/jp/ - Otaku Culture

This thread is for anything related to the discussion of Japanese light novels, WN / Web Novels included.
Learning Japanese to avoid mistakes and subtext trimming by translations and MTL is highly recommended.

>Finding light novels info:
https://pastebin.com/M5xQxuHm

>Additional resources:
https://lnwncentral.wordpress.com/
https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html
>Recommended readers:
Android, Libera https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
PC epub reader: https://calibre-ebook.com/
https://reader.ttsu.app/
>WN to e-book downloader:
https://github.com/whiteleaf7/narou

>Main fan TL dump:
https://nyaa.si/view/1202979
>Official translations:
v20.0: https://nyaa.si/view/1680465
v20.1: https://nyaa.si/view/1690883
v20.2: https://nyaa.si/view/1703569

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>/a/'s LN thread finally devolves into a series of "reed reel lihtehrahtur" insult
>even though the only reason the term "Light Novel" exist was just for marketing purposes, and there were less thought put in said decision than the difference between tankobon/bunkobon
>Not to mention the fact that an "actual novel/literature" can be readily converted into LN like in the case of In-Spectre/Kyouko Suiri or Hyouka and vice versa, plus the existence of Kawakami whose whole fucking series requires you to have an academic degree before you can even start reading the opening page
Whew, that's kinda sad.
>>44389896
>after demon extermination
Ahyup, just not really a fan of only one correct answer (of which it's always strife), and also not really into the way the clerics being (mostly) portrayed in a bad light then definitely evil past vol 3.
>last 3 demons that quick
It's just the usual case of powerlevel going off the rails. Later part even goes ham with the amount of OP characters which honestly makes you think just why the hell would they rely on only one scantily clad girl, even though they can mass produce aberrations (La Mules, etc) even before getting demon meat.
Yeah, I guess my major gripe would still be the text basically saying that it's the faith that's wrong (rather justified in this case though) when something goes south but it's the characters' own individuality that's right when they did something good. At least we were given each faith's tenet in series like Faraway Paladin to decide for ourselves whether it's "good" or "evil" without being forcefed. Huh, guess it bothered me more than I thought if I managed to make a wall of text out of it.
>>44386404
The fuck happened? It's pruned. Also did the fucking general spawns another tripfag? That place is cursed to hell.

>>43584359
My recommendation is to finish vol 18 before waiting, simply because it's hands down the best volume that ties up all (current) loose ends (basically the Arc 1 finale of Dendro), so if by any chance the series, heavens forbid, got axed, HiatusXHiatus'd, or had a shitty end, you can just think of vol 18 as the final volume and everything that comes later being not canon. Then again, the story can't diverge that much before the LN version's Tri-Flags to maintain the powerlevel (unlike Rebuild World), so just do as you see fit.
>>43585031
>can't have proper alternative heroine endings anymore
Well, that's where you're wrong. There's a whole lot of untapped potential in Erica of Königstuhl canton. Just imagine Margit--Marco, Elisa--Elijah, Cecilia--Cecil (predominantly male) Mika, and Nero, all aiming to grab a piece of that untainted nun's purity. What used to be something like a fluffy somewhat dark moege is now a hard yandere otoge (unless Mika won). The greatest love story ever told, you just gotta tell Schuld about it anon.
>>43582729
>WN-only era
Honestly feels like an accident waiting to happen. You just need to publish a legal shittier copy and you can sue them all to hell by saying they plagiarized your work. IIRC that's how Dungeon Seeker got canned, due to Arifureta's author saying he got plagiarized by DS. Then again, it's Alph*polis, would make me rather happy if it gets them into trouble, though I do pity the author.

>>19868749
Because it is.
The author likes to find obscure historical events and weave them into his story.
Also, all his books are part of a larger interconnected universe. This photo is from five years ago and has until the beginning of Volume 6 of Horizon, which is now in Volume 11 (average three books per volume since then) with another four book series and a couple of side story novels as well.
No matter how to measure it, Horizon is larger than the Wheel of Time now and that's leaving aside his other series.

>>19640491
>>19642894
Bitches can do it since he has most of Kawakami, I believe he doesn't have forth tho.

>>18597070
Is obvious that Westphalia is next, that's the final stage for the entire world to take a desicion and that didn't happened on volume 10.
After that the final confrontation to solve the apocalypsis because, again, there isn't enough information and it doesn't match the timeline.

And it simply wouldn`t be a full Horizon explained post thing without the picrelated. The highest one is Horizon, and keep in mind that the image itself is outdated, there are even more now.

Kawakamin is a hell of a drug.
If you get past the requisite infodump of the first three episodes of anime, you do get hooked, and the ride only gets crazier after.