Kokoro Connect (light novel and manga)

[hood]

must.... learn... japanese.... *sigh*

[skullheart]

Originally Posted by Lantern

Nah, the Epilogue is only 10 pages long.

Here's the chapter and page break down:

Chapter 1 - The Will of the God of this World 005
Chapter 2 - The Battle Begins 058
Chapter 3 - Antagonism 088
Chapter 4 - The Shifting World 147
Chapter 5 - The One Thing that Can Change this World 179
Chapter 6 - Final Battle 239
Chapter 7 - Heartseed 305
Epilogue - Their Hands Connected, Wherever They Go 399
Author's Notes 409

The longest chapter being 5, 6 and 7, spanning 60, 66 and 94 pages respectively.

Surprisingly theres only 7 chapters, Asu Random part 1 had 10 chapters but is still shorter. Going to read the first chapter, that reader on famitsu doesn't let you read on phone.

[Lantern]

Some sneak peek illustrations from a couple days ago (zero spoiler):

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[Jin Kizuite]

Anyway I (we) can get support for the translation of this? From the listings on bakatsuki theres only one translator who is "half-alive" and focusing on other projects. I'm feeling this isn't going to go anywhere at all which is such a shame I feel.

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by Jin Kizuite

Anyway I (we) can get support for the translation of this? From the listings on bakatsuki theres only one translator who is "half-alive" and focusing on other projects. I'm feeling this isn't going to go anywhere at all which is such a shame I feel.

That half-alive person is me. Like I said on BT I'm working on Vol 6 Yume Random's Jap-to-Chin translation. There won't be much progress in the future if nobody translates the raw into Chinese anyway, as most of the active translators are Chinese-to-English.

That being said, Pudding is pretty alive right now picking up pace on Kizu Random, even though he said he isn't.

[gowfan05]

Random question, but is the novels still continuing??? and how much of the anime follows the novels?

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by gowfan05

Random question, but is the novels still continuing??? and how much of the anime follows the novels?

The finale volume is coming out in Japan in 3 days.

Ehhh seems like a hassle to explain. Ima just copy and paste from tvtrope:

The light novel series currently consists of nine (plus one in 3 days) volumes, two of which are side story collections.

* Vol. 1 Hito Random [Random People]
* Vol. 2 Kizu Random [Random Wounds]
* Vol. 3 Kako Random [Random Past]
* Vol. 4 Michi Random [Random Courses]
* Vol. 4.5 Clip Time [Short Story Collection I]
* Vol. 5 Nise Random [Random Fakes]
* Vol. 6 Yume Random [Random Dreams]
* Vol. 6.5 Step Time [Short Story Collection II]
* Vol. 7 Asu Random (I) [Random Tomorrow (I)]

March 30th:
*Vol. 8 Asu Random (II) [Random Tomorrow (II)]

The anime covers the volumes highlighted in blue.

[gowfan05]

Originally Posted by Lantern

The finale volume is coming out in Japan in 3 days.

Ehhh seems like a hassle to explain. Ima just copy and paste from tvtrope:

The light novel series currently consists of nine (plus one in 3 days) volumes, two of which are side story collections.

* Vol. 1 Hito Random [Random People]
* Vol. 2 Kizu Random [Random Wounds]
* Vol. 3 Kako Random [Random Past]
* Vol. 4 Michi Random [Random Courses]
* Vol. 4.5 Clip Time [Short Story Collection I]
* Vol. 5 Nise Random [Random Fakes]
* Vol. 6 Yume Random [Random Dreams]
* Vol. 6.5 Step Time [Short Story Collection II]
* Vol. 7 Asu Random (I) [Random Tomorrow (I)]

March 30th:
*Vol. 8 Asu Random (II) [Random Tomorrow (II)]

The anime covers the volumes highlighted in blue.

Wow. So the series can be made into a Season II?.. If you don't mind giving me a spoiler does taichi & himeko relationship last/ continue into the future novels?

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by gowfan05

Wow. So the series can be made into a Season II?.. If you don't mind giving me a spoiler does taichi & himeko relationship last/ continue into the future novels?

Spoiler for Edit, changed my mind. Gonna leave out the details.:

No, and Yes.
For details, you can find out more on tvtrope. Plenty of spoilers I posted in the character page. Alternatively, there's a bunch of summaries I wrote around page 23-30 in this thread I think? There's too much information for me to condense into something simple.

[gowfan05]

Originally Posted by Lantern

Spoiler for Edit, changed my mind. Gonna leave out the details.:

No, and Yes.
For details, you can find out more on tvtrope. Plenty of spoilers I posted in the character page. Alternatively, there's a bunch of summaries I wrote around page 23-30 in this thread I think? There's too much information for me to condense into something simple.

Thank you for the info, I browsed through the post but it not quite giving me everything I want... general idea of what happens after vol 4. ( is there anyway you could give me the relationship detail between taichi & inaba in a nutshell?)

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by gowfan05

Thank you for the info, I browsed through the post but it not quite giving me everything I want... general idea of what happens after vol 4. ( is there anyway you could give me the relationship detail between taichi & inaba in a nutshell?)

Spoiler:

There really isn't much to talk about if I cramp everything into a nutshell.
To put it simply, they broke up at one point (one sided from Inaba) and got back together and got even better than ever. That's all.

I need the specifics of what you want to know in order to answer such as who what when or why

I guess I can add one more that the two's relationship is pretty much set in unbreakable stone, as seen in one little detail in the illustration for the epilogue of the final volume coming in 3 days:

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[skullheart]

I noticed something interesting in that picture of them holding hands and hope it doesn't mean anything.

Spoiler for aoki and yui:

It's interesting to notice Yui isn't holding aoki's hand in that picture

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by skullheart

I noticed something interesting in that picture of them holding hands and hope it doesn't mean anything.

Spoiler for aoki and yui:

It's interesting to notice Yui isn't holding aoki's hand in that picture

Spoiler:

I've been talking about that on the chinese community as well.
I doubt it means anything, however, since Yui is still too tsun to hold hands with Aoki regularly.

[skullheart]

Spoiler for :

From the picture though it looks like something bad will happen to Taichi and Inaba and the rest are around to support them just like how the anime showed inaba and taichi holding iori's hand in kako random.

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by skullheart

Spoiler for :

From the picture though it looks like something bad will happen to Taichi and Inaba and the rest are around to support them just like how the anime showed inaba and taichi holding iori's hand in kako random.

Spoiler:

Do remember that illustration is the Epilogue.

[skullheart]

Spoiler for :

We will never know till we read it, there could be a tragic end

And seriously do we need all these spoiler tags? We're just making speculations.

[gowfan05]

Originally Posted by Lantern

Spoiler:

There really isn't much to talk about if I cramp everything into a nutshell.
To put it simply, they broke up at one point (one sided from Inaba) and got back together and got even better than ever. That's all.

I need the specifics of what you want to know in order to answer such as who what when or why

I guess I can add one more that the two's relationship is pretty much set in unbreakable stone, as seen in one little detail in the illustration for the epilogue of the final volume coming in 3 days:

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Thanks you Lantern! That answers all my questions and is a more than enough justified answer that I was looking for!!! You ar the man! (Or woman!)

[gowfan05]

Originally Posted by skullheart

Spoiler for :

We will never know till we read it, there could be a tragic end

And seriously do we need all these spoiler tags? We're just making speculations.

And yes, I think spoiler tag is good bcs I believe its true!

[skullheart]

Spoiler for :

Of course their relationship is unbreakable, theyre practically married after yume random. Everyone start making jokes about them being married couple and when are they getting married sort of things

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by skullheart

Spoiler for :

We will never know till we read it, there could be a tragic end

And seriously do we need all these spoiler tags? We're just making speculations.

Just out of habit. Most people don't know these details after all.