#another light novel

[strawmates]

ANOTHER 2001 by Yukito Ayatsuji

I was waiting for this for so long. If I remember correctly the english version was supposed to come out on March 2022 but got delayed until December 2022. Another is one of my most favorite light novels of all time — no kidding. I love the plot, the characters, the author's writing style, and the way he narrates the story. It was comprehensive enough for someone dumb like me.

Another 2001 is a sequel for the Another Volume 1, 2, and the side story Another SO. If you want to read 2001, I highly recommend reading the the prequels and the side story since they are all connected in one way or another.

Another 2001 revolves around Sou Hiratsuka who has been placed to Class 3-3 that have an infamous curse tied with the class. With the help of Misaki Mei, together they must find out who's the casualty among the students to stop the horrible calamity that will strike them.

I really enjoyed reading the story! Although there are parts that are similar with the prequels. The twist at the end is quite predictable however it still gave me some goosebumps, 9/10.

On the author's note at the end, he said there is a new sequel in the planning/making and sadly it will be the last.

I hope you guys would give this a read! I promise it will be worth your time 😉💗

[syn0vial]

yes, yes, boba fett finds it strange and uncomfortable when people can see his face and this is one of the major reasons he almost never removes his helmet (in the expanded universe anyway), but another factor that i think isn't explored nearly enough is just how much his helmet shapes how he sees the world. it grants him 360° vision, lets him interface with his weapon systems and slave I, and automatically dampens loud noises and dims bright lights. imagine going through the vast majority of your life seeing the world through that lens and then suddenly taking it away. removing his helmet for any significant length of time likely isn't just uncomfortable for him but downright disorienting.

[the-lost-profile]

I love this art by Touco Shino (The Apothecary Diaries LN artist) with Maomao playing Go.

It reminds me of THEM

I'm too weak for this whole plot.

[benetnvsch]

From the recent lecture with Asagiri Rough translation:

"I originally created Kunikida and Dazai as partners, but their action scenes are gradually decreasing… and Chuuya has ended up taking the spotlight.

I want to give Kunikida more of an active role. The Kunikida-Dazai duo is the kind of duo I feel like I could write endlessly about if I had the time."

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

(ln8 spoilers) jinshi thinking except for my godly looks i am just average and then his smartass goes and kills around five birds with just one brand. someone whose status is so high that even his name can't be said by anyone except the emperor jinshi branded himself with the crest of the empress vowing loyalty to her assuring her he doesn't wants to take the place of her son. one-upping his "bro" with this who refuses to let him leave the line of succession wouldn't let him become a commoner doesn't wants to let him become a servant to the royal family. only slaves get branded and if this ever got out there will be chaos in the court. gyokuyou tho considers jinshi like a brother and he did swear loyalty to her but if she ever tried to cross his family her clan's brand on his body would be enough to prove her as an adultress which would be bad for her and her clan.

and jinshi did this in front of these two people and maomao so now she is the only one who can see him naked and the emperor cannot order him to marry anyone which was something that was definitely gonna happen had he not done what he did. as a bonus he gets to spend more time with maomao after a long time and he did all this while saying the exact words: empress gyokuyou, your enemy i shall never be in front of maomao reassuring her because she once muttered i don't want to be an enemy to empress gyokuyou and he had heard her but before he could tell her that he had no intention of doing that either he couldn't because of the lishu incident. one of the major reasons maomao hadn't accepted her own feelings for jinshi one of the obstacles he promised to remove for her. even though he doesn't even know that maomao's concerns about her becoming gyokuyou's enemy had to do with his birth secret his true status. that no matter what he is the rightful successor. something jinshi himself isn't even aware of and yet without knowing that he did this to deal with it all in a single way most preferable to him: masochism

[lotus-pear]

bsd fic authors i understand yalls pain SO well right now why is it so fucking HARD to write dazai. like i have a whole fucking spreadsheet dedicated to tireless analysis i have done on my part so i can accurately characterize him but he is such an unpredictable and morally gray character that it's hard knowing his limits and boundaries and where he draws the line for himself.

[add1ctedt0you]

The Untamed - Episode 19

Throughout the night, he [Jiang Cheng] had somehow managed to sleep a couple of times. The first reason was that, having been too tired from crying himself weak, he couldn't help from passing out. The second reason was that he still had the hope that this might be a nightmare. He couldn't wait to wake up after some rest and open his eyes to find himself lying inside of his room back in Lotus Pier. His father would be wiping his sword in the main hall. His mother would be angry again and complaining, scolding Wei Wuxian who winked in a funny way. His sister would be in the kitchen, thinking as hard as she could about what to make today. His shidi would be refusing to do their morning lessons properly and jumping around.

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Chapter 59, Poisons- Part Four

[griffincloud]

After everything we've been through... doesn't ThunderClan mean anything to you?

Sketch I did right after finishing the Graphic Novel! This scene stuck out to me the most during my first read

[rankotendo]

Another thing I like about Subaru Natsuki is that he automatically discards his past life and identity the moment he found himself in a new world. He wants to take the chance to escape from a world where he doesn't belong. It's a fresh start for him.

His manufactured personality is a way for him to change himself from who he used to be. Return by Death is the perfect ability for who Subaru Natsuki was. He's able to constantly redo social interactions until he's able to figure out the perfect way to act to please them.

More and more, as Subaru meets people in the new world, he changes to adjust to everyone around him, so much so the old self no longer exists. Subaru has become a new person. At the cost of not having a sense of self at all, he's only escaped further into himself.

Subaru struggles to open up fully to others, hence why he tends to keep up his goofy persona even around those he loves so they won't worry or realise his inner weaknesses. I just love him so much.

[viscerism]

" and as you stumble through your last crusade,

will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays? "

[hanashiz]

Bungou Stray Dogs Light Novel 1 : Dazai Osamu's Entrance Exam

[carbonateds-oda]

everyone shut the fuck up for a second I need a moment

oh my fucking god. im gonna explode look at them

[jenn-the-mostly-harmless]

I think Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy is probably one of my favorite ongoing anime right now. I've been reading the light novel and I just keep having feels about it.

It's easy to dismiss it as just another isekai or harem show but it has a habit of surprising me. A lot of isekai anime are just regurgitations of tropes in new slightly different configurations, but unlike those stories, the author of Tsukimichi (Kei Azumi) seems to have something to say. There are obvious themes and explorations on beauty, power, responsibility, mental illness, and the power of familial love.

I don't know if the author intended it or not, but I think it's really interesting that Makoto has trouble connecting to feelings besides anger and embarrassment, that his decisions only take him and his friends into consideration, that he feels nothing when he kills a person he doesn't know, and that he can be destructive and impulsive on a national level without realizing how others will perceive it. To me personally, he comes across as someone with a severe mental illness who grew up in the best environment possible and learned to cope with most of his issues in healthy ways.

He would be a totally different character if his environment and connection to other characters were taken away, and the story plays with that constantly. The anime hasn't gotten there yet (super light spoiler warning for details that are not as far as I know, important to the larger plot), but at some point he's granted dreams of true alternate realities of his path and they are all incredibly dark. In those other realities he was left alone with his fear and anger and became a terrifying destructive force.

In his own timeline, multiple side characters realize that he has no qualms about killing (even if he only ever does it to save or avenge friends, a classic hero trope) and decide that he's scary and needs watching. When one of his closest companions starts to worry about him falling victim to bloodlust, another close friend tells her that Makoto will never love killing because life means nothing to him.

But my favorite part of this reading is that Makoto is a kind, thoughtful boy, who treats his friends well, treats every new person he meets with respect, helps any random little girl that is in danger around him, and generally bends over backwards not to hurt anyone who isn't actively attacking him or his allies. The people who love him know he has some dangerous faults and love him totally and completely anyway and without fear.

I haven't finished the series quite yet, so I hope this doesn't slap me in the face, but it feels like a really nuanced, positive depiction of a mentally ill protagonist and I love it.

[aubdrewanchel]

Ascendance of a bookworm HALLOWEEN AU

[fuckyeahfraxus]

for the folks needing more back up on the 'Laxus really ain't a womanizer, has never been, still isn't. he's awkward and hardly interested-' - apparently something has been talked about in the first Fairy Tail light novel where all the girls come together and gossip about crushes and such. I'll just leave you with this screenshot-

also we stan Evergreen for being another great example for 'women and men can just be friends without developing feelings!'.

( This might also be a good thing for the folks headcanoning Laxus as gay because for all we know this guy could be anything )

But also I stumbled upon this other translation piece of this light novel chapter and it went like-

I don't know how accurate this is but the, by now unfortunately deactivated, user estella-may translated this and their translations were usually pretty good.

So- still talking about Laxus. And, what?? Debating that he might be into men?? That there might be something between Freed and him even??

And Lucy thinking Freed's handsome??

Cannot say for sure but hello

[etrevil]

Not me remembering that Dazia once put on hold a mission to prevent the end of the world by two minutes, just so that Chuuya can keep his autonomy, to make the choice concerning his humanity whether he wants to see it for himself or not, and I'm just-