This thread is for anything related to the discussion of Japanese light novels, WN / Web Novels included.
Learning Japanese to avoid mistakes and subtext trimming by translations and MTL is highly recommended.

>Where to read WNs:
https://syosetu.com/
https://kakuyomu.jp/
https://noc.syosetu.com/
https://mnlt.syosetu.com/
https://mid.syosetu.com/

>Light Novel databases:
https://kimirano.jp
https://bookmeter.com

>Where to buy:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/
https://www.amazon.com/
https://bookwalker.jp/
https://books.rakuten.co.jp
https://www.kobo.com
https://j-novel.club/

>Recommended readers:
Android, Libera https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
PC epub reader: https://calibre-ebook.com/
https://reader.ttsu.app/
>WN to e-book downloader:
https://github.com/whiteleaf7/narou
>Reliable OCR:
https://github.com/blueaxis/Poricom

>Main fan TL dump:
https://lnwncentral.wordpress.com/
https://nyaa.si/view/1202979
>Official translations:

v22.02: https://nyaa.si/view/1968259

>Raw dumps:
https://nyaa.si/?f=0&c=0_0&q=TMW
https://nyaa.si/view/799168
https://nyaa.si/view/1350523
https://boroboro.neocities.org/listfullepub.html
https://lolibrary.moe/

Previous: >>49393749

what happened to this general, where has everybody been?

>>49415680
We've always been slow but the last general just fucking died after a few posts for some reason and no one bothered to make another thread. I like this thread through and still want it to keep going.

On vol 5 of otomege heroine survival. Frankly I don't see any need of making it a game scenario story but reading through heroine's 死んで俺の糧になれ actions while considering that she was supposed to be the og game's heroine does make it a bit entertaining. The school arc's a bit boring though, hope it gets better later

>>49417958
>identify yourself goy, or else...
Nah I think I'm fine with discussing LNs here.

>オタク御用達のシュレディンガー博士はモテ男
uh he was little bit more than just popular with the ladies

>>49415680
>What happened
The infamous hacker known as 4chan was hacked! News at 11.
At least the bigger boards are (very slightly) better now.
>Everyone
Alive and well, no longer a NEET tho, so I can't post as much as I used to. Also, latest Reitaisai and Fossilized Wonders made me want to finish me backlog. On the LN side, am still waiting for new Dendro.

Please recommend LNs were the MC gets a small harem of 2 or 3 women and they actually have sex

>>49421129
are you a manganigger or something? outside the small normalnigger window of 2020-2022 basically all harem novels are like that

>>49421235
Yes, I am. What are your favorites?

Please explain why some names have = sign

>>49421973
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_hyphen
Scroll to "In Japanese".

>>49415680
I personally just stopped visiting regularly since half of the posts were showcases of mental illness.

Got around to finishing the fourth volume of あした、裸足でこい. I kind of saw that ending coming, but I didn't expect Makoto to fucking drown to death. Poor girl. I'll finish up the last volume when I have time next week, but I really like this series.

>そもそも、完膚なきまでに敗れたことで一度信頼を失った俺が、もう一度策を押し通すには幾つも障害がある。兵たちの間にも、疑心暗鬼が広まっている。その障害を壊すには、セレスの力が必要だ。
Almost done with pic related.
I gotta say its very rare that in these types of senki segments the plans goes completely wrong and they get fucked.
Like allies suddenly betraying you and so on, very decent novel in general I was pleasantly surprised, it definitely had a weak start though there's no need for naisei shit in senki in general probably that's why I felt that way in the beginning but it was enjoyable.

>>49416352
Completed the main story. Not bad but was mediocre throughout its length. Not leveraging the heroine's cool factor to its capacity is such a waste. Also I don't like this type of ending where the strong willingly take on the shackles

>>49427607
>Not leveraging the heroine's cool factor to its capacity
Eh? I thought she was cool as fuck right the way through with her John Wick antics.

>>49428494
She was and is actually the reason I actually gave the series a read. Could have been cooler though, especially in the later half when her severity gets a bit toned down.

Where can I find audio books with subs?
There are 4 parts 100gb each on nyaa, but how can I find specific ones?

It'd be cool if a light novel can get picked up and get a media adaptation like comics and manga often do

>>49429770
But they do get adapted?

Fuck off
This is now an Arifureta thread

>>49430247

>>49430258
レイプ. Are the afterstory sales any good? Feels like no one gave a shit about the vol on the jp side

>>49430360
Don't care enough to look it up but given it's old content and almost no changes, it's must've been mid-tier at best. They need to push out succeeding volumes already so that Abyssgate's harem get an official character designs.

Hi, does anyone know of a link or app where I can search for illustrations for novels that haven't been translated yet? Or where I can search for the name of the novel in Japanese and see the illustrations appear? Please leave the link.

Does anyone have Kuro no Senki volumes 5 and 7-11?

>>49431975
You could try searching on Baidu. Chinese posters often share LN illustrations on Baidu and BiliBili boards.

>>49429647
>With subs
Just use the book?

>>49433545
Uhh ok still where can I find just audio books

I got a craving for housewifeslop, what's some recs besides tenshi-sama

>>49435244
A craving for what?

>>49421129
just read Mushoku Tensei if you haven't already

I wish the scene for japanese novels were as large as it is for the light novels. there are so many books that I'd like to read that are just never archived anywhere. whereas with english novels you can search for a random ass self help book published as some nobody's first novel and there's always a 50/50 chance it'll be uploaded somewhere.
one of the only times being a poorfag neet starts to actually feel shitty.

>>49435607
What do you want to read?

so a few high priorities are ニンギョウがニンギョウ、2005年のロケットボーイズ、増大派に告ぐ、誘拐ラプソディー、！(by ninomiya atsuto which is most shocking, not a single upload?)

>>49435179
I'm actually subscribed to japanese audible because it's just 'all books free while subscribed' instead of the weird " you can buy one book for free every month" thing the western ones do

>>49435756
Sorry I can't actually help you, I was just curious.
I guess looking out for sales on the kindle store and good deals on second hand books at places like rakuten and yahoo auctions is the best you can do.

>>49435756
first is on nyaa
sadly in txt format

>>49435379
SOL romance where the characters are essentially (or maybe actually) married and its mostly centered on them, similar to tonari no tenshi

Completed フシノカミ. The author can write some very poetic and heart-moving expressions like calling the preservation of knowledge as 時の暴君に抗える崇高な聖戦 or calling the loss of aeroplane tech 歴史の空から墜落した夢. If only he was any good at making the story interesting...

>>49430247
I heard arifureta is for both dumb and smart people
How true is this?

>>49435244
>craving for
>slop
Wrong medium.

>パンツ勲章
I kneel at your inventiveness, author of ゴルダナ.
It sounds fucking dumb, but it certainly does seem like a good idea to control the beastfolk.

Finished Ookami wa Nemuranai, it was great, not I don't have anything to read to give joy to my life anymore.

>>49437514
That's just isekai in general.

Some of you might remember the time I asked for extra volumes of 魔王2099 and got pointed to the fact that a few were already uploaded to anna, but as Chinese parallel translation.
Well, I got back to this book, finished the first volume and cut the Chinese out of the second one for my own purposes, if anyone cares there it is
https://files.catbox.moe/qre5pc.epub

>>49446705
Damn, nice work anon.

>>49446705
Wow, thanks anon, Anna Archives, I didn't know about that page. I found a lot of books that I hadn't found on other pages. By chance, do you know of any other places where I can find FANZA and DMM books?

>>49450696
Not a lot of work actually, though Gemini dramatically sped up the process of figuring it out.
basically epubs are archives (the more you know) html-ish files contain the actual book and the Chinese had the courtesy to grey out jap text, so find and replace <p> tags without styling (appropriate regex also thanks to Gemini, I never bothered to learn how to write regex) then likewise un-grey the leftover text, then pack it back together
>>49451061
nope

How do I get over the feeling that I'm disrespecting the author or the characters if I'm listening to an LN audiobook while doing something else?

>>49452734
If you're doing something relatively mindless like driving, then it's fine since most of your attention is going to be on the audiobook.

>>49452734
Consider the limited time available to you which would stop you from experiencing the work in the first place if not for the option to listen while doing stuff

>>49437514
Anyone dumb will just fap to the cute girls, make a soijack face while the MC does something cool then move on.
Anyone smart will do all of the above but also appreciate the tendency otaku have to write schizo subtext that often leaks into full blown text on top of the autistic worldbuiding details, depending on their tastes they will also enjoy the autism that goes into character interactions but you basically need to have 3+ years of flawless JP fluency for that.
Midwits on the other hand will just parrot what they heard from jewtubers, go in full of prejudices, then cry about plot holes that would not be a thing if they didn't speedread (assuming they didn't just watch a recap video outright).
>>49445468
More like LNs in general.

wonder how will the industry change now that (((payment processors))) dropped a nuke ultimatum attacking pretty much all japanese platforms all at once

>>49455894
Wait what do you mean. Did something change again?

>>49456219
https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E5%9B%BD%E9%9A%9B%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%81%AB%E3%82%88%E3%82%8B%E8%A1%A8%E7%8F%BE%E3%81%AB%E5%AF%BE%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E8%A6%81%E8%AB%8B%E3%81%B8%E3%81%AE%E5%AF%BE%E5%BF%9C

>>49455894
>>49456229
I have been telling people we are going back to the 90s, most companies in japan still use fax machines for fucks sake, some people on JP twitter are wondering if digital money was just a gimmick fad.
Expect far less digital distribution (if any at all) to the filthy gaijin, get ready to use proxy sites to get physical copies like in the good old days.

>>49456229
I knew some of these, but I didn't realize how widespread this was.

>>49456239
Want to know the punchline? (((Payment processors))) got caught protecting literal 3dpd CP trafficking recently.

>>49456229
that doesn't mention anything new anon, that's just a summary of what's been happening for years now.

>>49455894
From the atmosphere I am feeling from the jp side, they will stop giving a fuck about westoids and will start integrating more with the asian markets instead. A lot more stronger anti-westoid sentiment (and surprisingly, maybe-not, anti-censorship sentiment) in the air compared to last year. Personally nearly all the major banks in my country have a tie-up with jcb so I don't have any issues.

>>49457014
>Personally nearly all the major banks in my country have a tie-up with jcb so I don't have any issues.
My jealously is dense and nearly solid.

Anyone got 異世界家族漂流記 or パパのいうことを聞きなさい！after? RIP Tomohiro Matsu

any good ln focusing on ntr ? something like カノジョの妹とキスをした maybe

anyone know where i can find vol 14 of 田中～年齢イコール彼女いない歴の魔法使い～ ?

>>49455237
pretty much this:
Dumb people
>wow guns and boobas!
Midwits
>Another generic isekai powerfantasy
Smart people
>Takes the messages of Berserk like trauma, resilience and anti heroism and makes them fun instead depressing.

Which one do I choose?

Anyone know where I can find ゾンビのあふれた世界で俺だけが襲われない 1-3?

>>49470552
Don't know, but the wn version is dogshit which makes me doubt the ln is any good

>>49470484
Probably Progressive, because the original was the author's literal first LN, and Progressive is him redoing it while also filling in all the parts that were skipped to make the original story fit into a single volume.

Recommend me works with racial boob rivalry

>>49470484
Original series 1-8 prior to Progressive.
The last chapter of V8 of the original series is a short story that directly leads into Progressive.

>>49426476
Finished pic related as well or rather I guess I dropped it(glad I read it on kakuyomu) unlike Reitetsu Ouji, 屍王の帰還 was a disappointment and I was unpleasantly surprised by how low quality it was in terms of of storytelling, plot development, and characters. It crammed in countless elements without properly developing any of them.

Everything you'd expect is technically there, but the execution falls flat. Series like Kagejitsu, Overlord, and others handle similar themes much much better.

>>49478067
Shame. The cover looks pretty cool.

How the hell did 西由比ヶ浜駅の神様 get all that praise? It's crap!

>>49485656
>look it up
>le hecking reel literature cover
it was destined to be shit like anything else that needs such faux-deep virtue signaling to bait the midwit audience

>>49485656
The publisher advertises it as "all the rage on TikTok", what were you expecting?

>>49485761
Even the subdued Japanese covers are still so much nicer than what western books get.

Finished up あした、裸足でこい。Personally, I really liked it a lot. It's more or less a time travel plot with coming of age drama/romance. I thought all of the personal relationships and conflicts were very well done and the plot was consistently interesting. I guess the resolution of the final volume might not please everyone, but it thematically fits. Some nice, heartfelt moments and I liked the ending. Would recommend if this is your cup of tea.

Is anyone else having issues using narou.rb to download from syosetu?

The last time I used narou.rb was two years ago and I downloaded a bunch and today I went to download the remainder of the WN I was reading but I got the errors below.
Yes, I updated narou.rb to the latest version via 'gem narou update' or whatever

>[ERROR] 小説が削除されているか非公開な可能性があります
宅録ぼっちのおれがあの天才美少女のゴーストライターになるなんて。 を凍結しました
>[ERROR] https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2457fh/ の目次データが取得出来ませんでした
ID:2　宅録ぼっちのおれがあの天才美少女のゴーストライターになるなんて。 の更新は失敗しました

I found this
https://github.com/whiteleaf7/narou/issues/445
So, I created a file called ncode.syosetu.com.yaml in my \.narou\ folder and pasted the contents of that github post into it, but it just keeps telling me that it's frozen/suspended.

If I figure this out, I'll post the fix, but I have work to do and might not get a chance to troubleshoot much further until the weekend.

>>49489719
I use WebToEpub. Open source and works like a charm.

>>49489719
ncode.syosetu.com.yaml is in the gems installation folder, not the folder you create for the downloads
if you download from nocturne you'll also need to edit novel18.syosetu.com.yaml

>>49489719
write your own, it's only 10 lines of python

>>49489832
Thank you, I may resort to this if I end up pulling out all of my hair.
>>49490295
Thank you. I thought it was odd that I had to create a new file...
Replacing the contents of ncode.syosetu.com.yaml with the information on that github page I linked did not fix it for me.
I listed my novels and also tried to download a new short story to test it, but it looks like there must be something wrong with the parser because it is saying that they are private or deleted (?)
Maybe I am in the wrong directory... I'm on Win 10, so my file path to the gems folder looks like:
>C:\Ruby31-x64\lib\ruby\gems\3.1.0\gems\narou-3.8.2\webnovel
Any thoughts on what could be wrong?

>>49494126
>[...]\gems\narou-3.8.2\webnovel
Sorry, that was my older version, I updated and also have narou-3.9.1.
I replaced the yaml file in that 3.9.1 webnovel folder and I also renamed my old narou-3.8.2 folder just to be safe and restarted my terminal session.
Same error. Fuckkk Ruby.

Favorite mecha LNs? Preferably something emotional and epic (in terms of characters not necessarily world/scope).

>>49494318
It ain't emotional, but Intrusion Countermeasure：protective wall is fun.
It's a VRMMO, but something strange is going on.

>>49494442
Woops, it's a WN.
I think the only other mecha LNs I've read are a bit of Full Metal Panic and 俺は星間国家の悪徳領主！.

>>49494463
>Full Metal Panic
I should really read this one day. Don't know why I haven't already.

does anyone have 脱法テイマーの成り上がり冒険譚 〜Sランク美少女冒険者が俺の獣魔になっテイマす〜 1-4 fanza(uncensored) version?
https://ebook-assets.dmm.co.jp/digital/e-book/s741asnxe00001/s741asnxe00001pl.jpg
https://ebook-assets.dmm.co.jp/digital/e-book/s741asnxe00002/s741asnxe00002pl.jpg

>>49494126
>Replacing the contents
Are you replacing the whole file? You just need to replace the last section that starts with:
# ------------------------------------------------------------
# 小説情報からパースするための設定

>>49495175
God bless, brother. That's what I did wrong and this fixed it.
Quick summary for tech dummies like me in case someone in the future is looking for a solution to this issue with narou.rb giving the error
[ERROR] 小説が削除されているか非公開な可能性があります
when trying to download from syosetu.
Go here: https://github.com/whiteleaf7/narou/issues/445
and replace the information at the bottom of ncode.syosetu.com.yaml
That yaml file is going to be in your gems folder, on Windows, something like:
C:\Ruby31-x64\lib\ruby\gems\3.1.0\gems\narou-3.9.1\webnovel
Once you replace that, you should be able to download again. If one of the novels has been frozen, just run 'narou freeze _' where you replace _ with the id number of the frozen novel (which can be found by running 'narou list')

>>49489101
Would you recommend this over something like 青春ブタ野郎?

Does anyone have a copy of 妖精の物理学 floating around? Found about it here - https://dengekibunko.jp/special/PH3/ and apparently the writer passed away shortly after it won and was chosen for publication. Guy didn't live to see his novel release.

>>49500196
Managed to snag it.
https://files.catbox.moe/zxwap8.epub

anyone have tmw part 9 mega?

>>49419926
>On the LN side, am still waiting for new Dendro.
Kaido said that SP3 will probably drop before Vol 23. I'm starting to suspect that the main LN's glacial release schedule is because of Taiki.
Also, SP3 will be centered around Greatest One and its defeat. Kaido originally planned to include the Moby Dick story too, but he went crazy with the Greatest One story and expanded it from the WN's 6K characters to 60K and realized that adding another separate story would make for awkward reading, so he decided to expand the Greatest One story by a further 40K+ and make it its own volume.
He finished writing that and is now preparing to resume the main WN too, which is good to know, considering the cliffhanger.

>>49500605
Why just you don't go to their discord and click the link there?

Anyone got 第七魔王子ジルバギアスの魔王傾国記 2-5? I have looked in the usual places but I can't find it.

>>49500051
I haven't read 青ブタ but only watched the anime years ago so I'm basing my opinion off of that. But I would say yes. 裸足でこい is a lot more focused and has a consistent clear direction which is my preference. The supernatural stuff is consciously used by the MC whereas with 青ブタ it's more like the Haruhi-type approach where the supernatural stuff needs to be fixed in addition to whatever the underlying personal drama/whatever is.

>>49495175
I'm also interested in having that version XD

>>49501912
It's time you contribute to the cause and rip it yourself anon.

Anons can I please get recc on Harem LNs that end in Harem for real, Isekai, Not Isekais any good Harems at all

>>49506482
Rokujouma is the only good harem. Anything else is a waste of time.

>>49506482
魔技科の剣士と召喚魔王 ends with a cannonical harem too, but Rokujouma is better for your heart

What are your favorite ecchi/smut light novels?

>>49506540
>>49506546
Holy shit how many volumes does Rokujouma have?! Alright, I'll read them thanks anons

>>49506482
>end in Harem
part of the problem is they do monoslop the entire way, if that, and then just end

>>49507695
Or a nothing burger ending like in 対魔導学園35試験小隊. The worst part is when writers cop out and leave everything vague. 魔技科の剣士と召喚魔王 is better in that regard it's harem from the start and ends with the girls getting pregnant. 愛陵辱 コンプレックス is a WN but is 'complete' with a harem ending with everything currently going on being the after-story.

Space mercenary has a japanese audiobook version now (It somehow had one for the English translation of the first volume for2 years now).
It's looking like one volume per month until they're caught up.

Anything where the male protagonist has a harem that includes a guy? Even if they're a trap.

Extra points if they fuck.

>>49506482
If you also include lns
>いいご身分だな、俺にくれよ
>王国へ続く道
Actually, now I think about it most senki would probably meet your conditions.
>>49506560
The above mentioned 王国, 侯爵嫡男好色物語, tsunpuri and 辺境都市 series. I don't read ero without the fuckywuckies but the saimin appli series by みょん I read recently felt very erotic.

if anyone has volume 2 of どうでもいい世界なんて that would be great. it's the last volume and i'd like to finally stop feeling restless about it and finish this.

>>49494574
I also want to read that version. I'm also looking for Goetia Shock. FANZA version (uncensored). Does anyone have it? That would be great.

Any isekai or normal fantasy recs with a faithful manga adaptation of atleast 10 chapters?

>>49415680
didn't notice the last thread falling off page 10 and no one made a new thread when i checked so i forgot to check till now

read the latest vol of nageki which was good and the anime adaption wasn't outright terrible which was nice

>>49415680
The 4chan hack halved activity on most boards

>>49415680
Honestly been more active on alt chans like 8 moe than here by now, less people but higher quality discussion.
>>49523579
That's being optimistic.
On mainstream boards like /a/ and /v/ or /vg/ it halved the non-bot non-shill activity.
On boards like these that are more obscure? 10% of the activity before the downtime is a very active day.
There threads used to consider a thread a month a slow month, now we are about to hit a full month while barely hitting over 100 posts.

I've hated this ever since the Erika arc started but can someone share the latest volume if they have it?

>>49523579
There never were many posts. It doesn't help that people here don't answer plot questions or suggestions requests.

>>49525034
It was in torrent on nyaa 7 months ago, but now there is no that torrent for some reason.
https://litter.catbox.moe/55diw21m5oqzs32h.epub

>>49530246
I forgot to change expiration time from 1h, so reuploaded with expiration time set to 3 days.
https://litter.catbox.moe/j05d2bgv8ti3jmsx.epub

Really liked otome game survival. I want more of something like that where the MC actually fights against the story

>>49530343
Thanks.

Been a while since I actually wondered how this stupid language works but how are you supposed to read something like this クァール?
You can write both kaaru and kuaaru without using small letters so what's the point of using one

>>49537076

>>49500605
Asking again onegai.

>>49538811
Asking again: >>49501476

What if I post the link here and it will be found by copyright and get nuked?

Does each of the TMW packs have completely new content or does the newest version include all the older stuff?

>>49542214
New stuff

Peak chuuni kino.
Magsarion did nothing wrong. Total dragvant death.

>>49542341
>神座万象シリーズ
Was interested in the franchise after I read a jp thread discussing the extreme morality of some of the characters. Maybe I should give it a try after completing the media I am presently going though.

>>49412403 (OP)
Has anyone read the LN from the OP pic, is it good

>>49542424
Not yet but it's on my backlog.

>>49542341
VN release this year for sure!

>>49542422
The series is definitely worth getting into if you like chuuni ramblings and wacky fights with overly verbose writing.

>>49542722
Hopefully Masada actually releases it and won't be as lazy as R07 or Nasu.

>>49540679
I don't have and don't want to use discord. Also other parts were linked here.

>>49542931
Ok, here is the link inside archive. https://litter.catbox.moe/0jrnlhsb16cs80kz.zip

Pass: 4chan

>>49501912
How was the first volume?

>>49542341
>>49542722
Still waiting on the VN before I read this.

>>49542722
>>49543274
You might just want to read the books anon, this is from Masada's latest blogpost.

最終のUI修正とバグ修正をおこなっておりましたが、開発会社側の都合により進行が大幅に遅れております。
事前連絡のない音信不通が続いており、対応に苦慮している状況です。

>>49543767
come on how hard can this shit be to program.

>>49543767
I'll just wait. If it's not come out this year, yeah I'm gonna read the LN.

>>49543262
I haven't read it yet

>>49542341
and the epubs are where?

i-ikite!

dead game dead general

>Deino has released EN translations for some of his LNs
https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0482ki/
https://ncode.syosetu.com/n1663ki/
https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818622176489743456
Deinobros, we are so back.

Anyone have リリアとトレイズ, メグとセロン, 学園キノ and 一つの大陸の物語. Thanks

>>49412403 (OP)

It was fantastic as always but maaan did they really have to kill of the trio like that. I'm dropping this if something happens to Akira's big sisters

Hi, somewhat new to LNs and generally not a huge fan of what I've encountered. But recently I read the two Dirty Pair novels which were translated into English and enjoyed them quite a bit. I'm looking for recs on something similar? Fun, frothy, a bit of fan service, action and/or sci-fi a plus, female MCs especially. Anything similar in tone?

>>49565302
looks like a westoid novel
just go read that instead

>>49565308
>westoid
? It was an Japanese LN from the 80s. Thanks for the helpful response, I don't know what I expected from the miserable fucks on /jp/.

>>49565302
Required reading is Mushoku Tensei around these parts Sonny Jim.
After that you can read whatever.

>>49565302
I was gonna say Ryoko's Case Files sounds like your thing but I don't think it's been translated.

>>49562665
Sometimes rebuild world makes me think that the author is just milking it with it's vague/unexplained plot and the MC incrementally getting stronger to eventually, one day, complete Alpha's request. But even in volumes that feel kind of filler (like the 賞金首 one), the plot does move forward at least a bit, and plot points connect, so it doesn't feel too episodic and I can forgive it for that.

Vol. 6下 was a banger and reminded me of the feeling of 死後報復依頼プログラム (vol. 2下). The ending was... yeah I was surprised the author had the guts to do that. Those characters he built up and now their storyline ends just like that. It kind of makes me think like... did the author have something else planned with them and gave up on it, or was this necessary to move the story forward? He didn't do it just to be edgy right? I liked those characters and they were pretty well fleshed out so it was surprising. I've been listening to the audiobook, but might just read the rest of the PDFs now because audible update schedule is slow.

Also please use spoiler tags for people that haven't read it yet.

>>49567380
NTA but I expected far more niche interests here, seeing entry level stuff like MT get recommended is pretty sad.
May as well just stay on /a/ at that point.

>>49567380
>Mushoku Tensei
An anon asks a genuine question and all they get are sarcasm. At least you didn't recommend he play Touhou danmaku games.

>>49568443
>>49568452
He said he’s somewhat new to LNs, in which case first you read masterpieces like Mushoku and then whatever is my opinion, simple as.

>>49570155
>masterpieces like Mushoku
kek
lets just close the thread at this point and go to /r/lightnovels

>>49570165
I don’t care about your ironic autism tbqh, you have been mad about this series for ages now but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a masterpiece. Maybe you should recommend something you like instead, I guarantee though it won’t be as good as MT.

>>49565302
dirty pair was great, good taste anon

>>49568059
Is there info about when this series is going to be completed? Web novel was stopped unfinished and LN is not even there yet.

Does anyone have volumes 2 & 3 of 眠らない魔王とクロノのセカイ? It's pretty good.

New tool to make epub files from narou and Kakuyomu links
https://github.com/duykhanh472/buukuru

i refuse to believe that anyone who uses linux are actual weebs who are experienced in exploring most there is to offer on the weeb side of the internet

>>49574364
it was also a thing for nerds
was, because since 2018 or so it became yet another nu-punk shit for trannies to pretend to be antiestablishment while dicksucking corps like valve

Might be a dumb question but as someone who’s enjoyed a lot of light novels but has read much Japanese novels outside of that section , how exactly are they different from the rest of Japanese literature? Why is it separated? Is it just the YA of Japan?

>>49575160
>Is it just the YA of Japan?
Was supposed to be originally, when the term was coined in the late 70's. But by the end of the millenium it came to mean any lit mainly focused towards the otaku audience, even if the content expanded beyond what one may categorize as YA. Because publishing houses always create separate labels to gather their otaku-oriented publications under, in practice the term came to stand for works published under these labels even if it lacks the characteristics someone would expect from a "lightnovel"

>>49575160
light novel is when you imagine the characters as anime, normal novel is when you imagine them as real people

>>49575328
>>49577716
Most publisher's bunko labels have anime style illustrations now lol.

Someone knows if 死体泥棒 from Setoguchi has epub ver? cant find it

>>49580570
Neither this nor Psyche got released as ebooks and no scans exist as far as I'm aware, your best bet is buying it yourself.

Can someone help me satisfy a craving for some ruthless will-to-power edgelord kino?

>>49570155
>He said he’s somewhat new to LNs, in which case first you read masterpieces like Mushoku
I said I was new to LNs and didn't like most of them. I didn't say I love unmitigated crap unrelated to my request. Do you recommend people McDonald's when they ask for a decent sushi bar?

On MT, seems like 蛇足3 got a lot of material after lala leaving home added. It's been like 7-8 years since we got a progress in the story's timeline

Has anyone read やり直し令嬢は竜帝陛下を攻略中? Wondering how the WN and LN compare because I can't find all LN volumes to download.

>>49412403 (OP)
>https://github.com/whiteleaf7/narou
Oh wow I wish I had come here before using this one https://github.com/setsumi/Syosetu-Downloader-plus
It bulk downloads a chapter range but doesn't auto convert to ebook. Would have saved me a ton of trouble having to merge all txt files then mess with calibre and kindle previewer myself. Thanks a ton for this.

Might want to also add anna's archive to the OP. It has a bunch of LNs.

>>49565302
Cop Craft!!

>>49559767
>old kuroboshi kouhaku
Absolute soul.

Too much to read and I read too slowly!

I read the first volume of Invaders of Rokujouma and found it excruciatingly dull. Does this actually get better? Or is it one of those Stockholm Syndrome situations where people have convinced themselves it's good because they've read 20 of them already?

>>49588492
A lot of the 10+ volume stuff that gets routinely shilled here sounds like people are talking out of stockholm syndrome.
Roku, 7ken, dendro, MT, etc.
Dendro in particular starts off strong but then becomes a slog after franklin's game and by now it's fucking glacial with the war namek.
MT has exactly 6 good volumes then it enters an eternal academy arc it never recovers from.

>>49587993
>*old* [artistname] is good
Anyone else feel it's disrespectful to Japanese artists?

>>49590259
With Kuroboshi I think both eras of their art are good.

>>49590259
No? Unless you're implying I "only" like his old stuff which I didn't say at all.

After re-reading shinja zero I came to the conclusion that I'm a speed reader. Can't believe that with all this foreshadowing I still got surprised by the fact that makoto was abel during my first read

>>49588492
i only watched the anime but i thought it was ok. i always meant to pick it up but every time i check it more and more volumes are out so i'm just waiting for it to finally end first

what are some life changing good light novels?

>>49593454
Humanity Has Declined