What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?
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What am I reading? I'm reading Sword Art Online in paper format, Devil is a Part-Timer! and In Another World With My Smart Phone in ebook format. (Smartphone was being purchased from Amazon, but will be purchased as a premium Ebook from here starting with volume 5. Debating whether to start reading Infinate Dendrogram or Demon King Diamaou. Suggestions appreciated.
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@terrence quick question for part timer, what volume did the anime end on? I'm feeling really lazy and don't feel like reading it from the start, I loved the anime and I'm actually looking forward to buying this LN if it continued after the anime that is.
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@paul-nebeling said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Debating whether to start reading Infinate Dendrogram or Demon King Diamaou. Suggestions appreciated.
Depends what you're after really! If you think you've got your fill of VRMMO settings with SAO or want to read something full of fanservice then pick Demon King Daimaou. Otherwise, my recommendation would be Infinite Dendrogram as I feel it is the stronger story.
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@hyferzftw said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
@terrence quick question for part timer, what volume did the anime end on? I'm feeling really lazy and don't feel like reading it from the start, I loved the anime and I'm actually looking forward to buying this LN if it continued after the anime that is.
Volume 3! I was lazy too, so I just started from there.
The only thing of note from the previous volumes that isn't in the show is (Devil is a Part-Timer Volume 2 spoiler):
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@terrence alright I've got some catching up to do
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@hyferzftw Part-Timer runs thru the end of volume 2, with one side story from volume 7 and one episode that appears to be OVA.
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@raddevlin That is sort of the line of thought I'm following as well. With 9 (possibly more) volumes of SAO remaining, I don't know if I want to start another VRMMORPG series. From reading part 1 of volume 1 of Diamaou, the fan service seems to be mostly in the anime. I could be wrong though.
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@whoisfriend As of right now, I'm trying to complete Grimgar Of Fantasy and Ash. After I finish, I might look into Clockwork Planet since it looks cool and the author also made No Game No Life.
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I picked up Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers Volume 2.
(Spoilers up through page 90)
Alright, enough theorizing about the midway point through to the end. I'm taking my time with this one so far. =]
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@terrence I liked the anime but forgot it had a LN, I'm probably going to buy the LN and start from the beginning if things are different from the anime.
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@hyferzftw said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
@terrence I liked the anime but forgot it had a LN, I'm probably going to buy the LN and start from the beginning if things are different from the anime.
Things aren't that different in volume 1. The only really neat thing is you get to hear the Seventh Brave's thoughts occasionally.
Pacing is a bit quicker too I think.
Volume 2 starts a whole new chapter not in the anime.
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well, outside from JNC, I'm reading Goblin Slayer, Death March to the Parallel world Rhapsody and SAO Progressive (wish I had hold out on importing the books since 2 months after I bought them the digital version was released >w<), also I'm waiting for the release of Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (I think they titled it That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime in English) on December.
Aside from those I'm contemplating on buying The Devil is a Part-Timer, No Game No Life, Strike the Blood and the original SAO. I wish I could buy the Monogatari series but importing is way too costly, not doing it again, I'm restricting myself to e-releases
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Does anyone know how much of the volume(s) Reincarnated as a Slime manga covers? Is it all of volume 1? I might just start with the manga I accidentally bought, then skip to the 2nd LN volume. xC
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@terrence For most manga adaptations of light novels, there are multiple manga volumes (3-4) for each LN volume.
EDIT: Some examples -
- Sword Art Online Progressive takes 4 manga volumes to cover the story of the first novel.
- Overlord takes 1 manga volume to cover the story of the first novel, 1.5 to cover the story of the second novel. I would say this is an uncommon dynamic.
- DanMachi takes 2 manga volumes to cover the first novel.
- Goblin Slayer takes 15 manga chapters to cover the first novel. From what I can tell, there are 4 chapters in 1 manga tankobon, so 3-4 volumes for the first novel.
- Hataraku Maou-sama takes about 2 manga volumes to cover the first novel.
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the first LN volume of Reincarnated as a Slime should cover up to the resolution of Rimuru's fight with Shizu-sensei. The first manga volume only covers up to the Dwarf Kingdom, and only up to the bar scene, it doesn't even get to the Dwarven King's judgement, it does catch up with vol. 2 though (it does introduce Shizue through a vision of sorts).
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Not an LN, but I'm reading Never Let Me Go by Japanese-British novelist and Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro as part of my Japanese Novel reads this year. It feels a bit like The Giver or other YA books you read in school where you know things aren't quite right with the society in the book, that things are being kept from you.
Got a forward and backward plot nature and they keep you in the dark until you need to know something. I'm about 50 pages in.
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@terrence eww a real book 🤢
Jk, I recently finished reading "The Cage" which was a really sad book that I feel everyone should read so nothing like the horrors of those events ever happen again. On the other hand I'm finally about to start reading "Is it wrong to pick up girls in a dungeon v7" which I bought months ago. Was just feeling lazy so I never started it. -
I finally decided to get Goblin slayer
And boy did it exceed my expectations. I'm currently making sure to take my time reading it.
