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magicmau5 August 15, 2024 11:52 am

I read this manga because the plot is a bit like a danmei novel I read recently. But... the whole manga felt a bit rushed. Maybe 5 chapters was too short, it should have been about 7 maybe. The misunderstanding uke had about seme seemed too contrived. I guess it's pretty cute but I was expecting a little more in terms of light angst or something...

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son of thors September 6, 2024 11:41 am

I read this manga because the plot is a bit like a danmei novel I read recently. But... the whole manga felt a bit rushed. Maybe 5 chapters was too short, it should have been about 7 maybe. The misunderstanding... magicmau5

May I ask what danmei novel, sounds interesting

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magicmau5 September 7, 2024 7:50 am

May I ask what danmei novel, sounds interesting son of thors

It's called 2D Otaku with Social Anxiety Also Wants to Date! and you can find the ongoing translation here https://www.novelupdates.com/series/2d-otaku-with-social-anxiety-also-wants-to-date/ but tbh I read the whole thing via MTL (Google and occasionally reference to a dictionary) on this site https://www.zhenhunxiaoshuo.com/erciyuanshekongyeyaotanlianai/

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son of thors September 7, 2024 8:54 am

It's called 2D Otaku with Social Anxiety Also Wants to Date! and you can find the ongoing translation here https://www.novelupdates.com/series/2d-otaku-with-social-anxiety-also-wants-to-date/ but tbh I read the... magicmau5

I'm literally in love with you

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magicmau5 September 8, 2024 9:08 am

I'm literally in love with you son of thors

that book has a sequel with a similar theme, https://www.novelupdates.com/series/who-says-old-two-dimensional-people-cant-get-married/
it's an arranged marriage between two otakus, this time the couple is school teacher otaku/fudanshi x gay doujinshi artist (but there's a misunderstanding at first)
I haven't read the sequel yet, it's supposed to have an uncensored and censored version, you have to be careful to find the uncensored version if you want the good stuff

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son of thors September 8, 2024 9:11 am

that book has a sequel with a similar theme, https://www.novelupdates.com/series/who-says-old-two-dimensional-people-cant-get-married/it's an arranged marriage between two otakus, this time the couple is school... magicmau5

TYSM I've been trying to find more novels I can binge read recently because I've seem to finish all of mine so I really appreciate this

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magicmau5 September 8, 2024 9:27 am

TYSM I've been trying to find more novels I can binge read recently because I've seem to finish all of mine so I really appreciate this son of thors

If are bored and want to binge read, you can check out the BL rec lists I made here: https://www.novelupdates.com/user/170286/magicmau5/
I don't read a lot of Japanese novels because the writing style isn't my fave, but usually if it's a BG romance type I will prefer Korean novels since I feel like the Chinese female leads are too annoying for some reason. Mainly I read danmei though.
There are a lot of completely translated books such as Thrive in Catastrophe, Lovely Allergen, etc that the original fan translators pulled the translations or locked them behind passwords for various reasons, and you can only access them via the online archive by searching on the Wayback Machine. If you don't know how to do that, you just need to find the URL of the most recent translation before it was locked, and search on the Wayback Machine site https://web.archive.org/ and most often you can easily get access. Usually if the website was not deleted, and the only thing that was removed from the website was the novel, you can find it on the archive. Sometimes if the book says it has no chapters on novelupdates, it just means that the fan translator has locked them behind passwords (KKTranslates did that for Global Entrance Examination, you need to get the password through a simple google form). This is true for many novels on Chrysanthemum Garden, you can get the password via their Discord. If it's really difficult to pass the translator's test to access the novel (sometimes they require you to have active accounts on Twitter, Reddit, Discord, and also show a receipt proof for buying the book in Chinese) then I'd recommend searching the Wayback Machine or if all else fails, find the raws in Chinese via various Chinese novel aggregators. Most often you have to use the Chinese aggregators (or search Chinese reader FC2 blogs or danmei forums) if there are locked chapters on the publisher site, or maybe the publisher deleted the book due to increased scrutiny on danmei authors and harsher censorship standards in China recently.

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magicmau5 September 8, 2024 9:32 am

TYSM I've been trying to find more novels I can binge read recently because I've seem to finish all of mine so I really appreciate this son of thors

For instance, there's a yaoi JP harem novel I quite like, but for some reason the old site it was on is dead (maybe they couldn't afford to pay for the domain). It's called "Who Said This Was an Otome Game?" and it's similar premise to the webtoon Stuck in My Sister's Dating Sim
https://web.archive.org/web/20200814130958/ https://lnovelreader.com/novel-translations/dare-ga-otome-geemu-dato-itta-index/

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magicmau5 September 8, 2024 9:33 am

For instance, there's a yaoi JP harem novel I quite like, but for some reason the old site it was on is dead (maybe they couldn't afford to pay for the domain). It's called "Who Said This Was an Otome Game?" an... magicmau5

it's not two separate links, you have to delete the space between

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son of thors September 10, 2024 2:58 pm

If are bored and want to binge read, you can check out the BL rec lists I made here: https://www.novelupdates.com/user/170286/magicmau5/I don't read a lot of Japanese novels because the writing style isn't my f... magicmau5

I agree so much with your preferences lol. I literally don't know how to thank you enough. This must have took a while to set up so thank you so much. I just got done reading global university entrance exam novel (I saw you mentioned it and it's very good) so I will definitely check this out because aside from a few links that I have saved here and there, I only really get my novels from one other place but they dont have everything so sometimes I can't find what I need. Once again thank you so much for this

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magicmau5 September 10, 2024 8:56 pm

I agree so much with your preferences lol. I literally don't know how to thank you enough. This must have took a while to set up so thank you so much. I just got done reading global university entrance exam nov... son of thors

if you read Western (novels originally in English) there are also places to read for free, by borrowing from the Internet Archive (a digital public library, you can set up a free account as long as you have an email) or epub pub (has a lot of various kinds of romance novels including very NSFW gay erotica called M/M romance) or another similar novel aggregator... let me give you some links

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magicmau5 September 10, 2024 9:12 pm

if you read Western (novels originally in English) there are also places to read for free, by borrowing from the Internet Archive (a digital public library, you can set up a free account as long as you have an ... magicmau5

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son of thors September 10, 2024 11:34 pm

if you read Western (novels originally in English) there are also places to read for free, by borrowing from the Internet Archive (a digital public library, you can set up a free account as long as you have an ... magicmau5

Yes I have one of those that I've been maining, it's a life saver but I only have the one. For region I kind of just read all over the place. I'm still new as I just started reading novels since over last year or two and have only read about a hand full (and others I have saved planning to read later down the line) I'm very indecisive though on what to read because aside from some classics most of the things I read are really, really long fantasy action type stuff (mostly from Korea) and some danmei stuff here and there which is also really interesting

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son of thors September 10, 2024 11:36 pm

You are like a veteran when it comes to this stuff. I feel like I learned so much useful information

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