What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?
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I recently binged all of Seirei Gensouki, it's pretty good, pretty typical isekai but blended with some Tsuki ga Michibiku in a neat way.
My current binge is Release That Witch, a Chinese web novel that starts out very Dungeon Defense but quickly goes full-on Realist Hero in the best way. There are 700+ chapters available with a ridiculous release schedule (site claims 16/week), most of it free, latest chapters just locked behind watching a short ad video (or so I hear, I'm "only" on chapter 503 :v). Author must be an engineer because every once in a while an entire chapter goes full on science mode :o
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I'm currently on a Campione! binge as well as mixing in some other series like Majo no Tabitabi (volume 2), Yuusha no Segare (volume 2), and something about a Demon Lord and his Elf Wife which I grabbed volume 1 of. Pretty much I'm in a happy state with plenty to read even if I got a week or two without official releases of series I'm following.
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Overlord, The Isolator
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@aruseus493 that's nice dude
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I’m on volume 9 of Shield Hero and have to say after liking the last volume but not so much the two before, I’m having a harder and harder time getting into these, which is sad because I really liked the series at the start. Too many characters now and most don’t have much character. Lots of fighting and leveling up without the drama needed to create an interesting narrative. I’ll probably keep following the series because I’ve already read so many volumes, but really hope it gets better soon.
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Just got my second volume of “So I’m a Spider, So What?” at Books-a-Million today. After reading the first volume a couple months ago, I read a lot of the WN translations, but there seemed to be differences, and I really liked YP’s translation. Can’t wait to get into it!
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@legitpancake What a coincidence, I just got my copy too! I really like the stream-of-consciousness style used in Kumoko, it's rather unique in the LN sphere.
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@legitpancake it's out?? damn, forgot to pre-order it. Well, I'll get it for kindle anyways so I don't think it'll matter. Thanks for the reminder~
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I hope the characters get to meet up in the next Spider volume. When we can have the spider monster working together with her friends to combat their enemies, that could be really fun.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with the gender stuff too (iirc, the Duke's daughter was a dude in the previous world, and she may be betrothed to another dude originally from her world).
I got so much to get through. And I'm wasting time typing on the internet. Time to get to reading Dendrogram V4! xC
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@terrence said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
I hope the characters get to meet up in the next Spider volume. When we can have the spider monster working together with her friends to combat their enemies, that could be really fun.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with the gender stuff too (iirc, the Duke's daughter was a dude in the previous world, and she may be betrothed to another dude originally from her world).
I got so much to get through. And I'm wasting time typing on the internet. Time to get to reading Dendrogram V4! xC
Must... resist... urge... to spoil...
But seriously, I envy you guys reading Spider for the first time. It's one of my all time favorites. There's a couple of pretty great twists and turning points in the story, and the first 5-ish volumes are some of the best parts.
The web novel version started going downhill after a while, but from the sound of things the light novel version diverges significantly starting around volume 5. From the summaries I've read online vol 6, 7, and 8 have almost entirely a different plot as compared to the web version. I'm exciting to read it myself but waiting for Yen Press to get up there will takes literally YEARS. ;_;
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@chi-c and that's only if they don't start delaying the releases indefinitely. I hope this is the last time they delay NGNL 7.
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My brother just turned me onto Risou no Himo Seikatsu (The ideal sponger life), which is a real interesting contrast to Realist Hero.
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@steelblaidd said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
My brother just turned me onto Risou no Himo Seikatsu (The ideal sponger life), which is a real interesting contrast to Realist Hero.
Did you see the manga got picked up by Seven Seas? Crossing my fingers for the LN here.
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@myskaros said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Cross Infinite World picked up (Little Princess in a Fairy Forest)
Apparently it's standalone. That's nice. I got so many series to read that it's tough to pile more on. xC
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About 90 pages into So I’m a Spider and it really is a great first novel so far. I liked the slime one, but the main character is just so much more engaging here that it almost makes me like Slime less by contrast. One of the best fantasy world that follows game mechanics books I’ve read recently. Hope the momentum keeps up.
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I decided to get back into the Machine Translation Game (mainly because I'm not quite feeling rushing through some JNC stuff yet, and I've been in the mood for potential triangle romance stuff after playing White Album this week).
So I'm starting with the one about the guy and his friends who decide to travel 10 years to the past to relive happy days (it has an English title on the picture iirc).
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@steelblaidd I love Risou no Himo Seikatsu. It does a really good job fleshing out the characters, their relationships, and their motivations, making it easy for them to feel like real people.
The main relationship between Aura and Zenjiro is really nice and given time to develop. And I find it really refreshing that one of the main drives for conflict in the story is that neither than main character or heroine wants a harem but the society keeps trying to get the MC to start one.
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Alright, decided to spend my time glancing through the Syosetu parts for this one.
「ニューゲームにチートはいらない！」読んだ！ https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7767dn/ #narou #narouN7767DN
https://bookwalker.jp/de34fdf246-f833-4706-ad7c-4f02567f8ebe/?acode=WpfPW3yk
It's called "I Don't Need A Cheat In My New Life".
It's sort of a reincarnation story, but the main character is a 70 year old who, after spending his final evening with a woman named Bianca, goes home to sleep and when he awakens he finds his 70 yr body has a hole punctured through its chest... But he's looking on it in his 20 year old body! So he basically rebirths as a younger self, but in the same fantasy world that he grew up and lived in. Unfortunately, he was granted no extra magic ability.. but he does have the skill from all the physical training he did in his first life.
A lot is lost in translation, but basically he works with the guild to take out the illusions of powerful spirits (think of it as like Phantom Ganon in Zelda games, leaking out from a crack to take an incomplete shadowy form, while the real Ganon is still locked behind a barrier). His big goal in his second life is to earn enough money to buy the freedom of the woman he slept with on the night of his last day as a 70 yr old. He's going to need to take on a more true form of a spirit (golden haired one named Helen) to do so.
Once he faces Helen, that's about the halfway point for volume 1 and the end of the first arc of the Web Novel.
