/jp/ - Otaku Culture

in no particular order:
otherside picnic - yuri horror, very good
lazy dungeon master
my instant death ability is so overpowered
so i'm a spider, so what?
a wild last boss appeared
she professed herself pupil of the wise man
solo leveling - KR, but still pretty good
the faraway paladin - extremely good, but warning, the author dropped it in the middle of the series and hasn't written a new volume in years
reincarnated as a dragon hatchling
apocalypse bringer mynoghra
her majesty's swarm
hell mode
the executioner and her way of life - VERY good
full clearing another world - not many volumes out, but still fun
JK haru is a sex worker in another world - only one volume out, as far as i know (not including the side stories), but it's actually surprisingly really good
disciple of the lich - very cute

these are some of my personal favorites, but it is by no means an exhaustive list. feel free to make your own recommendations, especially if they fit with the general theme of the ones that i have listed

>>40565667
I'm surprised someone actually made a thread, but if you are expecting extremely fast traffic and multiple posts a minute like on /a/, you have unrealistic expectations
That said, slower boards are better for this reason, no need to shitpost to bump because your thread is on page 10 due to bait thread spam

>>40567460
i tend to prefer the slower rate of discussion, especially since it's easier to keep up with
plus people in slower threads are (generally) easier to get into interesting discussions with

>>40567652
That's true, slower boards are simply better for discussion, not because shitposting mind you, yes that's a problem but it can be ignored unless it gets REALLY bad
The actual problem is having to bring up entry level people up to speed and clear misinformation before getting to "real discussion", but that's so prevalent you are never going to get to that point in bigger boards
Go on /a/ and clear some questions only a newfag would ask or say, come back tomorrow and you will see the exact same shit, nothing ever changes
Slower boards also have this problem because 4chan has been a normalfag site for almost a decade now, but it's not as bad
Discussion is actually possible and actually progresses in slower boards, instead of the perpetual cycle of entry level information you see on bigger boards or basically any other mainstream website nowadays

>>40565676
>the faraway paladin - extremely good
lol, it really isn't

>>40575309
really? it could just be that im a sucker for god-human interactions, but why don't you like it?

>>40565667
surprised to see another LN thread up, any decent places to get jp raws? couldn't find the latest seirei gensouki or maou sama retry last i checked. also for the OP madokami and jcafe are down in different ways

>>40579187
The only one I know is dlraw: https://dlraw.net/category/raw-novel/
That said, it's not that good and it's missing a lot of stuff, if it's not extremely popular it's not going to be there, and sometimes it's not there even if it's popular.

>>40580850
looks like it has the same stuff as https://dl-raw.net but the ddls seem to be slightly less cancerous so thanks

>>40579187
I just use amazon jp.

>>40583575
It surprising how rare buying the original jp stuff and not a translation is nowadays.
Or maybe most people that would do that ended up leaving 4chan over the years.

This may be dead (and probably autosaged) but I will keep lurking the board in case the general ever resurfaces

Nobody seems to care or is willing to put in effort it seems
Here's what recently released in english:
>My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World, vol 3
>To Another World… with Land Mines!, vol 3
>When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, vol 3
>A Wild Last Boss Appeared!, vol 9
>Mushoku Tensei, vol 18
>My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong as I Expected, vol 14
>Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World, vol 4
>D-Genesis – Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared, vol 1
>Tearmoon Empire, vol 8
>In Another World With My Smartphone, vol 25
>The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary, vol 5

Personal recommendations:
>D-Genesis
What you could call reverse isekai, only one volume and different to what you may usually see, here's hoping it doesn't go to shit
>TRPG Build
While I don't care too much about tabletop gaming, I heard good things about it from people that do, and as someone that doesn't it's still enjoyable on it's own as long as you can stand the premise
>Tearmoon Empire
Pretty fun misunderstandings comedy, if you like some dumbass stumbling their way to success while everyone thinks they are a genius, I heavily recommend it, the plot thickens later on as well
>Smartphone
It's just comfy fun, untarnished by the more "modern" irony poisoning writing style of a lot of novels, it is quite the power fantasy but it's still shameless and unironic while doing so, maybe more so than Arifureta, it is what it is and it's not afraid or ashamed of it
>Broke Mercenary
If it's unique or not depends on what you read, but it certainly has a distinctive vibe, I don't have any way of recommending this without delving into spoilers sadly

>>40599186
>>TRPG Build
this one annoyed me because it followed the trope every single isekai seems to where the MC has to go be separated from his CF and it's just so frustrating

>41 days to new JP Dendro
>>40599186
Since we're talking about the English version, won't you make it into a list of upcoming releases (per month) instead? I know YP and 7S is utter dogshit but cmon, add more publisher will ya? I believe only MT doesn't belong to JNC out of everything you've listed there.
>>40602931
Don't worry, author himself says he regret making each arc heroine specific, so it does get better at later volume (fighter lv1 and above).

>>40608558
>I know YP and 7S is utter dogshit but cmon, add more publisher will ya? I believe only MT doesn't belong to JNC out of everything you've listed there.
I didn't even knew that because I already read them in japanese, I just searched for recently released stuff in english and made a quick list
Probably it's more about what kind of publisher picks up specific kinds of series and by coincidence what JNC tends to pick up is what I end up reading
>41 days to new JP Dendro
And even longer for it to get a translation! Did they catch up with the original already or the KoT/Emmy interlude is still taking ages to translate?

>>40602931
there's something about the writing tone in that one that annoyed me but i can't put my finger on what exactly
and now that's brought up i don't know if it's a problem with the original or just the translation

>Reading is inherently an introvert thing.
>Almost 2 decades of normalfag bullying has stockholm syndrome'd anyone that actually reads into not talking.
>Despite anime being so big and mainstream in the west now, the people that actually read LNs are borderline negligible in number, because almost no westerner reads by his own free will.
Is this an unsolvable problem? Is blogposting when reading a requirement for the threads to not be so dead? Because even in /a/ threads as a whole, text source material discussion (LN/WN/VN) is nearly nonexistent.

>>40565667

>>40565667
The links in the pastebin are dead

>>40621973
nigga what are you talking about? attention spans have gotten shorter which is why other things that require time investment have suffered as well like eroge, and why the instant gratification that is gacha has flourished. it's also slightly different in the EN community where on top of a language barrier most LN discussion has gone to forum type sites and reddit

for something more on-topic, the latest overlord sucks, but next volume will probably be better

I tell myself I should read more LNs but I keep getting distracted by VNs and other things. Anyways, I'm in the middle of 86 right now and it's nice. Asato really likes to describe colors.

>>40621973
What's a WN?

What app should I be using for reading for LNs? I'm currently using librera reader but it feels wrong because it sort of fucks up the images

>>40625545
web novel, basically a the raw version of a light novel before it gets and editor and such

>>40625545
web novel, basically the raw version of a light novel before it gets an editor and such

>>40624272
>and why the instant gratification that is gacha has flourished
The irony of that is gacha is the opposite of instant gratification, as a f2p you are looking at months, if not nearly a year of nothing but saving for one big banner.
Even as a whale you are looking at one big gratification from getting a bunch of stuff, then 2-4 weeks of nothing until the next banner.

>>40627542
readera is the best app i have ever used, assuming you mean phone apps

>>40608689
>KoT/Emmy interlude is still taking ages to translate?
Forgive me for being a shill but nah, JNC is strangely punctual with their series. From what I've seen (at least for Dendro), they tend to publish full translation ~1 month before/after new JP vol releases, so we're directly behind them right now. Pretty sure the one taking ages to translate was the capital bombing volume instead, which I believe has quite a lot of cut content when looking at the WN raw.
>>40621973
Nah, in the case of /a/, posting LN/WN/VN without anime/manga adaptation can almost guarantee you a 3 days vacation to the real world. Hell, even posting those with a manga/anime adaptation can warrant a ban if it's obscure enough/untranslated, at least from what I've experienced.

>>40632244
that's just /a/ mods actively killing discussion whenever they can, that's nothing new

>>40565667
add
https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html

to the pastebin

>>40632120
Indeed

>>40632244
I remember one of JNC's series hitting a translation roadblock and taking unusually long for one volume, can't remember if it was Dendrogram or something else or which volume was it, I misremembered it was the KoT one because the LN keeps adapting the interludes out of order
For obvious reasons no matter how fast or good a translation is, they will always be behind the original, even if it's only one volume behind, but most series don't have that luxury, often they don't get translated at all, that's why I decided to learn japanese years ago

Do the Japanese have something like Novel Updates where I can browse and filter by tags?

>>40632120
I was looking for a foss option

>>40565667
I just read that a few days ago, it was a great read. Does anyone know where I could read the "true ghost stories" from 2chan threads that it's based on in english?

>>40579187
You can try my Z-library list: booklist.is/booklist/119096/86116e

Otherwise I would recommend rakuten, because they accept foreign cards and you can rip the epubs from the app.

>>40639895
I think https://github.com/lrorpilla/jidoujisho is the only foss option, it uses https://github.com/ttu-ttu/ebook-reader for the ebook portion of the app, but allows you to use it offline.

>>40646435
thanks for the site but it seems to be more general and have less on topic content than what was already posted. i can only guess that if i really wanted to pirate them i'd have to find some private community. and if i were to buy them i'd just use dlsite or dmm, they both also accept foreign cards though i don't know about drm, but there's always a way around that if you really care

Bit of a weird one but anyone got recommendations for a desktop bookshelf suited for LNs? Preferably tall rather than wide

>>40646502
Jidoushiho wasn't what I was looking for and the reader shits the bed, however, it comes in pretty handy thanks

>>40650938
Measure out your available space, measure out the size of your LNs and then either DIY or hit IKEA.

Looks like discussion on /a/ is fully impossible at this point.
What have you guys been reading? I tried to read some stuff that started airing this season but Kuro no Shoukanshi alone is extremely long.
I've been enjoying it, but it's still a lot for a slow reader like me.

>>40657132
The community has way too much baggage. The threads are more communal than topical.

I just finished Tanya v10. Though that's pretty old news to most people here.

>>40657132
Yeah what's up with that? I never really paid attention to LNs back when they were allowed on /a/ but why did they get the boot?

Got caught up on Saikyou Degarashi Ouji no Anyaku Teii Arasoi and it was surprisingly decent.

>>40657132
i just finished a bunch of series, but now i find myself out of things to read, which is kind of disappointing. really unsure of what to read next

>>40565667
>lol why don't you smoke weed it's good

>>40657132
Been going through some romance this past week. Date This Super Cute Me!, 2nd cutest girl in class and Gimai Seikatsu

>>40632438
Is there a program I can use to batch auto-translate an entire epub file? I've gotten used to interpreting the gibberish that pops out from reading pixiv novels.

>>40658650
I have found even copy pasting more than one paragraph breaks things on basically any translator.
Hell, often more than a single sentence was too much, I can't imagine the mess that would be throwing the entire book at once to the MTL.
I recommend you to learn japanese, obviously.

>>40657866
i think it's more about discussion being impossible with the current state of /a/ than any rule changes

>>40659200
I think what anon is asking for is a script that would take those individual bits, run them through wreplace and then deepl, and then, paragraph by paragraph, construct the whole text for you.

You'd probably have to manually set the boundaries per website, even if such a script existed. I am not aware of one, and I'm not a coder either.

With the yen melting away, I thought I could take the opportunity to buy a few books from Japan.
But the shipping costs are still killer.

And I refuse to buy digital goods.

>>40634992
unless you're referring to Clockwork Planet volume 4 which took a while because the book was fuckhuge and the translator had health problems, JNC's roadblocks IIRC are usually license contract related, they have to license series in batches of four or five books and there was a time during the height of the corona pandemic that HJ or someone else was super slow in getting new contracts signed which held up multiple series.

>>40664515
wait isn't clockwork from the same author as no game no life?
pretty sure they still have health problems to this day sadly

>>40565667
About those links would you people mind to try sort the light novels by genre?? I wanna filter all that is pertains to isekai or mmo shit genre

>>40665505
If you're immature enough to think isekai bad and filtering that is enough to filter anything that's "shit", you're in for a rude awakening.

>>40665665
God forbid anon wants to avoid a stale and overdone genre. The amount of isekai stuff worth bothering with you can count on your fingers.

>>40665948
The point is that everything is "stale and overdone", avoiding those two in particular will do nothing at all if you're already running on the modern /a/ mindset of "everything is shit unless it's SERIOUS and MATURE".

>>40666031
>The point is that everything is "stale and overdone"
It's not. Certain kinds of stories are timeless. Isekai with mmo mechanics #9999 is not one of those.

>>40666037
Those "classics" you are pointing to are in the past, the present remains "stale and overdone" and likely by trying to copy those "classics", at least for anyone with your attitude.

>>40666061
I did not type or mention "classics" once in my post.

>>40666075
What else would you describe those certain kinds of stories that are timeless then?.

>>40666096
I was obviously referring to genres with that statement. If you need a concrete example, romance. Romance stories have existed forever but it's not "stale or overdone" because it turns out people have dumb monkeybrains and those have remained interesting regardless of era.

>>40666129
>Romance stories have existed forever but it's not "stale or overdone"
hahahahahaha

>>40666129
Every single genre is stale and overdone, all of them, the only difference is you are exposed way more often to the dregs of the two genres you complain about because that's what your manga aggregators keep feeding you.
Not only that but anime/manga adaptations are always butchered versions of the original stories for the worse, which ruins stuff you may have otherwise possibly liked.

>>40666163
>Every single genre is stale and overdone, all of them
You're just being dumb and cynical. With that attitude, why enjoy anything anymore.

>>40666163
>the only difference is
That he likes one genre and doesn't like the other. So he accepts some cliches, but not others.

>>40666180
On the contrary, I do enjoy stuff, but because I'm not obsessed with a sense of quality or originality.
If I don't like something I drop it and forget about it, and that's that, I have also read a lot of stuff from genres I would have never expected to like, so I know being critical of "genres" instead of judging stories individually is pointless.
>>40666182
TLDR yeah I guess.

>>40666182
Duh?

>>40666213
It's completely normal to dislike a genre. I doubt you actually read BSDM fiction or some shit like that.

>>40666254
one thing is being neutral and not interested and another is being a brainlet and hating it, and you aren't neutral

>>40666254
This discussion didn't start from "I don't like this genre".
It started from "this genre is stale and overdone".

>>40666254
>Moving the goalposts.
Lol.

>>40666287
This is just retarded semantics. Everyone has genres they don't like.

>>40666299
"This genre is stale and overdone" is a way of expressing "I don't like this genre". This discussion actually started because some anon called another anon "immature" for not liking a genre.

>>40666325
now you're just backpedaling after getting btfo lol
just go back to circlejerk somewhere else you know has people that already agree

>>40666368
Most of this argument has been just strawman against me. If you love isekai, good for you but that's not everyone.

>>40666398
I don't mind Isekai yet it irks me to read the popular Isekai out there I can't explain why, Maybe I am contrarian. which by pure chance I am glad I have completed as one of my first isekai novel Jobless Reincarnation back in 2015. But with the sudden popularity thanks to anime and burnout from Isekai content I wouldn't want to touch the series at all last year (in the new decade to be exact)

>>40666587
It depends for me. Strictly speaking, isekai as in "protagonist gets transported to another world" is fine. I quite enjoy Youjo Senki as an obvious example. But something like "MC gets transported to lame fantasy world with mmo mechanics" and variations of that are no-gos for me.

>>40669090
i couldn't enjoy youjo senki even after everyone praised it, the first arc was a good hook then it became a bit too much what felt was pointless meandering

>>40669343
Youjo Senki has some pretty big flaws imo. Stuff like the few sections with the Andrew journalist/reporter guy (I think that was his name) strike me as completely unnecessary and not really well thought out. Mary Sue was a nice idea and setup, but the author still hasn't done anything meaningful with her character yet. She's kind of just annoying.

The good points are Tanya herself, the author's narration/voice (I find it funny), and the war autism. I do wonder how some of these plot threads are going to be wrapped up though. A lot of stuff was only very lightly touched on and doesn't really seem that well incorporated into the story thus far.

>>40669343
Same but for Mushoku Tensei, the first 6 volumes were a fun road trip, then it crashes and burns and I stopped caring.
I guess that's what happens when I read something shilled to me for not having game mechanics, I feel like too often people fall into the trap of blaming individual elements for that particular writer simply being shit and they over-correct into the other way, praising things like Mushoku despite everything.

i hate side stories so absurdly much
why do authors insist upon including them? let alone 30-50 pages of them?

>>40670106
most of the time is extra content that wasn't previously in the wn and for people that already liked the story

>>40670121
okay, i just read this line in a side story, and the absurdity of it made reading it worth it
>In Gamerica, there were annual hot dog eating contests.
>Even though so many lives could be saved with a single hot dog, those people consumed them needlessly.

>>40670106
At the end of LNs, you mean?
Yeah, they mostly seem meaningless and boring.
They are like fanservice episodes without the fanservice.

I think it's because they are bonus content that are limited in length and must not move the plot or provide important information. There is not much you can do with them.

>>40673069
it's especially annoying because sometimes the authors include important bits in them, so i can't just skip them all outright

why are the characters in light novels such herbivores?

>>40679863
Because books are made out of plant fibers?

>>40679863
Are they? Thanks to arifureta almost the entire 2010's generation of MCs had sex unless the story outright ignored sexuality and romantic relationships.

if i read one more light novel that decides to turn into a cook book halfway through i might just explode

>>40681492
those are common?

>>40681557
yes, for whatever reason they love to spend pages and pages and pages in otherwise good books just talking about the characters preparing food. it's ridiculous

>>40681492
>>40681569
I thought blabbing about food was just a VN thing. Now you're making me think it's inherent in all jap writers.

>>40681569
What I want to know is why complaints about jp media are always the same trite cookie cutter vague complaints about no series particular from someone easily triggered by mundane stuff.

>>40683718
westoids looking to bitch about something to attention whore and virtue signal their good taste

>>40683718
To add to what >>40683739 said, it's a combination of multiple factors, it's the factor of trying to fit in with other snobs, not-so-secretly actually hating other cultures, particularly japanese one, and the expectation all media has to play out like an oscar-bait hollywood movie to be "good".

>>40599186
>TRPG Build
been reading around impressions of it after having caught up and one of the weirdest opinions I've read more than once is that the Henderson Scale 1.0 stories are invalid or otherwise bad because they didn't actually happen or they're non canon. Like, why is having alternative path side stories a bad thing in itself? I've never read people hating on VNs having multiple endings/routes just because they "didn't happen".

>>40686593
>because they didn't actually happen or they're non canon
I don't think you were talking to someone that knows what canon means in the first place.
If the author wrote it, it's canon, this is not up to debate, unless they deleted it or otherwise "un-published" it, then that's a different debate altogether..
Now if it happened on the main timeline or not, and if it was erased by time travel or not is another thing entirely and what should be debated, and not necessarily a bad thing, it's just a plot device, even if it's a plot device for a timeline that is "dead" or abandoned by the author because it's a what if story, that's still not necessarily a bad thing..

>>40683718
it's literally just annoying

>>40689316
works on my machine
sounds like a (you) problem

Started this series recently, on Vol 3 now. Enjoying the premise and pacing, also MC's just a cool dude.

>>40689745
Noah-sama...

>>40689745
god i wish there were more god(des) x human mc stories

>>40690970
same, if only for the shitshows that easily invites, and i do mean actual shitshows like kuroki's novel, not meme ones like konosuba

>>40689745
I liked the guy's autism.

>>40690970
The best, if you willing to ignore harem aspect.

>>40698718
god, harem shit really is the worst

>>40703390
What an original opinion that wouldn't be found anywhere on the internet.
Truly a groundbreaking brave comment going against the crowd.
Everyone stood up and clapped.
Seriously, if you are going to act like a cookie cutter f/a/ggot then stick to /a/.

fucking love isekai harem

>>40705228
same

I prefer harem without isekai.

>>40715265
That reminds me date a live ended long ago and I still haven't read it, I just sorta stopped caring when it got too dark.
A shame too, paper was my favorite and I don't even know what ended up happening to her.

if i see a clockfag being a fucking faggot one more time i'm going to have a fucking melty

>>40715404
don't worry anon it's ok to be gay, no one will judge you here

anyone know where to find this series? looks like a nice change of pace from the usual 中世ヨロッパ isekai

>>40718257
It's the exact same pace.
It's got a different coat of paint.

>>40718257
Like the other anon said, it's basically the same with a different coat of paint, but I'm aware sometimes said paint and aesthetics can make a big difference.
To answer your question, it's 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
In english that would be: Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship!, or just Space Mercenary.
Now, if your question was where to read it, then the usual, in english go to justlightnovels dot com or jnovels also dot com, there's plenty of sites but those are the most newfag friendly.

>>40720179
thanks anon but i really just meant to ask if anyone has the japanese epubs before i end up buying them myself

>>40720192
try reading the thread, it won't take long i promise

>>40720192
It was just a quick search but the usual raw sites only have the manga.

>>40720245
What's your point?

>>40720281
that the only places anyone knows with content were already mentioned but someone already mentioned the results so whatever

>>40720495
akshually depending on the series you can go on a dive to try get the raws from obscure blogs but that's on a case by case thing, they aren't aggregators
it's also a massive pain in the ass and almost never actually leads to much
but yes if someone can't be bothered to read the thread, i doubt they would be able to go on that dive either

>>40720495
>>40721094
i already know about all of the obvious sites i was asking on the off chance that someone knows a sekrit club where they happen to be shared or has simply bought them

>>40721859
the sekrit clubs are jp only, so not only you have to be fluent in japanese, they are also very closed, it's almost impossible to get in or even find them in the first place
all i know is they are on discord and that's from jp 4chan threads

>>40715333
don't bother, the story went full fucking deranged schizo suffering
if you can stand that sort of shit i would say it's still worth reading just for the schizo shit, if not then don't bother, it's not really worth it

>>40592193
Buying goods, books, etc. from Japan has become extremely annoying because of the shipping cost and time, plus the increasing taxes, controls and delays at customs.

>>40726501
dunno man, i've been ordering from cdjapan for years and haven't had any problems, even in recent weeks
got another package on the way too

>>40726552
Same here (american). It probably varies by country.

>>40726741
Being a third worlder sucks, sometimes the shipping is twice as expensive as the product in the first place.

>>40726552
>>40726741
It really depends by country, sometimes even by store.

Isn't it weird how someone will watch a show or read a manga, say they really like it, then refuse tooth and nail to read the source material?.
Why does this happen so often? The most common excuse I see is it takes too much effort but given it's just reading I don't see how.

>>40565667
Is otherside picnic NTR? Yuri NTR is my favorite thing.

>>40732330
You don't see how reading takes more effort than watching?
Even with manga there's a lot less text to read so it's more accessible to zoomers who hated school and are terrified by paragraphs of text on a white page.

>>40735373
I really don't, sitting around watching a 12-24 episode anime with each episode taking 20-25 minutes feels like a lot more grueling effort to me, especially when it's just an abridged and cut down version of the story anyway, more so when the animation is always mediocre at best.
And if I'm going to read manga, may as well just read the novel instead for the same reasons, manga is always a cut down version of the story that skips a lot of important stuff.
In the time someone watches the first season of something, which only covers the first 2-4 volumes, I can read the entire series in full detail assuming it's up to 20 volumes, and not even reading particularly fast.

Best place to buy physicals in terms of packaging? Amazon's a bit of a mixed bag, sometimes my LNs arrive in pristine condition other times there's creases and folds here and there

>>40735477
reading takes more mental effort than just looking at a screen
you also lack the audiovisual stimulation of a show and have to produce images in your brain which, again, takes more effort than just looking at them
>In the time someone watches the first season of something, which only covers the first 2-4 volumes, I can read the entire series in full detail assuming it's up to 20 volumes, and not even reading particularly fast.
what? 12 eps * 20 minutes = 240 minutes or 4 hours are you really going to claim it takes you less than four hours to read 20 ln volumes or am i misunderstanding your post lol

>>40736516
cdjapan uses bubble wrap i've never had a crease there
honto.jp does not, i've only ordered twice from them via buyee and in the first order one book had a crease and in the second one the 帯 of a book was straight up torn (not that i care very much because i throw those out anyways but still)

>>40736599
>you also lack the audiovisual stimulation of a show and have to produce images in your brain which, again, takes more effort than just looking at them
works on my machine, i keep giving manga or anime a try and every time i end up disappointed at how it's nowhere close to being as cool as i imagined it

>>40736673
Thanks

>>40736710
i like anime because it's comfy being able to listen, and sometimes the colorful images are nice, but i can't stand manga for exactly the reasons you described. it's so slow, and really just boring to be looking at black and white images with barely any text. i prefer light novels by far

new arifureta volume when

>>40743766
isn't the main story already over

>>40744062
No, the author keeps stalling by extending the final arc.

>>40736599
I can't relate either, feels like anime has a lot of dead time and waiting around, which could be enough to fit in monologues but they never add them.

>>40732330
>Isn't it weird how someone will watch a show or read a manga, say they really like it, then refuse tooth and nail to read the source material?.
No, it isn't. It's a medium they aren't used to.

>>40752927
is it an american thing?

>>40759057
I'm not american, so it sn't.

No but really, next Arifureta volume when?.

>>40762369
from what i recall there were almost no real big changes from the WN, just some bonus stories, or was it extended writing? i forget. either way it wasn't much. and if they plan to release all the bonus after stories it'll be a century before the series is "done" anyway so you're better off not obsessing over the series

been craving to read something pretentious.
Any reccs?
pretentious as in use of extremely flowery and poetic words and stuff

>>40764095
Overlord or Mushoku Tensei maybe?.
The official translations at least.

>>40764031
not that anon but i've already finished the main story of the arifureta wn (new after stories are still being written) and i'm reading it again via the lns so i'm nonetheless wondering when the final volume will come out
but yeah you're right there's very few changes in the arifureta wn/ln compared to other series where huge portions have been rewritten, like death march for example

>>40764095
if you don't mind reading a vn instead of an ln then https://vndb.org/v13631 is what you want

>>40769686
That's surprising, in a lot of novels I have seen small changes in the LN from the WN slowly snowball into mayor changes and eventually into a completely different ending.

Speaking of Arifureta, Zero volume 6 just came out in english.

>>40565667

>>40769686
speaking of which, does anyone who read through the bonus stories know if the classmate ever goes back to her original body? i read through a few years ago and she still hadn't, it always bugged me she never seemed to care about losing her virginity there

>>40770933
>slowly snowball into mayor changes and eventually into a completely different ending
can you actually name a few series where that happens? most things i've read were things like konosuba where it's just like a 10% change/addition and maybe an extra character or two added, i don't even recall anything where the ended actually changed

>>40769686
speaking of which, does anyone who read through the bonus stories know if the classmate ever goes back to her original body? i read through some a few years ago and she still hadn't, it always bugged me she never seemed to care about losing her virginity there

>>40770933
>slowly snowball into mayor changes and eventually into a completely different ending
can you actually name a few series where that happens? most things i've read were things like konosuba where it's just like a 10% change/addition and maybe an extra character or two added, i don't even recall anything where the ended actually changed

Soon...

>>40781824
does anything cool happen in this series
i watched the anime and it seems like the stakes are just really fucking low all the time

>>40781868
It's one of the top 10 best LNs I have read exactly because it's basically cool stuff happening almost back to back with varying stakes, but I admit I have a very specific taste.
That said it's also one of the worst if not the worst anime adaptations I have ever seen.
It's so bad that most dendro readers as a joke pretend the anime isn't even real.

>>40782688
Was Tsukihime truly the first, or did the meme start earlier?

>>40782745
You mean the "there's no anime" meme? That's probably a meme as old as anime adaptations themselves.

is there any good BL written for gay men as opposed to being written for women?

>>40782745
doubt tsuki was the first, it's just the most popular due to it's popularity with ironic weebs

Oh wow this is still alive.
Anyway, I want to FUCK Komarin.
Read her novel, it's good.
That's all.

>>40781868
The stakes in Dendro depend strongly on how much you are able to invest yourself in the fate of NPCs.

>>40782688
>>40801067
Does the Dendrogram MC ever fuck his virtual goth loli

Just so you all know, the http://learnjapanese.moe discord server has a whole bunch of japanese ebooks that are not already in the djt library. People buy and share stuff privately. I've thought about liberating all of their shared books and posting them on nyaa but I don't have the time at the moment.

Post your backlogs
For me it's
ヘルモード ～やり込み好きのゲーマーは廃設定の異世界で無双する～
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
不死者の弟子
ギルドの受付嬢ですが、残業は嫌なのでボスをソロ討伐しようと思います
TRPGプレイヤーが異世界で最強ビルドを目指す

>>40807611
patreon scam

beginners if you wanna learn Japanese, follow Tatsumoto's guide to Japanese.

>>40807611
It's locked behind some meme roles last i heard so I never bothered

>>40807611
Learning materials are always a scam.
The neko guides already exist out there, there's no point in using anything else.

>>40807611
It's not learning materials, it's ebooks from Amazon

>>40808373
I'm not telling you to donate money

>>40808606
You literally just have to pass an N5 vocabulary test

>>40809030
>You literally just have to pass an N5 vocabulary test
like an actual test and post the result? or do they have their own meme test

>>40781868
Low stakes eh? Beware spoilers
>Be Foltesla, trying to avoid wageslaving as a web designer for eternity
>Found Dendro, the best escapist fantasy ever made
>Finally be a winner in life, married a qt pharmacist waifu, created a massive guild, made himself a top ranker, complete with his share of rival/bestfriend.
>Dev suddenly decided to "up the stakes," releasing a fucking Ghidorah with death aura, laserbeam of certain death, and pseudo-immortality.
>Fought said ultra instinct gear 5 za warudo bankai sage mode (insert every shounen powerup here) Ghidorah with everything he has, managing to cut off a tail and its wing before it pressed the "No U" button, shooting certain death beam to his base, indirectly killing him but long enough to let him see said beam obliterating his city.
>Can't even login to mourn since there's a death penalty of 3 in-game days. Adding on top of it, his base city is further razed to the ground after the war (anything that was left of it anyway), making it a literal death land rife with curses and undeads.
>As a not so final fuck you, best friend/rival managed to become one of the MVPs, gaining a sword fashioned after Ghidorah's fang that can shoot off its beam of certain death.
>As a technicality, his waifu's data/exp/resource has been absorbed by Ghidorah, which means that his waifu is now split into a sword, a staff, a mechanized heart, and something else (though her soul should still be alright).
>>40782688
What anime? I only ever recall youtube supplementary materials and several sick OSTs. Fuck I'm still mad
>>40781824
Is that Gerbera? Candy? Sexxs the Saint?

>read "Are You Okay With A Slightly Older Girlfriend" to self insert into the onee-san age gap fantasy
>onee-san grew up playing GBA and N64 games while the MC only started on NDS and Wii games
>I'm the motherfucking onee-san
I never asked for this

>>40811790
but are you cute anon? that's the real question

>>40810098
Gerbera.

>>40815477
At least post the tweet too.
https://twitter.com/Dendro_hj/status/1556578170903875584?cxt=HHwWgMDS3a3miZorAAAA
>HJ文庫『インフィニット・デンドログラム』最新19巻幻夢境の王　は9月1日発売！
>遂に王国のあの〈超級〉がレイに立ちはだかる!?　さらには【魔王】とついに接触することに…!!
Also 9月1日発売, he sure took a while to write the volume again.

If you're going to write a story that takes place in a game at least give me a cute girl as the MC.

>>40818423
does dendro even count as a game novel? at the start it's not even that subtle the "game" world is a real world and later on it's outright said, multiple times at that

I just finished reading the first volume of D-Genesis and I thought it was pretty good. It's less action-and-adventure than you might expect from its premise; it's more like a fantasy of suddenly becoming very wealthy and powerful. The skill-orb stuff seems pretty basic so far, but I can imagine it developing into some pretty cool stuff in later volumes. The 2nd volume is partially published on j-novel's website right now, but I'm gonna wait until it's completely done so I can download it and read it on my kindle. Hopefully it's as good as the first volume.

>>40823034
Nice, I remember that one had art trying too hard to be different, which is almost always a red flag so I skipped it.
Will give it a try now.

>>40815477
I don't know why here she looks like pure sex here but she didn't on her previous illustration.
Knowing those boobs are padded just makes her better.

Does anyone have any recs for a great, single volume LN? The only one that comes to mind is Qualia. Japanese is fine.

>>40828387
Wouldn't know, I tend to avoid anything with less than 5 volumes already out.
A one shot of only 1 volume feels too short to really get invested into it and care at all.

>>40828387
I hear Iriya no Sora is really good and is only 3 volumes

>>40828387
Try 四畳半神話大系 or NHKにようこそ！

>>40811790
I love this. reawakened my interest in ln's. and while we only have mediocre translations for "boku no kanojo sensei" it's still an enjoyable read. Gonna read "snow country hunting life" soon and hope it's comfy

>>40830478
Learn japanese.

>>40830070
he asked for just 1 volume

Does anyone know any untranslated light novels that have toilet scenes? As in, a girl using the toilet, with actual mentions of them using the toilet.

>>40843168
I'll pray for you, anon

>>40828387
Gekkou is pretty good

>>40846699
But do you know any novels with toilet scenes?

This is next on my list.

Monster Tamer is actually a lot more thoughtfully written than I would have expected from a monmusu themed "revenge" isekai.

>>40870464
im at vol. 8 i need to pick it back up some time

Did jannies put this thread on auto-sage or something?

bump

>>40870464
I want to fuck the spider.

>give MC a JC harem
>he's already basically married to a JK
we've been played for fools

>>40881030
Listened to Vol.1 of the audiobook the other day, very cute.

>>40881518
Is this an unofficial audiobook?

What’s the recommended reading order for Kawakami novels for an EOP?

>>40884756
No
https://listengo.dwango.jp/audiobook/14217066/

How come almost nobody outside Japan knows who Nisio is while someone like Murakami is read all around the globe?

>>40888095
What gets localized first tends to get popular first.
Also nisio is a soft schizo and you unironically need better reading comprehension than the average EOP has to really get most of it.

>>40828387
旅に出よう、滅びゆく世界の果てまで
夏へのトンネル、さよならの出口
少女キネマ
ヴィークルエンド
ハードボイルド・スクールデイズ
Karabe/Setoguchi books if you can find them
And pretty much any book from Seikaisha thats not a series

>>40843168
ある日、爆弾がおちてきて is a pretty cool collection of short stories
>>40897565
Been meaning to read 旅に出よう、滅びゆく世界の果てまで for a while now but a shame it doesn't have a digital version and scans seems impossible to find outside of japanese p2p

>>40828387
ある日、爆弾がおちてきて is a pretty cool collection of short stories
>>40897565
Been meaning to read 旅に出よう、滅びゆく世界の果てまで for a while now but a shame it doesn't have a digital version and it seems impossible to find scans outside of japanese p2p

>>40897952
yeah it sucks it never got in kindle, at least it's cheap second hand I think i got it for like 200 yen off mandarake

>>40897952
>>40897565
>>40854139
>>40830377
Thanks bros

>>40888095
As much as I like Nisio's writing it's just easier to convince someone to read a single, self-contained novel vs 20+ volumes about apparition lolis

>>40900601
even without apparition lolis, more than a single book is already daunting for most people

Bros I wanted to start reading the Haruhi books, would you all reccomend them ?

>>40912165
They are solid entertainment with a neat writing style. Unfortunately the author went AWOL, victim of his own success, not knowing what to do to continue/end it.

>>40912165
It's complicated, they were quite literally the konosuba of their era, so I can't in good conscience recommend them on their own.
But you sound like you already like the series, likely from the anime, so there's no reason not to read them in that case, there's way too much depth lost in the transition from (light/visual) novel to anime or manga.

I am finishing the book I'm reading right now. I was planning on starting 人類は衰退しました. Is the LN series good? I've only watched the anime but I quite liked it.

>>40743766
>>40762369
https://over-lap.co.jp/Form/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?shop=0&pid=9784824002631&vid=&cat=BNK&swrd=
it's up boys

>>40922644
Oh damn, new overlap season.
>黒の召喚士 18
>ワールド・ティーチャー 異世界式教育エージェント 16
>魔王と勇者の戦いの裏で 2
>負けヒロインと俺が付き合っていると周りから勘違いされ、幼馴染みと修羅場になった 1
>一人暮らしを始めたら、姉の友人たちが家に泊まりに来るようになった 2
And finally.
>ありふれた職業で世界最強 13

>ありふれた職業で世界最強 13
honestly, surprisingly fast compared to the usual release interval for this series

r8 my backlog

>>40923211
6/10 too much isekai

>>40923211
It unironically looks like you grabbed random stuff from the recent/popular page on a store.
Not like there's anything wrong with that but still.

New to this, are there any cases where an LN adaption is worse than the original WN or can I disregard all WNs with LN versions?

>>40923333
i don't really look at store rankings to find new stuff to read, i usually sift through publisher release catalogs and just note down stuff that looks cool

>>40923333
Post your backlog bro.

>>40923853
I've heard that there were a few titles like that, but can't remember any names. Probably anything that was axed in 1 or 2 volumes with the WN still going strong.

>>40923853
If you have to ask you probably don't care that much and can safely settle for the LN version in all cases.
Anyone autistic about liking something a lot will read both versions without being told to do so.

if you read english translations you have bigger things to worry about
if you can read japanese, it probably depends, i think it's fair to say that the wn is always going to be closer to the author's original vision, while in the ln you're getting something that has been reviewed by a professional editor. honestly, unless the author is an absolute genius writer it's probably fair to say that the ln is the better version on average

>>40924117
Editors are hilariously overrated, they only offer general advice at best, more often than not they proofread but that's it.
Unless you go deep into the sea of sub-5-volume series, you can count the series where an editor forced a change with your hands.
What actually happens is the author himself ends up changing things, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot, sometimes to "fix" previous mistakes they already know (to varying degrees of success) and sometimes because they want to do something different altogether.
And then there's the newfag authors that self-censor to try get an anime adaptation, but that's another story entirely.

>>40923867
what's the difference between the two

>>40927795
if you look at a store ranking you'll likely only take a look the top ~5-10 titles at a given moment

>>40927810
wait the seras ln is in the top 10 on amazon, really?

>>40927839
it isn't that's the point

>>40924117
>i think it's fair to say that the wn is always going to be closer to the author's original vision
"original" is overrated desu

>>40928318
t. George Lucas

>>40923853
Sometimes they get sterilized in transition to LN. I remember Tanaka lost the poo flinging part.

Does anyone have or know where I can find Nisio's Sekai-series in japanese? I've tried everywhere, but I just can't find it. And all the torrents are unseeded.

>>40932283
for better or worse, ln raws piracy is more reliable on scans rather than the epubs/pdfs

>>40681492
Fucking Seirei Gensouki. I swear half the book is all about this shit

>>40933156
that one has much bigger problems than the cooking segments

>>40933246
True. Author is just a padgod in general.

>>40775018
Kaori went to her original body after they killed the evil god at the end of the main series
Yue turned her original body into half apostle so she's every bit as strong as she were in Noint's body.

certainly are lns with quite long segments about cooking (death march comes to mind) but in general this is highly overmemed by baka gaijins
half a bunkobon page about food isn't a lot

>>40934435
That's most memes about japanese anything, some westoid has a literal "triggered" knee-jerk reaction and memes it to hell and back, and then some.

>>40923211
How are you tracking this? Looks neat.

>>40935283
notion

Lots of series I'm reading getting new volumes next month, nice.

>>40936606
isn't that every month?

>>40942095
I'm actively following around 20 series but usually it's just one or two

>>40942115
does it still count as actively following if said series is either dead or in functional hiatus and with a volume a year or longer?

>>40922480
Yes, but it's unlike most things out there. It's not about wish fulfillment, or cool action, or a harem of girls slurping MCs cock or whatever. It's just a fun little collection of comedic/absurd short stories for a large chunk of the series, narrated in a cynical way. It's also best read a volume here and there, not great for binging in a row imo.

>>40943252
There are few recommendation red flags bigger than "Unlike typical...".

>>40943252
That seems perfectly right up my alley, then. Thanks, anon.

Is there anything like VNDB but for LNs? NU is lacking and all the JP sites I've run into are more about tracking release dates and such than tagging autism.

>>40951105
Other than tracking individual store pages, I haven't found a solution yet.
There's indexes on pirate sites but that's hardly a proper solution.

>>40935845
that doesn't say much

>>40951105
light novels are too niche in the west and japanese people suck at making useful websites

>>40946576
Not just that, but anon is even comparing it to (generalized) books of a completely different genre.

It's like he's only read 2 LN series in his life, and learned more by way of whatever he read about LNs on 4chan.

>>40951105
I saw one, but when I came back it was DMCA'd

>>40963681
If it's not hosting anything why did it get DMCA?.

>>40967015
Linking has been declared illegal too, don't you know?
That's why MU removed its links to any scanlators a few years ago.

>>40967297
linking piracy groups is obviously gray area, but linking amazon pages shouldn't be a problem

>>40968756
they got dmca'd over amazon links? the fuck?

>>40923211
undead king is good stuff. strange grief is shit ton more popular sadly and editor told tsukikage to focus on that

>>40689745
rip

>>40973868
that's a terrible machine translation
the series is not canceled in case you understood it that way

>>40973868
There's a high chance a lot of posters if not most posters here straight up can read it in japanese, link the original.

>>40973868
he's talking about the wn version. nips are assmad because of how shit the ending is

>>40974032
And rightfully so. Author really tried his best to piss off the readers.

>>40975400
What's annoying is that it's clear it wasn't intentional, he truly had no clue why people were mad at what he was doing, just like he had no idea why people liked some aspects of his writing.
ZB's success was a sheer fluke, if he could read the fucking air it would have been even better, but some things are simply not meant to be.

>>40975451
And then he made Makoto lose his virginity in the most anti-climatic way possible in the afterstory. Too little too late faggot author. He should've at least let him fuck Anna and make him Noel's ancestor it would've made sense.

>>40975638
>Makoto lose his virginity
wait what? as someone that only read until the end of the main story then quit in disgust, QRD?

>>40976026
>party gets sent to some village because village keeps sacrificing children to a water god
>observe village, girls get horny as usual BUT THIS TIME they actually get to fuck Makoto without any interruption
>Lucy got first dibs because she won at rock paper scissors
>child gets sacrificed, party followed but turns out the water god is an ancient dragon acquainted to Makoto 1000 years ago
>said dragon wasn't actually asking for sacrifice, but villages keep sending them so he just chucked them in his territory and raise them there, they're grateful because ancient dragon is not an asshole unlike the village the were living in
>they come back from the mission
>Sofia heard the story and then gets horny (story ends here for now)

>>40973596
idk anything about them I'm just saying a potential lndb can link amazonjp and be in the clear

すずめの戸締まり novel drops tonight.

i've been reading tunnel to summer, exit of goodbyes. i really like the premise and the general storyline, but god the writing style and some of the scenes really reeks of angst novels that a 13 yo wrote. i don't know if it's on the translator side or that's just how the novel is written, i'm going to read the japanese version when i can get a copy.
if you can bear with the embarrassing moments, it's a great LN.

>>40980996
what's the japanese name?
> the writing style and some of the scenes really reeks of angst novels that a 13 yo wrote
that's what makes this stuff soul

>>40987381
it's 夏へのトンネル、さよならの出口. and yeah, i guess it's part of the charm.

How's 千歳くんはラムネ瓶のなか

>>40988965
thanks, i will check it out
from looking at the cover and some images i'm getting some nostalgia, is it because of the "floaty" feel maybe?

Any recent light novels with toilet scenes?

Can I comment on webnovels? Is 陰キャの僕にセフレがいる事をクラスの君達はまだ知らない good or is it "haha sex" shit

>>40995391
I don't see why not given LNs tend to come from WNs, and a WN thread would be even more dead than this.

>>40995391
>ようやく見つけたコンドームの自販機。
>やっと入手できたと思った矢先、クラスメイトの美少女で上位カーストの上原麻里花（うえはらまりか）に目撃されてしまう。
>今まで同じクラスなのに関わりの無かった上原が遠山に興味を抱き始めていた。
Just like irl

>>40996506
It could be worse.

>>40998659
The only way it could be worse is if he breaks it off with the セフレ to chases the FeMC and then the FeMC loses interest in him and the セフレ moves on to someone else

As for me, I read novels from 二次元ドリーム文庫

>>41000340
is that an actual publisher or just the store

>>41005039
it's a label/brand
the publishing company is Kill Time Communication

>Open the /a/ isekai thread to try discuss something.
>It's a ghost town with only shitposting left.
>Begrudgingly remember to check here.
>Thread is still alive.
That's surprising, usually these threads died in a few days at best.

>>41007390
These people don't understand (or refuse to accept) that shitposting begets shitposting. They blame the lack of content, and yet faggots even complain when the threads slow down.
I guess it's the fate of all generals that they will eventually be suffocated by their memes.

>>41011048
That implies they don't understand such a thing, that's clearly not true, they do in fact know that.
They simply don't care and/or is exactly what they want to happen.
For some reason a lot of westerners have this "burn it all to the ground haha funny" mentality.

>>41011109
this, i don't want to go on about politics, but almost all normalfag EOPs are insufferable with their irony layers bullshit
pretty much nobody reads "real" books either, how do you expect them to read LNs?

>>41007390
it's still pretty damn dead all things considered

>>41023061
That's totally fine. It doesn't need to be blazingly fast, but it's nice to have a thread like this around.

>>41029247
eh i agree, it would be nice if /jp/ was slower so pointless bumps were less required, but that's how it goes

>>40686651
NTA, but the TRPG author's "Henderson Scale x.y" extra stories are "What If", alternative scenarios relevant to each volume, set in the far future or at least after the MC's "campaign".
They're an entertaining read, but as that anon said, I don't see why these extra chapters would invalidate the main story.

>>41031141
The problem is that you two take the word canon to mean two different things.

Canon as in "what's written", does not necessarily mean "what happened".
The word canon comes from the Christian bible, where at some point scholars had to decide which texts to include in the canon.
The texts they agreed upon are to a degree mutually exclusive. And yet, they are all canon.
In that light, the what-ifs are canon.

"Canon" in the context of "what objectively happened in the story" is an idea that assumes that everything that is written, is also true. And as such, the what-ifs are not canon.

>>41031141
What if stories are still canon, they simply don't apply to whatever the main timeline is.
It's annoying how many people use "canon" as an argumentative bludgeon without knowing what it is, but in true english-speaker fashion the new wrong meaning is now the right one I guess.

>>40884756
This specific one isn't on there, but the japanese audible has a ton of LN audiobooks. And it's聴き放題, not individual payments, so you can just register for the free month and grab as many as you want

>>41034435
>they simply don't apply to whatever the main timeline is
yeah, the author even prefaces the chapter by saying
>The tale that follows is not from the timeline we know—but it might have been, had the dice fallen differently...

How's the translation for this?

>>41040939
>Translation made after 2015.
The answer to that question will always be "It's edited MTL or N5 making shit up tier translation at best, learn japanese".
The english translation scene, both officially and by fans, is at it's worst it's ever been.
Yes, it's even worse than back then when those awful JRPG translations existed, because at least those were actually trying.

ye if you want to read light novels unironically there's really no way past learning how to decipher nipponese chicken scratches

New dendro soon, right?.

New Yue soon.

>>41046383
who's going to be on the cover?

>>41047761
>cover and preview image still not out
dammit

>>41047761
Shea probably
Or Myuu

any recommendations for something that has sex? i don't care if it's explicit or fade to black shit. something like arifureta or the confinement king WN which i read recently and liked

also read through a bit of 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 and it quickly goes to shit
>hey let's do something totally different and have it take place in space with ships
>now lets add elves and dwarves
>nobles who are exclusively into swordfighting sounds great too
>for icing on the cake lets add magic
you can pretty much guess where this goes

>>41049913
I don't understand the fixation with sex specifically.
With romantic progress I understand, given otaku stories tend to be character driven and romance is pretty much the prime example of something being character driven.
But why sex in particular? Especially when often the want for sex is not related to romance at all, just the act of sex itself..

>>41050513
i just don't want to read through 20 volumes with MC not sure if he wants to hold a girls hand or not, i've already read tons of that and just want a change of pace

>>41049913
shijou saikyou orc-san, death march, the smartphone isekai, cheat na yome, monster no goshujin-sama, hachinan, genjitsu shugi yuusha, mushoku tensei

>>41050875
But one doesn't exclude the other.
There are plenty of stories with sex that have a really slow start, or harem stories with sex where the protagonist is insecure about every new girl. You just brought one up.

Before the thread dies, does anyone want any changes to the next OP?.

>>41052485
Surprise me.