/jp/ - Otaku Culture

forsake japanese
embrace mtl

>>45888757
he isn't wrong but that's literally how you learn more efficiently and faster than a normal learner would, not just japanese but in general
the autistic people that tend to do this in the first place also tend to do it way beyond the point they already "know" how to read japanese

>>45888757
i think you got lost bro, /djt/ is down the hallway

>>45780990
Anyone

>>45890157
I have it but can't share due to reasons, sorry. Just go and read the ss fantls. They are not really important

Any suggestions for a natural sounding text to speech pc software for japanese that works on epubs? Raam0

>>45890205
already did. I just want to have the raws and read them in japanese this time

>>45889612
nah last thread you guys were going on and on about this too unfortunately

>>45891220
dragging up off topic shit from last thread is unironic nigger behavior

Do you prefer LNs with a clear ending in mind and a story that works towards that ending all the way, LNs where the writer is just making up new arcs as he goes along because the MC having fun with his girls is more the point, or LNs where there is obviously a clear ending in mind but the writer got distracted chasing something shiny and is clearly never going to actually get there in the next 5 years?

>>45891489
all of them as long as i like them

>>45891489
This >>45891638
To be more specific I like anything where it's clear the writer's having fun writing it

>>45891489
As long as the story is mostly the author's idea and he still has fun things to do with it, I'm fine with it. When I feel like it's mostly the editor giving the writer their ideas, and the writer is just here to develop them because they don't know what else to do, I don't like it like Kagejitsu post v4

this was really good, most fun i've had reading an ln series for a while
hopefully vol. 12 will be announced soon

>>45892239
>spoiler
post v4 has been a lot of reworked ideas from the WN though. to say the editor is feeding daisuke ideas is inaccurate. if anything, the gacha is where daisuke drawing inspiration from

>>45891489
>never going to actually get there in the next 5 years
holy shit did you find a rare short LN? i'm used to stuff lasting for 15 years minimum
facetiousness aside (because it wasn't a joke) i learned to not care, endings are overrated (and i have seen stuff end to know), as long as i enjoy the volume and the story doesn't sour me enough to not pick up the next, that's enough for me
also it's extremely rare for an author to close up a story and not shit up their next one by failing to live to expectations, to the point the only example that comes to mind is the blade dance author and the new shota demon lord story, and even then only because my expectations were already not that high
yes there's ones like yomu and shinkou that have multiple ones i like but that's not the same in my opinion

>>45892239
>like Kagejitsu post v4
If you pay close attention to the format, vols 5 and 6 were just a single volume split into 2.
Every single volume up until that point has 2 arcs, each of those new volumes only have one.

>>45892787
shit's like crack cocaine in light novel format

>>45888757
this is only really true if you're reading something that makes an effort to make things obvious like its a book for normal people
but what person who reads japanese light novels is into normal books?
theres things that may only be hinted at a single time thats easily lost in translation
but i guess things that small usually arent very crucial to the story

>>45896477
depends on who you ask, for some intricate worldbuilding is the story and the actual events are happenstance
same for others that consider character interactions the story and the events are just things to keep the ball rolling, and some lns don't really have a grand plot at all and are just a journey

>>45892787
apart from the adventure, the girls are nice too...
for me the hottest ones are Kris and Mei despite being on opposite ends of the spectrum
https://files.catbox.moe/ca3mbt.png
https://files.catbox.moe/r9mi0c.png
https://files.catbox.moe/s6n7yb.png
this really caught me off guard. I never would have expected her to do this, or to make such a believable display of wanting dick behind the teaching Hiro a lesson koujitsu[/spioler]

>>45897326
What tablet are you reading on

>>45897353
Fire HD 10 IIRC
it was only like 60 bucks or something, so it can't run anything at a reasonable speed but since I only use it for LNs and manga it was worth it to get a cheaper one rather than waste money on one that can play minecraft or something and then not use that power

>>45897326
he needs to fuck serena already
she's the most desperate one

>>45897396
it's funnier if he doesn't

>>45897396
>Selena
「spoiler]さて、後はメディアスタッフの足が手配できればこの星系ともおさらばだな。何か忘れているような気もするけど、まぁ大したことではないだろう。[/spoiler]

>「spoiler]

>>45897396
>Selena
さて、後はメディアスタッフの足が手配できればこの星系ともおさらばだな。何か忘れているような気もするけど、まぁ大したことではないだろう。
>>45897467
fixed

>>45897470
Just highlight and ctrl+S, it's far easier.

does anyone know if リュート's other series are completed?

>>45897523
I'm 90% sure minecraft isekai is finished (axed) at least.

>>45897539
i mean finished as in completed and not axed
i don't know how to figure this out without reading synopsis and spoiling myself

>>45897373
Thanks. Yeah I've been stressing about finding a good one but I'll 100% not use it for anything other than reading anyway

redpill me on ebook tablets

>>45899564
they suck, e-ink readers do the same job but with less eye strain and more battery life.

>>45897326
boo

>latest dendro ch
Behemot being a jc/jk 1 is unexpected

>>45903404
I can't tell if that's older or younger than I would've expected. She has angsty child side, but she's also pretty calm and collected. Especially compared to her Embryo.
Perhaps she matured a bit since starting Dendro and spending over a year in its tripled time. From what I recall, that's why Xunyu is nothing like the 10 year old girl she's supposed to be, but then again, Dendro's children aren't known for being normal.

>>45900396
ikr. but still what a hot scene.

I think I get it. The moral of Tri-Flag's final part is "Girls with daddy issues can be reformed with enough beatings," Naruhodo.
>>45903404
>Behemot
Anon, we finally got her real name. Henceforth, Behemot shall be referred to as Betty from here onwards. Picrel for easier visualization.
>JC/JK1
Naw man, it's the perfect age range for wannabe schoolshooters. Jokes aside, I didn't think Power Rangers would actually be referenced here. I always thought the accident mentioned by Shu happened in the Sentai show itself (since IIRC it was stated to be an international phenomenon), not the Burger adaptation of it.
>>45903521
>I can't tell if that's older or younger than I would've expected
It would have been a lot funnier if she were younger desu. Imagine if Leviathan was born because Betty had her first period the day she logged in to Dendro. The Arabian oil prince got his powers after being denied his reign; Slime got his because he's a clone with no purpose in life; and the Scandinachinkian bitch got hers because she wanted her words to be heard by everyone. Then there's Behemot, who got her world-defying strength because she had a shitty day in school; that would be like a kick in the balls for all the other Superiors.

>>45904971
>that would be like a kick in the balls for all the other Superiors.
not sure that would be the case actually, there would be some that would think it's retarded but feels like a lot would just sorta "get it" but i don't know how to explain why

I love sword autists so much it's unreal

Anyone got the other Volumes of 負けヒロインが多すぎる? TMW torrent only got the 1st and the 5th when I was search from all the 5 torrents in Nyaa.

>>45892787
>hopefully vol. 12 will be announced soon
April or May maybe. リュートstarted working on it a month or so ago. It usually takes him two months, then a couple more for the publisher.

>>45897523
２９歳独身は異世界で自由に生きた is complete. 目覚めたら最強装備と宇宙船持ちだったので and ご主人様とゆく異世界サバイバル are ongoing.

>>45897539
About that...

My eyes don't have enough throughput to intake this much chuunibyou in a single pass, I had to read the passage again three times just to really soak it all up.

>>45908690

>>45908690
lame
>>45908722
KINO

>>45908722
>declaration · [fancy kanji name] with furigana on top
fucking love this, it's like a drug to me
and fucking sucks for whatever reason translations don't do this more often, it's a sin almost as big as removing honorifics to me

>>45908722
Are other languages even trying?

>>45908758
English version is clearly doing its best to reproduce the cadence and does a fairly commendable job but it's like trying to perform one of Mozart's piano pieces on a xylophone, there's only so far you can take it.

>>45908722
I was really proud of myself cause for the first time I just finished an anime series where i understood every sentence without JP subs, but then when I read 彼我が融ける。I immediately thought I would probably have been confused without subs lol

Finished nanatsuma volume 10.
Is the author done traumatising Oliver yet or are we never getting off Mr Bones's wild ride?
Also why are high powerlevel Kimberley students so gay

>>45909106
His purpose is to create grief and pain.

>>45909106
>Is the author done traumatising Oliver
Lol. Lmao. Vol 10 is just the start, later it's like everyone's trying to snipe at his personal trauma

Does anyone know what happened to the author of "Confinement King"? Both the wn and ln just suddenly stop getting any update nearly half a year ago.

>>45910568
監禁王? The manga is still running so he is atleast alive

>>45908722
now this is based

>Reading webnovel and imagining the characters as looking like real people
>Light novel shows the illustrations and it suddenly gets ten times harder to keep imagining the characters as looking like actual people instead of how they're depicted in the illustrations

>Imagining anything as real people while reading it.

>imagining 3dpd willingly

>>45913072
>>45913139
>>45913198
/a/ is that way, fuck off

can anyone share tomose artbook?

>>45913072
>imagine character as rough looking muscular man
>illustration is just a slight more toned bishounen
>novel describes girl having a slight tan or whiter skin compared to others
>illustration has everyone with the same skin tone

>>45909263
i heard something about nanao and katie having a threeway with him in v13, traumatizing if true

>>45913853
>illustrator likes boobs too much to draw character as small as described

hi, what is the different between Light Novel and the other one (forgot name). why do some stories have a LN and the other one?

>>45917901
more questions because this is the first time reading

where do i find the pictures for LN?

tips to reading LN? like how to better tell who is talking. in english writers use "Larry said blah" but LN there's like 3-5 quoted lines in a row and i'm like who the fuck is talking. also these are fan translate

>>45917960
>but LN there's like 3-5 quoted lines in a row and i'm like who the fuck is talking. also these are fan translate
your only real option is to read it in japanese
the author always makes it clear who is the one talking by having them speak in a certain way but that gets lost in translation

>>45917960
Thank god for 役割語

>>45917960
> Where do I find the pictures for LN?
Google their illustrations or find the actual LN volume they are from, usually on the wiki
>tips to reading LN? like how to tell better who is talking. in english writers use "Larry said blah" but LN there's like 3-5 quoted lines in a row and i'm like who the fuck is talking. also these are fan translate
Even in fan translations, you should be able to pick up who is speaking by the context of what they are saying and their personality. Ans usually they set the scene of who is talking and will make note of any interjections from other characters joining the scene.
You will get better the more you read and will find it that constantly having, Blank say, A responds etc, etc gets really annoying and ruins the flow.
So you will have A say something, B responds or A says something, B reacts, and A continues.

>>45917901
>what is the different between Light Novel and the other one (forgot name).
assume you mean either WNs (web novels) or VNs (visual novels)
VNs are published like any game would, in one big block with CGs, music and dialogue depending on the budget, some split it into episodic releases like umineko but depends on the dev
WNs are novels posted on various websites (given the narou monopoly is gone) and updated very regularily, often daily or weekly unless the author slows down for external factors
>why do some stories have a LN and the other one?
more often than not WNs are the "true" source material but the LN gets treated as the main source material, WNs are by definition amateur releases, LNs are official publications through a publisher
not all LNs have a WN source
>where do i find the pictures for LN?
google? downloading the volume?
>tips to reading LN? like how to better tell who is talking.
learning japanese, unironically, this isn't really an issue in jp

>>45918002
>>45918545
wow that's cool, japanese is very interesting
>>45918911
thanks, I do hate english she said he saidm, sucks the role language doesn't translate well to english
>>45918958
thanks, it was WN. i understand now LN and WN. how would i find out if a story has a WN and LN?

>>45919062
you can usually just find it's narou/yomu page if you google the title if it has one

>>45909106
i fapped to drugged mind control oneshota rape

>>45919978
shame on you anon
i also did

>>45908722
>Finally catch up with dendro's LN and start thinking about reading the WN too because people seem to be posting WN spoilers.
>From how it's shilled think 7魔剣 is DUMB.
>One image single alone convinces me to read it.
Damn.

>>45922008
Volumes 9-13 of nanatsuma have all been pretty fucking incredible. The author is really on a roll here.

Do any anons here have novel recommendations (web or e-books) with tribal/survival themes? I've been reading 創世のタイガ (the manga), and it's been really engrossing, but I feel like reading more LNs lately too.

Op doesn't have fan translated novel site. Where has tag filters?

>>45926361
I'm following 遥か異界の地より and it's pretty nice.
The beginning can be a bit rough if you can't handle the classmates being bitches but it's generally smooth sailing from there on when he splits ways with them.

>>45926361
異世界ゆるっとサバイバル生活. Completed r18 wn. The story and characters are good. But though the survival elements and knowledge are technically correct, the author makes the successes look so stupidly simple without going into the gritty details and the amount of effort that goes into the stuff

I think it's technically a "normal" novel, but has anyone here read 屍鬼? How hard is it in terms of Japanese? And how does it compare to the manga and anime?

>>45927238
Oh neat, I remember reading a little of the manga, but not too much harem/romance or base development took place in the chapters I read. How is the LN's pacing in those regards?
>>45927074
Read one of the user reviews on Kakuyomu, and it looks like it may be right up my alley. Language barriers and diseases, etc, sound like they could be cool plot points. Thanks, anon! I'll make this my nightly read for a little while.

>>45927750
>How is the LN's pacing in those regards?
Basically the same. Talking about the wn btw, never read the ln

Completed danmachi vol 12. One thing I have to say, this illustrator really has such a great sense. Probably the best in the industry.

>>45892787
is in arifureta level?

>>45931377
it's up there for me in terms of pure enjoyment while reading
it feels different as a story though, arifureta gets way more serious
arifureta is a story about betrayal, survival against all odds and trying to get back home
uchuu saikyou is a story about cruising through space while fucking hot bitches and occasionally killing some pirates

>>45931377
It's hard to shill cause it sounds lame when I think of how to describe it
It never gets very serious, at no point do you ever truly worry if the characters will be OK, the protagonist is too tsundere to show his feelings to the reader in the narration let alone the other characters.
It's like pulp sword and sorcery or flashman or something but Japanese and in space, and I massively enjoy it the whole way through, tjeres lots of references to western PC games like elite dangerous, stellaris, titanfall etc. It's just really fun

>>45892787
what's its romanized name?

>>45931377
Same type of stuff, not quite the same caliber.
Arifureta has moments where it tries to be too serious and makes you believe there's some actual risk to the characters, and it may be due to the author not being that experienced early on but for the first half of the main story there's not much character depth.
This has far more focus on heart to heart stuff without devolving too much into telenovela drama, and counterintuitively the combat ends up being more engaging exactly because there's no "high stakes worry" which allows you to actually take in the scenes without speeding past them to see if someone you care about dies or not.
>>45931967
Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusen.

>>45932105
>>45931538
>>45931447
It's also by the same author who does isekai minecraft, which came back from hiatus. This author is quickly becoming a go to for me for a lot of the aforementioned points. i just hope the ending to isekai minecraft isn't like WN...

>>45932186
I just listened to the audio version of 29歳独身 vol 1 today and yesterday and during the first quarter or so I was like 'yeah It's okay but not as good as his other stuff. Nice listen but I don't know if I'll be picking up this series"
By the end of chapter 3 I really wanted to see where this series is going. I'd say maybe he'd gotten better at starting a story interestingly by the time he started saikyou uchuusen but I can't lie I'm kind of invested already. In uchuusen Hiro's always scared of losing his freedom so takes care to not get too involved or committed to things that would tie him down. But in 29歳独身 it seems the concept is going to be a guy goes to the isekai and hopes to live freely but immediately gets a big part of that taken away from him and tried to deal with it. Keep in mind I only know volume 1 so in volume 2 he could completely find a way out of it as far as I know. But if my interpretation is right that would explain the 自由に生きたかった as opposed to 自由に生きたい in the title

>>45932186
If nothing else, this author learns from his own mistakes oddly fast maybe too fast, isekai minecraft was bad at the start but had soul and was interesting, then quickly became less shit until he wrote himself into a corner with the WN, then started to fix the issues on the LN.
29歳独身 started on shaky footing but also avoided catastrophic corners later on while sticking to it's premise and themes.
And now Uchuusen starts out on a solid if simple foundation, then builds up further from there.
The minecraft WN died so the other stories could live.

>>45929365
k i n o

>>45927043
Talking to people I knew were translators or wanted to be one made me realize a lot of them are of the mentality that EOPs are whiny bitches that deserve nothing.
And these days all fan TLs are just held hostage in some group's patreon.
The fan TL scene is as good as dead.

>>45932325
>>45932435
>29歳独身
would you recommend it?

>>45936230
As I said in my post, for me the beginning of volume 1 felt like not bad but fairly average isekai fantasy, but once he gets the whole scenario set up and you realize what situation the protagonist and the heroine are in it gets really interesting for me. It definitely doesn't feel as confident and sure of itself as Uchuusen. You can still feel that amateurish "a guy is crafting this story" feeling from ２９歳独身 whereas Uchuusen manages to thread that needle where it actually feels like you're reading a character's journal. When I talk about Uchuusen I never come up with sentences like "once he gets the whole scenario setup..." or something, I just come up with sentences "when x happens, when y character does z", etc. But I still had fun with it, and I want to try volume 2 now.
I think you'll just have to try it for yourself to find out whether you like it or not.

Is there any easy way to know if the book version of certain LN is way different from the web version? The piracy scene seems to be pretty dead, I can't find any scan of newer stuffs at all. I don't mind buying some but that would be dumb if I can read the same thing on the web, the illusts alone ain't worth it.

>>45938984
>Is there any easy way to know if the book version of certain LN is way different from the web version?
Asking someone who read it is the only way. Searching for the same in japanese generally tend to give a hit or two though
>The piracy scene seems to be pretty deadpywd
It's very much alive but in closed circles like discord. And major series tend to get the scans uploaded sooner or later anyway.

>>45940944
>but in closed circles like discord
discord servers are the worst way to get pirated stuff because you're basically asking people individually, and at that point just ask here

>>45938984
if you're autistic about a series you will likely read both WN and LN versions anyway

>>45942836
Before asking here and wasting anon's time you should at least have the decency of checking on nyaa/zlib/that discord. Looking for help before searching on the usual suspects is just spoonfeeding.

>>45947591
The meme way isn't really accessible because >pisscord.

Thankfully Anidex is back so I can continue to seed my stuff for literally no one.

Anyone have an ePub for 我是星际国家的恶德领主！volume 8?

>>45952374
>我是星际国家的恶德领主
No, but the ~Discord~ has volume 8 of 俺は星間国家の悪徳領主
https://files.catbox.moe/9l7l72.epub

>>45953389
Kek. Thanks

>>45952374
was that the chinese name or something?

>>45952374
ching chang chong

>>45892787
I've been enjoying it quite a lot. My only complaint is the romance feels like it was written by an alien trying to write about humans. The setting is fun though, like another anon said it's definitely quite addicting.

>>45955117
>the romance feels like it was written by an alien trying to write about humans
sounds realistic then
picked up

I made a small python script to convert Japanese novel TXTs into HTMLs with vertical orientation and proper furigana.
You run it like `python SCRIPTNAME INPUTFILE` and it outputs `out.html`.
I tested it on one volume of Toradora and Shiki.
Yomichan seems to work.
You may need to change the script according to your needs.

import sys
import regex as re
with open(sys.argv[1], encoding='utf8') as f:
txt = f.read()
pattern = re.compile(r'([\p{IsHan}]+)(《[\p{IsHira}\p{IsKatakana}]+》)', re.UNICODE)
output = pattern.sub(r'<ruby>\1<rt>\2</rt></ruby>', txt).replace("｜","").replace("《","").replace("》","").replace("\n","</p><p>")
print(output)
with open('out.html', 'w') as f:
f.write('<html><style>html {writing-mode: vertical-rl; text-orientation: upright;} body { background-color: SeaShell;}</style><body><p>'+output+'</p></body></html>')
print('DONE!')


>>45955199
Apparently [code] does not work outside of /g/, here's a JewkraineBin link https://pastebin.com/mYZJGBst

>>45955199
don't want to be rude and tell off your effort but wouldn't it be easier to just copypaste into a new epub file?

>>45955117
>an alien trying to write about humans
Sounds like me, kek.

>>45955372
This script can convert furigana 《like this》 into actual furigana.

>>45955117
Well the romance is very old school. It depicts the scenes where they meet each other and become attracted to each other but most of the actual deepening of love and stuff is implied to happen off screen like in old theater or opera, unlike a lot of LNs where they show you the whole development of their relationship directly. This isn't boy meets girl romance it's more like princesses fall in love with Greek epic adventure hero

Read series with multiple volumes in one go > buy new volume as soon as it releases so I can read it later > "later" never comes and eventually realize I don't really care enough about the series to pick up a new volume
How do I fix this? Somehow I can read 15+ volumes without losing interest but a few months of waiting until the next release is enough for me to completely lose interest in most series.

>>45957520
You don't care enough to want to read the new volume but I bet if you randomly open one of the old volumes and make yourself read a couple chapters you'll remember the feeling of being into the series then you'll naturally want to read the new one

>>45957520
ride the FOTM waves in the thread, that's how i caught up with dendro despite binging up to vol 12 once
what you want to read isn't FOTM? just make it so :^)

why authors really gotta remind you that the character has big boobs like every single volume.

>her bountiful boobicles were boobaliciously bodacious
yes I get it, the bitch is sticked. we are 10 volumes in you don't need to keep reminding me

>>45958873
I need to be reminded on every page in great detail

>>45958873
Its' been half a year since the previous volume, I need to be reminded just how 超爆乳 she is

>>45958873
holy source??

>>45959020
I made it up, he actually just said "bountiful bossom"

>>45959031
But what series

>>45958873
based mimi

>>45958873
because it's the highest prose

>>45958873
Would you rather have them go on a tangent of their delicate soft jade-like feet for multiple pages?

>>45960699
nta but yes, definitely. any lns that do that?

Completed danmachi vol 16, that was an interesting use of povs. Definitely not what I expected from a danmachi vol

i want to get into LNs but a lot of them just seem like cashgrabs that are forcefully prolonged just for the money. what are some series that break away from this?

>>45963991
with that attitude you're better off going back to whence you came from

>>45963991
There's tons that are the complete opposite: they don't sell enough and get axed at like vol 3, long before the author can realize his vision.

>>45963991
Like which ones?

Where can I buy Japanese .epubs, assuming I have Calibre with the DRM removal tools? Most sites look like you can only read on their own apps

>>45965114
kobo and amazon worked fine unless they changed something
bookwalker "works" but people are very gatekeepy about their de-DRM solution so it basically doesn't

>>45965161
I made a Kobo jp account and downloaded a free book, its opens in the desktop app but I don't see the file anywhere. With Kobo's US site I can download ebooks through Adobe Digital Editions, but that doesn't seem possible on the jp site.
As for Amazon my impression was that newer ebooks have uncracked DRM. is this not the case for the jp store?

>>45965206
Never used kobo jp so don't have a clue about the process but from what I heard it's simple to rip from
>As for Amazon my impression was that newer ebooks have uncracked DRM
Seems like that's given as a choice for publishers rather than beong mandatory. Very few publishers got onboard from what I see, that too only in the west. Never had an issue with jp or my country's amazon for books published after they implemented it.

>>45965206
Log onto the US kobo site -> My Account in the top right corner -> Books -> Click the three dots under one of the covers -> Download -> It'll give you a .csm file which you can just drag and drop into Calibre after having it set up to rip DRM.

I've never had to use any official app nor Adobe clients to rip/read.
I haven't done this in about a month or so but it should still work.

>>45963991
hate to break it to you but that's all serialized media

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教え子とキスをする。バレたら終わる。２
新・魔法科高校の劣等生　キグナスの乙女たち ６
男女比１：５の世界でも普通に生きられると思った？　～激重感情な彼女たちが無自覚男子に翻弄されたら～ １
９Ｓ＜ナインエス＞　ＸＩＩ　ｔｒｕｅ　ｓｉｄｅ １４
９Ｓ＜ナインエス＞　ＸＩＩＩ　ｔｒｕｅ　ｓｉｄｅ １５
ほうかごがかり２
魔女に首輪は付けられない １

>HJ文庫
愛され天使なクラスメイトが、俺にだけいたずらに微笑む ２
異世界と繋がりましたが、向かう目的は戦争です ２
精霊幻想記 ２５
灰色の叛逆者は黒猫と踊る １
無防備かわいいパジャマ姿の美少女と部屋で二人きり １
モブから始まる探索英雄譚 ８

>KADOKAWAの新文芸
気弱令嬢に成り代わった元悪女 ０１
耳兜の冒険者～あいつに聞かれるな・目を合わせるな・関わるな～ １
雇われ悪女なのに、冷酷王子さまを魅了魔法で篭絡してしまいました。不本意そうな割には、溺愛がすごい。 １

>角川スニーカー文庫
依存したがる彼女は僕の部屋に入り浸る ２
仕事帰り、独身の美人上司に頼まれて ３
人類すべて俺の敵
時々ボソッとロシア語でデレる隣のアーリャさん ８
物語に一切関係ないタイプの強キャラに転生しました
恋愛相談役の親友に、告白されたことを伝えたら ２

>SQUARE ENIX
万能「村づくり」チートでお手軽スローライフ　～村ですが何か？～ ７
逃がした魚は大きかったが釣りあげた魚が大きすぎた件 ４
ダンジョン・ファーム　～家を追い出されたので、ダンジョンに農場をつくって暮らそうと思います～ ３
「君を愛することはない」と言った氷の魔術師様の片思い相手が、変装した私だった ２

>>45966684
>カドカワBOOKS
サイレント・ウィッチ　ＶＩＩ
スキル『植樹』を使って追放先でのんびり開拓はじめます　２
断罪された悪役令嬢ですが、パンを焼いたら聖女にジョブチェンジしました！？ １
転生令嬢は悪名高い子爵家当主　～領地運営のための契約結婚、承りました～ １
デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲　２９
百花宮のお掃除係　１０
わらしべ長者と猫と姫　～宇宙と地球の交易スキルで成り上がり！？　社長！　英雄？　……宇宙海賊！？～ １

>ドラゴンノベルス
異世界転移、地雷付き。 １０
田中家、転生する。 ６
腹ぺこサラリーマンも異世界では凄腕テイマー

>アース・スターノベル
異世界転移して教師になったが、魔女と恐れられている件 ６
お局令嬢と朱夏の季節 冷徹宰相様との事務的な婚姻契約に、不満はございません ３
聖女の妹の尻拭いを仰せつかった、ただの侍女でございます～謝罪先の獣人国で何故か冷酷黒狼陛下に見初められました！？～ ２
ライブラリアン　本が読めるだけのスキルは無能ですか！？ ２

>モンスター文庫
最強陰陽師の異世界転生記～下僕の妖怪どもに比べてモンスターが弱すぎるんだが～ ７
閃光の冒険者 １
宝くじで４０億当たったんだけど異世界に移住する １８

>Ｍノベルス
種付けおじさんの異世界プレス漫遊記 その者、全種族（勇者と魔王も含む）を嫁にし、世界を救った最強無双のハーレム王なり ２
追放された鍛冶師はチートスキルで伝説を作りまくる 婚約者に店を追い出されたけど、気ままにモノ作っていられる今の方が幸せです ２
女神の代行者となった少年、盤上の王となる ２

>Ｋラノベブックス
一般人遠方より帰る。また働かねば！ ２
追放された転生重騎士はゲーム知識で無双する ３
よくわからないけれど異世界に転生していたようです ５
私を召喚した（無駄に美形な）イジワル魔導師に、いつのまにか溺愛されているのですが！？

>講談社ラノベ文庫
アイアム・ゴブリン～おバカなクラスメイトたちと過ごす異世界スローライフ～
推しの清楚アイドルが実は隣のナメガキで俺の嫁 ２

>>45966696
death march cover art is always so comfy

is MT the only one to do a poly relationship well? i by no means am too good for the stereotypical waifu collector story but i do like how it was executed in MT

>>45968265
lol

>An enemy pilot begged for his life, but I just smirked coldly and said, “Die.”
>There wasn’t a speck of pity in my voice. I felt no guilt killing my enemies, only joy. Trampling another person and taking their most precious possession from them, their life…that was a privilege only the strong possessed.
I wonder if this ln is doing it ironically or not, I guess we wait and see.

>>45968415
I mean, is he wrong?

>>45968265
By 'well' do you mean how the protagonist spends lots of 1 on 1 time with each heroine in 1 or more arcs with the others separated by story circumstances and they don't consummate until after a reunion? Cause that's the one thing about mushoku tensei I can think of that you're looking for, since it's much more common for heroines to get added to the party 1 by 1 rather than take turns spending time with the protagonist then after a very long story all come together.
IF that is indeed what you were looking for but didn't exactly put into words, I'd also like to know, cause I also really enjoy Mushoku Tensei.

>>45968415
To the surprise of nobody, it's better in Japanese too.
>『た、助けてくれ！』
>命乞いをする敵のパイロットに対して、口角を上げた俺は冷たい言葉をかけてやる。
>「死ね」
>そこに優しさや情けなど微み塵じんもない。
>敵を殺したことに罪悪感もなく、あるのは興奮だけだ。
>他者を踏みにじり、もっとも大切な命を奪う。
>それは強者にのみ許された特権である。

>『S-Someone help me!』
>Contrasting with the enemy pilot pleading for his life, the corners of my mouth rose as I coldly replied.
>「Die」
>This didn't have the slightest trace of kindness or pity.
>I didn't feel any guilt over murdering my enemies, there was only excitement.
>To trample others, to rob them of what is most precious, their very lives.
>Such privilege is reserved exclusively for the powerful.

>>45969964
your direct translation sounds like retard chingchong tier english
there is no substitute for reading in japanese directly

>>45970315
that's just english having no depth as usual

>>45970315
Yes hence why I just copypasted the Japanese too.
Also it's true for whatever reason in English you either have to choose between conveying things properly or making it sound like /lit/ wank.

>>45966684
>>45966696
Thank you. Decent month so far.

>>45968265
Kyokai Senjou no Horizon does it better.

>>45970315
it's amazing to see EOPs cannibalize each other with "that doesn't sound heckin natural enough" because twitter troons managed to shift the baseline for normal deep into wojak english

>45971452
meds

>no one uploaded the new dgenesis etl epub in five days
does...anyone here have it? ;-;

after the last few chapters of avalon I feel like the author's written himself into a corner that will be difficult to get out of

the main character acts like an actual middle schooler and hes in his 80s. does it get any better or should i just drop this garbage.

>>45976691
i'm enjoying it

>>45975867
what was it?

>>45976691
Did you speedread past the extended lifespans which equates decades to months? it's not the novels fault your reading comprehension is bad, unless of course your reading the seven seas translation.

>>45977085
I don't recall seeing that explanation anywhere and yeah I'm reading the official seven seas translation. Even if the time dilation is like you say, at the end of the day he died when he was middle aged and is like 13-14 years old (50 years when adjusted) by volume 2. No amount of math makes this guy not a manbaby

>>45977602
>I don't recall seeing that explanation anywhere and yeah I'm reading the official seven seas translation.
Yeah... i'm just going to agree to disagree then.

>I'm reading the official seven seas translation.
that explains it
i'd imagine it's impossible to convey mc's attitude in a translation probably just sounds extremely retarded

Can someone explain to me what's the deal with all these "otome game" and "villainess" light novels. As far as I know they are referencing dating sim games for women right? Why is this a written genre and why is it so popular? I feel like I'm missing something.

>>45978631
>I feel like I'm missing something.
lemme guess
you have a dick

>>45978652
I do but that's besides the point. Among women I don't think these kind of games are very popular or made very often right? I don't get why this very specific setup is so commonly seen in light novels. I feel like there's an obvious answer. Maybe I'll just read one so I get it.

>>45978631
Seems like you are unfamiliar with otomege and 悪役令嬢, why are you surprised that you're missing something
It's like going into a genre of music you've never heard and being surprised everything is new to you

>>45978797
>Among women I don't think these kind of games are very popular
among the general population of women?
no
among female otaku?
yes
the classic otomege setup is popular among fujoshi because hot guys
recently a lot of them have added an isekai or tensei twist to it which otaku in general eat up like mad so now men read them too, and that's why you're seeing anime versions being made

>>45978839
So its basically a niche fujoshi genre that has become more generally popular? Thanks for the explanation anon

>>45978898
nta but to be more specific it was fujoshit that got hijacked by normal femoids wanting telenovela plots and then eventually the trend returned to the isekai ocean of life

next overlap batch is going to have arifureta after i can feel it

>>45979188
do I read the afterstory now or wait? It's been 2-3 months since I finished the main story of Arifureta, but I moved on to other books in the backlog. Does it have stakes and tension or is it just slice-of-life?

>>45978631
most of them are specifically inspired by the 1994 game angelique that kinda pioneered otome games in general. the villainess character was particularly popular so it spawned a whole villainess focused subgenre.

it's kinda like how half of all isekai are just dragon quest with the generic fantasy setting/magic system/levels/monsters/hero/demon lord. angelique is the female equivalent of dq.

>>45979411
the afterstory has grown so long that at this point it's like 25% or less of the entire chapter count, and it's multiple arcs too with the "main story" just being the first arc
worse, at the rate it's going to get releases (the main story LN only finished a few months ago) you're better off rereading it now and then revisiting it as a LN in a decade when it finishes serializing

>>45979416
>it's kinda like how half of all isekai are just dragon quest
Oh good I almost believed the first trivia fact about otome, good to know I can fully ignore anything your uninformed /a/ss says.

>>45979584
he's not wrong, dragon quest accidentally invented all of that 魔王 vs 勇者 in countless different iterations/worlds stuff

>>45979611
>he's
Lol.
It's like I'm really back on /a/.
Did you morons ever find the original isekai that actually did it unironically without trying to do a trust on it or parody it? Patient zero as you could say.
Because I browsed that shithole for years and this prime isekai was never found in the same way you can point at arifureta as the patient zero for all the "MC gets betrayed and thrown into the bottom of a dungeon, then becomes evil/an anti-hero and crawls out of it" stories like o my seras and eventually shit like nidome no yuusha once the concept got diluted enough.

>>45979611
>>45979416
are you really going to pull this ironic weeb shit when last season kagejitsu had no status screens or rpg elements and the thread is in the middle of a sci-fi fotm?

>>45979652
what does "he" have to do with /a/, i've never been so I wouldn't know. it looks like you have me confused with a phantom that you are talking to
>>45979672
kagejitsu and saikyou uchuusen don't even do the standard DQ style setting so it's obviously irrelevant, also why are you talking about status screens and rpg elements, and why are you acting defensive as if I said anything critical? I think you might be projecting here anon. once a redditor always a redditor I suppose

>>45979715
is DQ the only jrpg you know?

Dragon Quest is to Japanese fantasy as DnD is to English fantasy. To a much lesser extent, also Wizardry. Japan loved Wizardry for some reason.

>>45979755
if video essays say it then it must be true amirite?
pls ignore the fact the actual mechanics of a lot of isekai are closer to dungeon crawler party mechanics and character building than actual DQ and it's rare to see actual demon lords outside parody sloppa

>>45888757
I actually read chink cultivation stories with MTL because Chinese sentence structure is very similar to English. But Japanese is just way too different and hard to understand, so I had to learn it.

this is a supremely retarded discussion

yeah treating yuusha vs. maou as a specifically isekai staple is kind of idiotic
it's an archetypal fantasy setup
a lot of isekai are fantasy stories, so they sometimes use it
that's all there is to it

>>45979839
it's less about the setup itself and more the "all isekai is DQ" shit ironic weebs parrot because they heard another retard or a jewtuber say it once
it's also compound retardation because it also comes with the "le native isekai" meme attached to it like a tumor

>everyone I don't like is ironic weeb eceleb gobblers
Seek help

lol gonna mention draqgon quest every thread now.

>>45979908
Have you tried not repeating eceleb vomit almost verbatim then?

>>45979737
no bu tit' smy favorite one

so who mentioned this place on a big /a/ thread again
this time

is imosae any good? i wanna pick it up for the art.

>>45979652
>Did you morons ever find the original isekai that actually did it unironically
i don't think anyone ever seriously claimed that one exists
that's why the ground zero is supposedly dq, not an isekai

>>45979931
Don't forget jisho and its "compromised" definitions.

>>45979953
MT's final volume's soi seas translation released with like a week worth of threads leading up to it, spillover is inevitable.

>>45980002
i'm convinced that schizo is a reverse psyop to distract people from just learning through immersion
>>45980015
that explains a lot ngl

>>45979953
Glad i'm not the only one who noticed... i'll pop back in when the tourists get bored
Also between Oreaku, space merc, nanatsu and tate no yuusha, i have so much to catch up on. always feels good to have a backlog

>>45980035
>i'm convinced that schizo is a reverse psyop
Some schizos are just schizos without some deep conspiracy behind it anon.

>>45980090
I can never not have a huge backlog, I think because unlike a lot of people who are mostly into LNs or VNs, or anime/manga, I like everything. There's a dozen LN series I want to read plus a dozen VNs I want to read plus a dozen manga/anime I want to get through, so though I'm consuming a lot of stuff it's very spread out and it takes a long time to make a meaningful dent in either medium. Also if I ever get back into video games, especially JRPGs, I'm really screwed

I thought everyone in /a/ already read MT finale when pielord miniman translated the WN version in 2016

>>45980166
It's been almost a decade since then anon.
That's more than enough time for a literal new generation of normaloids to grow up, find it, then treat it as the best thing ever because it was their first love.

>>45980128
That's what they want you to think...
>>45980136
Same, even if I remove subpar anime adaptations/modern vidya from the equation, I'm still left with tons of stuff. And my other hobbies are also time consuming.

>haven't even started FE engage because have been reading too much ranobe
>that's only the tip of my vidya backlog iceberg (just vidya)
haha...

>>45980136
>>45980302
>>45980412
It really is the life. i even made a document to rank the stuff i've read and sort the stuff on the backlog based on priority. the only downside for me is staying caught up on series all releasing new stuff in the same time period.

>>45980459
>the only downside for me is staying caught up on series all releasing new stuff in the same time period.
Tip based on personal experience, depending on how married you're to a particular series you can separate volumes into chunks and treat them as semi-sequels with each arc.
Yes some are "my beloved" tier and you will drop everything temporarily to read a new volume ASAP, but this is for stuff one tier below that.
For example I had dendro's vol 10-12 on the same chunk, then 13-15, 16-19, now waiting for 20-22, while death march I don't care as much but I still like it, so I read it every 5-6 volumes.
Makes it far easier to keep track of dozens of series when you naturally reach stopping points whenever you feel an arc ends while reducing the "I don't remember anything so I gotta reread" factor that comes from jumping between different stuff after reading just one volume.

>>45980820
>Makes it far easier to keep track of dozens of series when you naturally reach stopping points whenever you feel an arc ends while reducing the "I don't remember anything so I gotta reread" factor that comes from jumping between different stuff after reading just one volume.
Anon.... as someone that has had this happen several times, i must say this is a great idea! Thanks for the tip!

>>45980820
this is what I already do with manga and anime. I won't finish one piece but I will gladly enjoy 1 or 2 arcs and potentially come back to it months or years later. I've never read one piece but it seemed like a good example. When something is like 50 volumes or 200 episodes long it just works better that way.

Agrippina's freshly unshoed sweaty stockinged feet oooooOOOOOO

>>45983708
Next vol announced?

>>45984870
Preorders on Overlap store are open.
https://twitter.com/OverlapStore/status/1752968042563407900

>>45984903
>3月25日
Sad. Well, seems like he will start updating the wn soon atleast

Was just binging old Ghibli movies and decided to rewatch Porco Rosso since it's been a while. Had deja vu about the plot around a third way in, then picrel shows up and it all clicks together. And so, on today's episode of Dendro's "Spot the Source Material."
>Curtis Eldona = Donald Curtiss (Porco Rosso)
10/10, fuck you Kaidou, I know I've heard that name somewhere before. What's next? Mononoke? Spirited Away? Grave of the Fireflies?
>>45979961
Haganai is beloved for a reason, anon. Yomi can and does write pretty engaging dialogue. Imosae can probably be described as the Bakuman of (actual) LN writers. It's chock full of self-refencing, inside jokes, and manuals on how to do your taxes but delivered in a way that doesn't feel stale at all. Itsuki can be rather infuriating at times, yet one can't exactly say they don't understand why he did it. It's soulful and it ends on a good note, can't demand more than that desu. Also, blessed be Kantoku.
>>45966846
>death march art is always so ugly
There, fixed that for you. shri can't draw for fuck's sake. Thank goodness his other LN got canned early on.
>>45962651
>that was an interesting use of povs
Horn/ヘルン's switcheroo part I assume? I personally like the "How to pick up girls in a dungeon" training montage more desu. It always cracks me up imagining the innocent boy trying to act like James Bond in a quest for bitches.

>>45987612
>There, fixed that for you. shri can't draw for fuck's sake.
the art looks good as long as it's not from an angle
which is fucking weird because move the camera to the side a few degrees and you see mistakes not even newfags would make, but the colors and shading are still really good
>Thank goodness his other LN got canned early on.
if you mean the demon lord army one then eh it was actually promising, even for a meme gimmick premise story

only 1 volume in but i'm enjoying it quite a bit. any other similar series that y'all would recommend?

>>45969964
That's a special context where 助けて means "spare me/spare my life", addressed to his attacker, rather than its standard "help me" meaning. (Which is why it's described as 命乞い.)

>>45888638
Anyone got recommendation of something similar to koukaku no regios

>>45988649
the fuck are those heels
why are they kinda hot

>>45989944
>the fuck
handle bars
>why
because they're handle bars

>>45994992
>Handlebar heels.
?

So how long does it usually take for reviews or spoilers to come out for something that just released, because the original web novel left a bad taste in my mouth considering the false heroines ending

>>45998527
really depends on the particular series because even cult fanbases can be faster than mainstream stuff sometimes
rule of thumb, wait until the second next sunday (in japan) after release, in this case i believe should be in about 8 days? you should see some start pop up next sunday however, so like tomorrow

>be Japanese author
>can't think of a way to make things happen in my story
>write some bullshit and chalk it up to main character is just soo unlucky haha xdDDD

>>46002760
Who are you quoting?

shit bump

Finally completed all the released danmachi vol. Turned much better from xenos arc as that anon said but I still find it mostly meh. Reading 19 vols did create attachment for the characters though.
For now, the best scene for me is ryuu's entry with the 「正義は巡る」chant, because I am a sucker for inheriting conviction trope. Hope the future vols have scenes that surpass this

>>46002760
if you're talking about what i think you're talking about, there is an explanation for it

>>46002760
atheist hands typed this post

>>46002760
if you are reading 和風ファンタジーな鬱エロゲーの名無し戦闘員に転生したんだが周囲の女がヤベー奴ばかりで嫌な予感しかしない件
Just continue reading.

>>46006271
Why so specific...

>>46003522
>christcuck shit

I love how two characters are in the middle of a shootout then the author goes into 3 pages of random world building in the middle of it.

>>46006271
What a title

>>46006271
but does he fug anyone

Latest ゴルダナ is pretty 胸糞, but I have faith in the author to turn that into comedy.

Mei was even cuter in this volume

Oh wait her name is May, not Mei
I won't forget this

>>46011676
At least that's sensible. There's nothing quite like finally seeing the romanization of a name only for it to be retarded.

>>46011719
I'm sure I saw it in the front illustrations for previous volumes but just didn't really register it, she's been a major character since volume 4

>>46011676
i want to fuck mary
and every other girl in this story

>>46012380
in which order?

>>46012701
by height, in descending order

>>46011747
It's varied by volume.

>>46012701
elma -> elma -> elma -> elma -> elma

>>45888638
What's the best source to find epubs/pdfs of ero novels? I've tried Z-Lib, but most of the selection seems to be of older LNs.
I just want to read some ss stuff like 王妃ユーライア 穢されし淫紋の聖女 ～エルフ王国の崩壊～

>>45988645
>but the colors and shading are still really good
Yeah, I guess I can concede that.
>demon lord army one
Nope, the other one, 蘇りの魔王. He managed to make the supporting character look even worse than 王国へ続く道's Aegir (whom my brain automatically replaces with Wortenia Senki's Ryouma), though I suppose Hikage Eiji's design can be either a big hit or a massive dumpsterfire.
>>46003291
>but I still find it mostly meh
That's a shame but understandable, though I consider my shilling a success if you can agree Ryuu is the best girl.
>inheriting conviction trope. Hope the future vols have scenes that surpass this
That's what the side stories are, anon. Argonaut, Knights of Fianna, and Erebus/Seven Days of Death all revolve around the ancient/past heroes' way of passing the torch. Argonaut is the most poignant of all the SS desu, and the in-universe shilling for it becomes quite reasonable once you've read the story. Also, bonus points for Not!Ais having an actual character in Argonaut.
>>45989177
Which aspect of Regios exactly?
>Post-Apocalyptic
Rebuild World, Horizon, SukaSuka/Moka
>Team-based encounter
Taimadou Gakuen, Log Horizon, DxD, Rental Magica
>School setting
Index, Bahamut, IS, Rakudai Kishi, Asterisk, Hidan no Aria, Baka to Test
>MC hijack
Mondaijitachi, Alderamin, Denyuuden

Did anyone here read Saihate no Paladin? I just found out it's on indefinite hiatus. Do you know anything about that or what the author is up to?

>>46016170
felt empty after finishing the available volumes
i need more

>>46017249
Apparently the author stopped writing because he was suffering from bad anxiety/adjustment disorder

>>46017249
This >>46017634 . But he did say that he is back and writing a new vol though it's been a year since he said that on twitter

Can someone please share vol 7 of 亡びの国 ? Vol 6 ending was way too much of a cliffhanger, what were they thinking.

>>46017634
>he was suffering from bad anxiety/adjustment disorder
which is code word for "i wrote myself into a corner and i am royally fucked"

>>46019462
I hope he'll get better. I like the world he made. On a sidenote, the manga adaption art is amazing

>>46020313
Genuinely one of my top 5 manga adaptations. I've never heard a page before but I could practically hear the battlecries in these chapters.
>>46019462
It's already been a year? Fucking hell.

>>46020324
>Genuinely one of my top 5 manga adaptations.
not to shit on the parade but that's not a high bar to clear

>MC doing clitoris circumcision
what the fug

>キモオタモブ傭兵は、身の程を弁(わきま)える
anyone read it? is this any good

>>46026540
Sounds like an ntr title

>>46028156
really enjoy evil lord man. Even the off meds parts are consistently good. Only volume i thought was meh was volume 5, and even then it's nowhere near otome mob alzer arc bad

>>46028583
>Even the off meds parts are consistently good.
but with that author those are the best parts

>>46028599
I mean i agree, but i know not everyone does
>exploding dick std
i still kek just thinking about it

Anyone have any good recs for bestiality Web/Light novels?

>>46029856
that's literally not a genre i ever considered looking for in this medium and i doubt you'll get any worthwhile comments from the faggots here but looking myself just now although it wasn't a comprehensive search the majority of what i found were mostly chink or gay or chink and gay unfortunately

https://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/?sf=1&tgi=15625&mtgi=or&sort=sdate&order=desc

getting rid of chink gook and gay shit brings the list down to almost nothing but 女子寮の管理人 probably looks the best to me, though i wouldn't be surprised if what you want is only like a single scene, hell it might be like that for all of them. your best bet is probably searching jp sites like syosetsu, where i just found 幼なじみがペットの雌犬になった件 which probably isn't what you want but i want off this wild ride now so good luck anon

>>46016889
Not that anon, but what series from your list had best girl actually winning like in Regios?

Anyone here reading NGNL? Any idea when volume 13 is coming? I can't find any information.

>>46031102
just like every volume before it since like 9 or so: it will be there when it's ready and that's anywhere from 1 to 2 years
sucks but it's better than the author dying when he already has health problems

>>45968265
>>45969708
While author decided to make spinoffs to make different routes for other heroines.
Original madan no ou does this.
It's a senki series but the MC gets to spend time with each heroine due to different circumstances but the romance factor with each of them despite being ripe is ultimately not realized but rather well done.

It's been probably like 8 years since I've read madan and while I can't remember much I still remember stuff like shooting down the longbowman's arrow and the notEngland, NotMuslim invasion arc etc.
Very cool stuff.
While it's kinda different the structure in terms of spending time with heroines does match.
I also greatly enjoyed MT but you're not going to find anything like it.

Just saw an /a/ thread get people glassed for calling out the blatant gookshilling and anti-japan xenophobia.
Is this how you guys gave up on big boards and only reside in niche ones?

>>46036888
The ratio of people reading English translations is just too high outside of here, so it can feel like you're not quite talking about the same thing

>>46036888
if /a/ got hit too it was a site wide sweep then, saw people get nuked on trannylation threads on /v/ a moment ago too
>reeee /v/tard
yeah yeah i know

>>46036888
he got glassed because funposting outside of /b/ is against the rules

>>46037170
if only, /a/ has been a dead board for koreans to shill their slop and spam anti-japan hatred for the better half of the decade
during the first 2 eps of solo masturbating airing the poster wipes were so blatant it looped all the way back to being comedic

>>46037214
I'm sure actual xenophobia exists but I'm not going to take "muh anti Japan hatred" posting seriously when even posts saying they're getting tired of basic cliches in use for 20+ years gets called "anti Japan hatred" by some retarded indog

>>46037238
i don't think we are on the same page, i mostly browse the rare dedicated novels or translation threads
i'm speaking from the position of seeing people defend translation butchering on the level of the dragon maid patriarchy shit, which is 100% rooted on "japan can't write anyway, the censored (localized) version is better" even when at best is political shit that wasn't the originally, at worst just actual twitter shitposts
that sort of shit is hard to defend as not wacism

>>46036947
Still find it funny a few months back someone brought up the oreaku translation and the part posted with the guys on the ship's bridge wasn't even the same overall tone.
Just now it gets brought up again and it's also a different feel altogether.
At this point localizations are that one royalty free franchise parody you see like "Shadow Souls" or "Ancient Ring" in-story to not break copyright but for real.
Sad part is I can't decide if that's better or worse than the "official abridged parody pretending to be translation" localization era before this.
>>46037299
That's not even new either, all the way back to jelly donuts this has been a thing with localization scrubbing away all that icky japanese-ness.
Eat your hamburgers Apollo.

>>46037299
I've been in such threads and the only posts that fit your description are either blatant trolling or only exist in your head
Either way stop browsing /v/
>>46037396
I hold the unpopular opinion that the OG jelly donuts was justifiable because the Pokemon anime was aimed at literal children and Amerifat toddlers are notorious for their unculturedness, it would have flopped like Yo-Kai Watch if they didn't make it palatable to that audience.

Started reading オマケの転生者, it's pretty good so far.
The adventures of hobo-loli and the voice in her head and how they unwittingly fuck up the plans of the rather relatable gods.

>>46037396
>>46037561
The jelly donuts thing is different cause the goal of englisj pokemon and English dubs in general back then was localized appeal to acquire an audience, not pretending to retain the original as much as possible, nor trying to be 'better'
It's different when it's literally just supposed a translation of a book or subtitled audio especially

>>46037396
>Eat your hamburgers Apollo
good times

>>46037800
Reminds me of the excuse to justify the 3dpd Spice and Wolf covers.
All things considered I'm surprised they didn't try to pull the same thing with Mushoku.

>>46037900
you have to remember the context in which the spice and wolf 3dpd covers were created, it was otaku bubble pop era with light novels were failing left and right with viz, tokyopop, and seven seas all dropping heavy hitter series like shana, slayers, fmp, boogiepop etc for lack of sales, meanwhile in anime scene geneon had just collapsed.
by the time mushoku tensei was localized it was already proven by spice and wolf that normalfags wouldn't buy them with different covers whereas fans would outright refuse to buy, and success of SAO demonstrated a proven market for the normal covers
EVERYTHING is driven by money

>>46038080
this blatant history revisionism to avoid admitting to westoids just doing a cultural imperialism is crazy

>>46038184
Oh, so you are just a retard, ok

>>46038080
>it was otaku bubble pop era with light novels were failing left and right
Wow it's almost like alienating the audience that may actually be interested in buying the stuff is a suicidal idea.
How can anyone trust after the laughably shoehorned in cover change that they didn't also completely neuter it for "american audiences"? Trick question of course, it's soi press, that's a given.
Which mind you is just absurd at this point, the target audience for otaku stuff has been actively antagonized by western corporations since the start, why is anyone pikafacing when for the past 2 decades at this point (and counting!) the number one canned answer to shut up all criticism is "Don't like it? Learn Japanese then chud"
How is anyone finding it a sudden out of nowhere development the localization industry is collapsing to the point even jewnovelclub is held up by pretty much just bookworm and seirei gensouki?
AA japanese games and shit like gacha in particular are the only vidya that is mostly unfazed by the currently ongoing vidya bubble crash on the mere fact that they pander to otaku, for how long is the west going to continue their collective cope about "all otaku are just basement dweller NEETs (and have no money)" when every single industry aside from the ones pandering to otaku is crumbling down?

>>46037900
I mean yeah that's literally the reason. It's the same reason they redid all the art for sonic games or mega man games or making kirby not smile in western releases, for some reason they thought people wouldn't go for the Japanese art. I'm pretty sure they were wrong, a country that loves micky mouse and winnie the pooh should be all over sonic and kirby original art but that's genuinely what they thought. It was just misguided bullshit, an anti Japanese agenda is very doubtful in those cases

>>46038333
>they tried to remove anything too japanese, all the mascots, anything cute and americanized what they could
>even when the west was no stranger to cartoony mascots
>this is still not an anti-japan agenda btw, stop noticing things, eat your jelly donuts faggot, stop calling any of this out

take your meds schizo

I could say the reverse. Was marketing Big Hero 6 as "Baymax" in Japan and putting more focus on the boy's relationship with his robot instead of on the action some kind of anti-West agenda? Not at all, it's just that the target demographic in the West and in Japan respond differently to different things. That's unavoidable.

>>46038389
were large parts of the movie either censored or removed altogether for the japanese release?
did they remove the fight scenes?
why the fuck are you trying to play le both sides when both examples are not comparable at all?

>>46038411
>Kirby's angry eyes are an anti-Japan a-
>getting BTFO, better change the topic!
I accept your concession

>>46038411
stop exaggerating, us ver is more kawaii desu

>>46038411
what does any of that have to do with cartoony mascots on boxarts and book covers, retard?

>>46038445
>>46038457
projecting much?
>the entire thing started because of the usual topic of censorship by localizers and how this is driven by anti-japan xenophobia
>slowly try to shift the topic to benign shit in comparison like boxart
>spaz out when i slap you in the face and remind you what the conversation is about

>>46038469
No anon, this was a discussion specifically about 3DPD S&W covers started by >>46037900. You're the one being a fag and trying to /v/tardize the discussion. Don't you already have a dozen antilocalization threads over there that you can post your saved images in instead instead of trying to drag it off topic?

>>46037900
>>46038360
>>46038469
>>46038510
The real anti-japan agenda is how databases used by online dictionaries are being actively sabotaged by the west because they are actively trying to stop as many people as possible from learning Japanese.
These days you will get definitions that are either comically dry or outright wrong, exactly to push the "Japanese is too dry/robotic" meme.
For example look up 岩石 and 岩根 if you don’t believe me, pro tip: they aren’t synonyms.
You think it’s a freaky exception? It’s not, look up 降雪 and 天華, or 強風 and 一陣.
Again, they aren’t synonymous, or they are in the same sense “trees” and “delightful grove” are technically synonyms, in fact the rocks example isn’t even a synonym, not even close.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg by the way, look up 前, 先, 嘗て or 往 if you want to see how fucked up things have been for a while now.
Do yourself a favor and throw your EN > JP dictionary bookmarks in the trash where they belong, and bookmark kotobank,jp, because the sabotage has gotten so bad that throwing words at a JP > JP dictionary and using MTL on the result gives you more accurate definitions with far more depth than whatever garbage the west is trying to feed you.

oh my fucking god why the fuck this dictionary schizo shit again

So how was your day.
Read anything interesting recently?

>>46038564
I've been reading 第七魔王子ジルバギアス and my balls have never been bluer because it's been 500 chapters and he still hasn't killed anyone who wasn't also trying to kill him

>>46038564
Reading the space mercenary thing because anons shilled it so much. It's okay

>>46038564
Slowly catching up on Danmachi, I haven't read since the end of Xenos arc.

Any web novels with lolis being mesugakis with sex?

What should I read if I liked Zaregoto, Boogiepop,
Sekai Series?

>>46036947
A few years back it felt like not quite the same thing, these days it's actually a completely different thing.
Take a look at any attempt at discussion of evil lord or kagejitsu outside of here, the english and original versions are so different they are different series with the same skeleton plot and characters, nobody reads schizoman in english but I wouldn't be surprised if it had the same problem.
And those are hardly the only examples.

How do you read books when you are not at dekiru level? Translating only parts you dont understand or translating the whole page? What are you using in that case?

>>46042887
What do you like about them? Read anything from Mizuhito Akiyama.

>>46043728
I think the idea is to just push through and then go back and re-read stuff whenever your moon skills level up.
Wagies with scarce free time like me are fighting an uphill battle.

>>46043728
you don't translate anything you look up words you don't understand and try to figure out the meaning of the sentence and if you can't you move on to the next one

>>46038564
Finished Koimonogatari and it was great as usual. Nisio is very witty and his writing is enjoyable to read. I saw the anime a long time ago, but there were a lot of things I didn't remember, and of course reading is a different experience. I could relate to Nadeko, with how she regarded everything as worthless and having no value and only cares about herself. She was fine with throwing away everything about her previous life and the one thing she actually wanted to do, just so she could kill Araragi and the gang. Because she couldn't have him. But I realize it's really unhealthy to view things in extremes like that, which can be particularly apparent when you regard people that way. Like with what Kaiki said, "人間なんだから。かけがえのない、かわりのないものなんかない." We can find something again if we keep looking for it.

Arifureta on hold right now because it's boring me to death with the ice dungeon arc and with how everyone is fighting "dark" versions of themselves and it just keeps going on and the harem keeps growing.

>>46043728
You just look up everything and it gets easier sooner than you expect. If your only material starting out is LNs you're gonna have a bad time though, especially without lots of listening

>>46043728
you have 2 options

the dekinai cope of the guy that knows translations are edited MTL at best, trannylations at worst
>copypaste line by line and replacing all japanse punctuation marks ？。、（）with english ones ?.,()
>use a hover dictionary during your MTL so you get a better idea of what the words mean and when scuffed MTL sounds odd you know what the real thing is supposed to be
all things considered once you take this step MTL is not terrible, and yes it has to be line by line or it starts skipping shit, and even with this it can start skipping shit
people will call this sacrilege and it is, but if you really don't give a shit about learning once you learn to read between the MTL lines it's not THAT bad, and by that i mean it's not worse than official translations
besides you will start picking up shit passively for the other option anyway

and two, the autistic balls deep approach
>speedrun your kana and the first 2 grades of joyo kanji
>skim a grammar guide, particularly particles (including sentence end particles) and (basic) verb conjugation, doesn't matter which, use the sakubi one if you don't know what to go with, cure dolly also exists
>just start reading while referencing either a dictionary or a grammar guide when you see a kanji or conjugation/particle you don't know
despite what dekinais may lead you to believe japanese is not hard to understand grammatically until keigo and yakuwarigo start spanking you
the difficulty comes from just memorizing conjugations/particles and vocab (kanji)
learn kanji as words when you see them used, not as raw kanji, it will make it exponentially easier, you will never use 80% of the readings anki vomits on you
the important thing here is to not translate, but try understand it in japanese without translating, once you start doing this you will at some point just feel it "click" and you will just "get it" and then it's smooth sailing from there
if you get stuck on something for more than 15 minutes just skip the line and guess off context, leave it for a reread in the future, that's what translators do too anyway
try saying out loud what you read too, for whatever reason i found that helps memorization for me

regardless of what you do, reminder to use poricom for scans, it's in the OP, kanjitomo is outdated AF

slightly off topic but how is the manga quality for kobo compared to kindle and bookwalker? i assume bookwalker is the best and have heard kindle is shit but where does kobo stand
it's easy of ripping drm makes it tempting

I read without understanding a single word.
Abayo.

>>46045224
just learn already

>>46045281
it's not even hard, unironically

>>46045205
idk if it works the same way in japanese but according to jewnovel's coding guy kobo is one of the worst options for manga in particular because they have a hard 100mb file size limit

>>46047744
>>46047744
>>46047744