Novel pick-up requests
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@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Part of the charm of Destruction Flag Otome is how the protagonist is a dense female harem protagonist. It's surprisingly fun to see a reverse-harem that's a lot like the bad harem cliche series where everyone is competing and the protagonist is none-the-wiser.
Maybe I just haven't been introduced to another series like what I'm about to describe, but what I really like about this series is that the reverse-harem/dense-protag isn't a contrivance made for the sake of fan service, the author set up the story so that it occurs naturally within the confines of the setting. It's not like other girls don't exist in the story, there's just a compelling, and, most importantly, believable reason for Katarina to get all the attention.
Compare to male harem stories like say Strawberry 100% or to-LOVE-ru, it feels like a lot of work has to be done to either keep the girls attracted to the male lead, or other male characters are deliberately just worse or bland. Maybe I'm biased because I enjoy Destruction Flags so much, but I just feel like she's really "earned" her harem, however unwittingly, so it makes it that much more enjoyable.
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@aruseus493 damn, I always tend to avoid reverse harems, but hearing so much praise for this one made me check it out and damn I'm loving it!!!! It fixes so much about the genre that I dislike while keeping a compelling story-telling and really good comedy. It doesn't try to be overly serious, and having a proper reason for the MC to be dense (being too absorbed in avoiding the Destruction Flags that she doesn't realize she has actually solved it all already... while making a completely different mess) gets the story really right up my alley. I never thought I'd like any reverse-harem, but this, this is gold.
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Mayo Chiki (for the lols and stuff)
I was Reincarnated as a Sword (for the Adventure and growth)
Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World (for the Ecchi)
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This is just for a change of pace, but is anyone interested in any cooking light novels? Just suggesting something a bit different because of there is manga series Delicious in Dungeon, so I thought to go with similar Light Novel series on cooking. Again, I'm just suggesting this for anyone who wants something different than usual, or these types of novels.
1.Gourmet Adventure of Legendary Tamer (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi)
2.The Other World Dining Hall (Isekai Shokudou)
3.Different World Tavern Nobu (Isekai Izakaya Nobu)
4.Cooking with Wild Game (Isekai Ryouridou)
5.The Coffee Shop in a Different World Station
6.Cook of the Mercenary Corp (Youheidan no Ryouriban) -
@kite-xx said in Novel pick-up requests:
This is just for a change of pace, but is anyone interested in any cooking light novels? Just suggesting something a bit different because of there is manga series Delicious in Dungeon, so I thought to go with similar Light Novel series on cooking. Again, I'm just suggesting this for anyone who wants something different than usual, or these types of novels.
1.Gourmet Adventure of Legendary Tamer (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi)
2.The Other World Dining Hall (Isekai Shokudou)
3.Different World Tavern Nobu (Isekai Izakaya Nobu)
4.Cooking with Wild Game (Isekai Ryouridou)
5.The Coffee Shop in a Different World Station
6.Cook of the Mercenary Corp (Youheidan no Ryouriban)Here's the old food novel thread:
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/315/any-food-related-light-novels/1
Here are some of my food requests:
@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
This looks fun. From Hobby Japan Novels.
"My Cuisine Makes Me a Strategist for Her Majesty"
@terrence said in Any Food Related Light Novels?:
This food series from Hobby Japan seems to be going strong. It's got 13 volumes.
^I see this is on your list. This one is apparently called "Isekai Ryouridou" in Romajii. Man tries to save his father's cooking utensils from a fire, dies, and then he winds up in an Isekai where people eat boar meat that tastes bad, and he tries to do his best to convince the people there (specifically the lead woman) to prepare it to make it taste good.
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@kite-xx I'd go with Isekai Shokudou, I loved the anime, it was so chill and laid-back.
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@drone205 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Mayo Chiki (for the lols and stuff)
+1, I liked Mayo Chiki, manga more so than anime and I assume the manga was more true to the novels, but less volumes (7 manga, 12 LN) implies a shorter story - anyone know what's going on there? Surely not three different endings for three media types... What am I saying, I'll still buy it if J-novel gets it.
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I didn't read through all 55 pages at present So I agree if this has been brought up. High School DxD would be a good series to look into.
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@noirmorter That would be nice, but IIRC there was something about the author or publishing company not wanting to have the series licensed in english? If someone could confirm for me on that let me know.
Also, if DXD gets licensed, depending on who publishes the series, it will be quite a while before we reach up to the latest volume.
Plus, even though the fan translations are quite slow, they're currently up to Volume 22 right now for the LNs.
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Anyway, it'd be really nice to have "Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e" AKA "Classroom Of The Elite" licensed. Seeing how the anime came out AND keeps getting requested a lot, I definitely want an English release of that series.
Another series I want licensed is known as "Is It Tough Being A Friend?"
I've requested in a couple different times before as well. Based on the info I've seen on this series, it's a harem romcom told from the perspective of the hero protagonist's best friend, since the hero has girls surrounding him and such.
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@xftg123 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Another series I want licensed is known as "Is It Tough Being A Friend?"
Based on the info I've seen on this series, it's a harem romcom told from the perspective of the hero protagonist's best friend, since the hero has girls surrounding him and such.
Yes, I'm all about this. I love when side characters come to the forefront. As long as it doesn't go Yaoi, ha ha.
Speaking of sexual attraction, has there ever been a bisexual harem?
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@terrence
The "guy" on the cover looks like a reverse trap. I'm not convinced it isn't a harem with the protagonist being dense and not realizing.Otherwise, I have seen a bisexual harem or two. When it comes to whether the protagonist actually is bi, there is one anime original series which fits.
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@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence
The "guy" on the cover looks like a reverse trap.This, for some reason I feel like it's an unwanted harem. Harem guy is actually a girl, and she likes her best friend. Wchich would fit the title's "Is it tough being a friend?" to a T.
EDIT: btw, I'm not dissing this, it sounds hillarious and I'd be really interested in this, even more than it just being a harem romcom from the best friend's POV. As a side note, the best friend who gives you all the info on the girls in VN settings is the true MVP of every game, and seeing him end up alone all the time always breaks my heart. To the Sunoharas of the world, I salute you.
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@paulnamida said in Novel pick-up requests:
@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence
The "guy" on the cover looks like a reverse trap.This, for some reason I feel like it's an unwanted harem. Harem guy is actually a girl, and she likes her best friend. Wchich would fit the title's "Is it tough being a friend?" to a T.
The "A Friend" on the cover being in quotes does seem to suggest something too. But I think I'd be more interested in a bisexual harem at that point than him becoming a straight girl and rejecting the other advances / deferring them to the buddy as his harem.
I'm getting my expectations too high after rewatching some of those clips from the anime you mentioned, lol.
@paulnamida said in Novel pick-up requests:
To the Sunoharas of the world, I salute you.
He better get a girlfriend before the series ends! And his poor sister too!
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True. Anyway, also replying to what @Aruseus493 said in the thread earlier, I also want "Destruction Flag Otome" to be licensed. I also thought Cross Infinite World was going to license this but not yet. I guess.
Seriously though, I love Bakarina. She's dense but adorable
Plus not only that, the series seems to be quite popular, ranking in Ichijinsa Bunko Iris's ranking
And the "For Women" LN category on Amazon Japan
Seriously I'd love to see this series get licensed :3
Also,
Hagure Yuusha would be a great license. Akatsuki's freakin BADASS. Plus, its from Hobby Japan. Seeing how "How NOT To Summon A Demon Lord", which is quite ecchi, got licensed, this one would be nice too.
Unfortunately its been on hiatus since 2013 since the author is busy with "Testament Of Sister New Devil".
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@kite-xx Knights and Magic even got a anime so there's something
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@galactuskahn24 although, I am wondering when Knight’s & Magic is gonna get licensed and officially translated. The series got the anime a few seasons ago, and you can find the latest chapters for the manga (digital version) on Crunchyroll. So far, I’ve read the fan-translated versions for the Light Novel, but looking forward to the printed version of this series between fantasy and mechas.
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Haven't seen any recent posts for a while, so just dropping by and suggesting a few, kinda dark, light novels.
Yuusha, Aruiwa Bakemono to Yobareta Shoujo (The Maiden called Hero or Monster) 2 volumes (completed)
Synopsis: That girl once called “Hero,”
She was seen as the savior of Humanity, and as the ultimate obliterator of Demons plaguing the world. Her magic was rule-breaking, her healing powers almighty, her weapon mastery unparalleled, and her will was of steel.
And then, she was called “monster,” and her tremendous power and abnegation was feared. Betrayed by her own comrades, she continued alone in her mission. She will not stop until all Demons are eradicated. Killing, killing, killing them all. Because that’s the Hero’s duty.
Losing her past, gaining new companions won’t alter her path. There is only one reason guiding her actions.
“Because I’m a hero.”Shinigami wo Tabeta Shoujo (The Girl Who Ate a Death God) 2 volumes (completed)
Synopsis: What happens when one eats Death?
Personally, I don’t really know. What I do know is merely one thing.
I’m hungry.
Therefore, I’ll take the heads of these guys and deliver them to my superiors.
Surely, I’ll be able to eat delicious food.
Come, if preparations are in order, we depart.
Karin wo Idaita Shoujo (The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring) 3 volumes (completed)
Synopsis: How long I’d been here, I couldn’t quite recall. From this sorry situation, I as always raised my eyes to the sky; a sky in which the great, massive sun was clad in levity. Sunlight poured gently upon all. What a blessing it would have been for the world if only the skies could remain clear. For tomorrow too, and for all days to come, I was to continue to pray for calm. To endure for those who cried, with desperation I remained in prayer.
And then, one freezing, forlorn, soulless, stagnant, drizzly day we died. Or so I thought… -
Requesting Isekai Nonbiri Nouka. It's a simple slice of life series where the protagonist despite being offered high level cheats and such, chooses the abilities to become a peaceful farmer instead. It's pretty much a series about his life in a forest with monster-pals as he spends all his time farming and slowly improving his living conditions. You can pretty much call it Isekai Minecraft. XD There's a manga adaptation with 10 chapters scanlated at the moment which is really cute and makes me want the LN.
Publisher: Enterbrain
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Going back to the Destruction Flag novel, this post from Curiosity Cat is relevant:
Are there cases of merging publisher? Will there be drastic effect on the series they published?
A recent example is Kodansha purchasing Ichijinsha. I can tell you that what happened on the international licensing side is that Kodansha's licensing department is kind of acting like an exclusive agent for Ichijinsha now. So ichijinsha still has control but Kodansha acts are like another layer to get through.
Ichijinsha has that out under their Bunko Iris label. But, I don't know if that means Sam has been trying to get in there, and whether that indeed makes it more unlikely (he has gotten Kodansha stuff right?). It seems like it makes it a more complicated process definitely.
