I've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find sites that provide English translations of the web novels and light novels upon
wich they're based, especially Japanese themes. As an English only
reader I don't know if I'm overlooking sites that offer novels
translated to English. Here's a list of sites (name only, not URL)
I've bookmarked for myself. Some are commercial, some are just a list
of novels translated to English and others seem fan run. Is there a
site(s) I have missed? thanks, John
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Armaell's Library
FictionPress
Inkitt
J-Novel Club (commercial)
Paichun Translations
RnDNovels (seems inactive)
Royal Road (commercial, monthly paid fee)
Wattpad
List of Light Novels (Alphabetical)
Baka-Tsuki
Fanmily
henkanepubs
Just Light Novels
KyOption's Library translated novels
Light Novel
Lnwnepubs
NanoDesu Light Novel Translations
Novel Updates
Noveltrench light novels Japanese, Chinese. Korean
Read Light Novels (.NET)
ReadLight Novel.org (ORG)
readonlinenovels
Rekt Novel Compilations - Light novel downloads
RnDNovels – Read and Download Novels
Scribble Hub
Seven Seas Entertainment
Sousetsuka
SYOSETU - Japanese only web site
Tseirp Translations
Webnovel.com
Whatsawhizzer Web Novels - NSFW
Wuxia.Blog
WuxiaWorld (.COM)
WuxiaWorld (.SITE)
Fanfox.net has some novels but not densely concentrated as they
do with the Chinese comics, the manga and the Korean comics.
bliss
Bobbie Sellers wrote:
Fanfox.net has some novels but not densely concentrated as they
do with the Chinese comics, the manga and the Korean comics.
bliss
Just checked it out. lots of manga but no novels as far as I could
tell.
John
I've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find sites that provide English translations of the web novels and light novels upon[...]
wich they're based, especially Japanese themes. As an English only
reader I don't know if I'm overlooking sites that offer novels
translated to English.
Novel Updates
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:28:01 +0000, Yes wrote:
I've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find sites that[...]
provide English translations of the web novels and light novels upon
wich they're based, especially Japanese themes. As an English only
reader I don't know if I'm overlooking sites that offer novels
translated to English.
Novel Updates
If this is novelupdates.com, they index *everyone* else,
including hundreds of sites you haven't listed. The only
site you need if you're interested in this stuff.
E. Liddell
On 2021-09-01, E. Liddell <eliddell@no.patience.for.spam> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:28:01 +0000, Yes wrote:
that >> provide English translations of the web novels and lightI've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find sites
novels upon >> wich they're based, especially Japanese themes. As an
English only >> reader I don't know if I'm overlooking sites that
offer novels >> translated to English.
[...]
Novel Updates
If this is novelupdates.com, they index everyone else,
including hundreds of sites you haven't listed. The only
site you need if you're interested in this stuff.
E. Liddell
Yes, I agree, novelupdates.com is the place to go to. They are
pretty close to complete, and have a good review, forum, and
recommendation system (unlike a lot of untrustworthy review sites).
But be aware if you are interested in more general webnovels that novelupdates.com lists only translated novels with Asian origins.
For example, the original English webnovels of RoyalRoad would not
appear there, even if dealing with Chinese (or Japanese) themes and backgrounds.
Chris
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:28:01 +0000, Yes wrote:
I've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find sites[...]
that provide English translations of the web novels and light
novels upon wich they're based, especially Japanese themes. As an
English only reader I don't know if I'm overlooking sites that
offer novels translated to English.
Novel Updates
If this is novelupdates.com, they index everyone else,
including hundreds of sites you haven't listed. The only
site you need if you're interested in this stuff.
E. Liddell
Chris Buckley wrote:
On 2021-09-01, E. Liddell <eliddell@no.patience.for.spam> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:28:01 +0000, Yes wrote:that >> provide English translations of the web novels and light
I've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find sites
novels upon >> wich they're based, especially Japanese themes. As an
English only >> reader I don't know if I'm overlooking sites that
offer novels >> translated to English.
[...]
Novel Updates
If this is novelupdates.com, they index everyone else,
including hundreds of sites you haven't listed. The only
site you need if you're interested in this stuff.
E. Liddell
Yes, I agree, novelupdates.com is the place to go to. They are
pretty close to complete, and have a good review, forum, and
recommendation system (unlike a lot of untrustworthy review sites).
But be aware if you are interested in more general webnovels that
novelupdates.com lists only translated novels with Asian origins.
For example, the original English webnovels of RoyalRoad would not
appear there, even if dealing with Chinese (or Japanese) themes and
backgrounds.
Chris
I'm not quite sure I understand the second paragraph. If you mean
being able to search a web site using its genre and tag labels, yes,
that leads to the gripe I have with a lot of the sites out there
hosting anime, manga and novels - the lack of decent search
capabilities. Too frequently, many of the sites allow you to search
using only one subitem of a category at a time. I've found a few that
allow you to do a Boolean search - choosing multiple sub-category items simultaneously, for example, action AND comedy AND slice of life. I
think I've only found two or three sites that sub-categorize novels
into Japanese, Chinse and Korean. It'd be nice to find more sites that
do that because I've discovered as I read the novels, each has their
own narrative characteristics and I favor the Japanese novels because
I'm willing to read the story for a longer period of time.
John
E. Liddell wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:28:01 +0000, Yes wrote:
I've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find sites[...]
that provide English translations of the web novels and light
novels upon wich they're based, especially Japanese themes. As an
English only reader I don't know if I'm overlooking sites that
offer novels translated to English.
Novel Updates
If this is novelupdates.com, they index everyone else,
including hundreds of sites you haven't listed. The only
site you need if you're interested in this stuff.
E. Liddell
I checked my bookmarks. It is novelupdates.com. I have it bookmarked
but haven't done anything further. Are there benefits to registering?
IIRC, the reason I didn't pursue it more aggressively is that I see the titles but no understanding of what the story is about.
John
On 2021-09-01, Yes <noone@invalid.invalid.com> wrote:
Chris Buckley wrote:
sites >> that >> provide English translations of the web novels andOn 2021-09-01, E. Liddell <eliddell@no.patience.for.spam> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:28:01 +0000, Yes wrote:
I've enjoyed anime and manga for awhile now but want to find
light >> novels upon >> wich they're based, especially Japanese
themes. As an >> English only >> reader I don't know if I'm
overlooking sites that >> offer novels >> translated to English.
[...]
Novel Updates
If this is novelupdates.com, they index everyone else,
including hundreds of sites you haven't listed. The only
site you need if you're interested in this stuff.
E. Liddell
Yes, I agree, novelupdates.com is the place to go to. They are
pretty close to complete, and have a good review, forum, and
recommendation system (unlike a lot of untrustworthy review sites).
But be aware if you are interested in more general webnovels that
novelupdates.com lists only translated novels with Asian origins.
For example, the original English webnovels of RoyalRoad would not
appear there, even if dealing with Chinese (or Japanese) themes and
backgrounds.
Chris
I'm not quite sure I understand the second paragraph. If you mean
being able to search a web site using its genre and tag labels, yes,
that leads to the gripe I have with a lot of the sites out there
hosting anime, manga and novels - the lack of decent search
capabilities. Too frequently, many of the sites allow you to search
using only one subitem of a category at a time. I've found a few
that allow you to do a Boolean search - choosing multiple
sub-category items simultaneously, for example, action AND comedy
AND slice of life. I think I've only found two or three sites that sub-categorize novels into Japanese, Chinse and Korean. It'd be
nice to find more sites that do that because I've discovered as I
read the novels, each has their own narrative characteristics and I
favor the Japanese novels because I'm willing to read the story for
a longer period of time.
John
My second paragraph was just pointing out that novelupdates.com only
lists Asian translated novels; it doesn't list novels originally
written in English.
Novelupdates is big. Their forum has many millions of messages, for
example, with 8900 users currently online. I can't find a count of
the number of novels listed, but in the tens of thousands at least.
https://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/ should satisfy any Boolean
search requirements you have; it's incorporated into most of the
search options.
Chris
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