Discussion How did you get into reading translated novels.

Discussion in 'Novel General' started by UDI, Mar 20, 2019.

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  1. erl

    erl Well-Known Member

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    I always love books
    My dream is to be a librarian
    So, I want to read more. Though it is because of VNs before I read any of tl novels
     
  2. Amaruna Myu

    Amaruna Myu ugly squid dokja (●´∀`●)

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    lol
    was it TDG or SAO/MahoukaKoukou
     
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  3. Expatamoeba

    Expatamoeba Have eyes but still couldn't see Mount Tai

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    It was coiling dragon I believe? Read it after reading a couple of chapters from its manhua. Saw the comments that the novel is hundred times better. Never went back ever since.
     
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    Get Nepped Well-Known Member

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    Pretty simple, I read the "the man picked up by the gods" manga and liked it so much I looked for the novel. It was home run from there.
     
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    tak ignorant but well-meant

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    Read manga (<5 chapters). Look for the continuation
    Lo and behold, 200+ chapters of translated novel!
     
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  6. Bright_Lucky_Star

    Bright_Lucky_Star [Previously Known as OrdinaryUser] The Blessed One

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    Batoto novels reccomendation
     
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    inukai Active Member

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    Mine is baka-tsuki. A senpai is a fan of haruhi, and told me where I could read it.
     
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    I think I first started with LMS, maybe around 2014/2015. IDK how I started tbh, maybe I saw it in reddit. Back then, I get my updates from ahoupdates. After LMS, I saw that they kept on recommending Coiling Dragon a lot, so I got curious and went ahead to read it. That started me on reading Chinese novels afterwards.
     
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    wtfkjp ASDFGGWP

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    haruhi suzumiya for me.
     
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    ryosuke08 Well-Known Member

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    First, 10 years ago I got into SHNY anime, and then it led me to the manga then the novels, and then I got opportunity to read .Hack\\Ai Buster, years pass and then I got interested in Danmachi and then it opened the doors to konosuba, arifureta and more.
     
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    Fleighfire Well-Known Member

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    I remember trying to find something to read online like royalroad, (back then I didnt know of light novels at the time), its there that I stumbled into Japtem where it introduced me to my translated novels Arifureta and Legendary Moonlight Sculptor. After that it was a matter of typing in translated novels where it lead me to Novel Updates and all the novels I can read.
     
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    RyreGruel Well-Known Member

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    I have a complex history staring with watching anime for 4 months after seeing one punch man while working at summer camp, I then got introduced to manga right before my winter break in which I binge read for about a month and a half and then I wanted to go beyond the latest updates of re-monster, kumo desu ga, and reincarnated as a slime. Found novel updates for re monster then took 2-3 months to eventually remember that I still had kumo desu ha and slime then a full year of reading things nearly 24/7 finally made an account as about 200 bookmarks is too many to handle.
     
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    It all started with the Overlord anime leading me to skythewood translations. That and their recommended list has led me down a spiral of reading until Kill No More on Japtem. That got me to RoyalRoadl through The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor and also somehow got me to Wuxiaworld, with Coiling Dragon being the first novel I read on their site. These novels along with The Golden Wordmaster, Shield Hero, World of Cultivation, Only Sense Online, and Evil God Average got me firmly into reading translated novels.
     
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    ToastedRossi Well-Known Member

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    I don't know if this counts, but I learned Chinese and then started reading Jin Yong and other wuxia writers. Right now I read a lot of Chinese books because I love historical novels and there are a lot of really good Chinese historical novels out there.
     
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    Maelstrom08 Well-Known Member

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    I started with Manhua mainly and I loved Douluo Dalu, so I finally decided I would get into webnovels and started reading it.
     
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    Raneday Not Rane

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    hmm it all started with Baka-tsuki for me
     
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    always love reading comic/manga and novel... now mostly read Chinese and Korean web novel coz their style suit me better...
     
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    From Baka-Tsuki, I was searching for LN... Mahouka or Log Horizon maybe...
     
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    BookDevourer Well-Known Member

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    for me, i was reading a manga one day, but the translators had dropped it. Since i liked it lots, i looked for other places that might have chapters of it, then i found out it was originally a novel. I did some googling and voila, NU popped up and waved to me. xD
     
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    I was looking for more overlord after overlord first season. i just wanted something more and so i started to read the novel. Long story short, i realized i like to read and found novel updates not long after.
     
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