I'd love to see light novels, webtoons, manhwa... But with the current number of users, I believe more generalist communities work better than several specialized ones
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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So what generalist community does the light novel community belong to? /c/literature, /c/novels, /c/books?
Well on the website that shall not be named r/fantasy had LN discussions pretty often, and r/books occasionally. Isekai/fantasy LNs can go to whatever the new fantasy community is, the rest can go to c/books or stick around in c/anime i guess.
There also was a separate LN community!
Maybe it would be an option to have something like a japanese pop culture community and cross post to that as a way to consolidate things.
Yes I am, I only need a reliable source of novels. Legally or "otherwise" I just want some app that allows me to easily access light novels and that actually works.
BTW where the hell can I read the Haruhi novels?
I just download .epub files and read them in ebook reader
Do you read untranslated? I just buy from booklive and sometimes jp kindle store.
What's the situation like purchasing outside of Japan? I tried for decades to buy ebooks and neither Kobo nor Amazon would just let me give them my capitalist tokens as long as I didn't have a Japanese payment card.
Just pirated the books eventually because it was literally easier than trying to pay them.
Technically there's [email protected] but as @[email protected] pointed out it's probably a better idea at the start to dump everything into one community and then move as demand develops
Reading the Spice and Wolf LN on a tour bus in the mountains of Taroko, Taiwan will always be one of my favourite memories.
Yep! Horrible isekai light novels are my guilty pleasure to read before sleeping. Admittedly, i haven't read any recently. I don't think there's enough light novel readers on lemmy yet to create an **active **community though.
Recently (finally) finished "Release That Witch", I also have read "The Book Eating Magician" and Solo leveling and now planning to start "The Kings Return" but its even bigger than those 2 above, I feel like I will spend most of this year reading it. ... which is kinda not the worst point tbh, it feels nice to be immersed in some universe for this long.