm, it doesn't have the typical japanese isekai path (y'know, escapist portal fantasy) and reads very much like something a western author might write.
Dan's Bad Story idea could be allegory for european colonization of the Americas since European civilization had cultivated a people with immunities that where not present amongst the natives... in a sense they had a superpower that allowed them to overwhelm the native populace more easily than it would have been by way of conquest..
I remember when I was a a child, one Saturday Morning I ran down to the arcade to be there when it opened. When I arrived, they were wheeling in brand new cabinet with the dumbest name ever, I couldn't imagine anyone playing a game called "Donkey Kong".
Light novel: Ascendance of a Bookworm My blurb: It is about a modern day 20 something year old japanese woman who dies and reincarnates into the body of a sickly 5 year old medieval peasant girl. She loves books to the point that it isn't wrong to call her insane. This new world doesn't have books. The plot is about the main character trying to get books in a seemingly bookless world by whatever means necessary (accelerating technology using her modern knowledge). Other: Around 24/31 ish of the novels have already been translated to english, the next book is always released ~3 months after the previous. The author, Miya Kazuki, seems to be as prolific a writer as Brandon Sanderson. Each book is about 100k words long, the total story is probably around 3 million words long (this is on par or longer to the first 5 Stormlight books). I HIGHLY recommend it. In case you are worried about fan service, this series doesn't have the fan service type things that many anime peripheral content from japan has, it is pretty safe to read. Technically it is a childrens book, but it is enjoyable for all ages.
Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka? (Sukasuka) and Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria (Hakomari) are the only two light novels I'd recommend in this context. Sukasuka for a story of familial love in a post-apocalyptic world where has to live on floating islands due to the surface being dangerous, all steeped in a nice layer of mystery. And Hakomari for a time-looping, horror/thriller with tons of drama and mind-bending plot twists. I'd recommend these because they: 1) are good, 2) are relatively short, 3) have official English translations, and 4) tell distinctly light novel-esque stories without being too reliant on the tropes of the medium. Other light novels like Overlord and Mushoku Tensei are good. In fact, I personally like them better than Sukasuka and Hakomari. But they are far riskier choices for those not already familiar with the medium as they are much more geared towards people already fans of light novels/related mediums.
I don't think it's possible to say something that would actually offend Italians. I've been called every name in the book and it is all just funny. That's been my experience anyway.
"Re:Zero," "Ascendance of a Bookworm" and "Mushoku Tensei" (I think the English title is "Jobless Reincarnation") are my favorite light novels. All 3 are still ongoing but they are all well written and are on my bookshelf next to my fantasy novels. "Konosuba" is also delightful but it is more comedic in nature. Tthe first couple are a little rough to read though, due to the author struggling a little with pacing and flow. The author makes definite progress as the series continues.
Mushoku Tensei is bad as a recommendation for them though. Way too much perversion and sex. Re:Zero on the other hand is very well written and keeps it's quality all the way through, it makes my list of favorites even outside of just light novels.
9:14 ...🤨 That's not part of what "woke" means. 🙄 No group of people have seriously been against "strong independent women" since at least the early 1990s.
Some pedantic game history things! 9:00 The name is Doki Doki Panic. 9:36 Mario was only known as Jumpman on the Donkey Kong cabinet. In promotional items, he was Mario, so "Jumpman" was never an "official" name. 11:14 Super Mario Bros was developed entirely after Mario Bros, specifically after the Famicom port (and after Excitebike too but that's tangential). 16:05 This is Ice Hockey for the NES. 20:10 Dune 2 and C&C were Westwood Studios.
Shirt/poster definitely needs a team lineup stare-off between the milk mafia and the gator ranchers, with other food heist characters ether in the background or on a side. Ah, in the cafeteria of course. ... And if you ever write a story about food heist prison, it needs to be a "great escape" type, as that would take full advantage of the heist strengths, as both gangs try to out-do each other.
Seeing everyone is recommending LNs, I think I'll follow suit and reccomend Kino's Journey. It's a fun series about a young girl travelling a strange world with her talking motorcycle and trusty revolver. Kino (the girl) has a rule that she only stays in one place for 3 days at most, and each place she stays at presents a vastly different setting. For example: A city where everyone hears each other's thoughts, a city where no one has to work anymore, a city where democracy decides EVERYTHING, etc etc. The series is full of interesting settings that dont overstay their welcome and leave you thinking.
A great Light novel to check out would be Re:Zero. Interesting time shenanigans and a bit of a darker but not too dark take on the Isekai or Other-world genre.
Light Novel Suggestion: 1. Tora Dora - Romance, Slice of Life 2. A certain magical index - sci-fi, fantasy, underdog hero 3. Bakemonogatari - Mystery, Meta narrative about anime tropes, male gaze
About the "Earthlings don't have super powers", I remember reading a story online about a decade ago which was something similar. The idea was that all humans were supposed to have incredible magic powers, but as mankind grew in numbers, the council of wizards decided it'd be too powerful, and it was sealed away. And thus, humanity used material technology instead to grow. And then in the space age, humanity found out that when they get away from Earth, humans start developing incredible magic talents.
"Every financially successful artist is a sell-out." If that's true in its entirety, it spells a dark future for those who would seek to become artists.
A light novel turned Netflix anime is the unfortunately-named "Legend of the Legendary Heroes", and it's a nice story. Lots of magic, swords, monsters.
Ever notice that there are two types of "Super Heroes". There are "Exceptional Super Heroes" and "Impossible Super Heroes." "Exceptional Super Heroes" can only do what other people can do, but to an "Exceptional" degree. You can run fast, they can run faster, you are strong, they are stronger. You can aim a projectile, They can aim it better. You can take a punch or heal from a wound, they can do that better. "Impossible Super Heroes" can do things that are impossible for other people to do. You cannot fly un-aided, they can. You cannot shoot deadly levels of radiation from your eye sockets, they can. You cannot become invisible/pure-fire/stone/sand/shapeshift, they can. I call these Male-archtype super heroes, and Female-archtype super heroes (the gender of the actual heroes aren't a factor). Males are generally better at most things than females (females can do all the same things, just to a less extreme degree), but females can do some things that are impossible for males to do, it doesn't matter how much a male trains, nor how much natural talent they are born with, Males cannot gestate a living being inside their body, nor can a male produce a complete healthy meal for an infant for the early stages of the infant's life by drawing from their own internal stores of nutrition. It is almost like a choice were made, to one I will give exceptional speed, strength, durability, they will exceed in all tasks possible, and to the other I will grant them the ability to do what is impossible for the other. We have carried that dichotomy over into our Super Heroes.
Why make heists and story ideas compete? How about a giant mash up with Time Travel Tourism and a heist. Going back to steal the high end food off of the Titanic, for example...
In my experience, the only thing that makes their "Bad Story Ideas" 'bad' is that they're ideas for settings, not stories. For example, for the setting where leaving the influence of earth's sun grants humans super powers, one could conceivably write a story where traveling to earth to try and survive a week without super powers has become a rite of passage, or a buddy cop story where the protagonists have to stop a villain who has developed a weapon that mimics the sun's radiation signature.
For light novels you might like Spice and Wolf, it´s about a merchant and a wolf goddess, so Brandon Sanderson might like the economy part from the merchant and Dan Wells the cool anime wolf girl.
If you’re looking for a good game, I’ll recommend the Nier series, though know that it is super wacky and deserving of a few content warnings, it’s a fantastic series.
Mario and Donkey Kong were originally going to be a Popeye game but they couldn’t get the IP rights for it in time so made it its own franchise. Nintendo did release a Popeye game the next year once they got the right but it didn’t do well since it was seen as derivative of the previous game.
I was raised in dairy country, so the idea of a Dairy Don tickles me to no end. (What's the Portuguese version of a Don? Most of the dairy families I knew of growing up came from the Azores.)
Fun fact, the girl lead in The Wizard is Jenny Lewis, who went on to a successful music career with her band Rilo Kiley, vocals in The Postal Service and many of her own albums. People used to yell out Wizard quotes during concerts. 😅
@cbpd89 I just looked it up to make sure, but she has a music video on RUclips called "she's not me" where she dresses up in some of her more famous child actor roles including golden girls and Troop Beverly Hills that features Fred Armison portraying Fred Savage from The Wizard. Complete with power glove.
A light novel that you will definitely like is Ascendance of a Bookworm or the long title "Ascendance of a Bookworm: I'll Stop at Nothing to Become a Librarian". A classic one from the early 2000s that is still ongoing is "Spice and Wolf".
Spice and Wolf is a weird case. It ended in 2011, the author took a few years off, then did a sequel series Wolf and Parchment starring their kid... and then decided to do more Spice and Wolf and a bunch of short story collections. Like it is in fact still going but it kind of ended a decade ago. It's weird.
I never comment on your podcast, but you asked specifically for light novel recommendations for some reason and now I have to recommend some of my favorites. Your call to actions was too effective: 1. The Faraway Paladin for Isekai/Portal fantasy done in an incredibly compelling way. 2. Tearmoon Empire (There's a genre based around villainesses that I adore. Normally someone is portal fantasied into a Villain of a light novel or game and then has to figure out how not to get killed at the end of it. Tearmoon empire is more "Imagine if Marie Antoinette could go back in time and try not to die") 3. The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How about Treason!). A fantasy series that has a small nation (almost city state) that is in the middle of a giant empire and Holy Roman Empire type that is fighting and succeeding for survival. All of these are officially available and I think there's something novel about each you would enjoy.
I haven't read many light novels, but one I did enjoy and would recommend is Secrets of the Silent Witch. It's basically about an extremely talented witch who is so shy that she managed to break the rules of the world's magic system just to avoid speaking in public as the magic in the world usually involves chanting to cast spells.
My favorite heist/theft was the one about the specialty alcohol that is taken down by divers and left to age in special containers on the bottom of a lake.
I basically missed out on the WiiU and 3DS when I went to college because of similar reasons. I was able to get back into console games with the Switch, but I think that's just because Nintendo stopped making new consoles for some reason (I'm curious why they slowed down so much)
The light novel series I've read with the most Brandon-like magic system was The Irregular at Magic High School. I went into it with low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised.
21:03 This sun idea does sound like something pretty doable in the Cosmere. Add it to the Dark Side of the moon or being in darkness/shielded from radiation to gain superpowers or something and you've got yourself a sinister atmosphere and BOOM a Cosmere horror book Dan could write
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The evolution of Brandon's enjoyment of food heists is a character arc for the ages. You can go back and see him barely being interested in them early on. Now, 100 episodes later, HE'S the one who gives Dan the food heist, as opposed to Dan always being the one to initially read/recite it to the audience in the previous 99 episodes (or however long they've been doing them).
Ohhh. I get it. Bad story idea. Food heist. You guys switched lol. Nice
@@warbrothers7745 only Dan and Brandon find them exciting. The rest of just pretend lol. It's a "we humor them, because we enjoy that they enjoy it so much". If there is genuinely someone who waits with baited breath every week for the latest food heist, I'm not sure they'd be a person I'd like to hang out with. Sort of like the pin collector from "Going Postal".
I would 100% buy a shirt that says "This shirt has been left intentionally blank".
Intentionally Blank --The Shirt
Brandon’s exasperation at Dan not knowing Mario eats mushrooms 😂 8:39
I have never played the game and even I know that!
More like 7:00
Complete gold. Brandon's run down of the Mario lore is content for the ages
Power Mushrooms AND 1-Up Mushrooms
I actually didn't know about Mario 2 being a reskin, that made a lot of sense though considering how much of a departure it was from traditional Mario gameplay.
Does any Mario game ever show Mario actually putting mushrooms in his mouth? Because as far as I know, in the games Mario simply touches the mushroom to get a power-up.
Just wanted to leave this here: there's a one-page food heist RPG called "Honey Heist." You play as a team of bears trying to steal honey from a convention called HoneyCon. My friends and I are thinking of doing a one-shot with it at some point, and I thought y'all might enjoy checking it out.
Critical Role has 3 one-shots of this game with Trinket and a bunch of other bears (some other animals). Those are great episodes if you haven't seen them yet!
Ascendance of a Bookworm would be my primary light novel recommendation for you two to try. Brandon has talked about his impression of the isekai genre being formed by reincarnated as a slime (among other) as 'salary man gets killed doing a good deed and wakes up in a fantasy land with ridiculously overpowered abilities and gets to live a really easy successful life'. Ascendance is about a book obsessed girl who gets killed by her own bookshelf during an earthquake and reincarnates (somehow) as an extremely sickly 5 year old pauper with no access to any kind of book. With no OP abilities to make things easy she constantly struggles to improve her circumstances in order to try and access or create _any_ kind of literature. Her utterly chaotic influence on the world around her is a constant joy to read as she veeery slowly ascends through through society while constantly being on the verge of death.
Or for a very different subversion of the genre tropes try Re: Zero. Teen finds himself in a fantasy land (somehow) and has a 'cheat' ability with a very heavy price. Whenever he dies he resets to an earlier point in his timeline with all the terrible memories of his (usually) brutal death intact and losing any progress he has made with the people around him. Death cannot be an escape and is never something he can 'get used to'. The story embraces the cost such an ability would have on a person's mind.
Two of my favorites! It would be a dream come true if Brandon read either one!
That same time he talked about Isekai he literally talked about reading Ascendance of a Bookworm lol
Ascendance is so good
Yes, please let Brandon read it!
Great choiches!
Congratulations on 100 episodes! And somehow... MORE than 100 tangents!
“Mario doesn’t eat mushrooms”
Sometimes I wonder how this man has made it this far in life smh lmao 🤣
First he says Hades doesn’t have a story, then he says he doesn’t like Andor, now this, another in a long line of disappointments Dan!
Just kidding, Dan’s a good guy, if a little perplexing sometimes, but that’s just part of the charm.
Concerning Japanese light novels, I think Brandon will like Ascendence of a Bookworm. Great world building, and the writing style improves over each book.
I also really enjoyed So I'm a Spider, So what. Also has great world building.
So I'm a spider so what is soo good, my only problem is that it's very short
@@egymano5447 16 volumes or 600 webnovel chapters is considered short? I would recommend 12 kingdoms for Brandon
I just started reading J light novels. Reading Overlord and loving it so far.
@@ShinseiX I only read the manga, does the webnovel carries on?
@@ShinseiX I love Twelve Kingdoms, but I think they are normal novels and not light novels.
"No body part is more likely than any other to emit--" I'm going to stop you right there, Brandon.
To the newly-processed inmates of Food Heist Prison, they’re told by Milk Mafia to call the other gang the Gator Goons. No no no. Them boys will be quick to show you their name is Gator Gourmand. Taking after their Cajun roots, it’s a double entendres for both being exceptional foodies and Cajun slang for being viciously greedy.
I can't help but imagine that the leader of the milk thieves, being down on his luck, was at the store to get milk for his kid's breakfast. All while trying to come up with an idea to get some extra cash. He grabs a carton of milk, checks the label to make sure it's 2% and not whole. In a simple bold font, the label reads, "skim milk". And all of a sudden his face lights up with an idea.
They are working to restore to power a shadowy group nobles called the Dairy Heirs.
"Falling burrito world" is definitely the t-shirt design we all need.
This one! I was laughing so hard I was crying on that episode.
3:37 that look they give each other as they both think "Dairy Don" at the same time before it's said out loud 😂.
If we're suddenly reccomending Light Novels then I wish to put forth Mushoku Tensei. It's more of a travelogue for the first several books.
Unfortunately the MC is not a good guy in the start by most metrics. The story is more about his development as a person. Unfortunately the story suffers from the usual anime tropes throughout the series. The first book is also the slowest book in the series.
Despite all that it's one of my favorite series of all time. It's also really well animated and I've watched it like five times.
I must once again recommend "Ascendance of a Bookworm" as the perfect Japanese light novel for Brandon. It's published in English by J-Novel Club, so easily available.
I recommend because:
1) good clean story, nothing naughty that could offend BrandoSando's Mormon Sensibilities ;p
2) VERY good world building, loads of depth spent on the various aspects, it looks like a world actually lived in.
Loads of time spent on the MC's early life, giving a lot of depth (Most isekai would jump from birth to school in a couple of chapters, here the MC goes to school in like the 4th book, so three books of worldbuilding where we are shown rather than told how people live, and every bit is interesting.)
3) Deals with the consequences of gods being real, magic being real, and the class system that ensues by having, or not having, access to that magic; plus magic has an interesting cost that keeps it on the side of soft magic but still has limits.
4) an actual clash between our world and their world "common sense".
For example, to give vague spoilers, our MC's efforts to save orphans leads to a town being nuked(I will not explain further, RAFO ;p) and it's all her fault, and you are given a compelling reason why it makes sense, from that world's perspective.
I recommend everyone who likes western fantasy to try Bookworm, it doesn't have the typical japanese isekai path (y'know, escapist portal fantasy) and reads very much like something a western author might write.
Nice role reversal, Brandon gives us a food heist and Dan has the bad story idea that turns into a decent story idea 😊
The yellow sun/earth suppressing human abilities is an alien prison for our species after we did some bad stuff
Dan's Bad Story idea could be allegory for european colonization of the Americas since European civilization had cultivated a people with immunities that where not present amongst the natives... in a sense they had a superpower that allowed them to overwhelm the native populace more easily than it would have been by way of conquest..
Light novel recommendation. “Baccano!” Is about the mafia and immortals
You guys can't fool me; this bracket thing is just a set up to have a clip show during the writers strike.
I remember when I was a a child, one Saturday Morning I ran down to the arcade to be there when it opened. When I arrived, they were wheeling in brand new cabinet with the dumbest name ever, I couldn't imagine anyone playing a game called "Donkey Kong".
I'd recommend the light novel Overlord. It's very much D&D inspired.
Gator Goons is nice, but they should be called the Gator Raiders.
A "Jack the Carjacking Car" shirt would rule! 😂
Light novel: Ascendance of a Bookworm
My blurb: It is about a modern day 20 something year old japanese woman who dies and reincarnates into the body of a sickly 5 year old medieval peasant girl. She loves books to the point that it isn't wrong to call her insane. This new world doesn't have books. The plot is about the main character trying to get books in a seemingly bookless world by whatever means necessary (accelerating technology using her modern knowledge).
Other: Around 24/31 ish of the novels have already been translated to english, the next book is always released ~3 months after the previous. The author, Miya Kazuki, seems to be as prolific a writer as Brandon Sanderson. Each book is about 100k words long, the total story is probably around 3 million words long (this is on par or longer to the first 5 Stormlight books). I HIGHLY recommend it.
In case you are worried about fan service, this series doesn't have the fan service type things that many anime peripheral content from japan has, it is pretty safe to read. Technically it is a childrens book, but it is enjoyable for all ages.
Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka? (Sukasuka) and Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria (Hakomari) are the only two light novels I'd recommend in this context. Sukasuka for a story of familial love in a post-apocalyptic world where has to live on floating islands due to the surface being dangerous, all steeped in a nice layer of mystery. And Hakomari for a time-looping, horror/thriller with tons of drama and mind-bending plot twists.
I'd recommend these because they: 1) are good, 2) are relatively short, 3) have official English translations, and 4) tell distinctly light novel-esque stories without being too reliant on the tropes of the medium.
Other light novels like Overlord and Mushoku Tensei are good. In fact, I personally like them better than Sukasuka and Hakomari. But they are far riskier choices for those not already familiar with the medium as they are much more geared towards people already fans of light novels/related mediums.
istanbul? Not Constantinople?
The Gator-Raiders!
I don't think it's possible to say something that would actually offend Italians. I've been called every name in the book and it is all just funny. That's been my experience anyway.
I always assumed you can offend Italians by critiquing their food, but that is probably true of any chef anywhere who makes you a meal.
@@cbpd89 maybe by offering us pineapple pizza
"Re:Zero," "Ascendance of a Bookworm" and "Mushoku Tensei" (I think the English title is "Jobless Reincarnation") are my favorite light novels. All 3 are still ongoing but they are all well written and are on my bookshelf next to my fantasy novels.
"Konosuba" is also delightful but it is more comedic in nature. Tthe first couple are a little rough to read though, due to the author struggling a little with pacing and flow. The author makes definite progress as the series continues.
Mushoku Tensei is bad as a recommendation for them though. Way too much perversion and sex. Re:Zero on the other hand is very well written and keeps it's quality all the way through, it makes my list of favorites even outside of just light novels.
Brandon is going to find all of them weird 😂😭
holy weibo recommendations, there's gotta be something that's not scraping the bottom of the light novel sexuality barrel
As much as I love Mushoku Tensei, there’s no way that would be acceptable literature for a Mormon, lol.
Brandon the dark side of the moon still gets sunlight, it just never faces earth. That's why the moon has phases!
9:14 ...🤨 That's not part of what "woke" means. 🙄 No group of people have seriously been against "strong independent women" since at least the early 1990s.
This food heist telling was a dairy-air
Some pedantic game history things!
9:00 The name is Doki Doki Panic.
9:36 Mario was only known as Jumpman on the Donkey Kong cabinet. In promotional items, he was Mario, so "Jumpman" was never an "official" name.
11:14 Super Mario Bros was developed entirely after Mario Bros, specifically after the Famicom port (and after Excitebike too but that's tangential).
16:05 This is Ice Hockey for the NES.
20:10 Dune 2 and C&C were Westwood Studios.
I guess given your screen name we should expect nothing less!
My favorite bad story idea (I think it was from the trunk novel episode) is the short story anthology of serial killer victims.
Could we say that the Milk Mafia were skimming off the product?
I think we need a Poll-by-poll to select each Food Heist and Bad Story Idea so that we can get every permutation and combination 😀
Sorry you missed it by 42.7 seconds
a dairy daring-do!
The old switcheroo! Brandon telling Dan a food heist. I see what you did there.
Shirt/poster definitely needs a team lineup stare-off between the milk mafia and the gator ranchers, with other food heist characters ether in the background or on a side. Ah, in the cafeteria of course.
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And if you ever write a story about food heist prison, it needs to be a "great escape" type, as that would take full advantage of the heist strengths, as both gangs try to out-do each other.
There would be a vending machine in the back and someone sliding multiple cards through it to get all the snacks.
Seeing everyone is recommending LNs, I think I'll follow suit and reccomend Kino's Journey. It's a fun series about a young girl travelling a strange world with her talking motorcycle and trusty revolver. Kino (the girl) has a rule that she only stays in one place for 3 days at most, and each place she stays at presents a vastly different setting. For example: A city where everyone hears each other's thoughts, a city where no one has to work anymore, a city where democracy decides EVERYTHING, etc etc. The series is full of interesting settings that dont overstay their welcome and leave you thinking.
A great Light novel to check out would be Re:Zero. Interesting time shenanigans and a bit of a darker but not too dark take on the Isekai or Other-world genre.
We made it to ep 100! Kelsier would be proud
Light novels: Re:Zero, Bofuri, That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime, and So I’m a Spider, so what?
Light Novel Suggestion:
1. Tora Dora - Romance, Slice of Life
2. A certain magical index - sci-fi, fantasy, underdog hero
3. Bakemonogatari - Mystery, Meta narrative about anime tropes, male gaze
About the "Earthlings don't have super powers", I remember reading a story online about a decade ago which was something similar.
The idea was that all humans were supposed to have incredible magic powers, but as mankind grew in numbers, the council of wizards decided it'd be too powerful, and it was sealed away.
And thus, humanity used material technology instead to grow. And then in the space age, humanity found out that when they get away from Earth, humans start developing incredible magic talents.
"Every financially successful artist is a sell-out."
If that's true in its entirety, it spells a dark future for those who would seek to become artists.
As a Hungarian, I am very happy to hear Dan speak so highly of our little country. Thank you! Come to Hungary Brandon!!
A light novel turned Netflix anime is the unfortunately-named "Legend of the Legendary Heroes", and it's a nice story. Lots of magic, swords, monsters.
Ever notice that there are two types of "Super Heroes". There are "Exceptional Super Heroes" and "Impossible Super Heroes."
"Exceptional Super Heroes" can only do what other people can do, but to an "Exceptional" degree. You can run fast, they can run faster, you are strong, they are stronger. You can aim a projectile, They can aim it better. You can take a punch or heal from a wound, they can do that better.
"Impossible Super Heroes" can do things that are impossible for other people to do. You cannot fly un-aided, they can. You cannot shoot deadly levels of radiation from your eye sockets, they can. You cannot become invisible/pure-fire/stone/sand/shapeshift, they can.
I call these Male-archtype super heroes, and Female-archtype super heroes (the gender of the actual heroes aren't a factor).
Males are generally better at most things than females (females can do all the same things, just to a less extreme degree), but females can do some things that are impossible for males to do, it doesn't matter how much a male trains, nor how much natural talent they are born with, Males cannot gestate a living being inside their body, nor can a male produce a complete healthy meal for an infant for the early stages of the infant's life by drawing from their own internal stores of nutrition.
It is almost like a choice were made, to one I will give exceptional speed, strength, durability, they will exceed in all tasks possible, and to the other I will grant them the ability to do what is impossible for the other.
We have carried that dichotomy over into our Super Heroes.
A little part of my soul died when Dan couldn’t remember mushrooms as a power-up in Mario.
Why make heists and story ideas compete? How about a giant mash up with Time Travel Tourism and a heist. Going back to steal the high end food off of the Titanic, for example...
In my experience, the only thing that makes their "Bad Story Ideas" 'bad' is that they're ideas for settings, not stories.
For example, for the setting where leaving the influence of earth's sun grants humans super powers, one could conceivably write a story where traveling to earth to try and survive a week without super powers has become a rite of passage, or a buddy cop story where the protagonists have to stop a villain who has developed a weapon that mimics the sun's radiation signature.
For light novels you might like Spice and Wolf, it´s about a merchant and a wolf goddess, so Brandon Sanderson might like the economy part from the merchant and Dan Wells the cool anime wolf girl.
@@APerson-ol1kj Haha, okay, glad you were able to.
Congrats on100 episodes! I don't mind occasional tangents galore episodes)
If you’re looking for a good game, I’ll recommend the Nier series, though know that it is super wacky and deserving of a few content warnings, it’s a fantastic series.
Mario and Donkey Kong were originally going to be a Popeye game but they couldn’t get the IP rights for it in time so made it its own franchise. Nintendo did release a Popeye game the next year once they got the right but it didn’t do well since it was seen as derivative of the previous game.
In my head, the groundskeeper saves all the coffee grounds from both prison gangs
So in The Wizard the girl yells out "use the whistle!" and that always bothered me! If it was a brand new game how would she know about the whistle???
I was raised in dairy country, so the idea of a Dairy Don tickles me to no end. (What's the Portuguese version of a Don? Most of the dairy families I knew of growing up came from the Azores.)
There’s so many light novels and manga I could recommend, even the more pulpy types
I’ve never read a light novel but everyone I’ve talk to who’s read the Monogatari novels seems to love them to death.
Fun fact, the girl lead in The Wizard is Jenny Lewis, who went on to a successful music career with her band Rilo Kiley, vocals in The Postal Service and many of her own albums. People used to yell out Wizard quotes during concerts. 😅
That's wild! I love her music. I officially want to see this terrible movie, it sounds awful in the best way.
@cbpd89 I just looked it up to make sure, but she has a music video on RUclips called "she's not me" where she dresses up in some of her more famous child actor roles including golden girls and Troop Beverly Hills that features Fred Armison portraying Fred Savage from The Wizard. Complete with power glove.
the question might become will the best bad story idea win or the worst bad story idea.
Since Brandon is a known fan of video essays, I highly recommend Movies with Mikey’s video on the history of Mario!
Light novel suggestion for Brandon and Dan: "from the new world" it's just weird enough to keep them in it long enough to finish it.
The Dairy Don's gang is obviously called La Leche.
The fire flower is the more iconic Mario power up. And has been for a very long time
I would call the gators: The Congregation. That's what you call a group of Alligators
Name for the alligator ranchers: "The Bayou Brotherhood"
How did they not do “The Gator Gang” or “The Gator Gumbo Gang”?!
A light novel that you will definitely like is Ascendance of a Bookworm or the long title "Ascendance of a Bookworm: I'll Stop at Nothing to Become a Librarian". A classic one from the early 2000s that is still ongoing is "Spice and Wolf".
Spice and Wolf is a weird case. It ended in 2011, the author took a few years off, then did a sequel series Wolf and Parchment starring their kid... and then decided to do more Spice and Wolf and a bunch of short story collections. Like it is in fact still going but it kind of ended a decade ago. It's weird.
I never comment on your podcast, but you asked specifically for light novel recommendations for some reason and now I have to recommend some of my favorites. Your call to actions was too effective:
1. The Faraway Paladin for Isekai/Portal fantasy done in an incredibly compelling way.
2. Tearmoon Empire (There's a genre based around villainesses that I adore. Normally someone is portal fantasied into a Villain of a light novel or game and then has to figure out how not to get killed at the end of it. Tearmoon empire is more "Imagine if Marie Antoinette could go back in time and try not to die")
3. The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How about Treason!). A fantasy series that has a small nation (almost city state) that is in the middle of a giant empire and Holy Roman Empire type that is fighting and succeeding for survival.
All of these are officially available and I think there's something novel about each you would enjoy.
I refuse to accept that time shallan said "one sec" in oathbringer as canonical
Happy episode 100!!🎉
I think Pac Man's power up is more iconic than Mario's.
Food heist headline: “Milk Mafia Skim Milk”
I have to be a part of the centennial episode! I saw The Wizard in theater and then my mom took me to Toys R Us to get the game, it was phenomenal.
I haven't read many light novels, but one I did enjoy and would recommend is Secrets of the Silent Witch. It's basically about an extremely talented witch who is so shy that she managed to break the rules of the world's magic system just to avoid speaking in public as the magic in the world usually involves chanting to cast spells.
You might like DanMachi which is a light novel. It’s a bit weird at the start, but it gets really good later on
THEY WERE SKIMMING MILK, THEY ARE THE SKIMMED MILKERS
I hope they do two brackets. One for story and one for food.
Me too!
The Empty Box of Zeroth Maria is a great light novel series.
The Gator Gang! C'mon guys!
Crocodile farm 🐊 is my favorite
How about a "How's that Ben?" t-shirt
My favorite heist/theft was the one about the specialty alcohol that is taken down by divers and left to age in special containers on the bottom of a lake.
I watch the wizard one a year great movie
Man, I hope the city falling through burrito layers wins the bad story ideas. I can't wait for the bracket!
I basically missed out on the WiiU and 3DS when I went to college because of similar reasons. I was able to get back into console games with the Switch, but I think that's just because Nintendo stopped making new consoles for some reason (I'm curious why they slowed down so much)
If I remember correctly, the WiiU performed very poorly on sales so they had to slow down
Re zero Re zero Re zero pls read re zero
Rhythms of Bore was a major tangent.
Episode 100 let’s go
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Just stop it
@@donovanporter7803 😅
Never stop!
@@immortallurker185 Can't stop, Won't stop!
The bad story idea is what they did in John Carter. "He can jump!"
Wow, Dan. FFVI is your fav? It's mine too, no cap.
Excited abut the t-shirt thing
The light novel series I've read with the most Brandon-like magic system was The Irregular at Magic High School. I went into it with low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised.
21:03 This sun idea does sound like something pretty doable in the Cosmere. Add it to the Dark Side of the moon or being in darkness/shielded from radiation to gain superpowers or something and you've got yourself a sinister atmosphere and BOOM a Cosmere horror book Dan could write
Happy 100th episode!! Been here sense ep.1!