Dont worry about the time you reply! I am aware that there are more important things in life than regularly checking MAL if a random person send a comment haha.
Thanks for the recommendations! I will look into them :>
Hello there, I have found you as one of the staff members on the Light Novel Alliance club. So I quickly checked and you have read a ton!
Actually I am looking for a recommendation! If its okay and if you have the time could you please help me out? I am learning Japanese and I want to sentence mine some light novels. It should be Slice of Life genre / school setting (or similar - no scifi/space/fantasy) because the language used in those stories tends to be more "everyday vocabulary" which is more useful for a beginner like me. Also it should be finished and have around 5 volumes max because I am so slow at reading...
The ones I am reading that have a genre combination I am looking for are Nisekoi Urabana and Toradora. Though Toradora is a bit long with 10 vols.
Maybe something does come to mind? It would be very helpful :>
Lol yeah it's a really crazy book, really shows the extend of the inventiveness of Akira ImO.
I've heard complaints about Arifureta anime indeed, that's too bad. Never read the novels nor watched the anime, but I'm glad it didn't happen on one of the anime I've read that have been adapted recently, that's for sure.
I'm still half way on the volume, so I cannot confirm or infirm that for sure, but I don't think the timeline joins yet. Vol 8 is the start of the final arc, so we're definitely getting closer, and maybe it happens later in this volume indeed, I'll have to see.
I would rate it around 1 point lower than sukasuka on a scale of 10, so relatively close in quality to its prequel; also there's really a ton of informations that we can't get without reading the sequel. I don't think you need to wait, especially since it's already relatively close of the end now. Volume 7 was the end of an arc as well, so you can easily read up to that part as well imo.
Hey, I'm doing fine, and you?
Ah, I remember that, but unfortunately no, I haven't had the opportunity to read any of his books.
Bookworm anime was surprisingly good. Chara design and animation may have been subpar, but it managed to correctly grasp the various strengths of the original material. Seeing peoples slowly but surely falling in love with the characters and the story as more episodes were passing was quite satisfying, as this is really how it happens for novel readers as well.
Well, second volume was better on those I guess, but the interactions and main characters are still definitely not a strength of that. Lots of fights, lots of very original and cool fights even, very unique abilities and setting, that's where the strengths of this one are at.
Lolmao now I can totally pricture Bisco shouting "kinoko wa waga teki o kurae" while firing his bow xD.
very unique setting that's for sure, very unique abilities as well so far.
Despite the world technically being our world, the wind of rust changed stuff so much over the years that world has really gone crazy with weird stuff on all levels. Definitely a rarity to see.
The problem is more with characters, as the two main characters as well as book 1's main villain feels waay too much cardboard cut and on top of their interaction are very uninteresting to follow( to cringe level sometimes for me), and the story in the first volume was nothing impressive either.
This may get better overtime though. I didn't cringe that much so far after 100 pages for the two mc's interactions, and both the new villain and other introduced characters looks better than their volume 1's counterpart by a mile sometimes. Story in vol 2 is also not using unbelievable level of coincidences so far, which was one of my biggest problem with the first volume's story telling.
So far world building/setting get an easy 10 /10 or even 11/10, same goes for fights, characters and overall story barely get away with a 4 or 5/10 I guess, but with potential to get better on those points.
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Thanks for the recommendations! I will look into them :>
Actually I am looking for a recommendation! If its okay and if you have the time could you please help me out? I am learning Japanese and I want to sentence mine some light novels. It should be Slice of Life genre / school setting (or similar - no scifi/space/fantasy) because the language used in those stories tends to be more "everyday vocabulary" which is more useful for a beginner like me. Also it should be finished and have around 5 volumes max because I am so slow at reading...
The ones I am reading that have a genre combination I am looking for are Nisekoi Urabana and Toradora. Though Toradora is a bit long with 10 vols.
Maybe something does come to mind? It would be very helpful :>
I've heard complaints about Arifureta anime indeed, that's too bad. Never read the novels nor watched the anime, but I'm glad it didn't happen on one of the anime I've read that have been adapted recently, that's for sure.
I'm still half way on the volume, so I cannot confirm or infirm that for sure, but I don't think the timeline joins yet. Vol 8 is the start of the final arc, so we're definitely getting closer, and maybe it happens later in this volume indeed, I'll have to see.
I would rate it around 1 point lower than sukasuka on a scale of 10, so relatively close in quality to its prequel; also there's really a ton of informations that we can't get without reading the sequel. I don't think you need to wait, especially since it's already relatively close of the end now. Volume 7 was the end of an arc as well, so you can easily read up to that part as well imo.
Ah, I remember that, but unfortunately no, I haven't had the opportunity to read any of his books.
Bookworm anime was surprisingly good. Chara design and animation may have been subpar, but it managed to correctly grasp the various strengths of the original material. Seeing peoples slowly but surely falling in love with the characters and the story as more episodes were passing was quite satisfying, as this is really how it happens for novel readers as well.
Merry Christmas!
YEah apparently they are, damn it that's a lot of stuff to reupload :[
very unique setting that's for sure, very unique abilities as well so far.
Despite the world technically being our world, the wind of rust changed stuff so much over the years that world has really gone crazy with weird stuff on all levels. Definitely a rarity to see.
The problem is more with characters, as the two main characters as well as book 1's main villain feels waay too much cardboard cut and on top of their interaction are very uninteresting to follow( to cringe level sometimes for me), and the story in the first volume was nothing impressive either.
This may get better overtime though. I didn't cringe that much so far after 100 pages for the two mc's interactions, and both the new villain and other introduced characters looks better than their volume 1's counterpart by a mile sometimes. Story in vol 2 is also not using unbelievable level of coincidences so far, which was one of my biggest problem with the first volume's story telling.
So far world building/setting get an easy 10 /10 or even 11/10, same goes for fights, characters and overall story barely get away with a 4 or 5/10 I guess, but with potential to get better on those points.
Never heard of that one.