Without elves or any of the other dangerous creatures that ruined Tet’s perfect world, I feel like a setup like Disboard could work well in real life. How could that be implemented?

Finally looking to read this series, and just wondering which translation I should read.

From the past posts it seems that for chapter 1-10 at least, official TL is more consistent, but has heavier localisation.

Personally I don't mind inconsistency between volumes (to an extend) compared to aggressive over localisation. In this case, which translation groups are recommended?

Also, will any versions have censored / redacted illustrations compared to the original? If so I would definitely avoid that version.

New No Work No Life on the way!

Hey everynya, Yui here. Kamiya just unveiled the final cover artwork for the upcoming No Work No Life 2024 at Comiket 105 in December on his Fanbox/Fantia pages! Due to the nature of Kamiya's latest illustrations this year, this may be an R18 release. The full illustration can be viewed on Fanbox/Fantia with a ¥300 Plan (YOU MUST BE 18 OR OLDER TO VIEW AND SUBSCRIBE TO KAMIYA'S PAGES)

For anyone unaware of what No Work No Life is, please refer to this link

Note: Included image is a sample mockup I put together since the full version is paywalled. The art would also likely break Reddit's ToS.

Series Update

As for updates on Volume 13, it's safe to say it's been delayed to 2025 unless a miracle happens in the next week. The first draft has been completed, however any work beyond that has yet to begin.

Despite this though, December will still be quite eventful for the series (keep in mind these are for Japan only):

• December 23: Eastern Union Arc Volume 3 (258 pages, should contain the remaining chapters in the serialization/chapters 11-19)
• December 26: Eastern Union Arc Chapter 20 (via Monthly Comic Alice's February Issue, will be moving into Volume 3's game: Love or Loved 2)
• December 29: No Work No Life 2024 (physical only)

Not too long until Volume 13 hopefully! I expect it to release sometime around early 2025, likely February or March unless Kamiya has January set already.

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• Other stores will be listed in a future post if they contain store perks. Only Melonbooks does at this time.

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I love NGNL. It holds a very special place in my heart. Something about it resonates with me. But I have some questions. Feel free to tell me "you're thinking about it too much, stop overthinking it". But over the years I've accumulated number of things I just can't understand. If anybody knows the answer I would be happy to hear it, Also disclaimer: I've asked some of those already in this sub. I hope you won't throw a rock at me.

1) How can Werebeasts manipulate with minds?
I can accept they can erase memories technologically. But in that VR shooter where Kuuhaku played against Izuna, they could change your perception of reality. They could make you think you love somebody. Their game could turn your ally against you. How they can do that? If they can manipulate with minds of players inside VR and alter their thoughts, they could simply make Sora and Shiro shoot each other. That would be cheating but nobody could prove it. How does this work?

2) Existence Othello is against the pledges
I'm talking about this game. I can understand how it works. It's powerd by elf magic. Elfs are able to do very complex magic. But isn't this game against the pledges? You can kill somebody with it. If Sora would have lost his existence would be erased. Sure, It's not murder like stabbing someone with knife. But (at least in my eyes) it's still killing somebody. How could that be?

3) Extra demand on Jibril
Before Sora and Shiro played shiritori with Jibril, she made extra demand. If Kuuhaku loses they must pay her occasional visits so she can learn more about them. Sora made extra demand in turn but didn't said what it was. Jibil said it can be anything if he will win. She didn't care because she was sure she will win. If you don't remember you can watch it here. What this demand was? Jibril offers herself to the Kuuhaku voluntarily. They are her masters but not becuase of this demand. Also pledge number three says "In games, each player will bet something that they agree is of equal value." That means this demand must be comparable to occasional visits of a library. It can't be anything huge. Is this a plothole?

4) Why is there 16 races?
I get it. Each race has a chess piece. But this scene makes it look like there are 16 races to fit the number of chess pieces. But Tet didn't created any race and he didn't invented chess. Is the number of races on Disboard and the number of chess pieces same just by coincidence?

5) What do you think is inside the planet?
Core of the planet is the source of all magic. Riku destroyed the core and it temporarily disabled all magic in the world. Tet was able to materialise from RIku's intense emotions and from all that released energy from the core. The question is this: What exactly is down there? What do you think the core looks like? Because to me, it looks like the core of the Disboard is the source of all magic and everything special in that world.

6) Is losing Exceed rights actually bad?
When Sora bet Imanity race piece Kurami said this. When pledges don't apply to you it's like a death sentence to you. Why is that? Imagine Flugels would lose thier race piece. Would that mean all Flugels could start killing others? Pledges wouldn't apply to them... But could others kill you? If you're no better then animals I think others could kill you. But you could kill them. That would mean if Flugels lost race piece the Old war could begin again. Flugels are very powerful. Am I understanding this correctly? You can avoid 10 pledges by simply losing your race piece... I can imagine many races would love to start fighting and killing again. Flugels would most certainly liked that.

Thank you for your insights. :3

Five NGNL knockoffs

Season one remake

Season two

Nothing at all

I have the idea to put all the novels into an AI audio book generator. I tested a bit and it sounds not bad at all. So before i wasting too much time into that (and money :D), i like to hear your opinion about that. I will share the files here then.

Same that the one I did for Tet, I took one of my drawings and did it on Paint (just for fun, I was bored)

I've watched the anime and just started the ln as my first ln ever, I had a question. Elchia bet the race piece against the werebeasts, but what do the werebeasts gain by getting the race piece? It did not look like other countries were planning in challenging god and I don't see any other reason for wanting someone's race piece. Especially not for such a small race like immanity

Melonbooks has shadowdropped the exclusive perk for volume 3 of Eastern Union Arc, featuring a limited edition Izuna Acrylic Keychain. It will be bundled with the Melonbooks Limited Edition version priced at ¥1551.

The volume's ISBN was registered around mid-October and it's release date of December 23rd was made public as well (I only announced this on my Twitter and the Discord), however there have been no official announcements about it as far as I'm aware. We should be getting an official announcement in the coming week or so along with a cover reveal.

This volume will contain chapters 11-16 of the manga (the serialization is currently at chapter 19). From what I remember this is primarily the latter half of the Foolish King mini-arc along with the beginning of Existence Othello.

For those who would like to keep up with small updates regarding NGNL I post them on my Twitter whenever I can.

The Melonbooks page for this can be found here. Please keep in mind you will need to use a proxy, Melonbooks also no longer supports VISA/MasterCard/etc. due to ongoing issues with card distributor's middlemen, however this should not be an issue with proxies.

I am a graphic designer and made the same chessboard as in the first episode. There is no point in making another chess website, so let's get 200 upvotes and I'll share the design of all the pieces and the board so that you can customize your board with them on lichess.com :3

1st : Can someone tell how how did Sora figure that steph was fake from the beginning ?

2nd: Sora said there were three rules inserted by the old deus.

1. Saving Miko
2. The one with Miko would be the leading player
3. traitor

But here, 1st and 2nd , weren't the combined in one rule ?

"16:If the game is IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTINUE, the Old Deus hath the right to collect all possessed by all participants except the foremost."

Then why did sora say there were three rules instead of two ?

3rd : How did Sora figure out that if he wins the old deus would die ?

4th : How did Sora figure out that only the traitor could demand to stop holou's death ?

5th: The relationship between Miko and Holou and the reason they played the game ?

i have 3 offical blankets aswell not pictured tho

It's awesome, sets up some fantastic things! I hope all of you will be able to get your hands on it soon! COuldn't stop reading from when I started doing so.

Heyy! So I heard someone say they dropped this series because it was "too high IQ for them." As a fan of Liar Game and smart characters stuff like that, this piqued my interest.

I'm very quality over quantity when it comes to the stuff I devote myself to. I'm currently focusing on reading the Classroom of the Elite novels (and the Kaiji manga), which are huge tasks in of themselves. Eventually, I decided to dip my toes into No Game, No Life. I found the anime, and watched the first 3 Episodes.

I loved it.

Honestly, I'm happy with the first 3 for now. There's only 12 Episodes so I've already watched a quarter of the show. And this was honestly great.

So far, the "High IQ" moments, involve this-

SPOILERS for Episodes 1-3 ahead-

Shiro apparently knowing every single possible move in chess, comparing it as "no different than tic-tac-toe."

Beating 3 random people in the Game dimension with their life on the line in exchange for their clothes. Absolutely no detail is given into how this was accomplished.

Sora winning a poker match through cheating that he apparently wasn't even trying to hide- But again, no actual explanation is given as to how they did this.

Then we get to the first REAL high-IQ moment, with a Game of Rock-Paper-Scissors with a bizzare twist put on by Sora. This was the first (and so far only) moment where I felt this show might be too smart for me, and I greatly appreciated the break-down of what both Players were thinking; Even if I don't quite understand it, it's explained well enough to make me at least Feel like I understood it, or that if I really put myself aside and focused on it, I would get it.

Then the chess match, which doesn't even appear to be finished by the time Episode 3 is done. It's essentially revealed that the chess-pieces literally have minds of their own, and thus are not eager to make any moves that could result in a deliberate sacrifice. Sora has trouble getting his pieces to move for him at all until he unleashes his full acting talent, giving his pieces hope to fight for their future. He then also ignores waiting for the other Player's turn and even stands in-front of his own piece at one point, attempting to seduce the Queen. Then some mind control stuff starts happening? And then it's a cliffhanger.

So- That's 5 examples- The first 3 just kind of being "they're smart, just trust us! moments, followed by a REALLY good one, and then a pretty good one!

My question is- How smart does it get in your opinion?

I'm not just talking about the anime by the way. I'd love to hear more about the light-novels too!

Hello!

In the sixth episode of the anime, Sora summons a hydrogen bomb in a game with Jibril. The game is technically did with a magic ball that belongs to Jibril. How on earth could any magic in that world know what a hydrogen bomb is?

Does anyone know if this disk is dubbed?