Light Novels/Isekai thread

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>Premise is that a guy has been reincarnated as a baby, and actually focuses on her growing up
>Go in expecting cute SOL shit
>First novel has MC meet an OP fairy whose main job is to provide needless exposition and fawn over how cute the MC is
>Half of the chapters focus on magical power (temp)
>The equivalent of four volumes have passed and the MC is still only two years old
>Closest thing to conflict in the series is the MC trying to mofumofu his maids

Why did Nigotta fall off the wagon so quickly?

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>>17790004
That's sounds actually terrible. Isekai already suffers from being mostly wish-fulfillement, now it's getting worse.

Can't I just get Fantasy Crusader Kings 2?

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Volume 9 where

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>>17790631
I like that artstyle where hair and clothes are pitchblack.

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>>17790648
I really like it too. I just wish that their character designs had a few more body types. It's all the same. The Duke that has been described as a giant 2 meter tall super swordsman beefcake was just a skinny old man. Skinny like the rest of the bishounen that they draw all the boys like.

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>>17790688
Yeah, that's a problem. That style goes well to emphasize slenderness. It doesn't work well with wide people.

I'd like to see the thin men from XCOM drawn in that style, it would get well with them.

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>>17790004
Reminds me of that trash isekai which had some neet sent to a magical world as a baby, he became a god by childhood, got magic'd away to some shithole country which made him even stronger then he went to some magical school and became even stronger while collecting his harem.

I hate this genre but it keeps drawing me in, is that what nips feel?

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>>17791739
Welcome to Japan, where reading is like eating at McDonalds. You know it's shit, but you keep doing it.

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>>17791739
I found worse. It's not a novel but a manga. The dude get reincarnated in a hot spring.

A fucking hot spring.

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>>17792091
but that's played for laughs

there's also one where a guy gets isekai'd as a fucking vending machine, they're meant to be parodies

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>>17792301
Of course they are.

Doesn't make less any less retarded.
Takes a special sense of humour to like these.

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>>17792312
ok mr. mature guy

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>>17792345
I liked Konosuba, it was fun to see Kazuma almost sucking dicks to make a living with his inept team.
Then he started living in a mansion and started using magical knowledge from muh Japan and then it stopped being fun.

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>>17790585
I really wish for a reincarnation series that's just about growing up in a fantasy world with adult knowledge and memories

no incredible magic skills (maybe there could be magic but MC shouldn't be good at it), no one-man industrial revolution engineering skills, no harem or special snowflake characters, just a fish out of water coming of age story where the only advantage is the fact that he lived a life before.

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>>17791739
what series was this?

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>>17792698
Mushoku Tensei. Don't bother with it.

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>>17791744
It's because they don't feel they need to read only things that validate them that they're one of the few countries with avid readers nowadays.

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>>17792690
I wish for a reincarnation serie that isn't about getting overpowered or bringing "superior" technology but just discovering a new world.

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>>17792764
http://www.novelupdates.com/series/ascendance-of-a-bookworm/

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>>17793208
She does have overpowered magic though, she just doesn't realize it in the first arc.

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>>17792690
Try Mushoku Tensei. MC's kinda overpowered, but he decides to go against literal gods, so it's not that noticeable.

>>17791739
It's trash, but he wasn't god. He just started with magic since baby, so he had a big reserve, which is something that, with supervision, other babies could do, like worst girl. Also
>harem
>3 girls
You're new to isekai, aren't you?

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>>17793254
I liked that series but want a series without shit like the mana incident where the MC just develops naturally.

besides I just said "no incredible magic skills"

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>>17793208
Sounds good.

>>17793244
Ha shit.
What's the point of having an action taking place in a fantastic world if it's not fantastic? I want ruins à la Anor Londo, I want undead staying in place for centuries, I want Blackreach! I want a beautiful, fantastic world that makes me dream!

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Just finished the first volume of Bungaku Shoujo. It was the first novel I ever read in Japanese (years ago), and I remember feeling disappointed with Japanese writing after finishing it. I enjoyed it a lot more this time, so perhaps I just needed to be better at Japanese to appreciate the writing? Hopefully that's the case. Going to try some more light novels now.

Really considering getting a kindle, but not sure what the best option is for that. Any advice?

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>>17793464
Paperwhite is best value.

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>>17793464
Paperwhite if you want a kindle device, Kobo Aura One otherwise

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>>17793254
I gave up on it around the school chapters, I figured he would get more.

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>>17793480
>>17793513

Just checked to make sure, and confirmed to be unable to import one directly. In which case perhaps it would be better to get a third party device and convert files to load manually? Are there no E-Ink readers that have a micro SD slot?

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>>17793535
What third world country do you live in that doesn't have Kindles?

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>>17793535
Do you really need thousands of books with you at all times?

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>>17793537
I'm assuming I need a JAPAN ONLY SUPER SPECIAL NO GAIJIN ALLOWED EDITION kindle if I want to buy Japanese books. If I can use an American kindle then that'd solve a lot of problems.

>>17793538
If I wanted to read manga as well it'd be good to have more space. For novels only I wouldn't need the microSD.

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>>17793589
The new Kindle Oasis has 32Gb of space. It also has a larger screen (7 inches), which might be useful for reading manga.

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Shieldbro Volume 9 isn't ready yet for some ungodly reason.
Btw, who hype for anime? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP4ZlVB3oEM&t=7s

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>>17793535
If you can find one, get a Kobo Glo HD and follow the guide on mobilereader forums to upgrading the internal microSD card.

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>>17793626
I'm waiting for screens made of plastic not glass before forking out that much money. I'm clumsy and ereaders are too fragile.

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>>17793856
But they are made of plastic.

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>>17793864
http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2017/03/30/why-arent-plastic-e-ink-screens-available-for-ereaders/

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>There is an extended plot here regarding slavery in this world, which I was less happy with. I accept that slavery in this fantasy world does not carry with it the baggage that it does in our own world, and that it seems to be more indentured servitude. But both Souma and the author seem to treat slavery as an intellectual problem to be solved, rather than as a monstrous evil. This is not unique to the isekai realm, of course, and I should be grateful that the protagonist doesn’t simply say “oh, slavery exists here” and shrug his shoulders like some others. It does add to my biggest beef with this series: it can be as dispassionate as its hero is, and as I’ve said before, seems like it’s one of those “dark/grey/independent” fics you always saw in Harry Potter written by teenagers who wondered what the world would be like if everything were more badass. I like books to be fiction. I am less happy when they are thought experiments.
Is this guy an idiot

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>>17794296
never read reviews

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>>17794296
>...written by teenagers who wondered what the world would be like if everything were more badass.
lmao what does this guy think he's reading? I don't think it's possible for someone to be this blind

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>>17792690
I'm thinking of writing something like that. MC dies and is reincarnated in a futuristic society where she is the daughter of a noble family. Lives life normally and decides to attend a school where young adults can train themselves to fight.

Twist is that a generic Japanese high school boy comes in, all overpowered and shit. Turns out that Mc was reborn as the lead heroine in a battle harem. She decides to fight her inevitable fate.

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>>17794296
what one you're talking about?

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>>17794622
>She decides to fight her inevitable fate.
Good fucking luck

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>>17794296
As stupid as that moron who complained that Disney's Aladdin didn't wish for a democracy instead of just riches.

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>>17794622
My idea is having a femMC go to a magic school only for her childhood friend to start acting weird
turns out he's an MC who died and got reincarnated to his younger self a la New Saga/TDG but we don't get to read his inner monologues so the audience has to find out themselves

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>>17795120
Go for the "Make my abilities average" approach, please.

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>>17795123
I went for the Qualia the purple route of having the MC be talented in magic from the get go that the society at large takes advantage of experimenting and eventually killing her leading to the childhood friend's reset

The series being all about the mystery of why the Childhood friend is acting the way he does.

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>>17795144
Sounds like it might be fun.
If it's written properly, of course.

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>>17790004
Finished DaddyFace and this shit was rad ah hell, student becames a tresure hunter and travel around the world with his qute 12 years old doughter, lots of batshit insane things happen from a lavecraftian shit to a mix of Indiana Jones x Uncharted with Isekai stuff, and I fucking loved every minute of it.

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>>17796061
There's a novel where the guy has a family instead of being a lone wolf? I'd read that.

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>>17793856
I've dropped my Kindle several times and nothing happened. You'd literally have to throw it with heavy force on a bed of knives to break the glass.

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>>17794296
Decided to search for the source of this retarded ass review.

This comment was quite apt:
>“But both Souma and the author seem to treat slavery as an intellectual problem to be solved, rather than as a monstrous evil.”
>And that’s why he’s the Realist Hero, not the Idealist Hero.

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>>17799517
Jesus, Tvtropes is cancer.

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>>17799704
I don't see how TVTropes has any relation to the review, unless you meant the reviewer is as dumb as a TVTroper?

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>>17799704
The title of the series is literally "The Realist Hero's Kingdom Reform Chronicles".
The comment was quoting the reviewer's line about "why aren't they treating it as a MONSTROUS EVIL" by pointing out that this thus ignoring the fundamental premise: that the MC approaches things from a realist perspective
i.e. there is no point in spending paragraphs raging about slavery being LITERALLY EVIL and also instantly emancipating all the slaves will bring the economy crashing down and costing him all his political capital.

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>>17800058
The random capitals make me think he's a troper.

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>>17800286
No, the title of the novel is "How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom". It's a reference to the title.

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>>17800078
I can understand his concern, though. It ultimately depends on the context of the slavery. If it's like the South, where their economy was built on slaves maintaining cash crops, abolishing slavery without any alternative (say, automation) would cause conflict. But if it's the traditional Middle Age/isekai slavery, which consists of political prisoners, war spoils, and indebted people being used as servants and sex slaves, there's less of a risk abolishing it.

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>>17800607
I wouldn't mind being an elf's sex slave.

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>>17800607
Eh, abolishing that type of slavery completely is bound to cause issues anyways since it removes a market. The protagonist of Realist Hero already set up the conditions for it to be more humane though, and at the rate the kingdom is going, that even that type is bound to disappear naturally in a few hundred years without the politicians having to do much. The guy just has to make sure the demons aren't turned into one big slave class after they are defeated.

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>>17800607
It's a standard isekai slavery, but IIRC the MC's plan is to nationalize the entire slave trade, shut down the shitty operators, and provide state-funded vocational training to existing slaves to aid them in finding high value employment (there's a shortage of skilled labour in certain departments like accounting and stuff) and eventually purchasing their freedom and gainful employment. Or something like that.

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>>17800871
that sounds pretty sensible.

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piggy duke is a lot of fun

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>>17802662
Unconventional main characters are cool.

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>>17803291
Fatry Potter?

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Has there been any new non-human isekai that actually takes advantage of his race traits and isn't some fucking get stronger and mow everyone down type of story?

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>>17805902
cicada dragon

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>>17804775
it is pretty much fat Harry Potter

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>>17805902
Kumo desu ga?

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I want to try reading りゅうおうのおしごと! but I'm not sure if I should take a gamble and buy a set of volumes or just get one to start. The set would be much cheaper (saving 300 yen per volume on shipping), but I'm not sure if I'll like it. Reviews seem pretty good, but wondering if anyone here has an opinion that could help me decide.

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>>17811457
It's a good series, 1 volume is the worst one though. Read it if you like spokons.

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Done with the 鑑定能力で調合師になります LNs.
Mushoku Tensei is next. This is going to take a while...

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I'm wasting so much time trying to figure out the best way to get books. I can't figure out if I want an E-Ink reader and to buy kindle versions or if I should continue importing physical copies. This has been an on-off internal debate for years now. So this is what autism is like, huh.

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I just finished the 3rd volume of Blood Sign. They've been pretty enjoyable, especially the fights so far.

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>>17814405
Is that the one with the white yandere?

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>>17814559
Yeah, she's cute while also being scary.

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>>17814602
As yanderes should be

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>>17814405
>Kamachi
He really gets around.

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>>17814405
>blonde
>short hair
>blue eyes
>that uniform

Consider me interessed.

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>There were countries that claimed to accept refugees, then put them to work doing hard labor in the mines for little pay. There were countries that sent them to fight as soldiers on the front line in the battle against the Demon Lord’s Domain. The ways they were treated were many and varied.”

>“I’ve heard that, yeah...” I said. “I can only see those as stupid plans, though.”

>“Are they stupid plans?” Jirukoma asked.

>“Yeah. First off, sending them to the front lines is the stupidest plan of all. National defense is the basis of any state. If they’re entrusting that to foreigners, eventually they’re going to end up facing a serious national crisis.”

>There had been many examples of this in Earth’s history. For instance, the Western Roman Empire during the Migration Period had tried to use the Germanic peoples who had settled peacefully in the empire to deal with the Germanic invaders, and they’d centered their forces around German mercenaries. As a result, their armies had become Germanicized, and they’d been destroyed by the Germanic mercenary commander Odoacer.

>Also, in the Chinese Tang dynasty, giving power to An Lushan, who had been of Sogdian and Göktürk origins, had led to a rebellion which had shortened the life of the country.

That's not how the An Shi Rebellion worked at all. The rebellion didn't happen because he was Turkic, it happened because there was a guy at court who kept trying to backstab him and convince the emperor he was a rebel, blocking his promotions, having his friends arrested and executed, and trying to entrap him to come to the capital so he could do god know's what to him.

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>>17817320
And the real problem with the Roman army's Germanization wasn't with the recruitment of Germanic people who had settled peacefully and actually been integrated into the Empire and Romanized, it was when they allowed entire tribes of Goths to be imported wholesale into the Empire and keep their tribal structures intact, fighting as entire mercenary nations with loyalties to their own kings; rather than the previous integration rulebook of immigrant tribes being being broken up, spread across the empire, and properly integrated, combined with the problem the Roman army always had of troops being more loyal to their generals than to Rome itself.

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>>17814270
Did you try reading a bit of it before ordering... all those volumes? What if you think it's shit 3 volumes in?

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>>17814298
Kindle saves shipping costs and very often there's great sales. A nobrainer if money or space or transportability is an issue at all for you really. If you don't care about any of those three factors physicals are pretty nice to have.

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>>17817603
I finally decided to get a Paperwhite and I guess I'll get a VPN for purchasing? $40 for a year of VPN isn't too bad compared to how much I've been spending on shipping. That's assuming a VPN service I pay for is more secure than stuff like VPN Gate.

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>>17817535
I read all of the manga and a bit of the web novel.

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>>17817633
You only need a VPN for one purchase, after that amazon should just let you buy regardless of your location

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>>17794622
What's the name my brother

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Just finished Bungaku Shoujo book 2. I'm surprised at how much the epilogue of the book made me feel. I've read this book before years ago, but I didn't feel anything like this back then. I'm looking forward to reading more now.

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>>17810987
She get strong as fuck though.

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>>17814405
>that skirt, red skirt
Unf.

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>>17825139
not in the "mow down everyone" variety (at least not in the first 200 chapters)

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>>17826541
True. Even as a goddess, Gyurie and Taratekt can still give her a run for her money.

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Is anyone familiar with jcafe here? Why isn't my account getting approved, I'm kind of desperate.

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I can't find the Amaburi LNs. Other than the 2 first volumes in English, the torrents in nyaa are all dead. Other links I've tried are dead. Send help.

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>>17816403
Kamachi has a thing for blonde girls in general.

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>>17814405
You're just now reaching the real fun.

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>>17829153
And very short, lewd skirts too.

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>>17793464
How does Japanese writing compare to English by Yen Press? Although, I probably wouldn't read it again since it felt like I was reading a fanfiction, but instead if it being "OC falls into x story" it becomes "x story into modern setting."

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Now that there are digital versions available, does anyone know if it's worth to start replacing the fan translation of Mahouka in my library with the official version?

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Anything currently worth getting?
There's quite the insane points up campaign going on at BW. Only for another ~3 hours, though.

https://bookwalker.jp/tag/1698/?qcat=3&np=1

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>>17790004
what has been the deal with the latest translated chapters?

all he's been doing for the last few chapters is using his magic to psuedo rape all the maids into a mofumofu harem, and the maids seem totally down with getting felt up by a 2 year old until they pass out from the pleasure

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>>17833729
The main character is so mean. All he does is bully and tease girls.

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>>17839509
Good, it's about time they broke off with your typical goody-two-shoes dense protagonists. Besides, unless you're a complete social autist with exactly zero friends (even including online ones), a bit of banter and bullying is more realistic and believable.

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>>17833829
I always find translations to be inferior to the original language. The translator will always put a spin on the text, and especially in light novels I think the tropes and writing style would feel awkward in English.

And I don't really think it's "X story in modern setting," it's more of, "Books contain lessons that we can use in our lives." I mean, the stories ARE based on famous novels in a way, but it's more than that. I'm about to finish the third volume and I'm really enjoying it. I can't say if you would like the series, but I think it's pretty interesting how the characters see themselves in books and learn to grow or face their own problems.

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Been trying to read "I Said Make My Abilities Average", I don't know what to think of it. Seems like there's no real story, just small arcs of her running away and meeting new people.

>>17840954
>I always find translations to be inferior to the original language
That's because they always are. There's almost something lost in translation, and it's really sad.

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>>17841505
>There's almost something
Always something.
For example, a mainsteam one. You know the House MD show? Well, in the original English, House refers to everyone as "you", which is pretty neutral.
In the french subtitles, they translated it as "tu", which is kinda like "thou", so really familiar, while all the other characters use "vous", which is like "thee", more polite and formal unless I fucked it badly and mistook them. Then, in the French dub, everyone uses "vous", which denotes respect.

See my point? English doesn't have as many adjectives, so the relationships between characters can be completely misunderstood.
The opposite is also true, when you go from Japanese or Korean (who have a gazillion expressions for people to talk to each others) to English (who only has "You"), there's some loss.

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>>17814405
>You’ll see what happens when an adult woman switches back on the romance she banned herself from after realizing she was a stalker in the making. Does the water in your water bottle taste funny? That’s because it’s my leftover bathwater! Hah!!
Alright I’m sold.

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Release that witch is probably the only isekai to keep my attention for over 500 chapters

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So J-Novel licensed two Horror themed Light Novels for Halloween.

Ao Oni
>Shun is the new kid in school, but he’s already managed to attract the attention of the school bully, who’s now making his life a living hell. It doesn’t seem like things could get any worse, until the night he finds himself and a group of his classmates inside a creepy, abandoned mansion known as the Jailhouse. They quickly start to hear strange sounds and see weird things, but everything escalates when they realize they can’t get out. Once they’re trapped inside, a blue, unnaturally large figure chases after them. Is it a new species? Or is it the ghost of their old classmate who died in an accident? Nobody knows, but one thing is for certain... If it catches them, they’re dead! The scariest game of tag in history begins!

Yume Nikki: I Am Not in Your Dream
>Based on the cult hit game, the novelization of Yume Nikki follows a lonesome girl into the bizarre dreamscapes that await her when she falls asleep. Opening doors and wandering aimlessly, is she really as alone as she thinks?

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>>17793480
I was thinking of buying one myself.
Surely the original kindle is best value? I don't understand what's so much better about the paperwhite.

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>>17843653
Paperwhite has higher resolution than the original kindle (very important if you want to do manga, possibly important for general Japanese text rendering). The light honestly makes the screen a lot more comfortable to read and of course makes it so you can read without a light. It's a pretty big price jump, but I'm extremely happy with my paperwhite so far. I just wish I could have bought the "manga edition" they have in Japan.

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>>17843724
>manga edition" they have in Japan.
explain further

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>>17843415
Didn't they made a movie based on Ao Oni too?

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>>17794296
its interesting how similar he is to the religious right in insisting on judging all fiction primarily through the lens of his enlightened values. One almost feels sorry for the kid who won't allow himself to enjoy anything.

There are good reasons to dislike realist hero but "not woke enough" is a very poor one.

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>>17844051
The far left is weird like that in how they became the same thing they hated 30 years ago.

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>>17795084
That sounds like a monkey's paw kind of wish. Aladdin would get his Agrabah "democracy" only for it to swiftly devolve into a bloody civil war and destroy everything and everyone he ever loved.

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>>17844063
>HistoryOfTurkeyInOneMovie.avi

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>>17844154
Who are you quoting？

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Anyone here using moon+ reader? How do you make your paragraphs align left, but leave the title and other stuff in the page centered?

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Would you the valkryie sisters?

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>>17844063
Until. There's no sense in forcing a new regime if people can't use it properly.
It's like going to kindergarten and telling them to elect a class rep, most of them will want to be the class rep because it sounds cool.

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>>17843750
More space (32GB) for storing more volumes and faster page turn. It's only $20 more than the normal paperwhite in Japan - but of course you can't ship them overseas directly.

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Can someone tell me why Dendrogram's formatting looks stupid in Moon+? It's all centered.

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Can any wizard knowing moonrunes can tell me what this is?
There's a scene I want to read.

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It's that scene, for reference.

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>>17845981
http://lndb.info/light_novel/Saikyou_Hitoku_no_Eiyuu_Kyoushi

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>>17845992
That's one interesting image, any chance you could tell me the context around it?

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>>17846017
looks like a punishment

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>>17846017
I'm precisely trying to find the translated novel to figure it out.

>>17846011
Thanks.

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Scans of Kino no Tabi volume 21 when?

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>>17845593
Moon video. Some dumb shit with CSS style sometimes, you can fix it by overriding text alignment in override CSS styles in the settings or you can fix it by switching to another app like Lithium.

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>>17847101
*Moon reader does
I don't know what the fuck my autocorrect was thinking there.

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>>17847101
Yeah that's what I did. And this is what happened.

You can see the title and that little diamond is not centered anymore when it actually should be. I tried it in Lithium and the format is fixed there. I checked the original format as well by the publisher and it actually is fine. The only problem happens when it's in Moon+.

It pisses me off because Lithium doesn't have Justify yet.

Tried it in Prestigio and it's actually nice there. The problem is that if the words don't complete in a certain line, instead of moving the word down, it will actually hyphen it instead which is retarded.

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any novels similar to ＜Infinite Dendrogram＞?

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Zombie Imouto and Vampire Onee-san vol 4 translations just finished. Satori is starting to fucking play god.

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>>17793632
thanks for this anon, I didn't know there would be an anime. I just came.

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Gosh, Novelupdates is almost all Chinese novels.

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>>17859542
Yeah, it's pretty crowded with chinese stuff, seeing as how many chinese web novels and such there are that people find easy to machine translate.
Though, just filtering a few of the translator groups pretty much clears out the majority of it.
Wish the site actually let me filter out Chinese shit entirely, but oh well.

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A shoujo LN is getting an anime adaption. I think it should the first if I'm not mistaken

Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi

>The series centers on a female college student named Aoi, who inherited the ability to see spirits from her late grandfather. Aoi prides herself on her cooking, and one day she's feeding some agricultural spirits when suddenly a god and the master of the "Tenshinya" (Heavenly Inn) appears and takes Aoi away. He says that due to her grandfather's debts, she must become his bride. Aoi hates this idea and instead declares that she will pay back her grandfather's debt by working at the Tenshinya.

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>>17856330
hopefully you just came at this thread instead of, you know.

For those who care, LN vol 9 is available now.

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>>17862265
That really is not the first the Marimite anime is from 2004 and there should be other even older anime.

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>>17829178
Edgy light novel starter pack

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>>17871951
How can it be a starter when it's not isekai? It's also not really edgy at all, especially compared to another novel by the same author.

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Hello /jp/ I wanted to ask if there are translators that are willing to be hired to translate series and how much does it tend to cost per volume if so?

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>>17873371
There are crazy fuckers who hold translated chapters hostage $50 a piece on their Patreons.

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>>17873377
Well how much do the non-assholes charge if there are any? Obviously I know it'll end up being incredibly expensive.

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Has anyone tried one of those shoujo novels by Cross Infinite World? The vampire one looks interesting.

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>>17873377
there are unlicensed WNs people are willing to pay 50 a chapter? what are these WNs?

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>>17873371
I would do it for $0.07 per character.

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>>17859542
just seems that Chinese translators have a better work ethnic than the Japanese ones.
but then again there's probably more people from China and English countries that learn each other's languages for more practical reasons (business, politics, etc.) than Japanese and English learning their languages

but then there's Wuxia world and Qiden who wants to eat all the translators

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>>17875789
qidian is crap. it pays peanuts and gets monkeys. most chinese to english translation, official or fan, is terrible. exceptions are rare and getting rarer

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I find it weird there isn’t more comfier story that doesn’t revolve overly powerful chara like Seven and Yuusha party or even duke Daugther

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>>17877106
bookworm?

[shieldbro !!KKdDKA1vLEr No.]

>>17875789
What's this quiden thing?

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>>17879468
Qidian (the Q is a "ch" sound by the way) is basically the Chinese version of wattpad, only bigger. Most Chinese web novels are posted on Qidian, and a lot of their stuff was being translated to English, with many translators making $300 a chapter due to donations and shit.
A little while ago, Qidian decided to get in on the action, and has since gone about acquiring and shutting down fan translators of works on their website, and opened up an English website.

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>>17873393
I read it. Wasn't anything special. Just average. But I was similar to the many north American vampire novels I read in my teens.

The violet knight is good so far from what I've read

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Can someone tell JNC to get all the popular and good LNs? They are a fuck lot better than Yenshit.

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>>17882305
Aren't they a relatively small-scale operation?

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>>17882305
>all the popular and good LNs
>popular and good
pick one

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>>17883031
Oregairu and Saekano are both popular and very well written in Japanese. Don't be a contrarian for no reason anon.

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Hey fellas, would you guys have any recommendation for a epub reader for android?
I've started reading Infinite Dendrogram but I wanted to relax outside while reading it but all the readers I find on googleplay are full of annoying publicity that pop in the page or when I change of page which kill off my immersion.

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>>17884853
Lithium

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>>17884914
Thank you, it's almost perfect! it's just missing a night mode (as far as I saw) but that will do

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>>17884925
There is a night mode, but it's not called night mode, it's just a black theme.

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>>17886231
Silly me, I searched for the setting for it.
Thank you Anon, now its perfect.

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>>17874943
Hopefully good.

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Having reach vol 10, at this point this LN is my most favorite by far. Are you anons reading it? And if so what do you guys think about it ?

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>>17889371
very fun

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>>17889371
whats so good about it

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>>17889579
Politics, tons of character devoplements, actual world devoplement with deep history and different cultures, pretty satisfying mc and heroine. Battles are top notch too.

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>>17889371
Heard its a decent senki LN but it seems to have gotten the so called 打ち切りEND because it lacked popularity, have a lot of bad narou experiences with dropped projects and axed works so I'm just avoiding it for now.

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>>17892882
Well still there is 2 more volume left to translate but I can guess where the story ends. I'm sure story could drag much more by going world domination or something but when you read the author "afterwards" ,even at start he had visualized his finishing line and apperently he reach it. Story in not rushed at all.

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>>17893685
>Well still there is 2 more volume left to translate
>read a bakatsuki translation
All your opinions are invalid, sorry.

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>>17896522
whats wrong with bakatsuki

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>>17897345
Amateur translation, translation from a translation.

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>>17898352
Is it another Chinese-to-English thing?

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>>17898352
so just about normal by WN translation standards

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>>17898415
Not him and dunno for English, but I remember the French translation of Haruhi Suzumiya was based on the English translation.

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>>17893685
Well you see that's what I heard as well story is not rushed at all until the final volume with a lot of loose ends.
Hoping it won't be like that tho anon so happy reading I'll probably still read sometime later since there're not that many good senki titles nowadays.

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>>17898352
Depends on the LN, Kamachi and Kawakami novels have good TLs.

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>>17790004
>MC is still only two years old
Lucky for me I'm a toddlercon too.

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>>17902281
j06 is decent, but he's not without odd phrasings and occasional failures of grammar, his primary strength is that he can keep up that decent level of quality at speeds that would reduce most fan translators to gibberish.

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>>17903709
Considering what he's translating I'm quite willing to forgive the occasional hiccup. It still reads better than a lot of English naturals.

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Well, seems that I've finished the core series of Bungaku Shoujo. Not sure if I want to delve into the short stories/side stories or just leave it here. It was a pretty good series altogether. I would have liked more epilogue in the final book though.

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Index is shit.

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>>17902538
Just say pedophile anon

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>>17911540
It has a lot of spanking fanart.

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Been reading "Nobunaga's Imouto is My Wife".
It starts off being midly interesting, but it quickly becomes ridiculous.

>"I'm going to develop the economy instead of going to war!"
>"DEVELOP THE ECONOMY? THAT'S SO ORIGINAL, YOU'RE A GENIUS M'LORD!"
>"I'm also going to shove my eleven-inches long dick in my wife and write an entire chapter about that."

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>>17917595
most wn are utter trash but i can enjoy them anyway

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>>17917609
Yeah, but sometimes it becomes so ridiculous it's not even enjoyable. Kumo's story or the "Make my Ability Average" are designed to be comedy, but that one isn't.

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Yen Press just released Magical Girl Raising Project volume 2, so I made a quick comparison screenshot of the /a/ translation on the left, the official translation in the middle, and the Platfleece/TL-kun translation on the right.
Looking at this it's hard to imagine how anyone could have let TL-kun get away with his fanfic shit for so long.

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>>17919348
Can anyone tell me about the drama regarding this series? I'm late to the issue about this one.

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>>17919425
The tl;dr version is that the translation sucked but nobody noticed for a while and by the time they did it was too late.

The long version is that the original translator (Platfleece)'s work was so wildly inaccurate as to be borderline fanfiction, but the stuff he wrote tracked just barely closely enough with the events of the anime that the bulk of the (non-JP-literate) fandom didn't notice in spite of repeated warnings from moonreaders and chinkreaders that something was wrong.

We're talking shit like this:

Chinkanon:
>The sound of underground movement was now far away, but Clamberry did not give chase. Rather than chasing down a beaten dog, her priority was to deal with her present circumstances. She could no longer hear the sound of an angel’s wings overhead.
>Clamberry moved carefully. Despite her wariness, she moved in a way that concealed it from others, with a natural ease. She walked around the algae-encrusted trees and stepped over low-growing shrubs. She swung over a valley on a vine. She was getting closer. There were several notes of tension in her heartbeat. Given the effective time of the Vitality Medicine, she would have to make an attack now. Dropping her pretense, Clamberry stepped into a patch of vegetation and stabbed her right hand into a rock without any warning. After impaling the human-sized rock with her right hand, she raised it and slammed it heavily onto the ground.

Plat:
>She had listened to the scratches underground. They weren’t chasing her or coming towards her. In fact, it looked like the noises were moving away from her.
>Suddenly, a large rock began flying in the air towards Clamberry. Fast. Durable. This wasn’t a normal rock.
>The rock kept hitting her.
>It was fast. The arm, then the back, then it flew over to her shoulder.
>Clamberry focused on the movements, her reflexes are far too fast for the rock to anticipate, and calmly, she aimed her fist at the incoming rock."

When they did finally wake up and realized that everything from the novel translations to the interview translations was bullshit there was a huge shitstorm about it, but by then the translator had garnered a legion of drones to defend him and his "efforts" and the inaccuracies had infected the wiki (of which Plat was the admin), and he was stubborn enough that even anon who attempted to help proofread his work had most of his proposed changes rejected. He continued to cover up his lies with even more lies (claiming that he had "translated from memory" and that he would fix everything with a v2) and then retreated to discord where his drones continue to suck his dick.

/a/ meanwhile scraped together a chinkanon and a moonreader to do proper re-translations from the Chinese version checked against the JP raw. As can be seen from the image and this one, even this J>C>E translation is still far better than Plat's garbage.

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>>17919493
>>17919425
There is also an amusing coda to this story, where one of the fans mistook J-Novel Club for a fan translation group and tried to beg them to pick up Mahoiku before realizing that they were actually legit (Slow Press had already licensed it by this time and nobody wanted to deal with their schedules). Then later they learned that J-Novel Club actually bid for the license but were too late.

To this day, the shitty Platfleece translations are still the most widely circulated ones, with only /a/ for the most part being aware of the retranslation effort. The only silver lining to this story is that the Yen Press translator turned out to be of decent quality.

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>>17919493
>>17919542

What a story. So in the end, did this drama kill all the hype for the series or something?

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>>17919563
The fandom is still there, and the /a/ retranslations are still gradually progressing, but things have definitely slowed. I can't say for sure whether the exhaustion of the whole affair hastened that or if it would have happened anyway after the anime ended.

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>>17919493
and people donated money for this lol...

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>>17919493
Ok the Platfleece/TL-kun translations are just so damn different that if I didn't notice that some parts are the same as the /a/ and YP translations, I would have thought that it was a different series altogether.

Where there no early moonreaders warning people about this? Or where they already late to the party to notice?

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>>17920499
People generally don't read things twice. pure text, e.g. wns and unvoiced games, is a medium where there's nothing for the ones who know to reference against. So as long as there are no glaring problems with a bad translation, it's hard to tell that something is wrong. Combine this with the low expectations people have of web novels and fan translation generally and it's a perfect storm for fanficslation

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>>17919493
>>17919542
What a story indeed.
This is the effect of the cult of personality, which I'm glad is not a thing on this god forsaken website.

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>>17919493
Chinkanon's version has a lot of prose, but seems understandable.
Plat's version sounds like she's getting lapidated.

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>>17919348
But what is it even about? A guy rising a magical daughter or something?

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>>17793208
I'm considering starting this, but based on the description I'm not even sure what the main plot conflict would be. Has anyone been reading this?

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>>17828577
I'm having the same problem.

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>>17923316
Madoka clone

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>>17932117
Sounds like shit baka desu famaxacoricofalapatorius.

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>>17884853
I finished the 3 volume available of this one and the next one only comes out in January...
Do you have any other interesting VRMMO stuff to recommend?
I remember reading Moonlight Sculptor a few years ago but I completely forgot where I was and didn't really had the motivation to continue reading it.
IIRC I was at the part where weed use his sculpting transformation to turn into an Ogre and command monsters around or something like this, is it worth restarting it?

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>>17933695
Only Sense Online is a fairly laid back VRMMO series.

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>>17933711
Is that the one with the guy playing a female character right?
Wasn't there another very similar to it too with an old guy instead too? is it bad?

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>>17933695
JNC is fast that I won't be surprised if V6 is going to be kinda "simul-pub".

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I've been reading The New Gate. The battle scenes are a little too long and the details about the skills just seem like useless filler. Everything outside of fights are fun though.

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>>17933715
Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki. Whether it's good or bad depends on what you want I suppose. Personally I dropped it halfway through in disgust over some major changes the writer made in how he wanted to handle a certain aspect of the story. But if all you really care about is the slow crafting/exploring/SOL stuff it was good.

Just don't read it if you care about romance at all. After 3 volumes or so the author decided the main heroine was cramping his style and axed her for the rest of the story to switch over to a 'random sluts of the arc' format.

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Can someone tell me why you guys like "Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?" I don't understand.

>>17934905
>and the details about the skills just seem like useless filler
That's every isekai with skills that just suddenly pop out for them in convenience.

But yeah, outside of that, the interactions are fine.

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>>17936294
I dont think its amazing or anything but I just think kumo's antics are cute af. As far as isekai self insert mary sue protagonists go she's probably the least terrible

[Anonymous No.]

Are any of you reading Roku de Nashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Record? Any comments on it?

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Kumo desu ga TL comparison between the two WN translators and Yen Press, made by some /a/non and edited a bit more by me. Shows both the differences in translation quality as well as the rewrites done in the transition from WN to LN.

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>>17842599
Anna OP

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>>17936179
I'm trying to read the first few chapter but the translation is awkward or outright bad at time and full of translator notes, does it get better?

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>>17942356
Like, shit, this is really rough.

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>>17939095
Blastron takes a lot of liberty, turb0 is cancer, the LN actually looks decent.

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>>17896522
>reading any translation
lol Americans

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>>17889371
What the fuck is that? "Frowning Magical Fantasy World"?

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>Speaking of no mosaics.
>In this world, things such as adult videos, a modern convenience that is also referred to as porn, obviously did not exist.
>According to the classification of sociology, a society where porn has yet to be invented was, at most, nothing more than a society that was on the border of being referred to as primitive.
And then
>It seems that he had received the biggest shock he had ever experienced in his life and it had struck him right on his head. Space was also infinite and time was eternal.

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>>17943441
does anyone else like that whereas in most isekai fiction the MC has a party full of loyal powerful friends and women that love him unconditionally, but in Ouroboros, the MC only has that because he lobotomizes his slaves

[Anonymous No.]

Just to know, is there a place where I can find VIZ translated LN (possibly for free)?

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>>17945019
In their store if you wanna pay. Or just look it up in Goddess.

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is there an isekai involving trucks? ive found something ovallord but nor sure if its an actual thing

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>>17950280

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>>17950280
most of them start with a truck

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>>17950280
>>17950287
this cant be real

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>>17950543
>>17950741
It's a random idea by a forum member from a thread long ago and it has been stuck on my head since so i had to draw some bits of it.

Story goes like:
*~20+ year old ordinary college student part timer or maybe full time
*got a mysterious delivery order to transport items to a place that the driver is unfamiliar of, seems to cause him to be transported to the other world, the client is a mystery
*After some bits of investigation, he learns that the items he needed to delivery are in isekai, kingdoms that part take in taking down the demon lord needed these relics/items/weapons in order to have a chance to defeat the demon lord (this can have major twist later on). THis becomes his main quest and spans major arcs and he believes he can return to his home world once the delivery is done.
*he takes side quests along the way to earn coins, meet and interact with various dwellers, learn more about the world and take party members/guards.
*probably str based and crafting based, also wide area detection skill to be bale to pinpoint locations during isekai delivery
*truck probably became magical, a sacred item that can be repaired with crafting skills and runs o other means other than gasoline
*is upgraded later on to take on more demanding tasks based on how high crafting skill is (imagine them trucks in Mad Max)
*partners up with an orc(!?) who carries them loads (maybe orc was discarded from is clan or discarded slave or something and he took him in) is loyal to him
*parties up with that young mage (that red hair girl), that truck kun fated meeting and got curious about mc and his truck (that page 1)
*parties of with a female elf (maybe dark or brown elf ranger?) because she owes truck guy big time (from a side quest has twist later on)
*elf girl is in bad terms with orc because you know them orc elf dojins, became part of a running gag of the series
*orc has no interest in elf, and wtf is she saying orcs being lewd like that.
* elf and mage became like guards protecting the delivery caravan from bandits and other monsters during delivery (orc doubles as carrier and the sword//tank/axe guy)
*sometimes sent to the frontlines (perhaps an ongoing war with other country or demon army) to deliver precious rations and resources
*rear truck carriage may be turn to something else to be able to carry people and other creatures, but primarily is a delivery truck
* can sometimes party with other people, for those unknown areas
* loli knight (or rather former knight) didn't make the illustration and joins the party later on as she partakes on one of the major story arcs.

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>>17950280
There's one where the guy is reincarnated in a hot spring.

>>17950280
>>17950287
The art is pretty shitty.

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>>17951448
Yeah, hotspring and vending machine yes?
Sorry my drawing is not up to your standards

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>>17951448
Yeah, hotspring, vending machine, pest exterminator, bears.
And i apologize if my drawing is not good enough.

Also it seems that Konosuba vol 12 chapter 1 is translated

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>>17951462
Oh, that was yours? I thought it was a real manga. If it's any consolation, I saw mangas with shittier drawings.

[Anonymous No.]

>/a/ has a 500+ post thread about the Kono Light Novel wa Sugoi rankings, in which Teh Ping comes out of retirement to discuss the winners
>/jp/ LN thread doesn't mention the rankings at all
Terrible.

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>>17951544
Light Novels
*1. Ryuuou no Oshigoto!
*2. 86
*3. Infinite Dendrogram
*4. Tsuki to Layka to Nosferatu
*5. Sword Art Online
*6. Bokutachi no Remake
*7. Yowa-Chara Tomozaki-kun
*8. Gamers!
*9. Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka
10. Imouto sae Ireba Ii.

Books
*1. Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen
*2. Kumo desu ga, Nani ka?
*3. Youjo Senki
*4. Overlord
*5. Monogatari Series
*6. Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken
*7. Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu
*8. Yokohama-eki SF
*9. Majo no Tabitabi
10. Uchi no Musume no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai.

ok... so...?

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>>17800871
>>17802226
mfw it's literally Obama's plan for illegal immigration

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>>17950280
>>17950287
>>17951448
not the best and not the worst either, and the idea seemed a little interesting,

>>17951074
are you gonna make a manga out if it?

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>>17879518
Qidian is the worst, basically the EActivision of CN webnovels. I really hope they get what is coming to them!

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>>17800871
Isn't that part of Genou?

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>>17955486
Are they the ones with the chapters locked behind ads and whatnot? Basically everything is adfly?

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>>17955496
Right now it is just the latest chapters behind ads, but if Qidian ever gets popular in the west like it is in China, you better expect them to start charging per chapter!

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>>17792690
>I really wish for a reincarnation series that's just about growing up in a fantasy world with adult knowledge and memories
What's the point of having adult knowledge and memories if you don't want them to do anything with it? If you are going to do that just do what Faraway Paladin did and have MC forget his past life while growing up.

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>>17955426
nah, it's just an idea that i wanted to draw and be done with it, i'm not even supposed to make that large colored illustration, it's mostly just autism.

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>>17955503
charging for ESL translation keke

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>>17842599
after MusoTen ended and Kumo desu ga left the labyrinth CN and KR shit is the only Isekai I still give a damn about.

[Anonymous No.]

can I get link to Wortenia Senki LN raws?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17955554
Try Akuyaku Reijo ni Koi wo Shite.

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>>17803291

also Overlord and Tanya

[Anonymous No.]

Can gaijins buy Kindle Light Novels from Amazon JP? I'm asking for a friend.

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>>17970899
Using Paypal, I mean.

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>>17970926
No, just with a credit card.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17970926
You need a credit card as the other guy said but you can also buy Amazon gift cards with paypal on play-asia and use those.

[Anonymous No.]

I had a lot of trouble getting into LNs, but now here I am importing copies of books because I like them so much. Isekai is truly magical. Mushoku Tensei is the best LN.

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>>17975511
>Mushoku Tensei is the best LN.
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>17975511

you think this only because you still haven't read Horizon, senpai

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>>17976477
Horizon is too much of a clusterfuck to be enjoyable, even if it's a truly great series. Try reading AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH or Owari no Chronicle.

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>>17975511
Not even close.

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>>17889371
I remember reading this a year ago or two, mind spoiling me what happened to the mother & sister and if hime found out he was the gladiator she liked to?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17977693
>Intellectual Villages are old fashioned rural villages recreated with cutting edge technology. Those villages attract the Japanese monsters known as Youkai.

>The high school boy Jinnai Shinobu lives in one of those villages and has a Zashiki Warashi living in his house. He tends to run across Youkai with unnerving frequency and this often leads to trouble for him.

sounds kinda boring senpai

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>>17980339
The summary is shit, it doesn't even mention the other two sets of MCs.

[Anonymous No.]

are there any good isekai about banking?

[Anonymous No.]

Is there no SAO Progressive volume 5? I went on to Amazon to get it only to discover there not even a Japanese volume out yet. Has the author dropped the series already?

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>>17982211
Log Horizon.

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>>17970790
Overlord's manga is kinda shite, to be honest.

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>>17982291
No. I read that in October of this year he started to work in the new volume. So, probably the new volume will be out in 2018.

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>>17802662
>>17803291
I would continue reading this if he didn't say Buhii in every line.

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>>17933695
>Do you have any other interesting VRMMO stuff to recommend?
Not really a vrmmo but amber sword

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I dropped a novel a week ago. Can't remember the name, but it was supposed to be about an older MC wizard who was supposed to have terrible luck and be somewhat evil because of the hardships he's gone through from his bad luck. The synopsis says he randomly meets 2 girl adventurers on his travel and gets roped into defeating the demon lord or some shit.

>first chapter is him in a cave raping the Chief's daughter he kidnapped from the village
>the 2 adventurer girls are actually bounty hunters to kill the Mc and bring the girl back
>Mc tricks them into a trap, abducting one adventurer and raping her and using rape magic to make her his sex slave (she can't harm him and must do what he says). The other adventurer fell deep into the trap and was raped by many large flies/bees/insects
>the Mc and his new sex slave go out to find her friend, but realized she got away so they have sex in the insect's nest
That's where I dropped it. You guys ever read something expecting generic situations and adventure, bit end up just getting 80% shitty porn?

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>>17983885
syosetsu is getting worse and worse

[Anonymous No.]

>>17970899
Sorry, I only read on wood pulp and ink

[Anonymous No.]

>>17983885
Anything that's R-18 is really usually pretty garbage. I avoid all of them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17984690
Thought the sex scenes were few, not 80% of the book. It was like a nukige but without the sound effects and pictures. It's too bad because that premise was decent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17983038
Well that sucks. I hope he dials back the whole laughing coffin plot a bit, I prefer the world-building and stories of the main couple interacting on each floor.

[Anonymous No.]

Just finished reading Alicization arc of SAO (at least up to volume 17). It took me 6 years to slowly crawl through immensely huge amount of bullshit that 1-8 volumes were (mostly) made of, yet I still kept believing that the things would be better later on. Well, I wasn't particularly wrong, and now I crave for some new long-ass series with a specific set of features:

1. (essential) There should be a significant change in direction of the plot, as the story goes on. No nauseatingly stale things like "let's start with one idiotic goal at volume 1 and work our asses off to achieve it in volume 20".

2. (preferable) Storytelling shouldn't be focused on a main character's perspective. It's fine if the point of view stays the same for a long time, but there should be some healthy change too (even if it's just temporary).

3. (optional) No fucking games. No "what the fuck I'm in a fantasy world" idiocy, at least without proper explanation.

Any good ideas?

[Anonymous No.]

>>17987054
Owari no Chronicle & Horizon

[Anonymous No.]

>>17987054
Zashiki Warashi if you're interested in more of a supernatural mystery with 3 sets of main character perspectives.

[Anonymous No.]

>>17987054
Antimagic Academy - 35th Test Platoon for a very well executed school battleharem with a sudden massive turnaround around a third into the series.
It does take until volume 5 for shit to fully fly off the cliff but it's worth every moment. And all girls are best girls.

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>>17983885
Most "adult" stuff is usually garbage. Sadly.

>>17988076
Is it like Ghost Hunt? A kinda serious, investigative take on paranormal stuff?
'cause I liked Ghost Hunt. Even the manga was nice. And mangas is usually retarded compared to novels.

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>>17989243
I don't know anything about Ghost Hunt so i can't make a comparison, but it varies depending on the character viewpoint. The novels are fairly experimental for the author but usually follow a format of the three sets of main characters dealing with incidents from different angles.
Shinobu is the high schooler loved by the supernatural mentioned in the preview and usually gets wrapped up in things against his will but manages due to his rather extensive knowledge of youkai. Hayabusa is Shinobu's uncle and a police detective with an aversion to youkai because they naturally love to bully him. He usually deals with things from a more formal police type investigation alongside his more supernaturally inclined underage stalker Enbi. The third set is Enbi's older sister Mai who is completely submerged in the underworld of supernatural dealings and is a freelance spy who takes jobs to resolve incidents with her sidekick the Sunekosuri who is a harmless youkai assigned to keep an eye on her.
The first person narrative annoys some people but I rather like it, and it's fairly with 9 volumes and a few side stories afterward. It's translated by js06 so TL quality isn't an issue either. Somewhat related is the Simple Series by the same author which is a collection of loose ideas he couldn't fit into full works on their own. A Simple Monitoring in particular is really good if you like darker stories.

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>>17989407
I liked ZW. Who would've thought clues to the end would've been present as early as the first volume? Like a certain mecha novel.
Also, have you managed to defeat the snakes?