Light Novel Recommendations

[seaghyn16]

It's not really a recommendation but...as I've posted tons of times about that site I made, I decided to use this forum

I'm going to be tearing down my site. I don't feel like paying 3$ a month or whatever it is, and I don't have the time to upkeep and work on stuff like that. So, I'll just be using the db.lightnovel.org site or whatever, to do synopsis and stuff if I want, and for the big stuff, (teasers, prologues, novels) I'll just do what every body else and their mother does, and use LiveJournal. It'll be up for a few more months, because I paid ahead...O_o, but after the time is up, I'll be shutting it down. Hope it was enjoyed to the small extent it was.

-NeoSam: If you want to take the synopses for the novels before I trash the website, you've got a little bit of time. I'll probably keep it backed up for a bit, but after you have them and they are set to be put up on the database, I'll be getting rid of it.

What do they call this in the governement? "overspending" or something, where they try to cut back on their budget everywhere. Well, I'm saving myself some 3$ a month. 10 cents a day, which can get me an on sale fish entre to make up as dinner every week. ^_^

[Ryuou]

That's too bad to hear, seaghyn16. But I guess it allows for more focus to be directed on one site.

[seaghyn16]

Yeah...but in the long run, it really does make sense to put them all up on a wiki version of a database or something, you know. Much, much easier to handle, and free updates from others...there's no comparison. As for the teasers though, I'll still be doing them, it's just I'll probably end up using some LJ account for it.

[Ryuou]

Yeah I'd have to say the same. You don't think there can be a teaser section on the wiki?

[apr]

Finished 9S volume 1. It was entertaining, but in the end there was too much action and too little, er, thinking, for my taste. It also seemed overly dragged out. Postponing reading v2+ until later.

Then I went for Kubikiri Cycle by Nishio Ishin, and it was fantastic. Absolutely loved it. I do have a thing for mystery novels, however, and one of my all-time favourite books is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, which this had a lot of similarities with. The writing is sharp, the dialogue is witty and always interesting, and the ultratwist at the end was satisfyingly amusing. I still can't believe the guy was only 20 years old when he wrote this. Definitely going to buy the rest of his stuff, and I've already got the next two parts in my bookshelf, but I'll wait a bit, since the double-page format can be pretty exhausting.

Currently reading Ben-too volume 1 by Asaura. It's... strange, to say the least. After 95 pages I've concluded that yes, it really is about a high school club where people go into supermarkets and fight viciously for half-priced lunches. While amusing, the setup is just so bizarre that I can't quite get into it.

[seaghyn16]

＠NeoSam:

These are all the synopsis for the light novels from the site, which you can use on the db.lightnovel.org site.

Spoiler for Light Novels and Synopses:

Title: Accel World アクセル　ワールド Label: Dengeki Bunko 電撃文庫
No matter the age, in this world the “Bullied Child” always exists. Haruyuki, an overweight middle school student, is that person. The only time he is ever at ease is when he is playing a squash game on the schools local network. It's a game where you use the speed of your own imagination, and it's the type of game Haruyuki really likes. The season is fall. Spending his time as usual playing games, he would soon end up in an encounter with the school's most beautiful and refined girl, “Black Snow Princess,” which would change his life completely. When she transferred into the school, she concerned herself with puzzle software, which Haruyuki knew as “Accel World.” And in an instant, the lowest in the school became the one who would protect this princess as her knight, “Bust Linker.”

Title: Demon Parasite デモンパラサイト Label: Fantasia Bunko ファンタジア文庫
"I will give to you a new life. For that you will serve me with the Hand of Protection." One night the high school student with no relatives, Hiuga Aoi(♂), was protected from a monster by a girl with cherry blossom colored hair, though he still aquired a fatal wound. At that time, the new life given to him from this girl, was a parasitic life-form known as Demon Parasite, which strengthens the human body, as well as gives a special power. After that day, he became the host for the Demon Parasite, and was thus pulled into the conflict of other humans that had become demons.

Title: Dragon Crisis! ドラゴンクライシス！ Label: Super Dash Bunko スーパーダッシュ文庫
Ryuuji was living peacefully as a normal high school student, until his older second cousin, Eriko, returned to her country. Inside a box plundered by the two from the Black Market, was a Dragon Girl! For some reason, this girl, Rose, was entranced with Ryuuji, following him everywhere, even into the bath and futon! And with that the Organization of Darkness began moving, aiming at her. In order to protect her, Ryuuji would need to overcome his trauma and motivate himself to fight!

Title: Electromagnetic Girl and the Youthful Boy 電波女と青春男 Label: Dengeki Bunko 電撃文庫
The rumor that there is an alien watching over this town, will start the main point of my youthful mission. (The tangible girl and the bittersweet, epic high school life.) “Earth is being targeted,” it seems. That is a quote from the girl coexisting and rustling in the futon, Touwa Erio. The reason my youthful point is degrading, is also because of her obstructing my main mission. The spontaneously rejuvenating healthy girl, Ruthy, and the model-like surprisingly tall (cosplay) girl, Maekawa, were encounters that would raise my youthfulness, although that my neighbor would be an electro-magnetic girl rusting about in a futon......What in the world will happen to my youth? The author of “Lying Mii-kun, and broken Maa-chan,” Iruma Hitoma, brings us the new work we've all been waiting for!

Title: Just Us Two In This Wide World この広い世界にふたりぼっち Label: MF Bunko J MF文庫J
I was walking along the threshold of the town and the forest. My small shadow was atop the asphalt, as the unreliable street lights lit the road. It was the evening of a new moon. It was quiet. Not disturbing this quietness, a wolf appeared like a shadow. A white wolf. In a low, quiet voice---the wolf spoke. “Will you not marry me I wonder?
*** *** *** *** ***
The one who was proposed to suddenly by the pure white wolf on that cold winters day, was the girl Tsukaki Sakuno. When the two carrying their loneliness within meet, it will be the start of the myth which encroaches on the real world.

Title: Kaguya Label: Dengeki Bunko 電撃文庫
The one who had the useless ability to "let others see what he was seeing," was Sanada Souta. Living on while keeping this ability a secret, one day Souta encountered a strange girl in front of his apartment complex. She was bare and wrapped in a sheet, and it also seemed she couldn't see...The strange girl, Tachibana Hinata began living with Souta, and it seemed she had a special power as well...It's the birth of a wonderous Heroine and Love Story.

Title: Kakure Hime カクレヒメ Label: Dengeki Bunko 電撃文庫
The one who is "able to pass through objects," is the high school student Sebata Meiju. Encountering an accident in a tunnel during his trip, he used that power to successfully call for help but, a fellow passenger on the bus, Niidome Saori, saw that he was an ability user. Niidome was a doctor at "Tokitou Hospital's Eighth Building," and was researching those like Meiju who had a similar "Sensory Magnification Disease." With the truth of his ability kept a secret, Meiju, who could feel the suffering of the patients at the hospital, had an encounter with Atzusa, a girl who had broken off contact with the outside world since eight years previous. The boy with the ability to connect to others, and the girl hiding because of hers. It's the story of the awkward contact between the two's hearts.

Title: Lottery Hero くじびき勇者さま Label: HJ Bunko HJ文庫
Sakuras, the Religious City on Fortias Continent's eastern side, was the Holy Land of the Soltis Church, as well as the Imperial City of the Allied Kingdoms, sharing the same religious faith as the Soltis Church. According to the doctrine of the Soltis Church, a lottery was used to see the path of the god, Soltis, and one of those who had received this sacred rite was a nun known as Mabel Weiss, who had entered into an elementary school based on the lottery's decision ten years previously, and after entering into the religion, declared with no hesitation, "I really hate lotteries." Around that time two of the three people's of the entire population were at the point of extinction after they had succumbed to an unknown infectious disease, Desperan (Dragon Sickness), which had spread east from the Dragon Mountains on the west side of the continent, to which the Imperial Diet organized a large-scale investigation team which was annihilated under the onslaught of the dragons. Furthermore, along with the news of the destruction of the investigation group, there also came unrest in the capital of Sakuras at the Soltis Chruch as a heretical Dragon Church calling themselves Asashinio began an onslaught of terrorist attacks. Getting pulled into the terrorist attack was Mabel, returning home after shopping, and Naval, a swordsman from the Northern District Garrison who had pledged eternal service to the government, who both cooperated miraculously to beat back the terrorists. And so the second investigation group was formed, and at the same time at a meeting of the Country's Leaders, it was decided that a lottery would be used to decide who would be the "Hero of Salvation". According to that lottery the "Hero of Salvation" would be Naval, while his second would be Mabel.

Title: Mystic Museum ミスティック・ミュージアム Label: HJ Bunko HJ文庫
Dudley was always coming and going to and from the British Museum, running about his business, when one night at the Museum, he had an encounter with a girl that called herself a god. After the Museum Curator's suggestion, Dudley would soon begin his strange daily life experiences with the incorporeal goddes. On that day a sword was unleashed on Dudley! It's the start of a mysterious story centered in London during the 19th Century!

Title: Nine's Contract ナインの契約書 Label: MF Bunko J MF文庫J
“Nine's Detective Agency” Throughout the town these signs are posted on decrepit buildings. Relaxing in their room is the beautiful girl “Nine” and the one dressed all in black, the man “One.” The two grant one request, and according to the contract made, hunt demons. Today as well they are beating “Waiting for 'Humans'” into the rusted door. They await eagerly for people's karma and madness... “Just kidding, we're just interested in the things people do, understanding the joke, they're pretty nice demons, right, Nine?” “Shut-up. You're a crow, One. Stupid crow. Sturow. Besides, you talk too much. You want to die from talking? Alright, go die.” “Cruel!” Distant dreams in broad daylight, the never ending night, this is a great and up-and-coming release. Vivid, set in current times, a mystery!

Title: Puipui! ぷいぷい! Label: MF Bunko J MF文庫J
Living in the high school student dormitories is first year Araki Jin, who's archeologist parents have left him a mysterious lamp that, once polished by rubbing, causes the school's idol, Zadou Sierra, to abruptly appear! What's more, she is dressed in a maid outfit! After appearing, her father arrives and explains that Sierra is a descendent of the Genie of the Lamp, and that a genie needs to grant their master’s wishes in order to raise their level. However, as a novice genie, Sierra cannot use her magical powers in any strong ways, and so she lives with the weak-bodied Jin making alot of tumultuous noise. Thus begins the fantastic story of Sierra, the Ojou-sama turned novice genie, and her master Jin.

Title: Rabbit Love うさ恋 Label: Famitsu Bunko ファミ通文庫
Oye, wait a minute! I only picked up a rabbit. Sure after washing it it turned from a rabbit into a person, and that person happened to be the princess of the Moon Country, but seriously what's with the golden hair, the frilly shirt and the whole bride type look? This isn't a joke! I'm just a normal work-a-day middle school student! Living the stoic way a man should! For something like a girl with rabbit ears to come from nowhere when the earth is in trouble and start hanging out around me---!!! Finally raising the curtain! A fantastic idea on a global scale, is what this heartful love comedy is.

Title: Rapunzel's Wings ラプンツェルの翼 Label: Dengeki Bunko 電撃文庫
Even if there is someone in this trunk, please don't open it. Inside this person is a dangerous weapon. There is no danger if it is not opened." At a chaotic accident scene, Aizawa Ryouichi was entrusted with an irregularly shaped trunk. The one inside was rolled into a ball hugging their knees...it was an unclothed girl. To think that she was really a dangerous weapon, some kind of tool, or perhaps---. All that was in Ryoichi's hands were seven chess pieces, a map, and a stuffed rabbit. Together with the strange girl, with the unseen objective to live "Prohibited," the game had just begun.

Title: RIGHTXLIGHT ライト×ライト Label: GaGaGa Bunko ガガガ文庫
With a right hand which could erase everything without a trace---I was called the Empty Magician. I would spend my days normally, continuing on in class by pretending to be some kind of cheap magician. That is...until the day I met Alyssa. "You've got no choice. Follow my orders!" Given an order so suddenly from a semi-translucent girl falling from the rooftop, and being forced to give my body to this spirit...my legs were shaking. My whole body was moving sluggishly...wait. Why is this happening to me? She was pursuing the one who had her own body, after struggling to come to this place from the "Ark." The unique story about the boy with a secret about his right hand, and the magical girl who is ignorant of the world, is about to unfold!

Title: Shinaino. しないの。 Label: HJ Bunko HJ文庫
Confessing his love to the school idol, Sawano Aya, Koizumi Yuusuke was completely rejected. In his shock, Yuusuke accidentally took some medicince developed by his grandfather labeled "Moteruzu X," which spreads stimulating pheromones from one's body! However for some reason Aya was unaffected, which was quite puzzling......

Title: Shiroyama and the Black Case 白山さんと黒い鞄 Label: Dengeki Bunko 電撃文庫
She was a cute yet mysterious classmate. Shiroyama that is. In a case she carried everywhere with her---lived a strong, selfish, beautiful girl!? "Ya low human, don't touch Kyuue!!" "Forget it, if you don't I'll...!!" Accidentally discovering the secret of the bag, Hirazawa Kou was dragged in with Shiroyama and the bag girl, Kyuue. It was then that Kou got involved with the troublesome members of the "Library Club," afterwhich Kou's high school life was thrown into turmoil--! And so the curtain raises on Suzuki Suzu's new thrillingly mysterious school love-comedy.

Title: Sweet Home Sweet スイートホームスイート Label: Famitsu Bunko ファミ通文庫
As a third year and finally about to leave his high school life behind, Tomaru Kazuhiko was returning after the graduation ceremony when out from nowhere he was abducted by a Benz with a diplomatic number attatched, and shockingly informed of the reality of his situation. On his mother's side of the family, his Great Grandfather was the duke of the Commonwealth of Regenschwanz, who was now on his deathbed, and had requested a glimpse of his great grandchild. After being thrown into a plane and arriving at a place in Europe surrounded by mountains, he still ended up missing the moment of his great-grandfather's death...All of a sudden he was now the one to whom the inheritance was bestowed. This was approximately half of the large area called the Commonwealth of Regenschwanz. However, there were conditions to the succession----.

Title: TamaxNama たま◇なま Label: HJ Bunko HJ文庫
On the day of Himi Toru's High School entrance examination, his parents and sister all died in a car accident, causing Toru to move into a house owned and built by his grandfather located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Totsuha City, and start as a second year student at a new public high school. By the by, on the first day of the entrance ceremony, nobody should have been in the house (his grandfather and grandmother had died some years back), yet sitting on the desk in his living room was an extraterrestrial life form with the appearance of a girl. That alien declared she would be "remodeling" Toru.
"Bastard...become my joints." So like that, she remained with him in the house, starting a strange daily shared life, where from that day on, other beings from space would slowly begin accumulating around Toru.

Title: Tiger Island! トラジマ! Label: Dengeki Bunko 電撃文庫
Marumi Eita was a rather unreliable second year high school student. Eita lived together with just his mother, who was quite independent. One day she bought some striped second-hand underpants for him, and after wearing them, Eita gained a mysterious ability. Who would have thought these underpants had actually belonged to a demon. Once kept under lock and key at a temple in Kyoto, they were stolen from the "Demon's Clothespress," and a curse was put on them. What Eita received wasn't just the demon's ability. He also made a friend, a girl named Rui, who had a connection with demon's clothes. Furthermore...for as many years as he had been alive, the high school student Eita had had no girlfriend. Thus begins the story of the beginning of his youthful life....right!?

As for the images, google image search with the japanese titles will get you what you need. Anyway, I look forward to seeing these up on the DB .

Though, what else do you need to do to finish the DB for wiki editing?

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How many times am I going to move my site.../sigh...O_o

Anyway, if your interested in reading prologues of japanese light novels, check out http://orenotokei.livejournal.com, where you will have a novel dangled in front of you before you realize you'll never get to read the rest unless I translate it or you learn Japanese O_o

[apr]

Originally Posted by apr

Currently reading Ben-too volume 1 by Asaura. It's... strange, to say the least. After 95 pages I've concluded that yes, it really is about a high school club where people go into supermarkets and fight viciously for half-priced lunches. While amusing, the setup is just so bizarre that I can't quite get into it.

I eventually got into it, and suddenly it became awesome and spectacular. What begins as a feeling of confused incomprehension at silly supermarket games gradually grows into an elated respect for the author, who somehow, inexplicably, manages to turn this twisted concept into something impressive and exciting. Great characters, hilarious humour, superb battle scenes, and at the core of it all, I must say there's something deeply interesting hidden. It started out very slow, but by the end I was loving it.

Currently halfway through Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu volume 1, and it's simple and stupid so far. Kind of funny, I guess, but I hope there's more to it than that.

[NeoSam]

Thanks seaghyn I'm still waiting for the site to be updated though >_< Eclipse (the site's admin) seems to be very busy lately >_<

[apr]

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu volume 1 turned out to be a comedy all the way through. It's pretty funny, but on the whole it just feels too shallow to be anything but a "meh, what's next?" There's no particular plot to speak of (not really), it's way too game-y, and with the heavily stereotyped characters it feels like the author decided to dump a bunch of cliches into a box and see what comes out. It's not bad, and seemingly very popular in Japan, but to me it just feels like a sit-com I've already seen sixty times before.

Munched my way through Bungaku Shoujo volume 1 after that, and was disappointed after the insane hype. It's just too bloody convenient. There's a section in the middle where part of the mystery is revealed, and it's a long line of unprovoked confessions where characters just fall over each other trying to explain everything to the smallest detail. The twist was nice, but again it got all convenient with wrapping things up. It's also the first book I've come across where the way people talk actually gets on my nerves -- all the girls speak like overly cutesy stereotypes which makes me want to strangle them, and at times half the page is filled with ~~~~~~~~~~~~~, plus the abusive way Tooko spreads around her girly "wa". In spite of this I did enjoy the book, and will continue to read the series, hoping it gets less neatly put together and artificial, because the chemistry between the main characters is very nice to behold.

[Guardian Enzo]

Tri-ring has already helped me out with part of what I'm looking for, but is there anyone out there who has read the entire Moribito series by Uehashi Nahoko? If so, please PM me as I'd love to ask you something...

[apr]

Mwahaha.

[seaghyn16]

HOLY S***

That has to be the most godly stack of books I've ever seen O_o

Whats the one to the right of Spice and Wolf Volume 7?

[apr]

Originally Posted by seaghyn16

HOLY S***

That has to be the most godly stack of books I've ever seen O_o

Whats the one to the right of Spice and Wolf Volume 7?

Sora no Kane no Hibiku Hoshi de - 03, if you mean that one.

[Ryuou]

Wow, apr that's pretty cool. 113? Did I count right? I’d like to do something like that but my collection is only about half yours.

You own every series I have except for Kurenai it looks like.

I take it you read all of those right? Man, I haven't even finished one of mine yet, haha.

[seaghyn16]

My gosh O_o. My "collection" is only 5 books...I literally am so broke it's not even funny...

Spice and Wolf 1+2
Puipui! 1+2
Bird Heart Beat 2

[meh]

Originally Posted by apr

Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu volume 1 turned out to be a comedy all the way through. It's pretty funny, but on the whole it just feels too shallow to be anything but a "meh, what's next?" There's no particular plot to speak of (not really), it's way too game-y, and with the heavily stereotyped characters it feels like the author decided to dump a bunch of cliches into a box and see what comes out. It's not bad, and seemingly very popular in Japan, but to me it just feels like a sit-com I've already seen sixty times before.

Then it's probably a bad idea for you to continue reading. What you've described sums up the entire series. There is indeed no plot to speak of. Everything serves as fodder for more jokes. But very high in terms of the LOLmeter for me. So I loved it.

Originally Posted by seaghyn16

HOLY S***

That has to be the most godly stack of books I've ever seen O_o

If you think about how long some of these series are, it's actually not difficult o pile up such a number.

Off the top of my head, I've bought 50+ books just from Shakugan no Shana(17), Zero no Tsukaima(13), Suzumiya Haruhi(9), To Aru Majutsu no Index(7), and Nogizaka haruhi no himitsu(7). And this doesn't even include shorter series or series I've dropped.

These novels are usually quite short and quick reads in general.

[apr]

Originally Posted by Ryuou

Wow, apr that's pretty cool. 113? Did I count right? I’d like to do something like that but my collection is only about half yours.

You own every series I have except for Kurenai it looks like.

I take it you read all of those right? Man, I haven't even finished one of mine yet, haha.

I, er, only read about 40 so far. I seem to be addicted to ordering new novels when I find something that looks interesting, and now my bookshelf looks like this: http://img.muri.se/jp-books.jpg

And I have another order of 28 coming next week, probably.

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by apr

I, er, only read about 40 so far. I seem to be addicted to ordering new novels when I find something that looks interesting, and now my bookshelf looks like this: http://img.muri.se/jp-books.jpg

And I have another order of 28 coming next week, probably.

40 LN readed so far! it's good, better than me. I still have most of the ''ToraDora'' and ''Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora'' still waiting to be read on my bookshelf and with my fuck-up schedule than I have right now I barely read in Japanese.

[Tri-ring]

Originally Posted by apr

I, er, only read about 40 so far. I seem to be addicted to ordering new novels when I find something that looks interesting, and now my bookshelf looks like this: http://img.muri.se/jp-books.jpg

Hey you still have PLENTY of space.
My bookself has books stashed on top of books with no space whatsoever so some that doesn't make it gets piled up on the floor.
I go to Book-off every 6 month to "Unload" my bookshelves before stashing up again.

[Solafighter]

Originally Posted by apr

Mwahaha.

This is an awsomeness collection.

If its true, you are from sweden, but can read the novels or are they in english(well since the titles are in jap, i think the whole bunch is jap lol)?

RESPECT!