/jp/ - Otaku Culture

not so good

>>5901953
If you're retarded

>>5901994
guess im not retarded enough

overrated shit

i actually liked that series.

It's okay. I have both of the books at home, it's an exaggeration to say it's the only one worth reading though.

I wonder why it takes them two years to translate one book when nisioisin shits them out hell fast.

I don't want to read this just because there is one novel every 2 years...it's just too much time!

Also, I MAD because Shinigami No Ballad got cancelled...i'm going to buy Bungaku Shoujo then I guess

>>5902046
Lack of demand?

I sort of like it though as I can imagine it taking a bigger effect on my life than if I just read them all in one go

>>5902107
Well the demand might increase if people knew about it. Problem is they want to sell stuff but they simple don't advertise it enough.

Index is really the only light novel I've found worth reading. Frequent releases too, how great!

IZ DAT SUM MIKU?

No, it's not the only one.

I see this thread right before driving my little sister to the library, and I see this book after staring at the young adult shelf with her.
What the hell, I'll read it.

>>5902586
Good

>>5901947
MUST! PURCHASE!

Is there a reason they didn't translate kubikiri to beheading?

>>5903160
To appeal to weeaboos, apparently.

Anyway, this series is great but it has nothing on Utsuro no Hako. Absolutely nothing.
http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Utsuro_no_Hako_to_Zero_no_Maria

>>5903182

Wow, four volumes translated too, is it really that interesting?

>>5903238
It is. God is it ever.
Such brilliant ideas and god-tier trolls. Give it a look.

>>5903263

I will then, thanks for the recommendation.

>>5903182
I'd put Zaregoto Series (along with Ningen Series), Usotsuki Mii-kun to Kowareta Maa-chan, and Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria all on the same tier. Just about, anyways.

Dantalian no Shoka is also pretty awesome.

You people don't know shit about literature. None of these novels are 'worth reading' because even the best of Japanese novelists, like Murakami, have no understanding of philosophy beyond basic theory. It's just light, pulpy entertainment. No worth.

>>5903864
Perhaps the same could be said of all novels. Most people tend to read to be entertained, not to attain enlightenment or gain a sense of superiority over others because what they're reading is somehow "better" than other things.

>>5903864 even the best of Japanese novelists, like Murakami
>the best of Japanese novelists
>Murakami
You've got to be fucking kidding.

>>5903884

There's nothing wrong, or even criticizable about reading to further your understanding of other ways of thought or otherwise educate yourself. It's practically the whole merit of the practice. Stuff like this is Twilight level. I don't care that people enjoy it, but when people say it's 'worth reading', that's laughable.

>>5903891

Please, try name any that are better. Mishima is the only other one that I can think of that comes close.

>>5903893
>There's nothing wrong, or even criticizable about reading to further your understanding of other ways of thought or otherwise educate yourself
I agree with you there. Different things can have different worth to different people, however, depending on what your taste is or what sort of book you're looking for. Obviously something like this isn't comparable to War and Peace or anything, but then again it's not meant to be. Different genres shouldn't really be compared.

>>5903914

Stuff like this shouldn't even be compared to anything, not even amongst one another. It's not like any of the literary technique gets carried over in the translations, all you get is plot and dialogue, no skill or style. It's essentially like reading a Wikipedia entry with a narrative. So threads like these are pointless because, unlike books in general, this genre is 100% subjective.

>>5903893
>Light novel series

Lrn2read.

>>5903941
>threads like these are pointless
Correct. They basically just invite people to bash the novel in question and end up in a shitstorm of "my opinion > your opinion."

>>5903905
Even if I find most contemporary writers rather weak, Japan has an history of great writers : Abe, Dazai, Kawabata, Tanizaki,...
I wouldn't be fair to compare them to poor Murakami (who still makes decent work).

>>5903968

Abe is the only one I'd agree with, even if the rest aren't too bad. Woman in the Dunes was a fantastic book

/lit/, get out.

>>5904088
Too bad for you LN are /a/ and /jp/. Though, mostly /a/.

>>5903893

Why did some self-proclaimed "literature experts" invade this thread? I read LNs for the same reasons I watch anime or read manga, to be entertained and for weeaboo purposes. It's not like I'm expecting Dostoyevsky esque bullshit when I read them.

>>5903864
I've read all of Dumas, dostoyevsky most shakespeare's works (shit) and still read a lots of contemporary literature even today yet I find myself reading LNs, what now faggot?

>>5905781
>read
>shakespeare
>(shit)

You dipshit.

>>5904117
They were actually /jp/, but just shortly after the split a spree of LN anime adaptations came, and it became impossible to speak of those without people mentioning the anime adaptations.

The majority of LNs don't have anime adaptations though and many of them don't even have images.

>implying Kino no tabi isn't worth reading
no, just no.
But I really didn't expect the last twist in zaregoto.

Boogiepop

>>5905781
Fuck you, Shakespeare invented reverse traps

>>5906451
not really, there's plenty of myths and legends about women crossdressing

>>5904117
I was talking about the "herp derp literary worth" people.