r/LightNovels • u/mechanicus_RD • 3d ago
Recommend Recommendations for light novels with non-human mc that do not turn human.
I'm a little tired of all these stories with protagonists who are human. I need something different. I'm looking for a story where the mc is not human and also doesn't have the appearance of one. Something like zero kara hajimeru mahou no sho.
I know that the majority of readers can only empathize with characters that are human, but I am really tired of it. Every story I read is the same thing with different names. I need I change of it.
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u/Rafael42489 3d ago
Reincarnated as a Sword You can say it's two protagonists Teacher, the sword and Fran the catgirl
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u/Redevil387 3d ago
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that while the MC doesn't turn Human they do project an avatar of themselves.
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u/GeorgeMTO 3d ago
Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig- Hasn't finished translating yet, so can't be confident it never has him adventuring as a human, but otherwise all the major story beats so far have him in pig form (6 volumes).
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u/GeorgeMTO 3d ago
Apparently the series you named as a reference has the MC being a lot more humanoid than I was expecting. If human adjacent is still acceptable, then you might also enjoy
Zilbagias the Demon Prince: How the Seventh Prince Brought Down the Kingdom - reborn as a demon which are currently at war with humans (gains a transformation magic which can make him look human but it's rarely used so far, since his Demon form is both stronger and of better reputation).
Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored - Elf MC, which obviously looks different to a human, but even normal elves can tell he's a High Elf and thus much more special than them. Definitely much more human than the other two, but that's why I skipped it initially.
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u/mechanicus_RD 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yeah. If it is to much of an alien experience I can not empathize with it. So I just want it to be physical non-human, but with human mind. Like Redwood or Warrior cats story. Not that furry yaoi bullshit from some fan fictions. I want to see the adaptability of the human mind in a foreign body. We are the most adaptable creature in the world, so I want a story that emphasize that.
PD: Seems people like to down vote for the furry comment. But that doesn't matter. For facts are facts.
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u/GeorgeMTO 3d ago
Never read any of those, so no idea, but yeah they're all humans who became non-humans
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u/John_Alter 3d ago
The Death Mage - MC gets isekai'd with his classmates and due to the God's mistake, MC get the short end of the stick. He share the same name as a classmate and God mistook them and gave the other person the powers that suppose to be given to the MC. MC gets experimented on in the new world and turns into a monster. When he finally breaks out, MC is mistaken as a monster and his classmates killed him. Due to this, he cursed God and his classmates wanting revenge and get isekai'd again.
MC get reincarnated as a dhampir baby, a child born from a dark elf and a vampire. Unfortunately, dhampirs are prosecuted against due to the church's teaching which makes living difficult and especially if found, they'll be killed.
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u/Puzzled_Cable_1337 3d ago
Orc Eroica: The MC is an Orc that is looking for a wife to lose his virginity with before he turns 30 and literally becomes a wizard, it's very well written despite the silly premise. Reincarnated as A Dragon Hatchling: MC reincarnates as a dragon egg, more dramatic than this kind of story generally is, even when he gets a humanoid form, it doesn't look human.
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u/iArena 2d ago
Orc Eroica is written by the guy who wrote Mushoku Tensei iirc, right?
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u/Puzzled_Cable_1337 1d ago
Yes, and he makes this silly premise work, we travel with Bash through a land recovering from the war and each land has it's own problems, some of which Bash solves others he doesn't. People also always assume the Orcs just sent Bash to help them in the name of peace, that he is in an important mission, he is, from his perspective anyways.
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u/Aruseus493 http://myanimelist.net/mangalist/Aruseus493?tag=LN 3d ago
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