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)
(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
(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
157 Followers
Created: Dec 11th, 2024, Updated: Aug 4th, 2025
Created Dec 11th, 2024
Updated Aug 4th, 2025
113 Chapters Every 20.8 Day(s) 495 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
18 Chapters Every 16.4 Day(s) 818 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>>
108 Chapters Every 15.3 Day(s) 1390 Readers 19 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 a philosophical and sentimental story... more>>
202 Chapters Every 5.3 Day(s) 734 Readers 3 Reviews 08-10-2025
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 23.4 Day(s) 2269 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 241 Day(s) 975 Readers 5 Reviews N/A
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>>
247 Chapters Every 0.6 Day(s) 1768 Readers 17 Reviews 08-11-2025
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>>
78 Chapters Every 3.9 Day(s) 1107 Readers 9 Reviews 08-10-2025
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 are 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 13.6 Day(s) 1706 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 118 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>>
163 Chapters Every 14 Day(s) 1463 Readers 9 Reviews 07-04-2025
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>>
53 Chapters Every 6.8 Day(s) 1197 Readers 7 Reviews 08-07-2025
Goblin Slayer but it's Magical Girls
164 Chapters Every 2.7 Day(s) 645 Readers 4 Reviews 08-11-2025
Quite similar to Gospel of Blood or LOTM
0 Chapters Every 81 Day(s) 620 Readers 5 Reviews N/A
It's an SCP story about a protagonist preventing entities from destroying the world. The protagonist is eccentric and unorthodox, doesn't act like a "normal" person, but I really like his character. The world actually feels like it's from an SCP world, many entities and stories are interconnected with each other, each one having their own unique abilities and purpose. You could feel that the world is "alive". Really great writing ngl, I like this one a lot. Also great World-Building, the story isn't confined in Korea. It also has a great cast of characters. Others may not like it, but I really like the story, it feels like I'm reading TEIS again... more>>
3 Chapters Every 8.9 Day(s) 2165 Readers 5 Reviews 04-22-2025
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 5.5 Day(s) 2535 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 86.5 Day(s) 850 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?
135 Chapters Every 6.1 Day(s) 947 Readers 7 Reviews 07-03-2025
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. Just a guy experiencing life at it's fullest in a fantasy world..... more>>
0 Chapters Every 312 Day(s) 1309 Readers 6 Reviews 10-03-2024
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 12.5 Day(s) 437 Readers 4 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>>
158 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 307 Readers 4 Reviews 08-11-2025
The beginning is garbage, author should rewrite it, but after the MC reach Foundation building, that's when shissh gets real. Each character is smart and cunning, and cultivation is hard. The MC is also selfish, but so is the other characters, righteous or demonic, personal gains comes first.... more>>
88 Chapters Every 5.3 Day(s) 198 Readers 1 Reviews 05-31-2025
I have 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>>
93 Chapters Every 5.5 Day(s) 561 Readers 3 Reviews 06-21-2025
Clone. The MC is an overly competent Crown Prince but he's bored over repetitive work, so he made a contract with an ArchDemon and gave him a clone technique, basically him having another body. Honestly, this is very underrated, it's like 'Life Simulation' but with an actual plot and story, rather than just pure character-driven story that ignores the actual external plot, and isn't all about drama and journey of the MC and the 'girl'... more>>
161 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 1444 Readers 7 Reviews 08-11-2025
Surprisingly good despite the generic title. MC is a true gamer. Based. Got DMCA'd, lost all the chapters
Comments (73)
@cbboss i got some from someone, in discord group named f###novel###, they archived almost all translation from the others group
@PhatGus I know a website that has a lot of Npia raws, but I'mma gatekeep it. It's not bookt
@Sareza really? that's awesome, btw novelpia just dmca every translation website just for their AI translation lol
@dontbother101 the site hasn't launched yet, but they say on their on their Discord that they will use AI for translations... lmao.
Their "editors" better be good.
Not that it's much different from how more and more fan tls are done...
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 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/
@JustABreeze damn, my reading comprehension is really tr*sh right now. I've been reading so much chinese brainrot lately, to the point that my judgement became as good as a third rate villain in a xianxia cultivation novel
@Sareza I'm unsure whether withstanding all that is more impressive or concerning XD
>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"
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
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/