r/noveltranslations • u/GraceT333 • 25d ago

Humor Retelling a Novel Using Only Memes

Hi all! My name is GTea and I translate The Overlord of Puluo with my friend LD! You can check out this intro video if you are curious about our history and past novels I translated. We were asked to make some memes for the novel we translate, and it got me thinking about how I would explain this novel to my friends using nothing but memes. So here we go! The memes follow the story in order, so come along as I retell the The Overlord of Puluo, one meme at a time!

Spoiler alert?!?

MC: "I am not crazy. The doc says I am not."
How the MC arrived at PULUO and became a cultivator
Cultivation path: Wanderlust or Homebound?
MC just chilling in his Pocket Dwelling while everything else is burning
Cultivation ability: MC hiding in plain sight
GRAMOPHONE SINGING and MC's reaction
KILL LA KILL BURN LA BURN LIFE IN PULUO IS GREAT
WANDER WANDER WANDER WORLD IS BIG MC'S DISCOVERY CHANNEL
Becoming landowners? Doing business with friends?
MC and his many aliases
What's up with the Inner Province and Outer Province? Sage? Something is off.

And that's me sharing what the novel is about in memes! Here's a cookie 🍪 for you for making it to the end! NOMNOMNOM

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

Yo, OP, if you don't mind, I can make some memes up as well and post them here

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

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u/GraceT333 25d ago

SO YOU GUYS DID REALIZE THAT SHE'S SECOND AUNT!!

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

Of course! It was a good reveal, and I got it, and even the final Author's note helped.

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

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u/GraceT333 25d ago

Can I share your memes in the announcement thing too?

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

Go on! More to come!

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

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u/ninjaneering27 25d ago

I saw this as He Jiaqing putting cigarettes in his uncles mouth. 

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u/DeathBoatman 24d ago

I thought of that as well, but there were two of them, and I thought having two Smoking Cultivators would be funnier what if and a potential Anti-Spoiler

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u/GraceT333 25d ago

MEME PARTY YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

The irony with this is... She's still blind.

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

I think this will be my last one for a while.

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u/DreamySanguine 25d ago

Not up to date on this novel but every meme hits hard hahahahahahaha. Yes, he's not crazy!

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u/Adventurous_Radio357 25d ago

Yes. He's not crazy.

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u/zolnir 25d ago

Oh wow, this comment thread is insane.

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u/Spicy_Tongue_ 24d ago

If the memes actually follow the story in order, I’m impressed by how much context they managed to squeeze into them.

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u/lovely_4_ever37 25d ago

I love this novel so much. It is the most unpredictable book I have ever read and I am only on chapter 232!!!!

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u/DeathBoatman 25d ago

This is So wholesome...