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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.jp
https://bookmeter.com

>Where to buy:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/
https://www.amazon.com/
https://bookwalker.jp/
https://books.rakuten.co.jp
https://www.kobo.com
https://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=TMW
https://nyaa.si/view/799168
https://nyaa.si/view/1350523
https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html
https://lolibrary.moe/
https://annas-archive.org/

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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.
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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.
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does anyone have an epub of tprg vol 10?
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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
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>>49863550
second, Mika is best girl and she's on the cover, gimme
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>>49863075
So true man. Here, have your good boy points.
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>>49862766
It's doubly ironic since it's a recap chapter.
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Can someone with KU get 引き籠もりヒーロー4?
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/gp/product/B0F36DP9DG

Thanks to whoever shared the first three volumes in the last thread.
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>>49864144
Oh I didn't know scans even existed. Thanks.
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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.
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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/4094532048
It’s prize winning or something, looks really interesting
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reminder
.se if this domain is dead
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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
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>>49883557
Only 11 as of the current day we live in https://mega.nz/folder/RZpXDRDZ#7Gdxi_i3_JLsjm1s0SMnjg
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>>49883557
Try reading them.
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Anyone got the Goetia Shock links from last thread? Seems like one got cold storaged.
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This is the only LN author that I have ever read
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>>49884945
This looks cute
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Any LN similar to goblin slayer?
I’m not talking about gore but something similar to the character interaction and realism of the world
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>>49885569
>character interaction
>realism of the world
lel. 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).
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What are some incelkino LNs?
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>>49886658
盾の勇者の成り上がり
回復術士のやり直し
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Any good Sengoku era LN?
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>>49885813
Recommendations? Also would appreciate youtube playthroughs with LN level feels.
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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.
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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
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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
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>>49863075
I 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
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>>49895085
Yes, you can
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>>49895426
Do you know how to remove it?
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>>49883537
Could you explain your post, young man?
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>>49895085
You can, but as far as I know, there's gatekeeping around the method (for obvious reasons).
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Speaking on drm
Does anyone know how to rip epubs from fanza?
https://book.dmm.co.jp/product/6100693/s741asnxe00001/
I have some artbooks and novels
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>>49896504
I 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.
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coming soon
あそびのかんけい 2
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>>49858107
>Yep, but keep in mind just like the anime, nothing fucking happens at all
fine by me, I just need to read for jp gains
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Anyone pick this up and liked it?
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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.
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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.
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>>49901202
Let's be realistic here. How many people within a 100 mile radius of me also read LNs in Japanese?
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I hear it's actually decent?
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>>49901218
This. There is the internet but without a strong core we know what happens to gaijin groups.

>>49901202
Grind 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.
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>>49901202
Most people with a brain tend to learn japanese then instantly fuck off from westoidese communities.
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>>49883537
Will keep it on another tab at least, given the biweekly updates poster seems to have moved over.
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>>49900460
Already on my to-read list after seeing carlo zen shilling it super hard
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>>49901484
It's great, especially if you like the ww1 german planning autism
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>>49895817
Gatekeeping it obviously. But you can get on that moe discord to get other guys rip them for you
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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.
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>>49904788
There is a web novel thread on lit, retard.
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anyone else is joining this? a few anons from the isekai /a/ thread got accepted
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Isekai novel written by /a/?
How much rape is going to be in?
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>>49908985
no I can’t write, although it would be funny if anon’s slop gets adapted one day
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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.
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>>49909431
It's going to be nothing but shounen fights, lolis, rape, and all the illustrations being panty shots lol
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>>49910304
Assuming 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.
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>>49910370
You 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.
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>>49910411
I could use 伝奇 recommendations myself. I don't think I've read much from the genre.
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>>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
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>>49909431
Can 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?
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>>49912685
dunno, go ask the eceleb that gave you that opinion to give you recs
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>>49912741
He didn't give any opinion, lmao
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>>49912836
>He
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>>49910370
Wait 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?
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>>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.
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>>49912990
The 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.
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Do people get the whole TMW torrent or just what they need?
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It been a while that the TMW has been updated
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anybody got the ゴエティア・ショック stuff shared last thread? not availabe anymore
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>>49915632
https://z-lib.fm/author/%E8%AA%AD%E5%9B%B3%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%BA
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>>49912423
>絶対ナル孤独者
The 川原礫 one? Really?
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>>49916487
I just listed all 伝奇 I have read, if you have a prejudice for the author just don't read this one.
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>>49916184
Thanks anon, anyone got the newest volume that was shared last thread
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>>49918132
nvm found it on link provided, many thanks again
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>>49917179
I suppose my actual remark was more about how I didn't think of it as being in the genre.
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>this place is so dead that the chinkbugs are starting to invade the corpse
grim
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>>49916184
I'm surprised they actually let her get assfucked this early.
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>>49917179
>if you have a prejudice for the author
Why would you have one? Are we on r*ddit?
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Can LN medium ever be better than VN medium?
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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
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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.
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>>49928285
Maybe just read better books? I don't have this problem.
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>>49928285
You'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.
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Is the yenpress or whatever of KonoSuba any good?
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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
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>>49901484
>>49902542
Sold.
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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
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>>49936761
It's honestly minor, but I wish the series didn't include the LitRPG statblock inserts.
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>>49937527
I think the way the author used them during the assassins guild part was pretty clever
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>>49912423
Crazy 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/
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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.
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>>49938420
That's nice. I'll check it out.
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Does anyone have volume 6 parts 1 and 2 of 魔女と傭兵? Here's volumes 4 and 5

volume 4
https://files.catbox.moe/eqesqt.epub
volume 5
https://files.catbox.moe/flxd00.epub
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>>49934088
I 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.
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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.
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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?
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>>49949728
>Japanese phone number and credit card.
use a fake number, vpn and use amazon gift cards
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>>49949728
It'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.
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When it's on the right-most side, is there a way to stop furigana from getting cut-off on ttsu?
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>>49952504
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>>49952684
thx
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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/
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>>49863550
AIZEN has it up now, I don't have a link.
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the decrepit state this general (and the rest of /jp/) has been in for the last year or so is frankly depressing
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>>49956032
The 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.
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>>49956032
this general doesn't need to be fast nor ever was. it's literally fine
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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...
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>>49959165
just 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
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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?
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>>49960268
I 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.
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>>49960308
Escapism 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.
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>general so dead that baiter bot had to perform a one-man show
Kek. Thanks chatgpt
>>49959165
If you can read those two fine you will have issue reading most of the jap stuff
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>>49921138
>>49960662
This thread is so dead it's pretty much "Does any 1 have this" I guess LN died to Gacha.
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>>49956032
>>49956495
It 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.
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>>49960873
>>49956032
>>49956495
I 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.
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>>49960268
tsmt. tropes... ugh... when will they end? we need to do something about Japan and their writers. how can we teach them, western-bros?
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>>49960827
so much true. the gacha... how dare they? light novels are not being written anymore. but hey, wait... isn't isekai so popular and naroukei?
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>>49962340
does it have the same concentration of weaponized irony and "I'm smarter than thou" for not liking insert [trope] or boogieman of the year?
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>>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.
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>>49962587
Not 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.
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>>49962587
Zoomies 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.
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>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
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デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲 v32 ?
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>>49965040
>instinctively get hyped thinking something like kagejitsu's new volume got announced
Words never spoken by anybody, ever.
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any others Kino LN like Redo of Healer?
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>>49965633
Speaking of kino, this neko is reading the new volume of Kino.
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>>49965040
>kagejitsu
speaking of does anybody have volume 6 (raw) to share? haven't been able to find it in the usual places
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>>49862766
3 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.
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>>49970049
Your 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.
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Does anyone have recommendations for stuff in the same vein as Adachi & Shimamura? I just want to see cute girls...
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>>49940928
Just 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
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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.
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>>49972704
>males voicing female
>females voicing males
Maybe accept that the medium is just shit?
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>>49972843
>>females voicing males
this is ok
>males voicing female
this makes me have shivers
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>>49972843
Females can surprisingly do good male voices. The opposite is just a travesty
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>>49972704
>>49972998
Also I think male voices are actually better for certain types of stories like youjo senki, though that narrator is shit for a different reason
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>>49972704
i keep telling people audiobooks are a meme
just use voicebox or any vocaloid text to speech program on the epub
and 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)
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>>49973922
Best voicevox narrator for LNs?
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>>49974092
imo either 春日部つむぎ or 冥鳴ひまり depending on the mood/genre
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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.
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>>49972704
I want to listen to lewd audiobooks of LNs narrated by men.
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>>49973922
>calls audiobooks a meme and suggests voicevox or similar tts instead
roru. 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
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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.
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>>49862137
Just found this cross-platform reader https://github.com/readest/readest looks pretty neat
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>>49976252
>https://github.com/Shakil-Shahadat/awesome-piracy?tab=readme-ov-file#ebooks
https://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
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>>49976479
it 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
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>>49976517
Thank you very much anon!
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>>49976479
Maybe 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
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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.
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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 12-13
are all around, which is great, but
田中~年齢イコ 11 and,
田中~年齢イコ 14-15 are missing.
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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.

>>49928946
Some anon here has em all with the bonus story and uncensored art and everything >>49896504

All that said, I salvaged goei v3 from the last thread. I'll put up a link in case anyone needs it.
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>>49983093
Which of those have you read though
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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.
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>>49983353
>I've been using AI
gross
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>>49983353
>I've been using AI and my own Japanese knowledge
hopefully this is bait but i've been laughing for the past few minutes
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>>49983377
Sorry 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.
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>>49983402
>I ain't gonna fuck around for five hours to read half a page
That's the fastest way to get better.
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>>49983402
If 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.
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>>49983405
Well 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.
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>>49983353
Ai aside is it any good?
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Assuming 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.
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>>49983093
The 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?
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Are the any novels about college/uni life?
Everything I see is just school life...
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>>49984947
Not 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?
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>>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.
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>>49984947
>>49985197
Also 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).
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>>49983441
The 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.
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Nipbros, how much time does it take you to finish 1 LN chapter and 1 LN volume?
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>>49868221
This was recently shared in TMW. If you're not there reply me and and I'll catbox the file for you.

>>49877700
The audiobook it's out there, if you don't mind listening instead of reading.
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>>49984947
Off the top of my head: Golden Time. Same author as Toradora!
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>>49988368
Anon, you got anything on Schwarzesmarken's LNs? they're up on kindle, with v7 having a special artbook.
Likewise for Tanaka and Nishino >>49983093



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