How 2 Hide Your Renamon

Most importantly, think about why you want to hide your books. Are you trying to prevent extreme choice paralysis? Then use the Downloaded filter. Are you trying to hide specific genres or even certain individual books (such as a borrowed Kindle book that you don’t want the current owner to see?) Then archive them. Are you trying to make a clean list of books you need to read? Then use collections. Most of this can be solved with a hybrid approach. My device is set to the ‘Downloaded’ filter, I archive all the gadgets and freebies that I receive which I don’t like, and I have a ‘Next Up’ collection for the books that I am currently most interested in reading. This approach keeps my digital reading life under control.

Hidden twins = mafia melodrama. I thought maybe his secret was something he was ashamed of from before (i.e. a rival family member or something) or maybe he had been using them as part of a con. Then again, maybe he had planned to reveal them later as a test of your loyalty to him. I once watched a K-drama where the boss of the male lead had hidden his children from his female lead because he wanted to see if she would love them without condition. (She didn’t.) I bet this isn’t logical but it would make for good angst – especially the kind where a betrayed wife finds out her husband had secret children and then she hauls off to the gala to confront him.

The conclusion to the story of this protagonist is basically a massive discussion point as to whether it is in fact a happy ending. For some characters it is utterly and extremely satisfying in a completely positive way. Others have somewhat bittersweet conclusions in which they have moved on from their various traumas in some way or another. As for me personally, the ending followed the hero of the story as he finally cast off the weight of his secret past and had found his liberation. Sure, there were some major scars along the way and, to this day, he is unlikely to be 100% healed from his many personal traumas but, as an ending, it feels utterly earned, highly emotional and, in the end, very hopeful. So happy? Well, that pretty much depends. A completely sugar-coated ‘they all lived happily ever after’ ending with no after effects would not have felt like nearly as valid or ‘real’ a conclusion for these characters. But an ending that is ultimately very happy for those that it feels is, then yes, it is a happy ending! The story favored character closure over plot convenience. I appreciated that.

One of the healthiest fan relations in the digital era would probably be to limit yourself to the public performance of the artist, treat them as characters. We fans take on roles as spectators to their personalities and behavior in their character(s). We can’t expect to get more than what they choose to present to the public. Anything beyond that would be crossing a line. This model functions best within the bounds of the content itself, and serves to protect the purity of that model. Allowing only discussion of the specific character or video itself and eschewing further development of the rest of the creator’s personality or life, Zen’s model is arguably one of the most healthy fandoms currently existing. So, let’s not try to be the ones to break it.

This question is somehow related to my anime club days in college. So, an “uncensored version” of this would probably just be the entire thing without all of the steam or lightly placed beam shots that were censored in the normal TV version of this. This has been released in an uncensored form on some of the uncensored Blu-rays for this series that have been released in Japan, and it is available on streaming in the uncensored form on a few different streaming services, such as HiDive. From what I understand, though, HiDive’s selection of anime changes somewhat from time to time, so this series may not be available on HiDive forever. Anyway, the uncensored version of this is somewhat different from the censored version. First of all, there is more fan service in the uncensored version. But also, some of the magic circles and some of the other visual effects are more detailed. As for the overall experience of watching this in uncensored form, the best way to put it would be to say that this series is a show that is ABOUT its premise. And so, watching it in uncensored form really feels like you are experiencing the show as it was MEANT to be experienced – that is, in a somewhat chaotic, unconventional, and slightly bizarre form. (Diablo’s inner monologues, for example, are awkward enough on their own, but they are also awkward in ways that are compounded by and made worse by by the increasingly visually complicated and chaotic nature of the scenes in which they appear.) It’s a very specific kind of “experience”, but if you’re asking this question then you probably have some sense already of what I’m talking about.

If I need to find information about something on the internet, I usually first try to search for it on Reddit. For this novel, a search for ‘site:reddit.com “The Player Hides His Past” free’ will pull up old threads from r/noveltranslations and r/OtomeIsekai where people with similar questions have posted. Because Reddit posts are time stamped, you can easily tell if a link to a novel that was posted two years ago is no longer available. But you might also find a user who mentions a currently active novel, or explains the system of an official platform in great detail. Crowdsourced info is the best!

Many of the dialogue options are not as simple as they read. Is that line flirty or friendly? The most romantic option can often backfire if it comes on too strong too fast. Her confidant is not about romance, it is about trust. The options that advanced the relationship with Joker the most were the ones where he offered to help her or expressed his confidence in her abilities. The lines that read as if he were offering her pity or other shallow forms of admiration for the most part fell flat. She can see right through that kind of BS from a mile away. So be sincere not smooth. That is the real guide you need.

I ended up looking for online versions because I couldn’t find any physical copies. Apparently it is published mainly on Korean web platform KakaoPage. I’m able to read Korean, but for other readers who can’t, the stories are translated and released on Moonreader. The fan translations are done by a group of dedicated translators, and they’re done with the author’s permission. They also do a great job of localizing jokes. The KakaoPage app is kind of a pain to use if you’re not already familiar with the site and account setup, but if you want to read the most up-to-date version of a story as it’s released, that’s the best way to go.

All novels worth reading are already easily available to simple search queries - there are thousands of them. I don’t have a lot of time to devote to reading and if I have to work hard to find the chapters then I’d rather wait 6 months for someone to have finished making it easier to read.

Oh and one other secret for our RPG novices: “Tavern Brawler” background. No, this is not listed in Character Creation. You lose five arm-wrestling rows in the opening inn, then beat the Champions of the bar for this to be granted to your new hero. Once you have “Bruiser” the hero of yours will have various advantages in unarmed combat, and indeed be able to Intimidate a lot of people easier too. Also there are several new lines of dialog enabling you to ‘beat it up’ (solve a problem with your fists) rather than ‘talk it out’ or ‘steal it’. Often funny in solutions to otherwise locked problems.