I was watching Anime for a long time already, picked up a manga here and there but I didn’t really enjoy them. It felt like there was so little story and I could finish one in under an hour. So I gave up on Manga.
I watched So I’m a Spider, So What?/ Kumo desu ga, nani ka? when it started airing and it hooked me instantly. Her character. The world. The comedy. Everything. (Except the humans…).
Once it was over, I wanted more. And since everyone kept saying the Light Novel is way better, especially the human side, I bought the first 3 volumes.
It was amazing. I binge read them until I had to wait for the English releases. Right now I’m waiting for vol. 16 to be available again so I can finish this series.
I had been reading manga for a while and then, similar to you, ran into a series in which I could not wait to see what happened next. For me, that series was Eminence in Shadow which was my entry into LN/WN reading. I was surprised at how different the LN was from the manga in tone though, moreso than many other series I have since consumed both forms of media. It is a great example of the different storytelling modalities adapting the same story and ending up with three (LN, manga, anime), interesting for different reasons, pieces of media.
I forgot exactly how I got into it, I suppose it’s just a natural extension of my interest in Japanese media (and I love reading, comics and novels alike). I don’t know if this is the very first, but it’s one of the very first and the most memorable for me - “The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria” fan translation, many years before it was officially licensed.
I’m new to the light novels, my first LN was The World’s Finest Assassin’ after watching the anime on Netflix. I think it’s fun to read and I like the most part of it, but I just dropped it because I don’t like its kind of harem. Then I can’t stop, I read Tearmoon Empire, Ascendance of a Bookworm, those two are so good, Sasaki and peeps is also fun to read. Now I’m reading Konosuba on V.15, the next after I finish this story would be Secrets of the Silent Witch.
One thing I noticed after I started reading LN is that I kind of don’t enjoy anime adaptations from LN source anymore 😐.
It’s definitely hard watching an anime adapted from a LN you read.
Classroom of the elite was painful, atleast the first season didn’t watch any further.
So I’m a Spider was painful too, not as much because Kumos side was decently well done.
@EnmaAi22 @lightnovels Was reading comics and looking for something different, found the first Manga translation for AoaB, then found out that there are translated books for it. So, Ascendance of a Bookworm.
Can you give me a sales pitch on ascendance of a Bookworm? I see it recommend or praised a lot but the story doesn’t seem that intriguing to me.
@EnmaAi22 The Main character went to library school before being Isekai’d to a place with magic but few books … As a sickly commoner. It’s fairly slow paced, but the world building is top rate. Some folks cannot imagine being as obsessed with books as she is, but I married a librarian and I read hundreds of books a year.
Like any book, it’s not for everyone.
I also love female led books that aren’t romance-centred. It hits my buttons well.And lete guess, she is trying to make books more commonplace in the world?
I think I’ll give it a try and order the first volume:)
