/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>43166325
>tfw no comfy harem with nine horny wives
it hurts

>>43166375
Who are you quoting

>>43166520
he quoted the voices in my head i telepathically transferred to his walls which in turn get echoed to his room

>>43166520
my soul

>>43167594
good

Does anyone have Japanese epubs (or mobi, azw3, etc) for rezero? Unless I'm blind the library is missing like 15 volumes.

>>43171397
isn't that due to kadokawa taking down piracy more seriously than other publishers do?

>>43171397
anon files
/85U1m5k4zf/re_zero_rar

>>43173229
nta but thanks bro

>>43167305
Sounds comfy, ngl

How many English translations of light novels are published per month?

i wouldnt know

>>43178187
who cares

>>43178187
Not enough

>>43178187
Too many

>>43178187
can you repeat the question

>>43166325
Suu-chan is my Wife

>>43166325
For me it's Yumina.

>>43166325
Other than the artstyle that makes every girl on that cover look adorably autistic to unbelievable degrees, what's good about this to reach almost 30 volumes?
Sell it to me.

>>43184585
Pretty much the gold standard for comfy adventuring with cute girls.
It's simultaneously for everyone that is open to reading that sort of stuff, because it doesn't have anything too out of left field that could alienate someone like more autistic shit, it's simply >fun, and also yeah pretty adorably dorky in that sort of "fluffy" way, for a lack of a better word, though fair warning it does have it's tense moments here and there.
But it's also not for "EVERYONE" because well, it's an isekai about a guy with an smartphone who rather quickly learns how to be overpowered, normalfags would start screeching about "wish-fulfillment" and other buzzwords before they reach the end of the first volume.
It reached past the 20 volume mark because basically anything that gets to 10 can go on forever, and to begin with it reached 10 volumes because just like anything that does that, it's easy to get invested in the characters, if not the MC at least one of the girls.
To rephrase that, it's been going for that long because it avoided season 1 syndrome and the story has actual progress, though said progress can be slow at times in favor of even more comfy scenes.
I have also seen people shill it for it's outstanding prose in english, but reading it in japanese I can't exactly relate to that, it feels fairly normal to me so I'm inclined to believe it's a translation thing, but my "good prose" standards are uber-autistic shit like dendro so there's that.

>>43184977
>I have also seen people shill it for it's outstanding prose in english,
I wouldn't say it had "outstanding prose in English", only that it was very readable compared to the MTL version or to many shitpress releases which complemented its breezy plot well.

>>43185103
I'm glad it's readable in english but I have been learning japanese for years exactly to not deal with any of that, so yeah.

>>43184977
>basically anything that gets to 10 can go on forever
Sometimes, they should stop when the author becomes completely clueless about the future flow of plot and its characters. Screw "Overlord" and screw Maruyama.

>>43185133
that's a problem with maruyama being a fucking hack more than a 10+ volume format problem
if i like something i want more of it so it's hard to agree
heck i fucking hate overlord now but i still want more volumes, if only to see it finally fucking end, a volume a year is too painful

>>43178187
Space yourself out. Try to read three LNs, one-two normal book and one non-fiction per month.

>>43184977
I thought the gold standard for that kind of feel was death march

>>43185317
nta but death march stagnated hard, the worldbuilding is good if a bit wiki filler-y, but the character interactions are just bad, satou barely feels part of the group after a point and the other characters don't do much either outside combat and arisa doing all logistics
and this is avoiding the obvious elephant in the room of satou having no romantic progress whatsoever with anyone, even the entire thing with lulu AND aze felt forced
also if the goal is "comfy adventures" then death march is not it, it's more like a happy mostly safe road trip while satou deals with world ending calamities over and over
i'm not even asking for sex, but a few actual dates wouldn't be too much to ask for would it? the author disagrees, it has better writing on the combat scenes than the comfy ones, shit's ridiculous

>>43185317
i've read and enjoyed both
smartphone is a more comfy while death march has a little more in terms of battling and serious moments

anyone has 魔装学園H×H epubs with good quality?
the ones on zlib have really shit quality illustrations

>>43187891
anon files
/WfS9B1k2z6/_h_h_rar

>>43187954
these also have bad quality. But I found good quality epubs on nyaa instead
thanks anyway, bro

>>43184977
>anything that gets to 10 can go on forever
That's proven untrue by Lazy Dungeon Master. It received advance notice for the axe by volume 14 or so, though it was given 3 more volumes to wrap things up, so it ended at volume 17.

>>43189090
That one got hard carried by it's premise and promising things would get good soon, but it never did.
Had it either advanced relationship progress like smartphone or advanced battling and the plot more while exploring the world more like death march, it would actually have easily lasted much longer.

>>43189090
i fucking hate lazy dungeon master so much
where's the anti otonari tenshi guy? i want to sit besides someone that hates something as much as i do

OTONARI TENSHI LOVE

>>43191090
>>43191125
Why does that one cause so much seethe in particular? Out of all the romcoms, why that one? It's not even the first, or the most popular, or the most well known around normalfags/ironic weebs.

Christ the /a/ light novel thread is terrible. I'm thinking of picking up Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku. Has any anons read it, and if so what do you think of it?

>>43191174
>Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku
oh boi that's one title i didn't ever expect to hear again
i will try to not spoil anything
it's one of those that is not for everyone because half the damn thing is deranged autistic landmines that would be dealbreakers for most people, but will feel like the best thing ever if you actually get past that and get fully immersed because just like any story like that, the emotional rollercoaster can hit like a bullet train to the balls
hope you like cute girls suffering though

>>43191213
>cute girls suffering
picked up

>>43191213
>half the damn thing is deranged autistic landmines that would be dealbreakers for most people, but will feel like the best thing ever if you actually get past that and get fully immersed because just like any story like that, the emotional rollercoaster can hit like a bullet train to the balls
Sounds like dendro or any autistic stuff.

>>43191243
nah it's separate from the autism, and it's on layers too
if autistic scale is pretty straightforward (WSJ) > somewhat complex (a lot of entry level isekai) > a bit autistic (kagejitsu, bisco) > pretty autism (loner isekai, smartphone) > very autism (NGNL, dendro)
then what i'm talking about is how normalfag friendly it is, from basically for everyone like WSJ stuff to alienating basically everyone, both aren't mutually exclusive on either end
dendro is autism but doesn't really alienate anyone aside from being (kinda) isekai and VRMMO
something like ヒロインは絶望しました (not LN but first thing that came to mind) is not that autism but i can imagine it repels basically fucking everyone, it's also more cute girls suffering if that anon wants to pick it up too
NGNL is pretty autism and it also repels most people because of it shameless fanservice, loli, and loli fanservice, go figure

>>43191303
but no game no life was extremely popular, or at least the anime, and I can't imagine that the LN would be on such a higher level of autism that it goes from one of the most popular isekai to alienating almost everyone. Also I'm the anon, and what's autistic about our heroine has despaired?

>>43191551
>I can't imagine that the LN would be on such a higher level of autism that it goes from one of the most popular isekai to alienating almost everyone.
oh boi you have no idea
do you want to read about shiro training sora like a pet using literal BDSM fetish imagery while she's wearing what is basically a demon lord styled microbikini?
do you want to read multiple rants about trying to grasp what is the nature of a genius and what forces them to drift apart and never really connect with everyone else?
it's fun if you do, because the world of anime and LNs are practically day and night like that due to how much gets censored and skipped on adaptations
>Also I'm the anon, and what's autistic about our heroine has despaired?
i didn't call that one autism, i did say it wasn't, it's just cute girls suffering and i mentioned it because >>43191241
also death game shenanigans, which personally make me nostalgic because i'm fucked in the head like that

>>43191607
that makes me want to check out the ngnl ln now. I wanted to read it when the anime came out but I didn't put in the effort to find a translated version. Also I guess my reading comprehension is waning.

>>43191551
>>43191607
To be fair, NGNL also happened pretty much right before the ironic weeb invasion of the anime medium.
If released today there would be riots over it on western twitter trying to cancel it, despite the anime already being pretty censored, on top of the early parts of the story being pretty tame.
It doesn't go full deranged until the big game with holou.

>>43191691
Why did so many more people start watching or at least talking about anime during 2014? I can't think of any event that happened that would've triggered it.

>>43191747
A multitude of factors happened around that time, this can't be attributed to a single event, it was multiple things aligning in the wrong place at the wrong time.
>Crunchyroll crushed (heh) all competition and started to push to a more mainstream audience.
>For better or worse, anitubers started to become a thing, and made a huge fuss about SAO.
>This is not a joke or to be underestimated, the core of the entire anituber industry launched off shitting on SAO's anime adaptation and trying to be cinemasins but anime.
>Gacha like kantai, girl's frontline and azur lane started to get popular around this time, serving as yet another vector for normalfags to get into "the animes".
>Srs bsns "mature" anime like the adaptations of shingeki no kyojin, log horizon, jojo part 3, ufotable's FSN and shokugeki no souma, and also ones like aldnoah zero served to push the medium as "legitimate and serious art" while also desensitizing them to the diet version of "wacky otaku culture tropes".
>The coffin then was set up by overlord's and gakkougurashi's anime adaptations in early 2015.
>The nails started to be pounded in with one punch man soon after, with anitubers really rising into popularity and reaching even cringebook-tier normalfags with the rakudai kishi vs asterisk shitshow that very same season.
>Then the final nail happened with kusoshitsuba on 2016, and that's when it was officially over and anime became a normalfag medium.

>>43191174
Imagine Madoka but it is a battle royale and it has no good characters or themes. Just magical girls doing stupid shit just for the sake of it, because they are stupid.
Magical Girl Site manga/anime gets a LOT of shit but at least it was entertaining and balls to the wall unhinged. Raising Simulator is just bland and uninspired.

>>43193035
This was far better than madoka though, urobuchi has a really bad problem of writing one dimensional characters because he needs to railroad the plot to have very specific "kino" moments, I don't know why it's so highly regarded.

>>43191607
>do you want to read multiple rants about trying to grasp what is the nature of a genius and what forces them to drift apart and never really connect with everyone else?
Well, I read Artaud's essays so I should be ok.

>>43193049
Sure, in the grand scheme of things all drama and suffering in the Madoka's plot was pointless but it was an anime with cool music, imagery and gave us a lot of porn of the main girls. It should get some sort of credit.

>>43193069
whomst

>>43193085
Crazy French actor and writer. Known for surreal and unhinged works and essays full of themes from history, occultism, philosophy, and mythos. Also the creator of the "Theatre of Cruelty" model. A lot of his essays dealt with "genius" creators not getting proper recognition from society or their less successful peers and getting bullied for being better and driven to madness, hopelessness, and suicide as a result. He has pretty extensive writings/ramblings/manifestos about the talents of Van Gogh, Edgar Poe and Charles Baudelaire. And he also wrote some hateboner critique against multiple writers and painters who gave up their "genius" and decided to satisfy the masses with simple, generic and popular stuff.

>>43193077
>an anime with cool music, imagery
that's like, the bare minimum
why should that get any credit

>>43193141
unironically sounds fun to read, the venn diagram between "genius", "social outcast" and "unhinged" has a lot of overlap, and even the most autismo LNs tend to focus mostly on the latter two, being an outcast and questioning one's sanity (or calling the rest of the world insane
i feel it also comes from some kind of impostor syndrome and not wanting to call oneself a genius, for some reason that's the feeling i get from a couple authors, but it sounds interesting to read from someone that just went fuck it, and embraced it
>And he also wrote some hateboner critique against multiple writers and painters who gave up their "genius" and decided to satisfy the masses with simple, generic and popular stuff.
because of this, this i agree with and i just know when i read in detail what he has to say i will either agree completely or fucking hate him and that sounds amazing

https://twitter.com/suiseimushi64/status/1646092698296926209
I don't read this but it's nice that some axed works are getting official confirmations nowaday

I like light novels

same same

same but post-ironically

>>43193173
Most genius are just higly intelligent people ,generally very consciencious , so less likely to be unhinged or outcast.
The autistic unhinged genius are rarer , they generaly have high rate of depression, usualy on the spectrum and have a hard time integrating into society.
They cannot fit the mold, and fitting it would neuter part of the genius, which comes from their out of the box thinking, which also regard the society they live in as insane,and they may be right in my opinion.

Genius here, I love light novels. Especially otonari tenshi

I'm indifferent to otonari tenshi.
Because I haven't read it.

Novels for this feel, please.

>>43201967
otonari tenshi

>>43166325
Is it true than anime/LN otaku and train otaku really fucking hate each other, I was wondering why there's so few railway LN or Isekai given how big the later is in japan (legit I think Rail Wars is the only example of one that was published) and apparently they're had an autistic cold war since the 90s of vandalizing each others spots and blaming the other group when some retard kills someone and or is caught with a 3D kid.

>>43204891
I know there was some controversy about "Train Man" and "Otaku Man" books but I don't think it was that ballistic.

>>43166325
yumina > linse > else > lean > sakura > yae > hilda > luu >>> suu

anything cool on narou these days?

>>43207361
finding new stuff is tiring, got tired of finding relatively promising new stuff only for it to crash and burn in less than 20 wn chapters or just get abandoned
i'm sticking to the "don't read anything with less than 3 volumes" thing now

>>43204891
>and apparently they're had an autistic cold war since the 90s of vandalizing each others spots and blaming the other group when some retard kills someone and or is caught with a 3D kid.
actually that has been a thing since the 80s, longer if you count cases of train otaku having friction with other kinds of non-anime otaku
and it might have started due to gundam otaku "taking away" fans from the topic of trains to mecha and toku back in the 70s, but that's so far back in time and so poorly documented it's practically myth

>Still no kagejitsu vol 6.
The author said it would be out by the time the anime finished airing...

>>43208696
Did he? Where?

>>43208749
Good question, I remember it being on an interview but I don't know how to look that up again.

>>43206887
I want to FUCK Yumina.

>>43210034
been there done that

>>43210034
>tfw no cute fianceewife that will be by your side and who you can confide with in your darkest moments
it physically hurts

>>43210330
based touya

I noticed Japanese online reviews for books seem particularly autistic. Not sure why that is the case.

>>43214731
Tvtropes kind of autistic or something different?

>>43214782
tv tropes was never autistic, these days any superficial random thing is like 20 different "tropes" while they simultaneously fail to understand basic plot points, but that's just the natural outcome of the site being filled with normalfags

Any place that could possibly contain dead translations? Want to read https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-day-my-sister-became-an-exclusive-meat-toilet but translators nuked their website and aggregators only contain up to chapter 8.

>>43215961
>look it up
>nocturne link still up
>35 chapters
>last update was half a decade ago
just MTL if you care, it's a dead novel nobody will archive the translations of

>>43216058
i will never understand people that mtl porn

>>43216256
to be fair there's no other real option for those that refuse to just learn japanese
especially when translations these days are edited MTL tier anyway, they tend to make mistakes only sub-N4s would make

https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4185ci/
imagine writing 700+ chapters and counting about a girl in a bear costume
based

>>43217065
>19 volumes and counting
nice, one more and it reaches 20

>>43217065
A story more grand than LOTR.

>>43217065
would be based if her bears got a human form and spitroasted her

Odds: Buy physicals of Grimgar
Evens: Buy physicals of Horizon

>>43217065
>skim synopsis
>家に引きこもってＶＲＭＭＯゲームをやる15歳の少女。
oh boi here we go

I want to read this author work so fucking much but I can’t buy it and there’s no upload yet which is strange since they are relatively popular

>>43219750
no digital release?

>>43219552
I bet the Bear could beat Momonga.

>>43217065
When the FUCK is vol. 20 getting announced.

If anyone's looking for something short and interesting, please read 下準備転生～下準備チートは全てを駆逐する～
It is less of a story and more like a framework for the author's brainstorming and also will probably never be completed. Entertaining though

>>43225251
holy fucking sex

>>43217065
extremely boring, unfortunately

>>43226766
Objectively wrong.

KUMA HATE

Anyway, next overlap wave, a big one.
>信者ゼロの女神サマと始める異世界攻略 11.
>俺は星間国家の悪徳領主！7
>ブレイドスキル・オンライン 5
>一生働きたくない俺が、クラスメイトの大人気アイドルに懐かれたら 4
>俺にトラウマを与えた女子達がチラチラ見てくるけど、残念ですが手遅れです 3
>現代ダンジョンライフの続きは異世界オープンワールドで！2
>落ちこぼれから始める白銀の英雄譚 2
>灰の世界は神の眼で彩づく 1
>攻撃力ゼロから始める剣聖譚 1
>現役JKアイドルさんは暇人の俺に興味があるらしい。 1
>魔王と勇者の戦いの裏で 3　
>Sランク冒険者である俺の娘たちは重度のファザコンでした 5

>>43227793
>信者ゼロの女神サマと始める異世界攻略 11.
>俺は星間国家の悪徳領主！7
nice
still no arifureta after
sad

This month in GC novels.
>異世界転移したら愛犬が最強になりました～シルバーフェンリルと俺が異世界暮らしを始めたら～ 4
>異世界黙示録マイノグーラ～破滅の文明で始める世界征服～ 6
>村人ですが、なにか？ 1
>暴食のベルセルク～俺だけレベルという概念を突破して最強～6
And so far for next month.
>嘆きの亡霊は引退したい ～最弱ハンターによる最強パーティ育成術～ 10
>失格から始める成り上がり魔導師道！～呪文開発ときどき戦記～ 6
>魔女と傭兵
>毎日家に来るギャルが距離感ゼロでも優しくない

>>43229924
>魔女と傭兵
yoooo it's getting an ln release
nice

>>43230147
qrd?

Which novels have "I wish I was as cool as him" main character instead of "He is just like me"?

>>43230390
pretty sure there's no real difference between the two, it boils down to perspective
normalfags lean into the latter, deranged weirdos lean to the former

>>43227793
>>俺は星間国家の悪徳領主！7
With every new volume we are one step closer to the author refusing to take his meds and for the fun to begin.

>https://gitlab.com/shosetsuorg/shosetsu
What do you think of the app Shosetsu?

>>43232661
>named shosetsu
>all the examples are chinese, korean and anglo sites
Heh

>>43232909
Looks like it's only based on repos, meaning you have to request a source from a website to read what you want. I generally download all my stuff to read locally so it seems like I'll have to go back to moon reader

>>43233550
>moonreader
Btw, I read that it started supporting vertical text a few updates back but I can't find the option. Do you know anything about it?

>>43234996
>tfw no vertical text option
what's the point then

>>43231073
QRD?

>page 10
autosaged again?

just nothing to talk about

>>43230390

>>43166325
If anyone have read both series. Which one has done the most of the romantic relationship progression so far. Which one has lots of more progression done in the romance?

>>43244545
haven't read the right one but i'm confident the answer is definitively not the left one

>>43242696
No

>tfw want to read a VN that was never translated and is nearly 20 years old now
https://vndb.org/v1001

so read it

DED SUREDDO

i thought this was the eroge thread because of this >>43250736 retard

what's your favorite japanese light novel?

>>43254980
boogiepop

>>43254980
サクラの降る町

(it's the only I've ever read)

does anyone know what happened to the huge resources of audio books? it was uploaded to 12 separate mega links, 90% seems to have been nuked
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bmiVK3FBrL0p7Eif8A92YjAeW4zuVyZmfh-M22XsLKQ/edit#gid=0

>>43256155
shouldn't have shared it on public forums
thankfully, you can just download them all from audible yourself

>>43254980
Hard to pick a favorite so I will just default to dendro.

>>43254980
ありふれた職業で世界最強

>>43254980
Zaregoto 2

>>43254980
Blood Sign

>>43254980
ぼくは異世界で付与魔法と召喚魔法を天秤にかける

yep, anime adaptions work

>>43263628
to be fair this one was already decently popular before the anime

>>43256155
probably most of it was from a single guy and they got taken down

I really like light novels

i'm indifferent to light novels

>>43263628
anyone have the volumes not on unlimited? i want to binge it

I really HATE OTONARI novels

>>43270361
just buy them bro they're not that expensive

I like otonari tenshi.

Enjoying the anime
Midwits just don't get it

I wish reki would hurry with SAO and Accel World so he could focus on Progressive.

>>43273029
>Midwits
isn't it halfwit

>>43253841
feels like there's nothing going on until two or more anons have some autism spergout again, then it reaches bump limit within a day

>>43273029
i saw someone complaining that it's too slow because it "added stuff that wasn't in the manga"
you just can't get it right with these people

gimai seikatsu sisters, our time is near...

Any single heroine stuff to read (in JP)? It can be isekai for all I care, I just don't want to jump from one flag to another.

>>43276980
roshiadere
the one with omiai in the title
gimai seikatu

>>43276980
isn't that practically all kugirie stuff like shana

>>43277205
>gimai seikatu
NBR trash, that's a lol, lmao even

I can't for the love of God find the latest volume of お隣の天使様. Why are there so many download sites in the OP yet none of them seem to have anything recent

>>43275852
Do you think the parents care at all if anything happens between them, the extended family is obv a separate issue

>>43278652
I would argue that no. Mother seems pretty lax with these matters considering her line of business. I'm more worried about Grandfather...

>>43277796
anonfiles com
/Ec10Famaz2/otonari_8_rar

>>43276980
There's うちの娘, 魔王の俺, that one WN about MidbossxPriestess, and technically Rokujouma. You'll have a better time looking at the Shoujo/Josei section instead though. Barring those totally not!furry, not!tranny, and not!wymanstronk series, the Shoujo (and to some extent Josei) section tends to have a greater amount of monogamous pairing, but they're not that good in evoking the Goslings in your kokoro. 真の仲間 is still the all-around winner for that.
>>43275572
No Dendro, I sleep. Speaking of which though, Form V here we go! It's definitely gonna be an "I die You die" type of skill, which means TriFlag's definitely gonna end in a duel. Also, seems weird to say this to other series but I hope we'll get some filler arcs after this, fuck if Kaido decides to continue with another 120 chapters of plot heavy The Evil content, my boy Ray deserves some rest. This whole thing reminds me of Touma not sleeping for 3 days straight because of Othinus' bullshit, though I guess we did get 1/6 living Magic God onahole as a result, which is the single best choice Kamachi ever made for Index.

>>43279318
not even that anon but thanks bro

>>43276980
ラブコメ漫画に入ってしまったので、推しの負けヒロインを全力で幸せにする
陰キャの僕に罰ゲームで告白してきたはずのギャルが、どう見ても僕にベタ惚れです

Does anyone have the latest 公女殿下の家庭教師? I don't want to give money to this author so let me leech, please

>>43286275
not yet
i will buy it during the next bookwalker event if no one else has gotten it by then

>>43286394
>the next bookwalker event
whens that

>>43287766
only time will tell

>>43286275
>I don't want to give money to this author
why not

>>43289264
Because
1. His stories range from shit to mediocre and not worth my scarce monetary resources
2. He is a disingenuous fuck who splits what is clearly a single chapter into 3 or 4 chapters to pad his update frequency
3. He clearly stops giving a shit after the LNs get on track, as apparent from his extremely errant update schedule after the initial spurt
4. And on top of that he abandons stuff without completing them after they lose steam. Meanwhile he shits out new (and absolutely mediocre) stuff for that next dopamine hit

All of this is probably just my delusion and he could just be that kind of writer that can't concentrate on any one thing for a long time. But personally I find him insincere to his works and readers. And as I said, his stories aren't good enough to make me disregard that and spend money on them.

>>43286394
Cool. May Ellie appear in your dreams

>>43290129
damn so you've read so much shit that you just spend your reading time reading stuff you don't really like now?

>>43290199
I am afflicted with a mental disease that makes me read something to the end once I picked it up. Yeah, I know it's idiotic but that's the way it is. And it's not like I hate all of it because some parts are entertaining enough (specifically ellie.

>>43290276
わかりみ。Although for me I'm at the point where I've learned to think thrice about picking something up to avoid this exact situation

bros...

>>43290129
>he could just be that kind of writer that can't concentrate on any one thing for a long time
Authors like this should just take the Kamachi/Kaido route: create a world and write tons of loosely connected stories for it.

i want to ... an elf

スローライフ is just 日常系 in LN speak right

>>43296534
not at all
スローライフ means living a chill life usually out in the woods or in a small town/village while spending most of your time doing stuff you enjoy
日常系 is a way broader term it just refers to stories that are mostly about things happening in everyday life
an ln about a salaryman working 15 hours shifts everyday could be considered 日常系 for instance but it's far from スローライフ

>>43296515
レ○プ

>>43296613
naruhodo...maybe i'll read one, i've seen many with it in the title

>>43296515
wait, this isn't seras

>>43296758
she's hotter than seras

>>43296515
Does this turn into a harem? What's the point in introducing hot characters that the MC definitely won't get with after he's already happily married? Cover bait?

>>43297764
>Cover bait?
ye and it's working *unzips*

i fucking hated the time-skip in this it was just way too abrupt and sad

>ポーション頼みで生き延びます！

Would anyone happen to have 俺の妹が最高のオザクだった ５, ６, ７? I have the first 4.

>>43302954
俺の妹が最高のオカズだった*

>>43301175
>see complaint
>open image
>Author: FUNA
>instantly get a rough idea of what happened
is there any other author similar to this? not necessarily edgy/sad though

>>43297412
is that even possible?

>>43305483
you can see it right there in the pic

Iseleve is pure kino. Definitely picking up the novels once the anime is finished.

What do you prefer anons? 縦書き or 横書き?

>>43310207
縦書き is the only correct choice for light novels

>>43310207
It's a fucking book. Of course 縦書き

>>43310207
why would you use anything but vertical in this case

The Japanese language came down to us from the heavens by the goddess Amaterasu, so it is logical that it is read vertically.

>tfw wn you followed got new chapter today after five months
nice surprise

>>43310696
who this

>>43310331
>>43310357
>>43310376
i prefer horizontal when reading on pc/laptop
for kindle/book format it's obviously vertical all the way

>>43310884
The ideal for pc/laptop is a two page spread with vertical text. Basically the same way a real book works.

>>43310767
https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2199ex/

>>43310994
thanks

So I read the first volume of 七つの魔剣が支配する
>Like somebody taped an episode of The El-Melloi Case Files over a copy of Harry Potter.
That was pretty much spot on but also add muh revenge to that which is cool.

侯爵嫡男好色物語

I wanna have a state supported breeder palace too gosh darn it

>>43312534
picked up

anyone has youjitsu year 2 vol 9 epub?

>>43313056
anonfiles com
/c62fudn4zf/_epub

>>43313093
thank you, anon!

So I was reading tenshi volume 6 with all the kissing, and it got me really horny. I wanted a proper Amane x Mahiru doujinshi, but literally every gallery is NTR. So I just fapped to traps instead.

>>43313778
do people actually get horny from normal romance?
i always imagined people read that for the comfy

>>43313783
They are sitting on the bed, she is in his lap, and he's kissing her neck. If reading that doesn't make you horny, your inagination sucks.

>>43313795
yeah that's going way farther from normal lovey dovey stuff i know

>>43166325
>https://reader.ttsu.app/
why is this not in the op

>>43314372
because someone keeps making new threads on bump limit iirc

>>43312577
Genuinely hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Somehow I enjoy the political chapters just as much as I enjoy the pink chapters. It's wildly brutal and comedic at the same time. ガリアナ子爵 is a top tier role model.

Also what's the deal with getting a crappy barebones manga but not a published LN???

>>43310884
agreed agreed

>>43166325
anyone know if there's a difference between wn and ln for this?

>>43317619
the white coat fluff thingy is so goddamn ugly

>>43318191
it makes him look like a pimp, I like it

>>43317619
just read both

started reading 魔女と傭兵
it's pretty comfy

I feel like there is a real gap in the market for an isekai where the MC gets transported to a pre-historic world with dinosaurs. If I was Japanese I would write one.

>>43319436
I'd read it if the dinosaurs were cute

it'd need a cute caveman princess heroine

>>43319436
cage of eden was pretty popular

>>43319436
I still remember that alt history thread on /a/, because of it I can't take a single alt history suggestion seriously now.

>>43319436
all these meme writing prompts are all bark no bite when you only mention settings rather than characters, which matters when (good) LNs are primarily character driven and the setting accentuates that, not the other way around
>>43319505
what, don't you want another "what if" revolving around the roman empire, WW2 or the burger civil war again?

>>43319542
i didn't mention good characters and character interactions because they are a given for me

>>43319573
sounds like a copout when any other story can claim the same

>>43319596
i have no clue what you're trying to say
i don't care what a story "claims" it either has cool characters i like or it doesn't

of course you need solid characters, doesn't change the fact that a good choice of setting can freshen up things
look at 目覚めたら最強装備と宇宙船持ちだったので、一戸建て目指して傭兵として自由に生きたい it tells a familiar story but it's in space rather than fucking middle ages europe which is neat

>>43319626
The problem is it's hard to take an opinion seriously when it comes packaged with the "literally all isekai is just middle ages" belief, which is just not true, especially when by volume 2 or 3 people start whipping out the magitech.
Though some like death march take longer than 2 volumes to do that, but then again that one also went full space elves.
Even if aze and her implications with the MC basically ruined the story.

>>43319639
of course not ALL isekai is just middle ages but i don't know how you could possibly claim it's not the vast majority of them like come on
and yeah of course some of them have a tech spin on it but that doesn't change the core setting

you called?

>>43319672
maybe stop reading garbage with less than 4 volumes if you want variety
while i consider magical explorer trash, it's still isekai, and it's on a setting that is pretty much modern earth with magic
which is just the quintessential battle school setting fad from like a decade ago now that i think about it

Did book-rank get nuked? i liked using it to find stuff

>>43191607
Didn't the author made a doujin of shiro and sora fucking?

>>43320249
>Didn't the author made a doujin of shiro and sora fucking?
Big if true.

>>43320348
The doujin name with it is "Neteru dake no Kantan na Oshigoto & Shiro to Nii ga Eroi Koto suru Hon" some say it was actually his wife that did it but she is his assistant helping with NGNL so idk if it matters much

Once it gets through moderation the whole series will be on Z-Lib

>>43319682
that's just bronze age clan wars ruined by nobunaga

>new ヘンダーソン氏の福音 is out
>80% is LN original material
Wondering if he'll write another original volume covering the 17th year as well.

>>43322439
Pic related, only 十六歳の秋 was in the WN, everything else is new.

>>43322439
Going by the afterword, next vol's going to be a completely original one

>>43322557
that's fucking neato
bard songs are epic and all but seeing it firsthand is just better.

>>43322620
>bard songs are epic and all but seeing it firsthand is just better.
That part is actually in this volume and what really happened was very different from what the song portrayed. Next volume is actually centered around nanna, the baldur clan's head (the girl on this vol's cover)

>>43322557
>wrote volume 5 to make lansane drawe more centipede armpits
>wrote volume 6 to make lansane draw more horsepussy
What is lansane going to draw next?

>>43322439
>>43322557
I wonder if he regrets timeskipping so much in the WN? Or perhaps he is purposely stalling to delay any catching up to the WN.

>>43322790
given the WN is almost starting to read like a greentext QRD, he's probably just using it to write out a rough outline of the plot

>>43322807
Yeah, no. If anything it's the earlier portions that reads like a digest while the zombie arc is unreasonable long and detailed and the present arc seems to be the same.

If you ask me, I think he is consciously timeskipping to use the gaps for original stuff in the books while also making it easier to pace the WN correctly. Personally I didn't really find this volume great, so timeskips are probably a good idea.

Tangential, but what do you think is the author's plan for the final form of the hero's party? With Cecilia joining them it's
Vanguard:
1. Sword mage
2, A spear user that relies on crits
Rear:
1. Scout
2. All purpose Alchemist
3. CC mage
4. Priest
And one more mage in the rearguard if Elize also joins later. There are just too few in the vanguard for the balance

>>43166325
>Learning Japanese to avoid mistakes and subtext trimming by translators and MTL is heavily recommended.
Is rote memorization and repeated writing of kanji still the best method for learning kanji?

>>43326133
no and it never was
learnjapanese.moe

>>43185133
I think it's the same problem as with Disney Star Wars where some obvious plot hooks are laid out but then Maruyama declined to explore them and decided to rush a "bad" ending. It's subverting the expectations of the audience for the sake of subversion, and in doing so it undercuts what little character development people saw in Ainz.

>>43217013
>especially when translations these days are edited MTL tier anyway, they tend to make mistakes only sub-N4s would make
I'm so frustrated by this. Yeah, I can't read Japanese either but you can obviously tell when an MTL has skipped a line or translated something wrong in context. You can go to Jisho to look up kanji and google grammar rules to figure out what's being said. How hard is that to do when you're making one blogpost per day?

>>43166325
BLONDE LOLIS

EROTIC

When does a story make the jump from WN to LN or manga? Is it just the author decided when to accept an offer or going out to look for publishing deal?

Currently enjoying 屠殺鬼 (Butcher Demon) and its one of the best LN I ever read, but there's no manga, no light novel, nothing despite having enough content for at least 10 volumes if published unedited. Yet, something like 孕ませ転生冒険者 (Reincarnated Adventuring Breeder) has far less content but got a manga adaptation with a much more LN-like title change and a good Pixiv artist. And there's completely published works that have never gotten an adaptation, like 転生領主の迷惑性技.

When does a story make the jump from WN to LN or manga? Is it just the author decided when to accept an offer or going out to look for publishing deal?

Currently enjoying 屠殺鬼 (Butcher Demon) and its one of the best WN I ever read, but there's no manga, no light novel, nothing despite having enough content for at least 10 volumes if published unedited. Yet, something like 孕ませ転生冒険者 (Reincarnated Adventuring Breeder) has far less content but got a manga adaptation with a much more LN-like title change and a good Pixiv artist. And there's completely published works that have never gotten an adaptation, like 転生領主の迷惑性技.

>>43326489
Is that the one that MC is some monster-like that they think have no intelligence while ravaging girls they throw to him in the imprison?

>>43326283
beetwen official,mtl edited while i learn japanese i surely rather the mtl edited, though the AI translations are much better

>>43326663
Yeah, that's the first 90 WN chapters and there are 280 in total with the next arc scheduled to start in June this year. It's at least 90 LN-length chapters if they don't strip out the sex ones.

Is there other WNs as autistics as the Spearmaster and the Black cat?

>>43326489
depends from author to author
kagejitsu got a LN deal like months after it started, it didn't even have enough content for 2 full volumes
some take 100+ chapters before they become a LN
enough content for 10 volumes and still no adaptation is certainly weird though, but maybe the author wants to finish the story before doing that, is their first work or have they already published something else?

>>43327889
It's their first work. They finished a second WN in 2022. 天使と呼ばれた悪魔

>>43328027
if neither is adapted to LN then maybe the author is not interested on that

u know what's way more likely?
that no publisher is interested in that

nah the author is holding onto the integrity of his rape demon story

>>43328444
doubt it, literal who publishers are like vultures and will grab anything
even GC seems to put out anything as long as the original WN had a decent amount of chapters and it's still active

>Series that have not been completely translated or released are allowed to be uploaded if two years have passed since the series began. Never before, no exceptions.

That's some increadibly retarded rule AB

Finished NGNL volume 7, still stun locked. Haven't read many LNs (started last year with kagejitsu) but fuck this is one hell of a ride glad I took the dive.

>>43328904
In JP? I'm glad the series is back at released new volumes

>>43317619
I've only read the first few volumes, so this might change later but at least as far as I've read, the LN version adds some bonus chapters without removing anything from the WN, so no need to read both.

>>43322890
I'm an EOP who hasn't read the WN but my personal impressions are that Elisa is being set up as a plot device or even an enemy rather than as a party member.
And are we still waiting for Lauren to get back?

Finished Seirei Tsukai World Break and it was kinda of a nice read despite some stuff that annoyed me, at very least i enjoyed seeing even side characters of MC have one or other time to shine and people being able to truly get stronger without MC getting all credits or having to show "i did it better"

>>43330040
now that stuff brings quite the nostalgia

>>43330007
She was actually very stable in the previous wn arc so I doubt she would become an enemy and I don't think there's anything left to her to use as a plot device.
The idea of her joining the party came from author's implications in wn and twitter comments. But she could just settle in her present position in the wn where she tries to help him politically
>Lauren
Yeah, not yet in the WN and probably not anytime soon in the LNs. He will meet another related ogre though

>>43191213
>Mahō Shōjo Ikusei Keikaku
Anyone have the epub for this?

>>43328937
Given the author's health problems it's pretty much a miracle it's still ongoing.

>>43331332
I remember watching the anime was a guilty pleasure of mine since i didn't really like the art direction, so i decided to read the LN this year

>>43333307
Considering the amount of LN/Mangas that got axed,rushed or the author died that i wanted to keep going at least this one have some hope i guess

i need a beginners LN for immersion

>>43334707

continuing with 魔女と傭兵
chapter 17 was quite entertaining

Does anyone have いつか天魔の黒ウサギ in epub?

>>43340541
wait hold on, same artist as NGNL? don't have the epubs though

>>43340885
Yeah its from the same author of Dai Densetsu buti ts already finished, i have it in pictures maybe i will try to use OCR or just buy the good ebook at worst

last part of TRPG 6 got translated today.
Feel pretty sorry for Erich in this one desu, even more than in volume 2. At least he seemed to be having some fun in all the others in some way despite not quite getting to do what he really wanted, here he's just completely trapped into a job he has no love for by a boss who is never going to go away.
At least in the other Henderson scale endings the heroines and his kids (where they existed) were a source of comfort and stability, in this one he's always living on the edge of life and death with them, at some point somebody is going to get killed and he's going to be miserable no matter who it is.

>>43342799
Lol, my exact opinion a few theeads back. Feels too much like an abused salaryman. Rest of the volume was extremely entertaining though, probably my favorite. Btw, did the extras get released? Or do they only get published with the full book?

>>43342837
Yeah, this volume felt like the writer just having fun writing mild screwball comedy without needing to care about actually advancing any plot since AFAIK it's just filler that expands a few WN sentences into full episodes. The only thing that really nagged me was in the climax he goes out of his way to mention that somehow not even any of the nameless mobs died thanks to them all being kitted out in the fantasy equivalent of chobham armor, which while just barely hypothetically possible felt more like a hamhanded way to just ensure the episode had zero true lasting consequences. It was still fun overall and I enjoyed the MC getting to try his hand at mentoring and truly LARPing as a hero for a change.
>abused salaryman
the feel I got was more of a gritty spy noir theme which would naturally come with a lot of PTSD and angst in between sleeping with the enemy, kek
>extras
They'll be part of the premium epub so they won't come out until 5th June.

>>43342892
Also the idea of Erich and Nakeisha's daughter potentially turning up in the middle of this extremely serious mortal underworld spy battlefield looking like a fashionable tanned gyaru gave me a chuckle.

>>43342892
>mobs not dying because of the armor
That's only for the knights though, that too only for deidrich's arrows. If anything, reading between the lines makes it seem like erich consciously avoided killing anyone because he had his doubts about the entire situation since the beginning

>extras
So I probably have to wait for a month or two then. Still, the tls are surprsingly fast, they will probably catch up with the original lns by this year's end

Can someone share all the Aditya chapters up to the first part of chapter 8?

Suggest me some good kingdom-builder/○○-builder LNs or WNs please. Preferably completed

>>43343195
you have two options, you give up on the genre and read senki stuff to cope or just give up on the genre and read something else, there's simply no saving it

>>43343216
Is the situation really that bad? I recently read 下準備転生 which I liked and it made me want to read more similar stuff. I don't need it to be ultra-realistic or well researched, just something where the author at least thought through what he is writing about is fine

>>43343195
>>43343286
NTA but there's like kuro no senki if you don't get instantly filtered by isekai+harem, which personally I consider the golden standard of the kingdom building genre.
But yes the situation with the genre is pretty bad, most of the better ones are just (soft) senki.

>>43343195
literally the smartphone isekai

>>43342892
Actually while I'm on the topic, something else I also randomly really liked about this chapter was how much unspoken emotional intimacy and antagonism at the same time the author conveyed through a simple cigar smoking scene.

It's out boys!

>>43166325
Recommend me chuuni novels pls

>>43355226
nip or eng?

>>43355311
Not him but chuuni only truly exists in japanese in my book.

>>43355324
I usually don't consider something chuuni when it loses the "anime" aspect not necessary always happen to lose it on a translation, if i have to deal with VA then certainly if its not in japanese i can't "feel" the chuuni at all

>>43355311
Eng

>>43356762
my condolences

>>43356762
Almadianos Eiyuuden
Ihoujin, Dungeon ni Moguru
Spearmaster and the black cat if you want 100% pure autism

>>43355324
pretty much this

>>43353831
shame the voice actor changed

>>43355226
Infinite dendrogram
Fate strange/fake
Lord el-melloi 2 case files and adventures

Anyone know what happened to 人脈チートで始める人任せ英雄譚? The manga's still going but the LN's been stalled since over a year ago

good morning i hate cuckold explorer

>>43369148
Magical Explorer? What happened?

what is the hardest japanese novel on syosetu

>>43370360
what did he mean by this

>>43370360
https://ncode.syosetu.com/n8662fh/

>>43370497
difficult japanese

>>43370503
loner isekai is anywhere from "hard to understand" to "borderline fucking incomprehensible even as an N2"
dendro and NGNL tend to get pretty complex when they get poetic
anything by shinkou like shikkakumon no saikyou kenja is "fights are 80% unexpectedly consistent technobabble" tier, on a level much worse than dendro or NGNL are
not sure how many are actually on syosetu though, i'm just listing off LNs

>>43370744
trpg player is annoying to read as well but in an overwritten kind of way not literally fucking insane like loner life.

>>43370841
well yeah but he asked for "difficult japanese" and i interpreted that as complex conjugation/keigo, too reliant on context, and common use of complex and/or exotic kanji
so that's a different way of difficult, and if it's about overwritten kind of way then i can add komarin (hikikomari kyuuketsuki no monmon), death march (it honestly drags on a bit too much), seven spellblades, mahouka (honestly it's also a bit complex to read at times too), to aru (autism) and magika no kenshi

did anyone try 迷探偵の条件?
i've only read some few chapters of the manga version but i think the premise itself is kinda neat
>mc keeps attracting yandere girls to the point he got too good at being observant and identifying murder suspects, also became a detective after some murder happened at his school

>>43360010
>>43356780
>>43355324
What chuuni JP novels you guys reccomend? Preference some that have no eng translation so i can't be lazy

Anyone here read 自灯籠 ?

>>43373437
>Preference some that have no eng translation so i can't be lazy
A bit off topic, but I don't understand this unless you're still in the early learning stage or something. If you're otherwise comfortable with JP, why on earth would you even think about English. Anyways to answer your question, I'm reading 七つの魔剣が支配する right now which is pretty cool and I think that counts as chuuni

>>43375676
I like making my list of what to read bigger, if there is no translation it forces me having to study more instead of using the easy way

>>43373437
honestly "chuuni" kinda says nothing, what is it?
epic fights?
complexity autism?
"kino drop" scenes?
deranged broken weirdos interacting with one another?
yes it's more or less a venn diagram but depending on the author things will lean towards one of the points more than the others

>>43375960
Well chuuni will have different amount of certain aspects depending on the author i guess i'f be looking something with a bit more of 1 and 2?

Finished NGNL 11 (english)
fuck i usually defend romantically challenged mcs but holy shit sora pissed me off to know end this volume. No amount of jibril autism could not stop me from the infinite amount of seethe this volume caused. Other than that it was a fun read. Im on to demon lord retry or Evil Lord

>>43370360
https://ncode.syosetu.com/n4132et/

>>43378095
>>43378095
>>43378095