/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Here's a new pastebin with zlibrary added: https://pastebin.com/uGsXHNfC

>>41663376
Thank you for the effort

first for autism

anyone read any good light novels lately???

>>41663376
>Here's a new pastebin with zlibrary added
funny because the site was just killed

>>41668396
in between all the autism posting last thread some anon mentioned failure frame which is pretty interesting so far

>>41669241
they'll be back - the tor site still works and there is a full mirror from a week ago

>>41669241
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460970
lol

So I read a bit of a lot of LNs, I can't believe the one with the most complicated vocabulary is fucking Toradora. I even have Nisioisin novels but they don't seem that complicated, I'm surprised.

>>41671309
you mean in english or japanese?

>>41671528
Japanese of course.

>>41671309
Love that sort of vocabulary autism honestly, not even to feel I'm learning or anything, I just like it.

>>41668396
I've been enjoying this one

jesus Zlib is fucking gone for real this time
anyone got “人類は衰退しました”?

>>41671928
Do they have a 3p

>>41672618

We should backup all the light novels when it goes up again.

I was going to write an autistic rant about how it's impossible to convert epub to azw3 for Japanese books without something fucking up the resulting file in one way or another but then anon in the last thread mentioned kindlegen and it just works. Why is Calibre so fucking useless?

>>41673016
>Why is Calibre so fucking useless?
Well its primary developer happens to be a pajeet named Kovid.

>>41673032
lol

>>41672618
drop me an email and I'll send it to you

>>41672618
It's on yonde.itazuraneko.org

>>41673016
write it anyways

Do you have a list of people who sell their translations?

>>41671928
Is it NTR?

>Isekai Nonbiri Nouka is getting an anime
How is R****t going to react to the rape scene?

>>41675173
why would their reaction matter though

>>41675173
Why do you care about the reactions of random people?

>>41675173
Retard.

How do japan react to those anime tho?

>>41675382
Even if the anime adaptation flops in the worst possible way it's not going to affect the original novels much.
Manga adaptations flop and get axed all the time, it hardly affects the source material.
Anime adaptations like infinite dendrogram, arifureta, etc, are terrible and flop all the time, but the source novel still goes on strong.
If an author quits writing over something like that, then the novel didn't have much of a future either way, if not the anime flopping any other big thing would have caused them to quit.

>>41675724
Wasn't there a recent anime that was so bad that the author got depressed and just dropped the novel?
I can't remember.

>>41675789
I don't doubt that has happened before, but those seem to be rare cases.

>>41675724

I mean how do they react when they see rape and shit, きもい？構わん？　

>>41676223
pretty sure that gets censored all the time

>>41676223
きたああああああああああ

>>41676243
accurate

I wish O;N volume 4 was being worked on,I'm so mad about Chiyomaru.

>>41676243
nice

Is there still no news about Log Horizon at all? We're almost at the 2-year mark since the last anime now. Would be weird not to capitalize on current isekai boom, knowing most of the popular Narou series are finishing, and we'll probably get another genre shift within 3 years.
>>41675724
>infinite dendrogram
Too soon man. Next chance for a remake would be in like at least ~30 years, of which an actual Dendro game should (hopefully) be finished. At least they perfectly failed to adapt the least autistic arc throughout the series, which means there will never be any second season. Stripped all out of its autism, it should've still been able to achieve a minor success as a (fake) battle-fantasy/vrmmorpg series with a proper budget, though not to a normalfag/memeable degree like Danmachi since there's barely (if any) eyecandy at all. If only HJ's not too hasty in finding Rokujouma's replacement, fuck.

>>41668396
ミモザの告白 is pretty good, series. MC's childhood friend comes out as trans and the series deals with how that changes general social and specific relationships between characters. What I especially like is how it most characters have different but valid viewpoints and opinions. Dialogues aren't really MC or his friend trying to convince everyone else to share their viewpoint but actual conversations among characters with different set of values. I also like how the series likes to challenge the MC's views.

わたしはあなたの涙になりたい - stand alone, This year's Gagaga Award winner. About MC and his friendship with a genius girl pianist. Quite moving, very deliberately written, in some aspects it reads more like something that wouldn't be published under LN label (long passage of time, thematic focus, etc).

竜殺しのブリュンヒルド - Runner up on Dengeki Award. Family drama tragedy set i a fantasy setting inspired by Nordic/Germanic legends and saga. Begins with a tragedy, then keeps spiralling to the very bottom of despair; yet the taste of revenge is irresistible. The story is stand-alone but there is a prequel set I guess hundreds of years before this book being published in a few days.

砂の上の1DK - Kareno's new book, developed as stand-alone but he mentioned he might write a spin-off if things go well. Security specialist protag gets involuntary involved in industrial espionage incident that forces him to live in hiding together with his former home-tutoring student whose body has become a container for unknown parasite that boosts body recovery powers but takes over the body of its host. Similar topic as sukasuka with a person being attacked by a sense of becoming a stranger to her own body.

Quite enjoyed these.

>>41672622
yes

>>41674718
no

>>41678869
>in like at least ~30 years, of which an actual Dendro game should (hopefully) be finished
I envy your optimism but even in-universe that wasn't doable, despite all the technological advances the story clearly spells out it's only possible due to ayylmaos.
And honestly the way games are going, being stripped of all complexity and having increasingly buggier releases, even 200 years may be an optimist estimate, assuming humanity even lasts that long in this world.

>>41681383
>in this world.
imagine this
>you die here
>reincarnate and keep your memories
>but instead of a fantasy or sci-fi world it's earth but less shit and in the future where a dendro-like game will be out by the time you are 12-15
would you take the deal?

Is Infinite Dendrogram really that autistic?

Does it have a virtual afterlife area?

dendro is just babby's first vrmmo ln

boufuri is the real shit

>>41683716
like other people mentioned like last thread or so, it's a lot of people's first exposure to deeptism
so yes it's pretty fucking autistic, but because it takes tism combat and turns it into a fucking art with the prose
a lot of what carries dendro isn't actually the autism (but it helps) but the emotional weight behind the conflicts

>>41663294

>>41683811
What about my second question? If any game ever did that I'd have to admit it's as good as SAO,maybe better.

how the fuck has no one pirated all of the japanese sao ebooks yet?

>>41684830
aren't they up to date in scans?

>>41684846
they might be but i'm talking about actual ebooks formats, countless less popular series are available in their entirety in torrents or sites like zlibrary but sao only has volume 1 out there

>>41684873
wait didn't zlib fucking die just now
also the lack of uploaded sao volumes may have been due to it's bad reputation in the west thanks to cultural osmosis, i saw a lot of stuff there

>>41684916
>wait didn't zlib fucking die just now
it's still up on tor and will be back anyways in one form or another it's been like a day

>>41684873
https://jnovels.com/download-sword-art-online-light-novel-epub/
If you want them in english, check jnovels, they should also be on the official TL torrent.
If you want them in japanese then yeah I don't know.

>>41684964
thanks but yeah i would want them in japanese
i still have enough other shit to read but eventually i may just give in and buy them myself during a sale or something it's just baffling to me since it's such a big series

>>41684979
because it's a big series it's likely the pirate ebooks are getting deleted or people are too afraid of uploading them, just saying

>>41683716
I like the tism.

Despair.jpg
I really need to double down on learning japanese to not rely on TLs.

>>41683716
>>41683893
Could you elaborate more on your second question? Haven't read SAO past GGO for several reasons so I wouldn't know the term, but if you meant is there something in Dendro resembling Heaven/Hell, simulacra of the dead, or straight up transfer of consciousness ala Baldr Sky in the game world then technically yes, it does exist.

Heavy spoiler, beware. The VRMMO game in Dendro is an actual universe/world with its own set of laws that got hijacked by Ayyyylmaos in order to spread more of its kind. Which means everything that exists in the real world potentially exists in the game, including angels, demons, spirit/souls, brain in a jar, working Skynet AI, etc.

What's a good epub reader for windows? All this talk about SAO got me wanting to read it.

>>41694511
for english novels the calibre epub reader is decent enough
for japanese idk about standalone apps but there's https://ttu-ebook.web.app/

>>41694603
Japanese, and thanks, that web reader works pretty well.

>>41694511
>>41694661
did you buy the epubs anon? if so please share

thoughts on COTE light novel?

>>41694707
No, I didn't... I found SAO progressive epubs on nyaa, but it seems like that isn't the original story. So I'll try looking around later, although it seems I probably won't have much luck considering you can't find them.

>>41694800
alright, yeah they aren't shared as far as i know that's why the whole sao discussion even started >>41684830

>>41694603
Added them to the OP for next thread.

>>41694800
Vol 1 is here https://nyaa.si/view/1548943 and here https://nyaa.si/view/1579140

Launch day bros, who knows all the good questing spots?

GGO was the peak arc of SAO and Shinon is a better waifu than Asuna.

>>41692406
>second spoiler
wtf i will now read dendro, i want to see this schizo shit firsthand

Anyone read this? I hear it's「GOOD」but how's the Sci-Fi aspect? Hate it when stuff that's supposed to be tech is more like regular fantasy magic.

That confession scene at the end of volume 7 of 86 was super sweet. Lena being a dumb dork was, of course, expected.

>>41698557
you will be hard pressed to find any scfi-fi that isn't regular fantasy magic with technobabble
some are just better at keeping up the window dressing than others

Speaking of SAO...
>«Sword Art Online» officially started server service at 13:00 on November 6, 2022 and obtained infamy when the creator succeeded in trapping 10,000 people in the game, and making it so that death in-game would mean actual death for the player.
Where the FUCK is my NerveGear?

>>41698986
Nice catch, but fiction is always painfully optimistic.
By the way, Dendro was released on July 15, 2043, so that's another disappointing day to look forward to.

>people think the nervegear incident is a good thing

We'd all die midgame or during dungeons, sounds hellish.

>>41699726
it would still be better than living on this earth normally
that and people that DIDN'T got caught on the incident (or lived past it) still get to enjoy full dive games
what do WE have? jack fucking shit

>>41698915
Yeah, I guess it's just too much work to make a coherent and interesting tech system unlike magic where you don't have to explain shit. Still sucks though

>>41699826
The irony is the overall mana density theorem most otaku fiction either outright applies or loosely follows is much better explained than anything hard sci-fi.
Then again, it's pretty much a unconscious collective effort that has been ongoing since the early 90s.

>>41699847
>it's pretty much a unconscious collective effort
I'd say that's it. Same with the settings, monsters, weapons, clothing, food, jobs, etc. A working foundation is already there to use.

>>41699823

You only say that cause you'd be those little bitches that don't fight and don't leave the city.

>>41700027
Which sci-fi settings use just as much, simply reskinned.
It's impossible to make hard-sci-fi a thing because someone will always cry about inaccuracies more than focusing on the actual plot, hell people have to make stuff that is supposed to be grounded and modern-day into soft-fantasy with unbelievable stuff like guns with infinite ammo.
At that point may as well have it be magitech using those same foundations and call it a day.

>>41696869
No, Sinon has a wimpy body.

>>41699043
>>41698986
Well, The web novel in...02'?...03'? Stated that SAO began service in 2012.

So yeah, it was always going to be a case of missed deadlines.

>>41700090
in a way, that's honestly really fucking depressing

>>41700090

The World from .hack also released in 2007

Why must reality be so aggressively boring?

>>41700090
what do you call that weird feel of missed deadlines on sci-fi stuff? it feels like a common thing or at least common enough for someone to put a name on it

>>41700071
But she knows how to use it...

>>41702201
Kizmel,Quinella,and Leafa are all hotter. Also, there are no bad arcs, just bad execution. GGO didnt have much more for Kirito. Fairy Dance was the one with just a bit of missed potential.
>>41700112
>>41701731
Hm, well it's always like that. Usually its cyberpunk. Both movies missed the mark,same with Ghost in the Shell.According to Negima magic was revealed to the world.

>>41663294
I tried to read pic related to learn japanese and didn’t like it

>>41696869
>tfw you will never wait for sinon with your motorcycle in front of her school gate
ultimate big dick move

>>41673604
I don't understand that site, I can never find jack shit.
I even tried using the site wide search button, and it NEVER finds anything.

>>41698557
I've read that quite a long time ago so specifics are a bit hazy but yeah, it is really good. But not sure if to recommend it if you are looking for more sci-fi. It's more of a story about emotions.

If you want some solid sci-fi that does allocate a lot of time to exploration of its setting and does crazy things with it I wholeheartedly recommend 筺底のエルピス. Oxi is turning the world and the story on its head multiple times and often it is leaving me in awe, especially the scope he tries to deal with.

>>41703320
use ctrl-f

>>41696869
it's unironically the arc i enjoy rewatching the most. lot's of fun moments and i appreciate how reki kept the "fear of death in an online-game" theme in the story even though the original nervegear brain-fry wasn't a thing anymore.
i should really read the books at some point

>>41686769
Can't wait to see who spergs out now that seras is out of hiding

>>41696649
There's a forest just outside the town of beginings that has good loot up for grabs but be warned, the mobs tend to group up out of nowhere

>>41698874
Shin get's her back in the next volume!

>>41706039
You'll really like the ggo spinoff novel and it's unlimited gun autism.

Does mahouka koukou no rettousei count as super autismo?
Half the paragraphs are just the author autistically detailing the magic system and how every little magic interacts with the real world.

>>41706250
I remember back in the day how 5ch anons were calling it the second coming of to aru or something like that.
So yeah I would say it's very much autismo.

>>41686769
>The princess' soldiers sees eve's human form
>They instantly fall for her
Seras might have competition. Giving even a human form was the best thing the author could have done for what was otherwise meh character design. Humanoid beast characters suck imo.

>>41706749
Unless you are quite deviant in your sexual orientation, exotic races should always be about only subtle nuances.
Elf ears became so popular precisely because they don't disturb traditional beauty standards.

>>41706794
This. Less is more, otherwise they're just talking animals/monsters.

https://nyaa.si/view/1599846
People in this thread complain about no sao epubs, the universe answers and they appear on nyaa.
The unlimited power of 4chan.

>>41707259
yo what the actual fuck
good shit, if you're reading this thanks bro

>>41707259
That's the stuff.

>>41707259
I guess I have no excuse to not read it now.

>>41707259
nice, thank you

>>41707259
I want SAOAGGO volume 13 already.

>>41713286
I feel weird I can recognize a good number of these from having read them.
Not because I hate them, not for some insecure sense of guilty pleasure, I just consider myself as more into combat stuff so it feels weird I have read so many of these.
一生働きたくない俺が definitively sticks out though, I wouldn't call it bad, but it can be a really annoying as fuck read so it's not for everyone.

>>41713286
>1LDK,そして2JK
Nice title

I read the first chapter of Eromanga sensei (in jp). That was mighty boring, when's the ero happening

>>41714141
i don't remember any sex in that if that's what you're asking, but i also dropped it by volume 2 or so

>>41715750

No I mean anything ecchi or just, anything interesting. It doesn't help that the prose is nonexistant and it's written extremely literal.

>>41713286
Crap I forgot to include this one

>>41716216
it would break the neat grid anyway

>>41716243
9x5 looks better than 11x4.

>>41716216
replace the ex stepsister one, it already had an anime

>>41713286
Any of those has a real harem? Or are all the typical "five girls love the mc but he doesn't notice/he cannot decide which one he likes until the last chapter"?

>>41716729
which one is it?

>>41713286
I only know number 2 because it's r-18 and thus kind of in my reading list.
The other ones are all healthy all age romcoms right? God

>>41717244
uh wait, I got confused by basically the same image in /a/
>>>/a/244858013

>>41713286
I can't believe this thing has 7 volumes. I've only read the manga but it seems painfully average

What's the best font? I can only format it to 2 or 3 fonts and Gothic is the most readable. In jp.

>>41663294
First time seeing these threads. The torrents look great.

I love my wife Tamurahime.

>>41718759
based

>>41717826
Good enough for me, and it had enough sales to keep it alive 'till 7th volume.

Any ereader recommendations? One with a J-J,J-E built in.

>>41719476

They come with the dictionary included but it's better to just install the ones you want.
I only have a Kindle so I can't really recommend a model.

>tfw everyone is using fancy readers and i'm still reading off scans as a poorfag piratefag

>>41720520
I just read the paperback.

>>41686769
just started reading this, why everyone want to fuck seras? is she that good looking in-universe?

>>41722402
The author has a feminine mind.
The attractiveness of one's mate is measured by how many others desire to fornicate with them.

>>41722402
did you even read the story? it mentions how elves especially drive everyone wild, i assume she's hot even among elves though just like the main girl from mahouka koukou no rettousei

>>41722512
i started reading it because of the everyone wants to fuck seras memes and i thought it was just people exaggerating for the meme
but then i got to the 7 pages or so long rant from some guy despairing over how much he wanted to FUCK her and i realized oh fuck it's not just a meme, it's actually a thing
it's pretty good actually

>TFW you can't FUCK Seras.

what's everyone reading

>>41725680
as mentioned previously, i want to FUCK seras
i expected full edge, got that, but also some comfy, which is surprising

>>41725680
konosuba

>>41725945
>but also some comfy, which is surprising
Seriously! starting to think a lot of people got filtered by the revenge edge. They're loss

>>41725680

>>41726657
Wish eroranobe were more popular

>>41725680
chiramune

i saw a PV for 彼女が公爵邸に行った理由 and i was like why haven't i heard of this ln
turns out it is because it is based on a korean wn
disappointing

>>41727207
Do we have girls in this thread or are otome LNs worth reading for guys too

>>41726657
Apparently, I have a weakness for this.

>>41727191
This is my first time reading one with a female protagonist
Up till now I've stuck with mostly harem stuff
But I've enjoyed some of those doujin RPGs that /hgg2d/ playss where your player-character gets molested and more and more sex-addicted and this is like the book version of that
Even has alternate endings/game-overs after each story arc where she gives up on her quest and stays to make babies with the man who conquered her

>>41727283
Forgot to mention it's technically NTR which I'm not really into, and it does have some of those tropes, like a (magic) telephone call during sex, but there's not a lot of emphasis on the knight guy who's with her, and they're not a couple anyway; he's just there in the background for flavor.
It's more about her giving in to her cursed womb-tattoo when ravished by various manly men. No monsters so far but I'm not that far into it so who knows.

>>41727215
I'm a guy and I saw and otome VN that looked cool one time

Well that a way to change genre

>>41727200
チラッとムネ

>>41734633
Are the japanese raw epubs/scans of this anywhere to download? I've tried to find it because everyone keeps talking about it, but it's not in any of the sites I usually get my raws from

>>41731627
草

Read any good non-light novels lately?

>38 IPs
weird surge of activity, these threads usually hover around 20 or so

>>41736803
threads like these have been in demand. just about every isekai/harem thread on /a/ is a stealth ln thread

>>41735885
I guess there's /lit/ for novels with no pictures inside them but I dunno if Japanese readers hang out there

>>41737086
>just about every isekai/harem thread on /a/ is a stealth ln thread
well, were
nowadays the discussion quality has been so low the threads are mostly cn/kr shilling and various kinds of shallow shitposting
with the surprisingly in-depth autism sperg-outs here it feels most regulars use this as their primary thread now

>>41735025
yeah i haven't been able to find it either

>>41734633
I'm up to parity with the manga, so I kinda wanted to go and read the novel, but I can't find the LNs and it always feels a bit annoying to read the WN when the LN exists, just because I can't find the latter...

>>41740026
i don't like reading wn version when an ln exists because i can't register wns in my bookmeter account

>>41740468
If I end up really liking something I end up just reading both versions.

>>41741920
only series where i did that is arifureta
i have too much shit in my backlog to read something twice atm

>>41734633
kinda want to fuck her

>>41743082
everyone does

>>41737118

I don't think so.

Also wtf is that book

>>41744228
I hear they don't fuck and it's more about the 再生術

>>41744228
normally this doesn't irk me, but they really have to iron their clothes, they look like they just got out of bed with those clothes

>>41744549
>they look like they just got out of bed with those clothes
What if that's what happened?

>>41744243
>wtf is that book
classic Japanese literature from Naohiko Uraji

>>41744687
I downloaded the sample... I'll report back

>>41740468
>bookmeter
Is there a way to put books into categories besides the bookshelf function? Bookshelf only shows covers, no way to show a text list view, right?
I started adding manga to my account and then wished I could separate it from the novels
Maybe I should make a separate manga account

>>41746032
Is that public? I'd wanna check some of your books

How is sagrada reset?

Who the heck is this guy?

I love this crazy loli like you wouldn't believe.

>>41747872
Is that an image from accel world?
The art looks like it, but I barely remember the anime.

>>41663294

>>41747878
is sao alternative worth reading

Finished Jintai 6, was good as usual. I'm looking forward to the last three volumes.

>>41679495
Good post. I'm pretty much interested in all of these (had Brynhild on my wish list for a while waiting for a sale).

>>41746032
People usually make a separate account for manga since they dilute the page / books read statistic. I don't really like to track manga on there at all myself.

>>41746032
Is there an offline program version of this?

>>41748772
Yes.

>>41747872
>>41748772
>>41752007
I mean it looks like it says end-something-god tesutoriboka.

>>41749714
Yes. The author has unmatched gun autism,and he likes the VR game concept as well, he even uses the photon swords that were heavily involved in SAO GGO arc.

As for my pic, I love Miyu,a girl who has a modest bust and loves gaming is a winner. She even brings a spare amusphere to a date with a guy.

>>41752988
>She even brings a spare amusphere to a date with a guy.
the autism...
so cute...

>>41754345
She really is. If her boobs were a little bigger, she'd be the perfect girlfriend. Maybe she'd be willing to play a VR eroge with you....

>>41737252
Honestly that explains a lot, ever since these threads started to gain more traction a ton of smaller LN threads on /a/ largely died, even twintail threads went from "extremely slow" to "actually dead with less than 100 posts", even the few to aru threads aren't doing that well now.
Which is sad, because they were comfy.
Even the more endearing stuff that could be still considered shitposting on the isekai general like blondesposting and kotposting pretty much vanished, now it's all betrayal, netorare and whatever brings in inflammatory shitposting that day..

>>41756583
To aru is dead cause the franchise is dead.

>>41756583
>even twintail threads went from "extremely slow" to "actually dead with less than 100 posts"
I can't recognize "less than 100 posts" as "actually dead".
That's more than a full discussion's worth of posts. You only call it dead because the expectation is to have a thread regardless of whether there is anything to discuss.

>>41758427
i have seen those threads, most of those 100 or so posts aren't really discussion, half of them are page 10 bumps and the other half are shitposts
discussion is rare because yeah, nothing to talk about there without a new anime season or manga chapter

>このモヤモヤには覚えがある。
>俺の初恋の相手だった幼なじみの女の子が、不良の先輩のバイクの後ろに乗ってるのを見てしまった時だ。
>あの時は、仕方ないよなと自分に言い聞かせ引き籠もりがちになってしまった。
>でも、この世界でもう一度やり直せる事になったのだ。
tfw konosuba actually has a tragic backstory

>>41760283
bet /a/ had some great NTRguments over that

>>41760338
so glad my next door 幼馴染み was a dude and i'm not gay

>>41760355
i'm sorry you missed out anon

>>41760396
>leaving ako for toki
Slightly bad taste but reasonable

>>41725680
ありふれた職業で世界最強
I finished the wn main story two years ago but i want to finally complete my re-read of the ln version as well

>>41725680
Gonna start 召喚士が陰キャで何が悪い today because I like the MC's 目つき; hope he's proper 陰キャ and it's not just keyword bait

>>41762119
the ln version nearly doubled the size of the last 3 arcs which is somewhat annoying but people may enjoy characters getting more screentime i guess

anyone got お隣の天使様?

>>41755668
>>41754345
>>41752988
>>41749714
Any of you have the ebook version to share? Only see scans on nyaa.

>>41763367
>お隣の天使様
It's on the learnjapanese.moe discord server. you have to pass some dumb test to get access to their book downloads though

>>41763494
can't help much with that, i read off scans
much less of a hassle than epubs because i'm dumb

>>41762390
The synopsis sounds interesting.
Thanks for bringing it up, will try to read it in the next few days!

>>41725680
started お隣の天使様にいつの間にか駄目人間にされていた件 to get ahead of the anime

>>41763367
>>41763802

Isn't it a WN?

>>41764512
It's got an LN of course, I don't think there are any WNs that jumped straight to an anime adaption

I've been attempting to translated a series for the first time and the one I picked up the main character has said something about not wanting to go to college because he can't pay the scholarship (奨学金) a few times now.
Am I even worse at moon runes then I thought and just have do more reps or is something like the same kanji usually being used for student loans and scholarships, or do actual scholarships not typically cover the full tuition cost in japan?

>>41764567
>or do actual scholarships not typically cover the full tuition cost
You ever hear the term "full ride"? Not all, in fact not even most, scholarships cover all of tuition, boarding, food, etc.
At least not in burgerstan, idk how it's like where you're from.

>>41764630
from burger land as well so I know what its like, I'm just wondering if anyone knows what its like in japan specifically since I can probably name half a dozen series where a poor smart kid aims for a university and the only thing they need to worry about are grades. So the fact that this one series is implying that money is still an issue even if your the top in your grade and I can't find if student loans have a term in Japanese to double check is throwing me for a loop a bit.

>>41764567
I don't know how is it on burgerland but on a lot of non-english languages scholarship reefers to tuition costs as a whole.
Paying for scholarship means paying out of pocket.
Being given a scholarship means someone paid the whole thing for you, including living costs in a lot of cases.

>>41763505
Is it a better repository than the one on their site? Would be willing to go through the hoops if it is.

Do you prefer to read the ln version first and then watch an anime adaptation, or the other way around?

I think I prefer ln first, but I have certainly picked up some ln series after watching their anime versions.

>>41766581
in most cases i'd rather avoid the anime since 99% of the time it's a shitty adaption that changes things but if i do for whatever reason i'd rather watch the anime first so i see everything that was left out or changed and have my knowledge corrected. i'm probably more likely to remember more about the last form of media i consumed too

>>41763507
>>41763494
I buy physical, and in English

>>41763367
https://files.catbox.moe/tcv5t9.zip

>>41766581
I find it really hard to watch the anime after having read the source material, because I mostly focus on the things that the adaptation skipped or didn't portray as well as I imagined it.
So in general I prefer to watch the anime first and then if I like it go and check out the source material.
However if it's something I read and enjoyed a long time ago and suddenly an adaptation comes out, I'll totally watch it even if it turns out to be shit (I mean I even watched season 3 of to aru....)

new round of overlap announced
ハズレ枠 with a new volume

>>41766581
At first I would watch the anime, get tired of waiting for a season 2-3 and find out it was an adaptation, then be disappointed I was an EOP and TLs never ever.
Nowadays it's very rare for me to watch the anime first then the LN, I rarely watch anime these days and when I do it's to follow an adaptation of something I like such as shadow this season.
But when I do watch something I do it with my brain turned off, just hoping they don't mess up the cool moments.

>>41768657
>ハズレ枠の【状態異常スキル】で最強になった俺がすべてを蹂躙するまで 10
>ブラックな騎士団の奴隷がホワイトな冒険者ギルドに引き抜かれてSランクになりました 8
>創成魔法の再現者 4　魔法学園の聖女様 〈下〉
>百合の間に挟まれたわたしが、勢いで二股してしまった話　その3
>俺は星間国家の悪徳領主！6
Better lineup than last round, but with arifureta being over things will probably slow down a lot.

>>41770292
>but with arifureta being over
i'd be surprised if they don't keep going with arifureta after

>>41770308
Obviously they likely will, but the sense of closure over the main story being done is still there.

I had the opposite reaction? Ever since I started reading LNs in JP they feel pretty much like the script of the anime adaptation. Sometimes I wonder what's the point of reading it when you can get the same experience.

>>41770943
>Sometimes I wonder what's the point of reading it when you can get the same experience.
completely disagree
most ln adaptations use like 3 eps for one volume
that's like an hour of runtime, for an entire volume, and that alone should tell you how much has to necessarily be cut in order to fit it in an anime - because if you were to read that shit out loud like in an audiobook, you'll have a runtime somewhere between 6-10 hours depending on the novel
so even if it *was* a script like you're saying you would have to cut the vast, vast majority of lines
i don't see how you could possibly claim it's still the same experience

Anyone have the Kage no Jitsuryokusha LN epubs?

>>41766581
personally, i dont like watching anime anymore, unless is something im a fan of already and wanna see "how does this look like animated"
i also enjoy reading the manga way more, and thats mostly because i can read it at my own pace and not by the anime's own pace. but i wont deny that i have probably rewatched this scene like 20 times already. it was executed pretty well, imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cFbgLa2wJc

>>41763505
>you have to pass some dumb test to get access to their book downloads though
You only need to pass the easiest level, which is getting 25 readings right before you make 10 mistakes (so ~70% correct rate).
And it's really easy words too (top 1000 frequency)

>>41770997
And that's exactly while watching the anime is like reading the Cliff's Notes. An anime adaption only has merit when it has great art, music and voice acting which are the aspects where it can actually "improve" on the LN.

>>41771660
They're on AB

>>41771660
i hope you mean in japanese lol

>>41740468
As I've been reading >>41726657
I keep glancing over at (more like text-searching through) the WN because the WN has a few dozen instances of emphasizing that she's 16 years old while the LN removed/rewrote all of those

>>41746698
Sure, there's not much there though, and no reviews
https://bookmeter.com/users/960524
>>41749808
That makes sense. I dunno how much I care about the statistics but I think I'll delete the manga too

Any LNs with toilet scenes?

>>41775436
Don't have an AB account but thanks.

>>41776473
Yes, I'll remember to say in Japanese if I ever ask for anything again.

>>41777748
AB only has the english one anyway.
But the japanese ebooks are on that discord, let me rehost them for you

>>41777748
https://files.catbox.moe/6nkswm.7z

volume 1 seems to be a different source with lower resolution images

any good romcom that hasn't gotten axed?
I was reading bocchi no kanojo but only has 2 volumes and the last one was released last year?
I'm also reading tenshi and keiken zero too

>>41727351
do you read 主と奴隷達と ?

>>41777973
>主と奴隷達と
Haven't heard of this one. Just WN, looks like?
Mostly I just have a big pile of Kill Time Communication books (二次元ドリーム文庫 andリアルドリーム文庫、and then マキナ >>41726657 is Beginning Novels, their WN-to-LN label) 'cause I liked that they sell their ebooks in PDF form so I bought a whole bunch on sales a while back and am slowly going through them

>>41777939
Try 負けヒロインが多すぎる! it's pretty funny. Just note that MC isn't really the love interest nor much interested in love. It's more about how losing heroines are gathering around him for some reason, so he tries to help them to overcome the failed love and while doing that he himself is learning how to be more sociable.

>>41777939
unrelated ranting but i hate how romcoms even in LNs have become nothing but what boils down to either "woe is me" or "annoying teasing bitches"
or worse, both

>>41777848
>>41777888
Thanks, I love you anon.

hey anons is there a list of beginner jp light novels? something like picrel

>>41780258
I hate these sorts of beginner lists, it treats the reader like a retard.
And don't get me wrong, it's fine if you're a retard, but the solution is not to read simpler stuff, it's to have the patience to read at a rate of one page per hour.

>>41780306
>it's fine if you're a retard
kek

>>41780258
Eromanga Sensei

>>41663294
Anyone got フリッカー式, Nisio's りすか or 筺底のエルピス?

>>41780258
The smartphone isekai one felt super comfy to read, but that might have been because it has a larger text size than the usual LNs.
(The books are tankoubon-sized, but the amount of text per page is almost the same as a regular bunkobon-sized LN)

Does anyone know what happened to the お前ごとき LN? Last volume is over 2 years ago. Did it get axed? It seems like the manga is still getting releases.

>>41780541
New volume is being worked on but kiki recently said it'll take some time.

>>41780306
>but the solution is not to read simpler stuff,
nah that is the solution actually

>>41781015
It is, but too many people take that too far and force themselves to read stuff they don't actually enjoy.

>>41781166
correct, that's why i'm against recommending actual cartoons for 5-year-olds or graded readers
but if you can't enjoy yourself with a simple sol anime or ln you're going to have a real tough time
you have to be a special kind of masochist to enjoy spending an hour on a single page, even when the content itself is interesting to you

>>41781219
>you have to be a special kind of masochist to enjoy spending an hour on a single page, even when the content itself is interesting to you
it's called autism really, in my eyes you are the insane one for reading with things like news or sol stuff you don't care about
i remember taking a month to read NGNL vol 1 when i first started learning, but half of that time was spent on the first chapter, things got exponentially faster the more i read

>>41770997
That's not how scripts work.
I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion, but your argument is bullshit.

Those are two completely different mediums.
To accurately describe how a duel between two characters plays out, you can easily spend a paragraph per tempo (action in a fight). It's not hard.
But a tempo, in video, can take less than a second.
Now, when it comes to combat, anime usually fills up space with posturing and repetition. My point is not that anime does fights wrong. My point is that a paragraph (which takes several seconds to read out) is suddenly equivalent to less than a second in an animated medium.
You cannot equate the time required to transmit a particular set of information between different mediums. They just work very differently.

>>41782252
that's a whole lot of pseudo-intellectual drivel to not say much at all due to missing the point

>>41782280
You keep saying this.
Do you really think it's a valid argument?

The GJ-bu LN actually is a script though

>>41780258
read what you want to read. There's no point in reading "easy stuff" if it's boring af

>>41780258
Get a bunch of raw LNs from series you have read/watched and enjoy.
Try reading a chapter or so from each one until you find something on your level.
Failing that, read manga until you can handle books.

>>41780258
read toradora, it's easy :^)

>>41766581
I prefer reading the LN first because it's the fuller experience and then just seeing the coolest scenes animated in the anime version.

How do your read your light novels /lng/ ?
On your pc? tablet? kindle? do you import your 文庫本 from japan?
or maybe you are one of those weirdos that use their phones?

>>41786916
A mix of 文庫本 from japan and pirated ebooks on my ancient kindle.
I'm thinking about getting a Kobo Sage, but the low battery life scares me

>>41786916
I mostly use my phone, waiting for black friday to buy a new kindle (my old one is a paperwhite gen 1 and it has undergone rubber reversion, on top of being super slow, so I'm not touching it).

>>41786916
Mostly imported physical. Shit that I don't really want to pay for I'll just pirate and read the scans on my computer.

I know there are plenty of places for self-publishing novels and web novels for Japanese people, but is there a similar one for the west? A decent one for me to publish my own "light novels" in English?
I'm talking a mainly otaku-oriented platform with a growing community. All those shitty western platforms you usually get recommended online are for either YA or smut aimed at women. Nothing of value to be found there. And Fanfiction.net is just for fanfiction as the name says.
I don't even want to become popular or anything; will probably even upload my stuff anonymously. But I want it to be somewhere where there's like-minded individuals.

>>41786916
Also a mix of imported physical and ebooks here. Anything I can find pirated I'll pirate, but I also don't mind buying the occasional book on sale from Amazon or Bookwalker. I try to avoid reading scans since I don't enjoy reading on a tablet.

>>41787922
>the meme western ironic weebs
>having a serious otaku-oriented platform or caring about that content at all
lol

>>41787998
thanks for the helpful reply, dumb neckbearded faggot
hope u neck it, not like your shit-reeking body pillows would miss u >.<

>>41786916
Pirated epubs on my phone. I would buy them but I can't be bothered to get a credit/debit card.
>>41787922
ScribbleHub and Honeyfeed have lots of weeb novels.

>>41788039
you got the reply you deserve, fuck off to /aco/ or wherever, though you probably belong on reddit

>>41788039
With that attitude you would already fit in those "shitty western platforms", why are you here?

>>41788209
>>41788333
gatekeeping being a weeabo just bc u jerk it to plastic experiments every day, kek
i bet u worthless cunts were born post 9/11 and found out about le 4chin through le tictac
suck my nuts u faggot zoomers, ur the reason why the board went to shit in the first place

haha he's malding

>Complains about gatekeeping.
>Is exactly the kind of person that should be kept out by gatekeeping, and is a living textbook example of why gatekeeping is a good thing.
Literally every time.

>陰の実力者になりたくて！　０５
>Product page out.
>Cover illustration out.
https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/322209000322/

>>41787922
Royal Road has been the home for most of that stuff for a while now.

>>41788441
>>41788567
samefag madcause he cant handle getting punched back :'(

>>41788174
>>41788700
thanks anons, ill look into them :3

>>41788693
Zeta time!

>>41740026
Vol 1-6 is translated on nyaa

>>41725680
Youjo Senki

>>41725680
ラブコメ漫画の世界に入ってしまったので、主人公とくっつかないヒロインを全力で幸せにする
at least the webnovel version since the LN is fairly recent
Sei-chan is so cute

>>41787998
So long as you define your interests as coming from a particular country (or people), it's pretty hard to build a community dedicated to creating such content despite not being part of the defined origin space.
To a degree, the weeb is inherently a self-contradictory and "ironic" being.
That doesn't mean that you can't be earnest and make your own contributions. It's just hard.

>>41789393
>n-no u
lol

>>41745708
Are you ok, anon? Did they get you?

>>41789413
I have no idea how you got the impression that I am pointing fingers at anyone.
Did you read my post or did you just guess what it might say?

Has anyone here read this?

similar question to the anime anon
how often do you end up finding the WN version before the LN version or manga adaptation?
even if you read both, which do you read first, the WN or LN?

>>41790130
Usually I find the WN version of something first or it's the manga first then I check if there's a WN or LN.
If the LN only has a couple volumes out then I skip it and read the WN only but if it's something that has only a WN and LN then usually I'll read WN first and then LN.

>>41788693
Real talk but that anon the other day explaining the translation for this was shit wasn't exaggerating.
I remember reading this way back then and thinking it was mediocre, now much later I can read japanese to a decent level and gave it a try again, reading the raws this time, and the difference is like night and day, definitively a top 10 for me personally, really looking forward to volume 5 even if I'm a slow reader and I'm barely on volume 2.

does the manga adaptation skip anything relevant?

>>41790130
I regularly brows narou/kakuyomu so I pretty much always at least know about a WN before it gets adapted.
For older stuff I check what formats it's in and read them in release order. Unless it's tedious or feels like something I'd only enjoy once in which case I only read the manga/LN

>>41789084
>Sei-chan is so cute
She got her manga recently. Her features aren't as sharp as I'd like them to be but it still looks good. Maybe one day we'll get an anime and they'll dump all the budget on a VA who'll do Hisamura's confession justice.

>>41791513
yeah, I didn't like how she looked in the manga since I started reading it because of how she looked in the LN cover but the manga had like 3 chapters so I just read the WN
I got used to read LNs now so I don't care that much about the manga

SAOAGGO volume 11 coming in 5 days.

>>41791888
is the cover out?

>>41789084
i also picked this up like 3 days ago
she really is cute

>>41790784
I'm surprised anyone is still interested in this.
And just like any manga adaptation, it most likely skips and rushes stuff around.

i call dibs on the OP image for next bread being kage vol 5 >>41788693

>>41778437
nta, can you kindly share vol 3 and 4 pretty please?

anyone else getting insanely bored of jp novels? i only read kr shit now

>>41793684
Sorry, anon, would love to be of assistance but I just buy everything physical.

>>41793950
It's okay, but please tell me is shikiya senpai also a losing heroine?

>>41794233
She is, although it comes with a twist of sorts. 4th volume is her and Koto's story.

>>41795512
>>41795512
>>41795512
Next.

>>41795518
We're still on page 7. This thread is going to last for quite a while yet.

>>41793706
>kr/cn shills still think anyone cares about their shit aside from other shills
lol

i hate bringing it up, but the thread is dead so may as well
i'm glad this general started to get traction, recently /a/ became even more of an unusable shithole than it already was