@lily-garden That's good news, sort of. That is too good of a story to leave hanging forever.

@shiny said in Want to read fullmetal alchemist, please add:

The Fullmetal Alchemist manga is already licensed by VIZ Media. It can be purchased digitally via Amazon Kindle, Kobo and BOOK☆WALKER. VIZ have also announced that they will be publishing the FMA: A New Beginning light novel this autumn.

To add to this: VIZ is also putting out new prints of the previous 5 FMA novels.

A New Beginning - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1974725774
The Land of Sand: Second Edition - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1974725782

@Dawnaxis said in Yuri Advice:

Seriously Seeking Sister! Ultimate Vampire Princess Just Wants Little Sister; Plenty of Service Will Be Provided!” as yuri, but I haven’t read them yet so I can’t comment any further.

It's a good story, but much more like Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear or FUNA's Abilities Average than Sexiled. You can probably find a yuri subtext if you look hard, but it's low key.

@doceirias English actually has a lot of words for 'ghost' too. Like specter, phantom, spirit, apparition. I'm actually a bit of a folklore nut myself, so there are a lot of 'ghosts' that are of a specific type. Most people know poltergeists, but there's also fetches, which is basically yourself. If you see yourself, you die. Wraith comes from the old Norse word Vordr, which means 'ward' or 'warden'. It's a bit like a guardian spirit, until you die, then it becomes undead and haunts a person or place. There's the ubiquitous 'Lady in White', the generic parts being she is a scorned woman who murdered her children and then killed herself.
So there is a wealth of words to use in an English translation that could properly approximate their Japanese counterparts.
Although I do understand that the last thing a translator would want to do is extensive research the paranormal on top of their normal work.
I still want a translation of this so damn bad.
I needed to reiterate.
I've been waiting for ten years.

I enjoy the manga. I'll be interested in reading the light novel.

@zenzen Well, this is novel, since it published in Kadokawa Bunko

Good mystery with supernatural

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It has unfortunately not been licensed, so there is no official translation. Digging around a bit, it looks like there are fan translations for several of the volumes online, but I don't think that we're allowed to post links to that sort of thing here.

13 is too damn many (but I'd still give it a try).

yea, I'm torn
for physicals - I've restricted my purchases to what I'm going to have as part of my 'permanent' collection, and there's only so much space (and $$) I have one collection of books in my living room, most leather bound (or have the look of leather bound) a lot of classic sci fi/fantasy, some limited editions, signed by author etc. A second collection is in my office (and is about to get purged) hardcover book club editions, mass market paperbacks etc. I have about 2x what I want to keep. (and that will give me space to add more LN physicals of which I only have a few)

That being said - I like the cover art to invoke the 'spirit' of the story dark/somber or light/humorous - I especially like when a series has cover art that themselves have a theme over the series of volumes (introductions of characters, or featured character on each volume doing something that relates to previous/next-- like the art has its own arc)- Shomin Sample, does this well as does Rokojouma. I'm not such a purist that cover art...needs to be on the cover, I'd buy leather(ette) bound Bookworm editions that had minimalist cover/spine art (like just Rozemynes crest) as long as all the art was inside

Warning: for JNC books these are the "standard" editions not the "premium" versions with the content listed here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/305/premium-e-book-bonus-contents-list/

If you want the bonus stories you need to become a JNC member and buy the DRM-free epubs directly from JNC.

It's very easy to copy the books to a kindle with the free Calibre ebook app. Attach kindle to PC with USB cable, add book to Calibre library, click on "send to device" button, wait a minute, done.

For phones you can just install an app that reads epub files.

Does anyone know if the Author still has plans to write Volume 13? He is still alive and well?

Reminder to all readers that this promotion will be ending next week, so read any books you have left to try and sign up for your free membership trial before then!

Lazy Dungeon Master was a Jan/Feb catchup, and is no longer available now that it is March. https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2900/starting-off-2020-with-2-months-of-catchups

This is March's catchup titles. https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3030/catchups-for-march-2020

You will now need to purchase the volumes for LDM that you didn't read before they expired, or wait an unknown amount of time (perhaps a year or more) for LDM to go on catch-up again.