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>>708 (OP) 
>Guin Saga
Absolute God tier taste anon.

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>Witch Hunt
The sad tale of a Prince and a Witch. Lucca, a girl, and Gakupo, a prince, fall in love. Michelle, a nun, who sees the couple together grows jealous, as she has harbored her love for the prince for a long time. The Nun thinks that the girl must have used Black Magic to have the Prince fall in love with her and declares her a Witch.

>>715
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEQBnz1ol5E

Any news on Log Horizon?
I've waited a long-ass time, I dont even mind raws at this point.

test

>>950
I think the Author just came out of jail.

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>Spice&Wolf
If you haven't read this you are most likely a newfag.

Is there a light novel that I don't know of that is actually fun to read.

>>6247
If you don't like reading LN then it's most likely not your thing.

>>6248
I enjoy reading them more so than I enjoy reading manga I made the mistake of adding "actually" and was just look for suggestions.

>>6249
Ah. So what genre?

>>6250
Usually I read adult,fantasy, action/adventure,horror, mystery, and/or romance.

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>Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign (Vol 1-7 / 10)
https://www46.zippyshare.com/v/Tp5uEcMI/file.html
A friend requested this. Thought it would be more appropriate here instead of the Share Thread.

>>11450
Looks interesting.

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>>11466
It's done by the same guy who wrote Raildex and Heavy Object. Some I'm expecting tons of autistic detail.

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>The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village - Volume 01 - 11
https://www117.zippyshare.com/v/3qNVoYIu/file.html

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GARBAGE BRAVE is seems interesting and it has qt red head slave

>>11619
https://nyxtranslation.home.blog/2020/02/20/garbage-brave-vol-1-chapter-1/

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>>11619

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>The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress (Vol 1-6)
https://www16.zippyshare.com/v/bczqlYIm/file.html
>The war hero known as Silver Wolf – Lud Langart – pilots a humanoid assault weapon while he dreams of life as a baker. With the war over, Lud now peacefully runs his bakery, but thanks to his frightening scowl, he can’t sell a single loaf of bread. After posting an ad for a waitress in a last ditch effort to save his business, who should reply but a beautiful silver-haired, red-eyed young girl. What Lud doesn’t know is that this new waitress was born from Avei, his AI partner installed in the humanoid assault weapon he piloted during the war.

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Opinions about Overlord?

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>>14851
I enjoy it greatly

>>14851
I like it for its extremely descriptive writing, makes someone as unimaginative as me have ease picturing the scenes.
I also like how it has a touch of originality to it, that's rare nowadays.
I haven't actually read it or any other LN for that matter in over a year though.

>>14851
Boring isekai garbage. 
I expected genre-savvy Sauron, but what I got is Jesus Simulator.

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>>14851
The novels are great (the first and past the first few, fuck Lizardlord), the author is a fag.  
I heavily suspect the ending will make me hate it because he's rushing it because he got butthurt over fan translations not giving him any shekels (while the official translation is multiple volumes behind) and every pirate costing him six hundred gorillion yen, which made him cut the number of volumes down heavily.  
I wish we had more undead novels. Liches are the best.

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>>14858
Well...

I've just started reading the Zero no Tsukaima LN after watching the anime years ago. I've been told that Louise is less of a bitch in the LN.

Amazon have gone on a banning spree and purged a load of light novels from their store, including How Not to Summon a Demon Lord (but they've left the manga up for some retarded reason), the unreleased volume of Infinite Stratos and No Game No Life.
I don't understand why they've removed these ones, as they're fairly innocuous (though Infinite Stratos does feature male discrimination as a fairly minor plot point) however the main characters and love interests are mostly highschool age in these series, so maybe that's why. Or maybe it's more discrimination by western companies towards Japanese media.
Thoughts?

>>17554
This feels like it's an attack by western companies out of asshurt due to how no one wants to read western pozz.

>>17554
>Thoughts
http://stallman.org/amazon.html
& Plenty more.
It's Jeff Bezzo's conglomeration, he can do whatever he wants.

>>17554
Western media's been more and more asspained that they can't get people to watch/read/etc. their crap anymore lately.  
It's probably a first attempt to take Japanese media out of the normalfag mind to not lose their consumer-cattle. Combine that with Netflix and CR making westernized stuff, and what you get is a bait and switch: Take away legit Japanese media, replace it with pozzed faux-Nip media and hope nobody notices.  
Wouldn't be surprised if we'd see some western publisher doing LN-style books with gay black crippled attack helicopters as protagonists soon.

>>17557
>It's Jeff Bezzo's conglomeration, he can do whatever he wants.
I'm sick of this lolberg exuse.

>>17560
>Take away legit Japanese media, replace it with pozzed faux-Nip media and hope nobody notices. 
They don't. My friend's been shilling this to me because I introduced him to the game and he likes it. Last time I spoke with him he told me something like "anime doesn't have to be made in Japan".

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>>17575
Own up then, make your own logistics company and ship lolimanga worldwide.

>>17612
I'll will and I'll sell pics of your mother as loli with black men.

>>17608
I think judging by the current state of the western comic industry the majority of normalfags won't buy their woke garbage if it doesn't at least have something worth reading for. In a true free market the woke sjw's who can only make trash will have a hard time competing with superior folded 1000 times japanese media.

>>17635
That's assuming normalfags can discern the quality of things when they have this odd magnetism towards the worst in any genre. 
And it would mean LNs and other forms of modern literature would have no market.

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>>730
Is there any visual novel with actual good writing? Like on the level of an actual novel?

Also, is Overlord worth getting into? I'm somewhat interested in it.

>>17850
Guin saga 
>Overlord worth getting into? I'm somewhat interested in it.
Yes it's pretty good and we should make a tier list of LN for future reference.

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>>17852
>Guin saga 
Looks really cool. I've been interested in more fantasy lately so I'll put it on my tablet to read for later.

>Yes it's pretty good and we should make a tier list of LN for future reference.

That's a pretty good idea. I think it'd be nice if /animu/ came up with some curated charts for light novels and visual novels. Like a reccommendation chart or a beginner's chart. I'd gladly help to make one.

>>17861
Look here for LN pdfs

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>>17861
There is one for VNs in the VN thread but I don't think enough people read LNs enough to sort out the best stuff. I certainly don't read nearly as many VNs compared to LNs. But what's posted here and in the PDF thread is a nice place to start.

>>17863
Were you trying to link to the PDF thread? >> 663

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>>17865
>I fuck up too.
Fug
>>663

>>17865
>>17866
We both fucked up.

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The two previous times manga compelled me to seek out the LN/WN source material to see where the story went, Tanaka the Wizard and Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai Desu, it ended up making me think less of the stories I originally liked.  In the case of Tanaka I guess I was expecting the author to continue developing the MC's personality in compelling manner but I after making him  retardedly OP they ran out of ideas so just decided to go look here's the same gag character defects and degeneracy for the hundredth time isn't it funny huwaaah!  In the case of the second it's similar, the MC is too OP, but that would be alright if they delved more into the dynamic of unexpected consequences for deviating from the original videogame's script too much, yet it seems those consequences also get resolved too easily for my taste.  I might read more of Otome hoping for something but I fucking loathe Tanaka now and that really disappoints me.

This weekend I discovered My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending and Darenidemo Dekiru Kage Kara Tasukeru Maō Tōbatsu both have extensive LN/WN source material but am gunshy of similar letdowns.

I wonder if I should start konosuba last volume before its completely translated or wait a bit.

>>18158
>konosuba 
>final volume
>look it up
Impressive. I thought this would be another case of "series runs until it stops making money."
Guess I'm picking it up again, I'll probably put the whole thing up in the share thread once a release is out.

>>18173
>I'll probably put the whole thing up in the share thread once a release is out.
Cool and put stuff in the PDF thread since it has LN stuff as well.

>>14851
Almost all of it needed a better editor. A lot of plotlines go nowhere with "remember the chekovs gun?". A lot of repetition, every culture is japanese in rubber masks. Characters described as "impossibly intelligent geniuses" never doing anything smart, you only know they are intelligent because everyone fucking constantly repeats "wow! he/she is so smart!". Same jokes over and over again, such as "ainz does something based on wrong assumption> everyone praises him for his foresight because whatever". 
Nut most of these problems are largely absent in last 2 books, I highly suspect they got author an editor or two.

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So Zero no Tsukaima has been completed for a while now. Granted, the ending wasn’t written by the original author because he died if I recall correcly. Was the LN any good? I remember trying to get into the adaptation ages ago but not really enjoying it (main girl was too bitchy for me). Is there actual romance and character development in the LN, or is it just the same schtick the whole time?

>>20202
>I remember trying to get into the adaptation ages ago but not really enjoying it (main girl was too bitchy for me). Is there actual romance and character development in the LN, or is it just the same schtick the whole time?
There is.
The LNs are infinitely better than the anime. Characters and relationships develop and progress unlike the anime where everything is reset.

I read Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki and really enjoyed it. Otaku male gamer gets lessons on how to improve himself from a rival female gamer riajuu. Very well written (for a LN), the characters are endearing, and the story avoids most (if not all) clichés.

>>18317
The reason is because volume 12 and 13 weren't written from the perspective of Nazarick's members. Volume 14 is back in full swing with the same bullshit you describe, and the bullshit is really tiring. If you were to cut out all of the repetitive "Ah I don't get what they're saying" "I'm not worthy to be a leader" "I hope no one figures out I'm not as competent as I'm made out to be", you'd end up with half the fucking word count.

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Is there a LN about a beautiful and proper girl getting married with her father's consent and her happy new life with her husband in an orderly, civilized society?

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>>14851
It's self insert grabage with tons of cool yet forever abandoned sub-plots. The author is an autistic, acid cunt who shat on western pirates and told people to >>>/diy/ when called out about his thousand hinted sub-plots during the course of the volumes. Realizing that he put himself in a corner by the sheer amount of characters and stories he cultivated, Volume 14 practically consisted in going tabula rasa on an entire kingdom which costed him several volumes just so he can wrap Overlord up around Volume 18 or so.
That being said, I still love the universe he created to death, his characters are wonderful and fun. As he cantankeruously mentioned on twatter, this universe is indeed very fertile ground for side fan-stories, a big, parallel (gaiden) plot about who knows (heroes appearing on another continent and thus leading to an eventual clash later on?), or even rewrites of the main plot.

>>6122
I can't finish Spice and Wolf. It's so boring that I spend half the time reading dozing off. I gave up halfway through book 6.

>>17557
>Amazon in Germany hired "security" guards from a company of Nazi sympathizers to repress foreign workers. Reporters came to cover this, and the guards tried to arrest them and take their cameras.
>After a bug in software Amazon's servers used caused Amazon to sell many products for one penny, Amazon takes no responsibility and dumped the loss on the sellers.
>Amazon was a member of ALEC. ALEC is the right-wing lobbying group that promotes voter-suppression laws and "shoot first" laws, as well as attacks against wages and working conditions in the US.

>>20314
That’s kind of odd. I’ve tried reading Spice and Wolf twice, and both times I only made it through volume 6. It wasn’t necessarily an issue of being bored though, I just found Holo to be very annoying. Thought it would be better either with a different heroine or just a story about Lawrence. The parts with him doing his thing were the most fun for me to read. The romance was too weak for me to care and Holo felt like an unwanted detour everytime she took center stage. Also, finding out about the implied rape of Holo made me never want to touch it again.

>>20321
Just read the comic, she doesnt get wolfed there.

>>20318
Note that in Germany you have exactly two flavors of security firms: 
>Nationalists which will beat up foreigners given half a chance
>Turks/other assorted foreigners which will invite their whole extended family to steal shit given half a chance
Choose one, or choose both for maximum hilarity when they meet.

>>20321
I like it for medieval autism, but Holo's character is kinda crap for a long time. Like her just randomly testing Lawrence time and time again for literally no reason, and the romance comes on too fast because it's like she's just playing around and testing him for most of the time and then suddenly she's supposed to be madly in love.
I dimly remember that at some point Lawrence compares this to the behavior of actual wolves in the latter novels and it'd be cool if that was actually true and the author was just trying to make her an actual wolf-girl.

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Bump

Been in WN/LN hell on NovelUpdates for the past few days looking for something to read that I haven’t tried already and isn’t complete garbage. What is everyone else reading lately? Surely there is something you’re reading or have read before that I haven’t come across yet.

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>>29439
Have you read Overlord :)))))))))))))?

>>29439
Lazy dungeon master is okay. "Mother of Learning" on royal road site is okay. A bit too many "checklists" and its written one chapter at a time, but its mostly okay.

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>>29439
Shinsekai Yori (From the New World).
http://shinsekai.cadet-nine.org/

>>29441
I don’t really like the direction Maruyama is taking it though. Heard he had a hissy fit on Twitter about free translations of Overlord on the internet so now he is going to end it early. The most recent installment reflects this.

>>29479
What a retard.

>>29439
I've been reading Date A Live recently and I'm enjoying it. MC is in charge of romancing supernatural girls in order to stop them from destroying everything. He's given lines that you would usually see in a dating sim to help him out. Of course, they sometimes pick the dumb lines for comedy. >>11975

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>>29479
That's not the reason he's wrapping it up, it's because he got naturally tired of its universe after a decade. Many such cases.
As for the twatter sperg-out, he just got butthurt gaijin fans read fan translations and thus don't buy jap copies, depriving him of those extra shekels, when Overlord made him basically rich. Yeah, he's a total avid cunt, reminding us of a certain self-insert main character...
This is the same guy that told his fans to DIY when confronted about his plotholes/dropped sub-plots/hinted arcs
The autiste panicked during the jap lockdown when he got his salary man job frozen and SUDDENLY had an epiphany: writing LN's as a """"""side"""""" job and having Isekai royalties may be cool as fuck when you're locked out of your token wageslave destiny. He said he was full of inspiration, totally out of his writer block and that volume 15 may be coming out this very year (LOL)
Did I mention how much of a slithery, autistic cunt he is?
But I still like the universe he created

>>29487
>ywn be just another medal on Clementine's armor
Why live?

>>29487
Directionless plot without an end goal is ended arbitrarily on the author's whims? How unexpected.

>Right. So he's locked in the game world and wants to get out?
>No, it's not that kind or story
>Okay. So he's looking for clues to find if he's in a fever dream or simulation.
>No, it's not that kind of story
>Then what does he do?
>He half-assedly puts up a picket sign to see if he's all alone in an obviously fake world and that's forgotten in about the first ten chapters. Then he goes around effortlessly winning unnecessary conflicts to consolidate power he doesn't need or have reason to want for the rest of the series
>But he wasn't any better than any other player
>But he's better than the NPCs because he can metagame! And look, there's also his super cool OCs doing exactly the same thing!
>So it's basically MMO addict wish fulfillment

>>29490
It really should've either had a group that had game artefacts like him opposing him from the shadows from the start, or a goal of world conquest for him, or really any goal at all, vengeance or whatever.  
Wortenia does world conquest better, though the MC isn't basically god either. But at least it's working towards a satisfying conclusion rather than meander around.

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>>29488
>Why live?
So you can suffer for her.

>>29487
>>29497
Clementine is so cute, I just want to give her a big hug!

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>>29490
>>So it's basically MMO addict wish fulfillment
A lot of literature is just a wish fulfillment stories, some people just have really shitty wishes.

>>29497
That takes me back. That was a fun quest.

>>29487
>>29497
I guess the rumors and hints that she'll possibly get revived went nowhere?

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>>29564
She was already revived by the Slane Theocracy to get interrogated about what happened to her and who she met, but she was a mess and lost levels (thanks to the imperfect, low level resurrections the Slane Theocracy is only capable of).
It's just that Maruyama is such a pedantic, selfish cunt that he won't even give So-Bin his cherished catgirl Clementine in action, so he kinda refrained.

>>29490
It could have been fine to be completely character driven, but Ainz doesn't seem to really have solid motivation and the motivations of his minions are incredibly vague so it doesn't work very well. Personally I find "The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time" to be better simply because all the character motivations are clear also no mmo bullshit.

>>29490
>Directionless plot without an end goal is ended arbitrarily on the author's whims?
Good thing I stopped at the episode when he resurected the loli vampire with tons of gold.

>>29567
>inb4 he has her return in the last chapter just to get beaten to death by a random goblin to show how strong his mooks have become
And Evileye will probably get eaten alive by the bug.

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>>29637
>And Evileye will probably get eaten alive by the bug.
That's kinda hot

>>18157
>Death Flags
Does this series ever pick up? I’ve read 31 chapters and honestly it feels like this is going nowhere. And according to every review I have read these first two arcs are supposed to be the best arcs, and after this the plot meanders and the already snail-paced romance grinds to a complete halt.

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Where do you guys get recommendations for LNs anyway? Do you go by word of mouth, popularity, or just the description/art on the cover?

>>32841
Most of the things I try out are on NovelUpdates. But you have to sift through a lot of garbage to find something decent. Other than that, I just check LN/WN threads on the webring and see what people are talking about.

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https://englishlightnovels.com/2020/11/30/seven-seas-license-7-new-light-novel-series/
I didn't even know Monster Musume had a light novel series.

>>33394
I'm wondering how it would work in LN format but I guess there are other SOL comedy LN's.

>>11619
I just want to see more of big titty slave

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>enjoy manga
>discover it has an LN, read all translated chapters
>discover a ton of raw volumes left
<MTL

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>>35106
The Elf who our MC is banging is top notch.

Where do I find raw LNs? All I can find are scans (huge file size, inconvenient to read) and the mostly garbage selection of epubs on itazuraneko.

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Someone uploaded 44GBs of officially translated LNs to Nyaa.
https://nyaa.net/view/1035643

>>37070
I only really know of Nyaa when it comes to finding raws.
https://nyaa.net/search?c=4_8&q=*&refine=1

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2021... I am forgotten...

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>>708 (OP) 

>>40379
>still now news about the new volume

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>>37077
It's been updated. Now 54.7GBs.
Officially Translated Light Novels (LNs) v16.1
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DDL (#-J): https://mega.nz/#F!T0lRkICY!w0c3A2OlntXChYroHLBb5w
DDL (K-Z): https://mega.nz/#F!OBxwQZrK!R6oKxquxOHPrcBw-xHqEGw

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>>50937
Make sure to look out on what may have been censored. Like what Seven Seas did to Mushoku Tensei Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu / Jobless Reincarnation. Not sure if they have the "fixed" translation now.

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MARUYAMA, YOU FUCKING AUTISTIC NIGGER
WHERE'S VOLUME 15

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>>29567
Would really recommend Torture Princess. MC is an abuse victim who is reincarnated into a world that resembles Path of Exile style dark fantasy world and serves a radiant but cruel mistress.

Only light novel I follow is Index. But only because the anime adaptation is so shit because the director is a moeshit lover that hates Touma. His direction is comparable to the west's ((( localization ))) bullshit, where he changes things because he's in charge of the anime and gives a middle finger to everyone else involved. Fuck that guy, wouldn't be suprised if he is ((( zainichi ))).

>>53826
Thanks, gonna enjoy this, can't wait to see what's different from the manga which made me tear up like a bitch.

>>53834
More in-depth stuff

Does anyone have the light novel for Planetarian? (Is it even translated?)

Also, I would love some tragic romance type light novels that are completed (and translated of course.) I would prefer there to be romance, but there doesn't have to be. I just want something that will make me cry.

>>58080
How tragic we talking anon and are you looking for modern or fantasy?

>>58098
Anything you have, but preferably very tragic. I don't mind either modern or fantasy.

What are the light novel/webnovel titles whose large part revolves around shuraba? Oreshura notwithstanding. I'm in the mood of reading some, so please help out.

>>6122
I have been interested on reading this but for some reason all the interesting new LN that got adapted into anime recently made me forget about it.

>>14851
It's a good series if you're looking for a power fantasy with good comedy value. Just don't expect anything serious from it. I have a good time laugh from a lot of moment in this series.

>>20249
It definitely exist whether in LN or WN form but I don't think I have ever encountered that specific premise.

>>29439
Currently rereading Mushoku Tensei Web Novel for the third time because the anime aired and I want to remember things that I have probably missed.

>>32841
Most of the time I only read LN that got adapted from manga and if I find the manga adaptation caught my attention.

Speaking of Guin Saga, is there an upload for more English volumes? I found the first five but they're scans, I still really liked it but I'd rather it be in an actual book format.

>>29479
>destroying your work of art that you'll be remembered for because some people are appreciating it without giving you money
absolutely retarded. Whatever happened to wanting to make something good for the sake of it and leave a legacy of works that people will remember you by. Sure, overlord is not a grand work of art that is going to be remembered in 50 years, but there's always going to be people interested in reading things from the past. Can you imagine reading the overlord LNs in 50 years, thinking "hey this is pretty good", getting a rushed ending, looking into and finding out this retard self-destructed his work because he got angry at some foreigners downloading fan translations of his books?

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>>59954
>>29479
>his work is in japanese
>provide no english version
>it gets popular
>I wish people didnt read my work in english because its stealing from me!
Why are people this retarded? Do they think that everyone who pirated his work, would have paid for it? If so, why didnt he provide it? Also, they really think that their poor fanfiction tier writing deserves the price they are asking? 
>EVER HEARD OF CHEKOVS GUN AND DEUS EX MACHINA? LET ME TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT OVER AND OVER!
Its actually common for japs to get angry over their shit being imported into west, because having fanbase in the west must be awful for them. Anime should be a good enough advertisement for it anyway! People will purchase all the chapters, even untranslated after seeing this glorious cgi!

>>53590
Le Fanu & Co? Too much purple prose for me. Maybe that's the fault of translation? And to enjoy a story, you usually need to empathize with its characters, and those there are pretty much impossible to. I'd anhero instantly in their situation, so I guess they must enjoy it more than resent. Emotionally incompatible.

>>59949
As far as I can tell it has only gone up to volume 5 when it comes to official translations.

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New Overlord volume when?

>>62121
It wouldn't be worth reading even if it came out. At this point a random fan writing some fanfiction to continue the series would be better than whatever half-baked garbage Maruyama puts out next.

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>>62978
I actually think this is true, that faggot of Maruyama even said on twatter "lmao do it yourself" when asked about the shit ton of sub-plots he left to get dusty.

>>62979
This is usually the time a writer would put a series on hiatus to start a new one. Maybe he's just tired of Overlord at this point.

>>62980
>This is usually the time a writer would put a series on hiatus
Lucky you, he's already on that!

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Read the full Kamisu Reina series. It's two volumes (will take less than a day to read) and it's from the same guy who wrote the HakoMari series (Mikage Eiji). Overall, it was an interesting read, but I'm still confused a little bit about the ending.

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PV for Season 4 of Overlord, also a game for Switch and Steam starring Clementine got announced, both for 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYoCk6Ffmfs

https://twitter.com/over_lord_anime/status/1471769637113286660
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1782150/OVERLORD_ESCAPE_FROM_NAZARICK/

>>62991
Hey, come on, that joke was funny.

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>>63813
PhillipBROS, out time has finally come to marry and nakadashi this gorilla...

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>>50925
It's been updated. Now 61.6GBs.
Officially Translated Light Novels (LNs) v18.0
https://nyaa.si/view/1472994

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DDL (#-J): https://mega.nz/#F!T0lRkICY!w0c3A2OlntXChYroHLBb5w
DDL (K-Z): https://mega.nz/#F!OBxwQZrK!R6oKxquxOHPrcBw-xHqEGw


LNWNCentral Dump (Light Novels)
This is a dump of everything posted on LNWNCentral (https://lnwncentral.wordpress.com/), which is a PDF/EPUB hub for light novels and web novels. These are only fan translation. Nothing ((( official ))) here. This is 64.8GBs
https://nyaa.si/view/1202979

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>>66223
Thanks anon.

Is there any sort of list or site of official LN translations that have been censored or altered?

>>63813
Momentum looks a bit off but I'm always up for a new metroidvania. Looks nice.

>>66223
Is any of this worth reading?

>>69243
Only if you're a NERD

Start reading real novels.

Can't give even a single example.

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>>69243
If the cover has a cute girl, ignore the LN and look up the artist instead. If the cover has a manly man and isn't bara/yaoi, then yes.

>>69692
Speaking of Zeon light novels, anyone hear anything about that loli Kycilia light novel that's supposed to be coming?

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>>69694
>loli Kycilia
Go on...

>>69694
>Zeon
I thought that was LotGH.

>>69700
It is LotGH, I'm retarded.

Is the Shield Hero LN any good?
I've finished the first season of the anime and I think what I liked the most was the MC, he wasn't a complete edgelord but neither was a he a complete pushover, he felt kind of like an actual character which was refreshing to watch and I really rooted for the guy.

>>70563
From what I've heard the LN makes Naofumi more of an asshole, and is generally edgier, but more so for animeonlys who weren't expecting it a lot of people were upset that bitch princess gets raped to death in the LN

>>70565
>a lot of people were upset that bitch princess gets raped to death in the LN
Quite frankly that sounds like a positive to me, I get Naofumi was being considerate towards Melty and her MILF of a mother but damn the cunt really was asking for an execution considering how immediately the next episode she was attempting to poison the party again.

>>708 (OP) 
Guin Saga and other LNs
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>>70563
I enjoyed the WN more than the anime / manga, which are based on the LN I think. Then again it might have just been because I was younger and hadn't read an isekai before that so it was more novel. 
>>70570
That doesn't happen until later in the series. The events play out pretty similar to how they do in the anime as they do in the WN at least.

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Started watching Lord El-Melloi II and have now been convinced to read the LNs due to this smug loli. So I'm sharing some Fate LNs with you guys.
https://nyaa.si/view/1421764

Any horror LNs?

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>>76190
Barely. You would be better off looking for JP horror literature than LNs. But if it must be a LN then you could try Ao Oni, Yuki Nikki, Echo, Another, and SCP Foundation. The most original one probably being Echo since it's a novel based off a horror themed vocaloid song.

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>>76192
>Ao Oni
I'm surprised to learn how many of these 'classic' RPGmaker horror games got either LNs or manga adaptations or what have you.

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What free as in freedom program do you use to read epub?

Is Angel Beats Track Zero worth reading? I know it's a prequel to the anime, but does it actually explain some of the plotholes or at least provide more character development? My 2 biggest gripes with the show were Otonashi being introduced later than characters he canonically died before, and the lack of backstory for half of the SSS members. (especially TK)

How is the KonoSuba situation these days? What's the reading order with the spin-offs included and what translations should I read?
I stopped reading it a few years ago, I don't remember the volume I stopped in but I think it was 11.

>>77364
Zathura sucks less.

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Dumping Madan no Ou to Vanadis LN. The manga is 10 volumes while the LN is 18 and finished in 2017. The manga is just an adaption of the LN so people say just read the LN instead. 

<Set in Western Europe during times of war, Eleanor “Ellen” Vertalia, one of the Vanadis of Zhcted, leads the battle into Brune. There are, in fact, seven Vanadis, named for having each received a powerful weapon from the dragon to individually reign over seven territories. The power of the Vanadis invokes dread and fear from their enemies. An earl in the service of the country of Brune, a young archer by the name of Tigre, experienced the Vandis’s power firsthand after being defeated on the battlefield by Ellen. However, Ellen chose to spare his life after witnessing his skills, but in exchange, he is asked to serve her.

Watching the anime recently got me to try out the LN. What impresses me most is that this story actually tries to incorporate military tactics and pays more attention to it than a large majority of JP fiction that tries to incorporate large scale military tactics. Also the characters are actually competent on both the hero and villain's side. It's not just a one sided wash and the characters actually struggle to actually win some battles. It's not what I expected considering the cover looks like your average isekai power fantasy. Of course the girls are cute and, thankfully, MC isn't a bitch. Which is a nice contrast considering MC is, body wise, your average fit hero. Meanwhile the enemy generals are Gutts tier and are actually as strong as they're intimidating. 

>Madan no Ou to Vanadis V1-17 [LN]
https://www119.zippyshare.com/v/Gxh1uqKp/file.html

Volume 18 is being translated at the moment. They're actually actively working on it.
https://infinitenoveltranslations.net/madan-no-ou-to-vanadis/


>>77364
I use Calibre. Another alt is SumatraPDF.
https://calibre-ebook.com/
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader

>>77364
I just convert them into pdf.

>>66223
>DLL
MEGA catalogs got purged recently. They have left only yaoi titles. That's discrimination!

Any good recs? I could use some.

>>80508
What genres are you interested in?

>>80518
Fantasy, sci fi and horror.

>>80507
False alarm. Things have returned to normal now.

>>80543
if you don't mind isekai death mage who doesn't want a fourth is decent. it's power fantasy stuff but I think the characters are pretty well written and consistent with their desires morals etc... although it gets a little ridiculous how many characters there are.

>>80907
Wasn't that "The death mage who doesn't want a fourth time"? I recall its chapters being pretty long, and the release speed at one to two chapters per month. As for the genres present, the horror in that story is at most visual horror played for laughs. No real sense of dread anywhere. My counter-proposal is a web novel "Rebuild World". Read it at the translator site, because the J-Novel Club version lags about  significantly.

In other news, reading one of supposedly official light novels, I have spotted some expression that triggered my autism. The series  in question was 'My quiet blacksmith life in another world" (nothing special to it worthy of recommending), the part two, page 261, and the expression was "without further adieu". The correct form is "without further ado" with its origin from Middle English, like in the title of Shakespearean comedy "Much ado about nothing".

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Not quite a light novel series, but how good is the Robotech novels: https://infogalactic.com/info/Robotech_(novels)
There's a bookstore in town that has the entire series.

>>81210
Is Robotech any good?

>>82910
I liked watching it.

>>82910
I think it had happy endings compared with the original.

>>81210
I read the whole thing a while back. A lot of weird twisting is done to force a galaxy-wide mystical "Protoculture" energy source into the story, complete with weird time bullshit and so on. The standard Macross concept of the government lying to the people is removed, it's a lot more black-and-white with the good and bad. The Sentinels (what happens after the shows) is entirely original and it's pretty obvious: suddenly, Star Wars-style aliens and wannabe Dune events pop up all over the place. Not really something I can recommend.

>>82910
It's got the same problems as the novels. To avoid repeating myself, the attempt to force three different anime into one continuous storyline really doesn't work out.

>>82930
>I read the whole thing a while back. A lot of weird twisting is done to force a galaxy-wide mystical "Protoculture" energy source into the story, complete with weird time bullshit and so on. The standard Macross concept of the government lying to the people is removed, it's a lot more black-and-white with the good and bad. The Sentinels (what happens after the shows) is entirely original and it's pretty obvious: suddenly, Star Wars-style aliens and wannabe Dune events pop up all over the place. Not really something I can recommend.
Is it a wild ride, or is it just the writer throwing in random concepts from the either?

>>82942
Mostly the latter. You do get some weird shit at the end like a giant naked evil Lisa Hayes shooting at spaceships with her nipple cannons, but most of the time it's stuff cribbed from other science fiction novels with a bit of Scientology mixed in.

>>82946
>You do get some weird shit at the end like a giant naked evil Lisa Hayes shooting at spaceships with her nipple cannons
WHAT?!?
You just convinced me to read it just to see that.

>>82947
I'm not gonna tell you what to read, but let me just say that I would tell my younger self not to bother. If you enjoy it, let us know.

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Compared to western literature, classics included. What LNs have actually impressed you? I'm about to read the Wheel of Time and I was curious if any LNs were worth reading. I understand most LNs are for young men but maybe there might be something worth investing into.

For those who don't want to read, here's an audiobook for Wheel of Time.
https://archive.org/details/TheWheelOfTime

>> 82950
The only LN series that has managed to impress me is Ascendance of a Bookworm. The series barely suffers from dumb anime tropes, the author wrote the entire story before starting on the WN, characters don't all exist to prop up the MC. Ascendance still doesn't compare to the best the west has to offer, but it is far better than any other LN series. The only other LN that comes close is Youjo Senki.

Wheel of time is above average at best. Go read Malazan Book of the Fallen instead.

>>82950
>Compared to classics
Why? LN are essentially pulp fiction novels or Stephen King novels, not high literature. Go and look for winners of prestigious awards etc (and learn Japanese since almost none of it is translated) if you're trying to compare with Hemingway or Orwell.

>>82983
Good post. An effective way of being a smartass without answering the question.

>>82982
The fact that the author is able to juggle so many damn characters who act pretty consistently is pretty impressive. The systems she has for the magic and and stuff like that is also pretty neat and far far better than the usual video game shit that goes on in LN's.

>>82983
>hemingway
pretty bland 
>orwell
he's pretty basic
>using awards as a metric for anything
w e w
>>82991
everyone always has some criticism no matter who it is, if a person can't describe why what they like is actually good, or what they dislike is actually bad, then they aren't worth listening to

>>82950
I have never ever read The Wheel of Time series. Is it really all that it's hyped up to be, and should I bother reading through it?

>>82993
>everyone always has some criticism no matter who it is, if a person can't describe why what they like is actually good, or what they dislike is actually bad, then they aren't worth listening to
>hemingway/orwell bad /w 1 word responses
ok

>>82997
yeah, responded to a shitpost with a shitpost, is that a problem?

>>82994
Wheel of time suffers immensely from poor editing. The editor was the author's wife and she just sucked at the job. The amount of times you'll read about women smoothing their skirts or pulling on their braids in order to represent their state of mind if fucking ridiculous. There's plenty of other minor issues with the editing that I have half forgotten, but ya it's bad. The story and setting and magic are decent. All of the female characters are dumb or annoying cunts, with one notable exception. It has some good highs, but the roads between those highs tend to get pretty dull.

>>83020
You forgot to mention that the author DIED before ending his series properly. Guess what, letting others write the last two tomes won't make it better.

Is Guin Saga full fan translated?

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>>66223
Newest update. Now 85+GBs.
((( Officially ))) Translated Light Novels (LNs) v19.0+ 
v19.0: https://nyaa.si/view/1575043
v19.1: https://nyaa.si/view/1585807
v19.2: https://nyaa.si/view/1597035
v19.3: https://nyaa.si/view/1597038
v19.4: https://nyaa.si/view/1609471
v19.5: https://nyaa.si/view/1622772
v19.6: https://nyaa.si/view/1634180

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>>85829
Still no quality translation. The most you have is an official translation up to volume 5 and and a 
 cleaned up machine translation of the whole series. Another is this narration of the whole series by one Youtuber. No clue if he's simply translating or reading off the MTL.

>Guin Saga LN (MTL)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C0BQnDVOt55vq9ej8AcPRhAUfjPHTpip

>Blazblue Guy Guin Saga audiobook
https://www.youtube.com/@blazblueguy4328/featured

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>>88317
A collection of all those Nyaa magnets just in case the links die.
https://pst.moe/paste/kdvdhz

Official LN translations are constantly being called out for tranny tier translations these days. So pay attention who's doing the translation or if there's any controversy behind the LN.

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>>88317
>Guin Saga LN (MTL)
Yes please.

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>>88317
>Tiger Mask: Fantasy Edition
>Royal ojo loli and trap shota twins
>Double rape (attempt) corrections
>Rips and tears both soldiers and undead alike
>Wrestling match with a gorilla
>Violent chimp-out greater than a Popeye's opening in Atlanta
>Slavery and torture chambers
>Personified pestilence holding a whole keep hostage

Book 1 of Guin Saga was great. Most manly shit I've read in a while. Now onto book 2.

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>there is a magical girl LN spinoff of Kino's Journey
>she's a magical girl with hermes as her talking cellphone strap
>she solves her problems by summoning guns
>it also has a manga

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>>88526
I'm glad /animu/ is finally understanding the greatness that is Guin saga.

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>>88526
>Book 2 of Tiger Mask: The Great Ape Escape.
>Most of the book is hime making a pouting face while being bullied by Estivan. The smooth talking jack of all trades mercenary.
>The whole book takes place in fantasy Australia where everything is trying to kill you.
>River filled with giant living mouths, actual dangerous slimes roam the desert, desert squids, and more.
>Main villain so far is a sexy blonde female Griffith with a whole army.
This is getting more absurd. Almost done with Book 3 now.

>>89132
I'm hoping we can start a book club over Guin Saga here and maybe invite others.

Oh, just great. The first part of MEGA catalog was closed down due to someone's snitching and spurious accusations which didn't include piracy.

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>>89132
>Book 3 of Guin Saga: The Fantasy Australia Epic
>Guin and Co get captured by the Mongol (big bad enemy nation).
>Fem Griffith gets humbled by Guin multiple times. "Go home and be a family woman, tomboy home."
>Leopard Man with 6000 Afghani monkey farmers vs the strongest nation in the world. How bad could it be?
>Valley of bone crushing acidic slims
>Legends of a fantasy nuclear warhead tier weapon
>Vore, vore, and more vore

Just finished book 4 too. Book 3 was a nice setup to book 4 which is pure war. I'll be posting about that later. I dead vol6 and on because it will be machine translated. So who knows how bad the quality will be.

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>>89634
Finished book 5 and really enjoyed what I read. One thing that I found interesting is how terrifying Guin would be as an adversary. Some spoilers for books 2-5.

Guin is very brutal when he fights. Basically he goes into modes of berserker frenzies when he's in the fray but can switch that off on the fly which allowed him to access the battlefield and kill when necessary. Not only is he very strong but his skill with the sword is rivaled by almost no one.

When he allies with the Sim (monkey people), he is outnumbered 3 to 1 and their enemies are well trained while also having good armor. He wins the war with good timing, strategy, psychological warfare, and using the environment to their advantage. Like collecting all the slimes they found with in a few miles and then forcing them into a valley. Then when they baited the enemy forces into the valley, they poured chemicals that scared the slimes into a literal tidal wave of slimes that killed many people.

Guin also had someone inside the enemy ranks spreading lies and other info. When this gained a ton of trust, Guin had him lead the men into a fake Sim village where the Sim pushed boulders onto the soldiers and then dumped oil on them before lighting them all on fire. This tactic was advised by Guin because he knew that clan of Sim would enjoy that method of killing. They also made more traps like a pitfall that buried men alive. Guin thought of all of these.

Guin, while stoic, also knows how to lead an army and talk his way out of bad situations. This king-like charisma has saved him from many bad situations. Guin doesn't remember his past but he once thought of a situation if the enemy army recruited him instead of the Twins of Peros. If he was, he would be their best leader since the only reason he helped the twins was because they were in trouble so he's loyal to them.

I'm looking forward to reading more an hope other anons get into it. If I had the money I would have someone translate the whole thing.

>>77364
Specifically .epub?
FBReader is decent.
MComix can be useful for quick preview/check of the files: it skips the text, but displays pics (cover and illustrations) and it’s faster.

>>90361
Guin Saga is fucking amazing.

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Did you know that the No-rin LN is actually being translated now? It may have taken 12 years (or 9 if going off the anime), but someone finally translated volume 1 of 13 last month. Bekki is literally going to be infertile by the time this is done, but it's a start.
https://thatmatt85.wordpress.com/no-rin/

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>Kamisama no Memochou
A story about an idiot getting to know a NEET detective and various other NEETs that help out. As much as I would like to put a bigger description I think the synposis in it provides a somewhat better explanation that what I could give.
I was wondering if I should write my feelings after fully finishing it but I will just keep it short. I really did genuinely enjoyed the characters and the setting and I feel that this isn't a story that everyone will like but for those that do I hope you enjoy it as you read all the volumes.Then again I haven't read anything fully in more than a decade so my taste on what to like has vastly diminished overtime. A personal thing I did was bought all the volumes and all three drama CDs hoping to one day to fully understand them in true Japanese and to also scan the drama CDs if ever needed and thank god that yen is low.

Took me 3-4 hours to finish one volume and there are a three drama CDs that get alluded in a few volumes but those never got translated and it seemed that it wasn't needed to understand the story. The other thing is that a few stories are out of order so here is the list the author himself made, and I made sure to not include the names for these chapters/volumes since I feel that a title enough is to spoil on what will happen a bit. Another thing is that you should read the afterword first for each volume it will make sense why I say this after you read the first one. One thing to note is that I used the Baka-Tsuki Epubs from the earlier untranslated torrent list and sadly they do have some translation errors here and there but overall I do hope that a few of you enjoy this.
1st year in high school, October (1st Volume)
1st year in high school, March (2nd Volume)
2nd year in high school, April (5th Volume, first chapter)
2nd year in high school, May (5th Volume, second chapter)
2nd year in high school, May (3rd Volume)
2nd year in high school, July (4th Volume)
2nd year in high school, August (5th Volume, third chapter)
2nd year in high school, September (5th Volume, fourth chapter)
2nd year in high school, October (6th Volume)
2nd year in high school, November (end of 6th Volume)
2nd year in high school, December (7th Volume)
2nd year in high school, January (8th Volume, chapter 1)
2nd year in high school, January (8th Volume, chapter 2)
2nd year in high school, February (8th Volume, chapter 3-4)
2nd year in high school, March (9th Volume)

Last thing to mention is that this does have an anime that I believe covers up to the 4th volume, and as far as I am aware there is a manga but I don't know how far it went and if it ever finished but it probably did.

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>>92564
>I'll start on Vol 2 when I get back from vacation.
<Posted April 1st
He's coming back... right?

As of today, novelupdates stopped working for those not logged in. A shitty move, but following the general trend of most websites lately. You can't even comment on wordpress sites anonymously anymore either. No point to me bitching here, because it won't change.

>>97208
It's not pointless. People know now to backup things more. You never know what site might cuck and start deleting things they find offensive.

>>92564
>>95638
https://thatmatt85.wordpress.com/no-rin/
Nice to know he didn't just drop the project after Vol 1. He's working on it again and is done with Ch.2 Vol 2.

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Finally caught up to the Overlord anime with the light novels and only two more volumes left to read.
>>88317
Anyone here read the Guin Saga MTL version? Is the quality alright?

>>105089
It gets pronouns wrong but if you're paying attention to who's talking it's not a problem. Still, it's a MTL so it's understandable but not great. It's at least grammatically correct and flows properly. I think the editor at least made sure that was fine but left the pronouns as is.

>>88317
Did the Japanese fans respond positively or absolutely horribly to the Posthumous ending of Guin Saga?

I wouldn't want to get into a 150 book series just for it to end in a dumpster fire.

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>>105112
I've never seen a series have a good ending after the author was deleted

>>105112
Guin finished when she was alive all that was left was side shit.

>>105296
If that's true that's an entirely different situation. Reading to the end should be enjoyable if only to see what one person is capable of.

>Tokidoki Bosotto Roshia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san [LN ~ v01-08 + Extras] (RoshiDere / Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian)
The content of this torrent reads like badly edited MTL. Especially in the second volume. Lots of pronoun mistakes that change the meaning of sentences.

>>105532
It can be even worse sometimes:
>Masachika, who treated Alisa and Yuki, two of the most beautiful girls in the school, as mere friends, was secretly worried by her friends that “this guy is really only interested in two-dimensional things”.
Guess the original meaning of this sentence. It has several mistakes. Masachika, the MC, is a guy, so that's not "her", and it's his male friends that are supposed to worry about him here, not the guy himself. It's embarrassing to read even for a ESL like me.

>>105534
The third volume shows only the prologue in one reader, and in another is peppered with left-over Kanji characters.

>>105555
Prologue and epilogue, actually. Not much better though.

>>105572
What's worse, both she and he can switch between at random without warning. I suppose it's extremely discontenting for some with OCD/OCPD. I'd like to try to harass someone like that with some MTL then.

>>105534
A good alternative phrasing would be something similar to:
"as mere friends, he made his friends worry that" and so on and so forth.

Recently I got tired about seeing the same weaksauce Japanese protag everywhere, so I tried reading some Korean stuff instead. Most MCs there belong in the insane asylum, one way or another, so that's also hard to read in its own way. I found some exceptions, like adopting the Chinese protag traits and surprisingly doing it well. One is "Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga" which despite the  laughable name presents the metaphorical balls the size of ostrich eggs. Somewhat like a shounen protagonist, but without the expected naivety. Another is "I Gave Up on Conquering the Heroines" which despite being an obvious trash human if judged by personality, makes the story fun to read because of the misfortune of being a yandere magnet on top of that. Imagine a worse punishment than being involved with 6+ yanderes, haha.

>>105865
*tired of
*human trash

While seeking a story with a real harem, I found "Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic". Actually it's too realistic for comfort, haha. Down to the minute detail of gory and disgusting descriptions. And the flow of events there is so fast that each volume usually spans more or less the the period of day plus night. That ride is a bit too fast for me, honestly. Surprising for a Japanese author, because you'd expect a more fable-like story with all its sharp edges polished off instead.

I propose a rule: the longer the novel title, the more shitty and dumb its content, usually. Could someone try to find anything dumber than this:
Even Though I Defeated the Demon Lord, My Wife and Daughter Treat Me Like Trash ~ I Found Out My Wife’s Child Isn’t Mine, and When I Confronted Her, She Got Mad and I Was Exiled. The Country’s in Trouble Because the Demon Lord Came Back? Sorry, I’m Getting Remarried to a Princess, So I Can’t Help.
That doesn't mean that a short title guarantees an interesting story, unfortunately.

>>108044
>literal cuckoldry turns into some kind of pseudo-revenge thing
What.

>>108053
If you see the novelupdates main page, the most often encountered entries there are Chinese yaoi web novels. Either you toughen up or pass up on browsing through the sea of shit there regardless if you don't like to be forced to register.

>>108053
On the flip side, you can seduce the stepdaughter without any guilt, if that's your thing like Woody Allen.

This time it's something that doesn't take itself seriously and neither should you. A light novel series titled "The Fruit of Evolution"'. Dumb as a bag of bricks, but still somehow enjoyable despite that fact if you manage to stop using your brain while you read it.

>>106267
I would still recommend it very much. One of rare types where you don't know if they make it to the end in one piece. They call that narrative tension, I believe. Something entirely absent from most Japan-made content I know.

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Irritating. This character sheet is supposed to represent the main character of an isekai light novel. Notice the value for health points, 66 for some reason. Compare that to average values for a comparable character from tabletop Dungeons and Dragons. Single four-faced dice per experience level for a wizard class, plus the bonus from the Constitution stat, in this case +2 per level (discounting any possible to pick perks related to health value along the way). Multiplying that per 36 levels for the maxed out character, which gives 90 (from the average roll of 36d4) plus 72 from the bonus, results in 162hp . So why make him almost three times more squishy?

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>>109460
No that's wrong, which is even more hilarious. The bonus for 16 CON is +3, not +1. That makes the final result 198hp. Why make that over 3 times more squishy?

>>109461
*not +2

>>109460
>>109461
Why does it specifically have to follow DnD 5E rules? That generally doesn't go up to level 36 in the first place anyway.

>>109463
Name the rules that result in 66hp for a 36th level wizard then.

>>109464
And epic levels (over 20) are optional but still valid content, I guess.

>>109464
2e? Levels 1-10 give 1d4+con. 16 gives plus 2. Levels 11+ get flat +1 hp. There are inconsistencies in other areas, but i don't know a single version of DnD that uses "S rank" for resistances. Presumably it is a different TTRPG alltogether.

>>109466
Show the calculus for 2e, step by step. Assuming average luck for rolls.

>>109466
I wonder which world would have electrum coins between silver and gold besides link related.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Electrum

>>109467
Average luck he would have 61 hp (2.5x10+2x10+26x1). Assuming the average roll on a 1d4 to be 2.5.

>>109469
25+20+26? That's still 71. Unlucky bastard, that guy.

>>109470
Oops typo yeah 71. If you incorrectly assume the average of 1d4 is 2 you'd get 66.

>>109471
Also I'd assume that an epic wizard would develop some unique spells reflecting their particular playstyle. Some multipurpose stuff that doesn't require the usual time lost for prebuffing at the start of encounters. Effects usually reserved for legendary artifacts, and so on.

The 5th volume of Death Mage contains a joke reference to toxic masculinity. Har har, so funny. Not to mention some sentences with their beginnings cut off, starting from lowercase words instead.

>>109655
Some funny typos as well, like Golem Creation into Golden Creation.

I like the way the main guy in "After-School Dungeon Diver" thinks about the Japanese mindset regarding saying things they don't mean inside. Hiding grudges in order to get along is not going to help anyone involved. I'd rather want to know that somebody dislikes me and for what reason.

I have learned today that a novel machine-translated through Patreon donations can have the same character named in turns as Serrano, Seraine, Seraila, Cerella or Cyrilla. Whew, so people would pay for that, hard to believe. Even a retard can keep a separate text file with a list of character names to keep them consistent, so why?

I read like 80% of the UchiMusume webnovel back in the day so I bought the whole set and plan to reread it from scratch, the light novel version is definitely "cleaner" but doesn't shy away from the fact that lolicons exist
Also picked up a book press. And I need to pay anon for a related book but I've been tsun this last two weeks for retarded reasons
Anyways praise emergency 'nons and their ability to help you in rough times with library-building

>>110077
Laziness. Why fix if it's enough paypigs for the effort put in?

>>110079
What's I'm curious about is exactly why there's enough paypigs despite the bad service provided. And the story isn't that special itself. Its main themes were done before, I daresay better. A world with DnD mechanics, a medicine practitioner transmigrating, the essence of magic as uncovering the laws of the world in systematic manner, nothing else that's original or novel.

I was in the mood for some edgelord catharsis so I'm rereading Nidome no Yuusha (The Hero Laughs, blah blah), but it has only 7 out of 8 volumes translated even now. When will be the final volume translated, finally?

I wonder how wordy was "Loner life in another world" in the original version. Waterfalls and floods of words, words, words, stuck with elaborate turns of phrase at every turn. It must be a challenge to read with all those unusual synonyms represented by rarely used kanji. Yet it remains nothing but someone's wish fulfillment cranked up to eleven. Someone with severe savior (messiah?) complex. The underlying structure of the story remains the same throughout the 11 volumes so far. I wonder when he runs out of people to save and problems to solve at this rate. Their collective presence becomes a blur to me, considering it's two and half countries at this point. I also think it's inadvertently demeaning to those requiring saving, because it implies they are unable to help themselves without outside influence. Is that a whole world of retards or something?

>>105555
Epub file format is apparently just a zip file containing html-formatted text files as chapters. Fortunately for me, because that way I can by force read them separately in some web browser if some trouble arises.

Translating something literally might look bad. For example if I see "large grains of tears" I assume that is some figure of speech typical to Japan that compares tears to rice grains. Something that can throw you out of your stride during the reading to figure it out. What is your preference? To leave it as it is, or to make it look more natural in English?

>>110228
Haha, that gets even better (or worse). There are some signs of uncleared MTL left along later. Like "handsome" used to describe a cutesy younger girl (as judged from the illustrations) without any androgynous traits or the MC's name suddenly translated as Kyle instead of Saito like before and after. Shoddy work, I guess.

I have read something unexpectedly serious and psychologically realistic. A novel full of broken people that struggle with their lives, yet often propagate the misery that created them in the first place. Not something recommendable to lift your mood, something with the sole conclusion like "life sucks" instead. A Korean story with the title "The Villainess Doesn't Want to Die", translated completely and well enough for me to have nothing to nitpick.

Now that's unusual. To have someone's "ghost" haunt another person as a result of trauma after their half-successful suicide attempt due to something like dissociative identity disorder, with them both switching control from time to time. It's a first story like this for me to read. Much more attention to detail than a typical isekaislop.

Another surprise. The Japanese would never make the MC a bona fide jackass with lots of swagger and without an ounce of shame like this:
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/im-going-to-destroy-this-country/
Still, the same type of humor present over 200 chapters might become boring, and it had, actually. Not to mention the bunker thickness plot armor that saves him from any dumb stunt he tries. And there are hardly any sane characters in this story. It's like the insane asylum the size of a world.

What a bad luck to stumble on some misery porn unawares. Now the question remains, to wade through it with intent, or to abandon it?

To the well-versed Japanese linguists here: What could the phrase "Nisei Bei" possibly mean? It was written in romaji so I don't know what kanji it could have been referring to.

I'm reading the LN titled "Long story short, I'm living in the mountains" that mixes some supernatural folklore with how a city person imagines living in a rural area. It's quite dumb how they claim that a single tree fallen across a mountain road would need heavy machinery to make it usable again. Seriously? All you need is a few hours with a gasoline powered motor chainsaw to cut it to pieces then move them to the side. Or is that stuff forbidden to own in Japan or something?

>>110644
Pointing out they didn't mention any landslides or holes in the road itself. That might require some tracked machinery to clear, but not merely a tree roadblock.

Quite funny idea: to make the MC a male mesugaki with pink hair in a gender-inverted fantasy world. Looks promising to read after a few chapters. The title: "Gacha addict in a matriarchal world", it's not even R-15, honest. Downsides: the original title from Korea, not Japan.

>>110887
First visit to the local dungeon: fleeing from goblin shortstacks in heat.

>>110888
To be honest, it was slaughtering 11 of them in a day. It's justified, they were seriously ugly.

>>110887
>the original title from Korea, not Japan.
Expect a lot of pretty boys, extreme superficiality, and seething misogyny (not the hysteric hyperbolic kind bandied about by tumblr, but the actual literal definition).  South Korea seems to be a basket case of fake people and impotent rage.  All of the worst isekais I've ever come across have been from there.

>>110899
They just made a Sims clone that is somehow even gayer than The Sims 4 called inZOI. It looks exactly how you described, but probably without the misogyny since they're marketing it to western women.

>>110899
Try to read some R-18 josei aimed at women and written by women made in Korea. For some reason the most really vile characters there are female. Feminuts call that internalized misogyny, I call that truth in fiction, lol.

>>110899
Common fault of bad isekais is lack of consistent world-building, shown and not told with lore-dumps.

>>110899
Idk, the MC killed the first pretty boy similar to himself on the spot. Others had pitiable roles overall, with bad outcomes generally.

>>110899
>extreme superficiality
Quote:
“Nah. Destiny doesn’t exist. Only situations do. And situations can be overcome.”
Disregarding the tone, could you can call this statement superficial?

>>110913
>could you call
Dumb typo.

>>110913
Anon probably referred to the worst-koreans obsession with looks, but only with a specific set of looks and so deeply that they'll form full social hierarchies just based on how similar or different you are to those looks no matter how minor the differences. It's easy to notice since they all look the same to outsiders, who may be more prone to at least consider character or conduct whereas those are totally irrelevant in korean societies. Not even other SEA bugs do that, not to that extreme for sure. Same with their cash obsession, where disparities aren't so big in their country but they form entire castes just based on who has $2 (two) more or less bucks. With gooks accepting and being perfectly willing to enter slavery with another gook just 'cause they were informed that one has always made 14% more in wages. Stuff like that, ever prevalent and very visible, they even display it with pride a lot of times. You can't blame anon for noticing. It's normal in all their media, including their isekai novel/webtoons, and alien to most other countries. Including shitholes and bugs, even.

Of course, it's just another result of a colony-country having its culture altered and molded to the convenience of their lords. Much more developed and exaggerated, but with the same roots as the nips obsessing over bishonen with female traits after the war. Popularize, among the easily influenced younger women of the time, because it's much more convenient to have all men in your colony aiming to look good in a dress instead of in a brand-new military uniform. Add enough years, and you'll reach Current Year's situation. They'll call it "culture" now, heh, but dumb colonies don't deserve any better.
So, worstkorean LNs are also shit, but even worse.

>>110917
Not all stories reflect those real-life problems. And seriously, how would you grade fictional characters by their looks or wealth in the first place? I'm judging the content, not the place it hails from. And you can't tell that Japanese stories are lacking faults of their own.

>>110527
The title was pulled from the translator's website. Well, shit happens.

"The Kept Man of the Princess Knight" stands out for several reasons. First, it's not isekai, but a fantasy story about the MC with a past. The atmosphere reminds me of those old private detective stories or movies called noir fiction, where nobody is free of some skeleton in their closets. Various people can die for very flimsy reasons like being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Anyway, it's not a typical cookie-cutter Japanese LN.

>>110934
I admit that picking crazy cultists as the recurring antagonists is a cheap, lazy trick.

>>110899
Find something more vacuous and superficial than this Japanese isekai LN, "Fluffy Paradise". Imagine a lisping toddler girl being served hand and foot by scores of always handsome important people despite her proclaiming repeatedly that she looks merely average and all that preferential treatment is unexplainable. Because when she was reincarnated she was granted a divine gift of being loved by any living being that's not human, emphasis mine. Top that, huh.

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>>110958
The anime already aired and it wasn't even the worst one of its season so I'm just gonna discard your opinion. Write less.

>>110959
Read the original material before claiming opinions based on derivative work. As if you wouldn't know how much can change on the way during the adaptation. Write smarter, assuming you could.

>>110958
Solo Leveling, where the protagonist transforms into a boy band idol the more he levels up.

>>110965
I'd prefer constant battles that don't advance the plot to being constantly exposed to internal thought processes of someone at mental age below 5yo. Yep, that bad, despite her reincarnating from her late twenties originally.

>>110972
Or was she originally an airhead with the attention span of less than five minutes instead?

>>110959
>>110960
For example Kuma Kuma anime had those transparent panels at the Adventurers' Guild counters taken straight from some bank cashier stand you can see everyday. Obvious dumb anachronism that was not mentioned anywhere in the LN. Care to comment about that?

>>110975
It's actually rather funny. Imagine all modern appliances present in Yuna's bear houses coexisting with her eating pudding with a wooden spoon.

>>110976
The port town in episode 10 had windows on the ground level secured with metal railings that look like machined fixtures with square cross-sections, something troublesome to make by hand in large quantities without a hydraulic press unless necessary. Another dumb anachronism. What's the point of those? Is that intentional, or is the current year anime made exclusively by retards?

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>>110998
See? This thing in the upper right corner is usually put together by welding. How come it's present in a fantasy world, huh?

>>110999
>How come it's present in a fantasy world, huh?
Magic?

>>111000
Too much similarity. Magic doesn't imitate technology exactly the same way. Compare the anime and other fiction involving magitech/magitek (magical technology). There is more content with artificial spirits replacing AIs for commanding the functions of magic towers where wizards live and conduct their experiments than with replicating computers in their usual form from our world.

And for your question, someone capable both of shaping metal and fire magic would be paid better to make some weapons than everyday items for commoner houses. That would be a waste of their skills. Don't attribute obvious retardation to some hidden intentions.

>>111001
Pardon, I meant that the other way. Don't attribute hidden intentions to obvious retardation.

>>110887
This one went missing too. No idea if it was hit with the pull request, or if it was hid behind the membership wall. The result stays the same for someone like me.

It looks like novelupdates has fallen to shittification too. There are paywalled-only novels listed there.

>>111906
So apparently the Korean website Novelpia has English translations now too. They DMCAed other translations of the same novels and offer theirs only after registering, lol. Free to read till September, what a generous offer. No, thank you.

>>112098
I wonder if they would hire meme-brain localizers too.

Sincere thanks for all torrents of Korean novels appearing recently. And a notice for those possibly interested.

>>112423
Although the archive for "Kidnapped Dragons" seems to be corrupted.

>>112433
A false alarm, sorry. Torrented the second time with no problems.

I hate the anti-natalist nanny mindset vibes throughout the light novel series "My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World". The protagonist there doesn't trust the future to take care of themselves (he intentionally refrains from making the best blades he could, because reasons), yet he also prefers to refrain from influencing it by leaving descendants (despite cohabitating with several women), also because reasons. Faggot stance through and through, especially because the author lacks the balls to put the justification of those decisions into plain words.

>>112454
I forgot to add, he also calls his pets and non-human familiars his daughters. Call Freud for help.

>>112454
I think the biggest problem with any form of art is that it's usually made by some nerd loser that failed at real life which is why he's sitting at a desk all day. If I tell AI to write me a novel about a man beating up and enslaving niggers, kidnapping girls and raping them until they have stockholm syndrome then making them his brides, then about 12 years later impregnating his daughters and adding his inbred granddaughters to his harem, I know the AI will do a far better job than if I paid some gay nerd to write it.

>>112461
>it's usually made by some nerd loser
I guess you would like what this guy wrote, then:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cizia_Zyk%C3%AB

>>112462
>french-albanian-greek
>born in africa
>fought in the six-day war (on the israeli side)
>became the whitest man in argentina
>became the owner of a night club (probably a gay night club judging by the rest of his biography)
>interior decorator
>los angeles, bangkok, toronto
>set up various money making schemes (clandestine games, racketeering, etc.), which at one point led him to be severely beaten by a rival gang
>became a used car dealer and whitest man in Mali
>it's left up to imagination how his one year old son died
he sounds like one of the biggest faggots that ever lived

>>112467
>writing all this shit just to avoid reading a book or two
Did he fight for a cause, or just for cash? His squad was hired, so he went along.
What did he do in Argentina? Why gay night club? That would be mentioned explicitly already, knowing Wikipedia editors.
He rolled all around the world trying dozens of things to live from, so at least he was not an asocial nerd sitting all day at a desk. He had lots of things to write about from experience. Better than 90% of writers.

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>>112468
I would much rather read about an asocial nerd girl who sits in her room and masturbates all day than a zogbot that traveled all over the world being gay and doing petty crime. I don't know why anyone would want to waste time reading about the lives of other men when you could spend that time living your own life instead, or reading about cute girls while imagining yourself raping and impregnating them.

>>112471
Not because I didn't travel abroad and probably won't  till I die?

>>112461
Unfortunately just living through different extreme situations is not enough on its own to turn a person into a good writer capable of processing and transmogrificating the life experience. Anon's example is as good as giving a clubbing thug some paper and a pen to write. Many war veteran writers - even the kinds that aren't traumatized into dysfunction - end up writing same kinda of garbo that shut-in nerds do, and I'm not even talking about living up to your edgy vanity example standards (which, as a product of Id's autopilot, would be actually easier to write than ballsy authentic stuff, navigating the normalfaggot hysteria during distribution aside).

>>112461
>If I tell AI to write me a novel about...
What the fuck did you just write

To be on the edge is not the same thing as being edgy, "localizers".

>>112471
>Why would you want to waste time reading about the lives of other men
For inspiration and encouragement to live your life better, you goddamned letzer mensch

>>112667
Having role models is fine if you're a teenage boy but once you're a man you shouldn't need or want that anymore. What is your wife going to think when she walks in on you with some e-daddy shit on your screen, or takes a look at the book you're reading and sees what it is? That's like finding a fursuit and a pack of adult diapers in someone's closet.

>>112454
"The Bladesmith's Enchanted Weapons" is more up my alley. Disregarding mental masturbation over the beauty of katana and female wiles collaring the guy's little guy. Its story is more grounded in real life principles, for better or worse.

It's not a typo if that's repeated twice, right?
>"The Tanaka Family Reincarnates", volume 3:
>The children William brought from the slums helped Emma with the basting, and the artist he’d brought was dying the threads for some reason. Hannah tried to stop him because she knew he couldn’t possibly have enough time to actually finish dying them, but they had the most brilliantly colored embroidery threads she’d ever seen brought to their store the very next day.
Dyeing is not the same thing as dying. Dumb series or not, proofreading is expected.

This Novelpia Global farce is funny, in a way. Why won't they edit their slapdash MTL? Misgendered characters, one chapter as he, another chapter as she, "royal We" translated as "royal I" which looks absolutely retarded, and narration flip-flopping between first and third person without warning mid-paragraph. Names fluctuating between several different spellings randomly are the least problem. This level of incompetence is quite funny.

>>114317
That would require people to do their jobs, understand AI/MTL, or care about their work. Localizers are none of the above.

>>114318
"The latter was like having his skin slowly sliced with an awl..."
No human brain has processed this output, or is that still possible?

>>114318
If I had any contact with coding, I'd propose some separate "after-processing" software that would label characters acting/conversing, try to identify their gender from text and check for inconsistency. Highlighting conflicts. Isn't the point of programming to replace dumb work with automated work in general? That should also include editing prose. Luckily I'm only some anonymous idea guy.

Something to bitch about overzealous localization:
"It’s a first-world problem if I’ve ever heard of one."
This sentence was found in yet another isekai LN series from Japan "By the Grace of the Gods". My gripe with it comes from the fact it was used in a dialogue, said by the MC to another world's native person. How would you expect that idiom to be understood and recognized as such without some extremely specialized knowledge? That reminds me of that infamous excerpt from Tolkien's first tome of LotR:
"The dragon passed like an express train, turned a somersault, and burst over Bywater with a deafening explosion."
At least that was a firework description in third person narration, not a part of dialogue. I wonder what expression was used in the original Japanese for that "first-world problem". If it was translated verbatim, that's would be no longer about translation, at least.

>>114364
It bothers me too, but I've often seen it from nip authors too. Retards. Random isekai characters in medieval swords and magic settings, randomly dropping lines in plain engrish with references to modern techie youth slang. Concepts that could only develop with the existence of cellphones, by japanese people, and only with them trying to speak english. Explaining new communication magic with "it's just like Line", or spam war tactics "like you're suffering a DDOS", or "if this magic fails we'll at least get some apologems", in the mouth of characters from a society that's struggling to develop war chariots. Some settings have that tech disparity but I've heard this bullshit even in "native isekai" with no real tech advancements. Works popular enough to get adapted. Not to mention, in those other worlds, USA never colonized Japan since neither exists. No reason to drop a misplaced line in english just because the author was too lazy to explain the concept with 4 extra words.