What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?
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I hope the characters get to meet up in the next Spider volume. When we can have the spider monster working together with her friends to combat their enemies, that could be really fun.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with the gender stuff too (iirc, the Duke's daughter was a dude in the previous world, and she may be betrothed to another dude originally from her world).
I got so much to get through. And I'm wasting time typing on the internet. Time to get to reading Dendrogram V4! xC
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@terrence said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
I hope the characters get to meet up in the next Spider volume. When we can have the spider monster working together with her friends to combat their enemies, that could be really fun.
It'll be interesting to see what they do with the gender stuff too (iirc, the Duke's daughter was a dude in the previous world, and she may be betrothed to another dude originally from her world).
I got so much to get through. And I'm wasting time typing on the internet. Time to get to reading Dendrogram V4! xC
Must... resist... urge... to spoil...
But seriously, I envy you guys reading Spider for the first time. It's one of my all time favorites. There's a couple of pretty great twists and turning points in the story, and the first 5-ish volumes are some of the best parts.
The web novel version started going downhill after a while, but from the sound of things the light novel version diverges significantly starting around volume 5. From the summaries I've read online vol 6, 7, and 8 have almost entirely a different plot as compared to the web version. I'm exciting to read it myself but waiting for Yen Press to get up there will takes literally YEARS. ;_;
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@chi-c and that's only if they don't start delaying the releases indefinitely. I hope this is the last time they delay NGNL 7.
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My brother just turned me onto Risou no Himo Seikatsu (The ideal sponger life), which is a real interesting contrast to Realist Hero.
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@steelblaidd said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
My brother just turned me onto Risou no Himo Seikatsu (The ideal sponger life), which is a real interesting contrast to Realist Hero.
Did you see the manga got picked up by Seven Seas? Crossing my fingers for the LN here.
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Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@myskaros said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Cross Infinite World picked up (Little Princess in a Fairy Forest)
Apparently it's standalone. That's nice. I got so many series to read that it's tough to pile more on. xC
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About 90 pages into So I’m a Spider and it really is a great first novel so far. I liked the slime one, but the main character is just so much more engaging here that it almost makes me like Slime less by contrast. One of the best fantasy world that follows game mechanics books I’ve read recently. Hope the momentum keeps up.
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I decided to get back into the Machine Translation Game (mainly because I'm not quite feeling rushing through some JNC stuff yet, and I've been in the mood for potential triangle romance stuff after playing White Album this week).
So I'm starting with the one about the guy and his friends who decide to travel 10 years to the past to relive happy days (it has an English title on the picture iirc).
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@steelblaidd I love Risou no Himo Seikatsu. It does a really good job fleshing out the characters, their relationships, and their motivations, making it easy for them to feel like real people.
The main relationship between Aura and Zenjiro is really nice and given time to develop. And I find it really refreshing that one of the main drives for conflict in the story is that neither than main character or heroine wants a harem but the society keeps trying to get the MC to start one.
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Alright, decided to spend my time glancing through the Syosetu parts for this one.
「ニューゲームにチートはいらない！」読んだ！ https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7767dn/ #narou #narouN7767DN
https://bookwalker.jp/de34fdf246-f833-4706-ad7c-4f02567f8ebe/?acode=WpfPW3yk
It's called "I Don't Need A Cheat In My New Life".
It's sort of a reincarnation story, but the main character is a 70 year old who, after spending his final evening with a woman named Bianca, goes home to sleep and when he awakens he finds his 70 yr body has a hole punctured through its chest... But he's looking on it in his 20 year old body! So he basically rebirths as a younger self, but in the same fantasy world that he grew up and lived in. Unfortunately, he was granted no extra magic ability.. but he does have the skill from all the physical training he did in his first life.
A lot is lost in translation, but basically he works with the guild to take out the illusions of powerful spirits (think of it as like Phantom Ganon in Zelda games, leaking out from a crack to take an incomplete shadowy form, while the real Ganon is still locked behind a barrier). His big goal in his second life is to earn enough money to buy the freedom of the woman he slept with on the night of his last day as a 70 yr old. He's going to need to take on a more true form of a spirit (golden haired one named Helen) to do so.
Once he faces Helen, that's about the halfway point for volume 1 and the end of the first arc of the Web Novel.
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@terrence I have one doubt, I wanted to read grimgar of fantasy and ash and when I selected that novel, I saw that it gives preview of some volumes. And so when I opened volume 3 part 1, there were two chapters. So my doubt is, if I become a member, will I be able to read all other chapters of that volume or have they only translated 2 chapters out of 16??
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@xenofazer said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
@terrence I have one doubt, I wanted to read grimgar of fantasy and ash and when I selected that novel, I saw that it gives preview of some volumes. And so when I opened volume 3 part 1, there were two chapters. So my doubt is, if I become a member, will I be able to read all other chapters of that volume or have they only translated 2 chapters out of 16??
If you become a member here, you get access to prepublications until the month after the novel is officially released on Digital sales platforms (Nook, Amazon, Book alker). So for Grimgar, you'd still have to buy the individual volumes to catch up. Volume 8 of Grimgar is only available in full for members to read on site until the 15th of May. Then you'll have to buy it here as a member (using a premium credit; the books here have bonus material like short stories) or wherever Ebooks are sold.
Sometimes they have catch-up months where all the prepublications are available, but that's maybe once a year / year and a half for a series.
Just to explain a bit, prepublications are effectively the novels in translation. We get about 1 part a week released on this site. There's a thread that can inform you when volumes expire on here too if you want to know what you can read with a membership and the deadline to finish it.
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@xenofazer even as a member, you can only read the entirety of Grimgar's volume 8 and about a third into volume 9. If you haven't read the FAQ, you really need to. https://j-novel.club/faq
Volume X is no longer available? What gives?
Once a volume has been published as an e-book, it is no longer available for pre-pub reading.
Please support the author by purchasing the official e-book!
Or you can sign up for a Premium membership and use your premium credit to download the premium ebook straight from our site!Volumes expire about a month or 2 after they get published, and in fact volume 8's prepubs will expire next month May 15. Every month 2 different titles get selected for "catch-up" and every one of their prepubs will be brought back out of the vault, but Grimgar's last catch-up was in October I think, so not sure when next it will be eligible. April's catchup titles are SisKan and Little Apocalypse.
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@terrence Lol you just barely beat me to it. Also, that thread for Expiring Volumes is locked to members only, so he won't be able to access it.
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@legitpancake said in What Other Light Novels Are You Reading?:
Also, that thread for Expiring Volumes is locked to members only, so he won't be able to access it.
Ah. xC
Is there a free one week trial thingamajig someone can try, and how does that work? It's been so long since I signed up, I can't recall. I know sometimes there are trial codes.
To keep us on topic, I did read Konosuba 2 the other day. I think it didn't hold my interest as well as volume 1, but that could be because I've been stretching myself a bit thin by reading too much at once. It did end on a cliffhanger (I think... Sometimes these novels skip over things like Kazuma letting Dust
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Just picked up “Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out my Level.” I don’t like pointing out race, but it seems like a ton of isekai light novels I’ve been reading involve the main Japanese character being reincarnated in another world with a Caucasian body.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that a majority of these “other worlds” are European-esque, but it feels unnecessary to the plot to point out you’ve been born again with blond hair and blue eyes.
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I was going to ask somewhere what you guys got in Yen Press' big light novel dump. I just got Vending Machine. I got a lot to get through, but this seems like it will be a pretty light read compared to the Political and Pseudoscience of even the comedies I've been reading. xC
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@legitpancake Could be stealth commentary on racial issues in the modern world. A number of stories conversely use the trope of "people with black hair/Asian features are exotic and/or discriminated against." Attack on Titan does this, for example, as well as both Seirei Gensouki and Ubau Mono Ubawareru Mono. I think it's just a reflection that Japanese people find Westerners fascinating/attractive, or they're appealing to a part of their culture that wants to rebel against conformity. The "half-Japanese returning national with European hair and eye color" trope is also quite popular in Japan-based stories.
Basically, while it seems unnecessary to you, I think it does have meaning to Japanese readers, either as an escape, or an admission of what they think is attractive, or both.
