Light novels and Manga

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>>111430287
Does it have to be translated?

Also based GA bunko I'm not reading this though.

>>111430287
>>>/r/eddit

>>111430287
I'm reading Gate, but the manga only.

I don't like LNs

>>111430668

My Japanese is quite poor. It can take me several hours to read just one chapter. I frequently have to refer to a dictonary, and sometimes even ask in chat-rooms for particularly difficult phrasing. according to some native speakers I met there, some light-novelists use weird/incorrect Japanese which makes it difficult for people my level.

But if you speak Japanese yourself, I don't expect you to know which ones have English translations, so just post any you think I might like. I'll check them myself, and if they don't have a translation project going now I'll add them to my list to read later.

>>111430721
I prefer manga too, but I struggle to find any new ones to read; I read a lot, you see; have had to expand to LNs now too.

By all means, recommend me any Manga or Anime you think Id enjoy and I'll give them a try.

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>>111430287
Reading Rokka no Yuusha and Magdala de Nemure. Both are enjoyable.

>rec thread
>I only read mature manga for mature manga readers such as myself
Fuck off and learn how to google.

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I'm really disappointed that Apocalypse Alice vol3 didn't show up on the charts, I hope it won't get canned

>>111431206
Cool, I heard about Rokka, and tried the Magdala manga before. dropped it for some reason;;;; can't remember why, but since you've reminded me I'll give it another go, and try Rokka too.

Is it the manga or the LN you're enjoying?

>>111431298
Teach me, shisho!

>>111431320
Oh yeah, I'm following the manga on batoto; didn't know it had a LN. I'll give that a go too~

Surprisingly /a/ is much better for this kind of thing than /r/ or /jp/ !

>>111431298
I didn't indent to sound condescending or act elitist. The series I listed are all fantasy manga, not what most people would call 'mature' - I was only pointing out what I enjoy about them so that it would be easier to empathize with my tastes.

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>>111431344
LNs. Pic related was pretty enjoyable too.

Picked up the Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon LN since I finally got around to finishing the second season of the anime the other day.

It's not as horrible as my previous experiences with LN, but it still awkward to read. I guess I'll just read whatever the anime covered and then drop it to wait for more seasons.

>>111431734
Hnng. Don't tease me~. What's the novel called? I can't even backwards image-search it because the file is too big ._.

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>>111430862
If you like sci-fi, nothing tops this, not even Kawakami's stuff.

I'm trying to motivate myself to learn moon so I can read this trap LN.

I wanted to start Horizon but I'll save that for later.

>>111431320
Making the cover a spoiler goes a bit too far.

>>111431734
I read the title and thought of Twilight then I didn't bother, then again Bungaku Shoujo wasn't really my thing either.

>>111432384
Eh? It reverse searches just fine. Since I already did it, it's ???????????????????

>>111431734
How do you extract images from bookwalker

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>>111432066
???????????????????

>>111432417
9S was decent, but nowhere close to top. Know and Jintai are up there.

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>>111432976
Just save the preview images, nothing to extract. Not him, though.

>>111430287
Currently catching up to DanMachi.

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>>111433039
>??????JA
Ooooh, consider my interest piqued. By Jintai do you mean Jinrui Suitai? Not a huge fan of that one if that's the case.

>>111431734
>>111432955
Thanks.

Kyuuketsuki ni natta kimi wa eien no ai wo hajimeru, right?

can't find this one in English. Is it around? otherwise I'll add it to my list to read later.

>>111433045
How do you even save the images? You can't really right click the pictures.

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Reading this but I feel like it could have had so much more potential. Oh well, I guess I'll reserve my judgement till the end of Vol 2.

>>111433552
I don't think so.

>>111433559
Tools - Page Info.

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>>111431320
Why are you so surprised?
Vol 3 is fanfiction tier garbage.

>>111430287
Recommendation thread? Really? You do not have google subscription?

>>111432417
Does 9S have an English translation? or could you point me to some raws? Google stubbornly refuses to give me any information when it comes to short, common names.

>>111433559
Don't go to the sample page, just stay on the description page and right click - page info

>>111433648
By preview you mean tachiyomi right? The Page Info only give me a tiny picture of the cover only, what does yours look like?

>>111433699
If the spoilers I read are true, then yes, it's pure bullshit.
I didn't like the development of the first two already, so it doesn't really surprise me.
The author seems to simply write this LN to pull some stupid shit at the and for the sake of a forced twist.

>>111433927
You simply go to page info at the main page of the LN, not the web preview.

>>111433904
Oh fucking wow, thanks.

>>111433045
Oh, thanks. Yeah I'm reading the manga of DanManchi. The novel seems to have 1 volume translated on baka-tsuki.

>>111433850
http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=9S
I refuse to believe you can't find the raws, don't be lazy anon.

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>>111434067
The novel translation is currently at the third chapter of volume three.

>>111434077
i seriously couldn't find anything, I was searching for '9S', '9s novel' 'read 9s novel' '9s novel chapter 1' '9Snovel translation' '9s novel raws', ' 9S??????? read' ' 9S??????? raws' etc with the only result being from myanimelist. Is there another way other than google?

>>111434262
Did you stitch that?

A new DanMachi manga's coming by the way focusing on the gods, I guess GA feel like they need to help boost Hestia's popularity.

>>111434421
Yes, putting bookwalker samples together is easy since they nearly always fit perfectly.

>>111434410
Anon ... if you're searching for the raw, why are you not using ???? instead of "novel raws"? And why aren't you adding the authors' names (yes 9s' "author" is actually a 2 person team).

Hell, I'm pretty sure jcafe has them all even if your google-fu massively fails.

>>111434410
nyaa seems to have it?
when you google try 9S ?01? or similar.

>>111434262
solitary translations, ay. I'm rapidly losing faith in my google-ing skills...

>>111434502
Any other stitches that you have? I wouldn't mind them all. I need everything to help me divert my attention from the wait until November when volume 6 drops.

>>111433959
The first two volumes seemed like absolute bullshit and the plot twists are even more retarded. His other work was pretty bad too.

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>>111434647
Not for DanMachi, since the first 4 volumes have no good previews.
Only from a bunch of other novels, I just randomly save them.

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>>111434262
Shit, I was upset that BT had to drop it. This is fucking great. Thanks anon.

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>>111434764
Fuck, oh well. November needs to come right now.
>?????? ??
>??????????????
>????????????? ?????????&???Ver.2
>?????????(NOCO????????????????????Ki????????)???????????
Volume 6's gonna be great like volume 3 in terms of bonus.

Hopefully 4koma doesn't disappoint.

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>>111435073
Thanks a lot, for all of these.

>>111434948
>>111434262
What are these wide images for?
>>111434421
>>111435113

what are stitches?

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>>111434948
>>111435006
>>111435034
>>111435073
>>111435113
Based anon, have a bonus booklet from volume 5 (different than the one Solitary Translation translated).

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Stitch anon if you're still there do you have the Oratoria Volume 1 stuff from bookwalker?

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I've been reading all available volumes of One Turn Kill and now the wait for the 4th volume seems endless.

>>111436940
How is it? I don't really have enough motivation to read machine translations and Deus Ex translations is pretty fast so I'm only on the part where the shota "genius knight" gets rekt.

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>>111436277
The samples for that are pretty small and shitty; and you will see where they were put together.
Just hope the other anon is still around.

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>>111437198
It... actually became one of my most favourite reads. It stays true to its theme with Yuri being the world's strongest. the author lies to explore the concept of "strongest" and it shows. While it is not perfect I think the author does a good job of describing different approaches to the notion of being "strongest".

It has character development, exposition, characters have interesting backstories and I like this author's writing style. And holy fuck all those plot points in volume 3. I really liked that one, it's got some story going and new ones bein set up -- on speed.

>>111437702
likes, not lies, pardon me

>>111437466
>>111437409
Ah, these are still good, thanks.

>>111437466
>>111437409
>>111436277

Wait, the artist changed to the one from Index?

>>111438121
Only for the spinoff.

>>111438200
Oh, I see. Index's illustrator style feels less sexy for it's also lovely so I guess it's fine.

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>>111438290
Yeah, it's good enough.

>>111430287
how many of these don't read like masturbation works?

>>111439524
The award winning/nominated ones.

would you kiss a shota elf even if there was a little bit of snot left on her lips after crying

>>111439986
>shota
>her
What?

>>111439524
It actually has a surprisingly intriguing plot for being a "masturbatory novel"

>>111430287
I'm reading Mushoku Tensei and I question why people think Rudy is a Gary Stu?

The entire series is about his development and the guy keeps running into pit-falls and problems throughout the series. He's skilled but he's not OP, shown to be perfect, or excels at everything.

Now Rou from Re:monster now that's a Gary Stu like it anyway

>>111430287
Arifureta
Mushoku Tensei
Ark
Legendary Moonlight Sculptor
Re:Monster
Master of Monster
Stellar Transformation
Tate no Yuusha
Slave harem
EC

Maximum wish fulfillment.

>>111440784
It's more on how the story is laid out, everything is geared on giving you cheap accomplishment feelings. It's fun and satisfying to read through, but you wouldn't say that it was a good solid story. But at the very least, it's a league above the typical harem stories.

But he's not really a Gary Stu, at least maybe until his magic power was referenced to be as strong as Laplace's. This felt more like a given talent rather than due to working his ass off since he was a baby. I'd have like him to still be good but not the best magician, only getting by because he's using modern concepts to better utilize his magic (armor piercing designs for his rock bullet).

>>111441138
>Slave harem
If only the MC was bearable. I mean, I'm used to putting up with fucking stupid protagonists, but he can't even hold a conversation or provide fun narrative. He just responds "I see" to everything and bam, end of conversation.

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>>111430287
I was thinking about picking this up, because I like one the author's other manga. Maybe I'll finally get around to reading the novel too.

>>111441313
though even as the best mage ever for the most part he's still a squishy wizard.

though so far I only read volume 3 so far so he'll probably be more broken in later volumes.

>>111441911
>>111441313
He's pretty overpowered, but it's presented in a weirdly realistic way. Like, the things he does make enough sense within the scope of his abilities that you kinda react with "yes, of course" instead of "that's totally bullshit". His hax are rare, not impossible. This distances him somewhat from common Stus these days.

Plus he's a perv, frequently fails at what he's trying to do, and the universe is fucking with him.

Caught up with Antimagic. Don't know what I should read next, but I still have 25~ novels to catch up.

>>111430287
Why do the illustrations stop after volume 3? They were so charming.

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I can't stop checking the progress several times a day.

>>111445179
It's great having the app on my phone. It autochecks for any updates every 15 minutes.

>>111444952
I didn't see any of the illustrations until I'd read 4 volumes. Now I don't really care for them because of how hard they deviate from my mind.

>>111445179
What's with the translations being all over the place? This is worse than DAL, at least DAL doesn't have 20 volumes.

>>111445179
Same here.
>>111444952
The published novel only goes to volume 4. The rest is the web novel which does not have illustrations.

>>111445274
There's like 10 translators on this project and not enough editors and most of them are doing whatever the fuck they want.

>>111445179
Chapter 82 is complete, though.
Who added the incomplete tag?

>>111430287
Why do I keep hearing that bad things like reincarnation and EVERYONE DIES and NTR and suicide and other ungodly and awful things are happening in this?

>>111445546
Because it's true.

>>111445808
Please no.

>>111445862
Those are lies.

>>111445862
It's a gigantic spoiler so I won't tell.

>>111445862
Just read it yourself

>>111446006
I have read it up to where it's translated so I assumed it was either a lie or farther into the story.

>>111446077
happens in an alternate universe that's all Ill say

>>111430287
Light novels:
Reading: Mushuko tensei, heavy object, Gun-Ota ga Mahou Sekai ni Tensei shitara, Gendai Heiki de Guntai Harem wo Tsukucchaimashita!?, Re:Monster

Translating in my spare time: psycho love comedy; it's total shit, the author blows hardcore might give up translating it.

Dropped: No game No life, esthetica of a rouge hero, more but I forgot.

Manga: I'm not gay or rich lol all anybody scanlates nowadays is shitty shoujo, joshit with horrible pacing/story telling and yaoi

But I am reading Tate No Yusha, Koe no Kitachi, Arachnid, Suicide Island, Akame ga kill and a couple minor seinen series I got bookmarked but can't remember the names off hand... when they come out of course.

Oh and Wakusei no samidare's author's new manga sprit circle is k-k-k-kool

>>111446167
>Translating in my spare time: psycho love comedy; it's total shit, the author blows hardcore might give up translating it.
Seriously? The first volume was dumb fun but I was afraid it would go nowhere.

>>111446167
Why does psycho suck? Spoil me.

>>111446269
And that's it.
2-3 are absolute shit.

Not him, so I dunno if 4-5 and the upcoming, supposedly last volume will be better

Excuse me for forgetting, but there's one LN that is mentioned every once and a while that seems to be unanimously liked and I've forgotten the name. I know it's structured, at least early on, with paragraphs headed by things like "1st Time", "102nd Time", or "16,354th Time". It gives me the impression that it's a time loop sort of story.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

>>111446671
Hakomari.

>>111445862
Don't worry. That's all I can say without giving spoilers.

>>111446748
"Don't worry, it is much worse." is what he meant to say.
Without giving specifics.

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>>111430287
That Kaito dude translating Mushoku is a monster.
If he can keep this up, and with the help of the other translators, this will be caught up in no time.

Zashiki Warashi in tits village should be all about Shinobu solving packages and youkai comedy, because the rest sucks. Especially the stronger-than-youkai Mary Sue.

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>>111442669
>Plus he's a perv

Which is ok because he's Paul's son

pic related, Paul Greyrat in his youth

>>111430287
>This series

I WISH THE TL NOTES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DAMN SERIES WOULD FUCKING STOP ALREADY

>>111447751
They stop, it's only that first translator.

>>111447620
Paul was already pretty young when Rudeus was born.

>>111441313
How so? People think he's blessed with talent, Rudy and us as readers know that he got to where he was through pure hard work.

Talking about Mushoku Tensei,without spoiling too much, how mad does Eris gets when she finds that Rudeus is married with Sylphy

>>111447827
It depends on the translator. Some of the others do stupid notes too.

>>111447943
Yeah Paul was like 19 when Rudy was born which makes him younger than Rance during Sengoku.

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Anyone know if there are scans out for the 2nd and 3rd book of Fairy Tale Chronicles?

>all my favourite LNs aren't translated

Learning a language is so annoying.

>>111448194
Actually she takes it rather well; he sends her a letter and she just kind of stands there blankly as her friend reads it out for her (she's been doing nothing but swinging swords since they separated and forgot how to read). Then they find a second page that says "P.S. I am going to fight Orstead, so I might be dead by the time you come over to talk this out with me." and she immediately takes off to help him with the fight.

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>>111448247
They aren't. How is that, by the way? I've been meaning to read it but I've had it on low priority.

>>111448194
Very upset. Well she finds out from a letter Rudy sends her. In which he mentions that he married two girls who he loves and who he won't leave, but if Eris still cares about him, he and his wives are prepared to accept her as the third wife.

It turns around when she reads the second page of the letter. Where Rudy says that he's going to go challenge the Dragon God Orsted so by the time the letter reaches her he might have already died but if he managed to survive he'll write again. Eris gets a manic gleam in her eye and basically rushes to head to Rudy's side since the entire reason she was training was to fight Orsted with Rudy.

Probably more detailed than you wanted. Think that chapter is translated though.

>>111448294
This is because most translators have shit taste (or attention whores who only pick up books that plebs flock to).

Reminder that Roxy is the best girl

>>111448403
Yeah that chapter is translated, it's 159.

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>>111448425
Roxy = Sylphy = Eris = Aisha

Any LNs with cute shota suffering?

>>111448524
I can accept that.

>>111448379
I don't know. I held off cause I wanted to make sure it's not shit a few volumes down the road, but no scans despite decent sales and rating. Quite a shame really.

Among the "new generation" of Narou stuff this, DanMachi, and Knight's and Magic are the only ones getting public attention (at least on-going ones).

>>111448537
for that Mushoku Tensei LN we keep circlejerking MC is a shota for most of the series and he does suffer quite a lot.

>>111449011
>Most
Maybe most of the translated bits. He stopped being a shota after volume 6 if he was even still one there, he was almost 13 by the end of volume 6 after all.

>>111448228
So he's as old as Rance was when Rance fathered his firstborn.

>>111449285
Dark Rance was around then? I always forget about him.

>>111449355
He knocked up Feliss in 5D which was when Rance was 19.

>mfw I literally saw this thread on lit an hour ago

>>111450041
did they trash it?

>>111450041
>lit
Was it ignored or shitposted to death?

Oh shit, didn't expect the new zmuunjali translation of vol 19 would actually be readable.

>>111450125
>>111450131
>>>/lit/5225043

>>111448379
DanMachi was from narou?

>>111450041
OP also posted on /r/ and /jp/ as well.

Think the thread on /r/ 404ed but the one on /jp/ still exists.

>>111452191
Was on Arcadia the earliest, on Narou very briefly like 3-4 months max? It was ranked like 300 something according to 2ch.

>>111452823
Yeah I found it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120411144322/http://ncode.syosetu.com/n8625u/

Shame the author deleted his novel.

>>111452896
Why? Novel's past the web.

>>111452896
>???????????????????????????????
>????????
>?????????
>???????
Cool.

What happened to all the Re:Monster translation? It was a day per day thing for a long time and now: nothing.

>>111453347
All abandoned in favor of Mushoku

>>111454293
It really is on the level of fanaticism

>>111453347
>>111454293

What about Japtem? They just released a chapter of Re:Monster a few days ago

>>111454401
I'm not really understanding the popularity. The pace that they're going it, you would think it's the next SAO or something, but sale is only average at best over at Japan. Despite being top at Narou, it isn't that good commercialization wise.

Lots of people like it over here, so the series must be doing something right, since I also don't depend on translations, I don't really care where the effort is spent.

>>111442669
He doesnt really feel like a stu after seeing orsted rekt him

>>111454401
>>111454293
I guess the translators moved on to Mushoku or Arifureta Shokugyo. I don't blame them, those two are better than Re:Monster.

>>111454745
>Arifureta Shokugyo
I'm going to read it since someone said it was quite decent.

Can't read nihongo so I depend on translations.

>>111448524
norn a shit

>>111454973
Good luck reading through those horrible translations.

Nothing feels permanent in Mushoku, the fact he can freaking time travels means even if he fucked up he can alter different continuities. In this aspect, Re: Zero and All You Need Is Kill are way better.

>>111454706
It's probably a lot of people's first exposure to the reincarnation genre, plus it's pretty good. It's also rather fresh compared to a lot of LNs; Rudy gets shit done and dicks multiple girls, something 90% of all LN protagonists can't boast.
Still, it's very wish-fulfillment, and stuff like that gets a lot of flak, so I really don't know. People must really love it.
I did read the first LN myself in one day, and that was the first time in months I read an LN for more than maybe 15 minutes before putting it down.

>>111455068
You should have spoiler that shit

>>111454589
Japtem uses Re:translation's translations.

>>111454973
>>111455063

I'm depending on these translations too.

Especially if I find !*@# up translation, I go to the original webnovel page and try to get the real meaning with tools like mecab, jparser on Translation Aggregator

>>111455229
>Rudy gets shit done and dicks multiple girls
I feel this is the main point.

But it is also very retarded, like that one time he was emofagging and someone actually he would get better by shagging up a girl, and the girl just went and offered herself. Viola, he cheered up.

>it's pretty good
It's cool that you enjoy it, but I really have to completely disagree with you here.

Eris worst girl

Sylph purest waifu

>>111455571
>confusing emofaggotry with genuine ED-inducing post-coitus trauma

>>111455571
>not having a hard-on from based Fitts-senpai
Are you gay anon?

>>111430287
I've just read the early volumes and I must say that the first volume is spectacularly comfy (Zenith's side-story most notably), satisfying and fun to read. Maybe it's the lack of proper high fantasy settings right out of an RPG. The summary alone doesn't do this series justice.

But then I read volume 2. There's a large drop in quality; the plot then felt like a playthrough of some sort of princess maker/dating sim hybrid, which is bad. I disliked Eris for being excessively bitchy at first but I expected her to develop into a likable tsundere; instead her dere switch got permanently flipped. Rudeus becomes annoying to watch as seemingly more of the world revolves around him (especially in his birthday party). He stops to feel like a proper reincarnation MC and becomes Gary Stu-ish, although I'll most likely bear it for another volume. The delivery of the world history chronology is a complete chore to read through (not to mention somewhat cringeworthy). The rough translation doesn't help.

Does the story get better, /a/?

>>111430287
where do you read that manga?

>>111455926

It does get better.
Personally I didn't really like V2 all that much either.

>>111455981
novel*

>>111455926
Just read until vol 6 and see whether it still interest you or not. There's also this thing called turning point which marks genre shift of the story. For example, the first turning point changed the story from simple daily life to adventures and the second one to school life antics.

>>111455926
>Does the story get better, /a/?
No, even the author admits so later on that he's slipping; however, this is back April or so. The only thing's the 4p action later on, honestly you're better off reading porn if you're gunning for that.

Everyone here will obviously tell you otherwise though.

>>111456322
I've yet to see "everyone" sing outright praises for the novel, anon. Seems to me that "everyone" recognizes its flawed.

>>111456448
Anon, it's a figure of speech.

>>111455926
No.

>>111456186
baka-tsuki

>>111455068
First, spoiler that shit. Second, not really. There are two things wrong with your theory. First of all, the current Rudeus doesn't know how to time travel and it presumably takes decades of research for future Rudy to learn. That means if he dies, there's no reset. Hell, even if he doesn't die, there's no guarantee current Rudy will figure out how to reset. Lastly, Hitogami now knows that Rudy can time travel, and can thus kill him to prevent that if necessary.

Secondly, it seems like the time travel is of the multiple-worlds type of time travel. So, even if Rudy goes back into the past, "he" as in the person traveling, will still experience all the hardships and die (due to insufficient mana). Saying he can just "reset" is like saying you can reincarnate if somebody killed you and then created a clone with your exact memories; the "originial you" is still dead.

>>111455571
>But it is also very retarded, like that one time he was emofagging and someone actually he would get better by shagging up a girl, and the girl just went and offered herself. Viola, he cheered up.

The only reason why he "stood up" was because it was Sylphy and a lot of very expensive aphrodisiac. He went through a shit-ton of attempts with other girls before this happened so it wasn't just any random girl.

>>111456806
I'd imagine if Rudy time traveled a few times he would bring a bunch of diaries with him.

Also I don't think he can kill him directly because of his strong fate, but he probably can manipulate shit so that he wouldn't be able to learn it during his lifetime.

>>111455068

I Believe I read that either when he time travelled his body got destroyed because of it. OR he time travelled after he got his shit rekt by hitogami and time travelled in a desperation move to warn his past self

>>111457521
You need to use spoiler tags. It was the time travel itself that killed him. He never figured out how to even reach Hitogami in his dimension thing.

>Pick Up Arifureta
>Hajime seems like a nice guy who gets bullied.
>Girl likes him because he peacefully saved a kid and old lady without throwing a single punch.

>Gets Betrayed
>Loses an arm
>almost goes insane.
>Changes his motto to: "If they get in my way, kill them. Fuck everything else."

The reunion between him and Kaori+Company is not gonna be a happy one.

>>111457759
It actually was. By the time they meet again, Yue, Shia, and don't forget Myuu had mellowed Hajime out quite a bit compared to what he was like in Orcus before meeting Yue. The only person that really caused issues was Kouki because he's a dipshit that couldn't accept that Kaori likes Hajime.

>>111456923
>very expensive aphrodisiac
>wasn't just any random girl
I'm sorry but that's just masturbatory fanfiction material. Very poor attempt to show alphaness because he can dick all of the girls, but he's still pure that he only can only get it up with the destined waifu bullshit.

How does shit like this get published? I hope it's bombing.

>>111454589
you fucking retard dipshit JAPTEM IS NOT TRANSLATING RE:MONSTER, just for some reason they post the translations the group worked on.

>>111457962
What a great degree of moving the goal posts.

I guess the series has gotten too talked about here. Getting the stupid trolls now.

>>111458118
After having at least 2 threads that reached bump limit it was bound to happen.

>>111457962
Doesn't sound like you have read any of it

>>111458118
Can't blame them though, every LN thread I come in nowadays are filled with Mushoku Tensei discussion because most of /a/ can't into moon and this is the series that's getting most translation love at the moment.

It's kinda lame that >>111433039 is the only new title I got even hours later from this thread. Actually, I should be happy I even got one this time around, as most of the other LN threads are repetition of the same titles and how people want to read them but can't.

>>111458373

Feels good learning moon and reading all the shit you wanted to read for a while and finding them to be damn awful or passable.

>>111458448
How long did it take before you can read comfortably

>>111457860
What chapter does this happen anyway. Just so I know when I can expect to hit it.

>>111458566

Depends on your ability to learn languages, time and effort put into it.

5 years to not have to rely on a dictionary most of the time, took time off every now and then. I'm awful at learning languages.

>>111458448
Seriously, playing minesweeper with new titles are already bad enough; now, with the Narou invasion, of which you KNOW 95% are mines, there are literally no point reading any of new titles until 3 volumes later and wait for reviews.

Few years ago any title with ? in it is probably shit, now any version of ??? raises the same alert too. I wish the LN market isn't so easily retarded that literal clones will spawn from success of few single ones.

I fucking blame Hero Bunko and their good sales of the first wave of web novels.

???????20000??????????

?????
? ?*34,026??14/05/10?***9??????????2?????????????
? ?*21,693??14/03/08?***9????????????????????

?MF??J
??*35,073??14/04/23?**12??????????13??????
??*36,200??14/01/22?**12???????????????????8
? ?*36,983??14/03/20?**18????????????Re:write?
? ?*35,464??14/03/20?**18???????????3?????????
? ?*22,748??14/03/20?**11?????????????05.????

???????
? ?*30,587??14/04/25?**17???????????4
? ?*26,643??13/12/25?**12????????????2
? ?*20,455??14/01/29?**12????????????11

?GA??
? ?*38,234??14/05/13?**13????????????????????????????5??????

>>111458858

Who are your favourite authors?

>>111459093
?????????????????(his older stuff)?????????????(AW only)????(when he's not spending time writing porn or dirty jokes)???????????????????????????????

Mix of LNs and mystery writers, fairly common/popular people.

Few other ones like ????????????? etc. that I haven't read enough to be sure.

which danmachi manga do i read?

>>111459532
I forgot ?????, but fuck him PLEASE come back and finish Depateki

>>111459093
Who are yours?

>>111459579
Why not all 3?

>>111458584
I have no idea since author doesn't number chapters. Somewhere like 70 to 80 or so?

>>111459784
there's 3?

>>111459784

I can't tell which is the real one

>>111460184
The 4koma >>111435021

>>111460256
The normal one's ... the normal one.
The one with Oratoria in the title is the Ais one
The 4koma is going to be about the Gods (probably with Hestia as main focus).

>>111430287
How Rudy dad get two good women when hes a shit in looks and personality

>>111460423
He fucked them both

>>111460423
He's extremely attractive according to the narration. I guess it's a Rance-style love?

>>111436940
I've been trying to read this, but mc and main bitch are just beyond horrible.

>>111430287
Started reading this and up to volume 2. Did CGRascal translate this or something? Which volume does it get better?

>>111461652
Read it. Its your own to judge. Personally though i loved Volume 9

>>111461652
>Which volume does it get better?
Never

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????? is great. I definitely recommend trying out her titles.

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>>111462216

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>>111462375

>>111430287
vol 10 ch.3 when

>http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Shiinamachi-senpai%27s_Safe_Day
I just found this. Anyone reading it?

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Good quality vol 3 scans when

>>111448379
is this the series where 3 modern teenage girls get sent into a fantasy world and open a bakery in the woods? I remember talk about this a few years ago but never got the name

>>111465279
Where are the shit scans, because I'm impatient as fuck.

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>>111465650
I only have like 3

>>111465895
And I'm already liking two of them.

>>111465895
Is this from FTC? Haven't read many LNs.

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>>111465919
And this is the last one I have found

>>111465966
And that smile settles it. I want to protect it.

>>111465966
Rujed looks nothing like what I imagined.

>>111465966
>>111465895
>>111465279
Eris a best

>>111466215
>Rujed looks nothing like what I imagined.
You expected him to look fluffy and nice?

I'm really liking Hajime's character change in Arifureta. It's like he's turned from Little Enzo to Matrix in ReBoot. Even a hot girlfriend to boot.

>>111466215
I didn't like his look either with his hair, but the cover with his hair shaved makes him him look a lot better in my opinion.

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Found more

>>111466499
Shaving his head even works works on us!

>>111466424
Arifureta is fun, but the MC/Author's chuunibyou is exasperating at times

>>111466654
Well, he does make a point to laugh at it. Like when Hajime got his eyepatch he realized he looked like one and stayed in the bedroom for days depressed over it.

>>111466694
>the horsefaced guy is literally horsefaced.
And here I thought it was just an exaggeration.

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>>111466894
Yeah about that...

>>111466894
>thinking he wouldn't have a horse head
You've got to be horsing me.

>>111466894
you saw him in the background on one of the colored pages. I think he's like blue colored or something

>>111467304
Just realized I did. But it was the 3rd book's cover.
Man, I'm slow.

>>111466835
And Now I'm at the part where Hajime trains some flower loving, wimpy bunny people into lean mean killing machines. Him stepping on the flowers was priceless. Clearly cardcrusher material.

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>>111470937
I doubt it will have a good ending.

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https://twitter.com/seitenhyohyo/status/495243953738743809

Vanadis director:
"In Vanadis, most of the appearing characters are old men so naturally so unspoken communication happens quite often. Looks like the atmosphere will be interesting."

>>111472630
>most of the appearing characters are old men
Doujins when?

So which web/light novels have an interesting premise that aren't translated yet? I heard of one that has a guy being reincarnated into a slime and one into a dragon.

why is danmachi liked again? the first few chapters were ok, but then it felt like the same shit over and over. just some shota leveling up and getting really gud.

even duelist seems more interesting than danmachi with only 2 volumes

>>111472630
Have they given Elen some clothes yet?

>>111446167
I couldn't bear Heavy Object after a while, I'm not sure but it bored the hell out of me.

>>111454293
On one hand, I have a hard on for monsters and really was enjoying Re:Monster as wank fuel. On the other, Mushoku is actually a well put together story for a light novel that I'm enjoying the fuck out of.

>>111472724
slime http://ncode.syosetu.com/n6316bn/3/
dragon Reincarnation into a dragon

>>111473602
dragon http://ncode.syosetu.com/n6551bp/

>>111472630
Vanadis is getting a anime? Interesting.

>>111448410
>>111448294
>This is because most translators have shit taste (or attention whores who only pick up books that plebs flock to).

Your MAXIMUM JEALOUSY is showing.

>>111473976
It's the truth though. Translators only translate the mainstream stuff, the things that a lot of people would read so they feel their work wasn't in vain.

>>111458858
>? ?*30,587??14/04/25?**17???????????4
Whoa, didn't expect Knights and Magic to be popular. I really like this series. Hope it gets an anime. I want to see Ikaruga scaring the shit out of everyone.
>? ?*26,643??13/12/25?**12????????????2
I tried reading this on narou, lost interest at the prologue.
>? ?*20,455??14/01/29?**12????????????11
Haven't read this.

>>111473355
same here. the first volume was pretty good, but then it just rebooted and got very humdrum. the reboot was the weirdest.

I'm reading Utsuro_no_Hako. It's quite great.

>>111475378
>?????????
It's... pretty different and mellow, there are hardly any high points in the story. Guy tries to integrate into a fantasy world and that's it.

>>111441313
>>111441313
>at least maybe until his magic power was referenced to be as strong as Laplace's. This felt more like a given talent rather than due to working his ass off since he was a baby


But thats exactly why his magic power (mana capacity) is so high. You literally gain mana you used added to your max mana the next day. And you can only increase your mana until you are ten years old.

>>111475705
I guess it must be interesting since it reached volume 11 and still selling 20k+ copies.

>>111475705
I thought it was another power fantasy. Like a guy just teleports in a world with some god like powers or some shit.

Or maybe it's another webnovel.

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On another note, Mondaiji volume 11 came out yesterday

>>111475941
You just described like 55% of the current LN trend with that description.

>>111475872
Depends on what you're looking for I guess, I want some action but the first few volumes barely have any. Character relationships in this one are pretty interesting though.

>>111475941
He does. He dropped onto and killed an extremely powerful dragon and absorbed its powers, making him extremely powerful but guy doesn't feel like adventuring or whatnot, because he's a normal, risk adverse guy. Not sure about the later volumes because I've already dropped this. He picks things up fairly fast as well, mastering skills and magic just by seeing them a few times.

>>111476324
I thought about picking it up, but reading some japs review about it, it just seems so boring with some eyecandy.

I might try it just to see how bad it is, but not now.

>>111430668
Man, Stella lewd.

So by volume 6, she'll have her sword in between her tits and covering her pussy?

I haven't seen the covers for volume 2-5 but it looks like the more recent the novel, the lewder the cover.

>>111430287
Pressing F5 at the speed of light~~~
Does Norn still hate her brother or what?

>>111475941
It is originally a webnovel you can read it here:
http://ncode.syosetu.com/n2499j/

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Halfway through the DxD light novels
They're... not as bad as I thought they would be, I guess?

>>111477359
>Pressing F5 at the speed of light~~~
Just one more chapter and I can start reading the Slyphiette novel. DAMN! I can't do anything else until I read that I am dieing here in my chair.

>>111477977
i had a easier time reading the raws than what they call the eng trans

>>111478370
You aren't going to see 9.3 until Sunday night at the earliest. Though Monday is far more likely. And I don't know about those MT scrips for 9.4-9.7 I just don't trust them yet.

>>111478657
>9.3 until Sunday
I'll last.
>Though Monday is far more likely.
I better start hibernating so I don't starve to death.

>>111478796
Yeah Kaito and Vanant didn't want to deal with volume 9 or something cause of the machine translator people who weren't any good at it.
So the other translator picked it up... and said he also would do any chapters the other two didn't want to do, just so they could keep their speedy release pace up. Expect large gaps for a while. I know on the AS forum they were maybe talking about linking privately the chapters that were done by Vanant or something that are being handled by those terrible google translators. I know BT tries to cater to the newbie translator. But there should be someone stepping in and limiting new people with no skill and only editing GT documents to 1 chapter at a time.

>reading rokka no yuusha
>dat troll ending for volume 1
I like it so far, about to start volume 2.

>>111472630
Archers a shit

>>111479139
Why the fuck are GT "translators" allowed in the first place?

>>111479484
I'm 3 volumes in and I got trolled every fucking volume. Damn, I thought I could pick up all the hints by now.

>>111479139
Even after hearing this I keep refreshing the damn page.

I need to go get some fresh air, grill some pork or something.

>>111480555
You could try watching chinese cartoons. I also keep f5ing every 10 minutes.

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>>111480555
>>111480746
>f5
The fuck is this? 2003?

>>111481727
What? Also I use ctrl+r.

>>111481727
What's wrong with it?

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>>111476423
I got baited too, it's not too interesting but I such a huge fan of the artist. Pic related's from another series but the style's the same. Very nice eyes, simple yet beautiful. Can't say I regret picking it up but I wouldn't suggest others doing the same.

>>111473976
Anon, not everyone needs translators.

>>111473188
You are correct, DanMachi doesn't get good until volume 3. First two volumes are at best average, which is why GA published the first 3 in relatively quick succession for the three complete the first arc.

The beauty of DanMachi lies with the fights, it appeals to general public (normalfags or ??? if you will) because it's hotblooded like Ippo and One Piece. There's nothing pretentious about his character, no hidden power nor potential badass. Every time he gets a boost he faces mobs that pummel him pretty hard. Volume 3 and 5 are the high points; both ended with him losing conscious at the end due to over-exerting himself. Reading the fights are pretty invigorating and hotblooded.

If you are looking for ????? light novel, you should pass this title and never look back.

>>111482079
Yeah the art does look nice, that's the main reason why I even bothered to want to try it.

Only got into reading light novels last week after watching the Kino's Journey anime. It's surprisingly addictive.

>>111482079
Danmachi is still pretty much ????? though. It's not as obvious as the others, but he still goes through many feats that are thought as impossible for a young adventurer like him. It doesn't help that the novel itself stresses this at many points, like how most people cant break past lvl 1 or 2, even rarer in a span of like a few months.

To which this one little boy did all because of a crush awoken some super special skill that allows him to speed past almost everybody else, and continues to be able to challenge himself in things his similar peers can't imagine to accomplish.

>>111482079
>?????
I always see it written as ?TUEEEE. One of these days Japan will learn to stop being retarded with romanizations, but that day is far away.

>>111482554
Were these types of novels always popping up? I swear, after Maou Yuusha, it seemed like there was a huge burst of Maou/Yuusha LNs alongside these TUEEE LNs. Not to mention most were from also webnovels originally.

>>111431320
Kagami is on drugs the whole goddamn time so that's no surprise.

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>>111482443
I forgot to type typical, and yes I do realize it's on the Oretuee wiki. The feats don't lie with his youth, but rather his speed. He started at 14, the youngest we know started at 7.

This is the reason why everyone's waiting on volume 6. If he levels then I'm pretty sure 2ch and a lot of the readers are not going to be happy about it. Right now, everyone suspects his skill just gives him 10x xp gain rate (simplified for discussion purposes), so it should take him longer time to reach Level 3 still. Also, even if Skills are unlimited unlike Magic, the potential to discover them are quite limited.

If you "sacrificed" a slot for faster xp, you could've lost that same slot to say "magic nullification", which the Tamer in Oratoria might have this as far as speculation goes. Omori does not reveal any high tier/rare Skills except for the one Asfi has right now. It's kinda lame but I guess he needs it to prevent Bell from getting too strong compare to the other big 4.

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The pain of a non-moon speaker is immense.

?????? ?????? was surprisingly fun to read. I didn't expect shenanigans from a bunch of retired Yuushas.

>>111482841
Blame Narou.

>>111482964
I've been waiting for Mismarca translations for ages, welcome to the club.

I'm trying to decide on which novel to read next. What are the things you like about these ones?: knights and magic, arifureta, rokka no yuusha.

>>111483235
Deathmarch for lolis.

>>111483304
But the MC wants to fuck the extremely ancient high elf.

>>111430287
I've finished reading Pluto and quite enjoyed it. Next thing I'll read is Vinland Saga.

I finished reading all 14 volumes of C3 last week. Not sure why since I didn't really enjoy the anime, but somehow I conned myself into reading the novels.

I'm considering reading either Index or Oreimo next.

>>111482906
It's not even a 10x growth. If someone needs to kill a tough monster to even get like 50 pts in stats, all he has to do is grind on a suitable floor a few hours or a day. Which he pretty much does throughout the series.

What he does in a week makes him grow far more than average adventurers in a year. That's not even just fast compared to others, its already beyond that. Combined with a weapon that GROWS WITH THE MASTER I don't know what else to say.

Sure there are monsters that are always stronger no matter what, it's not like he's some kind of invincible machine. But chances are he's always going to be part of the few that can actually can challenge these monsters, and he'll be in a party with stronger, respectable people of other families simply because he grows so fast.

This kind of shit gets boring. Like REALLY fast. Almost as fast as this shota's growth rate.

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I'm reading Slayers at the moment. I'm enjoying it quite a bit, but the art is off putting.

>>111483684
Ais took a year to get to Level 1, he took around 6 weeks. This is what the 10x speed is based on. The knife's already neutered cause it's useless for Monster Rex fight. Also, PVP > PVE.

But hey, I'm not here to convinced you it's a genre-defining novel; in fact, I rather people don't read it. I enjoy the small readership and as long as it does well in Japan, I don't even care if /a/ never mentions this. I even said it was boring until the actual fights. I mean you already dropped the novel, so I don't know why you are just repeating what I said.

Is this something I can post here?

*1.?38,821?38,821?Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.6.5
*2.?29,124?29,124?Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.6.5 Limited Edition
*3.?14,889?14,889?Hachi-nan tte, Sore wa Nai desho! Vol.2
*4.?14,549?14,549?Mikagura Gakuen Kumikyoku Vol.4
*5.?11,936?11,936?Shuuen no Shiori Vol.4 "Ketsuraku -Re:code-"
*6.?11,879?11,879?Absolute Duo Vol.6
*7.?11,815?31,071?Kaiketsu Zorori Series Vol.55
*8.?10,439?10,439?Haunted Campus Vol.6
*9.?10,254?10,254?Magika no Kenshi to Vasreus Vol.6
10.?*8,967?*8,967?Isekai Mahou wa Okureteru! Vol.2

11.?*8,247?*8,247?NEET dakedo Hello Work ni Ittara Isekai ni Tsuretekareta Vol.4
12.?*7,965?13,239?Omae wo Otaku ni Shiteyaru kara, Ore wo Riajuu ni Shitekure! "Azuki End"
13.?*7,711?*7,711?Re:Monster Vol.5
14.?*6,658?11,941?Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records Vol.1
15.?*6,489?97,346?Shinrei Tantei Yakumo: Another Files Vol.2 "Inori no Hitsugi"
16.?*6,474?11,423?Grancrest Senki Vol.3
17.?*5,832?11,138?Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan Vol.4
18.?*5,634?*5,634?Flame Oukoku Koubouki Vol.2
19.?*5,554?*5,554?Tengu no Koi Hajime
20.?*5,488?24,645?Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru Vol.8

21.?*5,196?*5,196?Soshite Fumetsu no Regnare Vol.4
22.?*5,165?*5,165?Sekai no Owari no Encore Vol.1
23.?*5,102?*5,102?Sate, Game Guard wo Kouryaku Shiyou ka. Vol.3

>>111484314
So how many of those are from narou? I only see hachinan and Re:Monster.

>>111484227
>>111484303
What?

All I said was it's still one of those power fantasy shit tier novels and backed it up.

I don't care give a shit if you continue to read it.

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>>111484553
It doesn't really matter anon, it's a pretty shitty week with only 1 title over 15000 and over 80% continuations.

>>111484775
>I don't care give a shit if you continue to read it.
Cool, we're in agreement then.

>>111483304
>>111483336
Sauce?

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>>111485024
Deathmarch's sauce is Deathmarch. Here, have a demi-human scum who's extremely loyal.

>>111485145

Why don't you stop wasting your life reading LNs and start doing something productive like translating Deathmarch for us instead?

>>111485145
Is it translated?

>>111484775
>backed it up
Anon, the only thing you backed up is your opinion base on your limited knowledge of the series.

While it's okay to situated your argument on the few chapters you read base on translation, the fact it's selling nearly 40k on its newest volume among the sea of Narou publications is a testament of the writer's skill, especially given the mundane plot as you presented. If the title is so worthless and "one of those power fantasy shit tier", it will still be nearing 10k sales only.

If you truly read the raw and beyond the initial setup, you would not be writing such silly retort and taunting it as proof to anything. Feel free to write more though, I'm sure you've gathered a crowd with your thoroughly convincing dissertations.

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>>111485342
No.

>>111485376
No.

>>111485499

Pretty please?

>>111485612
>>111427403

>>111485499
>>111485145
I really wish the author would go back to posting 1 chapter a day on narou.
At the rate he's currently going he's never going to finish the series.

>>111485413
>backing up my facts with sales makes me right

I never said it wasn't popular genius. I only said its still a power fantasy.

I won't stop you from reading, I'm just stating what's obvious.

>>111485702

It will take me 3 years to learn enough to read a LN. No, thanks. I will wait some kind soul from baka-tsuki to do it.

>>111485413
Wait, which series did you based the 10k sales on? I'll like to know the name so I can read and laugh at it.

>>111433699
All LN's are fanfiction tier garbage

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How is pic related anyone read it?


How are the Trinity Blood LNs?

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>>111486008

Perhaps the same can be said of ALL fiction

>>111485807
Specifically, you said it's a "shit tier" novel, which is entirely not true. By comparing its commercial success to other contemporary Narou novels, I've shown you why it is not so. Feel free to find my any other non-animated LN selling more than 30k from new authors (debut within the past 2 years). You did not state "what's obvious" as they are your adulterated opinion only.

>>111486141
Dammit Drac, you know when to have the last word in like every argument.

So battle LN's like Hidan no Aria are my guilty pleasure, is there a recommendation chart for stuff like that?

>>111485881
Search for Google with something like ????????, most Narou stuff are near that line except for Hero Bunko >>111458858, also Mushoku Tensei's here >>111448247. These are already the top dogs of Narou.

>>111485879
3 years is not long anon.

Is the translation for arifureta fast? just reached chapter 27 and is max suffering translated.

>>111487050
How long did it take you to start reading LNs?

>>111487848
Brute force a year (literally looking up every other word), without picking up a dictionary around 3 (understanding 65% of all the details, but 95% of the main plot points, which is enough to hold a decent discussion). Speed will increase greatly if you actually go to a vigorous class. Reading is very easy compare to writing and speaking fluently (recognition versus recall).

Think of it this way, let's say you're a super old-fag that's around 27 years old. 3 years later you become a wizard; by then you're self-sufficient and won't ever have to rely on the whim of Baka-Tsuki's idiocy/mediocrity. Assuming you live until 60 (very low standard for any developed country), that's still half your life afterward. It's a good investment to learn the language of the world's 3rd ranked GDP country because of internet sources, not just for reading LNs.

>>111489409

I would love to but I`m currently studying extremely hard and will be doing that for the foreseeable future (probably 8 years or so) for the sake of getting a good job. Even anime I barely watch now. But I will try and learn it at some point.

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Left or right?

>>111490043
The robot.

>>111490043
Robots>Girls.

>>111489841
>>111487848
If you've watched enough anime you should be able to understand 90% by ear

Never even learned Japanese and I had no problems understanding web novels with Bouyomi-chan and Translation Aggregator (+ITH)
These days I don't even have to use Translation Aggregator anymore

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>>111490174
>>111490405
BROTHERS!

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Reading HtG, but on the verge of dropping it. Does Haruhiro gets any better?

>>111490977
>Does Haruhiro gets any better?
No. If you're reading it, you're reading it for the setting over the MC. I think the author pulls off a good beta MC, though.

>>111483235
reading arifureta now. just got through first volume.
Arifureta and Re: monster shares the same template in which the hero eats stuff and absorbs their powers.

it's also pretty gary stu in terms of sudden power up, but then again, all light novels have sudden huge power ups within the first 1-2 volumes.

what I'm not digging is how mundanely it reads. there's not really anything engaging or refreshing about the story. Re:Monster was the same too. Still, I'm going to read 2-3 volumes of this to see if it gets better.

I've run out of stuff to read/am waiting for other LN's to release translations, so I've got nothing better to read right now anyways..

>>111491211
Try the older novels?

Reading Nobuna and getting sick of Nobuna herself.

Probably going to take a break from the series and switch over to something else.

>>111492259
Do you know why the novel went to Fujimi instead?

>>111491211
He only absorbs abilities the first few times he eats enemies or if he eats particularly strong enemies, so it's not particularly overpowered

>>111430287
>you will never have H ilustration or 18.5 for Mushoku Tensei
Just kill me now.

>>111492830
I just want Aisha illustration

>>111492944
I want a housewife Shylphy illustration.

>>111492830
>18.5
Was that the glop chapter?

>>111491845
older what? I'm reading off japtem.

>>111492481
yeah, it's not like Re:monster, where he's getting 5 new powers per meals. I'm little past halfway of volume 2 now. it's still really boring. he's getting all these powers falling into his lap via ores, a hip fired gun, a rail gun in a fantasy novel setting, and continual leveling up of stats. it's really really like Re:monster in that sense.

there's really no charm to it. it reads like a cook book for the most part.

>>111432066
The translation is mediocre at first, but gets far better later. You will not get more seasons.

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>>111493444
Sorry, didn't realize you are reading raws. Nice trips though.

Have a random cover as apology.

>>111493792
aren't*

>>111483559
Oreimo's pretty easy and actually not too bad, felt great getting to the end of it and seeing all the development pay off. I recommend it.

The Index series is something you want to pace yourself on though of course, it's kind of big. And you can read the manga which may make it easier.

>>111430287
Oh, so those two beast girls. You don't whore out your friends to your husband, Eris.