 Alternative TitlesJapanese: “The Book” jojo's bizarre adventure 4th another day InformationType: Light Novel
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 5
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 26, 2007
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Shounen
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None Statistics Ranked: #25842 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #5366
Members: 4,067
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Mar 21, 2020
Absolutely phenomenal story, my favorite JJBA story other than Part 7. If you liked Part 4, you'll love this novel. Just like Part 4, it's a slow burn story with an absolutely insane climax and some of the rawest emotion I've seen in fiction. This novel is set a year or so after Part 4, and is another murder mystery like Part 4, except unlike the villain of Part 4, The Book's villain is actually the (anti-hero) protagonist, and Part 4's cast are side characters in the story. Also unlike Part 4's villain, this villain's motivations are deeply emotional and arguably justified, and much of
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Jan 27, 2021
An English translation that has been distributed by the fans can be found here:
https://archive.org/details/jojosbizarreadventure4thanotherdaybyotsuichi I am currently in the process of attempting to read the different manga and light novels for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure in chronological order, as I move between parts (or the best I can, up until I hit references for later Parts I'm blind to). At this point, the only other novel of theirs I've read is The Genesis of Universe. Compared to that work, in which the story felt simply as just a couple more villains-of-the-week during the crew's trip to Egypt, the characters original to the piece were a lot more original ... 
Dec 11, 2022
My favourite JoJo lightnovel so far. Had never heard of 乙一 but apparently Maijo likes his stuff and that's all I needed to know to be sure it would be good. Again it's centered around OCs and a plot of revenge served cold. There's a lot of fun moments and enjoyable quotes, some broken 4th wall moments, we get to see the gang use their Stands in more daily situations, Okuyasu becomes a badass, overall a lovely, but sometimes despairing, tale.
Only downside was really the couple typos in the translation, I guess that's to be expected of a one-man team. |
