>16 Volumes How the actual fuck can you have the story

Easily when there's a hundred characters in question.

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>>154451502
>22 volumes + another 17 volumes
How the actual fuck can you have the story going for this long?

>>154451502
>Volume 13 translation never
It hurts ;_;

>>154451502
If I remember right the dude gets amnesia at one point, so there's a couple of volumes off the bat.

It's not like LNs are very long. They're more like novellas. The better question is how the FUCK can some goddamn dictionary-sized book full of WORDS WORDS WORDS like the Wheel of Time keep on going for 15 volumes?

>>154451758
And only about two months have passed

>>154451758
the problem here is that he doesn't know when to stop writing

>>154451863
I was going to agree but this >>154451758 has had volumes almost 500 pages long lately.
>"light" novel

Series goes to shit after the Brune arc anyway.

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>>154451758
>>22 volumes + another 17 volumes
You forgot SS1 and SS2 which were a part of the main story. And then there's the countless other side stories which slightly affect it.


>How the actual fuck can you have the story going for this long?
pic related, that's how

I dropped that shit after best man Roland got BEE'D.

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>>154453901

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Obligatory Kawakami post.

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>>154451502

Why is she so perfect?

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She feels securely THE BEST and doesn't worry about other waifus taking her place at the top of the waifu hierarchy.

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>>154454146
>not posting the updated version

>>154452643
You say that like it's a bad thing.

>>154454613
It's not, it's just strange to see stuff like OP's post after getting into Kamachi/Kawakami.

>>154451502
Map painting

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>>154454514
>puts Wheel of Time series next to it just to give contrast to the amount of autism Kawakami puts into his work

JUST BELIEVE

>>154444444

>>154454178
>Beautiful
>Strong, yet kind (spared Tigre because he impressed her)
>Has a sense of Justice (let Tigre defend Alsace despite being her prisoner)
>Loyal
>Jealous and possessive without being yandere (see: the lover's quarrel scene)
>Ashamed to be seen naked but doesn't go into a "kyaa~ b-baka ecchi DX" tirade
>Gentle femdom bait ("From now on, you belong to me")

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>>154451502

that's kind of short for these things.

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>>154460175
Too bad she's used goods now.

>>154451502
Read Xianxia.

>>154461021
She's not used goods when she has lost her virginity to the man she intends to marry.

Now I'm wondering if I should rewatch this.

>>154461140
Go read it instead.
The only thing you will see are chess pieces during strategy meetings.

>>154461435
Not him, but how is the manga compared to the light novel? I don't really like reading huge walls of text on my computer screen.

>>154454146
is there something of this in english?

>>154451786
I feel your pain, this is my favorite LN. I'm almost considering learning moon.

>>154461520
Got to volume 2ish did better than the anime, but just sputtered on translations till you for real purposes stopped seeing it.

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>16 volumes

You are like a little baby, watch this

>>154451502
you are like a little baby.
>30 volumes and 11 years

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>>154461872
oh, fug. I forgot the pic.

>>154461628
Horizon, Owari no Chronicle, Hexennacht and CITY are either fully or partially translated on BT.

>>154454514
What's the story of this? Why does it have so many volumes?

>>154461837
Wasn't Guin Saga one of thsoe LN or whatever that never ended?

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>>154451863
>Wheel of time

How'd that end anyway? I stopped reading when MC got crippled by some nobody.

>>154454514
>It's more pages than in search of lost time by Marcel Proust and the longest fanfic.
WEW LAD

>>154462221
What's the longest fanfic?

>>154462047
130 volumes later and I think its still going

>>154462241
The longest fanfic is called The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest.

>>154462965

Does fucking everything have one of those card game thingies?

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>>154463102
Japs love their shitty mobage.

I really wish they'd stop animating things just to promote a book if they're not going to really commit.

This is like if they just made a movie of Fellowship and then said, hey go read the books

>>154454146
>>154451863
Youjo Senki books are dictionaries I hear.

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>>154463339
Should I watch her show?

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>>154463799

I found it to be a decently entertaining show. Also Ludmila is a good girl who get a nice amount of screen time.

>>154464134
>Ludmila

What an unfortunate moniker

I stopped reading after I finished the Liza arc. Can any LNbros give me a summary of what's happened since then?

>>154462965
>>154463339
Where did you download these?

>>154462066
It drags terribly for 4 books. Then the author died and his wife found someone to write the last few books. I dropped it by then but apparently the new author picks up the pace and makes it good again.

But there are other series that are bigger. Take Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, 45 novels in total.

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>>154465070
Anon posted them in a thread years ago.

>>154451502
They're light novels. A good chunk of that can be covered in 12-13 episodes.

>>154453849
I've never realized how much shit happened in such a small amount of time until this post.

>>154462047

It even survived the death of its author.

>>154465937
Sophya is such a cute, but being only 22 she's way too young to be such an ara ara~

>>154467117
ara ara is a state of mind, and big tits

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>>154461980
It's not a single series.

>>154451502
Does this have actual translations for the earlier volumes and not MTL? I wanted to read it to see what all the fuss was about but the MTL stopped me.

>>154464134
>>I found it to be a decently entertaining show. Also Ludmila is a good girl who get a nice amount of screen time.
Mila is best girl but it's sad she lost her old skirt.

>>154468154
>one "volume" is multiple books
I don't understand.

>>154470515
They're too long to publish without splitting them up. 1-A and 1-B for example are for all intents and purposes a single book, but it would have like 1000+ pages without the split.

>>154468154
How much of that is difference in formatting? A few points font size different and line spacing can make for a lot less content than is suggested by the size of the book.

>>154470277
why did they take it away?

>>154473171
They changed the artist so some characters got redesigns.

>>154473171
Because it was stupid.

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>>154462264
>130 volumes

The fuck?

>>154462264
Man, Magic Tree House isn't even that long.

>>154473788


It's been going since like the fucking 80s

>>154451502
>Volume 13 Chapter 4 - 55%

The wait is killing me. Even Campione got recently translated.

>>154476030
>Even Campione got recently translated.
What bullshit are you sayi-
>it's true
Wow, thank you.

>>154476216
>>154476030
Well damn Today's a good day

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>>154451502
Machine Doll apparently has 16 volumes too, wish that were translated.
80% of its cast is apparently dead.

>>154454146
>>154454514
What the fuck is that? Explain, is it even worth reading?

>>154462264
Some people on reddit are fans, they said the story really ends at around 100. After that it was largely fan service.

>>154478392
>80% of its cast is apparently dead.

What.

Has he fucked Titta yet? Make his dead butler proud

>>154478392
Can you give me summary on what happened after the anime?

>>154480732
Yes, volume 14 off screen anon

>>154465377
But Discworld can be broken up into smaller sets of books based on characters in them, and most are written well enough that if it was your first book in the series, you might not get how the series got to the point it did but they'll explain the important characters well enough to understand what's going on.

>>154451863
Except a good chunk of light novels are anything but light and are instead tomes easily over 500 pages long.

>>154480289
They're either dolls of dead people or dead as a result of the setting being actually kinda brutal and grimdark.

>>154480732
Yes, it's also implied that Lewdmila invited him to her room after confessing for coitus.

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>>154451502
>first chapter has everyone in plate armor
>second chapter onwards everyone is wearing skimpy outfits
>no explanation is given for why they stopped wearing armor

>one of the girls is literally wearing a transparent skirt with her panties in full view
>nobody in the setting notices this or questions it
>no explanation is given for this

>>154461021
>this series has like one translated doujin

lame.

>>154478392
the manga gets like 15 pages per month or something stupid. I dont think its been updated in the last 3 months...

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>>154480289
Apparently Frey and a lot of ther characters died to set up for Raishin's fight against his onee-chan. Frey is apparently dead while Charlotte is alive
>>154482952
An anon showed up a while back to summarize, I think he left me an Animesuki thread where he summarized everything past the anime, I'll need to find it.
>>154485588
Wasn't even aware that there was a manga publication, much less being a frequently updated one.

>>154486793
That sucks. I liked the cast a lot.
Why kill them off.

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>>154484935
I know, it's great.

>>154490213
So he just got with main bitch and the maid at the end right?

>>154484935
When you never get hit due to being Lu Bu or can fucking teleport armor is only good for decoration.

>>154454178
>>154454237
Because she is the best girl.

>>154466805
Well, that was fun

>>154486793
>Frey is apparently dead

Goddamnit it had to be her.

>>154451502
is it good?

>>154451863
Most of the LNs I read are around 300 pages long. Doorstoppers like Horizon are oddities but 400 pages isn't uncommon either. Japanese can fit a lot more details on a page than english too.

>>154490213
breaks suspension of disbelief when they dont bother to provide an in-setting explanation

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>25 Volumes + 3 ##.5
>Ongoing
>Still selling extremely well
>Constant good translations
>S2 never ;_;

Why is this allowed again?

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>Translators are making more money than authors.

>>154493775
mother fucker that's a lot of money and chapters

>>154451502
I dropped this at the BEEEEES, I couldn't take anymore. Did it get better?

>>154493775
I don't know he needs 20k, but at least he delivers and actually finishes translating what he was "payed" for.

>>154480165
It's average but it has a lot of world building

>>154480259
How the fuck do you even write 30 volumes of fan service?

>>154495045
Is it really that hard? Look at basically every LN.

>>154493297
>hot girls taking out armies and dragons with magical weapons is okay
>but showing midriff is where I draw the line

I think Cavalier of the Abyss has 12 volumes but translation has been completely abandoned

>>154495045
Blade Dance is getting there