@jampodevral
Well, I did have some issues with American horror as I see that the majority is quite cheap and empty. So, I thought your issues are more like issues with how a lot of genre works are written than the horror elements themselves.
I am the total opposite from you and @Terabyte (I guess) as I, ultimately, like things that delve in human's mind and emotions so psychological horror and dark philosophical death games are more of my thing than anything else in the genre.

However, I found ghost story horror that can tell a story or have a meaning in many Asian stories, that was why I was pleased with the (at least, the modern) genre in the east more than the west.
(Just explaining where I stand, that's all)

I use (and love) my Kindle Voyage for ebooks, but I also have a 10" Lenovo Tab 4 that I use for Android games, the daily newspaper, and reading the website version of JNC books I haven't bought. It works well for all of that, so if you want Android or are anti-Amazon then that is a good choice too. It costs $180 new from Amazon here in the US.

Anyne knows if there is much difference between Skeleton Knight WN and LN?

@hyferzftw The last anime I watched that was related to trigger was Darling in the Franx and I regretted that decisions for every episode. But then again, stubborn.

Well, for Grimgar, living is the best punishment, death is sweet release. Lack of death has no impact on enjoyment of a series for me, but that is just my opinion. I am fine with people dying as long as it has some meaning. I think the only time when I got upset about death was in Overlord volume 7, but that is discussion for another time. Slime is pretty fun all round story, it didnt get any better or worse after Shizue died. If anything, her death came too sudden, it felt hollow, manga did it better, in my opinion. I read slime mostly for the sake of seeing how MC one-upping everyone else.

I really like how the relationship seems to work between Seven Seas and JNC. While they are competitors they appear to be friendly with each other. Friendly competition, in my opinion, is really good and helps that market to thrive.

Just bumping with a title change since there's a good Bookwalker JP sale going on where you can get some volume 1s for cheap (100 JPY each).

These are all Dengeki works afaik.

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Sale home page:
https://bookwalker.jp/select/26/

@terrence said in Department of Nerdly Affairs Podcast - Guest Sam Pinansky:

Maybe he wants some physical Rokujouma too? That series is so long, you'd almost have to Omnibus it if you wanted to catch up (are the volumes short enough to Omnibus together in sets of 3 like Katanagatari?).

Anything's short enough to omnibus if you're willing to have a big enough book. ;) Rokujouma is on the short side, though, or it is as far as I've gotten (through volume 15 so far). Three volumes together would generally be shorter than two volumes of Realist Hero or Smartphone.

@timmaaah True, and I’m sure there are people that wait until a series is fully translated before buying it as well.

There is a topic in the suggestion subforum, you can show your support there maybe that will help tip the scales in its favor...

@korppi And if you have it in your library already, it says, "Download available Dec 23rd, 2018".

I can just imagine how that felt. I love Neechu, but didn't have any history with it besides after I found out about it here.

That author has written a few other things since, so I hope we see more of them someday. =)

Went back to that list today. A few ones I really want on there:

Sakurako-san
Yakitori
Crest of the Stars (anything Space Opera esque I'd like, which I think that is).

And obviously the newer one by the Konosuba author (Combatants will be dispatched) along with his Konosuba spin-offs.

@terrence Yeah i only got 2 cards, sucks but what can ya do...

@shrike_al said in Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2019:

@terrence How would you guys describe the lasting appeal of Misaka and Kamijou's characters?

Not sure. My fellow podcasters read Index, so maybe they'd be able to explain (they actually recorded an episode on Index recently, but it's not up yet).

I did like (Index season 1 spoilers)

The OASG (who recorded the Anime NYC presentation of Yen Press for Twitter / Periscope) has an Anime NYC podcast up.
https://www.theoasg.com/podcasts/its-not-my-fault-the-oasg-podcast-is-not-popular/episode-66-the-mostly-anime-nyc-edition/11088

The Light Novel Podcast is recording on Monday or Tuesday this week, but I have no clue when it'll go up (usually takes a week to edit, but we also have another podcast that's been recorded but not posted yet). Anime NYC focused and a tiny bit of Kono Light Novel Ga Sugoi likely too.

@spade Volume 9 has not been released in Japan yet, it has been getting pushed back month after month.

Also the last part of Volume 8 will be released on the site in 3 days.

@shrike_al Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken is also finished as well. Arifureta is technically complete as well, what's getting updated now is the after story, and since it has as many chapters as the main story it should be considered a separate series IMO. Bakarina WAS complete with 2 volumes in it's WN era, when it got picked up for publishing, the author went beyond that

@crey Oh, I wasn't trying to say I thought one or the other was necessarily better, I was just musing that we can kind of predict the path the story takes as we trace the technological advances throughout human history, so I wonder what will happen once he fully modernizes the world.

It's easy for Roland to say "we should move in this direction" when he has a road map in his head, but once he reaches the edge of the map, it's harder to be so confident that his decisions are objectively best.

Anyway, should probably end this sidebar here so that I/we don't start spoiling the story too much :x