Kinda interesting but I’m just wondering if it is yuri, I’m kinda getting the vibes.

If so, not my thing.

@YooS111

If you only want to buy one book, the simplest thing to do would be to sign up for a free account, then buy enough coins and purchase the book. Most light novels are 699 coins and most manga are 899 coins.

You can think of a coin as about 1 cent in US dollar currency.

However, if you want to get the best deal, I would recommend signing up for a Premium membership for one month. This adds complexity because you have to remember to cancel the membership at the end of the month if you do not wish to continue it. However each month of Premium includes 699 coins and a 15% discount on buying more coins. So you could sign up for a Premium membership, buy one book with the included coins, and be able to purchase more coins at a discount if you want to keep reading more volumes in a series.

A Premium membership would also let you read the catch-up series and the newly translated parts of ongoing series that are updated each week, so you can see if you like any of the other series beyond whichever series initially caught your interest. I have discovered several series that I enjoy this way.

J-Novel Club is an unusual publisher, in a good way. There's a bit of a learning curve to understand how it works, but I have been pleasantly surprised how thoughtful their design decisions have been, with regard to their business model and how they interact with readers.

You should try Amazon KDP

@RobD said in Recommendations?:

A Tale of the Secret Saint (only vol 1)

Volume 1 is quite fun, but I've enjoyed the later volumes as well.

To those wondering about the plot, it's the Abilities Average of Saint novels :)

A complete series that I thought was better overall is Woof Woof Story, it's the Abilities Average of ordinary, perfectly normal doggy house pets (Chorus: NO HE'S NOT!)

Bump bump bump. Just hope this isn't left to the enclaves of both untranslated yet translated verses. The prequel's done, as are its side stories, so perhaps this will be too, at any rate.

They’re both published by Kadokawa; Young Ace UP is the site where the manga was serialised. I say was because while neither is tagged as complete on BW, the last LN volume was released in 2020 and the manga has been on hiatus due to the artist’s health since 2022.

@Terabyte said in Chillin' In Another World names:

@lighthawk96 In this case, the name change was appropriate for an English audience to keep the joke intact, IMO. Changing it back because the (JP) spoken audio will sound too different is what I don't get... I don't care about that kind of thing at least. 🙄

Yup!
．．．this is kind of a cheap excuse!
How many times the audios said "oni-chan/-san, etc (big /-dear brother)" and we can read the character name (surename) instead in the subs!

So, doesn't really matter if in the anime they said "charun" if then the subs they can change it and keep with the initial "Tia" … to match with the actual translation.

(well, not now that they are using the original name).

High praise around here. :p

New Volumes have released.

Volume 9 (3/3) - May 10th 2023

Volume 10 (1/?) September 18th 2023

The author plans to finished the series with the 10th volume most likely in 3 parts.

Wow, almost everything I wanted to say has already been said. All that's left on my list (nowhere near the top, though) is Dungeon Dive: Aim for the Deepest Level. Feels like this one would be a coin flip. If they can portray the MC's mental state well, it'll be a good adaption, even if they can't make the fights look that great. OTOH, if they botch the portrayal of the MC's mental state, no amount of fancy animation can fix it.

The Unwanted Undead Adventurer is already getting an adaptation, but I think it's worth mentioning because it's a rare case where the anime has the potential to surpass the source. Mainly because the source is absurdly pointlessly wordy. I love this series, but it's the only one where I recommend people read the manga first before giving the LNs a try. If there's an anime, it'll be an even better entry point (as long as it isn't awful).

To comment on the ones others have already mentioned, I think that Dahlia in Bloom and Secrets of the Silent Witch are the easy ones. I feel like those two have stories that lend themselves especially well to animation. Ah, and maybe a Dahlia anime can just show us the food instead of describing it in detail. I suppose they'd still have to keep in some of the alcohol discussion... Although I think it's a bit too much, discussions on alcohol feel so integral to the world of Dahlia that losing them would feel wrong.

@Lily-Garden said in What is your anime adaptation wishlist?:

Lazy Dungeon Master

Lazy Dungeon Master feels like it could be a fun anime, but it could also easily lose all of the intricacies of how the dungeon systems work. It'd probably be a bit like the So I'm a Spider, So What? anime in that all of the "why" of how things work is lost, and you just have to accept that it does. Any strategy or clever moves will feel like arbitrary plot devices that are made up on the spot instead of built up to.

@Paul-Nebeling said in What is your anime adaptation wishlist?:

Hell Mode

Speaking of, right as I started reading Hell Mode, I thought "Man, there's no way anyone could ever adapt this into a manga or anime. This series can only exist as a light novel". Then, having read some of the manga, I feel validated in thinking that. I can only see the manga as extra companion images to the LN with how little of it they managed to adapt, and an anime will be even worse.

@WaterDweller said in What is your anime adaptation wishlist?:

To Another World... with Land Mines! (the author has already made it into the anime realm with his other series, so I have good hopes for this one.)

And then there's To Another World... With Land Mines!. On the one hand, I do think this could make for a great anime. On the other hand, my gut's telling me that this will get a really cheap, barely functional anime. The kind of anime that feels like nobody cared when they made it, and that everybody forgets as soon as it's done. I don't know why, but whenever I try to imagine a Land Mines anime, I can vividly see the cheap anime version in my head. It feels almost inevitable that it will both get an anime and that it will be cheap.

I like the anime of that serie if the novel container more detail or the story are diffrent then i want reade the novel

FYI, so far JNC has never dropped a series with the exception of New Life + where the Japanese publisher stopped selling it and asked JNC to also remove the translated version.

@Bamgm14 said in After Pre-pub closes:

@Shiny I was thinking of buying the Prepub and was wondering if I would get the final draft as well. I understand the membership, while a neat perk, doesn't give u access to the final draft unless you preorder. Thanks for verifying tho

Just in case all of the above wasn't clear, I'll word it a little differently:

You can't buy the prepub at all.

What you buy directly from JNC is the Premium ebook (in DRM-free ePub format), which is the final version and often includes bonuses like textless illustrations or some of the bonus stories that the Japanese publisher provided to bookstores as a pre-order or first-day bonus.

In addition to the premium ebook, you also get the right to read the prepub version in a browser or app. That's just an extra feature, what you are buying is the ebook. If you buy a title directly from JNC before release that is a pre-publication-purchase of the ebook not the prepub.