/jp/ - Otaku Culture

are there any good places to pirate jp LNs besides nyaa?

>>37615695
Not really but I check out dlraw every now and then since a lot of nyaa's are just rips from there... with a horrible download option.

>>37615754
thanks anon, was looking for 精霊幻想記 and only found the first few on nyaa and looks like that site does actually have the rest of the series, but damn you weren't kidding about the horrible dl options

>>37604084
>Best light novels
I didn't like any of those. Jesas I knew I had horrible taste.
What are you reading /jp/? I am finishing nowayu.

>>37615961
Yup! 20 volumes on the worst three download servers on earth. I will also give it a try to that novel after finishing 勇者である.

>>37616022
just beware the series isn't finished yet at 20, if you still plan on grabbing it anyway maybe we can work together, i'm starting from 20 and working my way down

>>37616397
I never worry whether a series is finished of not, a nice ride.
Downloading it together... I would absolutely say yes, but I am off to work rn. (；´Д｀)
I will pass by in 8 hours and lurk while working.

>>37604084
I read re:zero up to novel 13 but honestly, I lost interest once the rabbits showed up and the witch's smegma started to act differently each loop desu.
Will it get better again?

>No interest
No one in /jp/ reads, better luck on /lit/.

>>37623175
>better luck on /lit/
nice joke, /a/ would be 100 times better

>>37616567
either way i'll dump these here for now
https://mega.nz/folder/7QxgDBrK#L-jpjV8bM2KbmH3PuLiMPA

Orc Hero deserves more attention
Is like berserk/goblin slayer but fun instead depresing

>>37629174

>>37623175
/lit/ hates every japanese book that isn't osamu dazai though. and /a/ only allows discussions of light novels with anime/manga adaptations.
>>37615971
reading kino's journey right now after i dropped it a few years back. I'm still surprised that the fan translation effort is still "alive", for the book itself it's quite simplistic, the whole thing reads like a nihilist approach of fairy tale books that you'd read as a kid.
i also just finished reading all of sugaru miaki works and that was surely a ride. might be too overdramatic at times but i think it's part of the charm. shame that light novels of this kind never really gain traction outside of japan.

>>37629204
>asanagi
...fine, I'll give it a shot.

>>37604084
I don't really see any point in reading these super popular series, might as well wait for the manga or anime adaptation instead, since these series are so popular, the manga or anime will catch up to the source material eventually anyway. From what I've seen, the manga is close enough to the LN and is much more enjoyable, bad adaptation do exist though but 9/10 are good enough(for example the series in pic, the art of the manga adaptation kinda sucks to be honest but it's still in good enough zone, barely).
I just get into this recently, reading less poular stuffs, jumping straight from latest manga chapter. But after I heard how LN usually get axed without warning and most series that got axed have no proper ending, if there's no clear way to know if the series I read are in risk of getting axed or not, I don't know if this is worth it anymore.

>>37633606
I actually rather read lns than Mangas or watching their anime. While I do like watching their anime adaptations, it is an afterwards process post reading the source.

>>37628050
I despise reading in jpegs... Is there a way to transcribe images into text? I don't mind doing my own pdf/e-pubs at this point. I simply hate images reading half my enjoyment is reading in my kindle.
I have tried frog by tender owl. It is an image text to text transcriber and it works wonders but as soon as it is presented with tategaki, it commits sudoku.

I've been meaning to read this series (English version, sadly), but it starts pretty weak. Not sure if I should bother.

>>37641054
Starts weak?? I thought it started great. How many chapters did you read?

>>37633606
not even sure what you're talking about, most adaptions are terrible and outright change, butcher, or leave out things from the original LN. a lot also end up incomplete with some original ending, animes especially usually just feel like a short promo for the LN since they usually only cover a few volumes and then never finish covering the source material.
honestly, you should probably just stick to reading complete LN series

>>37636590
just convert the images to pdf directly. i personally hate tategaki myself and tried to convert something years ago but it wasn't 100% and needed a lot of cleanup so i just gave up and put up with it

>>37636590
If you can't pirate in some e-book format, the only way is to buy (preferably on Amazon for easy de-DRM). OCR works like shit on Japanese text.

>>37647155
>most adaptions are terrible and outright change, butcher, or leave out things from the original LN
Right, that's the case for most anime, I was mostly thinking about manga when I typed that. Since the series I read are not that popular, the manga actually sold a lot more than the source material, so the manga is not actually there to promote the LN in my case.

>>37648988
I personally rather read a light novel to its manga or anime adaptation, they are there more to supplement with imagery what was read. I understand the aphantasia-lets or short time dopamine addicts, it is way easier to just watch anime. But there is more enjoyment to be had from reading in my experience.
>>37647155
無職転生 has been a wonderful adaptation so far! Hope you guys have read it and are loving it too. If not, the fuck is wrong with you go go go.

Been reading 亡びの国の征服者 4 lately. That part where Yuuri had to put down Hoshikuzu after the dragon encounter injury really caught me off guard and had me shedding tears. The way he did it, and the fact that it had to happen shortly after the feeding scene. God what the hell.

>>37649552
Wouldn't be caught dead reading a fucking isekai.

>>37629174
>>37629204
>>37633522
THIS SHIT WAS MADE BY THE SAME ONE WHO DO MUSHOKU TENSEI

>>37654226
Never heard about this one before, what is it about?
>>37658922
People who don’t like mushoku tensei, hate it more because they have the “all isekai are trash” mindset, so even if they read something just as good that is no isekai, they will fool themselves into having liked it more.

>>37615695
Deez

>>37629495
mishima is their favourite author, japanese or not. check their archive, they like lns too.

What's with people not scanning ln? 薬屋のひとりごと is probably not unpopular but even this is missing 2 latest volumes. Already bought several e-books because of this since I'm an impatient fuck.

>>37604084
Wouldn't shit like this go to /a/ instead?

>>37678115
nuts? what are you talking about?

>>37685642
it takes time and effort to do that, did you even share what you bought?

also forgot to mention all of 精霊幻想記 was uploaded earlier but v1-5 in epub are here https://nyaa.si/view/1435863

Always have been wondering why 筺底のエルピス never really caught on in the West not even with people who read untranslated media. It's fabulous superpower SF where the powers are directly tied to various physical and chemical concepts. The battles are really varied and insane. It's really fast paced and has high-stakes right from the first book. The world and its development is superbly done, arguably to the point that the characters feels a bit sidelined and aloof at points but it comes together really well. The plot twists and use of foreshadowing are quite superb (the author mentioned that he usually constructs plot from the ending going back to the beginning, so he can ensure the conclusion he wants to arrive at, themes and world are tight and coherent). Only final chapter (planned to be split into two books) remains to be told (will probably take Okishi another three years to write or so).

Also, next Ryuuou in April. This time the special edition will be Shirabi's first artbook collecting his drawings for the series from the official ones to the rakugaki he posts on twitter. Cannot wait. Frankly, in the current ranobe landscape there isn't (at least to my knowledge) a series that would use the very format of its media so well. Ryuuou has been coming out for seven years or so and still each volume surprises me with how playful na inventive at times it can get with its writing, formatting and illustrations. Not to mention the characters and story which take you on a roller-coaster of emotion every volume. Considering this is Shiratori's magnum opus I really wonder what he will tackle after Ryuuou is done and if he'll manage to keep his drive he got with this series.

>>37615695
PT but I haven't tried it.

>>37641054
I bought the first two, but it seems like the third one is nowhere to be found.
The only one I ever found on ebay was an ex-library book in not very good shape, and going for over a hundred dollars.

>>37709011
and what is that?

https://itazuranekoyomi.neocities.org/library/shousetu/shouall.html
https://djtguide.neocities.org/cor.html#novels

Use this.

>>37678115
What's deez?

>>37722862
Deez nuts

>>37604084
Is there a wiki of good and complete light novels? Kind of like the /lit/ wiki

>>37744251
not that i know of but you can just use novelupdates and use a completed series filter, the same might work on bakaupdates to a lesser extent. i'm curious if there are an similar jp sites too for that matter

>>37604084
I've been reading Urasekai Picnic and it seems to tick all the boxes for a popular series. Any ideas why it didn't take off very much in the west, despite even getting an anime (which wasn't very good, yes, but still).

>>37731789
ion get it bruh

I want to read the rest of boogiepop so bad but I still have a long way to go before I can understand japanese
t. did N5 this december

>>37604084
Reading ありふれた職業で世界最強 atm. I had already read the entire WN before but man is it a fun ride.

>>37772751
Was thinking about picking this up. Should I read WN or LN?

>>37779986
From what I could see the LN is pretty much identical in writing to the WN except with some extra content and a few characters that are a little more fleshed out. They also announced Volume 12 of the LN for January, which should be (?) the final volume, so I would go with the LN version.

>>37772751
is it better than the anime?

>>37753176
>getting an anime
That's the reason honestly. Anime is supposed to promote the novel, but the anime is really lacking that it's kinda hard to drum up interest in the source material.

>>37808902
It getting an anime is what made me aware of the series in the first place, so I went and read all the novels and ultimately never ended up watching the anime because I heard it was shit.

>>37797500
the ln is really damn good
the anime looks like shit and has huge pacing issues
so, yes

>>37772751
>>37797500
>>37818203
What about the manga?

>>37819374
the manga is okay, better than the anime but still skips a lot of shit from the story and only goes up to volume 4 of the ln (out of 12)
if you only want the cliffsnotes you can read it since it's a quick read anyways, but if you enjoy the general premise you should just read the novel
and once you're done with the main plot there's a huge amount of after and side stories on narou, which the author is still posting for free on a regular basis (latest release was three days ago)

>>37615695
maybe BiB has them
I'm not there so I don't know

>>37819471
Not that anon but I would agree completely about reading the Synopsis and enjoy the idea of what it entails you should read the LN honestly. I have been enjoying Youjo Senki and Re:Zero recently because I liked the premise and the Anime inspired me to read the Novel and it has so much more info and extra details that adds to the world itself that is missing Anime feels like an advertisement for the source material. Also about LN It's hard to explain but imagine a whimsically detailed worlds and characters that have development over the course of the story vs one and done stories we are use to. I might also recommend the Trails series if anyone likes the video game version of this as well where everything interconnects together over each game.

Any light novels with brown-skinned genie girls with big fucking tits that grant you wishes?

>>37808902
It's such a shame that they got the whole atmosphere wrong. There is a Boogiepop-esque eeriness to it, as well as creepypasta/ imageboard dweller lore element that could resonate with a lot of people who spend a lot of time online.

>>37772751
I agree it's great, probably my favorite narou系 out of the ones I've read.