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    • WarStalkeRW
      WarStalkeR Premium Member @Aruseus493
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      @aruseus493, I finished reading what was already translated. It is actually very amazing light novel.

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      • Aruseus493A
        Aruseus493 @Drone205
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        @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.

        Volume 1 Cover

        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.

        My Light Novel List

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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.

              My Light Novel List

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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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                              • DTTAD
                                DTTA Premium Member @shrike_al
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                                @shrike_al said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                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.)

                                Myriad Colors already has a LN. In fact, that's where KyoAni got it. It is ... very different from the LN, the anime, though. Kinda like how Sound Euphonium is fairly different in some ways from its source LN.

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                                  paulnamida @DTTA
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                                  @dtta I believe he was talking about the fact that KyoAni itself has a LN label, that's where Chuu2Koi, Violet Evergarden, Phantom World and a few other series come from.

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                                  • Paul NebelingP
                                    Paul Nebeling Premium Member
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                                    (In an Eeyore voice) Any LN based on an original anime produced by Kadokawa would probably be published by a Kadokawa company. ;-)

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                                    • fozzedoutF
                                      fozzedout Premium Member @shrike_al
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                                      @shrike_al said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                      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.)

                                      me and my kids loved that series - it had the right levels of "weird" that appealed to both me and my kids.

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                                      • DTTAD
                                        DTTA Premium Member @paulnamida
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                                        @paulnamida Ah, I took it to mean he wanted a LN for the anime. :) I'm silly, ignore me ;)

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                                        • shrike_alS
                                          shrike_al @Paul Nebeling
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                                          @paul-nebeling The animation studio/would-be-publisher that I was aiming for was actually Sunrise. But then again, thanks for reminding us who owns KyoAni. XD

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                                          • fozzedoutF
                                            fozzedout Premium Member @Paul Nebeling
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                                            @paul-nebeling said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                            (In an Eeyore voice) Any LN based on an original anime produced by Kadokawa would probably be published by a Kadokawa company. ;-)

                                            Assuming you are talking about KyoAni, where is the company info that links them? I know they have worked together (licensing Kadokawa LN), but it does seem like a completely independent company, as they did the publishing for Phantom World, not Kadokawa - which would make it ripe pickings for JNC :)

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