Recommendations Episodic novel or short stories LN & WN

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  1. vick2047

    vick2047 Well-Known Member

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    Any Episodic or short stories light novel & web novel ?
    i prefer fantasy and slice of life.
     
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    pocketbear !!!!!!!

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    Do you care about subject matter? Because otherwise that is pretty broad. There are a lot of short stories here, and episodic.... I almost feel like a lot of Japanese seem to write in a semi-episodic style already XD Maybe Kumo desuga, nani ka?
     
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    i prefer fantasy and slice of life.
     
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    Kino's Journey

    Every chapter is pretty much stand alone
     
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    Volume one is licensed so it hasn't been fan translated for years, though I believe one of the translators put up a summary of the first volume.
     
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    Isekai Shokudo though you better have something to eat while reading.
     
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    ...I’d like to pretend that Tokyopop release doesn’t exist, because it’s more of a fanfiction than a translation. And the summary on Baka-Tsuki was more or less a summary of the Tokyopop release.

    The first Volume recently got a fan translation, but so far only for the first half and the epilogue chapter.
     
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    Ohh it's been so long I can't recall if I knew the translation was terrible.. It's really unfortunate when the official translation is terrible but they hold the license so T_T
    I should probably check the fan translation out-- I'm not sure if I was aware of it or not since the last thing I read was untuned-string's retranslation of a couple volumes
     
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    Not terrible per se, but the Tokyopop version added a lot of details and scenes that weren’t in the original Japanese text, and the characters’ personalities were changed enough for me to notice.
     
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    alexfilia Bromance & Fluff <3

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    Ahhh I see, still unfortunate though...
    I just realized you're the translator for volume 1? I'll definitely check it out, thanks for your hard work.
     
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    I am, yeah. I just don't really want to mention it because it's a licensed work, and my releases are pretty slow and irregular.
     
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