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maximilianjenus
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 Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2016 11:02 pm
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this is a lovely review, almost would work as some kid of themplate for the genre, even. I lvoe how it highlits both the shortcomings and the strenghts of the novel on context.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 3:06 am
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| Shay Guy wrote: |
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Both are originally web novels released for free on ncode shousetsu. |
I thought that was clear from my post? |
Like fanfic?
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Aidepeer
Joined: 20 Jun 2016
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:31 am
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| Shay Guy wrote: | | Just looked on Amazon.co.jp, and am I right in saying that this got an English release without having even gotten a light novel release in Japan? Wow. And this is a way obscure one too; it's not on SnN's all-time top 300 or even listed on Novel Updates. |
What's SnN's all-time top 300?
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Shay Guy
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2016 7:17 am
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| Aidepeer wrote: | | What's SnN's all-time top 300? |
SnN is short for Shousetsuka ni Narou. Almost any Japanese webnovel you've heard of, including My Favorite Song, was originally posted there -- it's the original home of Log Horizon, Mahouka, DanMachi, Re:Zero, KonoSuba, and Overlord, just listing the ones that have gotten anime adaptations. Mushoku Tensei, Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, and The Rising of the Shield Hero are also from there. Gate is one of the rare exceptions; Sword Art Online too, though I think only the first volume of that started online. (Pretty sure Maoyuu doesn't count.)
The site shows lists of the most popular stories over the last day/week/month/quarter/year, along with an all-time cumulative listing. The listing only shows the top 300, and I can't find any way to show more.
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John Thacker
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 7:47 am
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| enurtsol wrote: |
| Shay Guy wrote: |
| samuelp wrote: | |
Both are originally web novels released for free on ncode shousetsu. |
I thought that was clear from my post? |
Like fanfic? |
Closer to how The Martian came about, or to other self-published works (such as things offered for 99 cents on Amazon.)
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lebrel
Joined: 16 Oct 2009
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 11:15 am
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This sounds interesting, especially as it seems to be digitally available; I've had mixed experiences with light novels but I might give it a shot.
| Rebecca wrote: | | were Kieli and Book Girl the only two female-oriented light novel series to finish in English (in 2013 and 2014 respectively)? |
I thought those were both male-oriented???
I think that at the moment the majority of female-targeted light novels in English are still BL (all from DMP, except for a few odd digital-only things from Japanese companies - or direct from the artist); there's maybe 20 titles that have been published (some of which are pretty good), but most are painfully out of print (although a few of DMP's titles are also available digitally, I think).
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Shay Guy
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:32 pm
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| John Thacker wrote: | | Closer to how The Martian came about, or to other self-published works (such as things offered for 99 cents on Amazon.) |
Free online English fiction isn't really centralized like its Japanese counterparts. You've got some stories on WordPress blogs, some on FictionPress, some on some other sites. Andy Weir had websites of his own dating to years before he wrote a word of The Martian.
The closest English-language counterpart to SnN would be fanfic archives like FanFiction.Net (where Fifty Shades of Grey came from) or AO3. FictionPress, FF.Net's original-fiction counterpart, would theoretically count, but it's not nearly as popular as SnN, which is one of the top 100 websites in Japan. And the site design seems a lot creakier; it's about six years older and the software seems to have been modified less.
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