Thread 24649748

Let's discuss original light novels and web novels.
What novelz did you read? What are the most decent ones?
P.S
For the retarded jannies and mods:
A light novel (Japanese: ライトノベル, Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular LITERATURE novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction.
Web fiction(including web novels)is written works of LITERATURE available primarily or solely on the Internet.
The image is on topic because it is part of the book.
All characters are original and not part of other domains

>>24649748 (OP)
weeb trash doesn't belong on lit and has always been trimmed from lit and your whiny rules lawyering will not change that

>>24649748 (OP)
Vampire Hunter D series is not bad if you like sci fi.

>>24649802
Well, they can add a law that they will remove any piece of literature they don't like. At least people will always know that jannies decide what piece ifiterature is worth to exist and what is not

>>24649748 (OP)
God I love this
>*smirks*
book.

>>24649866
Did you read 86? It is this good?

>>24649748 (OP)
You know there's a light novel general on /jp/, right?

>>24649748 (OP)
I read Mushoku Tensei. Everytime I read the books I felt like I was eating McDonald's, it's nothing but slop meant to hit you with cheap dopamine. The blatant self insertism from the author made me physically cringe more times than I can remember. I suspect most anime light novels are the same, I'm never reading them again.

>>24650744
Do you understand set theory? if you understood, you wouldn't ask such stupid questions

>>24650758
>Mushoku Tensei
The beginning of downfall, this is what I would call it.

>>24649748 (OP)
>Let's discuss original light novels and web novels.
I'm not antagonistic to the idea of this new General. But we already have a "WebNovelGeneral" and its already a very popular general. If you could explain exactly what the difference between a "web novel" and a "light novel" is? That might be helpful. Honestly OP image looks exactly like a representative "web novel" cover. Because if there's no substantial difference what's the point.

>>24651046
Light novels have better quality control and professional illustrations.

OP is a retard. His landwhale mother is being harpooned as we speak. She is actually browsing this thread as of now….if you’re quiet you can hear her bellowing.

>>24651206
light novels have translated prose and are unreadable to me. id much rather read poorly edited english originals (and do) than the genuinely god-awful dialogue and thought-constructions that easterners use

>>24651227
What exactly makes it "unreadable"? More sophisticated word constructions?

>>24651384
do you read anything besides light novels? because it would be very obvious what i'm talking about if you did (or maybe you are just extremely undiscerning)

I wish jannies did their one and only job, for which they don't get paid

>>24649748 (OP)
I binged through the whole of Ascendance of a Bookworm in like a month or two. really enjoyed that series. Havent really dedicated myself to other LNs although I have some already in my library. I was interested in Lodoss but it's all PDFs which would make me have to read on my tablet which I dread

Might as well give ChatGPT the title and let it generate the rest, literally no quality difference

>>24651437
Yeah, I read many other types of books. They only could have readability problems when the translators fuck up, which happens way more often with poorly translated web series

>>24649748 (OP)
>tfw 86 anime-only
Honestly I've only read half of the first Kino no Tabi LN. I have no idea why I'm like this. I have a few series downloaded or know about them and could dl them but I never get around to it. I mostly do paper books and audiobooks. I could put them on my kindle, which I hardly ever use, but I don't.

Honestly i'm a seiyu fag though.

>>24651468
>Ascendance of a Bookworm in
Love the anime for this, haven't read the LN. I also have Arslan, LoGH, Slayers, Kino, Spice and Wolf, BSD, and Boogiepop, but I never get around to them.

>>24649748 (OP)
I just realized 86 is just an allegory for Israel Palestine

>>24650758
Read Nisioisn. Zaregoto is good

Have you guys read tanya the evil? What was the experience?

>>24649748 (OP)
>>>/jp/

>>24652895
why?

>>24652894
read 86, this novel is pretty decent

>>24651218
Why are pseuds like this?

>Literature: written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting artistic value
>high and lasting artistic value
>light novels
Hate to sound elitist but the board is already shit, don't make it worse by bringing generals (fuck generals by the way) that don't add anything of value

>>24654312
You think that among over9000 light novels out there there are no good written ones?

>>24652895
>Love the anime for this, haven't read the LN
I was like you and decided to give it a go and I was completely hooked. Definitely recommend it, you wont regret it

>>24651575
Do it, type 86 and generate the book

>>24654282
There you are. Thar she blows.

weeb trash goes in /jp/

>>24649748 (OP)
There's already a general for this.
>>24654030

>24656097
Why are you needlessly bumping the thread? Just hide it like a normal person and move on.

>>24649748 (OP)
Why are isekais so popular in japan? Why there are so many books by japanese?

>>24649824
Ranobe desu

The only good light novels worth reading are
Zaregoto
Bakemonogatari and Kizumonogatari
Kinos Journey
Boogiepop
Legend of Galactic Heroes
If you're feeling it then maybe also Kara no Kyoukai

>>24657795
Why are they good?

>>24650758
>Mushoku Tensei.
The ceo of shit

>>24656097
You guys are so annoying

>>24654418
Certainly read LNs that are better than their western equivalents.
>>24656097
Remember where you are.

>>24657795
>Legend of Galactic Heroes
not a light novel

>>24649748 (OP)
can't imagine wasting the time and effort of reading a whole novel on anime trash

I don't want to die

Any horror light novels, or are they all escapist fantasy?

>>24660006
What do you mean?

>>24658166
Because they were written before the moe boom. And anything post 2010 is garbage.
>>24660002
Hmm, you might be right.

>>24661949
I think 86 is kinda good

>>24650758
It's actually a deep redemption story

>>24649802
Based, based! Just like my reddit removing antisemitic content from bannedbooks!

Funny thing is LNs are much higher quality than all the femcel goonerslop the western publishing houses push. They even have female authors in Japan writing things you can actually enjoy.

>>24661117
Otherside Picnic

>>24662652
this

>>24662649
This board is literally two steps away from being reddit with amount that amount of pseuds

>>24662640
Can you give some spoilers? In no way that looks like redemption story

Mushoku is a great, no bullshit story about getting a second chance at life and making the most out of it.
Cancer survivor will get it, some westoid shitter won't. It sounds pretentious, but it's the truth.
>>24662640
>>24663524
It's not, retarded westoids and tourists who want /a/ to be respected among normalfags are trying really hard to push MT as some ""redemption"" story. Just read my post above.
>>24662631
It's unreadable trash. Especially when you like /k/.
>>24657795
>Kara no Kyoukai
No. Early Nasu is way too juvenile imo, watch the movies instead.

Have been reading eminence in shadow. It's light and humorous. Good way to past time.

>>24662655
>yuri
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll try it out.

>>24649748 (OP)
>86
>white woman with refugee saviorfag fetish: the books

Anyway, I really liked this (picrel) show and have been working on getting the whole series in a zip file.
Are they worth reading?
Is the humor as dark as the anime?
I can't imagine the books are as episodic as the show was, but I can imagine it not really working as well without visuals and through some amateur translators filter.
I really like the world as well, is it explained why humanity is dying?

>>24665177
what sane man would be happy to read yuri?

>>24665177
If you can stomach RPG systems, Omae Gotoki is a good dark fantasy with horror elements. It actually uses the system messages in a somewhat clever way to add to the horror atmosphere.

>>24662652
They share the same lows, but LNs have highs femcel slop doesn't.

>>24664589
>No. Early Nasu is way too juvenile imo
I like both the books and the movies, they've got that distinct mood

>>24649748 (OP)
I need horror LN recs.
Also are the Another books by Yukito Ayatsuji any good? I've already read the manga adaptation as a teenager. Apparently the LN has a sequel called Another 2001

>>24651046

Most of the discussion in there is about writing web novels. I don’t see much discussion about actual web novels on there unless it’s to promote their own web novel on Royal Road.

>>24657795

What about The Twelve Kingdoms and Avesta of Black and White?

>>24665759
>Avesta of Black and White
How's the translation?

>>24665733

All the horror web novels are being written in China, they love that shit. Japan doesn’t seem to have as many for some reason, at least in the light novel space (manga it’s a different story). For Japanese there’s Torture Princess, Perfect Blue, and Boogiepop.

For China/Korea there is My House of Horrors, Got dropped into a ghost story still gotta work, Dao of Bizarre Immortal.

Also it’s technically web fiction but you can look up some creepy old fictions on the internet. I remember the first one I read was “The dogscape” which was really silly but I still liked the horror aspect of it.

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Dogscape

>>24665780

People seem to be okay with it. There’s also going to be a visual novel version of it released on Steam at some point.

>>24665788
Maybe Japs don't like to read about bad news because they read about it all the time

>>24665623
I’ve never read any yuri before. Are they that bad?

>>24665632
I can stomach them. So many light novels have it, it’s part of the media at this point.

>>24666613
>I’ve never read any yuri before. Are they that bad?
They're among the better romance slop coming out of Japan. Better romances in general really.

>>24649748 (OP)
Did t this series get ruined by a shitty forced romance like what happened to sword art and infinite stratos?

>>24667752
stop the larp

>>24668967
Of what?

>>24669102
The larp that you really think that yuri is amy good

>>24653440
No one read tanya?

>>24669394
I watched the anime

>>24669394
I tried watching the anime. It didn’t seem good so I’m not hopeful for the novel. It is next on my list to read.

>>24649748 (OP)
I've only read untranslated webnovels which feels like putting language knowledge to good use and being ahead of the curve but then you run into the problem of there being absolutely nobody to discuss them with. I have half a mind to translate 灰色の少女と黒い女 myself just so I can talk to EOPs about it

>>24669394
no, but I watched the anime and enjoyed it a lot

>>24669210
As opposed to what? Some dumb isekai harem?

>>24649748 (OP)
I wanted to get into LNs but I dunno OP, I think this sort of thing might just be way above my power level. Tried reading picrel but it had some of the most dry and boring prose, on top of the whole thing feeling like a self-insert fantasy for the author.
Then I thought I'd read the Monogatari series but that shit has like 10 books. Same with 86 (and it's not even finished). Thought about checking out LOTGH but apparently the anime is better?
I don't know, maybe I'm getting too old for this.

>>24669885
why didnt you like the anime?

>>24670213
>dry and boring prose
You read them for the content inside, not flowery language. They are the same as web novels, just published and a bit more polished (mostly).

>>24670979
He must not believe in luck for little ducks.

>>24670979
It wasn’t what I was expecting. I was hoping for more action. What I got was a guy trying his best to get away from the action. I mostly remember him testing a new flight suit in order to get a promotion, then becoming a high mage or something and being transferred into the city. When that happened I dropped it, because it didn’t look like any action would happen and I was already annoyed at how tame the show was.

>>24671567
Lol, it like one episode. It doesn't even require patience

>>24671879
The whole goal of his life was to get there, then he reached his goal with episodes to spare. Don’t blame me that I lost the last of my remaining interest after that.

>>24672100
based retard

>>24672586
I was not going to risk watching episodes of filler just so they can have a full season.

>>24671567
It's weird that you'd call her a him. A /pol/ack would call her a girl because she's physically a girl, and a redditor would call her a girl because she refers to herself as one.

>>24672744
I remember him being a salaryman before he died, therefore I say him. I don’t remember him referring to himself as a girl, or else I would have said her.

>>24672100
Zoomer moment

>>24653440
Pretty good but wordy

>>24670077
Any non isekai

>>24653020
Elobarate?

Bumpero.

>>24649748 (OP)
Holy fuck, is every board just turning into a derivative of /a/ now?

>>24649748 (OP)
I've heard boogiepop phantom is good.
But it's probably better to read novels that were adapted into manga and anime like 'Welcome to the NHK'.

>>24650758
Yeah Musho is garbage, sorry you had to go through that.

>>24674908
There are a great many romcoms and shounenslop I would take yuri over.

>>24665212
I've been reading through it in Japanese. The first volume isn't great but it picks up a lot after that. Very similar kind of humor to the anime and gets increasingly absurd as things go on. It's more of a collection of, surprisingly intricate, short stories which are tied together by reports written at the end of each volume.
I'd say it's worth reading if you liked the anime, even if you don't like it as much it's short enough that you don't suffer much of a loss

>>24676504
I read Boogiepop earlier this week. I liked the story, but not the way it was told. It’s told over the perspective of six people or so. It’s also good that the first novel is a self contained story.