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[Anonymous No.]

This thread is for anything related to the discussion of Japanese light novels, WN / Web Novels included.
Learning Japanese to avoid mistakes and subtext trimming by translators and MTL is heavily recommended.

>Finding light novels info:
https://pastebin.com/M5xQxuHm

>Additional resources:
https://lnwncentral.wordpress.com/
https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html
>Recommended readers:
Android, Libera https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
PC epub reader: https://calibre-ebook.com/

>Main fan TL dump:
https://nyaa.si/view/1202979
>Official translations:
v19.0: https://nyaa.si/view/1575043
v19.1: https://nyaa.si/view/1585807
v19.2: https://nyaa.si/view/1597035
v19.3: https://nyaa.si/view/1597038
v19.4: https://nyaa.si/view/1609471

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>>42314455
based OP

[Anonymous No.]

Anything you'd like to see get an anime?

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>>42316568
Strange grief or dendro.

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>>42316568
黒白のアヴェスター but it needs to be perfect

[Anonymous No.]

>>42316568
サクラの降る町 but I fear how faggots and faggot lovers might see it.

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>>42316601
Dendro already got a mediocre anime, the story isn't as fun without all the narration/exposition/monologues from pure text.

Dendro should really get a VN, I've always thought the info dumps/battles would perfectly fit in with a VN like fate s/n or dies irae.

I'd love a VN filled with what if scenarios with Ray's relationships/abilities or a collection of side stories, or even an original story taking place in the world.

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>>42317461
what are you talking about, there's no dendro anime haha...

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>>42316601
nageki no bourei will get it that's a no brainer imo

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I'm sorry but every time I see someone mention dendro I remember the anime and feel disgust. I'm entirely aware that I shouldn't use a shitty adaptation to judge the source but I can't help it.

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I gave it a try after some anon recommended it here, and it is just a revamped version of B.A.D. Except for this time, the main heroine is a cute NEET instead of a smug loli and the MC doesn't have a hateboner for her.

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/sffg/ fag here that's learning Japanese. Does anyone have recommendations for LNs that are influenced by western fantasy? Kinda getting burnt on chuuni and isekai fantasy. Preferably urban fantasy instead of more classic fantasy, as I'm already aware of series like Guin, 12 kingdoms,loddos, vampire hunter D etc

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>>42322377
Stay strong anon. I used to shun tsukihime because I had the misfortune of watching it before reading the VN. Biggest mistake of my life was not reading it sooner. Don't let big anime take away your opinion freedom

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>>42325024
>Except for this time, the main heroine is a cute NEET instead of a smug loli and the MC doesn't have a hateboner for her.
I don't know, at first glance that makes it sound pretty different.

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>>42325849
I'd recommend some of the fate spin off light novels if you're looking for urban fantasy.

Fate strange/fake or the lord el melloi 2 case files are pretty great reads that expands upon the nasuverse.

I'd also recommend Rakuin no Monshou, it's a great fantasy story with a lot of thriller elements since the MC is the body double of a prince that died, and he has to juggle that deception while working towards his own goals of revenge against a general.

It's a fantastic read, even if the ending felt like the story got axed, and the romantic tension never truly got resolved.

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Dead thread, dead medium

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>>42317461
Is dendro manga decent?

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>>42328487
>dead medium
but we're reading LNs, not VNs

[Anonymous No.]

>>42329796
The fag is regurgitating a meme from /vg/. The original is "dead game".

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>>42329796
VNs are considered dead these days?

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>>42328487
sorry i decided to fix my life so i'm posting less

[Anonymous No.]

How do I market my webnovel to japanese weeb readers?, may as well ask here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42332482
Use a Japanese pen name, write in nip, and then get kadokawa to publish you.

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>>42332516
I want to write basically a story where a sailor moon OC donut steel magical girl has to rescue her team of friends who are captured by tuxedo mask evil villain, and usagi is the only one left, but has been lured into a factory, trap, she overcome some traps, release her party, goes to the top to fight tuxedo, there's magical girl fight, and tuxedo just at the last moment, releases a secret BS spell that make them lose all their powers, get physically powerless and useless but also extremelly horny as fuck.

And they can't help but fuck him to stop being horny, and then his evil spirit that mentally control him is evaporated.

END.

Planning on like writing a basic novellete but just use AI art to make the art I guess, since I am not a wealthy japanese land owner to hire a real japanese artist.

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>>42332554
make the traps sexual too and it'd sound like something that'd come out under KTC's 二次元ドリームノベルズ label

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>>42332628
I guess I will help ask anons here for help, since this seem to be the only place on this site about light novels.

hopefully I get this into japanese eventually as a webnovel and it gets some fanbase and then is picked up by a publisher.

Who knows what can happen.

Let's hope we get eventually some KINO hentai with this.

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>>42328877
Haven't read it, but it's by the needless artist so it can't be that bad. But it got axed if I remember correctly.

[Anonymous No.]

reading latest translated dendro chapter
Am I supposed to read the nameless axe's voice as male or female or neither?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42328877
Like any manga adaptation, it's basically an ad for the LN at best.
At least the art is fairly unique but that's kind of it.

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>>42333178
Male/Neutral. Just think about it, if you were to think of it as a female, it would mean that "she" was unloved/got thrown away by her father, used by the CoCk until she's broken, then got passed around by various (by the lack of better term) cursed niggers until she's BLACKED before she finally met her fated one, the one who would do his very best in purifying her. It's quite funny desu.
>>42317461
To be fair, Kaido used to treat/liken Dendro as a VN, at least until the Quartierlatin Arc. Hell, he used to say that Fran is like that one antagonist-turned waifu from some series, though unfortunately we're on the Nemesis/Juliet end. So unless we're getting a soft reboot with different heroine like Vanadis, the most we can get is an omnibus ending like Ben-To.
>Side stories
If you're reading the WN version, there's Another Episode where Kaidou posts some bonus SS, usually one heavily related to King of Kings/CoCk material.

[Anonymous No.]

strange fake bros wake up

[Anonymous No.]

what am I missing?

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>>42336497
God, how many more books will strange/fake need to end.

I want to see Sigma actually do something for once, but considering how many new characters are still popping up, I feel like this series can get 3 or 4 more books worth of content.

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>>42336497
cute white Rin

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>>42338746
>how many more books will strange/fake need to end
I remember Narita in an あとがき saying that he wasn't even halfway through what he wanted to write.

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>>42339217
you can just say afterword you know

[Anonymous No.]

>>42339569
then how am I supposed to flex on EOPs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42339575
based

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>>42337474
do you think this movement will be studied in schools in the future?

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>>42339677
>in schools
which schools?

[Anonymous No.]

>Web版で五千文字だった文章が一万二千文字に膨らむ。
>おかしいと思いませんか?　貴方。
Why are authors like this?

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>Black hair mira.
What the FUCK.

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>>42340013
It's fine so long as there are no black hairs in the crotch area.

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>>42339701
barely doubling content in size is noob numbers
more often than not it's either 1:1 with very minor changes at most to add some future foreshadowing, or a small side-chapter balloons into a multi-volume arc

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>>42339701
Used to happen to me regularly, back when I was still writing my drafts on paper.

But nowadays I type my texts out directly. So there is no second version.

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>>42339677
Possible. 才子佳人 was ancient Chinese equivalent of cheap romcom light novels and modern people study them

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>>42340454
if we go by how much people have studied other LN eras or even other LN romcom eras, that means this won't get much attention either

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>>42340476
It may become a philosophical idea, akin to medieval courtship, that later generations romanticize and imagine us vividly living.

[Anonymous No.]

How's grimgar

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>>42341216
Did you ever have to tard wrangle a younger sibling or any very young kid out of them killing themselves accidentally?
Grimgar is that up to 11.

[Anonymous No.]

as for me

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>>42341573
IRON YOUR CLOTHES
AHHHH

[Anonymous No.]

i'd iron her thighs with my face if you catch my drift

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>>42340892
I think a version of that already exists if you look at all the people that don't know the anime they watch mostly comes from novels or manga.

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone know how to convert novels on syosetu into htmlz or epub so they can be read in an ebook reader?

Specifically, I want to use ttu ebook reader so I can use yomichan to do lookups and make Anki cards as well as set my text and background colors. Vertical orientation is also key; I don't like reading novels left to right.
https://github.com/ttu-ttu/ebook-reader

I tried using convertio to convert a pdf downloaded from syosetu as well as an html file that I made by copy and pasting text, and neither worked.
The pdf just converted two hyperlinks and was one page one after conversion.
The html file lost line breaks and furigana became standard text.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42345426
webtoepub

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>>42346054
>webtoepub
Nice! You have significantly increased the quality of my life. Thank you, anon.

I just wish I could figure out how to keep the furigana (primarily for names, alternate readings, puns, etc.)..

Any idea if this is possible?
If not, I'll dig deeper into the documentation this weekend and report back if I find anything.

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>>42346254
>I just wish I could figure out how to keep the furigana (primarily for names, alternate readings, puns, etc.)..
>Any idea if this is possible?
Nevermind, I'm an idiot. No need to remove the rp and rt elements. They just look weird in the test block there, but they are proper furigana when converted to epub.

All is well. Now I just need to double check some elements to remove because it added some junk and junk images to the bottom of the epub.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42345426
https://github.com/whiteleaf7/narou

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>>42350240
>It even works on yomu.
Not even that guy but thanks for posting this.

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>>42335325
>we're on the Nemesis/Juliet end.
>Juliet end.
Tell me more about this, anon.

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>>42350240
That guy here; thanks for posting this.
This is super slick; I love how you can automatically update all novels that you have downloaded with a single command.

[Anonymous No.]

gentlemen, how are we dressing up tomorrow ? (otonari volume 8 release day)

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>>42350240
Could this be added to the next OP? I would imagine that there must be others out there who would find it really useful.

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How would you publish a light novel?

[Anonymous No.]

i wouldn't

[Anonymous No.]

https://twitter.com/masada_takashi/status/1613839603475320832
I wish his novels were avalaible somewhere

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>>42361008
My wife's boyfriend works for Kodansha, drop a sample of your writing and if it's good I'll show it to him

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>>42361008
Get a japanese pen name, write in Japanese, make it a web novel first, figure out some way to get an online following (in Japan obviously), then convince some suit somewhere to publish your shit without them realizing you're a gaijin.

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>>42361008
1. Stalk editor.
2. Kidnap editor.
3. Force editor to read
4. Beat up editor until editor says it's great and totally deserving to be published
5. Release editor with manuscript and your bank details for revenue

[Anonymous No.]

Not a light novel but I just finished reading uchouten kazoku 2 and felt like commenting. I've already watched the anime and read the first novel, but only now have I realized UK is a political drama, and yasabro is the lee kuan yew of magic kyoto. I read a bit of LKY's memoir a while back and the way yasabro operates is right out of the same playbook. Overall the second book was repetitive, and nidaime was a disappointing incel.

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>>42361399
ok, so how do I get a fanbase in japan?

The translation thing is not really an issue.
It's just the same shit as marketing a webnovel in the west, but with japanese SEO?

>>42361383
>>42361658
I will post some sample here later I guess.

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What's the best military-themed linnie?

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>>42361965
I don't know about the best but 86 and Youjo Senki are awesome

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>>42361776
I really loved the anime of this and the other book by the guy I've read (yorumijikai) was wonderful.
So you weren't a big fan? Doesn't sound like you hated it at least. It's incomplete though, isn't it? I've heard there was supposed to be a third part but nothing in 8 years.

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>>42361986
>86 and Youjo Senki
My fellow brethren of dark complexion. It's worth noting that these are literally the only military-themed LNs I have read though.

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>just checked Gamei Hitsuji's twitter
Is the LN industry that soul-crushing? Or is it just that depressed people are likely to pick up writing?

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>>42362170
The second book relied on too many plot pushers copied from the first book. Air battles, trick magister elections, ebisugawas plotting to put yasabro in a stew, going into hiding... It spent so little time on actually developing the tengu showdown that the third book would paradoxially have to feel uncharacteristically rushed and focused to resolve that plot line. That's probably why it hasn't come out.

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>>42361965
gate

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>>42350240
looks awesome but is there any way to make this work on a non-japanese windows? i'm assuming i could change my locale to fix it but i kinda don't want to

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>>42362975
>i'm assuming i could change my locale to fix it
You are correct about this and that is what I did to make mine work when I installed it yesterday.
It's not really a big deal.. slightly annoying yen signs and 7zip is now in Japanese.

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>>42362975
https://sourceforge.net/projects/locale-emulator.mirror/

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>>42363093
how would you even use that in this case

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>>42364415
sorry meant for >>42363989
i don't see how locale emulator would work here

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>>42364422
Oh, it's a ruby app, that complicates things. The first screenshot made it look like a GUI application that locale emulator probably would have worked with

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otonari bros wake UP
https://mega.. nz/file/qjgSxDrb#1pV9MuisTYC-EJAYM1ZhTOIlpRXkWr-LiZcTCp-f2Jw

[Anonymous No.]

*goes to sleep*

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Is she gone?
Finally.

[Anonymous No.]

how's picrel?
i heard there's a yandere heroine, that's why im planning to reading it

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>>42361965
gate is the most "author clearly has a military fetish"-y

it also somehow has one of my favourite harems, though they eventually get kinda sidelined for said military fetishism

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>>42370237
>it also somehow has one of my favourite harems
Isn't the protagonist another beta retard that never touches any of the girls?

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>>42370319
it's been a long time since I read it but I think he mostly ignores their advances under the pretense of being under orders not to fuck the locals, but really just doesn't want to get too attached to anyone because he could be permanently sent back to earth at any time. then in the end he stays behind and the implication is a harem end but you don't see it.

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>>42369647
unironic masterpiece with a lot of heart under all that guro

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Damn, I had no idea this thread existed or that it talked about Dendro.

I caught up with the WN recently after putting it on hold for like 2 years to let it pile up (though, I still read the LN-original vol 17) and as always, it was pure fucking fire. Can't wait to see what Kaido's cooking for the next arc.

>>42328877
Unlike what the other anon said, it's not axed yet. He might've been thinking of the Crow Record side story. That one's over, but the novel adaptation got its latest chapter just last month. Though, I don't think it will go beyond Franklin's game.
As for its quality, it's faithful to the novel and fans are generally satisfied with it, though the opinion might've been skewed by the shittiness of the anime. The comments on the Nico chapters are full of people shitting on the anime and saying that THIS is how a Dendro adaptation should be done. The artstyle seems to be kinda polarizing, but I personally like it. Pic related.

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I want to FUCK crim-chan!!!

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>>42370608
>I think he mostly ignores their advances under the pretense of being under orders not to fuck the locals
While other people don't have problems ignoring that order.
>then in the end he stays behind and the implication is a harem end but you don't see it.
I thought by the sequel that was years with a different mc later he was still avoiding them.

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>>42369647
Seconding that, it looks like generic store shelf filler at first, and I put off reading it for a long time because of it, but it quickly became one of my top 10 when I finally got to it.
Though yeah it's slightly unconventional even by niche LN standards so get ready for that, if the title in both english and japanese didn't tip you off.

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>>42371054
>The artstyle seems to be kinda polarizing, but I personally like it.
it's hard to top the LN art, which i wouldn't call realistic, but it's more like a heightened version of reality while being anime-ish, which honestly matches the story itself pretty well, it's about exactly what i imagine the canonical anime graphic settings to be
the manga art isn't that, instead it's just the mangaka's personal style, which isn't bad by any means but it doesn't really F E E L like canon dendro, this is what i imagine causes people to dislike it

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>>42372909
that's gay

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>>42375796
if she was originally a girl anyway, wouldn't that make it reverse gay?

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random thought that arose while reading another monmusu series but I guess I should give some respect to ヘンダーソン氏の福音 for not having "monster girls" in the title and instead just letting the heroines speak for themselves. It's like the girls are all nonhumans just because that's the way the writer liked it rather than because they set out to write a series about monmusu specifically.

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>>42374687
but in fairness how many manga out there can really FEEL like their LN sources when the source art is as distinctive as taiki's? Faraway Paladin suffered from this too for example.
At least it's got its own energy and style to bring through the force of personality of many of its larger than life characters unlike the extremely anaemic anime 's budget style.

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Do publisher contest winners still matter in LNs anymore? Feels like half the prizewinning books that get published get axed after like 3 volumes or just achieve lukewarm success at best compared to some of the shit that gets farmed from narou.

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>>42375939
It's not impossible, and in some extremely rare cases the manga art outshines the LN art, such as this or arguably otome mob.
This one in particular is extremely edgy and the LN art doesn't really show that, while the more chaotic manga art does in spades.
Mind you don't mistake this for me shilling it, it's actually pretty bad in my opinion, it doesn't do much with it's edgyness aside from a decent ego trip showing how sociopathic the MC is, but not much else, I just like the manga art.

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>>42376004
funny you mention that, i was about to rant about virgin road
a LN that won a contest then has done basically nothing for it's entire runtime, it's not like volume 1 was that airtight either, and both it's afterwords and other author comments from various sources show he's basically making shit up as it goes along and barely cobbling it together
from what looks like, prizewinners have a lot of effort for the first volume, likely with months if not years of ideas brewed up just to make it work, then they win the prize, get serialized, then get fucked by deadlines and having to keep the story going within less than 3-6 months per volume depending on the publisher
meanwhile WN stuff from narou or yomu are from people already writing in a serialized manner, and contrary to popular belief, the narou/yomu rankings are surprisingly competitive

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>>42376004
To be fair most things don't get past the great filter of volume 3, it's not exclusive to prizewinning series.

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>>42376081
>it's actually pretty bad in my opinion
It's fun. The MC is so damn edgy that goes past being cringe to being funny. The manga art does an amazing job portraying the edginess.

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>>42376452
I don't disagree, but by volume 2 things are just meh.
Unlike other edgefests like raoul's happy fun times this doesn't really go all out on the grandiose edge angle to the point of almost overblown theatrics.

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>>42376267
Virgin Road I think was propped up mostly for what people expected it to become rather than what people actually got from it.
Even v1 felt very iffy to me.

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>>42376323
Anon didn't mean to say that prize winning series were below average. But that winning a prize didn't seem to be a predictor for any kind of success anymore.

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>>42372909
fine, i'm going to read her wn

[Anonymous No.]

Recently finished left. About to start right.

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>>42378451
>Hype up it's about hunting people from earth, get stuck with a single bimbo while not hunting anyone else.
>Hype up the systematized code-like chants, they end up being even more contrived and deus-ex-machina than even freeform mana manipulation in other series.
>Hype up the MC has low mana pool and has to fight smart, at some point she unga'd something by stealing a large amount of mana off something else anyway.
>Hype up the road journey exploring different cities, they all end up functionally the same because 80% of the story is about fighting and the other 20% it's lame foreshadowing for things it's hard to care about.
>Try make isekai'd people this objectively evil group that will devolve into mindless monsters after using their powers enough to justify them being hunted, somehow the natives are even worse, it's hard to care about what happens to them while paradoxically the big evil 4 have more personality than the rest of the cast combined.
I don't know what was the plan here, dropped it by vol 3 because it felt like a waste of time.
It being completely aimless while having weirdly specific parts really makes me think it's ripping off something else like lazy dungeon master did.

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>>42381662
Never read a book that is thicker than you.

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>>42381777
I'm overweight so that doesn't sound that big of a deal.

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>>42381777
2Dbro...

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>>42370783
>>42373148
danke
guess i'll try it later

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>>42381777
You'll miss out on all the best Ruskie books if you go by that rule.

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>>42381777
it's fine, i read stuff digitally

[Anonymous No.]

Where do I obtain Mynoghra vol 5 illegally?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42382644
though trading with the secret underground gnome sect
i recommend wearing downloaded RAM charms while you do this, else they will kidnap you and sell your organs to gnome nobles

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>>42382707
Ah shucks, why is it so hard to seek compare to already released English volume

[Anonymous No.]

>>42382644
https://mega.. nz/file/7nYgDYRK#75QK1vcR8DYrjD7rxfRrZTUksA__0Ye3oN6u16lXveI

[Anonymous No.]

I liked virgin road

[Anonymous No.]

Any rabukome fags reading this? I'm on vol 6 and loving it so far, but I'm concerned about the anime adaptation they're making.
I'm mostly afraid that the pacing will be atrocious, seeing as this LN is very heavy on describing the characters' inner thoughts and anime is generally more about dialogues.

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>>42384050
it could be worse, so at least it's fine

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>>42371054
Thanks for the reminder to read the dendro wn. I also piled up a year's worth waiting for the whole arc to be finished and just binged it this weekend. I thought infinite jobs were the old gods, but I guess that's not the case, can't wait to see if there's going to be some third system separate from jobs/embyros that's related to these old gods.

Dendro really is great, Kaidou's plot arcs always hit itch I have for ability battles + interesting world + some main theme that revolves around the key character's abilities.

I honestly wish at this point for Kaidou to make a setting book like Nasu did for Fate. And dendrogram needs a fucking anime adaptation that covers the non-Ray multi-character arcs and make it like the Baccano/Durarara adaptation.

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>>42386476
>I honestly wish at this point for Kaidou to make a setting book like Nasu did for Fate.
He did put out some parts describing the Masters/Embryos/tians/monsters/status effects right after he was done with Franklin's Game, which in his mind concluded the first major arc of the story.
Apparently we're still just on the second one, which will be over when the war ends. Maybe he'll put out an updated version of those parts after that? I imagine it'll be a real doozy though.
Well, even if we don't get anything like that, at least the unofficial Dendro JP wiki is, unsurprisingly, run by autists who don't miss any details.
>And dendrogram needs a fucking anime adaptation that covers the non-Ray multi-character arcs and make it like the Baccano/Durarara adaptation.
Personally, I hope that as the years go by, AI art stops being a mess and reaches its logical conclusion: high-quality anime generation.
Sure, it would shake up the industry like nothing else, but even partial automation of anime creation would greatly reduce costs and enable smaller publishers like HJ to secure better and longer adaptations.
With Dendro being so fucking huge, that is basically the only way I can see good shit like the latest arc getting an anime.

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>>42384704
I tried reading this a while ago but it felt too autistic even for me. Was it the translation's fault?

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>>42383051
Thanks anon, i kneel to you

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>>42387177
>With Dendro being so fucking huge, that is basically the only way I can see good shit like the latest arc getting an anime.
The anime and manga industries are a joke at this point after a complete downward spiral for an entire decade, I'm surprised anyone still can get hyped for or want adaptations at all..
I'm not even going to say "isekai bad" with this, given weirdly 50% of my top 10 favorites of all time are isekai, but that's only when talking about the source material, the LN.
For the LNs I have read that have adaptations, 9 out of 10 are terrible, I'm not asking for glorious sakuga and artwork/paneling literally every second or page of it (though it would be nice) but when things like the dendro anime that make you wonder how it exists from how few fucks were given when making it, I can't help but end up thinking AI animated scenes would end up saving the anime industry when stuff like this image exists and it's commonplace by now, any meme complaints about the hands and other few details I can't imagine being harder to fix compared to animating it entirely from scratch.

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>>42387177
somehow the dendro jp wiki being run by utter autismos is the least surprising thing i have heard in a while

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>>42387402
I'm reading CClaw's translation of the LN, it's a bit wonky at times but very readable.
Were you reading the manga? That translation is truly awful, it's almost like a literal translation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42384704
There are a lot of things that can go wrong with the anime. Even the manga is rushed as fuck lately, vol 1 of the LN was adapted in 14 manga chapers but vol 2 was adapted in only 6 chapters. The manga even skipped the visit to Shinomiya's dojo.
And then there isn't a good point to end the season, some Nips raise concern about this too. Hope they don't make an anime-original ending.
Also volume 8 when?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42388616
>Even the manga is rushed as fuck lately, vol 1 of the LN was adapted in 14 manga chapers but vol 2 was adapted in only 6 chapters. The manga even skipped the visit to Shinomiya's dojo.
That's.. concerning. I stopped reading the manga because the translations were godawful, but it's sad to hear they'd skip relationship/bond development in a story like this.

>And then there isn't a good point to end the season, some Nips raise concern about this too. Hope they don't make an anime-original ending.
I thought the same since the story is such a slow burn. Usually, you'd end an anime season after significant story progress has been made but is there even such a point yet? The middle-schooler visit in Volume 3 has an excellent vibe to it, but there's barely been any development at that point. It's basically the turning point, in a way.

A good stopping point is probably at the end of their 1st year of study, as I'm sure the author is planning some very spicy things for the 2nd year so it'd make a good teaser for the future, but the source material isn't even there yet AFAIK, and even then it'd be too much for a single cour without severely rushing things.

That being said, I'll get properly pissed if they make an anime-original ending. It'd just be a different series at that point.

>Also volume 8 when?
Up until now, a new volume was released roughly every five months, and the last volume came out in August, so it should be during this month. Although, I've seen somewhere that the LN is about to catch up with the WN, so it may take longer going forward.

[Anonymous No.]

/a/fag here, wanted to read some new LN(s), enjoyed dungeon defense, loved eminence in shadow, loved hakomari, any recommendation? would love for something like picrel

[Anonymous No.]

>>42389219
>but it's sad to hear they'd skip relationship/bond development in a story like this.
As depressing as it sounds, it's normal for an adaptation to do that.
Yes, it makes you question what is even the point of an adaptation in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42391168
>something like picrel
anything written by Sugaru Miaki

[Anonymous No.]

>>42391401
ive read fafoo's 3 days and the place you called from. is "your story" good? that description is very bladerunner like

[Anonymous No.]

>>42391168
depends on what you want, bladerunner like anything western is, how do i put it so it doesn't sound rude, sappy? corny? so it's hard to narrow down what you want
your image helps but do you want existential despair? just normal sadness? does it have to include the sci-fi element?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42391459
I haven't read "your story" yet but I can recommend Itai no Itai no Tonde Yuke and Kimi ga Denwa wo Kakete Ita Basho
Kimi wa Tsukiyo ni Hikarikagayaku by Tetsuya Sano also features the same atmosphere

[Anonymous No.]

I hadn't noticed until now that s rank daughter got an anime announcement a couple months ago

https://twitter.com/comicearthstar/status/1587368861413801984

[Anonymous No.]

yooooo...

[Anonymous No.]

>>42392611
>card game themed
i sleep

[Anonymous No.]

finally got to finish vol7 of otonari, starting 8

[Anonymous No.]

i hate otonari tenshi

[Anonymous No.]

>>42392611
>Card game themed.
I awake.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42395763
mods???

[Anonymous No.]

I hate lazy dungeon master went to shit.
The girls are really cute, it started out so well, and the manga adaptation being decent (given the source material) just rubs salt on the wound.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42391670
existential despair

[Anonymous No.]

Haha, dis pear.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42397180
Youjo senki got loads of despair, though not of the existenial kind

[Anonymous No.]

Will faraway paladin ever be completed someday?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42398232
didn't it get axed?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42398389
I heard that the author went back to farming because he found writing hard

[Anonymous No.]

>>42399087
he was suffering from writer's block and adjustment disorder

[Anonymous No.]

it's funny that people call dendro autistic while this shit exists

[Anonymous No.]

>>42399821
Just because X may be more autistic than Y doesn't mean that Y isn't autistic.

Speaking of autistic stuff, anyone here read the Shangrila Frontier WN? It doesn't have an LN for some reason, but its fanbase seems to have lots of overlap with Dendro's and they're saying it's pretty autistic as well. It's to the point that some madman even made a hefty crossover fanfic between the two, so I'm pretty interested.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42400347
>gets a manga adaptation
>gets an anime
>even getting a game soon
>but isn't published as a LN yet
What the fuck. Is the author against formal publishing or what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42400347
I personally dropped it because it felt aimless and boring.

It's just like those long ass running narou series like Summoner is going or Legend where you can appreciate the author's dedication to crank out chapters like a Chinese WN writer, but the actual content isn't very interesting to read.

Dendro has autistic world building yes, but the actual story's exciting to read since each arc clearly has some sort of theme related to the main characters of the arc and their abilities.

Shangrila frontier felt like one of the countless grindy VRMMO novels out there.

I did drop it pretty early on though, so maybe it does get better idk.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42400347
>Look up Shangrila.
>Meme blue bird man.
I remember something about the guy getting something that doubles his stat growth at the cost of some EXP gain, laughing my ass off about the guy being livid about such a broken overpowered bonus as if the demerit mattered at all, then dropping it because it was clear the author had no idea what the fuck he was doing it and calling it "autistic" is laughable.
I may be confusing it with some other series though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42401278
I dunno. Maybe he's like the Yotsuba mangaka and doesn't want the original to be seen as nothing but an anime script?
>>42401509
>>42402156
I saw similarly negative opinions about it on NovelUpdates, but that place is populated non-sapient amoebas who can't actually read, so now I'm even more curious why Japs seem to love it so much.
I'll probably check it out just to see why it seems to be so polarizing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402778
>casual racism
>dumb poster
every time
you know fandoms aren't monolithic, right? not only there's different layers to the iceberg of autism, there's also different sectors between each layer
in one part of the internet you will find the lunatics managing the dendro and to aru jp wikis, in other part of the internet you will find retards calling michio's mediocre attempts at exploring in isekai meikyuu to be "autism" when the guy grinds slower than a western gamer touching a turn based game for the first time in his life, which is honestly impressive given the guy had a sword and job class that let him literally one shot basically anything
if dendro is a lot of people's first taste of autism in %current_year%, shangrila, meikyuu and hell mode are the diet coke versions of it, they try to get only the aesthetics but fail to do even that

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402842
>casual racism
The racism I committed was actually so casual that at first I was like "What? Casual racism? What race am I insulting by calling people amoebas?" and it took me a few seconds to realize that it's "Japs" you had a problem with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402981
For some dumb reason, that guy always gets upset whenever anyone ever casually says "jap" or "nip" or something. Be sure to never stop.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402981
>>42402995
i can't remember the last time anyone that used those /pol/fag abbreviations said anything worth reading

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403047
>/pol/fag abbreviations
they both date back to before anyone posting int his thread was born.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402778
People still use NU after it got way too obviously taken over by KR/CN shills?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403059
are you seriously trying to derail this by ignoring those are used primarily by people with no respect whatsoever for anything jp and a bunch of people that use it because "it's what other people do"?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403083
This is the last post I will make on this topic since I don't want to shit up the thread further by dealing with your retardation. This is 4chan. People have said slurs about literally anyone and everyone ever since it ever existed. Burgers, frogs, bongs, japs, elevens, etc. It's all common and normal. Get over it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402995
>>42403104
I don't know anon, it goes both ways.
Every time I see someone use pretty much any slur in general what comes to mind is "oh another tourist that doesn't know much, no point in starting/continuing the discussion".
And frankly that assumption of mine is pretty much never wrong, given the direction this shangrila point was headed towards this doesn't look to be an exception either.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402778
Please report back on whether Shangrila does actually get good or not. I have been surprised before with shit stories turning around to become much better than the original premise like the Goblin Kingdom.

Hell, maybe Shangrila got arcs like infinite dendrogram that I never actually got to.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone know what happened with this one? Half way through the WN right now and at this rate it looks like the author just dropped it even though the LN got 2 volumes. Maybe the second just didn't sell well enough

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403351
Author said there won't be vol 3 and it's not a sales problem
https://twitter.com/3Mukouhara/status/1571711564570591234

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403307
I'll share my experience with it, but I first gotta read Crow Record and the Dendro AE/manga side story about the Pomeranian. Then I'll be pretty much completely caught up with Dendro, with the exception of the BD novel. I hope they release that one separately someday like they did the Fairytale Squad story.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403047
>/pol/fag
Go back to /lgbt/

[Anonymous No.]

>>42402842
>calling michio's mediocre attempts at exploring in isekai meikyuu to be "autism"
No, that's your problem. You think that autism means "professional, precise labor", when it's actually a personality disorder with a wide range of symptoms.

It's not clear to me that Michio is autistic, but he's certainly not of a healthy mind, and the story is written in such a navel-gazing way that reading it feels like spying into the mind of an autist.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403613
You're trying to use the clinical definition when it's clear people are using the slang definition.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403793
>when it's clear people are using the slang definition
I question whether you should be so sure about that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403905
People are free to call my assumption wrong but pretty sure when people say "(turbo) autism" they mean "person that as if it was as natural as breathing, scours every single little quirk, small usability method and option to get an edge on what he's doing, more often than not resulting in extremely out of the box and unorthofox methods".
But you know, saying that every time would be a bit too ridiculous.
And because I know the discussion is heading there, feel free to give me a better word for that, because it's not "grindmonke" either even if most turbo autists end up as grindmonkes, because that word is closer to "person that continues polishing what they can do to it's utmost limits and then beyond, usually to kill monsters or people more effectively, but not necessarily so".

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403559
Enjoy the pomenerian sidestory, he's probably one of the most hilarious characters in dendrogram and I'm incredibly excited for him to unintentionally get even bigger roles in future arcs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403976
>>42403976
>when people say "(turbo) autism" they mean []
Usually, you may be right. And I'm not saying that they shouldn't do that. It's weird that you are trying to turn the argument into that.

But if you look at meikyuu, there is something about the mind of Michio that people just want to communicate. And autism is one of the easiest words to reach for. And one that, if you don't insist on taking it by its meme definition, is actually descriptive.
What you are doing is akin to insisting that edgy should be used exclusively for overly bloodthirsty fiction.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404045
you may be thinking more about assburgers than tism
and even then not really, michio is a failed normalfag with no social skills because he was a bullied loner, he's paranoid as fuck because he was bulled and (i think) had abusive parents, one of which was dead(?)
he also got over most of it the moment he got his dick wet, though that's not something you fix in a snap so most of the story is padded by his meandering trust issues monologue
that's kind of it, surprisingly realistic, yes, but far from any clinical mental illness, and also kinda boring as a story

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404102
>you may be thinking more about assburgers than tism
Assburgers is a form of tism.

>michio is a failed normalfag
That's a fairly superficial reading of him.

>he also got over most of it
He never stops navel-gazing though. Scrutinizing details endlessly.

>that's kind of it, surprisingly realistic, yes, but far from any clinical mental illness,
Paranoia is a mental illness.
And I will point out that I did not call him autistic. I said that it's the easiest word to reach for, and certainly more fitting than your plain dismissal of its various aspects.

[Anonymous No.]

Now I know why people said to "not poke the hive" when it comes to meikyuu/tensura slime/overlord/tanya/MT, etc.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404135
> <10 posts discussion between 2 people
>oh no, "the hive"
Really?

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404122
lol*4
>>42404152
ngl it's not real discussion, we aren't even on the same page
i'm calling michio an inefficient retard orders of magnitude below grindmonke combatlords like ray, kelvin, hajime, cid, etc and praising him for his dungeon grinding is like praising a chair with 2 legs for trying it's best to not fall
you're going off on a weird mental illness tangent that is fucking irrelevant to the subject at hand

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404189
I am explaining to you that you misunderstood people who discussed an aspect of the story because you can't accept that people might use a word by its original meaning, while you are throwing a tantrum that you might be wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404214
You're the only one with an issue over how people use the word "autism".
Do you happen to have it by chance? "You aren't taking x seriously" syndrome and all that? Because this exact same shit happens with OCDtards too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404227
>You're the only one with an issue over how people use the word "autism".
That's cute when the debate started over you complaining over people using it incorrectly.
>>42402842
>in other part of the internet you will find retards calling michio's mediocre attempts at exploring in isekai meikyuu to be "autism"

[Anonymous No.]

bruh

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404256
what the fuck does this mean, is that a real word

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404302
bruh means bruh

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404302
It's like "bro", but you say it when you are beginning to lose hope in the human endeavor.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404189
Ray isn't even a grindmonke though? like maybe 5% of his strength is from grinding up numbers or trying to perfect a technique to flawlessness. His strength is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain,
and a hundred percent reason to remember the name/spoiler]

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>>42404395
i mean, he kinda is, from the very start half the plots happen because he was trying to grind and something comes up
he isn't a lunatic like figaro or other superiors, but hardly slacks off on grinding either + his level goes up much faster than average (unless you compare him to rook), it's just skipped off-screen because unless it's a big UBM it's kinda boring to read
lower end grindmonke maybe, but really he would still rather grind than tour around for too long

[Anonymous No.]

Damn, this is almost feeling like the isekai general.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404520
It's still discussing stuff, so it's what the isekai was a few years ago, and maybe still wants to be (except its inmates are incapable of it).

It will probably go the same path of destruction as the original, since the same posters are bringing in their old habits.
But until that point, it will serve its purpose.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404520
a decent chunk of posters are literal isek/a/i refugees so that's frankly unsurprising

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404461
Ray doesn't really grind though, he just helps tians while doing a bunch of quests offscreen and also trains pvp in the arenas.

Ray is also 100% insane, just during battles we see it where he treats his own body as a sacrifice to accomplish the tiniest of possibilities. I think Ray's insanity comes from the fact he doesn't care about his own safety and values avoiding bad ends for the people around him rather than himself.

I'm pretty certain whatever superior job Ray ends up getting will probably be related to his constant sacrifice of his body, then Nemesis will probably evolve to be the stopper for Ray's disregard for his own life and that'll somehow lead to some sort of romantic scene that I hope Kaidou doesn't fuck up on writing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404461
Nominally he goes to "grind" once in a blue moon when it serves the plot for him to run into something while doing so (like Figaro or the jailbreakers) but none of that grinding ever contributes meaningfully to his powerlevel except when it's an excuse for him to take a new job offscreen like Death Trooper.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404536
What killed the isekai general was primarily generic big board degradation from too much normalfag exposure.
The killing blow was the kagejitsu thread shitshows happening over the powder kegs laid out by the arifureta and otome mob adaptations.
And before anyone asks for a QRD because frankly it's not that interesting, it's just pic related but with kagejitsu instead of tales of hearts R, loner isekai instead of drakengard 3 and zero believers instead of vesperia.
Yes, it's practically a 1:1 situation, spoilers and fake spoilers included, with the kagejitsu shitshow being slightly nuanced but not really.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42403554
I guess he just lost inspiration. Sadder than just getting canceled since that means he probably doesn't intend to finish the WN either. Thanks

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404578
>that'll somehow lead to some sort of romantic scene that I hope Kaidou doesn't fuck up on writing.
Making Nemesis able to read Ray's mind literally killed their romance. Kaidou should just go for the superior ship anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404520
>>42404536
>>42404624
I'm surprised this general isn't a cataclysmic dumpster fire.
From what I have noticed (though not in an equal split) we have the following:
>BTfags reawakening from cryosleep, who are all too eager to shit on translations and EOPs.
>Newf/a/gs bullied by ironic weebs and normalfags and itching to prove what they like is "good".
>Those very same normalfags and ironic weebs praising entry level stuff as the best thing ever, one of the good ones in a bad medium, or good akshually because deconstrsuversiparody.
>Isek/a/i refugees itching for a fight like rabid dogs distrustful of everyone because those threads are a shithole by now and they are used to acting like that.
>A random assortment of /a/ LN threads posters, which come in 2 flavors, one is "[LN that ended up my first beloved] is the best thing ever, and what you like is shit and generic".
>And the other is "[genre i don't like] bad, LNs better, thus [genre i don't like] LNs bad".
>/jp/ posters jaded at everyone and everything that won't hesitate to remind you what you like is SHIT.
This venn diagram is a minefield that is more mines than soil and I'm surprised the worst that happens is the occasional spergouts that aren't even that big of a deal, half of those spergouts don't even take a single thread to bump limit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404624
What killed it for me was people actively killing discussions because they identified posters as undesirables (and usually by the topic), which was fed into by a second group of people who intentionally triggered the first group for fun.
At some point, all that was left for standard "discussion" was NTR.

Of course, it did not help that for a long time, there were few series that the general read as a group that could have brought everybody together.
But the true problem was no specific title (or lack thereof), but that many anons have got it in their heads that there are undesirables among us whom they can recognize by some bizarre tells.
The most notorious example being the guy who started arguments whenever anybody used "we" in any context. Unless we get that idea out of people's heads, the same thing will happen again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404708
>the superior ship .
i feel offended in more ways than one
it's not fair

[Anonymous No.]

shut the fuck up and watch some kagemasu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=548JoG5IhoU
beta is best girl

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404731
I touched on this when someone sperged out about TRPG posters a couple of threads ago, but just because I say I like something because I think it does something better than most others, doesn't mean that I think everything else that's not that thing is shit or that I think that thing is uncriticizeable.
I like Rokujouma for how comfy it is, but that doesn't mean nothing else is comfy; I like TRPG for how immersive it is but I think it's also too slow, I like Dendro for autism but there's plenty more autism out there and it gets extremely contrived, I like Otherside Picnic for the /x/ yuri but I'm not actually sold on Sorawo's attraction to Toriko beyond the physical, I like Danmachi because at its peak it can feel like a true heroic epic but it's hardly the only novel to do that, I like Hell Mode because watching numbers go up is actually comfy but I think it's extremely basically written, I like Bookworm for how engaging it makes even mundane shit and the slow build in scale but basic plot points like "nobody knows how to memorise 150 pokemon names" are extremely questionable, and so on.
The very idea that shitting on other stuff is somehow inherent to praising something is a /v/ consolewar import.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404967
did that touch a sour spot? bringing up past arguments is pointless anyhow

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405042
I mean, I think it's healthier for discussion if posters can say nice things without being pigeonholed into dumb fanbase shitflinging like how everything gets blamed on virulent MTkeks or whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

>comes to /jp/ to get away from isek/a/i
>won't stop talking about isek/a/i

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405114
At least the rate at which it comes up seems to be dropping ever so slowly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404708
>Making Nemesis able to read Ray's mind literally killed their romance.
With how often she's surprised by what he does and says and how long it's taking her to figure him out, it feels like Nemesis is blocked out of Ray's mind more than half of the time, and that's not including the times Gardranda or the axe purposely exclude her. It seems more like limited telepathy at this point rather than mind-reading.

And honestly, I'd say that the problem with RayxNemesis—hell, RayxANYONE—is Ray himself. He's basically a shonen protag who never showed even the slightest bit of romantic interest in anyone. His childhood trauma is both a funny and a reasonable explanation for why he's like this, but because of that, I can't imagine him ever catching feelings. It's almost as outlandish as that happening to Luffy or something.
Kaido has surprised me many times before, but I seriously doubt his ability to make romance involving Ray satisfying even if he somehow dropped the plot's demands and did an easier pairing than the Nightmare-difficulty RayxNemesis (the uncultured FEAR RayxJubei).

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405114
>>42405123
the rate at which this general brings up isek/a/i is directly proportional to the rate of anuses blasted by /a/
do the point you can directly track 1:1 the times someone brings it up here to some dumb argument on /a/

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405129
Ray needs mouthrape correction. A kiss so hot that his dick will start working again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405129
I believe in Nemesis. Kaidou clearly loves the idea of character growth and the journey they go through to reflect within the powers they obtain.

I'm pretty certain that Nemesis's desire to become more than just Ray's pikachu/agumon/pal and become a full on lover could be a trigger for some sort of evolution, probably not to the infinite level, but maybe related to whatever system that Maiden embyros are most close to or something.

The romance could be kino as well, the ordinary man who was forced to get an extraordinary mindset by living near a literal godly sister, eventually getting healed by the extraordinary embyro Nemesis who holds the ordinary desire of wanting her loved one to be safe and happy.

Imagine something like Fate S/N heaven's feel where Shirou's body literally breaks down because he has to break his own ideal. I want Ray to also hit a point where he's forced to have to abandon his own desire to aim for the tiniest possibility because he needs to sacrifice other people, not just his own body/life and this could be the point Nemesis needs to be sacrificed or something.

tl;dr Ray x Nemesis is giving off insane kino vibes to me in terms of narrative and abilities. Kaidou just needs to actually build up romantic scenes instead of Nemesis just being a hungry Pikachu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405129
>And honestly, I'd say that the problem with RayxNemesis—hell, RayxANYONE—is Ray himself. He's basically a shonen protag who never showed even the slightest bit of romantic interest in anyone. His childhood trauma is both a funny and a reasonable explanation for why he's like this, but because of that, I can't imagine him ever catching feelings.
I don't disagree with you, but the girls in Dendro don't really put much effort into displaying affection toward him (except Jubei, but she is a special case). You can't expect a sexually stunted guy to suddenly get interested in the opposite sex.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405245
Well, apparently we're not even halfway through the story. I guess expecting main character romance right now is like expecting it in the common route of a VN.

Speaking of Nemesis' abilities, she supposedly has a mystery trait besides retribution. I wonder what that could be.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405443
to spare everyone from obvious sex jokes, something that came to me as a theory is is how part of the essence of retribution comes from caring for those that suffered
but fuck me if you ask me to actually back up this theory, because i can't, at least not beyond pointing out extremely basic game theory tier stuff like most of her forms being partially defensive in some way

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405696
That's a feasible theme, like it could manifest as a new ability that lets nemesis use the damage pool of the party members or some other target with stuff like the mirror chaser

[Anonymous No.]

>>42405696
I agree with the other anon, Nemesis having themes of both retribution + the opposite like forgiveness/sympathy could be perfect to represent the pain she feels from Ray's suffering and her desire to protect Ray from it.

I can imagine it could be something like allowing Nemesis herself to take damage instead of Ray to build up the damage counter, or something way more dramatically strong like N times the damage Nemesis takes gets accumulated to the damage counter since I'd assume this could pop up during her later evolutions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>42404731
>Isek/a/i refugees itching for a fight like rabid dogs
like 99% of the problems in these threads are caused by these hollowskulled niggers
>someone used a word (chuuni/autism/whatever)? O MY SEETHING AUTISM
>X post triggered my tisms, this is also because of (whoever is squatting in my head right now)
>there could be an ironic weeb IN THIS VERY THREAD

[Anonymous No.]

Idk why you would come from /a/ to /jp/ of all places and expect the level of autism to decrease

[Anonymous No.]

>>42384704
Just finished Volume 7, finally feelings are being put out on the table. The last chapter was extremely enjoyable, and the FMC's realizations were palpable. I re-read that chapter three times already.

Where the fuck is Volume 8?

[Anonymous No.]

OP, I request Horizon in the Middle of Titties for next thread's eyecandy.
>>42350830
Have you read the entirety of Vol 17 and Crow Record? IIRC, Ray was supposed to be Juliet's tutor in the original script (around 2017-ish), which is why she got quite a lot of exposure during the 9/11 bunny arc, Ray frequently mentioning how easy it was to talk to her, and why Ray at times mentioned about getting part time job once skool starts. Not that it matters to me since I'm firmly in Fran's camp desu.
>>42400347
>but its fanbase seems to have lots of overlap with Dendro's
It's less about overlapping fans and more about Kaidou being too much of a ShaFro shill. If you go to Narou's author page, Kaidou frequently posts about ShaFro news like it's nobody's business. Hell, I learned about both the anime and game adaptation from Dendro instead of ShaFro's WN/manga. I'm around ~75% sure they're related somehow.
>>42403307
>Shangrila does actually get good or not
Can't say I like it to be honest. The story drives down deeply that the game really is just a game, nothing more and nothing less, so the plot seems a bit shallow for those with a self-centered completionist (kill all, take all, do all routes) mindset like me when they pull the "muh AI lives matters!" card.
The story itself also feels like it was supposed to be the sequel of an already finished series, especially since Sunraku tends to compare every kusoge he played with ShaFro to capitalize how "real" the game feels like.
Each character's leitmotif however, is solid. Precisely due to the second problem I wrote about, each characters felt like they've been fully developed when they're first introduced, which means that there's barely any of those wishy-washy "is it okay to do this?"-element in the story. Making it delightfully simple to read.

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>>42409810
The WN is only 18 chapters ahead and each volume contains 20-25 WN chapters. But author's been updating the WN consistently for 4 weeks now, so maybe vol 8's manuscript is completed

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>>42410493
>The story itself also feels like it was supposed to be the sequel of an already finished series,
>Precisely due to the second problem I wrote about, each characters felt like they've been fully developed when they're first introduced,
Granted I haven't read it, and have no plans in doing so, but this can be a big negative.
Just like ainz padding entire volumes ranting on and on about ygg being the best thing ever and all those exciting things happening, at some point you start to wonder why are we reading this shitty story if the nonexistent prequel was so much better.

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>>42411351
On the other hand, Ainz is a skeleton, and you would be a fool to take a skeleton by his word.

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>>42411515
but the guy from skeleton knight is-...
wait
shit

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>>42410493
>Each character's leitmotif however, is solid. Precisely due to the second problem I wrote about, each characters felt like they've been fully developed when they're first introduced, which means that there's barely any of those wishy-washy "is it okay to do this?"-element in the story. Making it delightfully simple to read.
I think you sort of nailed why I enjoy reading ShaFro, but can't bring myself to get attached to the characters.

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>>42405199
If the kiss at the very start of the story didn't work I doubt doing it again will.

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I like reading smut, any recs? Anything in japanese counts.

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>>42415430
check this dude's list https://bookmeter.com/users/960524/books/read

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>>42415430
I would recommend reading 外道転移者のハーレムダンジョン製作記, it's the best smut-centric LN I have read.
It is also the only smut-centric LN I have read.

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Can anyone rec a story that has a MC similar to Rebuild World's? I keep rereading it to scratch the itch.

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>>42416182
How should I know what Akira is like when even Alpha can't understand?

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How romantic is otonari? Is it romantic enough to make "chiisana koi no uta" song to not feel out of place?

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>>42415940
>https://bookmeter.com/books/468322
There's an OVA for this but be sure to read the book first, otherwise you won't have the context for why (You) are having sex with these women.
Also it's illustrated by Buriki. Everybody likes Buriki.

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>>42417284

That's cool, are any of these or any of these smut novels free anywhere? I could pay for some but 700 yen each is gonna cost me a lot.

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>>42419707
It's on kindle unlimited, just sign up for a trial. I think there's also a 99 yen for 2 (3?) months offer for new users

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>>42420449

Can I download the files?

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>>42415940
>https://bookmeter.com/users/960524/books/read
>No Makina
It's shit.

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>>42423203
but makina is shit

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>>42370783
>>42373148
Started it too because of those posts and am pleasantly surprised with a similar reaction so far. I can't put my finger on it but the way it builds the world just keeps me hooked.
Stuff like the butcher just appearing at the castle or the "theatre" but I can't really put my finger on what it reminds me of. Maybe it's just how you're thrown into it all like the mc but without having an autistic internal monologue of him trying to explain every single fucking detail.
I keep thinking about berserk but that's pretty much it. I also like the writing style in the Japanese raw a lot.

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>>42420954
Yes, but only in the pc client or the apps.

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I've seen some bloke on a Light Novel group post their "Light Novel" but they're a gaijin so not technically a light novel; was offering his work up for free and I obliged to read it

Shit's pretty aight, light and easy pacing with moments that made me chuckle.

Does this classify more as a web novel then since author ain't from Japan?

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>>42423424
it's probably the weird ass sense of nostalgia for a time that doesn't actually exist, at least in japanese, i don't read the english versions these days
really fucking weird to explain, but it constantly runs on the knife's edge of "you should know this all already, welcome back after all these years" and "you really shouldn't know any of this shit, what are you doing here?"
and given the plot itself, it's hard to think it was on accident

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>>42423706

Ok I got Unlimited and already picked up 2 books and deleted their DRM.

Does anybody want a book from there?

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>>42424038
No clue what they even have and if they have raws or only the translated versions.

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>>42424074
Oh, japanese only.

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>>42423424
>>42373148
the hell you guys are makign me wanna try this

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>>42424038
>>42424091
oh boi is this the time to be a filthy leech and ask for the raws of
>ひとりぼっちの異世界攻略
>目覚めたら最強装備と宇宙船持ちだったので
>嘆きの亡霊は引退したい
because nobody on "the usual" seems to have them?

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>>42424178

Only the mesametara one is available, the first 4

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>>42424280
Correction the first 3.

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>>42424280
>>42424288
beggars (leeches) can't be choosers
if you would be so kind to, it would be appreciated

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>>42423715
if it's published on the web it's a webnovel. Japan also has webnovels. I think light novels are the equivalent to young adult novels?

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>>42424377
I have them but catbox moe is down or something, where do i drop it

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>>42424762
LN reefers to a specific printing format not specific to anything in particular, but it does imply formal publication because duh, printing.
YAN is a generic catch-all buzzword cosplaying as a genre for when someone wants to shit on something, similar to how "shounen" is used these days.
Given there's no real standardization of printing formats in the west (seriously, it's all fucked) a formally published novel in the west would just be a novel.

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>>42424772
yeah catbox tends to be down a lot lately, i guess there's only waiting for it to come back up unless you want to use another upload site

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>>42424833
https://file.io/M4NBIZfTaKDY

I tried this one

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>>42424093
It's up on >the usual, so there's no reason not to give it a try if you really want to.

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>>42424844
thank you very much anon

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>>42423203
but Makina's right there

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>>42424178
>Space mercenary.
Nice.

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>>42425301
Is it even possible to make alcohol without creating H2CO3 as a byproduct?

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Author's showing he published it on Kindle. Already has a paperback too, good on them.

They call their work a Light Novel because they claim they followed the formatting of LNs translated to English.

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>>42424762
Author's showing he published it on Kindle. Already has a paperback too, good on them.

They call their work a Light Novel because they claim they followed the formatting of LNs translated to English.

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>>42426108
In that setting they make alcoholic beverages by extracting the juice of alcoholic fruit, as in, the juice of the fruit is already alcohol.
That probably bypasses fermentation entirely.

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>>42426188
>That probably bypasses fermentation entirely.
So, how do the fruits do it?

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>>42426129
well, light novel is a meme publishing category even in Japan

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>>42426219
I don't know, I'm not a chemist and I don't really remember the novel itself explaining it.
But apparently carbonic acid is what helps blood move CO2 around and what prevents it from becoming acidic, so that's cool.

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>https://twitter.com/TMitterOfficial/status/1616346732006367232?t=wjxbOYDFc_M6LD2P_FM1Xg&s=19
Anyone got a copy

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>>42426915
>sakurai
Dropped before I even picked it up. The only TM LN series worth following right now is El-melloi.

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>>42426915
There's a pdf on BL.

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>>42429312
Strange fake is also entertaining and worth reading as well, even if it does take like 10 more years to finish.

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>>42430644
BL what? boys love?

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>>42432062
nvm got it

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Anyone got any must-read/general narou recommendations? Preferably stuff that hasn't been adapted into a LN.

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>>42433097
majo to youhei

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>>42433097
everything gets made into LNs these days as long as they have a volume worth of text, though getting past the vol 3 great filter is another matter
there's no "musts" either that don't boil down to people's personal first beloveds, at best you will have someone throw the iceberg meme at you and call it a day
if you want a generic rec list for stuff that is "good" at least say which genre you want, shit's too broad

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>>42433122
That generalization is just not true

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>>42433097
>stuff that hasn't been adapted into a LN
https://novel18.syosetu.com/novelview/infotop/ncode/n7735fs/

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>>42370237
You know, I've been trying to work on a military series recently and I'm starting to take back some complaints about how long it took to translate the old gate series, and why no one even bothered with its spin off.

The biggest time waste recent was trying to translate drill commands because while the kanji where easy to understand, finding the right commands to use was a massive pain in the ass

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>>42433979
aren't military commands and literal legalese among the top 3 most difficult things to translate? not just in japanese, in any language

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>>42433979
I literally know this kind of shit better in Japanese than in English at this point. I can't imagine torturing myself like this.

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>>42433097
>>42433122
>at best you will have someone throw the iceberg meme at you and call it a day
you're welcome

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>>42434448
legalese isn't difficult, it just needs specialized vocab which is brain-dead once you know it since it stays extremely well defined for (obviously) legal purposes.

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I've watched pic related when it came out as an anime and it made me cry. How is it as an LN?

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>>42416195
Alpha is a dumb AI who can't understand that Akira is a cute psychopath who likes food and baths more than women

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>>42433097
https://syosetu.org/novel/275835/
Apocalypse now, fantasy ww2 edition with a female MC (reincarnated guy who was really good at fos games) whose advantages don't mean shit in the face of trench warfare.

It's a great read if you enjoyed other war stories that don't try to cover the ugliness of how worthless lives become, the loss of humanity, the relationships comrades still make, and the hope that remains even in the middle of hell.

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>>42434448
maybe or I'm just worse at japanese then I thought, thankfully its not a complete nightmare since the series has some explanation notes else I would of spend days trying to figure out some words, but then I get words like 号令調整 which I know what it means in japanese, but have been splitting hairs trying to find if there's an equivalent command in any english speaking military
Other annoyances with military series is giving people titles that aren't actual positions. Putting 学生 at the end of someone's name like its a honorifics drove me up the wall for a bit and I ended up copping out and localized it as cadet and 対番 I flat out gave up since I could find jack as an equivalent, had a different meaning that what most people on /jp/ are used to (i.e not music related), and the literal translation was clunky as fuck in almost every sentence

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lol

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>>42435866
Man I love to beat a dead horse, but I really want to say you're putting more effort into this than half the english localization companies combined.
I don't even need english translations anymore, but I still appreciate this level of effort for those that still do.

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>>42425301
tell me more about the elf
why she doesn't know about carbonated drinks

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>>42436780
>why she doesn't know about carbonated drinks
There are no carbonated drinks in that universe.
The protagonist speculates that they were phased out because of incompatibility with space travel.
When they visit the elven planet, the MC goes into negotiations with some of the nobility residing over it to get them into carbonated cola research.

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>>42436988
Pretty sure carbonated stuff still exists, just not the particular flavor he wanted.
I remember he got some from his vacation pretty early in the story.

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>>42437074
>Pretty sure carbonated stuff still exists,
No, SODA exists. But it's all pepsi flavor or something similarly disgusting.
And it is not carbonated.

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>>42436988
>>42437090
where did the H2CO3 go
don't they have literal food printers and artificial gravity on ships
i'm still only starting to read vol 1 so i dunno

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>>42437074
>>42437090
I will have to correct myself. They do have carbonated soda there.

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>>42437106
Somehow, despite having abandoned all cooking culture, their food printers are apparently only now reaching the point where the most recent and most expensive models can serve good food.
The military is constantly complaining that the only thing their printers are good for is tea.

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>>42436684
not coincidentally some of the better official translations I've read have been where the translator seems to genuinely like something outside of their role as a translator and will engage in discussions about it, follow/engage the author on twitter, or maybe they pushed to get it licensed in the first place etc

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This got a good chuckle out of me.

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Just finished reading the succubus country arc in orc and I was thinking about philosophical matters such as the possibility of 90% of 4chan volunteering to be their food.

You’re essentially staying at a:
+
5 star hotel
exquisite food
have a mandatory work out in the yard
Your needs taken care of
No need to fear getting sucked dry as they make sure they have someone watching over so the succ doesn’t suck you to death
-
getting milked essentially 10 times a day as you need to help feed 10 of them
Not much to do other than fucking eating and sleeping
Can’t leave
Essentially livestock

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>>42439810
>Can’t leave
>Essentially livestock

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>>42440214
Ha this is pretty much how it goes.
Bliss at first, a boring chore later on.
Still beats being loveless ugly penniless poorfag hobo on the streets though so some people still go for it which is why I thought a lot of people here who are plus depressed/suicidal would go for it too.

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>>42437621
Thats why I always liked hox despite his translation and typesetting not being the greatest
Man was fucking austistic enough to TL a 60 volume series about the 3 kingdoms from the 70s by himself because he was that much of a history fag

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>>42439810
Eh, I'd stay there probably just to avoid needing to wageslave. I wouldn't even give a shit about the sex.

As long as we could set a library set up there and get a bunch of books for entertainment, life shouldn't be too bad as well.

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>まるで、箱の内側の猫が死んだり蘇ったりしているようだ。
why do they love this meme so much

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cats aren't a meme
they are srs bsns

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>>42440798
>translating something well into the 50 volume legendary pantheon
you need at least a few screws loose to even attempt that seriously
that's amazing, and i'm not even a history fag to appreciate it fully

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backlog help time:
>madan no ou to vanadis
>hitsugi no chaika
>tenkyou no alderamin
I enjoyed and got similar vibes from these three anime adaptations, any advice on which one I should go for first?

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>>42443191
well it was a manga so lot easier for him to translate it then a LN
Come to think of it are there any 50+ LN series out there?

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>>42445158

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>>42445158
To.aru arguably.
Dunno if mahouka reached it yet.

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>>42444942
voting for chaika because meme reasons

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>>42445505
>>42445505
>>42445505