Japanese Media @ 4-ch

Japanese Media @ 4-ch

A.k.a. the Society for the Study of Modern Japanese Culture, a.k.a. “Anime & Manga”

This board is for the discussion of Japanese media, including anime, manga, fansubbing, scanlations and other related material. Hentai discussion is also allowed.
  • Warning: Providing download links or illegal dowloading information to known licensed series will be removed, and you may be banned.
  • Non-Japanese media (eg. American or European comics or cartoons) aren't appropriate for here.
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基本的には英語の使用を強く希望します。ただ日本語板の場合は日本語か英語。
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1: How do otaku watch so many anime? (5) 2: What anime are you currently watching? (66) 3: any one remember meet-me? (4) 4: Zero no Tsukaima is the best isekai anime (10) 5: Isn't Neon Genesis Evangelion supposed to be a "classic"? (61) 6: Bocchi the Rock Thread (6) 7: Backlog thread (8) 8: What's your favorite Manga? (25) 9: Why does all anime look the same now? (10) 10: Light Novels (15) 11: Video Game Anime/OVAs (3) 12: What you finished watching/reading? (25) 13: what is the best adaptation of Densha Otoko? (4) 14: Anime/Manga That You Are Too Ashamed To Admit You Like (101) 15: Second life in japan (1) 16: japanese software for mac (5) 17: old japanese software (8) 18: Any japanese mmo? (9) 19: Haruhi Suzumiya Thread (26) 20: Why is anime so pedophilia now? (50) 21: [Chat] What are you watching and how do you like it? (13) 22: programs that have only come out in Japan put them here (8) 23: Modern anime is so fucking ugly (16) 24: I time-traveled ! (11) 25: Onimai saved the anime industry! (5) 26: Alternatives to DoujinDB (4) 27: ITT we tell the poster above us why their favorite anime sucks (655) 28: Urusei Yatsura All-Stars (3) 29: Berserk (9) 30: I can't watch anime anymore. (33) 31: Avatar the last airbender: Anime or not? (187) 32: Madoka thread: Deny the obvious, uphold the inane (36) 33: PANTY AND STOCKING WITH GARTERBELT SEASON 2 (6) 34: What studio is awesome/sucks and why? (12) 35: alice in wonderland (2) 36: cloy (2) 37: Sword Art Online, the .Hack ripoff that does not suck! Maybe? (21) 38: Asuperu Kanojo (4) 39: [SOUL] VHS collections? [ANIME] [ANIME ON VHS] (23) 40: Death Note live action movies (1)

How do otaku watch so many anime? (5)

1 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-18 20:05 ID:ba7NGMwr

I'm fairly new to Otaku media and I'm kind of ashamed of it, in particular that haven't watched too many of them. As of now it's about 25 Anime and like 5 Manga. I'm genuinely interested and watch whenever I can, mostly 2 episodes every evening of whatever show I'm currently watching, but no matter how I look at it, I feel like I can never watch as much as I'd like to. How do Otaku, who have watched 200, 400 or 1000 Anime do that? I'm NEET and don't have anything that I need to do, but my day only has 24 hours like it's the case for everybody else, yet I don't get anywhere. I don't want to do it for showing off numbers, it's more about the content. There is plenty franchises, I'd like to know more about and get knowledgeable about all this, but watching 2-4 Anime per month really doesn't help with that.

What are all those Otaku doing, that I'm not doing or the other way around, what am I doing, what they aren't doing? Am I not dedicated enough? All explanations and help is appreciated.

2 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-20 21:50 ID:bTTXB42l

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janrezab/2015/04/29/why-i-watch-tv-shows-and-movies-at-twice-the-speed/
try this + watching multiple things at once (works best when you pair an eventful show with something far more chill; for example, a couple episodes of shonen with a ghibli movie)

3 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-20 22:28 ID:3RuhMZGh

Just watch a little bit when you want to watch and you'll get through quite a lot in a decade or two. You can get through a 26 episode show in roughly 13 hours. You can get through a 12 episode show in roughly 6 hours. Some years I watch an absurd amount of anime, other years I barely watch anything. Just enjoy it, you don't need to be #1 best otaku hikikomori in the world. You're probably happier and enjoy each show more if you aren't.

>>2
What is wrong with you? Are you trying to speedrun running out of things to do in life and getting bored and depressed? Slow down.

4 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-20 23:43 ID:mPk9lFe+

i agree with >>3, especially the part about enjoying shows more if you arent a NEET, but also everyone you see whos watched 1000 anime probably started watching anime when they were quite young and are probably getting on a bit at this point

>>2
lmfao nooo

5 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-23 22:02 ID:oZymqfzS

Don't force yourself to watch things. Just pick shows you think you'll like, pick classics you think will appeal to you, or get recommendations, and try them out. If you like them, keep watching and if you don't go watch something else. There's value to at least having some basic knowledge of canonical stuff, like knowing what NGE is or whatever. Don't feel like you need to watch all this stuff because even the most hardcore brain dead otaku hasn't seen everything or even everything that's popular or considered a classic.

The point of watching stuff is to relax and have fun. If you are not doing that then you are doing it wrong.

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What anime are you currently watching? (66)

1 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2021-01-07 22:13 ID:+VETwqK6 This thread was merged from the former /anime/ board. You can view the archive here.

I'm not the guy on /general but thought it would be a nice thread

57 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-10 13:37 ID:Heaven

I'm watching Sonny Boy. It's great so far, getting Masaaki Yuasa vibes

58 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-11 21:21 ID:Wn5tCLG7

The currently airing Kankin Kuiki Level X - half length episodes, suspense and horror with a side character I really like

59 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-11-12 06:35 ID:gb9k3AZN

As of yesterday, I started watching Yuyushiki. It's a really nice CGDCT type of show, and I like it. However, I'm confused how it's pronounced. In the short breaks in the middle of it, they always say it, but they don't say the i, that comes after the sh ("Yuyushki"). Maybe I'm just overhearing it, but this always confuses me.

60 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-11-12 06:51 ID:/0cHbrwt

>>59
In 東京弁 (Tokyo dialect) it's pretty common to drop the final vovel of a word so yuyushiki can quickly become yuyushk. As for when it's shki instead of shiki, し (shi) often becomes Sh when there's a hard sound like tsu 質問 or ki 四季 after, but I don't think there's a hard rule for it.

Are you enjoying the show? I just finished all the Non Non Biyori seasons (cute and relaxing rural life show) and started Gakkou Gurashi.

61 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-11-13 13:13 ID:/0cHbrwt

>>60
I finished Gakku Gurashi. Very fun slice of life show.
Just download it and enjoy the show. If you must know what it's about, there's a few cute girls living at school as part of club activities. I'd actually recommend you don't know more than that, makes it more exciting. ☆(ゝω・)

62 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-11-17 06:36 ID:WOWqIPLx

>>60
Thanks for the explanation. Yes, I really like the show. I'm at 10 out 12 episodes right now and will probably finish the show this evening. In particular the fact that there are virtually no male characters (except for the god of blessing), is weirdly comforting, however as a minor nitpick, I didn't understand the scene where the girls tried to make their teacher cry, it just seemed out out character and unfitting. but maybe

63 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-11-18 01:54 ID:hR0+Iusl

I’m about halfway through Kamichu. It’s a sweet little show all but spoilt by poor pacing and one or two bad episodes, like the one where the entire episode is just Yurie lying around in bed. There is a real warmth to the characters and the retro visual aesthetic is pretty. The core message is positive but not hamfisted.

64 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-05 04:18 ID:saGpq6T/

Ulysses 31

65 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-06 15:55 ID:mRP73QLD

Yesterweek I have started watching Clannad. I can't say much about it yet. Nagisa is cute though. I have had the game laying around as a pirated executable and as a Steam game for quite a while now, but never bothered playing, so I'm watching the Anime TV-series to check if the game is worth the 50 hours it's long, according to VNDB.

66 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-20 23:42 ID:ULyHZcJi

cardcaptor sakura

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any one remember meet-me? (4)

1 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-07 17:20 ID:9WahuHn2

2 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-03 17:06 ID:9WahuHn2

up

3 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-03 17:43 ID:3bPyWw1W

no

4 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-12-04 18:10 ID:MZsbs3wf

looks like fun, is it active still?

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Zero no Tsukaima is the best isekai anime (10)

1 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-03-23 11:28 ID:nyEO7anJ

it is literally the work that inspired virtually all modern isekais and yet it was better than them, the anime adaptation was inferior to Novel but still is a good choice for those who want to start watching anime. what do you think about it?

2 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-03-23 15:14 ID:BYR/0Sui

3 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-03-23 15:34 ID:nyEO7anJ

>>2
Understainable.

4 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-03-26 03:03 ID:iNuWYr5k

my favorite thing about it was when someone on an ERP chat was explaining the protag of the show to someone else and described him as a "non-sentient being"

5 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-03-27 12:53 ID:nyEO7anJ

>>4
Well he was not wrong, on the anime Saito is very "non-sentient" but in the novels he is a little better.

6 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-04-02 23:17 ID:z5c3KRuE

>it is literally the work that inspired virtually all modern isekais

And that's a bad thing. They also played a part in creating the pariah that are modern tsundere.

7 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-04-06 13:56 ID:XNg5q+9x

>>6
someone who hasn't watched anime in the past ten years here. mind explaining?

8 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-04-15 02:42 ID:uUKc+UhV

>>1

>it is literally the work that inspired virtually all modern isekais

Wrong. That's Mushoku Tensei.

9 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2021-04-22 12:37 ID:IILgWK6m

>>8
No, the author of Mushoku Tensei has already said that he was inspired by Zero no Tsukaima in some elements of the MT plot.

10 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-11-18 02:21 ID:pFpaumf1

Shitty Harry Potter wannabe from the era when crap like that was a dime a dozen and >>6 is also correct.

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Isn't Neon Genesis Evangelion supposed to be a "classic"? (61)

1 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2016-04-30 01:45 ID:UJM9js5O This thread was merged from the former /anime/ board. You can view the archive here.

I watched the first ten episodes, and it seems to be just a monster-of-the-day show with lots of fanservice. Am I missing something?

52 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-02-19 08:22 ID:JIBNj7a2

Nadesico isn't better than some of the better Gundam series but it sure is a lot better than Evangeshition.

53 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-03-01 17:11 ID:IM8Sy7xp

>>52
Please all of you are wrong! LOTGH is anime's Evangellion. I wish Gundam died and it lived!

54 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-23 17:20 ID:XCG1EBhq

Patlabor or death.

55 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-07-12 15:50 ID:uAaFgBfP

>>53
LOTGH is bullshit. The battles don't make any sense.

56 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-09-01 11:11 ID:PenJ4uAW

>>55
Star Wars is better than LOTGH. I hate to say it but it’s true.

57 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-09-24 00:25 ID:0fvlJRrg

>>56
Dune is better than both

58 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-09-24 14:40 ID:ytm7x8Wc

>>57
adult beefswelling in his loins

59 Name: obvious troll : 2024-10-28 20:10 ID:Z+F7AglU

>>57
Warhammer 40,000 is better than Dune.

60 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-30 23:58 ID:CvvBC6pB

>>59
Warhammer 40,000 is anglo garbage made for homosexuals and nerds

61 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-11-06 21:27 ID:Heaven

This thread sucks. Just like Evangelion.

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Bocchi the Rock Thread (6)

1 Name: ゼリーさん !smz6IUT2D2 : 2024-10-06 03:57 ID:e7TCI8ls

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2 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-06 13:21 ID:Heaven

2GET

3 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-06 19:18 ID:hRPlyM8k

Bocchi the Stone.

4 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-07 10:18 ID:ROfcTJbR

Bocchi is stoned

5 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-24 14:41 ID:/pv/R09a

Bocchi the Cock

6 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-25 17:31 ID:Heaven

>>5
I do enjoy the picture of her where she has an enormous peepee yes

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Backlog thread (8)

1 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2022-06-29 12:41 ID:Heaven

Post about something that you want to watch/read/play later on but too busy to right now.

2 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2022-06-29 12:42 ID:Heaven

I want to watch Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation at some point. Isekai fantasy, lewd and well drawn, and pretty fun to boot. Watched 3 episodes so far.

3 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2022-06-29 13:33 ID:crgsxj/S

Kaiba by Masaaki Yuasa - I loved all his yojouhan/tatami galaxy stuff, and this seems similarly artsy

4 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2022-07-17 04:03 ID:Heaven

I've been meaning to watch Skull Man, Sunday Without God, Heybot, and Monkey Typhoon when I get the chance.

5 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2022-07-19 09:58 ID:Heaven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Game_(film)

Also everything by that studio that made Yosuga no Sora anime.

6 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-09-26 02:16 ID:6Wl59WMd

Visual novels:

  • Read Clannad.
  • Read Planetarian
  • Read Saya No Uta
  • Read Muv-Luv
  • Finish reading Higurashi

Anime:

  • Finish watching Card Captor Sakura (I've started a year ago, but never bothered finishing, as it's so long)
  • Finish A Certain Scientific Railgun
  • Watch 16-Bit Sensation
  • Watch Ping Pong the Animation
  • Watch Gabriel Dropout
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7 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-02 13:57 ID:nK7+es/C

there's so many
if I had to pick one from each category, I'd like to watch ojamajo doremi, read one piece, and play sakura no uta.

8 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-10-21 21:59 ID:eBG8/cxH

>>7
you should absolutely watch Doremi, it's great
it definitely is something you should do over a while though
like, putting one or two episodes on a day would get you through it at a reasonable pace, it's kinda rough to marathon (I tried, humans were not meant to take in that much Doremi in a day)

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What's your favorite Manga? (25)

1 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2022-09-04 21:20 ID:gfVsl7YW

My favorite Manga is Death Note.
What's yours?

16 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-05-19 12:53 ID:Heaven

>>15
Consider having an opinion of your own and not following popular teenage culture.

17 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-06-12 00:49 ID:eIFz6Knh

Melancholia by Dowman Sayman
it's an anthology like his other work, Nickelodeon (which is also really good but maybe should be read before) and they connect to eachother, along with his other work Voynich Hotel
Unlike nickelodeon however, all the short stories connect at the end which is a trope I like

His manga are always weird, surreal, and occasionally disturbing which i really like. For the same reason I'm also a big fan of:

  • Abnormal Joshi Kei, a manga about a harem of girls who are all crazy psychos(sadly cancelled)
  • Rojica To Rakkasei, which is a very cute manga about a girl who's the only human and her rat creature friend
  • Arai-san Mansion, which is a fan webcomic of Kemono friends that's a horror series set in a hotel with infinite rooms, I don't even like Kemono friends but it's quite good

18 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-06-18 00:28 ID:roO8Y0ON

I really like Battle Angel. Love that scrap heap 3rd world aesthetic. But Ranma 1/2 has to be my favourite manga.

>>16
Lain is popular with teens? Since when? Also, it’s not a manga.

19 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-07-09 03:40 ID:iD4QNHV+

some stuff that hasn't been listed

Blade of the Immortal
Emanon
Halcyon Lunch
Helter Skelter
Homunculus
Mato Seihei no Slave
Molester Man
Ousama Ranking

shit guess this too

yancha gal no anjou san

20 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-07-14 09:21 ID:tIp2I1NT

>>17 I haven't read any of Dowman Sayman's stuff in like 10 years... must see what I've missed. Thanks for dropping their name here

21 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-08-29 11:58 ID:YwBxl26n

I'm surprised nobody's mention made in abyss

22 Name: Tourist : 2024-03-11 15:55 ID:JrebMBUb

Girls' Last Tour.

23 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-24 12:30 ID:ki40Jhjp

Franken Fran
Claymore
BLAME
Sousou no Frieren
Hotel
Uzumaki
Fetish

24 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-25 15:16 ID:947GsASt

berserk

25 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-09-26 02:25 ID:zGPfZ8Yp

Definitively Nichijou. It always cheers me up when I read it and it has, in my opinion, a cute drawing style.

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Why does all anime look the same now? (10)

1 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-11-14 03:35 ID:/D8TWjDD

Why does all anime look the same now? What happened? They all look so similar to one another these days. It's incredibly dull and boring. They all use the same color palate, the same art style, thin lines, all the characters look identical, the shading and tone is the same and then there's all the choppiness and framerate issues which lead to general ugliness. It's like they sink the entire budget into visual set pieces.

2 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-11-14 07:26 ID:uASrDF82

It probably costs less to stick to one style.
Most of the more generic anime from the mid 2000s looks pretty much all the same too. I think that style looks better, but I guess I am just becoming an old fart stuck in the past. Or it really just does take more time and effort to do it with the old techniques that made the style of the time. Stuff like Kanon, Air, Clannad, I really think that is the style to go with. It even looks decent on 360p. I still like new shows though, there's usually something I like in every season.

3 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-11-14 13:27 ID:9pXx1kA1

The framerate issues probably have to do with studios outsourcing work to the Philippines, China or South Korea. When you have animators spread out over multiple countries speaking different langauges choppinness and general ugliness is the result. It's a double edged sword really. The Philippine animators get to build expereience, but being used as cheap labor keeps them from producing their own high grade product. Anime also has to have a high turn over rate and they pump that shit out and whoever has to make it, Japanese or not, end up overworked and then their work sucks because they can't stop their hands from shaking.

4 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2023-12-09 04:26 ID:xU/AJ1Hj

To appeal to Americans anime has to look a certain way. So studios pump out the same “anime style” artwork which leads to less artistic diversity. More Americans consume anime than actual Japanese people so now they are the target audience. So its become an Asian minstrel show where people play into the stereotypes others have about them just to make money.

5 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-01-21 19:10 ID:HlzvINj/

Hand drawn is dead. Everything is made by computers using engines and graphical tools that recycle the same components. Everything today is painfully stock.

6 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-01-23 13:00 ID:/6BwCGrN

>>3
I wonder how long those cheap labor sources have before Japanese studios just start using AI instead. Then everything will look the same and extra ugly.

7 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-02-20 01:36 ID:9pXx1kA1

>>6
They'll probably always use them. If AI will get rid of anyone it will be the Japanese animators. You'll have a handful of Japanese involved in the process, AI will do the heavy lifting, and they'll outsource the remaining human element to the cheap labor in foreign countries. The Japanese are adopting the Hollywood model of corporate exec dictated art and building huge endless content franchises. Give it decade and it will look exactly like Hollywood.

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9 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-09-16 22:15 ID:/64TYrX+

What >>4 said more or less, in tandem with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan

Generic marketable slop.

10 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-09-25 23:27 ID:WDcEmoXc

Most stuff produced in the 90s was also formulaic slop but there was more visual diversity back then at least. Probably because there were more studios with their own styles while today there are a handful of big corporations that have monopolized the industry. Formulaic slop happened when traditional cel animation was abandoned. Coincidence? I don’t think so. If you walk into a studio you’ll see most of the animators use the same tools and rely more on their tools than animators of the past and the bosses are slave drivers who want them to produce as many episodes fast as possible.

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Light Novels (15)

1 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-01-14 21:40 ID:K3ceWuud

I've never read a light novel before, but I've become interested in reading one. Have you ever read a light novel? Did you enjoy? What's your favorite?

6 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-04-20 12:22 ID:YWIlDFLu

I thought I already posted in this thread, weird.
Kyoukai senjou no horizon is a really good series. The anime adaptation is well known for being hard to follow, but the LN is much more readable because you can hear character's internal monologues describing what they're doing and why. Although it's classed as a light novel, the novels are hardly "light", they're massive. It's very good though.

7 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-04-22 16:29 ID:wmzeLijm

Boogiepop Series is really fun if you read it while listening to the songs that are referenced in the book

8 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-01 01:22 ID:o3LXaLe4

boogiepop? sounds like a song

9 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-02 12:03 ID:moFSKva9

Seconding Welcome to the NHK. If you're the sort of person who's browsed textboards a lot, it almost certainly hits home on a number of topics relating to old school "otaku" culture, depression, and addiction.

The worst LNs I ever read were Sword Art Online 1-3, when assured by my friend that the anime (which I had not, and still haven't watched) was garbage and the LNs were actually good. This was not the case - I will never get back the time spent on those novels.
My overall vibe was "reminiscent of [type-moon's] Nasu's work, but a lot worse", though I get that the series started as a fanfictiony web novel. Maybe this is par for the course for many LNs though and I'm being too harsh. I read the Haruhi LNs back in the day for validation about my pet theories on Kyon's abilities but they never came. It was good I guess - it's been too long to really think about it objectively. Perhaps a re-read is in order!

10 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-03 19:47 ID:DA0mudp/

Welcome to the NHK isn't an LN!! It's just a novel.

11 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-07 16:55 ID:Heaven

>>10
that makes sense tbh

12 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-05-25 15:25 ID:ldpBj/lf

>>10
uh... what is the difference? Aren't light novels just regular novels but with animu stuff? (´・ω・`)

13 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-06-05 07:34 ID:0/cC/Si1

>>10

You are wrong.

14 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-06-09 22:50 ID:IbS2JOYU

Whether something is a novel or light novel is determined solely by the publisher. It's like how if something is published by DC Comics it's going to be considered "superheroes" even if no one actually has superpowers (say, Batman vs the Joker.) Or in anime/manga, like how anything published in Shonen Jump is "shonen" even if it's romance or magical girl (genres usually associated with shoujo.)

Welcome to the NHK was published by Kadokawa Shoten, who are an LN publisher. Outside Japan it was published by Tokyopop who deal even more exclusively in LNs.

15 Name: Anonymous Otaku : 2024-08-16 01:35 ID:MlrKS2NP

I just started reading boogiepop and can already tell it's gonna be amazing

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