«He who fights with harem tropes should see to it that he himself does not become a harem protagonist. And if you gaze for long into a narrative, the narrative gazes also into you.» ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (…probably?)How would you react if one day you found yourself in an environment running on tropes and clichés?For allegedly average high-schooler Leonard Dunning, this rhetorical question became uncomfortably real on the day he woke up on a strangely pristine island in the middle of the Atlantic, without any memories, surrounded by classmates who are barely more than characterless placeholders, and with a classic indecisive harem protagonist and his impossibly beautiful love interests for friends.That would be hard to deal with already, yet his investigation into the tropes governing the world, trying to avoid harem shenanigans, and his odd blend of outside-context knowledge, unique abilities, and a penchant for causing trouble wherever he goes ends up dragging him into the center of the action anyway.Disclaimer: This is a tongue-in-cheek, slice of life romantic comedy, with occasional sprinkles of combat and mystery to spice things up. Please do not expect a straight up deconstruction beyond some in-universe meta-commentary by the characters. Collapse
The Simulacrum novel is a popular light novel covering Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, School life, Slice of life, Supernatural genres. Written by the Author Egathentale . Read The Simulacrum novel online for free.
- Book 1 Prologue
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 23
- Book 1 Appendix: Research
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 41
- Chapter 44
- Chapter 47
- Chapter 50
- Chapter 52
- Chapter 54
- Chapter 57
- Chapter 60
- Chapter 63
- Chapter 64
- Chapter 65
- Extra Chapter: You know what day this is, don't you?
- Chapter 69
- Chapter 71
- Chapter 72
- Chapter 74
- Chapter 76
- Chapter 78
- Book 3 Extra 6: After-raid afterglow
- Book 3 Extra 7: Man proposes, dice disposes, DM opposes, common sense decomposes
- Chapter 83
- Chapter 85
- What the...? It's been a year already?
- Chapter 89
- Small update
- Chapter 93
- Chapter 95
- Chapter 97
- Chapter 99
- Book 4 Extra 5: Weird is the new normal
- Book 5: Prologue
- Another re-editing update
- Chapter 102
- Chapter 105
- Chapter 107
- Chapter 110
- Chapter 113
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 24
- Book 2 Prologue
- Super Important Announcement! (April Fools' Day Chapter)
- Chapter 29
- Book 2 Extra: Crowey
- Book 2 Extra 2: Childhood Friends
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 39
- Chapter 42
- Chapter 45
- Chapter 48
- Obvious April Fools Chapter
- Chapter 53
- Chapter 55
- Chapter 58
- Chapter 61
- Book 2 Extra 4: Gestures of Friendship
- Book 2 Epilogue
- Chapter 66
- Chapter 68
- Book 3 Extra 2: Time-travel, gods, pineapple pizza, and other assorted impossibilities
- Re-editing update
- Final re-editing update
- Chapter 75
- Chapter 77
- Chapter 79
- Chapter 81
- Book 4 Prologue
- Chapter 84
- Book 4 Extra 2: A completely average day in a completely average secret base
- Chapter 87
- Announcement
- Chapter 91
- Book 4 Extra 3: Roll for initiative, Santa!
- Chaper 96
- The second Book is out on Amazon!
- Book 4: Epilogue
- Book 4 Extra 6: The magic of the Ferris wheel
- Chapter 100
- Chapter 101
- Chapter 103
- Chapter 106
- Chapter 108
- Chapter 111
- Chapter 114
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 11
- Interlude
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 22
- Book 1 Epilogue
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 32:
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 40
- Chapter 43
- Chapter 46
- Chapter 49
- Chapter 51
- Book 2 Extra 3: Contingency Plans
- Chapter 56
- Chapter 59
- Chapter 62
- Book 2 Extra 5: Knights of the Square Table
- Book 3 Prologue
- Chapter 67
- Book 3 Extra 1: Call of Dungeonhammer: Finder of Paths
- Chapter 70
- Book 3 Extra 3: Self-defense class
- Chapter 73
- Book 3 Extra 4: Like, reports of my death have been totally exaggerated.
- Book 3 Extra 5: Duels are serious business
- Chapter 80
- Book 3 Epilogue
- Chapter 82
- Book 4 Extra 1: Just a small change
- Chapter 86
- Chapter 88
- Chapter 90
- Chapter 92
- Chapter 94
- Chapter 96
- Chapter 98
- Book 4 Extra 4: Neutron Star
- Book 4 Extra 7: There is no escaping the ships
- Book 5 Extra 1: An End-of-the-year-winter-solstice-related-religious-holiday Carol
- Book 5 Extra 2: Memories in the Snow
- Chapter 104
- Another year, another First of April. You know the drill.
- Chapter 109
- Chapter 112
- Book 5 Extra 3: Meet the Assembly's Best and Brightest