I’m almost done reading the light novel of the authors point of view, does anyone have similar recommendations? Or any good light novel, I enjoy similar genres and also dabble in a bit of romance comedies etc.

I have been seeing some clips of the anime and I'm wondering if it's a good Revenge story. I love stories like Shield Hero. Please give me some recommendations.

Thank You.

I need help finding this story!

Looking for a story I read a few months ago that I cannot find anywhere. Basically, it’s like a variation on typical manga/isekai story that was pretty mature. I don’t think it has a manga; I think it was a novel. A woman wakes up as a villainess character who lives in the temple on the day the saintess arrives. I think she had read about this world or played a game, so she knows a bit of the plot? The mc gets chastised by a head priest who fawns over the saintess. The saintess becomes friends with the villainess and the crown prince who both fall in love with her over time. The mc ends up finding her brother/being adopted by a noble as a sister who is totally sweet and supportive. Eventually, there’s a big magic clash and the mc sacrifices herself to save her brother? They all meet up again in another life when they reincarnate. That’s about all I can remember. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

description gonna be a lil bad its been years when i readed it and i have readed only the first book. does anyone know light novel where the mc is black haired thief and gets(or steals i dont remember) vembrace that gives him some sort of powers. at some point there was shown a towerlike prison which was guarded by lizard people. and after that i remember that white haired child went to some sort of dungeon trial with classmates i think who bullied him.

and im tje wery ending of the book there was tutorials on how to draw the monsters from the book

With Booktopia having gone into voluntary administration, I need to know where else I can buy light novels. Bookdepository redirects to Amazon, and QBD doesn't sell LNs.

Thanks to the anime I wanted to finish roshidere because I dropped It fue to no translation. But now I see many people saying that roshidere has gone to the bad way and it's only fanservice with no Major romance. To all the readers that are Up to date on the novel, is this true? Or I can reread the novel to volume 8 and still enjoy It.

I’m currently looking at two titles from JNC to start up.

I Surrendered My Sword for a new life as a mage

Private tutor to the duke’s daughter

I’m slightly hesitant on the first option as I noticed from checking novel updates that the web novel says hiatus and that there 7 LNs ongoing which is where JNC is showing they are at. I’m trying to avoid starting up a series that may be on hiatus. Anyone have insight into how/what is going on with the series?

Less apprehensive about the duke’s daughter as novel updates shows like 16 volumes and ongoing for both web and LN. Same question for this one but seems to be going strong.

Thanks for your time and appreciate the insight/help.

Looking for good isekai/fantasy stories with good world building and character development and a reasoning for the MC having strength, not just cause.

Books I loved:

• Ascendence of a Bookworm
• Mushoku Tensei

Books I thought were great:

• The Beginning After The End
• The Magician Who Rose From Failure
• Lazy Dungeon Master
• Min-Maxing My TRPG Build
• The Conqueror From a Dying Kingdom
• Secrets of the Silent Witch

Books I thought were Good:

• Trapped In A Dating Sim
• Failure Frame
• Overgeared (Korean WN)
• Flashing Genius at The Magic Academy (Korean WN)

Books I Thought Were Decent:

• So Im A Spider

Books that were good enough for my bored self:

• Making Magic
• The Water Magician
• Villainness Lvl 99
• Magical Explorer
• Forget Being the Villainess, I wanna be an Adventurer

Books I dropped:

• Loner Life in Another World
• Least Interesting Swordsman
• Disciple of the Lich
• Lord Makrsman and Vanadis
• My Status as an Assassin Obiously Exceeds the Hero's
• Weakest Tamer Begins a Journey To Pick Up Trash

So i want to read this coz a lot of people recommended it but then i remembered a long time ago when i read one random chapter (above +1000 chapters) just to see one man getting truned in the opposite gender and bieng fukced by women, something like that it was the scene

It was the MC, his waifus are sadists who like fucking him?

In a bad way, mmm..., you know what i mean i hope

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Question for after Last LN.

For any of you who may speak Japanese is there any sort of continuation after the final LN on the web novel?

After reading the final LN it looks like he married 3 of the 4 with plans to level until they can meet Mia again.

Wondering if someone could explain they go on to do this in writing with him finally seeing Mia again and marrying her and having kids with his other wives as well?

I’d look myself but it appears the web novel is not translated for me to find out. At least as far as I’ve been able to see from a quick google search.

So I wanted to start reading the novel as I love the anime but saw the novel hasn't had a new volume in over 6 yrs. Has the author confirmed that they will never resume it as if so I don't want to get invested in it like I did with the hero is overly cautious

I’m reading a light novel right now but might have to stop for a while, however im only at volume 4 (it has 14 volumes so far). The problem with this is that if I want to pick it up at a later date, I’ll have most probably forgotten most of the plot or details (speaking from experience). Since this light novel isn’t available in any other format watching recap videos is not an option.

Curious if anyone else has faced this dilemma? If so, how’d you solve it?

What are some Untranslated Light Novels you'd like to read and why do you want to read them?

Its an isekai where a boy wants to learn magic but due to some reasons i dont remember, his parents didn't let him so he ends up with his uncle and works(?) for him so he could study magic from him. I also remember part of it where he beats his enemy by basically imitating a gun and propelling a bullet at his enemy.

With the new season starting in mere hours, I’m rewatching the first season. I also located the Light Novels. Are they completed or ongoing. As Amazon has 12 volumes on Paperback.

Never read a light novel before and really want to make sure I go where the majority of you guys are in terms of your favorites to get a good starting point.

I remember this Isekai where the MC starts as a low-level adventure/mercenary. I also remember he discovers some old ruins and teams up with an elf girl but the main part that stands out and after he fights this really strong evolved wolf it leaves him alive and gives him a blessing or names him as his "kin" that comes with a special skill, since he gave it a good fight. Later in the story when looking for this famous blacksmith they meet and it turns out to be the wolf god Fenrir who overwrites his blessing and becomes his new master. I also remember that he had all dragon gear but because of his wolf blessing it ended up having some negative effects on him so he had to have new equipment made from some strong wolf monsters he killed.

Sorry for my grammar and spelling problems and thanks for any info.

Can be any kind of story, preferably with more intense stories. But I'm taking everything as long as it's BL! :)

20 volumes is a shit ton to catch up to

I'm looking for light novels (also any manga/anime related suggestion) in a feudal/medieval/renaissance seting, focusing in "management/slice of life", where the MC really focus in developing the location where (s)he is (whether born or isekaied there). Maybe something between Isekai Nonbiri Nouka (but without that irrational amount of fanservice) and Realist Hero (but in a smaller scale).

Recommend an LN where the protagonist is not op but hard working and does a lot of training (like goku in the og dbz before namek saga ) and overcomes adversity with effort or intelligence.

Having read the manga but not the WN or LN i got really interested in the previous hero who wielded the 2 swords and his story. Many characters like the dragon from the recent chapters of the manga allude to him being different to your usual 'hero' but no matter where i search i cant find anything about him so i would appreciate anyone who has read the LN or WN and can clue me in what his story was , >!why he didnt outright kill the evil dragon or the demon king !<, what his powers were etc. Also i read a spoiler that apperently >!there were 4 people brought to this world in that ritual , not just 3!< , so i'd like to know about that too.

Hi everyone, I'm excited to show off the light novel database I've been working on for the past few months, https://ranobedb.org.

RanobeDB is a database for tracking Japanese light novels and any official translations. It contains information about a book, the series the book belongs to, any official releases the book has, and the publishers and staff who worked on the book. It's designed as a wiki, so anyone can edit and contribute missing information or correct any errors. A lot of the database schema is based off of vndb, so thanks to them.

If you are interested in helping out, you can join the Discord server. The database should have most English releases, but it's currently missing several and it would be great if you can help fill in the missing ones. If you would like permissions to add to the database, you need to ask for them in the Discord server.

The website is open source and can be found on Github. It's written in SvelteKit and TypeScript, and the database is using PostgreSQL. There's no contributing guide yet, but it's in the works. I'm also planning on releasing database dumps and a public api in the future.

I'm open to any suggestions or feature requests. The site is still a work-in-progress so it's missing many features. Some missing features I plan on implementing are tags/genres, reviews, and reading list stats.

Finally, I would like to thank the following:

• vndb, for inspiring and influencing this project
• LNRelease, for compiling a list of English licensed light novels
• RanobeMori, for compiling a list of Japanese light novels

Without them, this project wouldn't be possible.

Edit: I saw some users fixing some romaji titles and I forgot to mention that I have a batch editing tool for editing romaji titles, so no need to manually edit all the entries, just let me know what should be corrected to what.

I’m currently reading the first volume, and I also have the second volume ready to go but since nothing has been mentioned about a third and they don’t answer emails, I’m wondering if anyone has heard of anything official?

The first volume, in particular part 4 chapter 1, ends with “End of Part I” and skipping to the last page also gets me the “End of Part II”

So, with two volumes out, can I assume that like the Beast Player, this one is a duology in English? Like the first time it was released in Japan?

Thank you in advance.

Just finished the anime last night and want to see if it's any good

In a nutshell, this series is about robots (called wanzers - wandering panzers/tanks), politics, war, geopolitics, peoples, self-identification, etc. Just a usual jRPG, but also a tactical turn-based one. There are more than 50 books, published in Japan only, and about 10 games total, some of which are Japan-only. Recently they began to remake the original games, we already have 2 remakes for games over 20+ years old.

low-quality title pages of 2 issues (we use higher quality scanned pages)

In past several years I tried to semi-auto-OCR-then-auto-translate books/guides/manuals. But I lack the knowledge of the Japanese, so I only used user-friendly options - OCR-scanned all the pages, then uploaded to translator and it did somehow translate https://archive.org/details/front-mission-project-collection .

Same goes to this novel https://archive.org/details/frontmission4elsanovel .

If you could help with correct translation I can email the word file I've created the pdfs based on, or even the OCR-project if needed. I tried to be sure the program OCR-d every text entry but mistakes are possible (I tried to do it fast).

If not with translation of the whole text, feel free to highlight the mistakes, parts that don't make sense etc. Since it's mostly text, it will be much easier to correct mistakes than in guides and books of the games.

Notes:

• Blue background shows parts that were not 100 % correctly identified by OCR engine while it was an original text (will be transparent after a round of editing/correction).

• Yellow background is what I highlighted as very suspicious (like the name of organization right in the middle of people talking - very strange).

• sadly, since there's something wrong with deepL translator, I was left with g-translator... it usually works a quite bit worse, but had no choice.

Credits for providing original scans go to Oregu.

• Someone added in wiki the following info (https://frontmission.fandom.com/wiki/Front_Mission_4_~Elsa~):

• The novels officially reveal the identity of the unnamed Arrow 7 pilot in the E.C. campaign epilogue of Front Mission 4 - Rudolf Kaiser from Front Mission 3. This marks the first time he appears in the Front Mission storyline chronologically.

There's no confirmation of that by now, only that this pilot was engaged in 2nd Huffman Conflict as a mercenary, originally from Australia.

The following wiki trivia are also not confirmed:

• Niklas Glaeser is nicknamed "Frankenstein Monster" due to his scarred face.
• Rolf Wagner is nicknamed "Vampire" due to the redness of his irises.
• The Gepard wanzers are referred to as an "Igel Type Wanzer" by Elsa.

Would be nice to finally be able to know if these points are true or we were scammed by people who *knows* Japanese.

I'm not sure where to throw my money is it best to buy the english versions from the translators at J-novelClub or the same english version from BookWalker. Should I actually buy the Japanese versions instead if so what site?

Does anyone know when the first chapter of Overlord WebNovel was released? I only found out that it was released at 2010, but there's no specific date