Light Novels With Strong Endings / Final Volumes? (use spoiler tags where necessary)

Terrence

Sounds like Ao Oni would be a good one to focus on when I can. I'll definitely grab those next Halloween.

DoubleMangekyo

@paul-nebeling Me, a Genius? should be in the second category. It's not really finished, the author just hasn't written much past volume 3. (Black Bullet, Haruhi, Second Path, etc.)

Raitoiro

@paul-nebeling I doubt The faraway paladin is in any way near it's end, aside from the serie being cancel which seem unlikely since it recently get a manga adaptation. The "main" plot with the god seem more like it start with vol 4 and most subplot are unresolved (the dagger promise, Menel and the elve, torch port devloppement,...).

HamsterExAstris

@paul-nebeling said in Light Novels With Strong Endings / Final Volumes? (use spoiler tags where necessary):

Occultic;nine... Come on. The anime managed to reach the end of the story.

They're releasing a new version of the game with a "true ending" this year (new release on Switch plus patches on other systems). Hopefully they'll bring out volume 4 once they finally finish the story.

Paul Nebeling

@terrence I liked it as a horror series, but

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Paul Nebeling

@doublemangekyo Accordingly to several people, the series is complete at three volumes. The story, not so much so.

Paul Nebeling

@raitoiro Oh, I don't think it's anywhere near finished. I definitely want more.

DoubleMangekyo

@paul-nebeling I'm just saying there's a difference between "It's complete" and "It may as well be complete since there hasn't been a new volume out in years, despite it not being cancelled". The former means exactly what it says on the tin. The latter is just equivalent to an indefinite hiatus and should never be considered a finished work. It's the same as calling Walking My Second Path in Life complete (its second volume also came out in 2016).

The editor even added a comment to the Genius vol.3 afterword, saying:

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Paul Nebeling

@doublemangekyo Ok. Let's compare and contrast Bluesteel Blasphemer and Me, a Genius. Both series appear to have been cancelled by the publisher. On Me, a Genius, the author seems to have been unaware that his series was being cancelled. On Bluesteel Blasphemer the author was aware that volume 4 was the last volume and wrote a rather hurried ending to the story. Nothing is there to stop an author from continuing to write their WN, but further LN publishing is highly unlikely.

My "designations" of series status was pretty cut and dried. The "finished" titles are the ones that JNC has said (maybe indirectly) that they have translated all the volumes that there are to translate. That second list was mostly (and most of) the titles that haven't published anything in over a year. For my Daughter was included because the upcoming volume is possibly the last one.