/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Good Light Novel recommendations /jp?

/a/ only know Haruhi and Index.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ only knows Fate/Zero and KnK

[choong choong No.]

Invasion:USA

[Anonymous No.]

I like Baccano myself.

[Anonymous No.]

Bungako Shoujo, Momo the God of Death.

[Anonymous No.]

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[Anonymous No.]

Toradora!

[Anonymous No.]

Utsuro no hako to zero no maria
zaregoto

[Anonymous No.]

Chromed Hair Fellios

[Anonymous No.]

Do you read Japanese? If no, those and >>5719427 are pretty much it. If yes, say so, and I'll help you more.

[Anonymous No.]

Speaking of light novels, where can I find the KnK one? Translated or not, I don't care.

[Anonymous No.]

Baccano! and pretty much everything else by Narita that isn't Durarara!!.

[Self Proclaimed /a/ Hipster !h/CUNT/w0w No.]

>>5719804
baka-tsuki, be prepared for interesting levels of whatthefuckamireading.jpg because a good portion of the text makes absolutely no sense, if you get to them, don't even try reading the "in editing" parts

[Anonymous No.]

Utsuro no Hako

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone here read 終わりのクロニクル? Saw it mentioned somewhere and was wondering if it was any good.
Other than that, any good non-tled light novels out there not already mentioned?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5720913
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kono_Light_Novel_ga_Sugoi!

[Anonymous No.]

>>5720913
Index can be entertaining after the 6th volume.
I like NisiOisiN works.

[Anonymous No.]

bakemonogatari

[Anonymous No.]

>>5719779

What this guy just said. Both of these series are top-tier.

[Anonymous No.]

Talking about Light novels, I've just read the ending of the 1st volume of zaregoto and it was thoroughly confusing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5720976
Already read/reading through at least half of those, any particular ones people here might suggest?

>>5721002
I might look into reading Index and hope it's not as bad as the anime makes it out to be. Also read bake, and halfway through katana. Should probably get to reading zaregoto.

[Mariya Shidou ♥ !n1oc4Ufb0A No.]

>>5720913
http://www.raitonoveru.jp/ranove.html
My favorite resource for light novels. Most of the ones with 3 stars are worth taking a look at.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721084

You didn't think hard enough, then.

Akane was Kanami and Kanami was Akane. It's implied that the woman who was originally pretending to be Akane has been switching with famous people for years, including the 'real' Akane, and that Shinya has been by her side throughout all of that. Therefore, the nameless woman who became Akane and then Kanami is 'a genius at becoming other people'.

Also, Jun is a badass.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721114
Ben To is apparently really good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721114
I asid after the 6th because that's what the anime adapts, not really badly, but not good either. They are all world-setting, ESP, magicians, angels, fabricated angels, crowley, alchemy, the main characters, after that one you can feel the plot starting to advance.
Then you get to good arcs like the Italy one and the whole build-up, the war, Russia and the side novels with the other MCs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721143
That's what I had thought, but I was a bit wtf is this shit for 5 minutes.
Impressive ending notheless, I wasn't suspecting that at all.

[Kirakishou !UdzMmUq0Oc No.]

>>5721114
>bake
How is it compared to the anime? I disliked the anime, but I think that's mostly due to SHAFT shenanigans, so I want to try out the novels instead when I know the language well enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721175
If you liked the characters, the interactions and the endless (not really) dialogues, you'll like it.
Kizumonogatari features the best character in the whole thing, because she's awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721169

This is how it should be in mystery novels.

>>5721175

Hitagi Crab was just translated...

[Anonymous No.]

Bitches don't know about my NHK.

[Anonymous No.]

Has anyone read Zaregoto volume 2?

Any clue what x/y meant?

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721122
Pretty nice site, though I'm not sure how the star rating works. Good enough for reading reviews, though.

>>5721152
Almost never a good idea, but is it possible to skip the first few volumes?

>>5721175
Nisiosin works 100x better in text form.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721219
Because finding it is easy and cheap.

[SaberisMyWaifu !LilypLx0uc No.]

>>5721219

Bitches dont know about it costing over 100$

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721225

I will tell you after I buy the book, heh.

If Del Rey doesn't release the rest of the books, I swear...

[Kooh !9WUSc85B6o No.]

>>5721200
Excellent. Kizumono is actually the one I bought a while ago since I wanted to give the novels a try, but been too intimated to actually read it, since all I have experience reading untranslated are eroge and manga.

[Flandrenonymous !CAERF1YrA. No.]

>>5721240
>Pretty nice site, though I'm not sure how the star rating works.
Not too sure either, but I think it's related to popularity. Checking those out allows you to see what's generally worth mentioning, and you can see ratings and reviews for some little more in-depth information on whether it's worth actually reading.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721240
Read the one with the angel fall arc, the one with the body change and of course the last one with Kazakiri Hyoka, some things weren't explained well.
You can skip the second completely, the author said it was bad and that vampires and alchemy wouldn't ever appear again.
So that makes 4&6th volumes and if youn liked them, read the 1st and the 3rd, if not, go to the 7th for more Kanzaki, 8th isn't that good, then 9-11 I liked them a lot and after the first SS one I've found them good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721268
Kisshot Accerolla Orion Heart Under Blade is worth it.

[formerly-anon !J4t8ucXg/s No.]

>>5721316
I would certainly hope so, but when reading through the first 3 sentences, I find 7 kanji that I'd have to look up. Would be highly preferable to reduce that number to 0 before starting, even though I'm looking forward to being able to start it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721390
This is why I thank the .txt format sometimes, the furigana inyector kinda helps.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721151
The summary of this sounds so weird. A full out war over half-off bentou meals?
This can only be amazing.

>>5721390
Don't worry, that's just how nisioisin writes. You'll also want to work on understanding wordplay and 四字熟語.

[Flandrenonymous !CAERF1YrA. No.]

>>5721402
Hm, maybe it was counterproductive to buy novels in order to motivate me to work harder on the language so the money don't go to waste. It's extremely luxurious to be able to open it in firefox and use rikaichan and/or furigana inserter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721402
>>5721452
I don't know how you people can manage to read novel-ish stuff on a computer. Feels so much better reading it on paper to me.
Guess it helps that I don't need a dictionary that often.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5721473
Too used to read .pdfs, also buying/printing costs money I don't really have.
And if I managed to read Don Quixote on my computer... this is easier.

[Anonymous No.]

Guess we won't be getting much more out of this thread while the spam's going on. Oh well, going to sleep. Maybe it'll still be up when I get up.

[Anonymous No.]

Baka to Test and Bakemonogatari are the best LNs.

[Anonymous No.]

If you are into philosophical stuff, kino no tabi is perfect for that.
I started reading dantalian no shoka because it's getting an anime, is interesting.
Swrod art online has some action here and there, is fun.

[Anonymous No.]

what's the plural form of moose?

[Anonymous No.]

First volume was pretty enjoyable. Waiting for 2nd and 3rd to be delivered.

[Anonymous No.]

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