What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?
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Speaking of LNs that are worth reading even after watching the anime, I strongly and in no uncertain terms recommend the Tanya the Evil LNs as much more in-depth and descriptive of the good(?) major than the anime. The two complement each other perfectly like a good filet and a fine wine. :-)
I feel the same way about Grimgar which adds a lot to the story in internal dialogue.
Toradora is one of my top five anime of all time but I've been on the fence about reading the LN. That show was much more visual and I'm having a hard time imagining there being much to add in regards in Ryuji internal dialog, especially in a later add. I suspect it'll come across a lot like the Haruhi LNs which I didn't feel added much to the anime experience...even though I am fully aware that with Haruhi the LNs came first.
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Well I finished Battle Divas. And I will admit that it gets better about 75% of the way through.
But it isn't enough to save it. I won't be getting any of the others in that series. Even if it is a completed 3 volume work.Well, unless someone tells me that the story has done an about face like Magic Is Too Far Behind.
As for what's next? Hmmm, that story has left a bad taste. Is "For My Daughter" a fluff-fest? I'm feeling like I need something cute and sweet
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@fozzedout said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Is "For My Daughter" a fluff-fest? I'm feeling like I need something cute and sweet
The first 3-4 volumes were pretty great, but I found myself kind of losing interest after that. I'll give it another show when it's on catch-up again, but I just really wanted father/daughter doting hijinks and the story went in a different direction :(
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PSA: Frog-Kun (translator of Mari Okada's biography) is reading "86".
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Speaking about 86, I'm shocked no one has created a post to suggest it for licensing.
JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
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@bartzbb said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Speaking about 86, I'm shocked no one has created a post to suggest it for licensing.
I would, but I don't know much about it (prefer to save my posts for stuff I thoroughly read / research). I kind of want to stay in the dark on it.
@rahul-balaggan said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
@bartzbb & @Terrence there already is a topic for 86 to be licensed
There wasn't one when we were discussing it earlier. I'm glad someone took up the cause. =]
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I won a light novel from Cross Infinite World! The "Little Princess in Fairy Forest" one. =D
https://twitter.com/CrossInfWorld/status/1003088169095446528?s=20
I'm also currently reading Devil Is a Part-Timer volume 6.
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I am reading Toradora Vol 1, Overlord Vol 7, Killing Slimes for 300 Yrs, Vending Machine and, I am Marathoning Rokujouma and Spice and Wolf.
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@bartzbb & @Terrence there already is a topic for 86 to be licensed
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I finally got into Shield Hero. Just recently finished the second volume. Not sure if I’ll keep buy the physical volumes from here on, as I might decide to buy digitally to save space, but we’ll see.
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@legitpancake said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
I finally got into Shield Hero. Just recently finished the second volume. Not sure if I’ll keep buy the physical volumes from here on, as I might decide to buy digitally to save space, but we’ll see.
I spilled water on my physical copy of Shield Hero volume 1. I don't revisit novels usually, but it still feels bad. IIRC, it was my first light novel purchase. T.T
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@terrence said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
I spilled water on my physical copy of Shield Hero volume 1. I don't revisit novels usually, but it still feels bad. IIRC, it was my first light novel purchase. T.T
I spilled Juice on Pandora Hearts Volume 1 :( but recently I got the Pandora Hearts Box Set so it all good, I only had the first few volumes of it anyways.
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Just finished The Dark Maidens. Really great little mystery that ended wonderfully. It didn’t really seem very much like a like Novel and more a good Japanese suspense book that had teenaged characters.
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Which novel are you guys getting tomorrow? 'Mommy Isekai' or 'Guy who uses no sword despite the title being Sword Tale'? Or neither or both?
I'm getting Mommy and I'm reading Katanagatari right now.
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@terrence all the novels
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@rahul-balaggan word.
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I am currently reading Saga of Tanya the Evil, The Asterisk War and Rokujouma
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@smiley_101 said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
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I still gotta take a look at Tanya. Book #2 is one of the most imposing LN volumes size wise I hear.
Reading Mommy Isekai. It's kind of fun to have a "Beta Testing" story for comedic purposes instead of the "fully fleshed out realistic world that has no flaws". It'd be nice if we run into glitches at some point. x)
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I started "Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average".
Page 21:
"Even if it is a strange to hear a prayer from a so-called 'god' such as myself"I'm reading my physical copy aloud, and it mostly sounded good until that point.
I like this girl. I think people always have those influences in their lives that heap too much praise and expectations at you instead of challenging you or helping you become better. And it hurts on the social level to be a target of intense praise (teacher's pets). T_T
How is the god going to mess this up?
God mentioned 'nanomachines son!' but I don't really get it. Did the Nanomachines distribute the magic to the humans, and the magic halted progress because humans didn't need to invent anything once they had magic? Like, there's always an argument that if you had fire magic, humans wouldn't need to invent electric devices or gas devices as much.
I'm very interested in where they may be going with the whole "life vs entropy" battle. Can humans win out and defy the death of the universe? What can our young female lead do to halt that progress towards the end, if anything?
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I just started "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?" potential Oedipus complex fears from the title notwithstanding (a topic that would cause an automatic NOPE from me ) This turns out to be a hoot. Its a parody/ deconstruction of isekai/ transported into a game tropes, OP protagonist tropes, harem tropes, and the far to common (IMHO) weird cringe-inducing incest fetish fuel in some LNs (brocon/siscon etc)
Instead we get a single mother and her teen-aged son participating in BETA testing a MMPORG (and transported in) where to purpose of the came (according to the creators of the game) is
hilarity ensues
