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.>Where to read WNs:https://syosetu.com/https://kakuyomu.jp/https://noc.syosetu.com/https://mnlt.syosetu.com/https://mid.syosetu.com/>Light Novel databases:https://kimirano.jphttps://bookmeter.com>Where to buy:https://www.amazon.co.jp/https://www.amazon.com/https://bookwalker.jp/https://books.rakuten.co.jphttps://www.kobo.comhttps://j-novel.club/>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>Reliable OCR:https://github.com/blueaxis/Poricom>Main fan TL dump:https://lnwncentral.wordpress.com/https://nyaa.si/view/1202979>Official translations:v22.02: https://nyaa.si/view/1968259>Raw dumps:https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=0_0&q=TMWhttps://nyaa.si/view/799168https://nyaa.si/view/1350523https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.htmlhttps://lolibrary.moe/https://annas-archive.org/Previous: >>49601693
Funny timing with those posts about Dendro WN's slow pace. The new part just dropped and the next one is coming tomorrow.I did feel that Kaido was rather casual about Marie's ninja village moving to Gideon all the way from Tenchi, but I just assumed it was because ninjas are fast and covert. I sure as hell didn't expect them to have access to some wormhole somehow related to fucking Am.
Was about to complain about something that I can't remember anyway but the thread was dead so I'm going to complain about something else; I hate how japs can't write adult characters.The main character may be an adult or an adult in a child's body but they still act like a twelve year old. That makes no sense to me. Or well, since we're talking about light novels I guess that's the target age group but still, if you're writing about an adult how about making them act like one. Jesus christ.
does anyone have an epub of tprg vol 10?
Found scans of Psyche and 死体泥棒 by Karabe Yousuke/Setoguchi Ren'ya over on Anna's Archive. I remember a few people asking for them on these threads, so I uploaded them to Catbox in case they never saw.https://files.catbox.moe/zkbwnc.rar
>>49863550second, Mika is best girl and she's on the cover, gimme
>>49863075So true man. Here, have your good boy points.
>>49862766It's doubly ironic since it's a recap chapter.
Can someone with KU get 引き籠もりヒーロー4?https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/product/B0F36DP9DGThanks to whoever shared the first three volumes in the last thread.
>>49864144Oh I didn't know scans even existed. Thanks.
It's pretty nice when you're expecting the twist to come at the end of the book but the actual twist is not in all in line with you're thinking the twist would be.
Still looking for 夏に溺れるhttps://www.amazon.co.jp/夏に溺れる-ガガガ文庫-青葉-寄/dp/4094532048It’s prize winning or something, looks really interesting
reminder.se if this domain is dead
Does the TMW part 11 and maybe even part 12 megas exist somewhere at this point in time?I've been buying way too many books lately and would rather avoid joining the discord
>>49883557Only 11 as of the current day we live in https://mega.nz/folder/RZpXDRDZ#7Gdxi_i3_JLsjm1s0SMnjg
>>49883557Try reading them.
Anyone got the Goetia Shock links from last thread? Seems like one got cold storaged.
This is the only LN author that I have ever read
>>49884945This looks cute
Any LN similar to goblin slayer?I’m not talking about gore but something similar to the character interaction and realism of the world
>>49885569>character interaction>realism of the worldlel. Anyway, you can dip into any of the jap trpg replays if you want something with similar vibes if you are not an eop. Also there's schuld's trpg (an original, not a replay).
What are some incelkino LNs?
>>49886658盾の勇者の成り上がり回復術士のやり直し
Any good Sengoku era LN?
>>49885813Recommendations? Also would appreciate youtube playthroughs with LN level feels.
Just finished the latest 七つの魔剣 and god that was a bloody volume like I thought it was going to be. I guess next volume will go to their 6th year. How is Oliver supposed to get his revenge when the writer keeps widening the skill gap between him and the teachers. They literally show up and casually kill god in front him. That was brutal. I love this series so much by the way. Every book has been amazing since like volume 9 and the streak keeps going.
does anyone have epub 14,15 of this series? 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
Hi, does anyone know if you can remove the DRM from a Bookwalker EPUB? I've tried everything, but Bookwalker has more security than a bank. XD
>>49863075I hate seeing 10 year olds acting like 25 year olds. I get that the MC has his old memories and all that but having the surrounding kids also act like einsteins is just stupid. Childhood arcs should last a volume at most
>>49895085Yes, you can
>>49895426 Do you know how to remove it?
>>49883537Could you explain your post, young man?
>>49895085You can, but as far as I know, there's gatekeeping around the method (for obvious reasons).
Speaking on drmDoes anyone know how to rip epubs from fanza?https://book.dmm.co.jp/product/6100693/s741asnxe00001/I have some artbooks and novels
>>49896504I was doing some research and you need two things: Calibre, which allows you to read the book on your PC, and the DeDRM_tools plugin, which removes the DRM. You need to download both: first, open Calibre, and second, add the book to your library. DRM removal is done when you import the files, so if you already have DRM-enabled books in Calibre, you'll need to remove them and re-import them. You can find the latest version of the plugin on Github. Good luck, Anom! If it works for you, could you share the EPUBs? XD I'd really appreciate it, if it doesn't work, please write, and I'll keep looking into other ways, I also have the same problem but with Bookwalker.
coming soonあそびのかんけい 2
>>49858107>Yep, but keep in mind just like the anime, nothing fucking happens at allfine by me, I just need to read for jp gains
Anyone pick this up and liked it?
As a senki enthusiast who hates Naisei this was probably one of the best if not the best pure naisei stories from what I've read thus far in the WN, like there are many reincarnated into a king stories but I haven't really read one as down to earth and grounded as this one. Its very monotone, no fights, no big flashy events but goes in extreme details with court intrigues and works.https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7229je/No wonder the LN is selling well despite just coming out. Would recommend.
No literary circle.No friends to read and create stuff with.No mix and mesh of artists and writers having a blast together.No group of people who'll comment on your work.No place for people to congregate and take it easy.Meanwhile Japanese authors are all drinking buddies, meetup IRL in their little shops to discuss absolute nonsense, laugh, take things easy. All creators. All beloved. The path of an author is perfectly accessible to them. Everyone uplifts one another. Everyone's taking it easy. The camaraderie and brotherhood is there.It's the same in Chinese spaces elsewhere, surely likewise in Korea.Why can't gaijin do the same?What makes you so different?What happened to the west?Tolkien had his own friends and stuff once. A whole 'order' too.
>>49901202Let's be realistic here. How many people within a 100 mile radius of me also read LNs in Japanese?
I hear it's actually decent?
>>49901218This. There is the internet but without a strong core we know what happens to gaijin groups.>>49901202Grind now, the culture around creation will form as a result later. Gaijin creators are satisfied with mediocrity so their groups devolve into mental health support clubs instead of anything substantial.If you are not building your skills like those LN authors and artists you have no right to be making this post.
>>49901202Most people with a brain tend to learn japanese then instantly fuck off from westoidese communities.
>>49883537Will keep it on another tab at least, given the biweekly updates poster seems to have moved over.
>>49900460Already on my to-read list after seeing carlo zen shilling it super hard
>>49901484It's great, especially if you like the ww1 german planning autism
>>49895817Gatekeeping it obviously. But you can get on that moe discord to get other guys rip them for you
I know it's not a Japanese novel but don't know where else to ask for recommendations.Legendary Mechanic is the only web novel I've ever read that I considered perfect, there wasn't a single boring moment or filler chapter, ther wasn't a single "that part" in the entire story for me and the best part about it was that the actually best girl won.Any recommendations for anything close to LM? Player reincarnated in the game world as an NPC, uses knowledge of the game to become OP is powerful and intelligent, translated or not.
>>49904788There is a web novel thread on lit, retard.
anyone else is joining this? a few anons from the isekai /a/ thread got accepted
Isekai novel written by /a/?How much rape is going to be in?
>>49908985no I can’t write, although it would be funny if anon’s slop gets adapted one day
Considering reading 空の境界 but I'm being indecisive because when I went and read 月姫 I ended up not liking it as much as I expected I would. Felt really sophomore. I liked the anime of course, great films, but I'm wavering. Would anyone vouch for them? I suppose if I run out of other things to read (unlikely) I will eventually get to it anyways, but if people think it's really good then maybe I should bump it up in priority.
>>49909431It's going to be nothing but shounen fights, lolis, rape, and all the illustrations being panty shots lol
>>49910304Assuming you read the original Tsukihime, the version of 空の境界 that you will most likely read (the 2007 one) has better writing on a technical level since Nasu significantly improved by then. I don't know if that will help you much though because I love Tsukihime (remake and original) as well as 空の境界. Well honestly, I just love all the old-school 伝奇 Type-Moon works.
>>49910370You assumed correctly. I enjoyed the ideas, but not the execution I suppose. If the 2007 version is more technically competent then hopefully that will deal with the issue I had. Though if you're a fan of 伝奇 then please recommend more. I liked Another quite a bit, and Boogiepop. I think both of those count.
>>49910411I could use 伝奇 recommendations myself. I don't think I've read much from the genre.
>>49910411>>49910467悪魔のミカタMissing, or anything else from 甲田 学人, really絶対ナル孤独者, this is basically fanfic of Boogiepop獄門撫子此処ニ在リ帝都物語
>>49909431Can we get a slow life Isekai with some MC who isn't harem bait, who doesn't have to dodge pussy like a ninja, and who is intelligent enough to make a story interesting?
>>49912685dunno, go ask the eceleb that gave you that opinion to give you recs
>>49912741He didn't give any opinion, lmao
>>49912836>He
>>49910370Wait the Kodansha KnK and the original doujin publication have text differences? I always assumed they were the exact same, do you know what was changed?
>>49912423>甲田 学人I caught up with ほうかごがかり so far and that series is great. I think that probably counts more as horror though than 伝奇 but I was never sure on these genre things.
>>49912990The web novel is different, yes. Hell, I think the 2004 release of 空の境界 might have some text differences from the 2007 version too. This is going by some interview from Nasu I read some longass time ago where he talked about how he only liked the newer version and wished he could make the older release disappear or something like that. I don't know the specifics of what was changed. I never heard that it was anything plot/character related or anything like that, so I just assumed it was technical writing-related changes.
Do people get the whole TMW torrent or just what they need?
It been a while that the TMW has been updated
anybody got the ゴエティア・ショック stuff shared last thread? not availabe anymore
>>49915632https://z-lib.fm/author/%E8%AA%AD%E5%9B%B3%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%BA
>>49912423>絶対ナル孤独者The 川原礫 one? Really?
>>49916487I just listed all 伝奇 I have read, if you have a prejudice for the author just don't read this one.
>>49916184Thanks anon, anyone got the newest volume that was shared last thread
>>49918132nvm found it on link provided, many thanks again
>>49917179I suppose my actual remark was more about how I didn't think of it as being in the genre.
>this place is so dead that the chinkbugs are starting to invade the corpsegrim
>>49916184I'm surprised they actually let her get assfucked this early.
>>49917179>if you have a prejudice for the authorWhy would you have one? Are we on r*ddit?
Can LN medium ever be better than VN medium?
Are characters generally speaking stupid or am I stupid because I get mad at their stupidity? Yeah as a reader I usually know more than the character but it still feels like most characters have room temperature iqs and 99% of their problems could be solved by having a normal train of thought
well, since this thread is going to close, it doesn't hurt to ask once again, does anyone have or has gotten the FANZA version of 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~? I would really appreciate it if anom shared it.
>>49928285Maybe just read better books? I don't have this problem.
>>49928285You're what people call an NPC programmed to think they're smart. Hence the appeal to "normal" and the shallow concept of iq instead of literary value.
Is the yenpress or whatever of KonoSuba any good?
I've had 魔王と勇者の戦いの裏で for the longest time on my plan to read list and it was nice to see that the latest TMW had the first two volumes of it but boy was I disappointed when I actually got to reading it. I absolutely hate stories where the author keeps explaining things that no one cares about.The last time I was this disappointed was when I tried reading TRPG
>>49901484>>49902542Sold.
Oh I thought this ended with volume 9 and now there's volume 10 coming out in October. If I recall correctly the author did hint something like this in the after word but I figured it'd be a new series or something like that. Anyways I'm happy, one of my favourite series
>>49936761It's honestly minor, but I wish the series didn't include the LitRPG statblock inserts.
>>49937527I think the way the author used them during the assassins guild part was pretty clever
>>49912423Crazy how right after an anon brings up 悪魔のミカタ, Hisamitsu publishes his first work in over a decade.https://dengekibunko.jp/novecomi/novel/16818792439446812464/
I have no other place to complain or seek for help but are there any kobo (clara) users here? I have this weird problem where 8/10 times I can't get it to connect to my PC and have to wait for it to reboot itself and try again. Shit's annoying.
>>49938420That's nice. I'll check it out.
Does anyone have volume 6 parts 1 and 2 of 魔女と傭兵? Here's volumes 4 and 5volume 4https://files.catbox.moe/eqesqt.epubvolume 5https://files.catbox.moe/flxd00.epub
>>49934088I wouldn't say hate, but I would definitely always get flaccid anytime the author goes into the autism of just about anything. That changed though when I started reading in nip, for some reason the linguistic logic of japanese helps creates this immersion and interest for me in a lot of things that it never did before. I still don't entirely grasp the reason itself, but despite english being my native language, often when dumps of autism full of say mid-civilization political lingo or military lingo for example, my brain almost just blocks those words out and I never get the clearest picture. I believe it's from a fuzzy understanding of the words to begin with, as english is just comprised of other languages it often feels like just a bunch of random stuff. But everything is usually from the ground up in japanese as it's a more logical language, so reading it there's this sort of "puzzle pieces clicking" feel to things that I've never experienced before, it really adds to the building of the story. I've really started to learn the appeal of autistic content in light novels now. And I really do think it comes down to just being a linguistic thing, like it just can come off better or worse in other languages. I'm probably not wording all this persuasive enough though.
Read イカサマが闇のカードゲーマーに通用した.It's about a cheater in a world where card games play a huge role in society (Like Yu-gi-oh, even has (not) shadow games).Fun stuff so far.
The LN I want to read is on Kindle and Kobo but I keep getting cockblocked by not having a Japanese phone number and credit card. I can’t find it online to download at all no matter how hard I search because nobody really cares about the series anymore. I just want to see the last part of the story that never got translated because of Tokyopop shenanigans, it was like part of my childhood. I could also import the physical book but I don’t want to get fucked on tariffs just to order 1 book. Does anyone have a guide for buying digital from Japan?
>>49949728>Japanese phone number and credit card.use a fake number, vpn and use amazon gift cards
>>49949728It's been years since I made my Kobo account but at the time all I needed was a VPN and a Rakuten JP account. My address is set to 日本 and that's it. That still worked I think three years ago, that's when I bought an e-reader and have since then been buying my books using that and it doesn't require VPNs or anything.The checks might be tighter these days, who knows.
When it's on the right-most side, is there a way to stop furigana from getting cut-off on ttsu?
>>49952504
>>49952684thx
Hey, ゴルダナ帝国衰亡記 has a wiki.I've seen some comments about how it's hard to follow all the characters and info, but I personally never had trouble with that.Might be because the protag calls people by nicknames in his internal thoughts.https://wikiwiki.jp/goldana/
>>49863550AIZEN has it up now, I don't have a link.
the decrepit state this general (and the rest of /jp/) has been in for the last year or so is frankly depressing
>>49956032The website is dead man. Even the "popular boards" like /vt/ and /pol/ are limping along since the shutdown. This board being even more decrepit is hardly a shock. Does not make it less regrettable however.
>>49956032this general doesn't need to be fast nor ever was. it's literally fine
Apologies if this is too hard of a question to answer, but would anyone be able to recommend some LNs at around my reading level?Currently 安達としまむら and ロードス島戦記 are the kind of things I can handle without getting too much of a headache. I'm open to all genres...
>>49959165just read what you find interesting retardo. 99% of all LNs are exactly the same. once you finish one of those series you shouldn't have trouble with the remaining 1% either
Hey everyone, I was just wondering - what's the deal with isekai stories being so insanely popular lately? I get that they can be fun and escapist, but the tropes seem pretty tired at this point. Do you think the genre has room to evolve past the usual reincarnated OP protagonist and world-conquering plotlines?
>>49960268I mean, it's all about the escapism and wish fulfillment, y'know? Being able to imagine yourself as the most powerful being in a fantastical world is just super appealing.
>>49960308Escapism and wish fulfillment? Sounds pretty lazy to me, to be honest. Like, are people really that uncreative that they can't come up with their own stories instead of just retreading the same tired tropes? I feel like it's more of a crutch than anything else.
>general so dead that baiter bot had to perform a one-man showKek. Thanks chatgpt>>49959165If you can read those two fine you will have issue reading most of the jap stuff
>>49921138>>49960662This thread is so dead it's pretty much "Does any 1 have this" I guess LN died to Gacha.
>>49956032>>49956495It sucks some nights bros I'm not from this thread but I've been browsing the jay for awhile. A protip is that you can just do a blank search on warosu and it shows you all the latest posts on the board if that ever helps. We'll figure something out there must be a lot of people out there feeling exactly like us.
>>49960873>>49956032>>49956495I hate to say this, but I notice this trend as well. I was happy when 4chan was knocked down because it was getting too overrun with election tourists, culture war stuff, that it would finally make them go away, and for the most part it has done it's job, especially getting rid of bots. The main problem is it also dwindled the sites numbers down considerably as a side effect.The only boards that have any real activity is nowadays is /a/, /vg/, and somewhat /v/. Only outside Altchan that is viable to go to if things get really bad is 8ch Moe, with the only caveat is it's a bit slower than the rest of 4ch but has meaningful long form posts.
>>49960268tsmt. tropes... ugh... when will they end? we need to do something about Japan and their writers. how can we teach them, western-bros?
>>49960827so much true. the gacha... how dare they? light novels are not being written anymore. but hey, wait... isn't isekai so popular and naroukei?
>>49962340does it have the same concentration of weaponized irony and "I'm smarter than thou" for not liking insert [trope] or boogieman of the year?
>>49728905 >Anyone has the Beltorchika's Children light novel in Japanese?Did you end up finding it anon? I rewatched Char's Counterattack and Hathaway and thought about their application to imageboard and JP media consumption culture in the west.>>49960873>We'll figure something out there must be a lot of people out there feeling exactly like us.We need to asteroid drop 4chan and EOP spaces so that anons can evolve and throw away their attachments to old type 4chan mentality. I call this Otaku's Counterattack.
>>49962587Not at all. They have their own opinions and basically are the types that left here a decade back because they were tired of that thing. I will say on 8ch moe the most active places are /v/, /vytubers/ aka /vt/, /gacha/ and lastly Anime and Manga(do not confuse this for "Anime Y Manga" that's the Spanish version. Anime And Manga is just everything JP Related like Visual Novels etc. Like always it may not have many posters because they left to go back to /vg/ after 4ch went back online.
>>49962587Zoomies are too dopamine addicted to browse 8 moe for longer than 5 minutes so you actually get decent discussion on there.That said this is my experience on /gacha/ and their /v/, unfortunately their /a/ is a bit dead and their /jp/ is barely more active than here if you remove the holo threads.I still post on their /a/ isekai general (a glorified LN general let's be honest) >>49964106>Like always it may not have many posters because they left to go back to /vg/ after 4ch went back online./vg/ was one of the boards to almost entirely abandon 4chan after the hack actually, the only ones remaining on 4/vg/ at this point are pajeet shitposters spamming even harder to fill the PPH void left by real posters.
>wake up>see over 10 new posts at once>instinctively get hyped thinking something like kagejitsu's new volume got announced or some shit>it's just the usual isekai bad niggers
デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲 v32 ?
>>49965040>instinctively get hyped thinking something like kagejitsu's new volume got announcedWords never spoken by anybody, ever.
any others Kino LN like Redo of Healer?
>>49965633Speaking of kino, this neko is reading the new volume of Kino.
>>49965040>kagejitsuspeaking of does anybody have volume 6 (raw) to share? haven't been able to find it in the usual places
>>498627663 weeks since he started updates, nothing has happened and updates are slowing down. Really reminds me why I stopped reading it for 4 years for stuff to pile up.
>>49970049Your standards for happenings seem pretty high. Not a single part so far felt wasteful to me. The closest is the changed-up vol 14 scene, but even then it's good to come back to it knowing what Betty's been through.
Does anyone have recommendations for stuff in the same vein as Adachi & Shimamura? I just want to see cute girls...
>>49940928Just bought part 1, might share when I'm done with part 2. Do note that I'm pretty slow reader when it comes to this series because I'm sure that at some point the we're gonna get rebuild worlded and the mc kills someone of the good guys for no good reason and I happen to like most of the supporting cast in this
I want to know what in the world the lads at audible japan are thinking. Like, who thinks it's a good idea to have males narrate light novels? I can't think of a better way of making people lose interest. Or maybe there's a huge femaudience and it makes sense? Anyways, nothing makes me drop an audiobook faster than a male narrator.
>>49972704>males voicing female>females voicing malesMaybe accept that the medium is just shit?
>>49972843>>females voicing malesthis is ok>males voicing femalethis makes me have shivers
>>49972843Females can surprisingly do good male voices. The opposite is just a travesty
>>49972704>>49972998Also I think male voices are actually better for certain types of stories like youjo senki, though that narrator is shit for a different reason
>>49972704i keep telling people audiobooks are a memejust use voicebox or any vocaloid text to speech program on the epuband im only doing this because i don't have the hardware to run AIslop to have my beloved narrate the entire book for me (and if i do and don't know i'm too lazy to set it up)
>>49973922Best voicevox narrator for LNs?
>>49974092imo either 春日部つむぎ or 冥鳴ひまり depending on the mood/genre
Been reading オルクセン王国史 ~野蛮なオークの国は、如何にして平和なエルフの国を焼き払うに至ったか~It's actually pretty decent, lots of detailed war stuff. The food diversions are a bit much sometimes but it's really solid.
>>49972704I want to listen to lewd audiobooks of LNs narrated by men.
>>49973922>calls audiobooks a meme and suggests voicevox or similar tts insteadroru. rumao. That aside AI voices are on par for single sentences or a short paragraph but fail at coveying correct tone for large blocks of text, unless you manually change the parameters for each block. At which point you may as well read the book normally. It's been half a year since I last tested it though, maybe it got better
Kind of a stange request but do you guys know where I can get a japanese version of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi? I know the jap title is ピノキオの冒険, but Lolibrary give me no matches.
>>49862137Just found this cross-platform reader https://github.com/readest/readest looks pretty neat
>>49976252>https://github.com/Shakil-Shahadat/awesome-piracy?tab=readme-ov-file#ebookshttps://1lib.sk/book/21079106/4c2247/%E3%83%94%E3%83%8E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%82%AA%E3%81%AE%E5%86%92%E9%99%BA-%E5%85%89%E6%96%87%E7%A4%BE%E5%8F%A4%E5%85%B8%E6%96%B0%E8%A8%B3%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB.html
>>49976479it appears to be mainly written in typescript so a glorified webapp ported to other operative systems. the design and features are neat but using it on a phone you can immediately tell the app isn't native because it's not as snappy
>>49976517Thank you very much anon!
>>49976479Maybe when they actually implement rest of the planned features. Also I don't trust anything that needs a paid service to actually use all of its advertised features to the full extent
What's the new hotness? I could just go with what XYZ publisher is pushing right now, but frankly I don't trust them nearly as much. I recently started 無職は今日も今日とて迷宮に潜る and it's... fine.
Seems quite difficult trying to find. Doesn't seem present in any the usual places.シュヴァルツェスマーケン as well its bonus volumes, the original マブラヴ novelization, and anything of マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ トータル・イクリプスNostalgia's getting me.Also,田中~年齢イコ 1-2田中~年齢イコ 3-10田中~年齢イコ 12-13are all around, which is great, but 田中~年齢イコ 11 and,田中~年齢イコ 14-15 are missing.+西野 ~学内カースト1-2 is present, but 西野 ~学内カースト3-14 is missing.>>49928946Some anon here has em all with the bonus story and uncensored art and everything >>49896504All that said, I salvaged goei v3 from the last thread. I'll put up a link in case anyone needs it.
>>49983093Which of those have you read though
I've been using AI and my own Japanese knowledge to read 今日から俺はロリのヒモ! and i'm starting to run out of material, what's another fun/relaxing LN that features lolis? Doesn't have to be lewd or anything, just something I can slowly work my way through.
>>49983353>I've been using AIgross
>>49983353>I've been using AI and my own Japanese knowledgehopefully this is bait but i've been laughing for the past few minutes
>>49983377Sorry anon, it's true. Even if I understand nipponese at a third grade level, I ain't gonna fuck around for five hours to read half a page when I can get it automated into above average translations. That doesn't mean I don't take time to practice, I just like easily gotten satisfaction. ごめん, anon.
>>49983402>I ain't gonna fuck around for five hours to read half a pageThat's the fastest way to get better.
>>49983402If you're outsourcing your thinking and media enjoyment to a clanker you're better off cutting the middleman and asking it to just read the epub and write you up a video essay script about how deep it is.
>>49983405Well yeah. I'm just really retarded. But I have two series I use for practicing already. 今日から俺はロリのヒモ! is my cheat series, something to read for my enjoyment rather than for getting better. It's faggy to say, but when I have to search Jisho for a new kanji it diminishes my enjoyment quite a bit.
>>49983353Ai aside is it any good?
>>49983463Assuming you like lolis and don't mind a more PG-13 depiction of them instead of 15+ rating (The lewdest it ever got was kissing) it's really good. A nice mix of a fun, lazy MC with a cast of cute lolis that fit certain archetypes (Touka being lady-like while maintaining her childish love for the MC, Sana being the lewdest and most antagonistic and Chizuru being a tsundere)Plus, the illustrations are made by Henreader.
>>49983093The anon has them, but I don't think they removed the DMR. Can anyone upload the EPUB here without the DMR so I can translate it?
Are the any novels about college/uni life? Everything I see is just school life...
>>49984947Not really a linnie but Musicus was the latest one I read with a non conventional school setting, but even there it was trying to function like a normal school contrasted to the dropout setting.Can you truly escape school life even in college/uni age works?
>>49984947魔術師カノン for one. There's like a romcom out every month that's set in uni, but I personally don't like non-sff adult romances so I don't remember the titles.
>>49984947>>49985197Also not LNs, but there's an entire genre of works, which I can't remember the name of, that specificlly deals with the college life. An example being most of morimi tomihiko's stuff (tatami galaxy guy).
>>49983441The don't search. You're already using AI which means you don't care about what the text is actually saying, so might as well just deal with making the shit up that you don't understand. The only difference is that it's all in your head instead of relying on AI, and the japanese you do understand actually sticks.I mean many people have responded to your bait posts already, but just know that if you don't change your mindset you'll forever remain a shallow person in all aspects of life, not just when it comes to language learning.
Nipbros, how much time does it take you to finish 1 LN chapter and 1 LN volume?
>>49868221This was recently shared in TMW. If you're not there reply me and and I'll catbox the file for you.>>49877700The audiobook it's out there, if you don't mind listening instead of reading.
>>49984947Off the top of my head: Golden Time. Same author as Toradora!
>>49988368Anon, you got anything on Schwarzesmarken's LNs? they're up on kindle, with v7 having a special artbook.Likewise for Tanaka and Nishino >>49983093
anyone has arifureta vol 14 pdf or epyb translated?
>>49992145*epub
>>49992145>translatedpretty sure arifureta is more than a decade old at this point, why haven't you learned japanese yet?
>>49983093>goei v3That would be greatly appreciate if you could upload that anon
>>49972548Thanks. I'm not all that far in to be honest. I'm about a third of the way through volume 4, and I just wanted to hoard all of the volumes that are currently out. Also, personally, I don't know if I agree that the narrative is likely to develop in that way exactly, but I can definitely imagine Zig being put in a position where he's set against his friends, and personally, I find that interesting.
>>49992228I started reading the novel 2 or 3 years agoAnd no: I'm too lazy to learn japanese
>>49992933https://files.catbox.moe/re0eih.epubI'd like to know your thoughts on the series, by the way. Does it look like Alicia has a love interest? How long do you reckon publication will continue?
>>49994280The white haired guy from the first story seems to be her love interest but she has an adversion to sex because her mother suffered from whore syndrome. It's really popular so as long as the writer keeps coming up with stories. He has a bunch of guy characters he wants Alicia to run into.
Anyone got an epub of 触手魔術師の成り上がり?
>>49996130Volume 2 part 2 will be published in October. It seems that Ai and Alicia will face Marcus.
>>49989829Volume 1 of シュヴァルツェスマーケン pops up on lolibrary. As for all the other stuff, it seems it hasn't been shared. I recommend keeping a tab on the Kindle volumes and check it every month when the KU catalog changes to see if you can request it to a KU ripper.>>49996152Volume 1 and 2 are on TMW torrent collections on Nyaa. Check lolibrary.
>>49893506I feel like some anon posted at least the 14th somewhere in the previous threads, but I could be remembering wrong
>>49996864Yeah I could see that happening. I do wonder what is going to happen to Alicia in the next volume since that's when the Fanza uncensored is coming out
Got the brilliant idea of finishing any books that I had dropped for one reason or another. 3 books in and I hate my decision. Should just delete and forget instead
>>50003704my memory's too shit to do that
I'm starving here, I need some good fantasy like TRPG, any reccomendations? (please be something that I can find in the usual sources)
>>50006100What did you like about TRPG?Like, there's a shitload of narou-kei that would be considered fantasy.
Schuld should care for the readers he already got (and is now losing) before retweeting posts about how much the authors are hungry for readers>>50006100depends on what you are looking for. 道造's 貞操逆転世界の童貞辺境領主騎士 and the more recent 7 knights to die (though not pirated yet) are some good choices. 神統記 satisfies the world-building itch but completely fails as a piece of text that's supposed to entertain, so you will have better luck with the manga. If you don't mind r18, there's 王国へ続く道, completed grand heroic epic, and 侯爵嫡男好色物語 which has a more unique and detailed setting but will probably never finish.
>>50006323I liked the overall power scaling, Erich is strong but not anywhere close top of the world, also the world building is pretty good.>>50006330王国へ続く道 I tried reading but I just didnt like it. I thought I was ok with senki but turns out it was only becuase 亡びの国 is goated. I'll give 侯爵嫡男好色物語 a shot
>>50006346early 侯爵嫡男 is mostly a porn story written for author's self-satisfaction with bits of politics and world-building here and there to provide context, at least until 聖都 which is like 1/5th the way into the story. So if you are still willing to give it a chance and unless you like that type of stuff, I would recommend reading manga until that chapter, with the bonus of expanded scenes, especially for the first monster battle which was literally two lines in the original
>>50006357How often are sex scenes after that?侯爵嫡男 sounds like something up my alley, but I just don't want to read sex scenes when I'm not fapping. When I tried it out it was just sex scenes so I dropped it.
Might as well list out some of what I read and liked.昏き宮殿の死者の王 - Guy is revived as an undead by a necromancer and fights to survive and for freedom. Has nice fights but is エターナルed.第七魔王子 - Hero reincarnates as a mazoku prince. His goal is to break them from within. Really fun stuff until he visits the human territories which is where I stopped reading.パラダイム・パラサイト - Guy isekaies as a parasite and infects a dead body. He becomes a sociopath meat monster who while searching for a meaning to his life uncovers the the truth of the world. Long as fuck, but is finished.いいご身分だな。俺にくれよ。- Dude is isekaied as the second son who will not inherit the house, but decides to RISE UP so he can marry the girl he fell in love with at first sight. He overcomes his obstacles with his 内政 cheats and political maneuvering, with girls falling in love with him along the way. Yes, this is a harem work. Fun enough.遥か異界の地より - Ugly guy with huge guts tries to survive after being teleported to a brutal isekai. He's constantly put in hard situations where the goal is to LIVE. I really like it but don't read it if you're expecting cute girls.暗殺者の卵に転生した - Dude who really really fears death reincarnates into a snake boy in a cult. He is an asshole who will do anything to survive and has an interesting relationship with the super genius dragon girl in his group. Has an interesting power system.ゴルダナ帝国衰亡記 - Doctor gets isekaied as the strongest superior being, but he's rather 流されやすい. Amazing and unique world building, realistic mix of smart and dumb characters, and constant dirty jokes. (Everyone in the world is completely serious though.)Has 戦記 elements, medical parts (author is probably a real doctor), politics, and a whole lot of the MC trying to deal with the differences in common sense/culture.
>>50007190Damn, most of those are really right up my alley, thanks bro
>>5000695243 sex chapters out of the first 100 chapters, 31 the next 100 and 6 in the last recent 100. if you go by the text content it would be even lower considering the sheer volume of it from arc 2
>>50007190>いいご身分だな。俺にくれよGot some of the best catharsis out there after reaching the prologue scene after that some 400+ chapter worth of build up
>>49983858>>49983093TMW takes requests or such iirc. Best chance, the 11th pack comes out, and you've got all this appended. Ideally, anyway, it would be best for em to check past previous stuff for what's missing and fill them up.>>49994280>ゴエティアThanks for this.
How monogatari differse from the anime? Are they much better?Also recommend some urban fantasy please
>>50011819>differse>are theyKill yourself you retarded ESL. >pleaseLearn to read, learn Japanese, and look up your own shit too.犬をレイプしに行く
>>50012391Relax>learn JapaneseIn the process>犬をレイプしに行くYou sound indian, are you stressed about feeding the village saar?
>>50012391>>50012430サー、おはよう、マイクロソフトサポートでございます。PCにハッキングの問題があったのでビットコインをください。>>50011819does toaru count as urban fantasy?
>>50012453>toaruYes but I prefer the supernatural being hidden from society
>>50012576It is hidden in Toaru btw. Try Boogiepop, D-Crackers, Mushi-Uta, Hakozono no Elpis or Akuma no Mikata.
>>50012765Thanks!Question about gataris still stays
>>50012765damn. where did you discover these suggestions from?
>>50012958Not him but try,Discord (TMW) / JNCThey don't gatekeep so it's good. rlly hate secret clubs. Whats the point in keeping people out?
>>50012958At some old Japanese blogs back in the day, a lot of those you can find on tmw torrents on Nyaa.
Any good yaoi LNs? Cute boys only, no gross baras. Basically just male yuri
>>50012985>they don't gatekeepDon't they make EOPs slink away in shame when they can't pass a Japanese pop quiz? Not saying it's a bad thing, but it's definitely a form of gatekeeping.
preview of 『ハウリング・ブレイズ』 just came outwritten by Sematsuka author Yū Shimizuhttps://viewer-trial.bookwalker.jp/03/20/viewer.html?cid=1955ba91-b6e0-41ab-a047-fbdc44369c18&cty=0&adpcnt=7qM_Nkp
Where to read the last KimiZero novel? I'm interested in seeing how the sex scene went.
I have written ever on kakuyomu but have no idea whether my novel is good or notIs exposing OK in this thread? The genre is Isekai
>>50025386it's in japanese? if so go ahead the thread needs some life anyway
>>50025516I added a tag "/jp/ LN"Please evaluate objectivelyhttps://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818792437647130012
What's the meaning of the different colors on kakuyomu?
Speaking of kakuyomu, the amount of streaming stories that are out there is mind blowing.
>>50026519Kanji and vocab complexity.Shades of blue are the simpler.ones, yellow is the middle point, pink and red is hard as fuck.Worth noting it's automated and not all that accurate.
>>50025567>260 stars and a bunch of reviewsIf those are not from the mutual follows and reviews that new authors tend to do, you are already awesome anon.
>>50028892Honestly I did that until 100 stars, because most of authors have no choice but to do the mutual following for readers PVSo I could get the rest 160..
Btw so difficult to get stars on kakuyomu?I often see more than 1000+ there
>>50029809From what I see not really but the accrual is more concentrated in the earlier period than narou. So you either get enough stars to catch people's eye early in the publication or you just die, compared to narou where even unpopular works tend to get a steady stream of points later
Any books about chuunibyou without real powers?
>>49883558This was last updated in July, is there a newer version or something?
>>49987864For a chapter I don't know, but it normally takes about 4-5 hours per volume. 7 for something more dense. I'm a slow reader who stops and takes the time to imagine the scene and thoughts of characters, often going back and rereading certain parts at the start of the page and stuff. This isn't exclusive to Japanese I did this with english stuff too, so it's just a consumption habit, I highly value immersion above all else. Hope that gives you a basis.
>4-5 hoursDamn it takes me like 2-3 days for a vol.
I mean, if your reading speed is a leisurely 20,000 - 24,000 文字 per hour then yeah, like the other guy said, 4-5 hours for most volumes seems right.
>>50038504If only I could read even half of that speed it would be so much more enjoyable. I feel like I read too slow even for sentences where I know every word well. I might have to quit thinking in English and listening to anything but Japanese to try to optimize my brain for Japanese thinking patterns.
It happened again, another LN anime adaptation that I planned to watch and then suddenly the season is over and I only watched the first episode.How was the koujo denka anime?
>>49987864something short and easy like youjitsu 2-3 hrs. something like trpg - 8-11 hrs. Japanese average at 4 hrs for an average bunko, so even if you are an hour or two slower you are already doing great.>>50025386Got around to reading it anon, it's greatgood things:- More entertaining that the vast majority of web works- not exactly a fresh idea but fresh enough to grasp reader's attentionbad things;- Very clumsy prose early on but turned much better some 10 chapters in. this is a pattern with all web authors, so not really a problem.- Some odd/unnatural way of phrasing things (especially when the protag talks about the real world), but again not enough to be a bother- Really unnecessary long explanations later in the storySubjective opinion:- The wishy-washy nature of the protag was very irritating before I realized that's a core part of his character. If it is not, and I am just reading too much into it, you should try to make his convictions and driving force more clear, especially early in the story.- I personally like the way events end in a not emotionally refreshing conclusions, but most readers would probably like something more clear-cut morally and emotionally.That's about it. I will be following your updates and hope you continue writing till the end
>>50039905Very beneficial opinionThanks a lot!!
Is there anything like this for linnies?
>>50042032>tfw you realize KRWN is its own world with its own tropesWhy does that sound weird to me? It's as out of place as imagining Indians having their own linnie culture with actual writers and illustrators. To me linnies feel like they only work in Japanese and nothing else.
>>50042078Chinks have their own meta too, as do anglo winnies. It's not so surprising?
>>50039721one thing that helps is getting comfortable with reading casually. like your issue is that reading to you is something that takes complete focus and dissection. i think the best way to get over this is to read more elsewhere, where text isnt the main thing. visual novels kind of work but you can still get the same issue at first, so personally my recommendation is browsing the web and most especially just video games. ones where you are reading status effects and all this other information in short bites but it's literally everywhere in the game. and its not mentally draining because the gameplay's there for you. rpgs/tactical games are the best for this in my opinion but maybe anything works, in general it's just about getting used to reading casually, and then when you hop back to light novels it won't feel like you're "flipping a switch" since you're so comfortable with japanese it's perfectly natural, so this dramatically speeds up your reading speed, and your reading stamina. im speaking as if this is a general truth, but its really just what i remember from my journey at least. maybe im completely off
Does anyone know any other Narou fantasy title that has an Italian mafia analogue other than 魔女と傭兵 and 話術師
I started reading 6 years ago because I got tired of waiting sequels. Now I've read almost everything that interests me and am once again at the point of getting tired of waiting sequels. WN time I guess. Wonder what's the next step from that, write my own fanfiction?
Does anyone have vol 6 to 10 of 悲鳴伝 伝説 ?
>>50031288So many books, surely someone has explored unironic chuuni pov r-right?
Have any kind anons managed to rip the FANZA releases of 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~ yet?
>>50047793I'm glad I'm not in this boat quite yet but I could see it happening to me in a few years.
>>50047793>write my own fanfiction?I heard that when a writer works long enough on a book characters start living on their own so I guess
Do people like it when the last 1/3 of a volume is just side stories for other characters?
>>50057840Generally speaking strongly dislike them, even if the side stories are focusing on the main character. Either include it in the main story, keep it short or don't write it. There are exceptions of course, for example I enjoyed the honzuki ones quite a lot
Any recommendations of ln's where current state of the world itself is one of the main mysteries of the series? Finished Regios and want more shit like that.
Finished volume 1 of あした、裸足でこいI would call this "unchallenging literature". Both in the sense that it is very plainly written, but also in a more general intellectual sense. The cliffhanger ending did get me though, so I will read the next volume as well.
>>50059129I enjoyed that series. I guess the ending might upset some people.
>>50059163Guess I'll look forwards to that then. I can't imagine it being anything controversial at this time, the first volume was super safe and unlike お隣の天使 reading it does cause me to spontaneously transform into Ryan Gosling (forma de Blade Runner) so that was good.
>>50059303*doesn'tFucking install an automod so I can give myself a three day vacation for not spellchecking my own posts, thanks.
>>50057840Depends on the main story actually having enough meat to warrant the side stories, some good examples being honzuki and trpg (if alt ends count)
>>50059303I mean it's nothing crazy. But I can definitely think of some arguments against it.
>>50059850I'll admit the twist that she also is a time traveler considerably increased my interest, but I am already worried this won't go anywhere and I'm not gonna suddenly get dumped into a cool time travel mystery drama instead of sappy low-stakes high school romcom.
>>50063841It's a high school drama with some time travel shenanigans. That doesn't change.
>>50057840I think I almost always instinctively roll my eyes and get demotivated to read it, but then by the end I feel glad I had read it. Even if it's not amazing or anything, having read it somehow it usually feels "unskippable" so there's no regret or negative feelings towards such a thing. But, I mean, even to this day I still go through this same process of feelings every time, so I don't know.
>>50057840It depends entirely on the writer's ability. Side cast stories can often feel filler-ish, and preventing that takes skill.Naturally, not all of them have it, but if they do, then forget just 1/3rd, I'll gladly read full volumes about shit unrelated to the MC.Dendro comes to mind. Kaido gets flak for how little spotlight he gives Ray sometimes, but his worldbuilding and systems are so good and well-suited for an ensemble cast that going in the other direction instead and focusing on Ray alone would honestly be a catastrophic waste.
Can anons give me a few entertaining cheat harems with some effort put into them? Something like arifureta. Tried a few game tensei ones because they mostly tend to be of this template and while I found and completed some good ones, most were extremely low effort.
I downloaded a raw epub and it seems the pics are of lower quality compared to the english release. Is that normal?
>>50067238Some are compressed to hell, just compare file sizes if there are multiple options
>>50067238The reason is because if you convert books from Kindle without the AZW6 Image Merge plugin, they'll be compressed to shit. Tell me the book, I might be able to find it in better quality.
>>50067272I found other options and one looked good. But it wasn't the one with the biggest size, the pics in that one were big but blurred.>>50067323It was the first volume of ReZero but like I said I already found a good one.
>>50067453You're lucky it's of something so popular. Most things you won't find alternatives for, and they're intentionally compressed that way because the uploaders believe the text to be the most important part (quantity over quality) since their focus is about using the books they upload as tools for learning, rather than seeing language as a tool for experience the media itself. This difference in values manifests in not caring about image quality at all, even if it's borderline unintelligible so long as it's a smaller size to be able to share more, and unfortunately seems to be common mindset for people who share light novels
>>50069630you are reading too much into it lol. most of these shares are ripped from amazon by guys who don't know the solution above anon mentioned for high quality images and isn't available with a simple google search. I don't know a single person who knew about the solution and willingly shared a copy with low quality images
>>50057840Generally it's a bad idea. There's nothing inherently wrong with having side stories but I prefer them to be organized in a separate volume or something and outside of the meat of the main story. It's weird to just shove it in randomly at the end like that.
Anyone have the Railgun SS light novels in nip?
>>50078949https://files.catbox.moe/nkngtq.rar
Any LNs similar to Rance?
>>50079216Just realised too late that this is Index, not Railgun SS, excuse my retardation.
Recently saw someone mention an isekai in that dude reincarnated as a mech, does anyone know it?
>>50081108Still good to have it, thanks either way anon. Couldn't find SS but here is the 2022 railgun LN for anyone interested. https://files.catbox.moe/art70d.epub
After reading WNs on narou for a few years I've decided to try reading LNs and these sure have a more dense narration with a more diverse vocabulary.
>>50087485Shocker
>>50087485It's probably a slight level up, but is it really that much of a difference? I've never really got into WNs.
WNs on average are gonna be a lot worse because literally anyone can write one, but if you're gonna be choosing the good ones I don't think there's much of a difference considering a lot of LNs are from WNs anyways.It's just a huge pain in the ass to dig through.It's easier to dig than LNs because it's free and online though, don't have to download anything.
>>50027286anon i think it's just the author's choice like rel says.>>50087485high scoring WNs and LNs they spawn aren't very different. some editor changes change the mood.
>>49999823There won't be any ecchi scenes with Alice, but there will be scenes with Ruri, Alice, and Ai preparing to rescue her. I'm really looking forward to seeing the FANZA version.
>>50012985Sorry for my ignorance, but what is Discord (TMW) / JNC? Do you have any links?>>50055159I'm also interested in reading it. Has anyone already gotten the two of 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~ FANZA volumes combined?
Fuck. I'm an idiot and forgot that the newest 86 volume came out last month.
>>49997935unless the anon didn't use the keyword or I completely miss it, I can't find it anywhere. If you have it can you share pls?
completed the first arc of otome game survival's afterstory. somewhat interesting but I wonder what the author has in mind for its direction as the present story situation constraining alia feels antithetical to what made the series interesting in the first place.
>>50119898The litRPG elements piss me off since I'd otherwise enjoy the prose and content. My eyes glaze over the second the status screen pops up, it's fucking awful. I don't think this sort of thing adds more than it takes away.
https://x.com/Goetia_Shock/status/1975848651097514433Looks like it's dropping on the 10th.
>writer attempts to make a badass stoic deuteragonist turned protagonist>accidentally makes her autistic
>>50128769Sounds like an improvement honestly
>>50123940Damn early release on Fanza
>>50124207>>50123940Its out
>>50123940Someone already has the format of the book in EPUB. I'm curious what will happen to Alicia
I would be eternally grateful to Anon if they published the EPUB book.
Is it any good?
>>50137382Kindle anon's probably busy with real stuff. I mean, he'd check in here every now and again.. The other guy who'd share stuff, from TMW, is also probably busy. I owe them both dearly and have a lot of gratitude for what they do.KUanon, TMWanon, I hope you return.
>>50138477one of the anons that share from TMW isn't gone, they are just on 8 now
>>50134156buy it its only 420yen
They decided to add data sheet in the release