General Reading Recommendation Thread (Not Series License Requests)
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@rkkn not a light novel but you could check out Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup; the female protagonist there is in her thirties
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@rkkn Well they're all either manga or manwa, not novels, but I'm enjoying these!
Einen Koyou wa Kanou deshou ka
Onna Kishi to Kemomimi no Ko
Like Wind on a Dry Branch -
@rkkn - Elizabeth Moon's Deed of Paksenarrion trilogy has a protagonist that starts out as a young adult recruit in a mercenary company. It's one of my two favorite series about Paladins and is much more realistic than LNs.
For LNs, The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent isn't that heavy on the adventure but the main character is a summoned adult office lady. If the slower pace doesn't bother you it's a nice change from magic high school and villainess novels.
I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years is cute slow life with an office lady reincarnated as an adult.
Probably too young to fit, but Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World's Mitsuha is at least a high school graduate and the series has her acting as an adult not going to isekai Hogwarts. If you buy this one be sure to get the Kodansha light novel volumes not Sol Press and not the manga.
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I'm in the mood for some light fluff. Something where good things happen and stakes are low.
I like A Late-Start Tamer's Laid-Back Life by Yuu Tanaka.
Please recommend feel-good stories, both light novels and non light novels.
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I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out my Level (mentioned in the post immediately before yours) probably fits the bill here. It's primarily slice of life, and the characters are really fun.
Making Magic: The Sweet Life of a Witch who Knows an Infinite MP Loophole has a little bit more drama than Killing Slimes, but it's very low stakes, as the entire thing is told in flashbacks as the main character retells events from her reincarnation 500 years in the past through more recent history to her great great great grandchildren.
Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness is mostly slice of life with a little adventure on the side. It's one of the fluffiest things I've ever read. Entirely told from the point of view of the dragon, who struggles with learning how to parent an abandoned human child, after basically ignoring humans for the last 10,000 years or so.
Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf is a little bit more on the adventure side, but the main characters are so pure you still get a sugar overdose just from reading it. Kazuhiro can freely travel between Japan and a fantasy world. While fighting a dragon with the help of an elf, he accidentally discovers that he can bring other people from the fantasy world back to Japan with him. The two of them then spend their days hopping between worlds, having fantasy adventures in one, and learning all the good touristy stuff in the other. It almost serves as a good travel guide for cool things to do in Japan.
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@strangeattractor have you read Bofuri ?
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@strangeattractor - Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear might fit, lots of slice of life with a bit of adventure. Yuna's bear gear is so OP that the stakes are usually low when adventure does happen.
If you've watched the anime it cut out a lot of good slice of life from the LN and somehow made the adventure parts less interesting.
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@HarmlessDave The manga is also pretty good as well (at least to me).
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Shout from me regarding the current ongoing Kadokawa sale:
Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind
Within record time I fell in love with the series and I consider it as much fun as I am having with How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom / Invaders of the Rokujouma!?
Similar to Invaders of Rokujouma!? it might take time to get warm with the series, especially considering the intro, which sounds anything but much interesting when thinking of swots and school time. But Invaders of the Rokujouma!? blew it away for me with the "Back to the Future-like-content" (I love time travel stories, especially when they are that good as Back to the Future - yes, consider this a recommendation for Rokujouma series as well!)
Reading Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind is to me as fun as reading How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom with very interesting twists in yet a different genre. Probably because the protagonist is similar "isekai-ed-but-not-overpowered". But also how the author kinda makes it fun to read with lots of comedy components.
I like to think that Pens Down, Swords Up: Throw Your Studies to the Wind is the next "big hit" but people just do not know about it - yet. Therefore, use the opportunity during the Kadokawa sale and consider buying the discounted first two volumes while the third is currently streaming. ^.~
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@Serah - It's definitely a fun one and more creative than a lot of the generic isekai stuff.
The MC reminds me a bit of Erich from JNC's TRPG in his desire to enjoy his new life more than to be conventionally successful. Staying true to his desires wins out over normal or easy every time.
