Ashita, Boku wa Shinu. Kimi wa Ikikaeru. (Tomorrow, I will die. You will revive.)

BloodyGaikotsu

@hak0
I think I read more drama and not-all-fun-and-games LNs tho
I think Oregairu, Kimi to Boku no Uta World's End (is this one even a LN?) and Gekkou are first LNs

Actually, I was just trying to trace these novels history in mind
and I tried to imagine the guy in Kodansha Novels who decided to give Anime-type illustration to a Mephisto winner (Zareogoto 1)

It's, definitely, Katsushi Ota who started this (unawares lol) by making Faust and Kodansha Box.

Cynigami

@bloodygaikotsu Yeah but you are actively choosing such LNs, just like I do. They are still definitely a minority.

Kimi to Boku no Uta World's End

Published by Dengeki I think. So it would be a LN.

It's, definitely, Katsushi Ota who started this (unawares lol) by making Faust and Kodansha Box.

Perhaps. I wouldn't even call everything Kodansha Box publishes belongs to this category. Monogatari for example definitively targets the same audience as light novels. Also the list on light bungei's wiki page doesn't list Kodansha Box as a light bungei label : https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ライト文芸

I would say it was Biblia that made the term popular at least.

BloodyGaikotsu

@hak0
So they listed Kodansha LIGHTNOVEL but not Box lol
Well, Box doesn't only publish novels anyways but manga and criticisms

Funny thing that I always thought that Biblia is a Dengeki title, only recently that I noticed it belongs to MediaWorks

BloodyGaikotsu

@hak0 said in Ashita, Boku wa Shinu. Kimi wa Ikikaeru. (Tomorrow, I will die. You will revive.):

Monogatari for example definitively targets the same audience as light novels.

Actually, Bakemonogatari started at Mephisto before being serialized in Pandora.

So, it still stands in this iffy place, where you can't categorize it easily.

Also, I heard it's originally meant as general literature written in his free time.

Cynigami

@bloodygaikotsu

Monogatari series became more light novel like and less general literature like at one point imo ^^ But yeah most of Nisio Isin's books are hard to categorize.

BloodyGaikotsu

@hak0
Actually, I think that 1st season books aside from Bake were more like LNs but 2nd and Final season are closer to general literature than LNs <More like the novels after Nise have a lot of character study elements that we don't see much in LNs>

Cynigami

@bloodygaikotsu

I'll take this to PM since this is quite off topic.

Cynigami

To bring the topic back to ...well topic, I'll post an excerpt from "Tomorrow, I will die. You will revieve" . Not gonna provide the context because it is funnier this way :

For some reason, when I woke up, I found a porn magazine beside my bed this morning, and I’m cuddling a Dutch wife. And then, I found lots of sticky fluid between my legs. Thanks to that, mom showed concern to me, saying, “Th-the weather’s fine today! Time to wash the bedsheets! We have to wash it once in a while!” And of all days, Yukiko just had to enter my room today.

“Brother, I came to wake you up because of what you told me yesterday. Hurry up and wake—WAAH!? B-b-brother!?”

My sister’s words gave way to a shriek midway through. And during breakfast, she’s giggling away, muttering to herself, “Yukiko saw it❤, it’s all sticky sticky❤”

Teh_ping

...seriously?

Hyperion

Spotlight time! A friendly bump to an older post that hasn't had any recent conversation in order to draw attention to it.