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[Anonymous No.]

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

Additional resources:
https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html

Personal recommendation:
v18.0: https://nyaa.si/view/1472994
v18.1: https://nyaa.si/view/1487316
v18.2: https://nyaa.si/view/1499506
v18.3: https://nyaa.si/view/1510254
v18.4: https://nyaa.si/view/1525468
v18.5: https://nyaa.si/view/1538187
v18.6: https://nyaa.si/view/1549158

Previous: >>40565667

Will include some recommended reading in the next post.
Reminder to learn Japanese to ignore translator drama, their mistakes and their lack of understanding nuance.

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Good series.

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What should I read if I liked Oregairu?

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>>41061141
While I do mean this as an insult, what did you even like about it? Saying that key part is always crucial when asking for any kind of recommendation.

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>>41061169
I liked the introspective writing style, the focus on the narrator's thoughts, the loner theme, the general plotlessness. Basically the writing is intelligent while the novels as novels can be kind of lazy.

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>>41061141
Saekano might be interesting. It's the other Romcom LN that was popular at the same time as Oregairu. Nails all the aspects of a good romcom while giving insight in VN creation/ creation in general. The unique aspect of the story is how meta it is. Don't bother with it if you aren't into eroge.

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>>41061857
Will check it out, thanks. I have nothing against eroge, in fact I've read a few that I quite enjoyed.

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IT'S TIME.
SOON.

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>>41061141
Give Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki a try. It also explores the theme of being genuine, of being yourself and having a public mask. It is a decent read.

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Never read Dendro. Is it good?

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>>41069328
Personally I like it but it's not for everyone, it's the sort of thing that is an autist's wet dream, but for a very particular kind of autism.

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>>41065244
It's out! I actually thought the Nameless Axe would be more rugged, but I guess Rockfell really did use it because it looks fairly decent eh?
>>41069328
If you like worldbuilding and foreshadowing, this is the one for you. Everyone in this series might as well be renamed Chekov, each with a fully loaded rifle that goes off every other second. Part of the charm in reading it is looking at the background characters mentioned on the very beginning and trying to make sense how, when, and why would they appear later on.

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>>41076013
It's really not what I imagined, I imagined it to almost be scrap on a stick due to use and the curses.
>If you like worldbuilding and foreshadowing, this is the one for you.
I don't think that quite does it justice, in my opinion it's worldbuilding done right, things and systems get foreshadowed and drip fed (maybe a bit too slowly at times with this author's writing speed), but instead of being wiki filler to be forgotten they actually get use later on, and not in a "akshually this thing was important the whole time!" way, but in a way that actually makes sense with the story.
>Everyone in this series might as well be renamed Chekov, each with a fully loaded rifle that goes off every other second.
That's part of the appeal too, in almost no other series I have seen such creative bullshitting and borderline semantics abuse, mechanics abuse and literal glitch bullshitting that goes on in dendro from all parties involved, at best a select few of characters will get as creative with their powers, often only the MC and final boss do, here everyone feels like the MC of their own story, and it's great.
Still not for everyone though, but lately I feel more and more that appealing to niche autism like this so strongly and appealing to "everyone" is something mutually exclusive to the other.

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>>41076013
>>41076701
Thanks, I have like a million series in my backlog but I may give it a shot

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They think it was just vol 19 in japanese.
But what they didn't know is that dendro volume 18's official english translation just dropped as well for EOPs for even MORE dendro.
No new WN chapter today sadly, that could have been too much.

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I keep checking the shadow garden PR twitter hoping to see a 陰の実力者になりたくて！volume 5 announcement but there's nothing.
I got my hopes up when seeing a new image but it was just anime designs, not much else to see.
At least the author is alive, he keeps updating the ads on the WN page, but I'm starting to lose hope.

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>>41086037
I think he realized that he drove the story against a wall with the last rewrite.

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>>41086079
That makes no sense, the second half and ending of volume 4 opened the story to endless possibilities, that's the opposite of the WN arc that wrote the author into a corner.
Yeah, too many possibilities end up in writer's block all the same, that's the same problem again isn't it?.

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>>41086149
I'm talking about how he added an element to inform Shadow Garden that Cid has never invented shit, and is not the super genius everybody thinks he is.
The author doesn't want to burst the chuuni bubble.

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>>41086037
I've listened to audiobooks 1-4 like three times. Really hope it's going to continue soon.

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>>41087870
there's an audiobook version? they don't do that only for western books?

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Anyone got a recommendation for genuinely funny LNs, untranslated is fine. I've heard good things about Baka to Test.

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>>41092199
strange grief wants to retire and defeating demon lord is a clinch got a few chuckle out of me. its from the same author as the lazy king and the undead king

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>>41092096
https://www.audible.co.jp/series/B095JDBRP2

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>>41092096
quoting myself from the previous thread:
>>41035567
>the japanese audible has a ton of LN audiobooks. And it's聴き放題, not individual payments, so you can just register for the free month and grab as many as you want

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>>41093219
>>41093917
Speaking of which, Kadokawa stocked up on a shitton of newly scheduled releases recently - Death March up to Vol.14, Overlord up to Vol.16, the entirety of Cheat Yome, some new series, etc.
These past few months were fucking awful but it may be worth to renew my audible jp sub soon.

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>>41094033
I'm still subscribed mostly for the Honzuki audiobooks we get every 3 months
could cancel in between, but there usually is something worth grabbing

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>>41093917
Also for some reason didn't even cross my mind that there are japanese audiobooks. Unfortunately they don't have any LNs I'm currently interested in, will keep an eye on it. Maybe will try Hanzawa Naoki series.

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Cover illustrations for the next wave of overlap LN volumes are up, including Arifureta vol 13.
To answer the question from last thread of who will be on the cover, here's the image.

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>>41098780
thanks anon
didn't expect yue again but it makes sense in light of what happens
judging by the synopsis this should also be the final volume, i wonder if they're going to publish the afterstories too

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>>41038372
>yeah, the author even prefaces the chapter by saying
>The tale that follows is not from the timeline we know—but it might have been, had the dice fallen differently...
that preface wasn't in the original Japanese novel, the English publisher had to add it because the first volume was getting too many 1* reviews from brainlet anglos who complained about a sudden timeskip ending.

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>>41103802
Somehow I'm not surprised westerners have reading comprehension that bad.

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>>41105901
you would be surprised, almost all the "lore" youtube videos i see nowadays get so many things wrong

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>>41103802
Do EOPs really need everything spelled out for them?.

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>>41098990
>i wonder if they're going to publish the afterstories too
An Arifureta After anime would be kino

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>>41121696
the world is not ready for such a thing

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>>41094033
While it's hot and I have fapped to that, aren't those heels way too tall?.

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>>41122953
Depends on what you want to do with them and how well made the shoes are.

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Thoughts on Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou?

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>>41125262
Nostalgia.
It feels otaku media before 2015 doesn't really get talked about unless it's the anime version or it's touhou related.

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>>41124851
Mind you I'm not even one of those guys that will say it's impractical for combat because muh realism, I'm taking about just walking around normally.

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Volume 10 of Saikyou Degarashi Ouji coming out at the end of the month, didn't expect No name to have a kitsune mask though

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>>41129833
I really need to read more stuff than just overlap, this looks interesting.

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>>41133532
Big fan of the artist so I gave the series a go and was pleasantly surprised.

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Oh yeah, the english TL of the first volume of this just came out.
In the manga adaptation the MC is a sociopath edgelord and in the novel he's even more so.

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man everything just sounds cooler in japanese

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>>41141558
It really does.
And it's easy to say that's only the case when you're just learning and not at the level of a native, but the more you learn the more you can see the autistic lengths a writer goes into if they want to make something sound cool.

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>>41093917
>>41094033
what is even the appeal of audio books when it's the equivalent of half assed watching of an anime leaving it in the background or another monitor while not really paying attention to it?
at that point why not just put some music instead?

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>>41147153
why do you assume i'm not paying attention to it

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>>41147153
sometimes i sit down and just listen to an audiobook attentively
if i'm doing something else while listening to an audiobook it will be something that still lets me focus on the audiobook (e.g. doing the dishes or playing some dumb videogame where you don't have to think at all)
i will not listen to an audiobook while doing anything remotely mentally taxing because as you said, i won't pay attention anyways

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>>41143237
I wonder if natives cringe as hard at that as I do at chuuni shit written in English.

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>>41150851
Probably, english in general doesn't sound anywhere close to as cool.

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>>41156322
For a language to be chuuni-cool, it needs to have some serious archaic elements to it. And English has been stripped of most of those.
It doesn't even have a real imperative grammatical form.

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>>41150851
>>41156365
Chuuni doesn't exist in English.

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>>41156365
>For a language to be chuuni-cool, it needs to have some serious archaic elements to it.
that's a very good point surprised to read it on this board

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>>41159253
nta but there's a reason anything that comes close to "cool" sounding in english is always related to borrowing (stealing) words from latin or greek

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Do people here any light novels with toilet scenes?

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>Still checking the shadow garden twitter daily.
>This gets posted.
>Turns out to be postcards
https://twitter.com/Shadowgarden_PR/status/1568071948151709697/
Seeing this is impossible to get my hopes up volume 5 will happen during this.
I can't take this for much longer, the baits are too strong.

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>>41167644
the anime being announced pretty much guaranteed that volume 5 will happen
hell it might even release in october

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This came out yesterday looks like dumb fun I might just read it

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>>41168005
is it weird when you can just tell the ln artist is used to drawing porn?

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>>41147153
the appeal of the Honzuki audiobooks is having all of it read by Iguchi Yuka

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>>41168302
That made me wonder if there's money to be made in audiobooks narrated by the proper VAs per character plus a narrator.
And before anyone brings up CD dramas, that's not the same, I'm talking about a fully voice acted audiobook version of the main novels.

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>>41057651
>https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html
Qualidea Code isn't here?

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>>41172411
Probably way too expensive to do that.
Konosuba kinda did that, but it was still one VA voicing the whole novel, not everyone doing their character

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>>41174323
>but it was still one VA voicing the whole novel
Then that's just a normal audiobook, isn't it?.

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>>41174323
>>41175215
there are some gagaga bunko audiobooks with big casts where everyone voices a single character (e.g. tsuki to laika to nosferatu) but i don't think there's anything like that with a complete anime cast
cool idea but ye probably way too expensive i mean a lot of the time they won't even use a proper anime cast for drama cds

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Is it common for e-book sites to pull light novels from sale? If so, why do they do that? I was asking because a novel I bought in the past (オレのラブコメヒロインは、パンツがはけない。) has been pulled from sale from every e-book store in Japan. They said it was "due to various reasons" but no further explanation was given. Is this normal?

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>>41176033
If they won't give a real reason, maybe there's a scandal that they are trying to not talk about?

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>>41175489
>a lot of the time they won't even use a proper anime cast for drama cds
Everything I knew was a lie.

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>>41176067
I found the author's Twitter and he had this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/sakura_uta_0702/status/1377963031267733508
It seems to be talking about the Kakuyomu version though and not the LN version. But it seems to be something about profits or his lack of ability? I don't understand though why that should mean pulling the books from e-book stores since I can't imagine digital stores costing that much to run.

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>>41057651
>learn Japanese to ignore translator drama, their mistakes and their lack of understanding nuance.
I am planning to.

https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/learn/guide.html#Introduction
https://tatsumoto.neocities.org/

Can anyone point me which of these is the "most update" guide for it?

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>>41176968
truth is you will jump between neko guides to cross reference, because japanese can't be translated 1:1 to english and a lot of meanings and grammar points are only approximations when explained in english
at some point you will just "get it" in japanese without needing to translate to english first
if you really need a pointer on what to do, learn hiragana and katakana, then learn what the basic particles do like は が を に の and so on do, then move on to basic verb conjugations like present, past, etc
you should be able to start reading with that, and from there it's just matter of reading and referencing particle and conjugation guides and dictionaries until fluency
if you really want to anki grind kanji, learn the joyo kanji list

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>>41176968
learnjapanese.moe

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>>41177293
Disturbing facts about the so-called l*arnjapanese.moe and his "guide".

0) It was MattvJapan's shilling on twitter that made him known to the public. and yet, he backstabbed Matt by leaking private conversations with him.
1) He doesn't know Japanese, nor we have seen videos of him speaking in it.
2) He's Turkish.
3) His half-assed "guide" is full of malware, and he scams people for donations.
4) He uses cringecord, a proprietary spyware app. He puts people who trust him in danger by forcing them to use it too.
5) He hosts his site on Github (owned by Micro$oft).

He isn't an honest person. He is a hypocrite who promotes the exact opposite of what he does.

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The yen is dying bros, this is the perfect time to buy lns. For me it's Death March 26 which just came out.

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>>41178437
boobs too big

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>>41057651
Hopefully this is not off-topic but do you read LNs on your phone? If so what app do you use? I'm currently using Lithium but the books are ordered in a weird way (1, 10, 11, 2, etc..) so I'm looking for an alternative that supports both epubs and pdfs

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>>41176968
Tatsumoto is the most up-to-date guide. Itazuraneko is the old guide.

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>>41179148
old good new bad
i took a glimpse at tatsumoto and found it annoying to use

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>>41178995
Not that off-topic compared to other things that have been talked about, but personally I simply read on my PC.
Reading on portable devices is a bit too uncomfortable, it's easier to have fitting music playing while on PC too.

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>>41178437
is this supposed to be a street fighter reference inside the story itself?

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>>41176968
DJT hates tatsumoto but his guide is a fine.
itazuraneko itself still has a lot of resources linked, but don't use the guide.

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>>41156365
you can write archaically if you want to though, just crack open a jane austen novel or something

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>>41179515
I tried a bunch of apps and I ended up sticking with Librera https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
There's also a google play variant if you need sync features or other "proprietary" stuff

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>>41178995
I use moon+ reader pro. has everything I care about and doesn't get in the way with things I do not.

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>>41182407
I tried downloading the pro version from Android Zone but the library is weirdly ordered similarly to other apps >>41178995
Should I rename my files before importing? The files use v01, v14, etc.. naming convention. I wonder if the app is struggling to identify the order because of this.
With that said the font, size of text and the likes is really nice. Definitely worth the money if you can afford it

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>>41182537
>library is weirdly ordered
Just realized I can manually drag and drop books to reorder them so I guess that will do for now

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>>41181782
>DJT
?

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>>41185295
daily japanese thread, I guess

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I can't make myself read a book cause I know it will challenge my JP knowledge. Fuck.

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>>41187349
stop being a bitch boy and challenge yourself

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I liked the anime and haven't read any of the LN but the recent volume covers are getting me really hyped with how cool they look.

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>>41187477
I also admit I often pick up things to read based on how cool the covers look.

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>>41187349
just read, it's not like anyone would find out to mock you

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>>41187349
Accept that you don't know Japanese and that simply reading tons light novels will make you infinitely better.

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Yeah fuck it, I will just stick to posting here, /a/ threads are unusable.

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>>41191434
Frankly, every "the thread on /a/ sucks" post is to me just a declaration that you are but a refugee and don't actually feel at home in this thread. You are just waiting for an opportunity to return.

Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with that attitude. Feeling at home in a thread that gets less than 100 posts in 2 weeks means that you don't actually want to discuss the subject matter in the first place.
You could interpret this to mean that this is not actually the refuge that it's supposed to be, though.

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>>41192923
aren't all new generals 100% refugees by definition?

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>>41192994
That implies that most activity is anti-activity.
People gather in places not because they are drawn to them but because there is a specific different place they do not want to be at.

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>>41193138
pretty sure a lot if not most people on niche boards are on niche boards because big boards are too shit

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>>41192923
>less than 100 posts in 2 weeks
Pretty sure that's around below average for /jp/ if you take out the shitposts from the big generals.
If anything, it's easier to feel at home on threads that aren't dominated by shitposts that force artificially high traffic.

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>>41178437
just ordered four new volumes
the shipping isn't cheap but man i love physical light novels

[Anonymous No.]

Why are toilet scenes so rare in light novels?

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>>41194712
I only read physical light novels. ebooks are too soulless.

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>>41194887
As much as I would like to I don't have the space or the money for that.
Sucks to be a poorfag but having a collection sounds nice.

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>>41192923
It's actually hard to "feel at home" anywhere in modern 4chan, yes even here, and this was a problem even before the vtuber flood.
Slowly but surely over the years it was easy to notice more and more normalfag posters with beliefs to match, some complaint about lolis here, some complaints about sexualization there, some threads about some entry level thing being the best thing ever, some people wondering what that thing you're talking about even is when that used to be talked about a lot, small things that add up over time.
Today the entire website is almost exclusively people on their 20-30s that got into "the animes" around the mid 10s, are EOPs, never bother to read the source material of anything, and when they do it's only because they have nothing better to do than mindlessly read whatever comes up on mangadex to pass the time.
That wouldn't even be a bad thing on it's own, times change, but the actual problem is how modern EOPs don't take anything seriously anymore, everything has to be wrapped in multiple layers of irony, alienating themselves and everyone else to avoid criticism.
This makes discussing anything that isn't "who would win" impossible, and turned the website from "that one anon board where you discuss niche things" to "that website people shitpost in to pass the time".

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i hate this thread convinced me to learn japanese, but may as well

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>>41179379
I like it a lot, probably the best guide out there.

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>"no more sister wars, nee?"
Your dumb whore imouto who stole your hs boyfriend and got pregnant wants to make peace. How do you reply?

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>>41205180
Invite them to a nomikai and spike her drink with abortion medicine

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Do you guys discuss LNs anywhere else?

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It's annoying sometimes it's so hard to find raws, it feels like every manga that exists gets scraped to multiple different mirrors, but if you're looking for a LN and it isn't a popular one, you aren't finding it ever.

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>>41213990
The most reliable way is to buy it.

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>>41213990
at that point you just have to bite the bullet and buy it
importing light novels is too expensive for me so i settle for buying ebooks from bookwalker

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>>41212953
not really, there's no real place to do that nowadays
maybe "actually this happened in the novel" discussion when some anime comes up elsewhere, but that's always brief

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what's so hype about roshidere? I swear I see LNfags, twitterfags, redditfags shilling to death this series. I haven't read it yet but why people overrate so much this Light Novel RomCom like the second coming of Jesus

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>>41222988
It's wartime propaganda

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>>41213990
definitely not true for most manga, even from popular magazines

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>>41213990
>it feels like every manga that exists gets scraped to multiple different mirrors
You must be really luck with your taste because I find that to be completely untrue.
Shittiest part of learning nip was finding out that RAWs for most things I want are a pain to get at best and impossible at worst. Really wish Japan had a sekrit club better than PD

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>>41223305
They wouldn't be all using our resources if they had their own ones.

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>>41223305
something something "nip" is a casual racism term and not even a good one for brevity when a lot of people just say "jp" which is one letter shorter

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>>41223338
okay eleven

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>>41223338
here's your reply

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>>41223338
Honestly it's annoying how most of the website is tourists now.
From those little signs of being unable to show basic respect you can just tell you will never get real discussion going if you try talk to them.

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>Been busy and I keep forgetting to read stuff.
>Open a few hours to chill and read dendro vol 18 uninterrupted while listening to music.
>Almost half a volume of buildup and setup.
>“The Dying Breath at World’s End: Gloria.” “Code, acknowledged." “War God Ship, Baldr. Assuming Ragnarök Form.”
Well damn, the entire last third made me feel like an edgy teenager again, I bet it was intended too, I reflected on that when Logan picked up the edgy insect spear and the narration commented on how edgy and cringy it looked while he found it really cool, I felt exactly like he did at that time the whole volume.
It reminded me why I got into VNs/LNs in the first place, I really should brush up my rusty japanese and read the WN already.

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>>41222988
bought the first volume as physical cuz it was so hype in the amazon jp rankings when it came out
haven't read it yet

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Why are all the "gyaru" LNs barely gyaru? It's always just a blonde girl with painted nails, a scrunchie, and her sweater wrapper around her waist and she acts exactly like the boring main-heroine-in-a-harem whose main character trait is being nice. Where's the proper namaiki, slutty, slang using kuro gyaru and shit

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>>41232354
Gyaru is just fashion.

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>>41232401
It's a way of life

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>>41232354
Have you considered your definition of "gyaru" is incorrect and way too influenced by porn?.

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>>41232415
>influenced by porn?.
Is that not what an LN about a gyaru would be

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>>41232451
Not really.

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>>41232451
Outside of porn, it's really just a fashion trend.
The tan is not even part of that fashion trend.

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>>41222988
Never heard of it at all, dunno from where all that hype comes from..

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>>41246755
iirc the first volume broke some sales record on amz jp for romcoms or something

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>>41246850
That's really surprising, but did that popularity stick or it's just a flash in the pan?

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>>41252046
It's just a flash in japan

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>>41060105
Read the first volume, so far so good. Seras a qt

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Where and why do every overpowered MC in Light Novels fail yet CotE MC manages to do/write correctly?

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>>41255679
The generalization doesn't inspire much confidence on your argument and that's made worse by shilling CotE of all things.

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Went through 20 volumes of this.
What the fuck was it all for?
Where does the author go from here?

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>>41261584
This is the one LN I have seen a lot of people to say to flat out avoid reading.
Something being shit is one thing, this is on the level of not reading it at all, reasons why are probably obvious to you after reading it.

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How is this, interesting at all? Or just frustrating?

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>>41255679
fun characters that actually have some resemblance of iq so it still feels like there's some resemblance of conflict even with OP mc. ayanokouji is also very passive and rarely acts directly. so when he does act it feels satisfying.

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>>41265286
>characters that actually have some resemblance of iq
lol

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>>41178437
>yen is dying
Would be great if not for the €uro also dying even faster, and shipping/border taxes and costs over the roof. It's never been more expensive to import from Japan to Europe.

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>>41263778
Neither really, it doesn't take itself very seriously so it's kinda fun to see how ridiculous it gets but not much more than that

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>>41268698
>fun to see how ridiculous it gets
That's pretty much all I was expecting/hoping for. Thanks

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>>41268915
dunno why are you looking specifically for that, such story structure is fairly common
while i can't say it's everywhere, it is there more often than not

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How big is your physical collection

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>>41271382
Not that big. I'm probably at around 30+.

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>>41271382
Getting physical stuff in japanese is surprisingly difficult sometimes as a third worlder so not that big either.

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>>41271382

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>>41274582
nice

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>>41271382
About japanese 2 000 books, I guess. Out of those rougly 800 would be manga, 900 books and 300 would be artbooks (anime key animation frames, production materials, etc.). Though I have ran out of library shelves years ago so I just keep most of the stuff in one room.

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>>41094033
not to be that guy, but what's the appeal of reading death march? it seems kinda bland and pointless after having read a synopsis and some of the wiki

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>>41278134
it's just a comfy harem powerfantasy with likable characters and a great mix of adventure, sol and the occasional high stakes battle
that's about it really, it's nothing crazy but if you're into this type of story then well i'd say it should be on your list

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>>41278134
You really shouldn't judge stuff by just the synopsis though.
For an answer without buzzwords, it's surprisingly comfy, and the "world building" has just enough depth, but that depth is not the wiki filler kind, what gets mentioned is actually almost always plot relevant within the same volume, that's pretty much it.
Weirdly enough I wouldn't call it SoL either, it doesn't have that feel of "comfy idling daily life" because the MC's group does progress on their adventure and there's stakes sometimes, but also those stakes aren't of the stressful kind, not even if you like the characters.

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>>41274582
Damn those Arifureta Zero volumes are thicc.

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>>41274582
>All of zero believers.
I don't know if that's cool or really dumb.
I will never forgive that author for that ending.

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not sure if this is the right place to ask because I can't read japanese yet but how are the monogatari LNs in English? And if you've read them, are they worth reading even after you've seen the anime or is there a better use of your time?

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>>41274582
>Orc-san
Read the manga, how's the ln?

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>>41283024
i only read the first arc in japanese so i can't say much without also reading the TL
however, if they are from yen press or seven seas, assume the translation is shit and heavily burgerized, because it most likely is
>And if you've read them, are they worth reading even after you've seen the anime or is there a better use of your time?
with this "holier than thou" attitude nothing is worth your time

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>>41283670
I don't have that kind of attitude, it's a completely normal question to ask. somewhere out there is the worst book with a great adaption and the best book with a shitty adaption. I'm just trying to see what's worth it to people. I can't just read everything

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>>41283723
>I'm just trying to see what's worth it to people. I can't just read everything.
unfortunately you will have to at least start reading most things on your own
what people like in something will always be different than what you want, i can say i like something because "it's cool", but what does that mean exactly? it will mean something different to everyone, that's always going to be the problem with english and jp>en discourse

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>>41283622
NTA but feels about the same, just with more detail.

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>>41283622
>how's the ln?
surprisingly explicit
god the volume 3 girl was hot

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>>41291018
does that mean sex

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>>41298098
ye

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>>41298506
OMG SEXCSS???
Jokes aside, does it have any selling point aside from the sex?

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>>41301420
the sex doesn't even play that big a role it just happens like once per volume and was more explicit than i expected because it doesn't just "fade to black"
aside from that it's just a solid powerfantasy with a ridiculously overpowered main character who knows everything from fighting to magic to even economics with cute girls that get along with each other and some jokes mixed in
nothing that will convert you if you don't already love the genre but a fairly enjoyable read if you do
there's also an audiobook version of the first two volumes
if i had to critized something it'd be that it feels like one of those stories where they added the isekai part for no reason aside from giving the mc knowledge about some earth technology like factories or sweets
aside from that it's never really dealt with or mentioned again and he may have just been born as an orc in this world and it would have made no difference at all
not a big deal for me personally but it may bother some people

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>>41302471
i started reading this then my brain tuned out the pretentiousness then the post was over
do you have a version that doesn't feel copypasted from reddit?

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>someone actually makes a post about a light novel containing more than two sentences
>wahhh pretentious go back to r*****
God I hate /a/-refugees.

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>>41306078
zoom zoom

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>>41306283
>>41307131
>powerfantasy overpowered main character added the isekai part for no reason
next time try posting without buzzwords or copypaste arguments and people might take you seriously when you're outside your circlejerk communities

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what kind of words do you expect to read in a review for a title like this you retarded piece of human debris i suggest you drink bleach

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>>41307210
maybe something that isn't vague as shit
>tropes but tropes and tropes but not tropes tropes tropes
that says fucking nothing, impressive for a wall of text to say so fucking little
video essay faggotry killed discussion

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>>41307226
>read about tropes in a post about a title that makes heavy use of tropes
shocker
i suggest you look for a different hobby assuming you're not just a tourist

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>>41307246
your entire "review" can be summed up as
>sex isn't the focal point, but it's a little explicit rather than skipped
>MC is OP, which says nothing because any MC not losing gets called OP nowadays
>there's cute girls
>walking on eggshells trying to not call it shit so people don't jump on you
>copypaste argument number 1371987416 muh isekai element doesn't matter, which says nothing because nothing short of subaru being a crybaby is "isekai element doesn't matter"
>MC makes things with modern knowledge
that's literally it
you didn't even say what is the plot about, you likely don't even remember because your brain is so fucking fried by the idea of "tropes" that you're more worried about putting everything on label buckets than actually paying attention to the fucking story
your """""review""""" is fucking worthless and says less than the synopsis

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>>41307274
it's not even my post you dumb nigger lol imagine getting so worked up just because someone dared to write a post with more than five words in it lmfao

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>>41307274
Sounds like you actually took away a lot from his review.

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>>41060105

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>>41307319
remove the redditor habit of pussyfooting around and you're left with
>sex isn't the focal point, but it's a little explicit rather than skipped
>MC is OP
>there's cute girls
>MC makes things with modern knowledge
which is so vague it doesn't even qualify as a writing prompt, the only relevant part is the sex part, which is so out of context it ends up meaning nothing

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>>41307274
>>41307346
I think the /a/ general seriously damaged you.
If I call something "red", that doesn't specify any precise color, but people can still use the information.
If I call a character OP, that doesn't give you a precise powerlevel or an exact relation to other people's powerlevels, but people can still use that information. * However, "ridiculously overpowered" does give you an idea.
>but he might be using the word "overpowered" wrong
And I might use the word "red" wrong.

You are so eager to dismantle "buzzwords" that you are completely missing the information that you are in fact getting.

* though I personally protest against the use of "overpowered" outside of gaming contexts.

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>>41308439
Pretty sure it was less about the argument itself, and more about the initial poster being a pretentious prick with his review, or at least that's how I saw this tism shitflinging.

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The guy's a sperg but he explicitly asked for "selling points" and the other anon wrote a whole paragraph without really mentioning any. "It's an isekai with a strong MC that features cute girls, magic, fighting, econ, and jokes". That's great and all but every one of those things is standard, what's there to set it apart from the rest of the dozens of novels like that?

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>>41311446
Do you have autism? He explicitly said it was solid. Nobody made any claims about it being above and beyond the genre or anything.

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>>41311099
He changed his reason for why the review was bad in the middle of the argument.
First it was pretentious buzzwords, then it said nothing, now it's "those aren't strong points".

If I am judging this right, the /a/ general taught him to hate on people who are dismissive of isekai. What set off his tirade was probably the comment that orc-san needn't be isekai. His argument as to why the review is bad is only secondary.

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>>41200938
>Today the entire website is almost exclusively people on their 20-30s that got into "the animes" around the mid 10s, are EOPs, never bother to read the source material of anything, and when they do it's only because they have nothing better to do than mindlessly read whatever comes up on mangadex to pass the time.
>today
Mate this is not different from the dynamics 2012 at all, which is about as far back as I'd go to really look into direct comparisons of particular online spaces, rather than outright profound technological/social changes in how the internet is used in general. At least on the boards I use, it seems like the average age and niche depth in topics has probably gone up from 4chan since that time, as it is no longer being the first and biggest stop for pseudonymous, relatively standardless discussion. AFAIK that would actually be reddit for most things, as most people would much rather put up with voting and pickier mods to avoid having every take by anyone having the same weight in a discussion no matter how banal it is.
Rather, you have noticed these things more and more because you have actually grown out of the particular demographic which 4chan tends to pander to, and those which have grown into it legitimately have had different media, scenes, and styles around certain topics from your own, which is bound to alienate if you don't pick them up or appreciate them in a much different manner.

There are slower imageboards you can that absolutely aren't shitposty and are "that one anon board where you discuss niche things," but so few people actually look that out in practice over 4chan, reddit, private chat, etc. that they tend to be the kind of places you wouldn't be posting daily on. Just review one of the many imageboard lists for some examples.

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i made that post about orc-san and i'm surprised it turned into this shitshow
i love isekai btw it's the vast majority of what i read and there's plenty of them where the isekai part is either an integral element of the story (e.g. rougo ni sonaete... where mc can move freely between the isekai and real world) or, if the interaction is not *that* direct, at least addressed during the (main) story (for instance arifureta which talks about the psychological problems that may occur due to gaining power in the isekai and then returning to the real world later having turned into what is basically a monster)
orc-san has none of this, i simply forgot i was reading an isekai until mc suddenly started talking about factories for a single page after which the topic was laid to rest again
don't care if you think i'm using buzzwords or copy-paste or whatever - i believe it's fair to say that it does not make good use of the isekai element and therefore would have worked just as well as a "regular" fantasy without an isekai
as for not addressing "unique selling points", well i'm sorry there really aren't many. it's fun but formualic and will not surprise you if you've read stories with a similar premise and structure. it doesn't do anything new. that doesn't mean it's bad, it just means it's most certainly not a must-read for someone who's not into the genre

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>>41313532
>the isekai element doesn't matter if they aren't a subaru tier crybaby about wanting to go back home
every time

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>>41313341
>AFAIK that would actually be reddit for most things, as most people would much rather put up with voting and pickier mods to avoid having every take by anyone having the same weight in a discussion no matter how banal it is.
The problem with reddit is exactly that, discussion becomes a revolving door of repeating the same entry level information to fish for upvotes, effectively killing it.
Yes on 4chan you can get a lot of shit takes, but if you disagree you can just ignore them up to a point, in return you get surprisingly good discussion from time to time even on big boards prone to shitposting.

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>>41313667
the entire point is that it doesn't matter if it's not mentioned
i don't care what the author does with it as long as they do *something* with it

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Got my Arifureta Vol. 13 today based Japs must have shipped it before release date

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>>41316720
Does it include cute vampire lolis?

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>>41316843
isn't the only illustration of her in this volume aside from that cover is from his adult form when possessed?

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>>41316843
No.

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>>41316973
>>41317021
I was just trying to make a little joke, and now I feel sad.

I don't even read Arifureta.

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>>41317021
Yep, I prefer this version.

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>>41317070
why do you feel sad
there's nothing wrong with big-chested vampires

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>>41317127
there's everything wrong
i like flats

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>>41317132
well don't worry then she returns to her loli form in the end

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>>41317138
all is well with the world
i probably should read the wn, i stick to only reading lns but it's getting harder and harder to wait for the next volume now and no idea if they are gonna publish the afterstory stuff
i want more cute flatpire, also more shizu even if she isn't flat

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Is お隣の天使様 good?

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>>41319781
With that attitude nothing will ever be "good" enough.

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>>41319924
??????

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>>41320054
Your priority was asking if it was "good".
Not interesting, not funny, not if it had cute girls or sex, not if it had drama, just "good".
You don't see the problem with that, really?

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>>41320158
stop doing this shit, are you the same faggot lecturing me about bakemonogatari when you only read the first arc and didn't even understand? man this forum fucking sucks

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>>41320331
You need to stop letting 4chan posters live rent free inside your head.

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>>41320425
you're interacting with every single new post just to bicker at nothing and be jaded. YOU have the obsession.

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>>41320425
to be fair it wouldn't be a general without schizos trying to put names on other posters

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>>41320447
I guess that's true.

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>>41320331
>>41320438
have you ever considered the problem here is (you)?
you flipped your shit over the slightest calling out of your taste virtue signaling
like damn dude chill out

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>>41320527
I asked if a translation was good and if the source material was worth checking out and I was met by someone who both couldn't answer the question and doesn't care about the franchise, just trying to start an argument on the basis that asking if something is good makes me pretentious. There's not even taste to criticize. That's me. Now either someone else has appeared with the same blend of retardation as you getting upset over whether stuff is good or not, or you're the same person. Either way thanks for bumping the thread, done with this convo, hopefully I get a real answer to the question I asked.

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Got directed here from by a thread I thought would never get replied to.

Waiting on Vol 40 of Rokujouma. Yurika FAITO!

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>>41261584
>>41262300
you guys just cant get into otaku values and otaku heroism

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>>41319781
yes it's quite good!

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>>41262300
I don't even remember why I dropped this. I just know that deep inside, I know I don't wanna read it anymore. I don't even remember the MC's name or the story.

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>>41321056
Thanks bro, I might check it out.

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>>41321059
That's probably for the best.

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>>41321025
why it's reading anything that long so daunting? why i can read 15 volumes of death march in a few days no problem when i didn't even like it that much, but anything over 30 feels like way too much?

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>>41322296
Because of the wrong mindset, obviously.
Maybe, because you think of the series as a task that you have to finish, rather than an opportunity to enjoy a nice story (that you can drop or put on hold whenever you feel like it).

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only a little late but

>>41051833
thanks, i looked into those and death march seemed the most interesting especially since i was tricked by novelupdates into thinking it was finished but having read some of it, though MC has no issues with sex they basically trade the virgin crutch with a "these kids around me are too young and as their guardian i can't touch them" crutch which i could barely deal with until he had an issue with a 20 year old when he was originally 30. after that i looked into it a bit and it seems like MC spends the rest of the series ignoring the harem until he meets one girl he genuinely falls for leaving the rest cockblocked i guess? either way i'm not sure how much i care about continuing DM right now, especially since MC started getting cockblocked from even getting laid anymore by the non-harem

>smartphone isekai
does MC actually get laid here? i was reading it originally but things were starting to get silly and the series looked super pg13 so i figured MC would never get laid and i figured the kids showing up was just another way to change the subject and cockblock MC so i put it on hold

>>41052133
>But one doesn't exclude the other
that's fine, i just wanted to ditch one trope at least for a while even if i'm just trading it for another equally annoying or worse trope like i did with death march

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>>41322303
>because you think of the series as a task that you have to finish
jokes aside it's probably this
>i MUST consume x to keep up with discussion
is never a good mindset to have, probably

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>>41322521

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>>41322521
if the recommendation is about sex why did the guy recommend death march what the fuck
smartphone's mc has kids so even if it's fade to black he did have the sexs
yome also ends up having the sexs but it's until near the end of the ln, and the wn got abandoned
hachinan also has the sexs
can't comment on the rest, haven't read them and i dropped mt after eris leaves

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>>41322681
that's one of the advantages of having a slow thread, don't worry i'm wide awake now

>>41322714
>why did the guy recommend death march
because it just barely fit what i was looking for, MC goes to the brothel a few times early on but he quickly starts getting cockblocked out of it once he's caught. the only small problem is he never touches the harem

>smartphone's mc has kids
yeah but the problem is those are from a future that hasn't yet come to pass, does he ever have fade to black sex in the present? i read up to v8 and he's pretty much just started ignoring the harem and just going on solo adventures

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>>41322966
Maybe try black summoner? The guy fucks, but it's fade to black and it's not too often.
Himekishi ga classmate is about a guy that enslaves and fucks all the (important) girls.
Moto sekai ichii's MC also has sex often, but it gets completely skipped in the manga.
Kuro no senki is also boring kingdom building but has "the sexs" often, sometimes a bit too often.
That's all I can think of from the top of my head.
Sorry it's all isekai and combat novels to boot, but hey I come from the /a/ isekai threads.

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>>41322966
>i read up to v8 and he's pretty much just started ignoring the harem and just going on solo adventures
he starts fucking his harem in vol20 or something

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>六畳間の侵略者！？
wtf theyre still making these

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>>41324661
Some older stuff already hit 40-50 volumes.
Pretty sure the total to aru volumes are closing into 3 digits by now.

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i love ln audiobooks

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>>41325982
More audiobooks in japanese when?...

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>>41324687
I wonder what it's like being that guy that's followed a super long series like that since volume 1. Do you experience happiness or sadness that your favorite series never ends?

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>>41329016
As someone that is following a few approaching the low 30s since pre-10s, it really depends on the series, but I can say endings are extremely overrated.
Some stuff like death march just kind of exists and I wouldn't mind if it reaches 3 digits worth of volumes, same with arifureta assuming the afterstories start getting published in the LN version.
Meanwhile some like overlord make me think "oh come on, can you fucking END already!?" despite not even reaching 20, but that's a rare case, if I get bored of something I just drop it like you're supposed to.
Something ending means it's over, I got closure and all but it's still like seeing a good old friend retire permanently, it's depressing no matter what happens.
Really though, when people complain about a lack of endings they should be complaining about the story getting boring, but that's the point you should be dropping it, some stuff is interesting all the way to the 50s and beyond without feeling like a drag.

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>>41325982
Same, I pretty much always listen to one when I'm not at my computer. Some series like フェアリーテイル・クロニク I've listened to like 10 times by this point. God I wish they would record the rest of the books.

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>>41334037
*クロニクル

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>>41334037
Never heard about that one, was it unsuccesfull? It seems like another game isekai

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>>41336137
Not sure how successful it was but it has 13 audiobooks and the sequel-series 春菜ちゃんがんばる is still ongoing so someone must be reading it

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>>41323330
thanks. checked out moto sekai and it's kind of interesting, will check out the others

>Himekishi ga classmate
already read and liked it, but last i saw it went on long term hiatus

>Sorry it's all isekai and combat novels to boot
i'm not really picky about that, combat is probably a plus though

>>41324587
fug. i'll get back to it eventually and hope it gets better

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>>41341300
is the sexs really that important for some? not trying to use that as an insult or anything, just curious

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Time to shill something, I have been enjoying 嘆きの亡霊は引退したい (Strange Grief/Grieving Soul) recently.
I enjoy dry comedy, same with comedy misunderstandings, it's great for me to see characters freak out thinking random nonsense is some kind of mastermind move, same for characters that need to tard wrangle a bunch of loose cannons with a few (or plenty) screws loose, and I just described this novel.
Between this and dendro I have found a weird appeal for characters with an attitude of, in the words of best girl, 死ぬ気でやるのッ！

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>>41350587
I have heard good things about it.

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>>41351172
I heard good things about it too, but only now decided to read it.
There's so little discussion about LNs even in japanese sites that following recs are really hit or miss.
Even this one I doubt will appeal to everyone, but in my opinion that's how things should be anyway.

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>>41351409
>There's so little discussion about LNs even in japanese sites
I wonder why that is. Maybe they do all of their discussions IRL in their little otaku friend groups

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>>41351828
From what I have seen in older less fantastical anime and LNs, probably, this is an introverted hobby and LNs and otaku media in general lean towards niche and "degenerate".
Otaku groups here and in japan are used to being bullied out of discussion, let's be honest, how many of you guys have been bullied for your "taste" to the point of not bothering at all? Abstaining from discussion because disagreements are too much hassle is basically the same thing.
Even if you try, a LN can be completely different by vol 3-5+ compared to the start with how fast the story can move, and they can last to 20+ volumes or even 40-50+.
So you either talk only about the very start and just the premise, or risk heavy spoilers on anyone that may be interested, that doesn't leave a lot to talk about.

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>>41334037
>Some series like フェアリーテイル・クロニク I've listened to like 10 times by this point. God I wish they would record the rest of the books.
i miss the golden age of kadokawa audiobooks, tate no yuusha and fairy tail chronicle that was my jam
im just glad theyre at least continuing to record death march rn

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>>41351828
>>41352542
Manga discussion works fine.
WN discussion also seems to work.

My guess is that a) drip-feeding content rather than delivering a large chunk every few months makes it easier to spark discussion and b) interesting pictures are good conversation starters.

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>>41352580
>WN discussion also seems to work.
Fair enough, though it's rare too, even on /a/ very few WNs get talked about regularly.
>Manga discussion works fine.
As much as I don't want to just say "doesn't count", does it really? More often than not manga discussion is just reaction posts and "here's how the novel did it and what got skipped", isn't that a bit too shallow?

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>>41352625
Good discussion is born from shallow discussion. If you rule out the thoughtless drivel because it's below your standards, you will probably never reach any loftier heights.
Of course, this is the point where you see a stark difference between a community that is widely open to newcomers and a closed circle.
The former will always be primarily stuck in shallow waters. Conversation can only temporarily escape that, and then you are back sifting through the mud for new gems.
So, in theory, this is an argument for generals, even if I otherwise only ever argue against them.

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>>41352672
>a community that is widely open to newcomers will always be primarily stuck in shallow waters
A good way to sum it up, I see this often on larger forums and social media, but I disagree it's an argument for generals, if they get big enough they stop being closed circles.
This works for now as a closed-ish circle because there's just not that many regulars posting, while the IP count is at 51 the amount of regulars is probably 5-10 at most if we are being really generous.

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>>41350587
>in the words of best girl, 死ぬ気でやるのッ！
The cutest! The strongest! The fastest! Canonically smells nice! And feels soft to hug!
Liz! Liz! Liz!