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    • TerrenceT
      Terrence Premium Member @Hyferzftw
      last edited by Terrence

      @hyferzftw said in Novel pick-up requests:

      @terrence you should totally write a ln with one as the lead.

      It sounds like I have to.

      I'm an Ojou Drill Tail Character, But That's Ok: My Drills Will Pierce The Barrier Between Me And All These Authors' Self-Insert Main Characters And Their Worse Fetishes!

      Edit: This Overlap volume 1 below has a pink haired Lesbian with some curly-ish twin tails on the cover of volume 1 (I believe it is harem though... And the other girl is male; also, only 2 volumes).

      ボクが乙女でひとり占め!

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      https://bookwalker.jp/ded0c64167-7d43-4cae-8c67-ce2725eec712/?acode=WpfPW3yk

      (Looking at the inserts, those are just straight twin tails... She has failed us).

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        paulnamida @Aruseus493
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        @aruseus493 so, it's straight fantasy?? I'm in!

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        • Aruseus493A
          Aruseus493 @paulnamida
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          @paulnamida Yea, straight fantasy with some interesting world building.

          My Light Novel List

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          • Drone205D
            Drone205 Premium Member
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            Here is a theme: Harem King

            Here are some of the more obvious ones (to me):

            Highschool DxD
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            The Testament of Sister New Devil
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            Campione
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              paulnamida @Drone205
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              @drone205 I would add Magika no Kenshi to Basileus, Masou Gakuen HxH, Chronicle Legion and Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance to that list.

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              • Paul NebelingP
                Paul Nebeling Premium Member @Drone205
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                @drone205 My kids would be ecstatic if JNC picked up DxD, but alas, Kadokawa.

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                • TerrenceT
                  Terrence Premium Member
                  last edited by Terrence

                  King harem seems to be my least liked Genre, lol. No surprise since I'm usually looking for the relationship drama as opposed to comedy. I'm going through my list to see if I have any demon king Harems or Kingly / Princely Harems.

                  I might do one more colorful post before moving on.

                  Anyways, I saw this on my wishlist while I was looking around. "Death Game Management". It's about a dude that manages death games with his daughter. Label imprint is Novel 0.

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                  https://bookwalker.jp/de4d6be159-3fd0-406a-a6c1-9216e9a3f51b/?acode=WpfPW3yk

                  I hope we get some Novel 0 (Kadokawa label) stateside someday; that "Attacking The Dungeon With My Boss" is OT work would be a great one since it's a dungeon action, but with a real world Japan as the place they go home to. It also has 3 volumes now (I think the 3rd is the final volume, but it isn't clear; this is Novel 0's longest ongoing work).

                  https://bookwalker.jp/series/130639/?acode=WpfPW3yk

                  It's OK, boss. In the dungeon, I will guide you!

                  Together with my beautiful black haired boss, I challenge the extremely dangerous "dungeon attack". In the workplace, I have a capable boss, but in the dungeon, she was terribly feeble.


                  Edit: Does a female Orca count as the King of the Ocean? All the other characters are humanoid females too, so like the loose definition of harem. x)

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                  https://bookwalker.jp/de48104c40-1952-4ba6-ad6a-2a9b70fc0fcb/?acode=WpfPW3yk

                  (Sadly, this has only one volume from Kadokawa, but it is a Syosetu work too, the final 127th part published on 10/20 2016; the light novel was published on 10/1, so I dunno if that covers the whole story).

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                  • WarStalkeRW
                    WarStalkeR Premium Member @Aruseus493
                    last edited by WarStalkeR

                    @aruseus493, I finished reading what was already translated. It is actually very amazing light novel.

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                    • Aruseus493A
                      Aruseus493 @Drone205
                      last edited by Z_Goddard

                      @drone205

                      As opposed to Terrence, King of Harem is literally my shit.

                      I've requested it before, but this is the series that made me into the Harem lover I am today.

                      Seitokai no Ichizon

                      Sugisaki Ken has joined the Student Council. Upon entering, he instantly confesses to all 4 girls present declaring he'll make them all happy. This is a comedy/romance/harem series featuring a protagonist that has long since finished his character development and is now on a conquest of his harem. Chapters all about the characters bantering with some cute romance in-between. It's the most influential series to me.

                      Volume 1

                      Trinity Seven The Novel

                      The novel side-story series which is all about stories focusing on each of the various heroines from the manga. The second volume was even adapted into a movie. Arata is a high school student when he eventually realizes that the sun is black unlike how it used to be. After the reveal that he has awakened as a Demon King and has destroyed his city and his childhood friend, he enrolls into a Magic Academy where he goes through magic battles as he flirts with the Trinity Seven which are the 7 greatest magicians of their classes. With an interesting magical system based on the seven deadly sins, and plenty of ecchi and romance comedy, this is another fun series with a forward protagonist honest to his desires.

                      Volume 1

                      Campione!

                      I'll second this request. It's a great battle series with powers on the God scale and really well done. It's also a super-ecchi-make-out series with a great harem. Lewdest kisses around. I recently finished the fan-translations and now I want to own the series. Unfortunately the last 3 volumes are very poorly translated.

                      The World God Only Knows

                      Another side-story series from the manga The World God Only Knows. About Katsuragi Keima who to keep his head from being sliced off has to conquer heroines to keep old devils from being born. This is a 2 volume side-story which adds 4 more conquests and some more unique perspectives to keep things fresh. I actually own the entire manga series and the two LN volumes. (I even have all the limited editions for the manga.)

                      Shingan no Yuusha

                      Abandoned by the Goddess that summoned him, he wanders around until he helps an old lady before he's granted God's Eye to be the Hero of another Goddess. His main method of fighting is picking up a log and swinging it around. Main heroines are some maid sisters and there is absolutely flirting. Glory to flirting.

                      Isekai Nonbiri Nouka

                      Reincarnating with the desire to live a relaxing life farming in another world, our protagonist is essentially just building himself a small village. Various heroines appear and there's plenty of harem-love moments.

                      Dai Eiyuu ga Mushoku de Nani ga Warui

                      Another story taking place in the Grimgar universe with a more happy-side protagonist and his harem.

                      Butsuri-san de Musou shitetara Motemote ni Narimashita

                      Summoned to another and becomes an alchemist, he begins his journey as he accidentally keeps conquering demi-human heroines that are all dere-dere as fuck. Manga adaptation is cute so far. Seems like some blatant fan-service series, but I'm totally fine with fan-service when it's all about cute shit.

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                      Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika Nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta...

                      The Reverse-Harem Queen that is all the terrible tropes made funny. Wanting to avoid a bad-end in a world based off an Otome game, she gets to know all the male romantic interests and accidentally conquers them. She's dense and a total tom-boy as she constantly worries about getting exiled or killed while not realizing that she's long since avoided a destruction route.

                      Kou-1 desu ga Isekai de Joushu Hajimemashita

                      Pretty much a similar setting to Realist Hero as the protagonist goes to another world and becomes the lord of a city. Cute heroines and cute flirting.

                      I actually could go on listing more series I want, but it's a huge fucking list and I don't even know what the summaries of most of them are. So I just stuck to requesting stuff I've at least read the manga adaptation of.

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                      • TerrenceT
                        Terrence Premium Member
                        last edited by Z_Goddard

                        I found one that I want that may be slight harem (guy surrounded by goddesses?). I don't know if he's a king though....

                        "There were 100 goddesses who were in charge of reincarnation, so I got 100 cheat skills"

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                        https://bookwalker.jp/de13200341-f937-4ee3-bd4a-3405bd12bec0/?acode=WpfPW3yk

                        I just like the idea of a guy having 100 abilities, and finding out what they are. Maybe some useful, probably some comedic and useless.

                        @aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:

                        Kou-1 desu ga Isekai de Joushu Hajimemashita

                        I want this too. Really thought we were going to get this one as one of the hints previously (the one that was a Castlevania style hint). Kind of hoping this can be a replacement My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World (though, I feel like "Me a Genius?" is a decent non-harem replacement for it in terms of real world absurdity).

                        I heard someone say it wasn't good, but I try not to put too much stock in that since we're basing it off people reading only a small portion of content being Fan TLed (perhaps in manga format), and even if the whole series were readily available in quality English, opinions can be super subjective (like, I'm not a fan of harem romance, so a series focused on straight up harem tropes, my opinion would not be an accurate reflection on it).

                        Edit: White Album 2's second half is basically a harem drama. Haruki is no king though. He is a sad, sorry little man.

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                        • LegitPancakeL
                          LegitPancake Premium Member @Aruseus493
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                          @aruseus493 Has TWGOK ever been released in English? If not, why? (though I guess 26 volumes is pretty daunting)

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                          • Aruseus493A
                            Aruseus493 @LegitPancake
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                            @legitpancake Nope, never licensed. Might as well bug Seven Seas to license it at some point.

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                            • myskarosM
                              myskaros Staff
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                              You can get it in French! They actually finished releasing the entire series already.

                              Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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                              • TerrenceT
                                Terrence Premium Member
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                                Anybody ever seen "Expelled From Paradise"? It looks like it got a light novel sequel.

                                https://bookwalker.jp/de2e07520e-aa4a-478e-bece-6a050475f676/?acode=WpfPW3yk

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                                • Paul NebelingP
                                  Paul Nebeling Premium Member @Terrence
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                                  @terrence Yes, I've seen it. Very open ending. Who published the sequel? Did they do an adaptation of the movie?

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                                  • TerrenceT
                                    Terrence Premium Member @Paul Nebeling
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                                    Hayakawa Shobo is what Google Translates the publisher name as. I only just saw this advertised on Twitter, so I don't know if they're going to adapt it to cinema, or if it is like the Gargantia sequel that was light novel only.

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                                    • DoubleMangekyoD
                                      DoubleMangekyo @Terrence
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                                      @terrence I had no idea! I really liked the movie. A novel sequel sounds interesting enough for me to check out.

                                      My light novel counter (EN & JP) for series published by Yen On / JNC / Seven Seas

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                                        paulnamida @Terrence
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                                        @terrence there's a Gargantia LN sequel?? I NEED IT!!! Same as with Expelled from Paradise, damn...

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                                        • shrike_alS
                                          shrike_al
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                                          Come to think of it, animation studios that publish light novels might become more common in the near future. I wonder if there are potential titles that JNC might snag.

                                          (I'd really love to read Myriad Colors Phantom World from KyoAni.)

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                                          • TerrenceT
                                            Terrence Premium Member @paulnamida
                                            last edited by Terrence

                                            @paulnamida said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                            @terrence there's a Gargantia LN sequel?? I NEED IT!!!

                                            Yup.

                                            @terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                            There's likely no chance JNC will get this, because it's Kadokawa, but I figured I'd bring it up.

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                                            Looks like a sequel to the anime Gargantia.

                                            In addition, there's a Bellows manga prequel... Though, I just don't like looking back in prequels. All about the present.

                                            Link to the novels:
                                            https://bookwalker.jp/series/51961/list/?acode=WpfPW3yk

                                            Link to the Bellows manga:
                                            https://bookwalker.jp/series/13202/list/?acode=WpfPW3yk

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