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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The only good light novel is bungaku shoujo

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

like, drat dude. i'm a broke-brain vet who likes anime and has read every translated chapter of mahouka, but at least i haven't sunk so low as to play wow in 2016.

You read mahouka? loving lol

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Yinlock posted:

seriously, we already have a person for that

Yeah me in the mahouka thread, it was poo poo mate

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

heck yeah, reddit translated volume 18 of mahouka. now if you will excuse me, i need to go roll around in a tub full of raw sewage.

There's 18 volumes?!

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

darkgray posted:

18 isn't so bad. Both Bookworm and Re:Zero are over 10000 pages, which would fill 30+ volumes at the usual size. Although they're admittedly more pleasant to read.

I read a lot of mahouka for the internet. 18 volumes is a war crime.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Ytlaya posted:

^^^ I like how he is looking at his sister with this expression of pure disappointment. "How did it come to this"

I always enjoy those moments every few months when I'm reminded of the existence of blastron's Ascendance of a Bookworm translation. Last time I read it was only up to chapter 28, so there's lots of new content!


I think that was WickedHate.

That's the look on his face in every picture, every last one.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Maybe your goal of reading All of the web novels is a mistake

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I loving hate tropers

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Zero no tsukaima didn't have a dead guy. It's a harem comedy where a kugiyama rie tsundere summons a Japanese guy to a fantasy world by accident.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

darkgray posted:

Most of the annoying parts of Subaru's personality slip away after about 3000 pages, so just hang in there. It gets better. Eventually.

Lol

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Wow I just hit the turbo translations for the spider book and drat that's a harsh drop in how things flow.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The only think I will allow is honorifics

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Ytlaya posted:

^^^ I started to imagine everything being spoken with a heavy Japanese accent after hitting the transition.

Even moving away from turbos use of throwaway Japanese words, the quality of the written English is poor; with multiple flaws in grammar and (most unforgivably) syntax.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

There's a novel called taint??

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I'm going to check the taint book out

E: this appears to be weeb trash

Namtab fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Apr 10, 2017

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Vol 1: Chapter 1-1.

Zheng Zha (Zheng) always felt that he was dead in reality. Go to work, come home, eat meals, go to bed and wake up; he didn’t know where the meaning of his life lay. It was definitely not in that face of his fat supervisor, not in that white collar woman’s body that he met in the bar, and not in this steel and concrete forest – the modern city.

Zheng felt he was rotting. Going to rot from the age of 24 til the end of his life, then become a part of the earth and leave behind a name. No, not even a name, since no one would remember him. No one would remember a little white collar. Whether he lived as a truly graceful person or just pretended to be one, he was just a tiny piece of this world.

He wanted to change something. He wanted to have his meaning.

‘Want to know the meaning of life? Want to live… a real life?’

When he turned on his computer at work today, a message popped up. This was obviously some newbie hacker seeking attention. It would force you to download a virus, whichever option you choose. Zheng laughed at it and was about to close it. Yet, his heart skipped a beat when his hand touched the mouse. He paused.

‘Want to know the meaning of life? Want to live… a real life?’

Zheng felt a little lost. An indescribable force attracted him to put his finger on the mouse. Then he clicked on the YES button and lost consciousness.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

So how much of this is the author typing out the movie script?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I have good info that blastron will support the official release

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

darkgray posted:

Hmm hmm, so I've practically run out of popular web novels to check out on Narou, and rather than scraping out the very bottom of the barrel, I reached for the porn pile over at Nocturne (Narou's R18 site), and I found there to be titles of surprisingly high quality.

I feel your actions didn't match your intent

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Man, gently caress alphas right guys?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

darkgray posted:

The anime for In Another World With My Smartphone sure looks exciting and hot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6APaRV_mXgg

There's no way this is real

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Ytlaya posted:

My favorite thing about that story is that the whole gimmick is supposed to be the protagonist bringing his smart phone, so I was at least expecting a bunch of weird shenanigans where he used his smart phone to help build up a medieval society or something, but nope - it turns out he also has special magic powers, uh, just because I guess.

So whats the smart phone for?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Darkgray is just humblebragging that he can read the originals

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Synthbuttrange posted:

It's pretty much I'm a spider so what except with occasional edgy bits like swearing, masturbation and genital destruction.

Okay wait there are the guro and mind break tags. gently caress this poo poo.

This is my regular reminder that people itt don't actually have to read every light novel ever

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I've read lovely things for fun and the amusement of the internet before, but even then I do quality control.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

well, went through the gods are bastards. not terrible, though there were some parts that made me roll my eyes very emphatically. magic autistic cowboy shows up in every volume after his introduction and absolutely everyone he meets instantly loves and adores him. he is often completely irrelevant to whatever story is going on but he still gets pointlessly tossed in. i don't much care for incredibly blatant pet characters. then there is the weeaboo kingdom, but the less said about that the better. overall there is a whole lot of tumblr tokenism, where various rainbow characters are introduced like the author is going off a checklist rather than because they have any particular relevance to the story.

I hope one day you are free from your urge to read bad books, or learn how to read them for the internet

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Just read jin then

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The Sandman posted:

She reads as somebody with Asperger's. Not the Internet kind, the DSM-V kind. Plus the other mental issues that usually come with it.

I'm going to kill you

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Probably belongs in the bin

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Ah yes, the well known translation flaw of blocking ad block.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

lol, in the lovely wn invincible the human-shaped locust mc has finally just started killing and eating people. no one except the victims see anything wrong with this.

I'm starting to remember the appeal of reading trash

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

nielsm posted:

I hate the translations "ganbaru" usually bear. Is the "just appearing to make an effort is good enough" some cultural thing? Because that's what it appears like to me, and it feels really unnatural to read that. In English you never proudly proclaim you "will try", to be proud you will do it. "Do. Or do not. There is no try."

Yes it sort of changes the meaning but not really. You still set out to make your best attempt to solve it, I think it's just the cultural outlook at the idea of doing something that may not have perfect success rate.

People say they'll try to do something all the time, although a more natural translation would be "ill do my best"

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Why do you people keep reading these books?

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