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Hey i have a question for anyone that's up to date with Zero believers goddess/
Is it true that the in harem yuri was removed from the light novel version?

The Dendro manga concluded Franklin's Game, and it ends with a "To Be Continued."
Unless I'm misinterpreting that, it comes as a surprise, since I heard its performance wasn't amazing and assumed it would be axed. Not sure if they'll succeed, but I guess they wanna stretch it out to the Quartierlatin arc, with all its revelations and Altimia spotlight.

anyone have epub for ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ １年生編ＢＯＸ トモセシュンサク Artworks?

>>45778331
>harem yuri was removed from the light novel
Hope so.
Is what I would say but anyone that isn't the main girl ends up completely irrelevant in the monoshit ending in the WN, so it's not like it matters.

>>45780726
>To Be Continued
That's just polite talk for discontinued in all likelihood

>>45781693
That would be a fair assumption if it weren't for the fact that if it ended here, the final volume would only have 2 chapters.
There's bound to be at least 2 or 3 more, but whether they're the start of the next arc or just teasers for the LN remains to be seen. Though, if it's the latter, this chapter would be a weird place to put a "To Be Continued."

>>45781783
Given the relative failures of both the anime and manga adaptations and only the moderate success of crow record, wouldn't surprise me if the author realized his fanbase is primarily people that only care about the source material because his writing is one of those series that end up a magnet for the ultra autistic.

so... what are you reading?

>>45784264
we don't do that here

>>45784264
I'm re-reading 空の境界 because I felt like it.

>>45784264
mushoku tensei and saikyou uchuusen concurrently

I was reading 魔王樣之街づくり but I dropped it because it was dog water and instead I am continuing 魔王學院之不適合者

>>45785766
>saikyou uchuusen
Also reading that one

>>45784264
Continuing d-genesis wn from v8

>>45784264
This and 十五光年より遠くない

>>45784264
Zero no Tsukaima volume 15

>>45778122
>Reliable OCR:
>https://github.com/blueaxis/Poricom
Can i run it on shitty iGPU laptop?(i should have enough RAM, but just iGPU is lacking)

>>45789983
it does seem to use a fuckton of ram but doesn't seem to use much gpu
it only scans when you actively tell it to

im so tired of
>beta mc
>misunderstanding "comedy"
>isekai with copy paste tropes (i have appraisal, i am lvl XXX, its a video game!!1)
>harem "romances" where each girl has no personality
>normal "romances" that peak at a kiss after reading 7,000 chapters
>school setting
I know this excludes 90% of japanese fiction but please recommend me something to read that wont make me want to kill myself.

>>45778331
I read the LN recently. two of the main girls definitely get up to some yuri. I haven't read the wn so maybe its way more explicit and goes into detail there?

>>45790550
boku no pico

>>45790550
Read or Die, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon, 9s

>>45774115
>>45790550
Without even looking it up I'm going to guess some big gookshit is being shilled on /a/ to have people spill over all the way here that are trying to run away from the gookslop but unfortunately still have their brains fried with a decade of anti-japan propaganda.
And by the looks of the projecting, I'm also going to guess it's a power fantasy with both status screens and nu-romance.
Blue archive got an anime or solo masturbating did, which was it?

>>45791056
>solo masturbating did, which was it?
That one lol. there's like 10 different threads for it
I can only imagine the horror if something like BA gets an anime

>>45791056
incorrect, i think korean stories are dogshit. they make everything as dark and edgy as possible because they live in a capitalist dystopian hellhole. the reality is just that i want some good shit to read and im tired of the same stories with the same tropes.

>>45790550
>>45791388
what does "good shit" mean
you've given no indication besides "i hate all of these things"

>>45791388
>le tropes
yep, brain fried
my condolences on your terminal cancer issue

>>45791403
things you enjoy that have a unique story line.

>>45791407
nothing can be written without using tropes, im well aware of this. however it is quite boring to see the same tropes used over and over, the same story lines and character arch types used over and over. its perhaps you that has brain rot if you cannot see this.

>>45791438
I have literally never seen anyone whining about "tropes" that doesn't have algorithm taste on top of parroting decade-old anti-japan propaganda, and it doesn't seem like you're the exception to the rule.
Which mind you is worse than shit taste because at least having shit taste means your thoughts are your own.

>i want a unique story line without archetypes
those don't get published (at least not in the real of light novels) because they fail as engaging stories
archetypes are archetypes for a reason
tropes are tropes for a reason
maybe try and find some avantgarde novels, i don't think lns are the right medium for you

>>45791468
>anti-japan propaganda
u are mentally ill. we are talking about fiction here, not the japanese people.

>>45791438
What you listed was just a list of completely unrelated things you apparently don't like. It's impossible to recommend you anything because nobody knows what you actually like.

>>45791477
If it's not anti-japan propaganda then why this argument only ever gets used to complain about japanese media?
Mind you despite both western and korean slop being far more repetitive and jp LN stuff not having "mc is a beta for 50 volumes" for over a decade now.

>>45791477
>it's not anti-japan propaganda, i'm just parroting literal textbook examples of anti-japan talking points

>>45791475
you are not grasping the point. stories have tropes and characters have archetypes, this much is true. obviously there is a formula to popularity and writers will use this to their advantage. the point here is im bored of the formula and want a new taste. i dont need some avant guard shit, im capable of putting up with some amount of cliche-ness from the popular "formula". in the end some amount of this is inevitable in any novel that has the goal of being successful.

>>45791499
the reason is because I enjoy japanese fiction the most. even if there are tropes that are annoying at this moment in time, japanese writers still are known to be making stories that literally nobody else would. the reason why it annoys me is because I like it. I wouldn't be even reading them in the first place to complain about them otherwise. It's like having a son that's very intelligent that sometimes does very questionable things. you feel a bit annoyed but you still love your son. obviously the industry is not monolithic though, and there are people that make odd and interesting things, that is how the era's change after all. i just want some of that kind of stuff.

Why are you guys feeding isek/a/i tourists? you know damn well that they're looking for a new place to turn into a shit hole

>>45791553
is this just unironically AI generated?
after ERPing too much with literal AI i have developed the ability of spotting that particular brand of schizoing

>>45791584
i give up. you are incapable of thought.

>>45791573
is that general still up? guessed it finally reached a dead end when like a month ago the only threads that weren't shilling gookslop got moved or pruned by the jannies
after that i stopped browsing it

>>45791499
>then why this argument only ever gets used to complain about japanese media?
because you're on an imageboard for japanese media smoothbrain

I got on a Chinese webnovel kick last year and read Reverand Insanity, Martial World, and Library of Heaven’s Path. I’m like 600 chapters into Lord of Mysteries now but I really need to get back to using my Japanese before I lose it. Any recommendations for light novels that scratch that scratch a similar itch?

>>45791388
>>45790550
Which Japanese and Korean books have you read so far, which ones did you like and which ones did you dislike? Maybe if you say that you'll receive recommendations like a normal person

>>45791573
Boredom if I had to guess.
Also fixing the anti-japan brain frying of an ironic weeb isn't actually impossible so wouldn't surprise me if some people are into that.

>>45790550
Without any examples of what you enjoy I'm going to assume this is either bait or you're one of those retards who's too smart for pulp lit but too stupid for anything more complicated than The Great Gatsby.

>>45792396
>but too stupid for anything more complicated than The Great Gatsby.
people like that are just watching video essays about literature while pretending they actually read

>>45790550
i recommend the tale of genji

Anyone got 私の初恋は恥ずかしすぎて誰にも言えない to share?

>stupid
>annoying
>ugly
>can't do anything
>ruins her sister's life
>you're supposed to like her because she has a cute smile

Why is this being adapted?

>>45794040
fourthing what the anons last thread said

>>45794115
Why

It's perfectly possible to hate some/most tropes and still enjoy LNs. Just keep an open mind and try not to judge series by tags or the title, often you will meet series that you can thoroughly enjoy despite having tropes that you dislike.
Also learn to drop at the first volume when you can tell that reading the series further will only annoy you. Most of the times it's easy to tell, ALWAYS drop when the MC or the main heroine gets to your nerves, continuing reading just because you liked some side character or loser heroine will only torture you.

>>45794196
>tripling down on le trope propaganda

>>45794040
sent ;)

>>45794290
But I didn't provide you with any contact information.

>>45794196
>or loser heroine
this is me, to be honest. I thought this time, the first girl wasn't going to win because MC started dating a side girl that somehow became important but it was just an illusion...
Japanese authors never deviate from the first girl trope and it's sad...

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>電撃文庫
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>TOブックス
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>>45795130
i can't remember any ln that follows this meme that wasn't old enough to marry in most parts of the world

>>45795147
I don't read many LN so maybe I'm wrong but it's very common in manga and anime. I was really happy that finally a side girl or someone that appeared later "won" but I got burned like I always do
I will never get attached to another character again like this. I learned my lesson

>>45795211
>Tourist from /a/ doubles down on judging anything by the neutered adaptations.
That's just sad at this point.

When did this place change from what was once a muddied lake to a now shithole full of urine and pig feces?
What's next? Posting infinite greentexts about your personal retarded story that won't go anywhere beyond two chapters and is ironically eminent with all the isekai ''''''tropes'''''' you hate? Or.. is it going to be screenshots about that hentai you masturbated to earlier?

Maybe we're even getting /lit/ tourists; you know, the people obsessed with fulfilling a certain amount of 'X amount of books/novels read this year' and who don't give a fuck about anything JP which is why you have questions like >>45790550
Might even be a retarded woman or hell, visitors from /a/ whose greatest pastime is to shit on all Japanese media.

No, really, what the fuck happened?
Anyway thanks for this >>45795136

>>45795245
>by the neutered adaptations
but I'm not? I started reading a lot of light novels two years ago
I wanted to know more about the girl I'm talking about so I started reading the LN and I'm caught with the latest volume that came out, that's why I know that I got burned for having wrong expectations

>>45795278
It's just one tard and guys who approaches him sincerely, forgetting the thumbrule that anyone who asks for recs by listing everything he hates but not anything he likes is just a faggot trying to shit up the place

>>45795364
The most generous reading of that post isn't that he hates those things, just that he read too many of them recently and needs something other than those to break the monotony.

>>45795211
>I was really happy that finally a side girl or someone that appeared later "won"
spoilers but isn't that exactly what happens in death march? that's one of the reasons i dropped it at least from hearing about this from spoilers myself

>>45795136
thank you

>>45795463
I don't know, the LN I'm talking about is cote

>>45797824
karuizawa
>winning
If you call getting ayanokouji a "win" lol

>>45798059
well, I used to. I was just a retard with wrong expectations seeking wish fulfillment from dumb light novels
I learned my lesson

>>45795419
that's generosity these retards don't deserve, especially not when they are getting weaponized by broader anti-japan agendas and they actively see no issue with it or actively play along
let me tell you what happens, because i have seen it way too often:

first an idiot gets into "the animes" because of peer pressure, usually through some normalfag pandering slop like chainsaw man or whatever is the meme FOTM seasonal shit
second they try watching more anime and reading manga, because they recognize kino despite the 5 or so layers of separation between the original and multiple butcherings (the adaptation itself, shitty dubs/translations, etc) but quickly get burnt out due to their anti-japan brainwashing going off like crazy, which leads them to never shut the fuck up about variations of "it would be better if it was less cringey/fanservicey/pervert" because they are desperate to larp as "mature" with the media they mindlessly consume with their normalfag acquaintances
and last, after like 2 series tops they just start watching video essays about anime (and just anime, not manga) from eceleb grifters, which comes in two flavors, the usual ones wanking old good new bad which usually means the eternal evangelion, FMA and S;G wank, or the ones just shitting on everything with extremely rare exceptions that made them feel like a grown up boy (like frieren this season), whatever they consume they will still get their head filled with propaganda disguised as memes, end up complaining "isekai/LNs in general bad" for the rest of eternity, and find out 2-3 series they will call masterpieces but never actually read the source material of (and that's assuming they don't get memed into reading gookshit)

so what's the end result of that? it's very simple, usually it doesn't matter here because they just shit up pisscords and /a/, but on the rare occasion you see the weaponized plague spreaders reach up here asking for recs with that "everything is shit amirite?" attitude expecting people to agree, which everywhere else it would be the secret code word for people to start masturbating their own le mature hidden gems like evangelion/FMA/S;G
then when pressed further (even if it's just to try see what they like) which never happens to them normally, they will constantly avoid mentioning what they have actually read, because that list is empty or with just the one series they are currently reading if you are lucky, which mind you is a natural reaction when actually saying what they have seen will instantly ruin their image of pretending they are experts on the medium and instead out them as the morons they are for just going off the memes

from there a few things can happen with varying chances
a) and the most likely, they just fuck off after looking like clowns from doubling/tripling down on their "wtf i expected ironic garbage but i actually have to use my brain!?!" mentality and go complain about "elitists" in their hugbox
b) and the second most likely, if they got memed into reading gook/chinkshit they will have a melty and start spamming how that stuff is so much better than what japan puts out, then fuck off
c) unlikely but still happens, they will triple, quadruple, quintuple and sixtuple double down and beyond, but still quickly burn out within a day because this general is slow as fuck compared to the entirety of say, /a/ or /v/, where they can continue melting down for the rest of time

yeah not reading that

>>45798928
Anon..... well, you are not wrong

>first WN gets an LN
>drops off the face of the planet
Any other authors confirmed D E A D?

>>45799341
unironically too many to count

>>45799341
>translating "yuusha" as "brave"
lol
I know is not technically wrong but sounds weird for whatever reason

>>45799402
it sounds weird because japs dont know english

>>45799421
>still doubling down on the propaganda and outright going off with casual wacism
kek

>wacism
great
another dumb zoomer word

>>45798928
What even happened recently that made them stop pretending they aren't agenda pushing? Basically anything negative about solo leveling is getting wiped clean off /a/ within seconds of posting for instance.
The isekai general also got 2 wiped threads, which I assume include vacations because right after it devolved into more gookshit shilling than usual.
Then you have shit like pic related.

>>45799439
what propaganda
japanese people suck at english
that's just the truth lol

>>45798928
>it's the animes rant again
take your meds schizo

>>45799537
not him but I always found it weird how bad they are at it despite English being a mandatory class in school for them

>>45800240
language classes don't matter that much
japanese aren't good at english because they hardly come in contact with actual english and japanese is too different from english so they would need to put in more effort than say a german

>>45800240
Math is mandatory pretty much everywhere yet the average person sucks at it

>>45800240
Bongs have modern foreign language (French, Spanish, Italian, etc) as a mandatory class, when was the last time you met a bong who spoke any other language?

>>45800621
ironically spics are more likely to know more than 2 languages (more often than not english and japanese) and from what i hear they only have english classes that are toddler-tier all the way up to university where it's dropped entirely as a mandatory thing

>>45789090
I'm about to start Mamasuki.
So I'll take the chance.
Does anyone know where I can get the rest of the volumes in epub (In japanese)? Searching the links in the op it seems only the first novel is available

>>45800207
It's foolish to pretend there's no anti-japan agenda being pushed when /a/ just dropped the pretense and became a gookshit board.
And it also just so happens that when that occurred, people start coming here again trying to poison the well with small nuggets of propaganda like trying to normalize saying "the japs" and "the nips" as well as this shit >>45790550
Today is that, tomorrow is gookshills coming in droves to shill their slop, in 2 days it's the entire board being taken over to promote literal gook propaganda.
Gatekeeping is objectively a good thing and it's the duty and obligation of anyone that gives a shit about a hobby to do it, "just ignore it bro" is a meme (((they))) keep pushing exactly so you don't resist and give them everything in a silver platter.
If you disagree feel free to follow your own advice and ignore the people actually gatekeeping.

anyone? >>45780990

>>45801372
from my experience asking every thread until someone eventually posts it or uploads it to the usual places and links it works every time, so don't be discouraged if nobody posts it

didn't read lmao

I'm looking for recommendations. I havent read a lot of LN, mostly VNs, the last I've read are:
Mobge: Read until vn 7 but MC personality is starting to bother me
Tearmoon: Read until vol 6 but story is feeling repetitive
Conqueror from a dying kingdom: Read first 2 vols, science stuff is kinda weird but the rest is pretty good.
As for VNs, for reference, my favourites are White album 2, tsukihime and baldr sky.
Any reccomendation is welcome

>>45802474
>Mobge
is that otome mob?

>>45802556
>otome mob
Yeah, forgot the abbreviationnt

>>45784264
Still just reading updates on ゴルダナ帝国衰亡記 and 遥か異界の地より.
I should read something new but I'm picky and its a pain in the ass to shift through new shit.

>>45802474
>>45802605
if you liked the first two ones for the comedy then 嘆きの亡霊は引退したい has a similar feel to tearmoon with the MC without actually being repetitive, so does ひきこまり吸血姫の悶々 which got an anime recently
俺は星間国家の悪徳領主! is basically otome mob but actually good and by the same author ironically enough, otome mob has the problem of being half comedy half ultra-serious while not mixing them properly

エクストリームSAS○KE

>>45802474
In no particular order and just some of what I've read of late
>Reign of the Seven Spellblades
Since you like Turkeyhandle this series has a ton of magus autism very reminiscent of Type Moon but wearing a Hogwarts-themed halloween mask. In terms of atmosphere I believe it strikes the perfect balance to have just enough darkness to it to give it a rich flavor of sombreness while being tempered by enough optimism to never become truly edgy.

>Instant Death Cheat
An author somehow convinced someone to publish his 14-volume long shitpost in which dozens of people, non-people, and everything in between who could all have been the heroes, villains, side characters, love interests, comedy reliefs, doomed mentors, exposition vehicles, secret final bosses, etc etc of their own stories all get instakeked by an escaped SCP. You could see it as a meditation on death as the inevitable great equalizer, or you could see it as a joke that went too far but they kept going to see what happens.

>Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World
A dude goes to a fantasy world in which he's the only one with a stat sheet. People either love this one for its autistic infodumps about the author's homebrew setting, the author's evident fetish for predatory domineering demihuman girls and the gimmick that every volume ends with an IF branch chapter like the Steins;Gate routes, or they hate it for the same. Has a /tg/ meme as its subtitle somehow.

>D-Genesis
A rather slow series about dungeons appearing in the real world, mostly told as slice of life and focusing on character interactions between the MC and his friends/harem members exploring dungeons against the backdrop of the societal, economic and political impact of dungeons appearing.

>The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind
Someone wrote a fanfic of a Grand-tier TM magus going to isekai and styling on everybody and just filed off the serial numbers

>Infinite Dendrogram
A very earnest action series with matchups that revolve more around conceptual advantage than just powerlevel. It starts off fairly focused on the main character and his social circle but over time the scope expands to encompass a greater world of inter-faction conflicts and a full ensemble of characters any of whom could conceivably be the protagonist of their own story.

>The Otome Heroine's Fight for Survival
I don't actually think this one is very well written from a technical perspective, but THE ASHEN PRINCESS OF SLAUGHTER going full Big Boss and being chased around like John Wick makes me giggle like a retard. Has an okay-ish (at least 2010s Baka-Tsuki level) fan translation up to volume 6 as J-Novel Club only just got started on it recently.

>>45805065
>You could see it as a meditation on death as the inevitable great equalizer, or you could see it as a joke that went too far but they kept going to see what happens.
honestly one of the best summaries of that series i have seen

>>45805065
>>45803619
Thanks a lot, knew a few of these by name but I might actually give them a try now

>>45802474
arifureta is still the best "mc gets betrayed at the start and turns into an ultra chad" story out there

>>45809750
it's still funny how that became a surprisingly big genre for a few years
at least it also gave the world "i want to FUCK seras" as well, so that's already a plus

>>45809857
>despair.jpeg
truly a blessing!

>>45809857
Does shield hero count within that genre?

>>45790550
read western webnovels. there's good stuff out there.

Just ignore them guys
>>45802474
If you liked mobuseka, check out evil lord. i echo >>45803619 's sentiment. It's Mishima's best work imho opinion. i would also say to pick mob back up at volume 8. it improved quite a bit once the author got his confidence back while writing evil lord

Speaking of, Volume 13 of Mobuseka just got announced, and it's the last volume. Wonder if that means we'll get more Sevens now or if that just means Anoseka will get will solely occupy the slot.

>>45820511
sevens is stuck on a dead literal who publisher
the best you can hope for is for the author to do a reboot by making a new series that's totally not sevens

>>45820538
which will probably only come to overlap after his current cashcows... at least the WN is done. not even a sevensfag but they got the short end of the stick

>>45820588
if he wants to continue the shitpost he will probably go to yet another publisher for this new series, and my bet is on dengeki bunko
and no, the evil lord spinoff also being on overlap doesn't count, it's a spinoff

>>45814605
i would say so
i despise shield hero's writing though it's just not that fun of a read imo

Completed danmachi vol 2. The writing's good but the story is not entertaining at all, except maybe the end chapters. So when does it get good?

>>45824444
>The writing's good but the story is not entertaining at all
i have the opposite problem, the story is entertaining but the writing isn't good. Omori is a fucking hack and your better off dropping it before you get invested in anyone not named Aiz

>>45790550

>>45824444
>vol 2
Danmachi's weakest volume so far, though it's less about the volume itself and more about Lili being the worst character ever, even when taking into account Aiz "The Doormat" Wallenstein, Sanjouno "Virgin Prostitute" Haruhime, Lefiya "Cuntblocked Yuritard" Viridis, and Syr "Restored Town Bike" Flova. Why yes, I'm rooting for Ryuu to win the Bellbowl, how did you know?

Jokes aside, Volume 3 is the highlight of the series, and I implore you to only ditch Danmachi once you've read the climax. The middle volumes (4-8) are decent-good, but most of the fans will agree that Danmachi starts to really shine during/after the Xenos arc.
>>45824466
>the story is entertaining but the writing isn't good
Agreed, the writing's rather straightforward, though I suppose it does fit with Bell's characterization and viewpoint of the world, i.e., the thing you see is the thing you'll get.
>get invested in anyone but Aiz
Fuck the editor, fuck the Great Quests, and fuck the dragon. The true winner of the latest wargame is Ryuu Cranel and nobody can change my mind.
>>45802474
Ditch everything. Read only Dendro. Embrace the autism. Become The Autism.
Alternatively, go read SukaSuka/SukaMoka since you seems to love Nakige/Utsuge that much.

>>45825574
when i saw the first panel i was hoping the punchline is that it shows up again at the bottom and that's exactly what happened

>>45778122
>Learning Japanese to avoid censorship by localizations is highly recommended.
How do I learn Japanese? I learnt Hirigina and Katakana in my spare time but didn't pick up too many words along the way, where do I go next?

>>45830747
Just do the usual.
>Learn kana, don't even worry about nailing it to perfection, just "good enough", this takes 1-2 days. 1-2 hours if autistic.
>Skim a grammar guide like sakubi, and only the basics, you will use it as a textbook for years: https://sakubi.neocities.org/
>Learn the first 2 grades of joyo kanji, again only to "good enough", takes 3-4 days, one if autistic.
>Don't bother with anki for kanji, if you really want to flashcard your way to victory do it with physical pen and paper.
>Install an OCR or text hook, likely both depending on what you read/play/watch.
>Get started on reading, go back to grammar guides or a dictionary whenever needed, which will be often.
>Repeat for like 2-5 years until N1.
Just remember to avoid hover dictionaries and j*sho because the databases are compromised, just JP > JP dictionaries like kotobank instead, MTL if you have to.
Also avoid Japanese learning communities like the plague.

>>45830747
just check the djt or something
honestly censorship isn't the problem 99% of the time (which makes the 1% stand out all the more), the more common problem is the fact that japonaise and anglais are such different languages from different cultures that don't map well onto each other combined with many translators just not being very good at either japanese or english in the first place (the original danmachi translator for example never did creative TL before he got the danmachi job, he was a JETfag who spent two years getting rejected from TL job applications but them got a job from shitpress via nepotism because he happened to be college classmates with an editor from that company and proceeded to spend the next few years absolutely fucking up shit like "little barista")

>>45830811
>honestly censorship isn't the problem 99% of the time, the more common problem is the fact that translators are shit at japanese and censor shit constantly in the name of "localization"
naruhodo

>>45830796
>Just remember to avoid hover dictionaries and j*sho because the databases are compromised
What the fuck is this schizo shit? You're fucking retarded if you really think that and suggest to use MTL instead

>>45830796
I mean you have to use jisho or jpdb or something until you can actually understand j-j. He won't be able to use j-j dictionaries for the first few months lol

>>45830867
>People are still in denial over the fact the west is sabotaging dictionaries to fuck over Japanese learners.
I pity the sheeple.
But your glowing ass is not going to stop me from telling people the truth.

>>45830867
I agree "compromised" is a schizo delusion and nobody should ever be using MTL but the problem is as >>45830811 says japanese and english don't map onto each other very well so many of the hover dictionaries that try to present 1 or 2 word equivalents don't actually capture most of the nuances, you can use them as a crutch for the absolute basics but you should switch to a JP to JP dictionary as soon as possible as they contain actual context
shit you can even use a hover dictionary to read the JP-JP dictionary if you want, just make the switch

>>45830890
I hope you do know that translations can't always be 1:1 and any non retard who has been learning the language knows that they have to learn it from context by regularly consuming stuff and eventually switch to a j-j dictionary

>>45830895
>I agree "compromised" is a schizo delusion
Continue chugging blue pills in your free time if that lets you sleep at night.

>>45830910
anon even fucking nipponese children get those two confused, that's why there are multiple explainer pages online on how to use them

>>45830939
If only there was a database for the purpose of explaining the differences between similar words and other kinds of terminology as well as corner cases in which specific words are used over other words.
Why hasn't anyone invented one of those yet? You could even call it a fancy name like terminology encyclopedia and make bank selling printed copies of it.

>>45830796
>2-5 years to n1
Makes sense considering how slow your method is

>>45830910
This isn't some sort of targeted (((attack))) on Japanese learners you sperg, it's the same for dictionaries of virtually every language. It's simply not expected that learners who are still using EN dictionaries will need that level of detail to begin with, and learners who do are expected to have already switched to native dictionaries.
t. studied two other languages that aren't Japanese

>>45831010
>It's simply not expected that learners who are still using EN dictionaries will need that level of detail to begin with, and learners who do are expected to have already switched to native dictionaries.
At least we agree JP > EN dictionaries are pointless and anyone taking their learning seriously should be using native ones.
But you're still ignoring this sabotage is a thing and is in fact happening just so people can keep pushing their "Japanese is too dry" meme.

>>45830747
Find your the nearest college that offers a basic Japanese learning course and join that. It'll give you a basic foundation to start immersion which is where the real learning starts.

>>45831038
It's not a thing, because it's not unique to Japanese. Take your meds.

>>45831040
lol

>>45831050
>Nobody tried to down this house down, it's just global warming, stop noticing the empty gasoline barrels buried in the rubble.

>>45831038
no you fucktard the point is sure maybe there's some "sabotaging" happening but not to the degree that a beginning japanese learner should stay away from dictionaries and slow their progress by years
any potential misconception due to innacurate definitions will self-correct if you just read and watch enough shit and see the words used in context

>>45831074
Please talk to your doctor about clozapine.

>>45831080
>and slow their progress by years
You will learn faster by getting nuance off MTL'd kotobank and actual context in real reading than randomly guessing off whatever EN dictionaries are telling you words may mean and hoping the copypasted definition across 10 different kanji is somewhat correct.

ah yes mtl is known for nuance that's its greatest strength great advice

>see a bunch of new posts
>it's people replying to the "muh compromised dictionaries" anon again
You guys never learn.

>>45831139
It's enough for "professional" translators including JNC.
Why wouldn't it be for the average learner?

>>45831227
He's not saying it's enough for professional translators, he's saying it's enough for slopgobbling readers who don't care about quality.

>>45831167
and just today i was wondering, wow, haven't seen any translations spergout recently, wonder if the general got over that by now

>>45830811
>honestly censorship isn't the problem 99% of the time (which makes the 1% stand out all the more)
if anything it's the other way around, everyone focuses too much on the sussy baka patriarchy amogus fr fr examples that it's easy to sweep under the rug all the raw condensed autism that just gets lost in translation because muh readability in burgerese and making everyone sound like a terminally online twittard
and that's despite said autism being the selling point for many mind you

>>45831227
if you actually read that post his points are
>good dedicated human translator is best
>MTL is bad
>shit lazy human translator is worse than MTL
>readers don't give a shit and publishers know this
>MTL being able to write good English can cover up how bad it is at translation
for what it's worth JNC founder is on record saying he thinks MTL isn't anywhere near up to standard but he thinks AI-written original English language fiction will be a threat to LNs in English long before MTL Japanese fiction will

>>45831299
anon that's exactly what I said

>>45831309
yes, and i elaborated on it
get dabbed on with some sussy amogus on the side

>>45831330
sussy baka amogus is shit translation, it's not censorship

>>45831338
localizations/shit translations ARE censorship

>>45831345
>censorship
>noun
>the action of preventing part or the whole of a book, film, work of art, document, or other kind of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because it is considered to be offensive or harmful, or because it contains information that someone wishes to keep secret, often for political reasons
>a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express and prevents books, films, works of art, documents, or other kinds of communication from being seen or made available to the public, because they include or support certain ideas
removing references to rape and sexual assault in mushoku tensei is censorship
cutting out half of youjitsu's script because you think it's too longwinded is just shit editorial practice, it isn't censorship
writing shadow to sound like a marvel-tier twittard is shit translation that utterly fucks up the voice and tone, but it's not censorship
complaining is valid but you have to at least complain about the right things or nobody will take you seriously

>>45831369
>3 letter lamp desperately trying to mental gymnastics over the fact changing media in any way and pretending that's the original is in fact censorship.
I don't want to pull out the scary R word but we both know the anti-japan agenda already, given you're being paid to push it.

>>45831408
this is why nobody takes schizos seriously

why can't this thread be more like エロゲスレ and just not think about translations

>>45831426
because both vn threads are already split into translated versions
and surprise, the eop threads on /vg/ and /v/ are complete garbage

>>45831426
エロゲスレ does have translation spergouts from time to time unfortunately.

>>45831426
Because instead of an LNs thread, there are a couple of spastics who think they're in an LNs-themed translation spergout thread.

>>45831426
I wouldn't have even replied except that anon might actually have actually set himself back months if not years by unironically using MTL on Japanese dictionaries instead of building a proper foundation with which to parse said dictionaries first.

>>45831426
In an ideal world the translation market wouldn't be hijacked by people pushing their cultural agendas through censorship and rewrites under the guise of "localization" for people rightfully complaining about it to be an issue in the first place.
>J-just learn J-Japanese bro!
I did, and again, in an ideal world either all translations would be as accurate as possible and with translation notes for the corner cases, or there would be no sabotage in the learning process of said other language with most of the world being multilingual speakers that know 3+ languages.

>>45831529
what does your latest eceleb grifter funidubs drama have to do with ranobe retard

>Twitter screencaps posting
Kill yourself.

>>45831558
>>45831571
And this is how I know 3 letter lamps are in fact desperate to stop people from noticing dictionary sabotage, random sperging out at the easiest thing to attack when they run out of arguments in the script after losing the debate over and over again.

I give up, you actually have brain damage. I pray to god you end up committing suicide by feds someday so your parents don't have to deal with the disappointment anymore.

>>45831636
I already know I'm on your glowie lists and will someday suicide by shotgun shells to the back of the head for daring to go against the anti-japan agenda, no need to worry about that officer.

autism

>>45826290
Read vol 3, that was good. But unfortunately nowhere near page-turningly good. Still going to read the series though

>>45832746
that cat is out of the bag so may as well, not like it would start another spergout anyway
are you reading it in english or japanese?

>>45830747
Learn 100 or so of the basic kanji, some basic words then start reading through easy manga, even if it takes 10 min a page. Once you start finding that easy, bash your head against a LN and you will learn japanese in no time.

>>45832781
Japanese. Or else I wouldn't have talked about "writing quality" in my original post lol

>>45832808
nah it's worth clarifying due to how most translations are so shit that calling them fanfics would be a compliment
then again that's not a recent issue i guess

>>45832816
Still got a laugh from the evil lord TL posted a few months back.
It's usable, have seen worse, but man it was fucking awful.
I feel bad for anyone that doesn't know japanese already.

Gee Alia, how come god lets you have THREE moms?

>anidex is down

Fuck, where can I upload what I have?

>>45833123
is nyaa finally opening up again? lol

>>45833145
doesn't seem like it

does anyone have 目覚めたら最強装備と宇宙船持ちだったので, volumes 9-11? just started 8 and realized it's the last one I have. If not I'll have to buy it myself for once

>>45834006
for that one in particular i remember the first 3 vols posted as epub here but nothing more than that

>>45833123
Mediafire/mega? Or are talking 3 digits worth of file count?

>>45834239
I was thinking of something more publicly available.

>>45834006
i bought the series i can upload it for you later

Recommend LNs that no one is talking about because they don't have the balls to admit they've read it.
I don't care if it's porn or not. If you like it and think others should check it out that's enough.

>>45834228
Nah I definitely got the 8 I have from here some time ago
>>45835898
Thanks, I really appreciate it.

>>45839569
https://files.catbox.moe/iff878.zip

>>45794040
https://files.catbox.moe/p778hs.epub

lol at this illustration
Finished reading part 5 X and this volume was unaltered gold. Kind of amazing that the 本編 ends at about 60% of the volume and the rest is just extra chapters with different POVs of the same event but it never gets repetitive, rather it just keeps getting better.

>>45834228
>>45839569
>>45839951
Do you guys have 1-8?

>>45840806
What's this from? I recognize the artist from something I read but can't quite recall.

>>45840809
i had shared them in the thread before but here's a reupload
https://files.catbox.moe/yj3p8f.zip

>>45840817
honzuki

>>45839951
sweet, thanks again

>>45840441
Thanks anon.

>>45840857
Even if it's a repost thanks, and thanks to the original uploader anon too.

>>45839951
>>45840441
>>45840857
oh snap
nice
thanks bros

One word. Dendro.
Two words. Best girl.
Let's go faggots, it's time to read how a lunatic managed to Vengeance his way out of the crazy Fr*nch art student with daddy issues.
>>45832746
Told ya. If there's one thing Danmachi did right, it'll always be the deathmatches. I actually dreamt of fighting the Minotaur multiple times in my sleep after reading vol 3, especially the FAIABOLTO part. Though granted, back then I hadn't read as much as I have now.
On that note, if you prefer grittier fights with higher stakes, you should give the spin-offs a try. Base Danmachi/Familia Myth got no real deaths before Haruhime, while SO, Astraea, etc. will make you wish Omori could tone down his edginess a bit when writing. Not to say the main story is shit because it has no deaths, but again, it really only shines during/after Xenos.
p.s. Vol 3 is so good that Omori decides to reenact it several times more and everyone happily ate them, even if it's literally just a retelling by another character.
>>45840806
Heh, somehow it reminds me of picrel, no offense.

>>45844506
>you should give the spin-offs a try.
Will see. Just completed vol5 and what I read till now didn't get me interested enough in the world or the chars to make me read the spinoffs, even if they are better
>his
Isn't the author a female?

saikyou uchuusen is really fun but vol. 10 could have used a little tighter pacing
at least he finally fucked the dwarves

>>45775943
It's not really slow, but the definition of an ultra-niche within a niche, it's also one of those autism rides you can only truly appreciate after being deep enough into a genre's rabbit hole.
Love it or hate it basically.
Which just keeps proving me whoever is handing out publishing offers on HJ has an uncannily good eye for cult following LNs.
Maybe "Power fantasy/self inserting bad" and so on, but it's a valid genre like any other, just this one paradoxically having some required reading first, similarly to how I can't really recommend to aru, mahouka, matty, nanatsu or dendro to anyone just getting started, yes they are readable but you can only really "get" them after being familiar with their particular flavors of autism.

You do need a personality with a tendency to go full god complex to have it as one of your top 10 favorites, not socio/psychopath stuff, not a big ego or liking to just fuck shit up either, but that particular tinge of thirst for domination and control as well as the willingness to indulge in it.
This is the solid foundation the author uses for the story, something that carefully massages that one instinct that may be fundamental to most living beings, not the sweet taste of victory, but the intoxicating taste of utter domination.

Which is more interesting than it sounds, you may imagine I'm talking about simple bullying or winning effortlessly, oh boy no, it's far more than that.

Victories against overwhelming odds are the good side of the coin, something earned through hard work and effort, usually against someone with talent but not putting in the effort, the pleasure of winning against impossible odds through smart analysis of even the smallest weaknesses and slowly chipping at that until cracks start to tear down the goliath, even if this means extensive preparations, because after all "The wise win before the fight while the ignorant fight to win", you know what I mean yeah?

This is the evil side of the coin, beating someone so utterly that their chances were not astronomically minuscule, but ZERO, outsmarting them politically to the point every single move is a losing move, in a fight making them face their perfect counter and someone who will never lower their guard or fuck up their job, cutting off every single escape route, preventing any means of calling for help, hiding the fact they were defeated, and on an on, to the point no matter how much plot armor they pull, how much they try to outwit you, how much they struggle and break their limits, their chances of victory remain a dead ZERO, and not only that, but knowing even if they pull the impossible and beat your original plan, you still have dozens of backup cards up your sleeve anyway (pun intended) and each and every one of them can easily bulldoze their efforts.

It's not just being given power in a silver platter, but getting lucky, on top of effort, on top of focusing on technique over raw power, on top of autistic amounts of layered planning, on top of self control to never lower your guard. Total and absolute domination with zero chances of defeat through monumental amounts of luck, talent and effort all at once.

And yes, this also extends to the characters summoned by the MC (obviously particularly the female ones) which show deranged amounts of zealous devotion to the point it may actually be off-putting for people not far deep into this flavor of rabbit hole, because again, it plays straight into that domination god complex that's borderline required to enjoy the story as intended.

Basically you either think it's one of the best things ever written, or you think it's pretty bland and boring or even complete shit.
I rarely see stuff this extreme and I hate it's not a more common thing.

>>45848659
woops I looked at the spoiler. whatever it's not really a big spoiler lol

>>45850129
it was going to happen eventually

>>45850129
is it really a spoiler when it's functionally guaranteed?

i actually thought the author might pussy out of it because of how often he emphasized how young they look, and because how long it took

>>45850180
true I was thinking he might just make them the 2 who don't get to be in the harem just because it's funny and then have him eventually fuck クリス despite the fact that she's actually young

>>45850180
>>45850201
nah it was 100% inevitable
the biggest red flag you have to worry about is 3 or more daughterzonings in a row, because that's the tactic people pussying out use to try make it not feel romantic while not realizing it's even more fetishistic that way
one is a natural reaction and passable
twice is a bad habit but may signal denial
three is yeah forget about it and wrap it up, it's not happening
three plus "yes loli no touch" and you're safe to outright drop the series
it is hard to spot the difference between daughterzoning and normal intimacy when not used to it, but once you learn it's a perfect rule of thumb

>>45805065
>Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World

The 6th volume IF with Agrippina made have a change of heart about how I felt about that bitch. Now I wish that was canon

>>45850346
>yes loli no touch
that's such cucked bullshit i have dropped novels over it
if there's no fugging the cunny then that's fine i will imagine it regardless, but this shit is just patronizing to the point of unironic triggering
it's even worse because it only ever happens on shit where the MC fucks nobody but it has constant blueballing "will they won't they" and fanservice

>>45848659
I'm also surprised it happened, especially when he kept treating not fucking them like a meme.
And to be fair, it was funny, same with the royal cunny and the blonde bitch, it's funny.

Agrippina still a shit.

A
FUCKING
FUMO

Is there a good OCR program that cna do all LN pages in batch and uses something better than tesseract?

>>45852840
just stick to books you can find epubs for and copypaste what you want to look up until you're good enough to comfortably read scans

>>45850470
it's the most popular henderson scale scenario with the most additional wn chapters written for it for a reason

so this was just a 1 volume thing?

>>45852840
Mokuro.

>>45853131
this

>>45854760
a lot of stuff that was originally intended to be one shots end up serialized normally so who knows
don't get your hopes up however

>>45856746
isn't that just the engine poricom uses-
YEP
all things considered it sounds like more of a hassle than just grabbing line by line with poricom

if you knew japanese you could just read without having to use any of this cuck shit.

For better or worse not everything is an epub and OCR ends up a necessary step in fluency, remembering radicals and manually looking up each kanji one by one isn't all that efficient.

>>45831529
>rewrites under the guise of "localization
I actually disagree with this. I'm all for accuracy, but I'd also rather them translate the intention if the direct meaning will make no sense to the target audience. How weeb it should get depends on the setting and overall writing.

Like I was playing Mamedo no Bakeru and it's chalk full of random, often Japan-exclusive, trivia. There's literally 5 collectible trivia per stage. It's no wonder it has no localization since most the fun facts would make no sense to any other culture, and entire game and plot is based around heavy Japanese culture background knowledge.

I don't know Korean but read some translate gookshit from time to time. Frankly, I don't give a shit about the -noona, -nim whatever shit and just wish they'd omit it. It doesn't only add nothing to the experience, it removes from it.

Besides, in an ideal world there'd only be one language.

>>45860671
i disagree with muh setting because it already served as a slippery slope for hardass medieval nobles to talk like terminally online twittards in the translations
didn't read the rest of your post either
total trannylation death
i'm glad i already know japanese

>>45831529
>>45860671
This discussion never fails to amuse because you'd think people arguing about text and meaning would be able to communicate clearly and make proper inferences yet we always fall into the
>Person A says they want literal translations
>Person B, for God knows what reason, interprets that as wanting 「パンダの好きな食べ物は何だ？パンだ！」as "What's a Panda's favorite food? Panda!"
>What person A actually meant was the don't want to see 「すごい」 translated as "based" or whatever
Time is a flat maru

TL note: maru means circle

>>45860919
there are absolutely contexts where based is a reasonable translation of すげー

>>45860919

>>45861083
It wasn't the best example yeah but you know what I mean

>>45861083
He didn't say すげー now did he

the pogsusskibidibigbrudder "translations" are a red herring, they just take up a disproportionate amount of the conversation because they're easy to notice, which distracts everyone from when the translations are just blatantly fucking wrong, as in not shit translation choices but full blown mistranslations. I was watching Instant Death episode the other day and I had to turn off the subtitles because the constant inverted sentence meanings and subject errors and just plain fuckups were becoming distracting. The ecelebs who make videos about le ebin maymay TLs never notice those.

>>45861094
The funny thing is they do it on purpose and the retards sperging out about it is what they want. That's advertisement. Easy trending topic.

>>45861159
Ignoring actual just blatant fuck ups, which at this point is worse than what literal MTL would output somehow and also concerningly common, the average EOP simply does not care or actively promote
>The tapestry gently waving from the warm autumn air made me feel at ease despite what happened today.
In japanese getting changed to:
>The curtains were fucking blue.
Because either they were conditioned to expect slop and are upset they aren't getting it, don't even see the difference and don't care, actively promote the dumbing down in the name of "localization" and because "it reads better that way/it's less pretentious", or actively have an agenda to vandalize Japanese media.
At the end of the day it's propaganda efforts, plain and simple, if it's from either willing or naive unaware pawns there's no difference in the end result.
This is why people focus on the more egregious examples because you will never have enough people upset with the alternative, even if you cleanly and concisely point out pretty much the entire translation is wrong and it would be easier to point out what isn't mistranslated.

Guys? Ranobe?

>>45861213
>The tapestry gently waving from the warm autumn air made me feel at ease despite what happened today.
Slow down there pardner, I haven't seen a light novel in Japanese have a prose line that elaborate in a long while.

>The curtains were fucking blue.
Now that's more accurate to what I usually see in its native language.

Jokes aside, the standard LN writing really does just keep degrading as time passes. I just found it ironic your example comes off as reversed to me, with the sample Japanese text being what I'd put as the ideal translation target, and the example English translation being usually what I find as the base text.

I swear LN writing has massively degraded over the past several years. Makes sense translations would degrade along with it since the standard starts low.

>>45861267
You would notice lines like that more often if learning material like dictionaries weren't compromised and full of lies to push the meme that "Japanese is too dry",
But given the second half of the post guess you're a 3 letter lamp too.

it's weird what gives me nostalgia for the BT days is people schizoing out over translations and the west sabotaging japan

>>45860671
>Besides, in an ideal world there'd only be one language
Lol. Lmao.

1) Learn Japanese and ignore the existence of translations
2) Accept you're lazy and be happy with the translations that you have access to
3) Be one of those fucking faggots that shit up every thread about Japanese media by complaining about translations

Choose wisely. Hint: Improving yourself is easier and more productive than seething about the state of translations.

>>45861389
>and ignore the existence of translations
part of the problem is that by all means translations should help as learning material by comparing your understanding to the translations that already exist, not be something to avoid

>>45861400
>Not just aiming to understand the source without reference to your gay mother tongue
ngmi

>>45861407
that isn't step 1 anon, it's far from it
at this point why don't just outright recommend to MTL kotobank like the dictionary schizo?

>>45861417
Because MTLing kotobank actually helps people learn Japanese instead of getting them stuck in an eternal rut like anki grinding.
The goal here is sabotaging people trying to learn Japanese, remember?

Please don't engage with the dekinais, thank you

>>>>/a/262071623
>apparently, YP, jnc and SS are all at war with each other
Interesting if true

>>45861620
Pretty sure that has been obvious for a long time with all the aggressive sniping of licensing.

>>45844506
Imagine the inevitable hatesex between Reiji and Fran

>>45861442
If he learns the french vocab he'd be fluent

>>45862392
Someone out there has unironically fapped to that, I just know it.

translations of entertainment media can never be "good"
they will always remove from the experience, and cannot possibly add to it or deliver the same experience as the original
you will not be able to avoid learning the source language if you actually care about what you're reading and want to interpret or discuss it in any meaningful way

>>45862528

>>45844506
>Told ya. If there's one thing Danmachi did right, it'll always be the deathmatches.
Wonder why don't more people actually talk about that in particular.
I always see danmachi shilled a lot but never WHY, unlike other stuff like dendro of nanatsu that has people clearly shill out why they are good.

>>45861620
>the official TL industry is collapsing
>again
wonder if we will see a surge on anon TLs now like it happened last collapse

Is Dendro another harem thing or does it have a clear romance?

anon's post for some reason made me realize azurite is extremely fuckable
before that post i never even saw her as a woman
it's like i had an spiritual awakening

>>45863413
So far, honestly, it really hasn't had much romance. His closest bond is with his fuckable weapon.

But it doesn't matter since she's virtual and the MC only knows like 2 girls IRL, neither of which he has no chemistry with, even calling one a cancer or something, I forget.

>>45863413
It's written to have multiple potential love interests but it never actually creates serious romantic developments with any of them.

>>45863537
>since she's virtual
>he doesn't know

>>45862770
>Wonder why don't more people actually talk about that in particular
>Danmachi shilled a lot but never WHY
From what I see, it has the same problem as Index, they're both too monotonous and repetitive. Even though the setting allows them to easily add in some insane bullshit right at the drop of a hat, said bullshit will only matter at that particular volume and will never intersect with any other bullshit from the earlier or later volumes or else. It's a real damn shame, we have Rakia, Melen, Telskyura, etc. to play with, but shit will always start and end with Orario. It's rather concerning since the final quest/battle with the Black Dragon is supposed to happen outside of the dungeon, but we still know jackshit about the geopolitical conditions in other countries (in mainline Danmachi, that is). Heck, there are still a lot of districts in Orario that haven't been explored at all.
>>45845284
>even if they are better
Not necessarily better per se, just significantly edgier and darker (and with more character development). They're more like long-overdue supplementary material that floats between the states of canon and non-canon.
>a female?
Pretty sure not if we're going by his interviews and author notes.
>>45862424
Anon, please stop stalking me, I don't have an exhibitionism fetish.
>>45863413
Assuming what Kaidou said to be true, Nemesis is the general winner, though Juliet is the real-life winner. IIRC, he once said to think of the romance in Dendro like a VN with flags and routes etc.
Well, the girls in Dendro don't feel like girls anyway, since none of them can be damsels in distress. It's actually one of the reasons why Crow Record got canned, they're too fightsexual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQn0nEnl1Y
ハズレ枠の【状態異常スキル】で最強になった俺がすべてを蹂躙するまで is getting an anime.

I caught up with demon lord re-try. I realize there was a 2-year gap between volumes, and now I am depressed.
Does anyone have any recommendations for misunderstanding stories, they don't need to be translated bonus if the mc is a shitter.

Also a harem novel where the love interest are mentally ill would be fun

>>45864627
>Also a harem novel where the love interest are mentally ill would be fun
異世界迷宮の最深部を目指そう

>>45864627
read 嘆きの亡霊は引退したい / Let This Grieving Soul Retire

>>45864704
not that anon but thanks for reminding me this exists
might read it after finishing saikyou uchuusen

>>45864168
Can't wait for the threads filled with nothing but
>WTF this is just Arifureta
and
>I wanna fuck the elf

>>45864686
I don't remember downloading this but it's on my tablet for some reason. I'll read it next just cause you mentioned it if something else doesn't grab my attention before I finish the next 16 volumes I need to read before I start a new series

>>45863537
>fuckable weapon.
Can Masters fuck their Embryo? Are they equipped for that?

>>45864168
one of the problems i had with this was both the LN and manga designs were surprisingly ugly, and the elf was still really fuckable despite that
this actually looks pretty good, it may actually trigger despair.jpeg on the watchers when the elf shows up

>>45868042
even more funny because the ln art is drawn by the fate artist who i guess is supposed to be good or something but it looks like shit

>>45865163
I don't think normalfags even remember arifureta.

>>45864627
>Also a harem novel where the love interest are mentally ill would be fun
Oh boy this is a fun rabbit hole that can easily give you decades worth of daydreaming.
Sadly it does get split into "Actual relationships" and "The cute girls are fucking schizos", and I think you can only really get into the latter with a more active imagination.

>>45844506
>Juggernigger > Minotaur > Goliath > Asterios = Moss Huge > Hyakinthos > Phryne
hoping volume 18's final battle will live up to the best of them

>>45868309
>I think you can only really get into the latter with a more active imagination.

I think I get into this some much easier since I can't really self-insert into the stories I read and love the situations as an observer and just enjoy concepts,
I read a Chinese Novel where mc got paid to make these girls fall in love with him for clients, the clients fucking shit the bed with the relationships and the girls figure out it was him and the story is him trying to dodge these landmines with the absolutely unhinged girls.
The first girl literally murders the MC 3-5 times until he admits he was the one she was talking too.Mc has a return from death ability and it is him navigating through these situations.
And the girls slowly start retaining memories from previous loops
I blame evil lord for my enjoyment of mental illness at least for supporting cast.
Mentally ill MCs and hit or miss.

which one has more dumb fun
嘆きの亡霊は引退したい or 俺は国家間の悪徳領主

>>45864627
>>45868979
>Also a harem novel where the love interest are mentally ill would be fun
>I blame evil lord for my enjoyment of mental illness at least for supporting cast.

>>45868979
Seconding the two recs already made then, 異世界迷宮の最深部を目指そう and 嘆きの亡霊は引退したい mostly in that order.
最凶の支援職【話術士】 has only one girl fit the bill and she doesn't get that much screentime, which sucks, but in my opinion still worth a read.
No game no life has some of the girls go down that road (and Jibril starts there) so that's fun.
勇者召喚に巻き込まれたけど also has aspects of this, but it's far more tame in a way, it's less fun schizo shenanigans and more bittersweet drama, so your mileage may vary.
And of course the big one: Sevens, by the same author as evil lord but when he was taking less meds, which fair warning will likely never get finished, so read at your own discretion.

>>45869126
The first is more serious which highlights the fun, the latter is more lighthearted(-ish) but gets accentuated by the author's lack of meds moments.
My vote is on evil lord first.

>>45869290
>勇者召喚に巻き込まれたけど
I been on the fence about reading this series i will pick it up.
>NGNL
Dropped after gameshow volume Love how they got shat on by the knife ears but sora has been annoying me for a while to the point i don't feel like reading anymore
>>45864686
>異世界迷宮の最深部を目指そう
Paused after volume 2 will pick back up
>>45864704
>嘆きの亡霊は引退したい
Finished V1 haven't made more time for it should pick back up

Thanks for the recs

>>45868979
>Mentally ill MCs and hit or miss.
but why
they tend to be the most interesting unless it's just "lmao i'm so cuhrazee"

>>45869653
>they tend to be the most hit unless they miss
No irony to be found in this lack of reading comprehension

Making a meme chart for recs.
The 2 axis are "Normalfag - Schizo" and "Simple - Deranged".
Give me your recs and which corner of the chart they should be in.
Genre doesn't matter, just want relevant stuff in current_year and I'm an out of touch crusty oldfag that still thinks mahouka and to aru are all the rage.

>>45869290
>勇者召喚に巻き込まれたけど
IT'S FEMOID SHIT
I HATE GETTING MEMED INTO READING TELENOVELAS
FUCK OSHI NO KO TOO

>>45854036
Would you happen to have epub for vol 8/9 ? Vol 7 was pretty weak but I feel it was building momentum for the next ones

>>45871418
not me I'm afraid (EN volume 8 isn't out yet and JP hasn't had rips since volume 4.2 and even those were just BW screenshots not epubs)
Perhaps some other anon has their own private raw epubs.

>>45864627
does 異世界拷問姫 count?

what censorship should I look out for if i wanted to make a LN?

>>45874468
r15 may contain cruel depictions

>>45861159
oh god, same
I turned off subs in instant death ep 3 because just the first minute of the episode had multiple big translation errors

>>45778122
So, how its the new LN by the Oreimo author?
>Genderbender Yuri Incest
Sounds pretty hot for a degenerate like me.

How long is a standard 一刻?

>>45876328
around a 一刻

>>45876345
I saw it being used to denote a minute, 15 min and an hour, so...

>>45876328
Depends completely on context

i love how comically far in the future some of the audible ln releases are scheduled
like i can't fucking wait for honzuki vol.33 to come out in 2027 lmao

>>45854760
Is it good?

>>45877767
if you like degen incest stuff then yeah it's pretty amusing

>異世界迷宮の最深部を目指そう vol 2
>黒の魔王 vol 4
Any retailers shipping these to the U.S.? Checked Amazon and Kinokuniya and could only find out-of-stock or Used versions. Really bummed because I was hyped for these.

>>45878778
>黒の魔王
didn't that get axed

>>45878808
not sure, but definitely been on a hiatus lol. Doesn't really matter to me if the story is good though

>>45878778
do you only want to read physical?

>>45878778
If you live near a Kinokuniya you can walk in and ask them to order them for you, if the US Kinokuniyas work anything like the one where I live.

>>45877752
it's probably easier to schedule audiobook adaptations of stuff already there than make listings for volumes the author may or may not write on a timely manner

>>45875336
you can always give it a go yourself >>45840441
in my opinion it was a resounding meh, but this is coming off from someone who already got burnt by both oreimo and eromanga and was expecting nothing as a result
honestly just ecchi in general or even literal porn but nothing else just feels bland these days
it was more exciting in the 00s and even the early 10s because it had that WOW CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS IN A STORY factor, but it's not special nowadays when people can literally proompt infinite porn
probably why LNs also started to shift from just raw porn or softcore porn to focusing on the emotional core of relationships, even if it's mostly sex too, shit like magical explorer when it's more about the bonds between people, and by people i mean a harem of girls and the guy that owns them even when he SHOULD be fucking them akshually

>>45879135
i'd prefer physical, but might go digital if theres no other options
>>45879618
will try when I get the chance, thanks

>>45864168
if that's what they've got for a promo of something airing this year I don't have high hopes

>>45864168
>>45868042
>this actually looks pretty good
The anime might make it good but honestly, the novel is pretty dogshit.

Worldbuilding is a joke but that's nothing new. It has a rare case of multiple countries on equal standing in an isekai, but makes almost no use of it.
Author had a stat growth theme going on early on but later on completely throws it out the window. Not that stats ever mattered since the MC never uses his despite having insane stats, and even people with no stats seem to easily overpower those with stats.

The writing itself is extremely pretentious. By which I mean the author loves drawing out single sentences across multiple pages. The anime will cut that part out, obviously, so it should portray a lot better. Oh, and the entire cast is autistic, like literally every single one. It's like being on /pol/.
It also uses the harem tag despite the elf still being the only confirmed heroine in what seems to feel the end stretch of the series.

>>45864704
I actually really like all of this author's works; I've followed him ever since the original Tamer's Mythology and he always has amazing settings.

That said, while I do like it a lot, I like Nageki the least of his works. But I do understand why he focuses on it, with it being easily the most commercially successful of all his works, perhaps even the only one that isn't axed. Can't blame the guy for wanting to milk his only healthy cow.

>>45878808
>>45878855
The manga got axed. Pretty sure the LN is still ongoing, but it's really low priority with the publisher, being like their only light novel or something.

I wish the author got rewarded better, but while he's a good writer his choice of publishers suck ass.

just finished torture princess. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would

>>45875336
It was okayish but I was expecting something better.
It's weird how most of the 'plot' revolves more around the imouto having an 8 inch cock than the protagonist becoming a girl.

>>45868059
Fate artist?

Which do I read first, Danmachi volume 18 or Nanatsuma volume 10? I want to read the more satisfying one last so that the first doesn't overshadow the second.

>>45881761
Nanatsuma 10 is like 550 pages thick iirc. So read it later, maybe

>>45881572
>expected TS yuri
>got something even gayer
2gay4me

>>45881572
looks like it's time to abandon that author

So I can't find volumes 9-11 of Arifureta in epub (only in jpg). Can I just read the WN if I really don't want to read fuzzy jpegs? And then resume with the LNs in vols 12 and 13? Unless someone here has vols 9-11 in epub.

Pic from vol 8 so spoilered just in case

>>45884327
The core story is mostly the same. But I would recommend dealing with the fuzzy jpgs because that's what I did.

>>45884327
literally just ocr, MTLbro

>>45881761
Never read Danmachi so I can't comment on that but Nanatsuma volume 10 is 11/10 good

>>45884327
i bought physical so i can't help you with the epubs unfortunately
but as the other anon said the general story is the same though the final stretch is way longer and more fleshed out in the ln version so if you can deal with it i'd recommend reading that one

>>45881572
The progression of imoutos in his LNs is:
Likes eroge > draws eromanga > has a huge throbbing erection

>>45886050
Forget being gay.
Is he into trannies?

>>45868220
https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/19dml18/two_of_the_same_picking_one_arifureta_or_failure/

>>45888596
>literal ledd-
oh
i get it

>>45888638
>>45888638
>>45888638