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@bloodygaikotsu By and large I love Ryu Murakami (although I hated “Almost Transparent Blue” and couldn’t get into Coin Locker Babies). Popular Hits from the Showa Era was, to me, a very very good and brilliantly funny one and probably my favorite by him I’ve read. Piercing and Audition are great too. I was just prompted to pick up Tokyo Decadence from seeing it in your pile. I feel he will be pretty great at short fiction.
Happy to see you have Lala Pipo, enjoy! 6 4 is also a very good police procedural. Loved that one.
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@terrence Haha, I got Boogiepop in the same sale!
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@the-green-death
I heard that his Kyoko is very different and hopeful and it was translated in English once before but I ain't able to find it...
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Other than every LN that JNC is translating, I'm reading The Devil is a Part-timer and Sword Art Online.
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Finished the first two volumes of Dee Werewolf and thought they were both solid. A lot happened in volume two, way more than I expected.
Also finished volume four of Empty Box. So so so good, maybe my favorite light novel series. Can't wait for volume five.
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Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute
Grimgar 11 -
Finished volumes 2 of both Abilities and Combat Baker. Abilities was fun and Combat baker was surprisingly touching.
Digging into So I’m a Spider vol. 3. A great series. I like the depressing nature of the rest of the class’ reincarnations and their world played against the crazy freewheeling amoral inner dialog and dungeon crawl of our spider heroine. There also seem to be some rather fatalistic ideas on the nature of free will v determinism. Surprisingly deep for what it is
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@cosm1cfall is it an isekai, the summary ive seen makes it out to be pure fantasy.
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@sinnoaria its weird kobo has FUNA boos but never recommended them to me. So i read all 5 volumes of Didnt i say to make my abilities average in 2 days.
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@sinnoaria What is this website?
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@galactuskahn24 a character, the hero, was isekai'd but the protagonist is a resident of the new world.
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Finished So I'm a Spider 3. One of the best LNs out there, I'm curious to see where it goes from here. It's going to have a tough time keeping up the momentum but I'm hopeful.
I also started A Sisters All You Need 2. Pretty demented but very funny and I like the light novel industry stuff.
Also on Welcome to Japan Ms. Elf and am only so-so on it this far.
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A bunch of the prepubs on JNC as they come out:
How not To Summon a Demon Lord
Archdemon's delema
Bakarina
Lazy DM
IS
Ragnarok
Outbreak
Cooking w/ Game
smartphone
realist hero
invaders
seirei gensouki
potions
Welcome to Japancaught up w/ Gear drive, unwanted undead
taking a break w/ arifureta and grimgar
also reading LN (currently starting volume 4 of Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average?)
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I am reading all Light Novels and regular Novels from JNC, YP, 7S, Vertical, Viz.
However the stuff I read immediately when a new Volume/part comes out are:
So I’m a Spider
Overlord
Reincarnated as a Slime
Realist Hero
Potion Loli
Infinite Dendogram
Mixed Bathing (if it was still being released)
Cooking With Wild Game
Elf-San
Goblin Slayer
Danmachi
Death MarchEverything else I read at some point shortly after is released but not right away.
My most anticipated LNs are
YP:
86
Torture Princess7S:
MT
Restaurant to another worldI also got everything from Sol Press but....yeah.....
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Well, I made a New Year's resolution to read 100 novel volumes this year so this is as good a place as any to track that; will be updating every week with what I read. So...
#1: Infinite Dendrogram, Vol. 4: Yeah I'm behind on this, but anyway this is good stuff.
#2: Apparently It's My Fault My Husband Has the Head of a Beast, Vol. 2 (prepubs): Pretty good volume on its own but it ends rather abruptly and there's apparently no more of it...
#3: Cooking with Wild Game, Vol. 1 (prepubs): Really enjoying this one, with its character-centric focus.
#4: I Shall Survive Using Potions!, Vol. 1 (prepubs): FUNA's stuff is so much fun. (Hopefully I can add some Average Abilities volumes to this list, too.)
#5: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 8 (prepubs): My favorite JNC title at the moment.
Here are the other prepubs I'm following (some of them I finished their recent volumes but I'm not including them on the list because I read too much of them before the year turned over):
In Another World With My Smartphone
Outbreak Company
The Master of Ragnarok
Elf Bride
Amagi Brilliant Park
Kokoro Connect
Bakarina
Welcome to Japan, Ms. ElfThere's also plenty of other novels on my reading list, including non-JNC titles; some of them should appear on next week's list.
MAL
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@stardf29 I’m also doing a 100 books in 2019 challenge. I tend to read less during summer or holidays so I’m trying to get as many as I can in in the first six months!
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