LN / Light Novel General / ラノベスレ

[Anonymous No.]

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

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

>Additional resources:
https://lnwncentral.wordpress.com/
https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html
>Recommended readers:
Android, Libera https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
PC epub reader: https://calibre-ebook.com/
https://reader.ttsu.app/
>WN to e-book downloader:
https://github.com/whiteleaf7/narou

>Main fan TL dump:
https://nyaa.si/view/1202979
>Official translations:
v19.0: https://nyaa.si/view/1575043
v19.9: https://nyaa.si/view/1666676

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What do you guys think about physical copies of LNs? A lot of people I know say that they are better than reading digitally, but the price of physical copies feels way too high for what you get.

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>>43626731
forget about that: audionovels are the real shit

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I wish Japanese novels also had an equivalent to the "sksks", said Character tradition in English novels, occasionally its actually annoying tracking who is saying what

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>>43626912
Never felt I needed that thanks to the blatantly obvious differences on speech styles.
And actually I find that sort of sksks annoying in western literature, sometimes on really bad cases nearly half the page will be sksks.

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What would you recommend to someone who love Infinite Dendrogram and Log Horizon?
Aka MMO based story

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>>43627493
try Only Sense Online

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>>43627503
I've been reading the manga, it's pretty nice indeed.

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>>43627493
>Destiny Unchain Online
>ShangriLa Frontier
>Only Sense Online
>Free Life Fantasy Online
I'm intentionally avoiding "Isekai'd into a world that resembles or is identical to the game, but it's not the game", because if I don't then I can mention stuff like Moto Sekai Ichi, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.

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>>43626976
Yeah but I feel like often the different speaking styles and yobikata are there partially for that reason

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Has anyone tried Demon's Crest? The cover looks cute

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>>43627616
Thank you Anon very much Anon!

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>>43626845
I feel like a big part of my enjoyment of light novels is time spent enjoying the art, of course there are exceptions such as the monogatari series, but isn't the enjoyment of the art lost when listening to an audiobook instead?

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>>43626731
>the price of physical copies feels way too high
Huh? Paperbacks are under 1000 yen. That's nothing.

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>>43626731
I love physicals. Love holding them, loving turning pages, love looking at a filled up shelf. If you've got disposable income it's not really that bad IMO. Certainly cheaper on average than being a BDfag or collecting VNs. The real issue is storage space. Square footage on a home is a lot more of a cost concern than $5-$10 for a book.

>>43626912
Maybe one day it'll be acceptable to translate all the わs、ふむs, and ッスs directly. Or be formatted like a play script

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>>43629492
Depends on how you obtain copies, as well as location. Someone ordering online from Africa won't pay the exact same price as a Japanese citizen who went to the store to pick up a volume.

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>>43629535
That's just shipping costs. The trick is to simply load up and buy like 10+ volumes at once for efficiency. Also factor in that the yen is at some record lows and you'll be doing pretty good.

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>>43626417
Beautiful elf!

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>>43626731
i’ll only commit to physicals for series that i liked from start to finish. Digital is much better tho. being able to read anywhere, anyway is too big of an edge

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>despair.jpg
W op, had no idea failure frame 11 had a cover pic out!
Since i basically call this thread home now, and fantran dumps are in the op, here are some ebooks i made. currently have kage jitsu, CotE and magie ex volumes i made with gpt
>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/0xov3uihvzgl0/Misc

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>>43630164
>currently have kage jitsu, CotE and magie ex volumes i made with gpt
>made with gpt

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>>43630420
>>43630164
lmfao

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>>43630420
>>43630431
its only magie ex stuff, worded that wrong. the others are fantrans.
take it or leave it

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>>43627493
Wording Destiny Unchain
also Bofuri

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>>43629525
Most TLs don't bother translating speech quirks, feels like they would benefit from just formatting it like a play script from how indistinguishable everyone ends up being.
I think only JNC gives a shit about actually trying to TL speech styles and narration tone for that matter, everyone else is monotone as fuck, that comes with the problem of being really damn cringe, like one character who's just supposed to be kinda dumb got translated like a redneck or something.
Which is really dumb but somehow still a better translation than the average universal deadpan because it's clearly edited MTL.
Then again I'm on that camp of I don't care because I can just read it in jp, I have the luxury of being able to check the TLs for curiosity rather than necessity.

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>>43630906
>like one character who's just supposed to be kinda dumb got translated like a redneck or something.
>every kansai dialect ever
i hate it

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>>43629286
yes, but you can always see the pictures later

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>>43631176
not always, sometimes they get translated as monotone too
which is worse, but still

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>>43631176
what english dialect would you translate it as
and don't say brummie

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>>43632138
japanese

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>>43632138
see>>43632166

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>>43632138
See: >>43632184

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There's a term for it that I forgot, but fictional Japanese speech are really just untranslatable in English most of the time.

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>>43632219
speech quirks*

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>>43632219
English is an hodge podge of other languages anyway, just leave in the romanization as is. if translators are just going to trim the japanese out of work, just stick to western crap then.

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>>43632262
that's fine for fan TLs as a crutch aimed only at JP learners transitioning to japanese but they're not where the money is
what we need to do is make paid translation illegal and subsidize language learning programs for everyone.

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>>43632219
役割語

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>>43632303
Ah yes that's it. Thanks. I knew it was 役 something

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>>43632219
You could do it like the translation for dragon quest 4 on the DS. Literally each town/continent had people speaking all sorts of weird ass dialects of English.

If I'm being honest I didn't understand most of the dialogue in that game because of that, but the same can be said of me for most Japanese dialects aside from some of the common phrases of kansai-ben.

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>>43632318
squeenix does this a lot

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>>43632284
>make paid translation illegal
KEK
>and subsidize language learning programs for everyone
And who do you expect to pay for this? i'm all for encouraging people to learn languages but lets be realistic here.

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>>43632318
even that is not a proper translation because even the heaviest kansai dialect is not fully incomprehensible
speech styles aren't dialects

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I've actually just remembered that the Redwall series had the 役割語 concept but in English. Some of the animals talked funny. I remember struggling to understand some them as a kid.

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>>43632284
Language learning "programs" never teach anything.

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Pfft if it was merely just some dialects this would be easy. You can get away with lazy TLs in an anime or something since they are voiced and can convey the manner of speech, but when in a book there's no such thing. Knowing who does ですわ, ござる, etc. is important.

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>>43632400
>ござる
even for the elevens this is a lazy shortcut to samuraihood, what you need to do in english is really write them like a jane austen novel

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>>43632400
>>43632406
We can at least agree that it's doable in some form right? i'm not in favor giving localization shitters any justification

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>>43632414
recreating something somewhat analogous is doable and it will serve its purpose of getting some kind of point across to monolinguals, but there is never any true substitute for learning another language.

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>>43632427
>but there is never any true substitute for learning another language.
does this really need to be said every time? It's like saying gravity pulls people down.

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>>43632414
here's the thing, i don't disagree with you, but at the same time it's a fool's errand
anyone that cares will just learn japanese, anyone that doesn't care will just consume it without thinking that deeply about it and that's it

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>>43632437
>anyone that cares will just learn japanese
oh no no, there are definitely hordes and hordes of casuals who care enough to bitch about shitpress's latest danmachi or re zero fuckup on twitter, but don't care enough to learn japanese and free themselves from hell

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>>43632431
I don't want this to come off as an insult (even though it is an insult) but you would be surprised how often you point that out to the average EOP, and they are either surprised at your wisdom or deny 1:1 translations are impossible.

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Guys? Ranobe?

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>>43632465
Anon, i think anyone who comes here is well of aware of that at this point, it's a dead horse.
>>43632448
beat me to it.
IMO the goal of any proper translation is to get as close as possible to encourage people to learn the language. not even attampting to do that is why so much translations suck

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>>43632481
tl note: ranobe means light novel

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>>43632481
no
i want to smack his equine corpse a bit more

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So i just started reading cooking with wild game, pretty good so far. hope there's a good balance of action and isekai'd knowledge wank (in the form of cooking)

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>>43632483

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>>43632798
>horse is dead
>i'll just keep on beating it anyway
Try and see the point will ya?

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>>43632856

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>>43632876
>/co/
gross
at least edit a manga panel or something

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>>43632856
Is the point undead equine torture?

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>>43632876
>>43632929
see>>43632431
That wasn't even what the convo was about, but of course some people just cant help themselves.

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>>43632746
Sexo?

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>>43633017
No idea. does anyone know more about the romance in wild game?

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>>43632486
machine tl note: light novel means 光の書

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>>43632347
English fiction before it was lame

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>>43632406
I think the translation of Reign of the Seven Spellblades did a good job of making Nanao sound old-fashioned and distinct in voice without having to be lazy and slap -degozaru on evetrhi.

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Does anyone have the epub version of 賢者の弟子を名乗る賢者? I read the first two volumes and wouldn't mind reading more but it's also too expensive for what it is at ¥1100 a book

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>>43634548
>at ¥1100 a book
what the fuck

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Dendro/TRPG/whatever title that makes anon mad
>>43633039
It's been a while and I haven't actually finished the LN but IIRC it's going on a mono end with the Cave Saber. MC kinda ends up as somewhat of a matchmaker for the side charas through his catering business after the first few volumes.
>>43632746
>Action
Not so much, unless by action you mean MC butchering carcasses left and right.
>Cooking wank
Somewhat yeah, it's one of those series that decides to say isekai ingredients should not be the same as current world ingredients and actually went through with it without going the easy "after a long time (30 minutes!) of studying the ingredients, MC made a Michelin 10 stars mochi out of a hellspawn potato." Fist few dishes being a naan burger and proto stew/curry instead of grorius Nipponese horse sashimi was also quite unexpected, never thought they'll acknowledge game meat (without sufficient preparation) as worse than dogfeed bad, the deer I got last year taste quite decent though.

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>>43634599
ah yes, poor people, that thing that doesn't exist

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Saying he wants to have fa/tg/uy funtimes with her is probably the closest Erich has come to admitting he likes the criminelf.

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>>43634856
those levels of self referencing are dangerous and are close to causing psychic damage

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>>43634672
What's this image from?

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>>43638405
that's mochikaeru
tl note: mochikaeru means toadally awesome

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I read the first volume of Konosuba and then read the first volume of Sword Art Online, and i noticed that SAO is much, much more verbose and repetitive than Konosuba.
I swear Kirito explained that the NerveGear intercepts the the brain's signals to the limbs like 4 times. While Konosuba doesn't do this

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Started reading My Yandere Girlfriend Hiding in the Dungeon Kills Me Over and Over Again (ダンジョンに潜むヤンデレな彼女に俺は何度も殺される)
it fucking hurts man it's my first suffering porn series since I refuse to read Rezero. I just want the mc to be happy. Now I'm asking for more recomendations.

Girl Ranking for those who read it
Sword >= Loli Elf > Vampire >>>>>>> Yandere hero

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>>43639670
>fantasy comedy spends less time narrative handholding expotition than sci-fi game story
Big if true

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>>43639828
Recommendations for what, more suffering?

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>>43639670
that's why konosuba is on this list and sao isn't

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Any recommendations for tablets/e-readers? I read physical copies but I want something that's nice for traveling

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>>43641268
Just get a Kindle or Kobo.
Kindle if you want to get stuck in Amazon's ecosystem, Kobo if you want to get stuck in Rakuten's. If you're going to pirate stuff only then it doesn't matter, they are both nearly the same hardware.
If you want to read manga too then get something bigger from Onyx Boox, but it will also cost much more.

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>>43641306
>If you're going to pirate stuff only then it doesn't matter, they are both nearly the same hardware.
kobo is slightly better than kindle for this since you can just send epubs directly from Calibre instead of needing to wait for AZW conversion

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at the risk of starting another autism spergout, or rather, hoping it does happen
what would you think is the difference between "it has no sex, but it's not the focus so it's fine" and "it has no sex, so it's annoying and shit"
because there's always a last straw that causes that sort of reaction, so what is the line in the sand that gets crossed for it to be one or the other?
and just to be clear, "has sex" i count anything from hyper detailed smut to "and then they fucked" fade to black, because it's less about actually using it for practical purposes and more the purpose of sex or lack of it in the story

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>>43641306
>Amazon's/Rakuten's
nta but which one is better or are they the same?

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>>43641551
Rakuten/Kobo's is much easier to remove DRM from and gives you an epub instead of Kindle proprietary format when you do

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>>43641556
Is there any that doesn't require an account and can just read shit I upload through the phone? Via usb is preferred.

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>>43641526
the line is very simple for me If the mc is not really interested in sex it's all good. But the soonest the mc complains about being a virgin, has ample opportunity to fix that issue, and starts flip-flopping around I get irritated. Only exception is if that character is interested in someone else so it would be reasonable to reject other advances

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>>43641526
basically what >>43641676 said

When MC is surrounded by cute girls who want him but he's too focused on the PLOT/and or helping people and practically doesn't even know what sex is or he's stupidly pure for some reason it's totally fine, no matter how ridiculous it is. As soon as he cares but doesn't fuck it's stupid

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>>43641584
don't think so, they all have an account system. But they all accept sideloading. If you want to upload from your phone you can either use Kobo and USB-OTG to copy the epub file directly with a file manager, or use Kindle and the "email to device" feature since I assume your phone doesn't have a built in MOBI/AZW3 converter

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>>43640120
konosuba is better than sao.
when reading sao, i feel like the author thinks i'm an idiot because he repeats things he already explained a few pages ago

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>>43642561
tbf it is perfectly reasonable to assume that any weeb picked at random is retarded, i know i am

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>>43642561
given your attitude it doesn't feel the author's assumption is wrong

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can somebody recommend some ecchi novels ?

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>>43642660
it might help to specify just how ecchi you want it to be, ecchi can range from mild to basically being the entire focus of a novel. if you are just looking for ecchi in general, I would recommend searching novelupdates

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>>43642660
there's magical explorer which got talked about last thread, but you're not being specific enough to really go out with mentioning stuff, just ecchi is too broad

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>>43642709
>>43642749
The focus being more on the ecchi

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>>43642763
well yeah but "give me softcore porn that may or may not turn to normal porn" is not narrowing down on much
from the top of my head there's, i don't know like himekishi ga classmate, maybe
the porn dungeon master stuff like 2 threads ago which i forgot the names of too, hopefully someone remembers them

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>>43642650
i am not a retard, i know because i got tested, you are the retard

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it's out!

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>>43643307
迷宮国 combined with that guy's outfit makes me curious, could be a really cool setting

[Anonymous No.]

I'm not sure what to read, tell me your 3 favorite LNs

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>>43645096
three is too much to think about so read 信者ゼロの女神サマと始める異世界攻略
it's worth it once you realize how much the author foreshadows things

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>>43645096
ありふれた職業で世界最強
治癒魔法の間違った使い方
異世界はスマートフォンとともに。

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>>43642790
dumb enough to take the retard test but not dumb enough to pass, hello my brother

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>>43641556
i see that really doesnt bother me, but what about prices/promotions? rakuten have their own deals like kindle unlimited?

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>>43645232
>治癒魔法の間違った使い方
literally who's this about, what

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>>43646632
dude uses healing magic to become a physical powerhouse (by training until exhaustion, then healing, rinse and repeat)
it's comedy-focused but has lots of battles and the occasional tear-jerker moment
also a very likeable cast of characters, and it's a completed series

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>>43643307
>That art style.
This is another shinkou LN isn't it.
And after actually takes a closer look at it, yep.
Somehow I keep finding more series from him I didn't have on my radar before, how does he do it?
Is he secretly an isekai'd person using his magic science to enhance his body to write at superhuman rates?

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>>43646789
Never mind, I confused the artist for the author, he's just too ingrained in my mind as "the matty-kun LN illustrator".
Unless it turns out とーわ is just a pen name for shinkou, which would be even more insane and unlikely but funny to think about.

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>>43626417
Ass!

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>>43646740
>by training until exhaustion, then healing, rinse and repeat
this kind of autism always gets me going
i'm in

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>>43640120
wouldn't spaced repetition and redundant explanations be better for beginners?

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>>43647862
no

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>>43647862
eh depends from person to person
assuming you can read japanese just fine you will probably get tripped up by complex terms the first time they come up, look up the kanji (assuming it doesn't have kool furigana and just use that) realize what it means, and continue reading
the next time the term comes up you will just get it and not even slow down over it
from what i remember konosuba doesn't have any complex terminology of any kind, and while like 50% of volume 1 is just a glorified infodump spaced out with jokes, it's not hard to read at all

[Anonymous No.]

pretty dead

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it's silent reading time rn

[Anonymous No.]

What is with cotc and weird surnames?

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>>43650683
>cotc
I mean cote

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Anyone read 目覚めたら最強装備と宇宙船持ちだったので、一戸建て目指して傭兵として自由に生きたい?

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>>43651832
it's in my backlog

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>>43651832
amazon reviews call it standard naroukei done well, one compared it to Outlaw Star, and the only 1 star review complains about the author's morality. sounds promising if you ask me especially if you want the classic naroukei 展開 but in SPACE

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>>43652835
>naroukei
That says basically nothing these days.

[Anonymous No.]

Very kakuyomuesque

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as for me
it's lulu

[Anonymous No.]

Where do you guys go to see how many copies an LN has sold so far

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>>43657123
Muffin Town

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>>43655051
himecut a cute

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>getting a ladyboner in church
daughter, I am disappoint

[Anonymous No.]

I still really like light novels

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loli fears the bird

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>>43662962
yjk

[Anonymous No.]

bought some new light novels

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>>43663086
which ones

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>>43663218
the newest smartphone, fushisha no deshi, maigo ni natteita youjo, shinja zero no megami and pic related

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anyone know where i can find epubs for 脱法テイマーの成り上がり冒険譚 ～Sランク美少女冒険者が俺の獣魔になっテイマす～ |

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>>43663266

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>>43663266
nice

[Anonymous No.]

Bought all 29 volumes of Horizon and they came in pretty much perfect condition.
God bless CDJapan and their handling/packaging

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>>43664663
How long will it take for you to finish all 29?

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>>43657944
what's this from?

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>>43664712
No idea. Given my work schedule and propensity to read a hundred things at the same time it could take a year

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>>43664754
Pretty good. I'd give myself like 2+ years on a series that long since I'm a slowpoke.

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>>43664831
I am too, it's just that since I'm self employed and without other obligations every once in a while I get a weekday or two where I can read for 7 hours straight

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>>43664717
trpg volume 6 bonus

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>>43663266
>Slime girl.
Well that's a first.

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>>43668340
*blocks your path*

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new kuma kuma kuma bear chapter is out boys!

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>>43671944
Impregnating yuna

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>>43669278
Have this in my backlogue, is it good?

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>>43672115
yes, it's the best take on monster girls i've seen
you'll have to read the ending in the wn though, because volume 17 which was supposed to be the finale never *actually* came out, even though it has a release date (in 2021) and is still listed in many online stores
amazon jp also shows the series as having 17 volumes but only 16 are listed
it's pretty strange

[Anonymous No.]

I appreciate that the 七つの魔剣が支配する author uses imperial units in his descriptions. Sure I know it's because it takes place in England, but it helps my burgerbrain visualize units of distance better.

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>>43672810
that's enough of a negative to knock a whole point off a review

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>>43672810
Agreed. it's the little things like this really sell the 'not harry potter" vibe.

[Anonymous No.]

wow arifureta is fun

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>>43672916
It is right?
Could not be as good as mushoku tensei or overlord but honestly I enjoyed it more than both

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>>43672916
it's a great ride

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>>43671944
oh yes can't wait to read about what inane garbage yuna is up to today

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>>43672993
>MT
>Good.
Lol.
At least Overlord was good, past tense.

[Anonymous No.]

just started Oreaku/evil lord, really starting to realize this author really writes shit that i enjoy and the whole "off his med's" narrative is overblown. hope Sevens is up my alley too

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>>43673062
You're not on isek/a/i, act like it. No need to bait a shitstorm over a difference in opinion

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>>43673087
>and the whole "off his med's" narrative is overblown
it really isn't, he just drops the other shoe deep into the story
>hope Sevens is up my alley too
if you didn't outright hate evil lord and otome mob, you probably will
that said, that one is the one that started the "off his meds" meme

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>>43673111
idk, the alzer arc in otome mob is just bloated and poorly structed, that's a far cry from the narrative that it just jumps the shark and imo mobuseka slowly improved afterwords. The marie spinoff however....
So far i've yet to here similar thoughts about evil lord, care to enlighten me on that end?

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>>43673139
evil lord hasn't had an "off his meds" moment beyond the minced meat woman thing, like sure it's fucked up but it's not "oh fuck why would you write this" because it's not really a paradigm shift for the story

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>>43671944
>chapter 737

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>>43672115
pretty decent. the author clearly has a fetish, but it doesn't get in the way of it telling a story

>>43673087
>hope Sevens is up my alley too
I liked mob more but it's still good

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I don't care that quite literally nobody asked.
I want to FUCK Angie.

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>>43674717
>>43673139
i'm just a sucker for villainess turned love interest types. keep her sidelined in the second arc was the biggest mistake for me.

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>>43675192
I generally don't like villainess stories, but I like the ones where the protagonist is someone else trying to prevent the villainess from becoming the villainess in spite of their character flaws

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>>43674717
Is this harder to appreciate if you haven't played any otomege?

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>>43675260
Not at all honestly. otome mob's game is an otome if it were made by mecha shonen battle junkies with a sadist fetish...

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>>43675251
That's what makes Angie work for me, she's less a villainess and more a victim of cruel circumstance that could fall down that path without anyone to support her.

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>>43675260
no, it just uses the standard setting for otome games which is the protagonist, who is usually a commoner or lower tier noble, going to a private high school for nobles in a generically 18th/19th century european setting, except there's also magic. then a bunch of nobles fall for her and the villainess is usually one of their fiances. the genre as a whole borrows heavily from the dating sim Angelique so all you have to know is they're poorly copying the prototypical setting and adding mecha scifi shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675341
>the genre as a whole borrows heavily from the dating sim Angelique so all you have to know is they're poorly copying the prototypical setting and adding mecha scifi shit
I think that's what makes it work, despite the name it's functionally a dating sim setup for males (like what magical explorer is trying to do) with the genders swapped.
It claims to be something the reader likely doesn't know, but that's not the case, and it works because it's character driven more than setting drama really.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675341
>>43675362
funny because that's the case in-universe too
like the game itself is supposed to be this uber-hard nonsense so the devs could shove micro-transactions everywhere to make it easy
but what is baffling is that it got incredibly popular to the point of having big name VAs and production values and i just imagine it being, in-universe, advertised as the dark souls of dating sims and i giggle like an idiot every time
it's great, it's a wild ride, i recommend it
fair warning it will have some "why doesn't the MC just sex already" so that will be off-putting to some, but i think it works with leon because he's spineless but trying to look like a tough guy, because he's kinda an ass

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675362
I feel like the MC's for these two series would be buds

[Anonymous No.]

Are there any battle royale type LNs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675389
there's quite the parallels, like nanami being very similar to luxion and the MC just kind of taking the banter
you may think an extroverted shonen protagonist and a shrewd asshole would be polar opposites but that's probably a best bud friendship archetype as old as time

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675498
...does hakomari count?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675556
No (because I've already read it)

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675498
If you don't narrow it to "hunger games BUT..." and FS/N counts, then komarin or ひきこまり吸血姫の悶々 also counts, maybe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43675632
FS/N does count, and it's more or less what I had in mind (particularly with the human + entity with powers pairing)

[Anonymous No.]

>>43674717
agreed. she deserves the ultimate happiness.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm reading ダンジョンに潜むヤンデレな彼女に俺は何度も殺される
It's kinda shit?
It feels like a really badly written mashup between arifureta and re-zero, with some random ass yandere elements, except the MC is just a completely blank slate that seems to feel nothing, and the power/game system is... basically not explained whatsoever.
Am I being too hasty in my judgement?

[Anonymous No.]

if you could swap places with an ln protag, who would you pick?
for me it would be touya from smartphone, he's truly living the perfect life

[Anonymous No.]

Finished COTE Y2V4. What a boring conclusion for a special exam that span for 3 volumes. Please tell me if the next volume will be more interesting or not. I'm considering dropping this LN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679224
Did you pick this up because someone mentioned it here earlier?
The likelihood is that's me. Currently on chapter 99 going to go to 136 tomorrow
It's a fair assessment of the story and the game elements are just treated as part of the world the only reason the mc is not used to them is his upbringing being a shitty farmer. But the game system does get explored later on.
The mc doesn't have much agency and his motivation at the start is survival and revenge. But he does reach a point where he moves on from it and starts developing more human traits. And I think he feels more blank due to him not having anyone to bounce off of until later.

The only reason why I stuck on so long is that I enjoy the timeloop autism with actions having a permanent effect. Depending on where you are likelihood the first path lockout maybe the second you are completely reasonable it thinking its complete shit.

If you want here is 2 event spoilers to convince you to keep going
He gets out before chapter 60
there is a time travel plot line

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679655
its fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679619
yuna from coomer coomer coomer bear

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679655
4.5 is a transition volume for v5, the latter of which has shit going down to a polarizing extent

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679715
The seethe from 5 is amazing. Actually had me fucking pissed hours after reading.
and you just reminded me we have 9.5 next even tho y2v8 felt more like a .6 volume

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679764
It was amazing in hidsight, honestly worth my salt in the grand scheme of things. Friendly reminder that kanzaki's classmates are retards

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679764
What's her endgame?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679819
To become best girl no matter what it cost

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679819
NTR

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679619
Cid, but I'd actually realize that all the girls want to fuck me and take full advantage of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43680033
>Cid, but I'd actually realize that all the girls want to fuck me and take full advantage of it.
How does having sex help with being a shadow broker :^)

[Anonymous No.]

>>43680055
How do they do it? English TLs these days make me internally and externally cringe from how bad they are.
>Dark Knight.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679619
trpg player
but max out on the sex skill stat and show that elf her place

[Anonymous No.]

Man, I wish someone would start uploading stuff from J-novel club again. Even big series might not get torrents for over a week nowadays. Only 10 out of 28 released! I need nyaa to open registrations!!!

[Anonymous No.]

yikes

[Anonymous No.]

i feel fucking old not knowing filenames could have emoji

[Anonymous No.]

>>43681081
it's just unicode

[Anonymous No.]

>>43681029
>JNC managed to grab infinite gacha.
That's news to me, but based ones.
It's probably the best "dab on smug fuckers that deserve it" story I have read.
>Dorkness too.
Even more based.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679619
Thought about Hajime but that'd be too much effort to get to the good parts. So probably Satou.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43642660
Takeuchi Ken's cinematic haremverse

[Anonymous No.]

>>43645983
Rakuten has a thing like kindle unlimited for magazines but I dunno about novels
They do have sales and promotions and whatnot

[Anonymous No.]

>>43681029
Nyaa's invite only now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43681029
If it helps somebody has been uploading prepublication compilations to nyaa though those aren't ideal

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679619
Call it autism but I have toyed with the idea of "same setting rules, similar situation, different characters" like it's another seed generated on a roguelike, or the multiversal tree of life if you want to call it that, because I don't like the idea of interfering with the story even if I like some of the female characters.
Almost like at best, an alternate timeline where the original MC isn't there but I am, plus whichever changes end up happening.
And for that I think matty-kun's setting would be the best because it's ripe for amazing magic autism researching and experimenting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679950
Fuck. I just started reading it and like his interactions with horikita :(

[Anonymous No.]

>>43682083
i always wondered if there's autismos so far gone they are isekai preppers like cid or at least close

[Anonymous No.]

>>43683165
cid wasn't an isekai prepper he had the totally sane belief he was gonna use his skills in the real world
and he did

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679681
I'm at chapter 35, which I'm guessing is after the first route lock out.
I'm also guessing that the parasite becomes a human woman, and then there's a huge dejavu and that also gets shut down and that's route 2 lock out?
Oh well I'll probably keep reading it a bit longer.

[Anonymous No.]

Tell me about good novels with bad/no adaptations

[Anonymous No.]

>>43684453
Dendro has no anime adaptation.
Haha...

[Anonymous No.]

Are manga adapted from LNs ever good?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43684588
Maybe? I liked monogatari's manga. Shangrila's is good too though it's adapted from wn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43684588
めっちゃ召喚された件 has a manga with amazing art
but if you mean that it doesn't cut anything, don't think so, by their nature an adaptation will skim the plot, especially if they are monthly manga

[Anonymous No.]

alright after a hiatus gonna try to blast through as much of himemikosama's book as possible today. just gotta get the popcorn ready.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43684588
紫色のクオリア has a good manga.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43681590
The registrations have been closed for probably a year. I don't think they even have an invite system at the moment.

[Anonymous No.]

How much time do you guys spend reading light novels every day? I have been reading more lately and feel like the ~2hrs a day I spend is a lot, but I was thinking that I probably don't read too much compared to others.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686198
What's the registration for though? Seems like I can still access the site without it. Unless they're hiding loli/shota stuff

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686787
So you can upload as a user instead of just anonymously.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686787
>>43686878
You can't upload at all without an account.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43687056
You sure? I mean I haven't uploaded anything in literally years, but this screen is still there.
https://nyaa.si/upload

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686692
Generally none, except for the latest WN updates. I just cannot stop binging when I read fiction so when I do read, it's every waking hour. Benefit of being a pseudo-neet

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686878
>>43687056
Cool, thanks

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686692
around 2 hours as well
though when i didn't have a job i frequently spend 5-6 hours reading light novels

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686692
I recently am off from work because of school about 5+ hours pretty much my replacement for youtube videos now and I went down the Wn rabbit hole so yeah and 3+
and when I am working I download LN audio books (even if it is just TTS) to make the shift pass by fast so about 8 hours then.

i should of stuck to LNs. WNs are an entirely new problem now

[Anonymous No.]

>>43686692
It kind of depends. Sometimes I'm not actively reading any LN (might be too busy with a VN or something) but not counting that I usually put in maybe 2-4 hours a day. Most of the time I try to read one chapter or so which varies in length depending on the series of course but usually they're in the 50-100 page range.

[Anonymous No.]

i feel unacceptably slow. it probably takes me ~40 hours to get through an average volume.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43691372
keep reading often and you'll take much shorter than 40 hours fast

[Anonymous No.]

A question about CotE. Did they ever mention what was ayanokouji's backup plan he mentioned in the case someone saw through double switching karuizawa's phone? From vol 4

[Anonymous No.]

Volume 2 ended with a silly boss fight with literally like 5 'but he's not actually dead' moments where he took a swing at the heroes as they wer3 prematurely celebrating. Burning, bisection, quartering, throwing animorphic elementals at him, and then in the epilogue you find out he somehow survived lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>43691967
Every fight in the series follow the same template so you will have your fill of that soon

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679715
>>43679764
You guys aint lying, volume 5 is certainly crazy in good way. No stupid fistfight anymore, just good ol'battle of wits. wtf is Horikita thinking lmao
Also, has anyone got the epub for Vol 6+? Can't find it in the usual place. Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.]

bros i'm so sick of isekaislop but whenever a new one pops up I end up reading a bit of before dropping it. it's like junk food, i'm addicted.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692178
NTA but the formula changes enough every volume to not feel that stale so that was enough for me.
I just like that sort of thing I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43640120
kuma kuma bear fucking sucks ass. It's like the writer was aiming for literal children but got cajoled into writing for the LN market instead by some shady publisher. Amateur, childish writing, wouldn't surprise me if his literal child ghostwrote it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692285
based
love isekai

>>43692308
based
love children

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692308
Hope his child is a cute girl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692308
but there is rape and drugs mentioned

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692400
hope even more that his cute daughter wrote it

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692400
in the WN maybe, that shit gets scrubbed in the LN releases. can't have sex, violence, or drugs in our mass market appeal teen books.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692178
>>43692306
Well I'll drop it if I get sick of it but I'm enjoying it for now so I'll keep reading.
>>43692603
Even mere mentions?

[Anonymous No.]

>かつて何百何千と測定器を握ってきたことはあるが、同年代の平均 を聞かされたことはない。ひたすら自己記録しか取り続けていなかっ たからな
I am on vol 5 of youjitsu but is ayanokouji a genetically engineered human or what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43694448
>genetically engineered
nope he is the son of hooker/prostitute

[Anonymous No.]

>>43694489
Interesting. Then why did he say that he used measuring equipment thousands of times? I don't mind the spoilers

[Anonymous No.]

>>43694751
It ruins the fun but sure. Spoilers for V0 and late y1 and y2.
He was raised in a facility that attempted to create geniuses. The curriculum had taken both physical and Knowledge-based aspects so he is well trained and is used to measurement equipment since the project was led by researchers. He himself isn't very special from a genetic standpoint

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695004
Thanks. I heard that vol 0 is hard to find but are the scans out somewhere?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695051
i really couldn't find it either I just got desperate enough and just read the mtl's

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692603
it's in the ln too though
there are no graphic descriptions of course but it mentions how bandits have raped wives after killing their children and husbands for instance

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695051
https://files.catbox.moe/t0dwye.zip
It was posted here a while ago

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695488
....seems like I actually downloaded it before but deleted it thinking that I wouldn't be reading youjitsu. Anyway, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695004
Btw anon, did they touch this
>>43691482 ever again the later vols?

[Anonymous No.]

do you guys buy most of your LNs as epubs, or are you good enough to just read the scans anyway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695602
I prefer reading as epub or physical because it's less tiring for the eyes, it's not like ln are hard to read anyway

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695602
>buy
Lol. Lmao. But yeah, mostly epubs. Even when I buy I rip and store them as epubs. Used to completely depend on scans before I found out sources for epubs though

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695649
>sources for epubs
are there ones other than what's in the pastebin?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692264
Depends, are you looking for raws specifically? all i have are fantrans
>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/0xov3uihvzgl0/Misc

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695872
only interested in japanese, personally

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695906
Understandable. someone here should know, try using the link in the OP

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695906
based

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695602
i used to read scans but i'm not a poorfag anymore so if i can't find an epub pirated i'll just buy it
alternatively physical, but it just gets a little too expensive with shipping for my taste so i kinda stopped doing that

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695906
I have them but I am not at my pc right now. Will try uploading tomorrow

[Anonymous No.]

>>43696013
My man

[Anonymous No.]

love isekai trash
love power fantasies
hate drama and tragedy

[Anonymous No.]

>>43692285
>>43696706
what even is the point of this ironic weeb attitude?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43696907
people like what they like no need for irony about it.

[Anonymous No.]

Just completed youjitsu vol 5. I now understand why it's ranked so high in every konorano. It just got everything in perfect portions: cute girls, drama, power fantasy, brain games. And high school politics that has something or other that everyone probably experienced themselves, though less dramatically.
Tangentially, are there any good youjitsu doujins?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43697099
There's just no other series that scratches the same itch CotE provides, even though year 2 volume 1 through 4.5 was a bit of a low point.
>doujins
I wish

[Anonymous No.]

>>43696706
same and not ironically
i read lns to feel good not to start crying

[Anonymous No.]

Really love it when romances novels have alternate POV sections where the FeMC dotes on the MC.

[Anonymous No.]

Reading 永遠の戦士.
A machine weapon terminator fighting a war against aliens gets isekaied.
It's honestly fucking hilarious sometimes.
The protagonist isn't even human, so he has basically no morals and is a complete sociopath, and every sad sop who gets in his way meets some gruesome end.
This escalates to larger scales as he grows his forces and you can see his allies becoming more and more unhinged.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43695906
>>43696013
here anon. 2nd year 6,7,8 and 9
https://files.catbox.moe/7u41ws.7z

[Anonymous No.]

>>43696706
agreed

[Anonymous No.]

>>43700086
Thanks mate

[Anonymous No.]

Does anybody have epubs for 軍オタが魔法世界に転生したら、現代兵器で軍隊ハーレムを作っちゃいました ?

[Anonymous No.]

Is tokimeki memorial the start of 伝説の木の下 meme or is it from something older?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43696706
what I don't understand is power fantasies with ntr

[Anonymous No.]

Seeing so many series I didn't know before really makes me feel like a newfag, and that's despite years of lurking /a/ as a whole not just the isekai general.
Meanwhile I'm seeing new stuff here almost daily.

[Anonymous No.]

Does anyone happen to have epubs for 宝くじで40億当たったんだけど異世界に移住する past vol 6? Surprisingly decent for something I picked up based on a dice roll

[Anonymous No.]

>>43696706
Based shit eater

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone got any manga like 兄と妹のしたいしたいしたいコト?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43708250
Wrong thread whoops

[Anonymous No.]

>>43626417
Does anyone know a good alternative OCR to Manga OCR? It's good, but it always fucks up リ for り

[Anonymous No.]

>>43626417
read the GAIJIN WN, anons. fully translated and most epik.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43709344
I use this https://tatsumoto-ren.github.io/blog/mining-from-manga.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>43710784
kys spammer

[Anonymous No.]

>youjitsu vol 7.5 and 8
Kei's stockholm syndrome is cute.

[Anonymous No.]

>ほぼ完全書き下ろしになった都合で手が足りていないのと、Web版と並列して書いていると「……あれ?　これ書籍版の設定?　Web版の設定?」と自分の頭が縺れてエラいことになってですね。
kek

[Anonymous No.]

>>43679619
nagi from 異世界でスキルを解体したらチートな嫁が増殖しました

[Anonymous No.]

>>43643307
Finished the new volume and now I'm in the mood to re-listen to everything up until this point, it's been a while.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43712961
what's this from?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43720442
NTA, but it's from schuld's twitter about not updating the wn chapters recently. It's the trpg author

[Anonymous No.]

>>43643307
>>43718178
Mask girl is cute.
While giving as few spoilers as possible, is she a main heroine or does she get decent screentime?

[Anonymous No.]

Who are the guys in the silhoutte on youjitsu covers? I think it's chabashira, ichinose, horikita, ayanokouji, kushida, sudou and ryuuen from left to right. But that makes the lineup somewhat unorganized so if there's an official answer please tell me

[Anonymous No.]

>>43722449
She gets a lot of screentime.

[Anonymous No.]

anyone got the jnc epub for sponger life volume12?

[Anonymous No.]

>>43725659
>EN TL
it isn't on the usual sites? basically everything gets uploaded

[Anonymous No.]

>>43727133
Only sites i know are jnovels and justlight, neither have it and it came out 4 days ago

[Anonymous No.]

I want all my favorite LNs to get anime adaptations so they can then get merch and I can get figures or acrylic stands or pins or literally anything to spice up my bookshelf because man, bunko spines are so boring

[Anonymous No.]

>>43725659
You can get the completed pre-pub epub on nyaa, but it's not the proper release epub.

>>43727133
>basically everything gets uploaded
Not anymore, the people that used to do JNC stopped.

[Anonymous No.]

Completed youjitsu vol 11. The ending left a bad aftertaste, I would have liked it to be a bit more positive being the end of first year and all. But the final lines and the insert with protag and arisu was nice.

[Anonymous No.]

Are the japanese LNs for 信者ゼロの女神サマと始める異世界攻略 uploaded anywhere? I can only find the manga or the english translation

[Anonymous No.]

>>43728499
i bought them physically

[Anonymous No.]

>>43728470
You can't win them all.
Warning the beginning of y2 is slow

[Anonymous No.]

>>43728499
at least up to volume 3 are up on dlraw but yeah it's lacking updates

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone know where I can get 監禁王 epub？ not on zlib

[Anonymous No.]

>>43728690
I don't mind even if it gets slow. Would even welcome the slowness if it comes from SoL. Those parts are what I find most entertaining in youjitsu, but unfortunately they lack in quantity. Other than that, I hope there's at least one absolute victory soon that would wash off this aftertaste

[Anonymous No.]

>>43728690
>>43728883
Started 2nd year. The new app and the first special test are already fucking nasty

[Anonymous No.]

Thread?

[Anonymous No.]

On 七つの魔剣が支配する volume 6 and I like how Enrico built a copy golem of himself to take over in case he died. That's real dedication to your job.

[Anonymous No.]

>>43732530

>>43734556