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Japanese light novels / webnovels Anonymous 03/08/23 (Wed) 07:49:54 PM No. 281316

A thread dedicated to Japanese LNs. Reviews and comments welcome.

Anonymous 03/11/23 (Sat) 11:17:38 PM No. 282142

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Pls respond.

Anonymous 03/12/23 (Sun) 12:17:34 AM No. 282147

>>282142
Girl, don't be lazy is your own thread, at least make an effort to get the conversation going.

Anonymous 03/12/23 (Sun) 03:19:53 AM No. 282168

idk nona sorry but is picrel's manga still ongoing? i remember reading this few years ago

Anonymous 03/12/23 (Sun) 04:28:18 AM No. 282170

>>282168
ntayrt but used to read the manga years ago too (haven't caught up with later chapters and forgot too much to start them)

just checked that the manga is still ongoing and found out there's going to be an anime too

Anonymous 03/25/23 (Sat) 10:34:00 PM No. 285634

Where do you guys get LNs from online? Coincidentally it's for exactly The Apothecary Diaries. Libgen seems to only have volume three to five and I'm worried of clicking stranger links lol.

Anonymous 03/25/23 (Sat) 11:02:51 PM No. 285667

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>>285634
https://www.novelupdates.com

Anonymous 03/25/23 (Sat) 11:12:58 PM No. 285679

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>>285667
Got taken down sadly, but thanks

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 01:01:35 AM No. 285721

>>285634
Maybe you could get it from nyaa

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 01:09:58 AM No. 285726

>>285634
some download sites for you, though it seems elscione doesn't have vol. 7
https://server.elscione.com/Officially%20Translated%20Light%20Novels/The%20Apothecary%20Diaries/
https://thatnovelcorner.com/the-apothecary-diaries/
https://jnovels.com/the-apothecary-diaries-light-novel-epub/
http://www.vn-meido.com/k1/index.php?topic=8732.0

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 10:29:59 AM No. 285770

>>285721
Thought about it too but nyaa search doesn't seem to work for me (I guess my browsers too old) so that didn't work, but thanks
>>285726
This is great, thank you so much. The missing seventh volume is no problem, that one you can still read on that jnovel webite I think.

Anonymous 03/26/23 (Sun) 10:46:26 AM No. 285774

>>285770
Get a different browser.

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 06:07:06 PM No. 417322

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I'm disappointed in the Slayers LN. The anime was so much better, funnier and more exciting.

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 06:53:36 PM No. 417333

>>417322
Funny since usually nowadays with fantasy/isekai lns its the opposite, adaptions usually do the bare minimum.

Anonymous 09/21/24 (Sat) 07:42:29 PM No. 417342

>>417322
The best parts of the anime are the filler episodes so I don't disagree, but I still love the novels. I wish the latter half could be adapted by the same staff, but it's probably too late for that.

Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 02:18:01 PM No. 418068

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>>417342
>I wish the latter half could be adapted by the same staff
Even if the old staff could get together again, they would never get creative with the later volumes for fear of backlash. Every adaptation these days is too faithful to the source material, because otaku screech when things are rewritten.

Anonymous 10/21/24 (Mon) 05:31:52 PM No. 425959

I found a very useful site:
https://www.justlightnovels.com/light-novels-list/

Anonymous 10/24/24 (Thu) 01:01:48 PM No. 426698

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Some people just can't let go.
https://animecorner.me/haruhi-suzumiya-light-novel-announces-volume-13-release-date/

Anonymous 10/24/24 (Thu) 04:39:57 PM No. 426744

>>426698
It's amazing how popular the series was in the 2000s and quickly got forgotten. It's mostly because of the second season of the anime but I didn't even know there were a 12th novel volume because of the hiatus until your post. It really is a product of its time I guess, so I wonder how zoomers who started watching anime during the pandemic would react to it right now.

Anonymous 10/25/24 (Fri) 06:04:39 PM No. 427092

>>426744
A similar thing happened to Durarara. They waited too long to make the anime sequels and its popularity fizzled out. Narita wrote a sequel, but it's on hiatus, because the other things he is working on (Strange Fake, Dead Mount Death Play) are more popular and have anime adaptations.

Anonymous 10/25/24 (Fri) 06:51:13 PM No. 427106

>>426698
Might as well finish it, why not?

Anonymous 10/26/24 (Sat) 09:29:59 AM No. 427265

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>>>/m/427264

Anonymous 10/26/24 (Sat) 10:59:21 AM No. 427274

>>427092
Durarara was also very popular and I really enjoyed the first half of the second season but the rest was too tryhard imo and when I tried reading a fan translation of the novels before the second season was announced I had the same impression. And iirc the translation was made by an ESL fan and my English back then wasn't that good so it was also a bit hard to follow what was going on. I don't think I would enjoy rewatching the anime now.

>Narita wrote a sequel, but it's on hiatus
It's not too bad if the new novels are self contained but I seriously feel like half of the series I hear about are on hiatus. Not just light novels, but manga as well.

Anonymous 10/26/24 (Sat) 12:51:57 PM No. 427293

>>427274
At one point there are just too many new characters, most of whom I couldn't give a damn about.