• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
    English
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    17 days ago

    Bit late to the party, but I started the Konosuba light novels. It’s my first foray into the medium and it’s definitely not what I’m used to in terms of amount of detail. It’s not bad, but I’m very glad I’ve watched the anime beforehand for a lot of the characterization it does early on.

    • NineSwords@ani.socialMEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      Fun thing about watching the anime first is that you read all the text now in their voices.

      • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        17 days ago

        With Ascendance of a Bookworm, I had watched the anime several years before reading the LN, so somehow that made Myne’s voice really weird, because I misremembered it. Sort of like a voice that a girl character would use if she was pretending to be an old lady.

        I ended up going back and rewatching the anime, and then when I reread the LN, her voice alternated between the anime voice and the weird one.

  • ludrol@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Finally got some time to read <Abducted Princess Running Rampant: Wielding Forbidden Magic in the Demon King’s Castle> vol 1 - nice prologue to adventure. Enjoyable read. I think I will pick up vol 2 when it comes out.

  • NineSwords@ani.socialMEnglish
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    17 days ago

    <A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires Volume 6> - A very forgettable volume. Not much of a real consequence happens. Entertaining enough, though.

    <The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods: Volume 1> - Based on the synopsis and the cover, I expected something comfy. The novel comes in 2 parts, and in part 1, there is jealousy, bullying, harassment, and ultimately, the outright murder of MC’s mother. She then gets sold off by her last family member to a different country as a political hostage and to potentially become a concubine. Very not comfy. And the cruelty is utterly unnecessary. The setup for part two of the novel could have worked perfectly without the trauma-porn. At least the second (and larger) part is entertaining and well worth a read.

    <Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 28> - Two Weddings and a Birthday. Another very heartwarming volume. The characters seem to get impatient with the main ship as well and push it a bit. There wasn’t much alone time between them though, so we don’t get any progression on that front.