Overlooked Jewels
Overlooked Jewels
This is a collection of underrated/lesser-known novels that shine with solid writing and captivating stories. They may not be very popular, but they’ve got that special something that makes them worth your time. If you’re tired of the same overhyped novels and want to discover hidden treasures, this list is for you. (I might make a part 2 or something, idk)
RIP 100+ novelpia series, atleast 2000+ chapters were taken down.
(Mostly action novels) (2020-2025)
Personally, this is very subjective (I don't judge a novel by it's translation quality)
Honorable Mentions :
• Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (JP) - Honestly, pretty decent. It's a survival game focused story where the FL repeatedly challenge it to complete an unachievable milestone of beating it 100 times, without dying of course. It's non-linear story.
• A Story About Becoming A Really Cheerful Girl (JP) - If you want to see a protagonist endure SUFFERING, this one is for you. Caution : it's really messed up (Search for KatTL, they are TL'ing it, not sure why they didn't make an NU page for it tho)
• Terminate The Other World! (RR) - Book 1-4 is pretty good. A female cyborg getting isekai'd—she's originally from a superhero world—then gradually regaining emotions after being treated as a killing machine. It's progressive fantasy btw.
• Simulating Endless Possibilities: Invincible Once I Act (Scribblehub) - One of the best 'simulations' novels I've read
RIP 100+ novelpia series, atleast 2000+ chapters were taken down.
(Mostly action novels) (2020-2025)
Personally, this is very subjective (I don't judge a novel by it's translation quality)
Honorable Mentions :
• Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table (JP) - Honestly, pretty decent. It's a survival game focused story where the FL repeatedly challenge it to complete an unachievable milestone of beating it 100 times, without dying of course. It's non-linear story.
• A Story About Becoming A Really Cheerful Girl (JP) - If you want to see a protagonist endure SUFFERING, this one is for you. Caution : it's really messed up (Search for KatTL, they are TL'ing it, not sure why they didn't make an NU page for it tho)
• Terminate The Other World! (RR) - Book 1-4 is pretty good. A female cyborg getting isekai'd—she's originally from a superhero world—then gradually regaining emotions after being treated as a killing machine. It's progressive fantasy btw.
• Simulating Endless Possibilities: Invincible Once I Act (Scribblehub) - One of the best 'simulations' novels I've read
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Created: Dec 11th, 2024, Updated: Jun 18th, 2025
Created Dec 11th, 2024
Updated Jun 18th, 2025
113 Chapters Every 17.5 Day(s) 493 Readers 5 Reviews 11-03-2024
A cultivation novel about the protagonist's inner growth, pretty laid back, has villains but the interactions between characters are very well-written and entertaining
2 Chapters Every 890 Day(s) 861 Readers 9 Reviews 07-15-2024
A post-apocalyptic world with a system, well-executed story, very good portrayal on how society will adapt after the change around the world
18 Chapters Every 13.1 Day(s) 762 Readers 11 Reviews 01-14-2025
'The hardest choices require the strongest wills.' FL willingly chooses to do evil things for the greater good. She’s fully aware that her actions are wrong, but she accepts them anyway, knowing it's the price she has to pay.... more>>
181 Chapters Every 42.4 Day(s) 1980 Readers 14 Reviews 10-27-2023
A bit similar to Sharing-la Frontier, MC is very clever and has a lot of plot armor, so the "devs" have to nerf him, yes him, each time. It's very comedic, and has a lot of fights... more>>
108 Chapters Every 12 Day(s) 1332 Readers 18 Reviews 03-09-2025
Despair, despair, and more despair. MC became broken mentally after dying more than 700+ times while reincarnating continuously, unable to die, her personality became twisted. It's philosophical and sentimental. ... more>>
192 Chapters Every 5.3 Day(s) 695 Readers 3 Reviews 05-25-2025
It's a dark fantasy with a multidimensional protagonist and a story that's very consistent all the way through. I definitely recommend giving this one a try, idk why it got buried and never became popular, this is definitely one of the "I came looking for copper, but found gold" ahh moment... more>>
16 Chapters Every 20.1 Day(s) 2263 Readers 20 Reviews 12-03-2024
It's about a dragon being tasked to create a world, and now she created life, governs the world's laws and systems, and basically everything to maintain equilibrium in the world she created.... more>>
0 Chapters Every 191 Day(s) 961 Readers 5 Reviews 12-13-2024
RIP ReaperScans. It's a story defining the concept of being a "hero", well-written world-building and power system, the story is well executed. Also, it has a lot of illustrations, I got around 50 of them in the entire 600+ chapters, it's like a lightnovel... more>>
178 Chapters Every 0.7 Day(s) 1405 Readers 13 Reviews 06-21-2025
Holy! it's PEAK <(°•°)>, thanks @Hrllgody for the recommendations! MC is morally grey, and tends to be the "bad guy" because she knows that anything and everything she does doesn't affect reality. Having no consequences for her actions... more>>
67 Chapters Every 5.5 Day(s) 994 Readers 8 Reviews 06-14-2025
Chapter 204 was PEAK! It's been so long since I became this hype in an action novel. It was perfect, Perfect, down to the last minor detail. Amazing world-building and character development. Plus the abilities is really creative, and very diverse, it's not just simple abilities of conjuring fire, or becoming stronger. And the fight scenes are impeccable, so detailed, it's simply peak.... more>>
549 Chapters Every 10.3 Day(s) 1674 Readers 14 Reviews 02-01-2025
Quite similar to LOTM. A player (with a very mysterious past) plays a gacha game he enjoyed, but suddenly, he realized that the events in the game he is playing is identical to what's happening to the real world. ... more>>
5 Chapters Every 108 Day(s) 1772 Readers 11 Reviews 01-09-2024
"Love is war" This is more of a romcom than a power-fantasy academy novel. I really like the character development, but it was quite short. Despite the side-characters being well-written, they are not fully fleshed-out.... more>>
162 Chapters Every 10.8 Day(s) 1443 Readers 8 Reviews 05-23-2025
Quite enjoyable for a "Gallery". The forum includes all types of common protagonists such as gender-bender, medieval fantasy, wuxia, high fantasy, urban-fantasy, post-apocalyptic transmigration, etc. And it's not a boring slice-of-life.... more>>
46 Chapters Every 8.6 Day(s) 1150 Readers 6 Reviews 06-19-2025
Goblin Slayer but it's Magical Girls
146 Chapters Every 2 Day(s) 568 Readers 3 Reviews 06-20-2025
Quite similar to Gospel of Blood or LOTM
135 Chapters Every 38.3 Day(s) 1157 Readers 25 Reviews 12-10-2023
Very cruel and unforgiving, apathethic FL, she doesn't care about betraying allies or killing her former classmates just to obtain the "peace" she wanted.
3 Chapters Every 254.7 Day(s) 2162 Readers 5 Reviews 06-22-2023
The first couple of chapters are quite weird... It's not just a simple smut academy novel. And the arts and illustrations are so lit. One of the most popular WN in novelpia with over 23 million views. This is so underrated ngl, I only knew the manhwa, I never expected that it has an overarching plot, and it turns quite serious and dark(but still has some wholesome moments) after Ch. 80 or something. And the story is not confined at the academy.... more>>
146 Chapters Every 2.1 Day(s) 2450 Readers 18 Reviews 05-27-2025
Quite unique, I can't really describe it, but I enjoyed reading it. Currently in hiatus
10 Chapters Every 81.5 Day(s) 794 Readers 10 Reviews 04-07-2023
Just read it, it's only 10 chapters, quite short with an unexpected plotwist. But the real question is, who killed the hero?
130 Chapters Every 3.5 Day(s) 908 Readers 7 Reviews 06-17-2025
It's time for an ADVENTURE! Freedom, Adventure, Experience, Growth. Those four words are the main themes of this story, it's a natural progression one without any system or supernatural entities, or any of those "saving the world" stuff.... more>>
199 Chapters Every 1.5 Day(s) 1285 Readers 6 Reviews 06-19-2025
Very cunning MC. The story is about MC using her rizz to pay off her father's debt. Has a gloomy atmosphere, and she's quite pitiful
167 Chapters Every 9.2 Day(s) 377 Readers 3 Reviews 02-28-2025
Basically, Bunny Girl Senpai(Chinese Version). VLADISLAKA 's review is really convincing, I read this because of his review. The MC is easy to emphatize, isn't a simp, realistic, sensible, empathic, mature, adapts quickly, and actually acts like a good person without downgrading himself. And the romance is good. Well-written harem story ngl. The heroine's personality in the beginning was really disgusting, I was in the verge of dropping it, but I really like the MC so I kept reading, I can't believe the author managed to make a romantic story with the heroines having such garbage personalities.... more>>
88 Chapters Every 1.9 Day(s) 170 Readers 1 Reviews 05-31-2025
I've read this in wtr, and it's one of the best WN I've read on that site. The world-building, power system(there are 3 types of powers), and side/main characters are well-written. It's not a transmigration or a regression webnovel. Just a kid trying to live a normal life, then suddenly became the most dangerous person, predicted by some random ahh "prophet". The protagonist is a morally grey character, and he's only 12 years old.... more>>
180 Chapters Every 7.1 Day(s) 1090 Readers 7 Reviews 04-05-2025
Chap. 1-50 is bland and generic, but the story gets better later on. It's about an OP elf's journey and inner growth in a fantasy... more>>
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I really want those Seoul Object story merch, like the pop-up book, the figu**ne, the key chain, dang
seabearsnake's illustration are so damn cute, I really hope it gets a manhwa adaptation
Try this one, It's LOTM inspired with a really good story
https://www.novelupdates.info/series/the-speedrun-manual-of-miss-witch/
Darkstartranslations got dmca, all of their KR novels are gone and they migrated and changed their domain, and now operates as "Star Realm". Also, Requiemtls seems to have hidden all of their KR novels, you can still access the chapter links, but the front page of each one is gone.
I also found a group TL called "***k Novel***", and they translate r-18 novelpia novels lmao
I read many novel but anytime i look for new novel i alway see you review in there it make me curios about you and now I feel great because i look into your rec list and find out many peak novel (some adready read) thank Sareza
@bruhbble
Hahaha it was called The Cannon Fodder Turns His Sister Into A Soaring Phoenix
@Sareza yeah they werent related but it felt like the author had some... fantasies.
Hahaha if there are even worse maybe you should make a list of worst novels? Would be interesting
>Discontinued by the author?
Let's hope the author didn't get into a car accident with Violet. There's still a chance it could come back (copium).
Yeah, the series PEAK'd at chapter 300 above, and it even got into the trending page of novelpia. Then suddenly "Serialization discontinued", no announcement, no prior notice.
@Sareza fwiw, the most correct translation would be "serialization suspended", however since the author didn't announce anything and we haven't seen any signs of life in 2 months, "discontinued" is more fitting than "indefinite hiatus"
please, try this one. If you like "Transformation or Death", you will like this:
-https://www.novelupdates.info/series/about-the-case-of-destruction-flags-being-demolished-after-a-nichiasa-loving-otaku-was-reincarnated-as-a-villainous-student/