New Japanese Releases (manga and light novels)

[Seitsuki]

Quick, what do you guys recommend I buy? I have 4 days to grab everything I can get my hands on and I don't know where to start..

[Master Assassin]

Originally Posted by Seitsuki

Quick, what do you guys recommend I buy? I have 4 days to grab everything I can get my hands on and I don't know where to start..

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...=78212&page=37

Go there, backtrack a few pages or two, probably you'll find something relevant of interest...

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Master Assassin

1. I am still trying to comprehend her appeal... by research. Some of my findings seem to point towards screentime, so I wonder if any other female besides Mikoto and Index gain the most spotlight (and the first girl we get to know in the series apart from those two) will there be a change...

You don't have to think so hard, she's just a good Tsundere.

Originally Posted by Master Assassin

2. Who you ask? Why, those people who thought it'd be better to appeal more towards those who like such things. Kamikoto is getting too dominating so there ought to be more ship-to-ship combat! After all, more cute girls beside Kamijou = more marketing boost!!! .... (on a serious note, I do have problems with the common consumer mentalities, else I'd stay being a retail assistant rather than pursuing a degree)

The point is unlike an actual romance series, there isn't really alot of viable alternatives to ship around without cracking it up.

Originally Posted by Master Assassin

3. If this was a time where male main characters make most of the big boom in the industry... actually, scratch that. Kamijou will still be in a tight spot.

I was just kidding, but it is sad that there's not alot of high profile male protagonists.... That's not to say there isn't any good ones, but they just don't leave alot of impression.

Originally Posted by Master Assassin

5. Tatsuya's appeal... as sad as I want to deny I ever typed this very sentence... will be his series' own "stay away" factor for some.

What do you mean?

[Master Assassin]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

You don't have to think so hard, she's just a good Tsundere.

The point is unlike an actual romance series, there isn't really alot of viable alternatives to ship around without cracking it up.

I was just kidding, but it is sad that there's not alot of high profile male protagonists.... That's not to say there isn't any good ones, but they just don't leave alot of impression.

What do you mean?

1. Exactly my problem with it! Ah, but I guess for that I will have settle with "a man's meat is another's poison" isn't it.

2. Yeah, but that doesn't stop people for wanting them right

3. Aren't we in a time and age where people would rather talk about the heroines? Besides, you do remember that one conversation between a Hero and Demon King right? I think that's quite relevant.

4. That might be something we have to talk about in a convo...

[Teh_Ping]

作品（シリーズ）ランキングBEST60
順位　総合　HP　　協力者　モニター　作品（シリーズ）名
*1　290.70　125.09　*57.61　108.00　ソードアート・オンライン
*2　161.60　*84.08　**6.52　*71.00　「とある魔術の禁書目録」シリー ズ
*3　121.43　*12.91　106.52　**2.00　六花の勇者
*4　116.28　*22.67　**7.61　*86.00　バカとテストと召喚獣
*5　107.19　*40.28　*23.91　*43.00　俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがな い
*6　*94.36　*40.79　*44.57　**9.00　やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちが っている 。
*7　*86.02　*17.02　**0.00　*69.00　デュラララ！！
*8　*82.90　*12.25　*70.65　**0.00　「東雲侑子」シリーズ
*9　*79.90　**8.51　*67.39　**4.00　サクラダリセット
10　*77.82　*23.99　*22.83　*31.00　GENESISシリーズ 境界線上のホライゾン

（今年/去年）
（*1位/*1位）　SAO
（*2位/*2位）　禁書
（*3位/31位）　六花
（*4位/*5位）　バカテス
（*5位/11位）　俺妹
（*6位/15位）　青春ラブコメ
（*7位/30位）　デュラ
（*8位/**位）　東雲侑子
（*9位/**位）　サクラダ
（10位/26位）　境ホラ

（11位/21位）　AW
（12位/29位）　劣等生
（13位/**位）　アルデミラン
（14位/*3位）　ベントー
（15位/12位）　ココロネ
（16位/**位）　ノーゲームノーライフ
（17位/*6位）　はがない
（18位/20位）　キノ
（19位/32位）　生存
（20位/24位）　のうりん


Top 10 ranking of Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi:

1. Sword Art Online 290.70
2. Toaru Majutsu no Index 161.60
3. Hero of the Six Flowers 121.43 (Not adapted into anime)

4. Baka Test 116.28
5. Oreimo 107.19
6. My youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected 94.36 (Not adapated into anime)
7. Durarara 86.02
8. Shinonome Yuuko 82.90 (no anime that I know of)
9. Sakurada Reset 79.90 (no idea of anime)
10. Genesis Series Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon 77.82

11. Accel World
12. Mahouka.
13. Mirror of Heaven Alderamin
14. Bento.
15. Kokoro Connect
16. No Game No Life
17. Haganai.
18. Kino no Tabi.
19. Seitokai series
20. Nourin

In other news, Kirito is first for male category, Misaka Mikoto is first for female (4-peat lol), and Abec takes best illustrator.

...Gatari takes 41

Oda Nobuna takes 28

Date a Live takes 40

Tokyo Ravens takes 48

[Chaos2Frozen]

Eagerly awaiting the full list for both gender Characters

[Teh_Ping]

From left　1～10 　11～30　31～60

*5　*7　11　　Dengeki Bunko
*2　*3　*1　　Famitsu
*1　*2　*2　　SD
*1　*2　*0　　GaGaGa
*1　*1　*3　　Sneaker
*0　*2　*2　　MF
*0　*2　*0　　GA
*0　*1　*4　　Fujimi
*0　*0　*2　　HJ
*0　*0　*2　　Kodansha LN
*0　*0　*1　　KodanshaBOX
*0　*0　*1　　Wings
*0　*0　*1　　Hayakawa

[Cosmic Eagle]

They count Hayakawa? Isn't that an SF novel publisher?

[Teh_Ping]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

They count Hayakawa? Isn't that an SF novel publisher?

They counted that alright.

57位　スワロウテイル（ハヤカワ文庫JA）

Thread here:

http://toro.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ma...26798639/468n-

[darthfanta]

Originally Posted by Teh_Ping

作品（シリーズ）ランキングBEST60
順位　総合　HP　　協力者　モニター　作品（シリーズ）名
*1　290.70　125.09　*57.61　108.00　ソードアート・オンライン
*2　161.60　*84.08　**6.52　*71.00　「とある魔術の禁書目録」シリー ズ
*3　121.43　*12.91　106.52　**2.00　六花の勇者
*4　116.28　*22.67　**7.61　*86.00　バカとテストと召喚獣
*5　107.19　*40.28　*23.91　*43.00　俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがな い
*6　*94.36　*40.79　*44.57　**9.00　やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちが っている 。
*7　*86.02　*17.02　**0.00　*69.00　デュラララ！！
*8　*82.90　*12.25　*70.65　**0.00　「東雲侑子」シリーズ
*9　*79.90　**8.51　*67.39　**4.00　サクラダリセット
10　*77.82　*23.99　*22.83　*31.00　GENESISシリーズ 境界線上のホライゾン

（今年/去年）
（*1位/*1位）　SAO
（*2位/*2位）　禁書
（*3位/31位）　六花
（*4位/*5位）　バカテス
（*5位/11位）　俺妹
（*6位/15位）　青春ラブコメ
（*7位/30位）　デュラ
（*8位/**位）　東雲侑子
（*9位/**位）　サクラダ
（10位/26位）　境ホラ

（11位/21位）　AW
（12位/29位）　劣等生
（13位/**位）　アルデミラン
（14位/*3位）　ベントー
（15位/12位）　ココロネ
（16位/**位）　ノーゲームノーライフ
（17位/*6位）　はがない
（18位/20位）　キノ
（19位/32位）　生存
（20位/24位）　のうりん


Top 10 ranking of Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi:

1. Sword Art Online 290.70
2. Toaru Majutsu no Index 161.60
3. Hero of the Six Flowers 121.43 (Not adapted into anime)

4. Baka Test 116.28
5. Oreimo 107.19
6. My youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected 94.36 (Not adapated into anime)
7. Durarara 86.02
8. Shinonome Yuuko 82.90 (no anime that I know of)
9. Sakurada Reset 79.90 (no idea of anime)
10. Genesis Series Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon 77.82

11. Accel World
12. Mahouka.
13. Mirror of Heaven Alderamin
14. Bento.
15. Kokoro Connect
16. No Game No Life
17. Haganai.
18. Kino no Tabi.
19. Seitokai series
20. Nourin

In other news, Kirito is first for male category, Misaka Mikoto is first for female (4-peat lol), and Abec takes best illustrator.

...Gatari takes 41

Oda Nobuna takes 28

Date a Live takes 40

Tokyo Ravens takes 48

Sounds interesting. I am gonna start reading this.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Teh_Ping

They counted that alright.

57位　スワロウテイル（ハヤカワ文庫JA）

Thread here:

http://toro.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ma...26798639/468n-

Yeah come to think of it, they did include Mardock too....

[starlol]

I hope Ken will be in the top 10 male characters again.

[florza]

Rikka no Yuusha is so heavily skewed by the 協力者 votes... ridiculous. Has anyone ever read it?

[kuroishinigami]

Biblia Koshodou is not included in the ranking? Is it not considered as light novel?

[Kunagisa]

Originally Posted by florza

Rikka no Yuusha is so heavily skewed by the 協力者 votes... ridiculous. Has anyone ever read it?

I rec'ed it a while back but author keeps delaying the publication date. Book II (which continued to be brilliant) was delayed for a month, then Book III was delayed for 3 months (scheduled to be released the 22nd of this month last time I check)!!! Hope the trend doesn't continue but otherwise still very highly recommended. PS: It's Rokka btw, even though Rikka's used in Chuunibyou.

Very happy that Kino's still there (loved the anime, but the LN's just too big a hole to jump in). I'm probably going to piss the entire group of people off but Mahouka's probably the most undeserving of its rank. I almost want to see it animated just to see the series get trolled to death (probably won't even watch it). Man volume 1 was pretty darn decent then it just drops down the toilet at rate of exponential decay or something (rettousei is the most ridiculous misnomer). I really want to see the vote breakdown for this.

Anyways, the "critics"' votes are the ones that are most valuable (imo) anyway. Too bad MW Bunko isn't consider a light novel, otherwise we all know which series would be on top of every single ranking.

EDIT: @kuroishinigami I took so long to type that you posted before I hit submit
EDIT2: Offtopic, very good post from Doraneko back earlier this year for anyone who missed it.
EDIT3: While on the topic of chuunibyou, for anyone who likes this topic, consider reading Aura from Tanaka Romeo. Anime PVs here and here (2nd PV's more ... related, but ... kinda wrong impression hahaha). One of my top 5 LN for the past 2 years. Extremely well written and heartfelt.

[larethian]

Originally Posted by Kunagisa

I rec'ed it a while back but author keeps delaying the publication date. Book II (which continued to be brilliant) was delayed for a month, then Book III was delayed for 3 months (scheduled to be released the 22nd of this month last time I check)!!! Hope the trend doesn't continue but otherwise still very highly recommended. PS: It's Rokka btw, even though Rikka's used in Chuunibyou.

Very happy that Kino's still there (loved the anime, but the LN's just too big a hole to jump in). I'm probably going to piss the entire group of people off but Mahouka's probably the most undeserving of its rank. I almost want to see it animated just to see the series get trolled to death (probably won't even watch it). Man volume 1 was pretty darn decent then it just drops down the toilet at rate of exponential decay or something (rettousei is the most ridiculous misnomer). I really want to see the vote breakdown for this.

Anyways, the "critics"' votes are the ones that are most valuable (imo) anyway. Too bad MW Bunko isn't consider a light novel, otherwise we all know which series would be on top of every single ranking.

EDIT: @kuroishinigami I took so long to type that you posted before I hit submit
EDIT2: Offtopic, very good post from Doraneko back earlier this year for anyone who missed it.
EDIT3: While on the topic of chuunibyou, for anyone who likes this topic, consider reading Aura from Tanaka Romeo. Anime PVs here and here (2nd PV's more ... related, but ... kinda wrong impression hahaha). One of my top 5 LN for the past 2 years. Extremely well written and heartfelt.

LOL, you can't piss people more than me, because I personally think SAO is the most undeserving of its rank. And I honestly think volume 1 is still the best volume for SAO. What it sucks most for me is how Kawahara tries to build fiction around real-world science and technology in which he has not the slightest clue and knowledge about, and I have to heavily apply the suspension of disbelief many times.

Oh well, good to know the rankings before I fly off. Long day for me tomorrow and flying off on Sunday. Will not be around for quite a while, so cya guys and gals.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'm really really pleased to see illustrator (now writer as well) Kamiya Yuu's series taking a spot. To top it off, he's half Italian, so just wow.

[Chaos2Frozen]

With the Index movie and Railgun S coming out next year, as well as OreImo S2 and Haganai S2, maybe even the Kizu Movie, perhaps things would get slightly unpredictable again next year... Unless SAO is being stubborn.

Originally Posted by darthfanta

Sounds interesting. I am gonna start reading this.

Which part of that sounded interesting ?

'3.' ?

[jrdragon2006]

Originally Posted by Teh_Ping

作品（シリーズ）ランキングBEST60
順位　総合　HP　　協力者　モニター　作品（シリーズ）名
*1　290.70　125.09　*57.61　108.00　ソードアート・オンライン
*2　161.60　*84.08　**6.52　*71.00　「とある魔術の禁書目録」シリー ズ
*3　121.43　*12.91　106.52　**2.00　六花の勇者
*4　116.28　*22.67　**7.61　*86.00　バカとテストと召喚獣
*5　107.19　*40.28　*23.91　*43.00　俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがな い
*6　*94.36　*40.79　*44.57　**9.00　やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちが っている 。
*7　*86.02　*17.02　**0.00　*69.00　デュラララ！！
*8　*82.90　*12.25　*70.65　**0.00　「東雲侑子」シリーズ
*9　*79.90　**8.51　*67.39　**4.00　サクラダリセット
10　*77.82　*23.99　*22.83　*31.00　GENESISシリーズ 境界線上のホライゾン

（今年/去年）
（*1位/*1位）　SAO
（*2位/*2位）　禁書
（*3位/31位）　六花
（*4位/*5位）　バカテス
（*5位/11位）　俺妹
（*6位/15位）　青春ラブコメ
（*7位/30位）　デュラ
（*8位/**位）　東雲侑子
（*9位/**位）　サクラダ
（10位/26位）　境ホラ

（11位/21位）　AW
（12位/29位）　劣等生
（13位/**位）　アルデミラン
（14位/*3位）　ベントー
（15位/12位）　ココロネ
（16位/**位）　ノーゲームノーライフ
（17位/*6位）　はがない
（18位/20位）　キノ
（19位/32位）　生存
（20位/24位）　のうりん


Top 10 ranking of Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi:

1. Sword Art Online 290.70
2. Toaru Majutsu no Index 161.60
3. Hero of the Six Flowers 121.43 (Not adapted into anime)

4. Baka Test 116.28
5. Oreimo 107.19
6. My youth romantic comedy is wrong as I expected 94.36 (Not adapated into anime)
7. Durarara 86.02
8. Shinonome Yuuko 82.90 (no anime that I know of)
9. Sakurada Reset 79.90 (no idea of anime)
10. Genesis Series Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon 77.82

11. Accel World
12. Mahouka.
13. Mirror of Heaven Alderamin
14. Bento.
15. Kokoro Connect
16. No Game No Life
17. Haganai.
18. Kino no Tabi.
19. Seitokai series
20. Nourin

In other news, Kirito is first for male category, Misaka Mikoto is first for female (4-peat lol), and Abec takes best illustrator.

...Gatari takes 41

Oda Nobuna takes 28

Date a Live takes 40

Tokyo Ravens takes 48

can i have a link were this is from?

[darthfanta]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

With the Index movie and Railgun S coming out next year, as well as OreImo S2 and Haganai S2, maybe even the Kizu Movie, perhaps things would get slightly unpredictable again next year... Unless SAO is being stubborn.


Which part of that sounded interesting ?

'3.' ?

The fact is it's third.

[Teh_Ping]

Originally Posted by jrdragon2006

can i have a link were this is from?

Originally Posted by Teh_Ping

Thread here:

http://toro.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/ma...26798639/468n-

I actually expected Mahouka to be in top 10...and Baka Test out of top 5 (10.5 apparently got lots of great reviews)

Also, apparently, 6 will be adapted into an anime.