Comments on: NICE BOOK – Lucky Star cameos

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:43:00 +0000

haha that’s awesome, i noticed kagami reading the mirai nikki manga but i can’t believe i missed the higurashi cameo. Oh and if you look at this poster:

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z313/bam061019/akibakko-118544918025081.jpg

You can really see Konata reading the fate/stay night manga. Thought you might want to add that one in as well.

By: jan

jan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:38:38 +0000

The Rental Magica series looks interesting, but I suppose it has not yet been licensed in English?

HolyCow: The Rental Magica series is currently unlicensed to my knowing, and is still ongoing in Japan. From what I last heard though, RM has plenty of hard kanji and unusual words since it contains a lot of occult reference.

By: linkinstreet

linkinstreet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:43:28 +0000

Oh, on the mango, it’s Ga-Rei, not Garei. And it’s deliciously funny, better than bleach, and being animated. So go read it now if you haven’t

HolyCow: Fixed. Thanks >:D

By: Silencers

Silencers — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:16:46 +0000

The only light novels I’ve read so far are the main FMP novels, up to Continuing On My Own. I’d love to read some other stuff, though.

By: lametastic

lametastic — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:52:12 +0000

Wow. Kagami is totally a closet otaku, it seems…

About translations. I think that the translations in Baka Tsuki are a bit too textual in the phrasing. I haven’t really had that kind of problems with the official translations I’ve read (like FMP or NHK).

However, I have some problems with the narrative of books like the Haruhi or the Toradora novels. They are too reiterative, and it feels specially forced with some very dull descriptions. I think we have read about “the cute looking senpai in the frilly maid uniform that could make the whole world shine with her smile ” or “the petite figure that doesn’t match with the ferocious eyes that could kill somebody at first sight” enought times to get the idea. But sometimes it feels like there’s a variation of that same description every five paragraphs.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they are published in a serial format and the editors require the authors to do that every damn chapter, but it dimishes the, erm… “literary” quality of the books as a whole.

Of course, there are bigger problems, but I think somebody else can point them out better than me..

By: mjunk

mjunk — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:29:24 +0000

NICE BLOG

I enjoyed the fan translations of the Haruhi novels. But admittedly, I probably wouldn’t have cared much for them if not for the anime.

By: Sasa

Sasa — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:05:35 +0000

It makes me want to read the actual books! I must admit that I have never enjoyed a light novel except for Kino no Tabi and Gosick so far, because I found the ‘light’ writing style so awkward. Or is it all because of the translations?

By: dKiWi

dKiWi — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:14:43 +0000

Haha thanks for the compilation. Makes me feel like watching rakisuta again ^^