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
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Political satire
210 Chapters Every 12.3 Day(s) 1586 Readers 12 Reviews 02-07-2025
Becoming the witch who killed every single entity in existence, but somehow find herself regressing along with some others she had killed. She literally killed everyone, good or evil, because there was a hidden achievement for it lol. It's definitely good by novelpia standards, though the author forgot some stuff and some mysteries were never resolved, it's still pretty good.... more>>
144 Chapters Every 1.9 Day(s) 594 Readers 5 Reviews 06-21-2025
Hard-working protagonist, grinding and making a lot of effort to achieve her dream. Nice
0 Chapters Every 979 Day(s) 906 Readers 9 Reviews 09-21-2024
I was gonna add this around 3 months ago, but it suddenly became popular. Here it is now.
491 Chapters Every 1.9 Day(s) 1092 Readers 9 Reviews 06-21-2025
65 Chapters Every 5.2 Day(s) 283 Readers 1 Reviews 04-20-2025
Good story
226 Chapters Every 0.5 Day(s) 709 Readers 6 Reviews 06-22-2025
TS Magical Girls are just so entertaining to read
13 Chapters Every 189.7 Day(s) 2192 Readers 12 Reviews 06-13-2019
Last read this around 4-5 years ago during my shoujo phase, and I still think that it's pretty good. I also read the manhwa, good stuff... more>>
63 Chapters Every 3.8 Day(s) 212 Readers 1 Reviews 06-16-2025
Good romance and character dynamics. MC will not become a multi-talented genius in 3 chapters, and he is not dense nor arrogant. Good romance
6 Chapters Every 735.3 Day(s) 3852 Readers 41 Reviews 01-08-2014
Hory shet, that was... I am speechless
588 Chapters Every 6.9 Day(s) 1332 Readers 38 Reviews 03-16-2025
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.
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Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Gender Bender Martial Arts Mystery Psychological School Life Sci-fi Supernatural Tragedy
Democracy. Liberty, Freedom. DMCA'd. Discontinued by the author?
334 Chapters Every 14.7 Day(s) 2621 Readers 13 Reviews 12-01-2024
Action Adult Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Harem Horror Mystery Psychological Seinen Slice of Life Supernatural Tragedy
The only good part is Ch. 1-200, it gets really boring after that. The illustrations and cover arts are lit tho
0 Chapters Every 61 Day(s) 1396 Readers 7 Reviews 04-22-2025
Korean Oregairu. Chad MC, he's literally Hachiman. For a long time I thought this was R-18, but it's not. The R-18 tag was quite misleading. There are R-18 scenes, but it is mostly romance. Even novelpia only tagged it as R-15, not R-19... more>>
179 Chapters Every 9 Day(s) 1171 Readers 11 Reviews 03-03-2025
"There is literally nobody stopping you from achieving anything. You are the only thing stopping you from achieving your goals. I hope that you achieve what you set out for yourself."... more>>
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The PEAK of all garbage. Truly ONE of the webnovels of all time. My fellow group members in the LN/WN Xianxia, Wuxia Facebook group absolutely adore this novel.... more>>
177 Chapters Every 3.3 Day(s) 758 Readers 8 Reviews 06-22-2025
Sorrowful's review is pretty accurate
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The story is very grounded for a fantasy novel.
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Comments (46)
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/