/jp/ - Otaku Culture

LNs r not /jp/ fukking NERD
get the f**k out and stop shitting up my tea thread

Is index really that enjoyable to read? Somehow LNs don't impress me at all, but that's just me.

Why are you sassing the janitor?

Reported.

Just email moot.

Did meido miss the memo?

>>8573390
Right now it's nothig but spam.

general threads a shit

arent most of the lns on baka tsuki just machine translated shit

also lets translate one chapter of a book and leave the rest as is

I assumed he deleted the other thread because the op complained about moderation in it, so I made a new one without that.

>>8573400

Most of it caused by trolls trying to stir shit up. Get rid of their posts, not the entire thread.

>>8573387
There's nothing special about them from what I've read. No depth, no characterization, just a semblance of plot and powerlevels.

Not really my thing, but I guess someone might enjoy it.

>>8573388
Because he isn't God and needs to be removed. I hate light novels being here because he's going to ruin it until he's removed, but now at least he can be removed faster.

>>8573397
Go complain in
>>8561595
>>8572200
>>8565207
>>8566936

>>8573400
Dont even get the chance to discuss anything or no one bothers trying since the janitor deletes anything he does not like.

As can be seen from certain other threads that are clearly being ignored.

>>8573403
Most of them probably are. The Index translations are actually decent though, and pretty much all of it is translated.

>>8573387
It's mediocre shounenshit with haremshit and asspulls.

>>8573414
Then why did he delete the ones before that?

This feels like less of a power trip and more of a troll.

This doesn't look like vidya.

Reporting this thread since it's going to devolve into meta talk.

>>8573414
And you will get nothing but shitposts.
/jp/ is a slow board so just stick to that other already big LN thread.

>>8573439
It's devolved into meta discussion because this valid topic is being deleted. If the mongoloid janitor didn't think he was God then we wouldn't have an issue in the first place.

>>8573409

Sounds like Touhou

>>8573425
Just look at the Horizon thread, a hamburger image spam thread and a ZUN Rip thread.

Clearly those are a lot more /jp/ related than say LNs.

>>8573439

That's generally what happens when everyone (especially the staff) is confused about the new rules.

>>8573462
Yep.
Horizon is Sion, Kanata spam is Kanata spam and Zun is Zun.

>>8573457

The OP of those threads used the threads as a soapbox to bitch about Team 4chan and the janitor. He spammed them as well. That's why they were deleted.

Just finished Volume 13 and currently halfway through SS1 and it's getting really good a lot better than the previous volumes.

>>8573499
Yea, I feel it really picks up around there. Too bad the New Testament volumes have been so shitty so far.

>>8573521
>hamburger girl

>>8573462

Hamburger girl, Horizon, and ZUN >>>>> Index

In case anyone is too fucking retarded to figure this out:

Some faggot is making these threads to prove a point.

Guess I'll go to the /a/ General and link everyone here.

>>8573521
>>8573522
>>8573531
Please don't shit post in the thread.

>>8573499
Stop at volume 22.
New testament is garbage.

>>8573499

Volume 13-22 are the best in the series

>>8573521
Go away with your shitposting, reported.

>>8573522
In case you're too stupid to figure this out
>http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=To_Aru_Majutsu_no_Index
>This is the appropriate board for the discussion of visual and light novels.
Now add in the janitard deleting them because of his personal grudge and you'll have people making these again. The point is the janitard needs to get fucking removed or he needs to stop deleting valid topics because he thinks he's God.

if the janitard really wants to play God then he better go tell moot to allow light novels back in /a/ because light novel readers don't want this scumbag ruling over us either.

>>8573561
We get your upset, you made your point, now stop posting here unless you're going to talk about index.

>>8573536
Someone else already did that.

>>8573561

I'm a Raildex General faggot.

Just screencap and send to moot. Ask for LN's to be allowed back on /a/, since we clearly are not wanted here on /jp/ (which is a mutual feeling).

Let the thread die so that we dont aggravate people even further.

>>8573561
The janitor is doing a great job.

Please delete this thread janitor-kun.

Oh boy, janitor-kun deleted alot of shit there.

NT4 is looking even worse than the previous NT volumes.

>>8573661

He forgot to delete this off topic thread though. What a shame.

>>8573662
Why has the quality dropped so much in NT compared to the original? Did the author hit his head or something?

>>8573674

I think he's just in a writting slump or something. Shit happens.

Or maybe unlucky's half assed theory was true, I dont know

I'm sure you think policing/censoring individual posts to "clean up" the thread is great in your demented mind, but to the rest of us you're just trying to shut up dissent and opinions you disagree with because you know how many emails are being sent to about your awful performance and your God complex.

A janitard deleting a bunch of individual posts is abnormal and it only more stuff to send to moot since it's obvious you're doing it out of desperation since so much evidence is against you.

>>8573693
Theory?

>>8573721
Autism.

The story had so much potential there but the writer really dropped the ball. I do like a lot of the aspects, just a lot of stuff was poorly executed.

Nobody in the story seems to really have a weakness either. Whenever someone gets defeated it was always some unplanned asspull at the last second. In the anime this is worse since they like to cut/add a lot of random shit (some of which doesn't even matter.)

Kamachi is a mix between George Lucas and Notch.

Wasted potential everywhere.

>>8573718
Discussing moderation is against the rules.

>>8573674
More like the quality went back to normal. Just compare the NT novels with the earlier novels, they're about the same in terms of writing quality. Probably the author just had a moment of inspiration when writing the latter half of the first series.

>>8573718
They did you a favor, made the thread about the topic you want to talk about instead of meta and complaining about moderation.

>>8573721

I meant it as a joke but...

http://archive.foolz.us/a/thread/60056870/#60080183_206

>>8573771
I don't know about that. There was nothing in the first novels that made me as upset as the scene in the 2nd NT novel where Touma reunites with the girls again (specifically Misaka). Touma was also the only protagonist in the beginning of Index so it wasn't constantly switching views from all these people, and it wasn't as convoluted. And there were decent earlier arcs like the accelerator arc.

>>8573806
>foolz
>autistic fanfiction
WHATA FUCK MAN xD i just fall of my chair kuz i couldnt and i CANT stop laugh xDXDXDXDXDDDDDXDDDDDDDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD OMGOSH DDDDDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDD LOOOOOOOOOLLLLL THIS IS A SHIT XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD A BIG ONE XDDDDDDDD A GRAT ONE XXXXXXDDDD CONGRATS MAN XD

>>8573771

No, they are both bad, but for different reasons.

The universe and politics have priority over the characterization now, which is the exact opposite of the earlier part of the series.

>>8573755
The global rules can be used to delete almost anything posted. That doesn't excuse the janitard from deleting a bunch of valid topics because of a personal vendetta/delusion.

If the staff fuck up it's talked about. His stance earlier was deleting a bunch of valid index threads and now since everyone is saying they're trying to get him removed he's trying to backpedal and allow them to save face. Then he proceeds to delete the posts which highlight his misbehavior.

You seriously have got be kidding. Just get the fuck out of light novel threads you goddamn mongoloid janitor. Let light novel threads happen as they may. Just because they're on /jp/ doesn't mean you're God and allowed to decide how and what we discuss them. Get the fuck out.

>>8573823

>theory made while obviously dicking around
>more then half of it is directly taken from the LN
>fanfiction

Get out.

>>8573843
Who are you quoting?

>>8573843
The LN is just shit.

I think I read two or three volumes past what the anime covered. The battle royale arc was great fun, but I'm still incredibly tinkled in the butt over how Kakine was introduced and killed in the same volume. I think I read up to where Touma gets thrashed by Acqua and then stopped for reasons I don't remember, probably laziness.

>>8573823

Get out Warosu dev.

>>8573843
Where are you quoting this from?

>>8573843
Even fanfiction is better written than this shit.

So, this fucking tournament bullshit. I REALLY hope its written like the festival, as in it gets mostly ignored in favor for background politics and lolmagic.

>>8573874

Shit, I guess /jp/ is too autistic to realize a joke and poke fun at their own series. God damn.

>>8573738

That's the recurring pattern in Index.
It is the typical 'villain of the week' kind of thing. The protags winning in the end is something you kind of expect to begin with.
Most of the fanbase agree that the whole story gets better when you take into consideration everything that happens in the background.

>>8573823
The foolz archive was made because it was an /a/ post. Unless warasou started archiving /a/ when I was looking the other way.

>>8574041
Grah, screwed up my wording. I meant to say the foolz archive was linked to because it was an /a/ post.

What's going to be in the movie?

>>8574053
Shit.

>>8574053
Nobody knows. Probably a recap movie as usual.

>>8574033
But I hate dealing with stories like that. You find yourself reading/watching just for a passing mention of some character(s) that you actually want to hear about but never do.

>>8574095
Yeah. It's suffering. Go check the archives, and you'll find a lot of people complaining about it.

great people really are following the rules

I don't really hate /jp/ and read index but I perfer LN thread to be in /a/ instead

I liked Railgun so much more than Index
Railgun is just a spinoff, right? Theres no more? The stories came from Index?

>>8574212
The source material of Railgun is the Railgun manga, which is still ongoing. And yes, it is much better than Index.

>>8574187
moot is not one to so easily backtrack on a rule change; that is actually probably one of the least likely things he will listen to with people whining about.

Although to be honest, we never even asked for LNs to be here; they were a non-issue that got caught in the crossfire. moot just gave them to us spontaneously; maybe he thinks they're similar in his mind because they both have "novel" in the name.

>>8574212
Railgun is a spin off of index using a some number of characters from index. There is a manga and light novel series about railgun too. Follow the link to baka-tsuki and scroll the bottom where there's links for the side stories.

>>8574212
>There's no more?
The manga is still ongoing.

Just make a LN general thread.
You fuckers from animesuki better stay out.

>>8574212
Raildex has two in total(I think) light novel spin offs.

I have only had the time to read the Liberal Arts City one.

>>8574224
I forgot to add visual novel to that list of railgun material too.

>>8574245
Go back to your shitty visual novel and get lost.

>>8574226
> And yes, it is much better than Index.
Please keep your opinions to yourself.

>>8574245
There are people from animesuki here?

>>8574256
animesuki nerds love this shit

>>8574256
It's just some retard lashing out because of angst for /a/. General subject threads are pure shit. The opening post is socially awkward dribble asking the reader a quiz and then it turns into a bunch of people listing off what they like with little to no coherent progression of discussion.

>>8574212
It still continues as a manga. Which I'm glad of, because oddly enough it's turned out to be at least 10x better than Index.

A few years ago I was in denial and liked Index more. Well before Railgun aired, I was kind of pissed they were doing some pointless-seeming spinoff instead of Index S2 right away. Well, after all was said and done, now I'd vastly prefer that JCstaff only make more Railgun. Knowing them though, they're going to alternate; we might get another Railgun in a year or two, then Index S3 after that, and if the material is still going then either another Railgun or Index S4 two years after that.

Those who read all novels, can I just skip v17-v18?

I stopped reading at v16. Too boring for me those magic side volumes.

There is something i won't understand after if i just skip those volumes?

>>8574274
You won't understand a lot of the later novels. 17 and 18 start going into what follows up in 19-22. If you read spoilers or get information on characters which will suddenly appear in 19-22 then go for it, but otherwise no.

>>8574274
No, read all of them. Believe it or not, magic in the Raildex world has mechanics. Pretty vague mechanics, but they still are important.

>>8574313
>>8574334
Ok, thanks.

Index is such a great series, it's definitely something that white people wouldn't be able to enjoy.

>>8574623
I don't know if you're trolling or what, but what you said is kind of true. I'm white and I just didn't see the appeal of Index after reading a few volumes. However, every Chinese or SE Asian I know who likes weeaboo stuff loves Index.

>>8574623

I hope that that was a noko sage. This isn't a serious thread, and nobody from the rest of the fanbase is going to touch this thread because this was obviously a thread made by somebody who hates this series and its fanbase, and is making these threads for the sole purpose of inflaming /jp/ against this even more and making it look like spam to Meido.

The usual OP post for these threads hasn't looked like that for months. In fact, it is likely the same person who posted the spam thread earlier which had the same OP style using a cover of one of the novels.

As for why it is a general thread, the Railgun anime fanbase is extremely militant and shitposts any mention of the franchise that is not the Railgun anime at every opportunity. This is the only way that it is possible for discussion at this point. The other reason is that the Raildex General thread scanlates the Railgun manga and is mostly in charge of the translation project for the novels as well.

Just let this thread die.

>>8574654
>this was obviously a thread made by somebody who hates this series
But I love Index.

Index a shit

>>8574715
Fuck off retard

>>8574746
Oh the irony

>>8574746
I saw you in #4chan earlier today complaining. Now you seem mad.

Problem?

>>8574722

Thats fine and all, but there are a number of things that set off alarm bells for a disguised hate thread:

1: Most Index LN fags are from the General. The OP format is different from the General's usual post, the thread lacks the archive search word, etc.

2: This means it could only be made by someone who reads the LN's outside the General. Of course this is possible, but as a rule its pretty rare. Now considering the timing of the post (LN/VN shitstorm), it casts suspicion.

3: Notice that much of the bashing is directly towards Index. I've seen some Index threads on /jp/. Most of the bashing/hate is either due to Saten/Kuroko spammer, or the fact that it is an LN. They didnt give two shits about the series itself. This thread just doesnt add up to my previous experiences.

4: Most of the direct Index bashing has a similar writing style. Not all of them, but most. It makes me believe someone set this up in some misguided attempt to give "bad PR" to /jp/ and other /a/ refugees. Yes, as stupid as that sounds, we have some pretty dedicated trolls that would pull a stunt like this.

The final nail in the coffin is that the cover is not of NT4, but of a volume that is in the middle of the series. NT4 is releasing in less then a month, so wouldnt it make more sense to post it's cover? It seems fishy to me.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this seems to be a deliberately set up thread. Personally, I think people should just email Moot; most people think LN's should stay on /a/, since they are mostly ongoing and generate most discussion then the average conclude VN.

>>8574832

That, and the fact that there was a nearly identical in style thread this morning with the volume 1 image used, but the OP post was in a format that the General hasn't used for about 6 months.

http://fuuka.warosu.org/jp/thread/8569929

>>8574832
I never go on /a/ so I do not know all the links and stuff for making a thread. I also did not put much thought in the OP as the previous Index threads were deleted and I didn't want to waste me time. The image is there because it is the first cover I saw in my folder and it has Misaka on it.

If you want to make a better Index thread with all the links and stuff you guys have, go ahead, and I'll delete this one when I get home.

>>8574842

Everyone who would make a thread or post in one from the /a/ Raildex general is waiting to see what happens with everything in this shitstorm before doing anything. Plus, they tend not to make one unless there is something new to discuss in the thread or something that somebody wants to bring up. We also never make empty OP threads because it is not good to have a thread just for the sake of having a thread.

Just wait on it for now until everything goes back to normal. I admire your support, but this is the worst time to be posting LN material on /jp/. People on /jp/ are riled up, and people from /a/ and /v/ who hate this series are raiding /jp/.

>>8574832
I think most people on /jp/ hate Index/Railgun simply because it has an anime adaptation, and would turn on Touhou or whatever franchise is popular here ATM if it got an anime franchise. Notice the dearth of BRS threads as opposed to even a year ago.

>>don't give a shit about the series
I'm actually a big fan of Index and Railgun, although I agree with you that the timing of this thread seems suspect, when seen from a paranoid point of view. Remember that LN/VNs are no longer welcome on /a/ and posters are advised to post here instead, by none other than moot himself.
>>8574778

I had a nice discussion with the mod after he permabanned me from the channel after the shitstorm your IRC buddies started. Rest assured that there will no longer be any more 0kme.png threads from me anymore, provided that the /a/ threads remain unharmed. And I know that /jp/ lurks my threads. I will continue to make other /jp/-related threads instead

>>8573435
>The Index translations are actually decent though, and pretty much all of it is translated.
are they really?

>>8574842

I see. Well, then I take back what I said.

There is nothing wrong with your thread per say, just bad timing. Most of the regulars are waiting to see how the LN/VN thing is going to play out. We just generally chill on the archive anyway, since discussion has been slowed.

Normally we would be posting, but we dont want to really encourage or discourage the decision on where LN discussion will end up (we probably want it to stay on /a/, since we have alot of updates via Railgun manga and possible anime series/movies coming up.)

Anyway, sorry for false accusations. If we end up staying permanently on /jp/, you'll see more of us. Nice to know that there are some fellow Raildex bros on /jp/.

Does this series have "cute" characters?

:3 *wink wink*

>>8574893
you're like out of your mind. your logic is so flawed it's sad. light novels are /jp/ material so it's natural people make a thread here about it. the fact the janitor was deleting them was what riled people up.

not everyone is passive aggressive and ignorant like you. we're not having our topics discouraged you pee brain.

>>8574952

I can not recall a time where the Index LN threads on /jp/ werent immediately bombarded with shit/deleted. I am very sure I have followed our few excursions over here closer then you have.

>>8574968
that doesn't change the reality of the fact moot just made two stickies, changed the board rules, and has caused a day long shitstorm because he decided light novels belong on /jp/ exclusively now.

all light novel threads on /jp/ were met by ignorant retard janitors deleting them or mass board redirects. even for series which don't have an anime adaptation.

that's all in the past though. why? because light novels belong on /jp/ now exclusively. anime adaptation or not. kindly get the fuck out of these threads if you're one of the subhuman mongoloids who is going to rant about /a/ or /v/ since you're disturbing this thread, thanks.

Let's just hope that these don't bring in idiots and chase away the regular userbase. Judging from this thread things look good though.

>>8575016

Kind of like how General threads we banned on /a/, only to get repealed due to massive discontentment?

This shit has happened before. Moot doesnt know what the fuck he is doing. Raildex spans multiple media: Having to jump between two boards isnt going to work. The same can be said with many other series. You can scream new rules all you want, but there is ultimately going to be too much of an overlap for moot/mods to handle, meaning the rules will either become more lenient, or reverted back entirely.

If we made a thread about a new Railgun Manga chapter on /a/, then start discussion how that relates to story events in the LNs, which board does it go on? Both subjects are present. There are too many shades of grey here, and they are going to have a hell of a time moderating that. There will be literally be no way for mods to realize we transitioned into talking about the novels unless we say it directly. How are they going to deal with that? They cant. We can, and will, stay on /a/, and they cant do a damn thing about it because they wont even realize that we are "breaking the new rules" to begin with. We did it during the General Holocaust, and we can do it again. You cant stop us unless you actively ban everything related to Raildex on /a/.

So no, YOU are the one who is woefully ignorant of how things are going to play out, and are a fool to think that the majority of Index LN readers are going to migrate to /jp/ just because moot derped again.

>>8575016
Try very hard to fit in, I see.

>>8575016
>caused a day long shitstorm
This is the most pleasant /jp/ has been in at least two years. I hope it stays forever like this.

>>8574934
yes every novel is translated, as is every chapter of the railgun manga

js06 had to have translated over half the novels himself, with ping and a few others doing the rest

>>8574832
>>8574893
these are accurate, beware the autistic trolls

>>8575116
I salute you for excusing yourselves from this board and fighting back against the shitty moderation. Godspeed, my friend.

>>8575122

Not really sure at what you're getting at. I mean exactly what I say. If I made a thread about Misaki or whatever, then some guy proposes a theory that she is secretly related to Measure Heart, then how would a mod possibly realize that we just mixed the manga and the LN together? They cant stop us from posting as long as we dont directly state anything about "volumes" or "NT".

>>8575147
I don't see what part of his post or what he was responding to relates to what you are saying. If anything, it's the opposite.

>>8575116
Agreed

>>8575162

Ah fuck, lack of sleep is making my reading comprehension go to shit. My bad.

>>8573460
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY, CUNT?

SAY THAT TO MY FACE, FUCKER, AND NOT ONLINE, AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS

>>8575116
your whole shitty post is summarized as "people do what they want and have so in the past". moot has also not buckled on many of his random choices too and there is permanent scars because of it.

i know since you're new to 4chan you haven't seen many of the choices which ruined boards made, but the ban against general threads affected many people. if the janitor starts deleting sword art threads on /a/ then there won't be a loud outcry because the audience for k-on general #12831902381 isn't the same as the tiny light novel community.

i don't need threads on /a/ spammed with >>>/jp/ links or deleted. i'll just make the threads and read them here on /jp/ until a final discussion is made. until that point i'm going with the board rules and the stickies so light novels belong here so shut the fuck up complaining about them.

index isn't the only light novel. get that throuhg you stupid fucking head. it's just one of the many ones. since it's the biggest then there will be a thread on it on /jp/ so shut the fuck up with your shitty inane rant about /a/ since i don't give a crap. post index stuff or get the fuck out.

>>8575147

The Railgun-only posters will know and will take this as an opportunity to shitpost Index and try to get all discussion of it deleted. Then there is the overall hatebase, who will take any mention of anything in the franchise to shitpost it because of this.

Also, this is all meta discussion. Please refrain from bumping the thread.

>>8575177

>The Railgun-only posters will know and will take this as an opportunity to shitpost Index and try to get all discussion of it deleted.

So exactly how many case by case reports will the mods have to cover every single day just because of our one fanbase? How will they know that these people arent just being asses and abusing the report function? They cant know unless they are very familiar with the series, which requires research and/or reading/watching 3 seasons of anime and two separate manga. They cant keep up with it.

>>8575180

>moot has also not buckled on many of his random choices too and there is permanent scars because of it.

The VN/LN debate is BECAUSE moot and his staff changed their minds.

>i know since you're new to 4chan you haven't seen many of the choices which ruined boards made

Projecting is a sign of showing your own newness. Anybody could find out Moot's fuck ups in about 5 minutes by using google. You are not some elite anon because you know basic chan history.

>if the janitor starts deleting sword art threads on /a/ then there won't be a loud outcry because the audience for k-on general #12831902381 isn't the same as the tiny light novel community.

K, so how about Infinite Stratos? Haruhi? Bakemonogatari? There are plenty of LN based communities with huge fanbases, that just so happen to have an anime. You vastly underestimate how greatly LNs have penetrated the anime market.

>i don't need threads on /a/ spammed with >>>/jp/ links or deleted.

Happened during the General Holocaust, then went away since it didnt get anywhere. Try again.

> i'll just make the threads and read them here on /jp/ until a final discussion is made. until that point i'm going with the board rules and the stickies so light novels belong here so shut the fuck up complaining about them.

Good for you. Dont expect /jp/ to be happy about it.

>since it's the biggest then there will be a thread on it on /jp/ so shut the fuck up with your shitty inane rant about /a/ since i don't give a crap. post index stuff or get the fuck out.

It's not the biggest. If you don't care about my "rant" (read as rebuttal), then why aren't you ignoring it?

Also, your spelling/punctuation is atrocious. This isn't anikesuki/gaia/whatever the fuck.

>>8573674

If you read the afterword of NT1, the author said something along the lines of him deviating from the usual usual stuff. This must be what he's talking about.

My main problem with NT3 was that the story didn't give a lot of attention to the main MCs. Author keeps chugging out new characters, giving attention to the irrelevant characters, and introducing a fuckton of concepts the novel didn't tackle about before; we can't clearly process what was happening leaving us an impression of chaos. I guess that was the intention of the author, but the feeling is slightly unpleasant.

As a side note, I thought NT1 and NT2 were pretty good.

>>8575277

Personally, I think everything is going to come together as the novels drag on. It looks weird in individual lumps, but reading it again with more information could help it significantly.

>>8575255
i don't even really understand what your point is since you're a complete retard. the last bastion of mongoloids without a shred of critical thought is always grammar. can't write a coherent message? mention their grammar!

i think you're trying to discourage us from discussing index on /jp/ with your poorly thought out stance? well, kid, i was making light novel threads on /jp/ before you even clicked on 4chan. i don't want light novels exclusively on /jp/ myself, but since moot is saying they belong here i'm going to make sure there is a place if it's permanent since i've already made plenty of non-anime adaptation ln threads in the past.

in short, go fuck yourself mongoloid subhumans who love to rant about board rivalry, /a/, /v/, or any of the other inane crap your disabled brain poops out.

this thread is completely on topic. the only posts which are off topic are the shit rants subhumans like you are crapping out about /a/ this or anime that. i'm not going to let a bunch of vocal idiots from reddit spam these threads with insane shit without saying anything.

>>8575318
You sound like a Turkish immigrant in Germany. You don;t even realise what you are doing.

>>8575346
i'm not having my favorite topic (ln) relegated to /jp/ and shoehorned into a corner. where the large franchises are taboo and half the material makes autistic retards from reddit throw tantrums. i don't care how much you hate /a/ and anime because you're trying to fit-in or whatever your story is. get lost shitposter.

>>8575318

>i don't even really understand what your point is since you're a complete retard. the last bastion of mongoloids without a shred of critical thought is always grammar. can't write a coherent message? mention their grammar!

I'm pretty sure I gave a coherent response to almost all of your points. And I commented on your grammar because your posts look like they are from a post in some shitty forum. No one cares if you fuck up a little, but at least make an effort to write correctly.

>i think you're trying to discourage us from discussing index on /jp/ with your poorly thought out stance?

You seem to be questioning yourself midway through your sentence, which tells me that you are a bit scatterbrained. I would like to point out that I wasnt discouraging anything, and merely stated that the new rules are likely going to be retracted or ignored.

>well, kid, i was making light novel threads on /jp/ before you even clicked on 4chan.

That's very impressive. I must admit, I am very jealous of your incredible posting prowess.

>in short, go fuck yourself mongoloid subhumans who love to rant about board rivalry, /a/, /v/, or any of the other inane crap your disabled brain poops out.

Riveting. Although I'm interested in how you derived "board rivalry" out of my earlier posts.

>this thread is completely on topic. the only posts which are off topic are the shit rants subhumans like you are crapping out about /a/ this or anime that.

The janitor had to delete a great number of posts earlier that were off topic


I know that /jp/ purposefully acts stupid to drive off undesirables. I suggest you be a little less obvious though, since others can catch on if you lay it on too thick.

>>8575426
>Update: Please post *Japanese* VN and LN here.
can you just leave? the janitor was deleting earlier index threads because he thought he could police which light novels we're allowed to discuss and he doesn't know shit about light novels.

If there's no new material for a General to discuss it shouldn't exist, we don't want toarushit booru dump/roleplay threads here just like we didn't want the Touhou ones.

>>8575458
The Raildex well in /jp/ has already been thoroughly poisoned.

So moot changed the rules because he felt the existing ones weren't working. Naturally you all bitch to the high heavens.

Christ, it's not like /jp/ can hurt from having a little more actual decent content to talk about, instead of the shitposting about shitposting that makes up far too much of the board.

>>8575486

Good thing the Index LN fanbase expressly forbids all discussions of powerlevels, shipping, roleplaying, avatarfagging, tripfag attention whoring, and imagedumps. Not only that, it has no tolerance for anime-only ignorants.

>>8575488
index is an ongoing series. it has over 28 novels to read in english. it's the biggest translated project for the english community ln wise. it has games which have been discussed peacefully on /jp/ and a visual novel too. besides the fact anime tangibly related to this series there is nothing "poisonous" about it.
>Update: Please post *Japanese* VN and LN here.
light novels are welcome and index isn't an exception

instead of the thread being gaia level and the elite of /jp/ complaining the thread is completely civil discussion being filled with /b/tards complaining about index for irrational reasons.

>>8575486

>Raildex General
>image dumping
>role playing

You know, you really should stop spouting bullshit. We forbid RP faggotry and hate circle jerks. Our image count is generally less then the average /a/ thread.

Stop parroting trolls and form your own damned opinions you worthless little faggot.

>>8575538
It's not that the series is inherently bad, it's just that the most prominent Raildex posters known to /jp/ are awful posters who do stupid things like post the same textless anime screencap fifty times a day for two weeks straight and other stupid things.

Obviously these people aren't your average Raildex fan the same way that not all idolfags are King of /jp/ and it's not really against the rules but this is why nobody really gives a fuck if the threads are specially persecuted.

Ok, let's try to make things clear.

You guys are welcome as long as you don't make a big deal about the place you can have here. I don't want to see Saten or Kuroko spammed because there's now an excuse for it.

But please, go ahead and discuss your light novel series here. Translate new stuff, share your views, whatever. But please, stop with the meta.

I'll do my best to keep reporting whatever is outright spam, and I hope you guys can enjoy your piece of board.

Welcome to /jp/. Take it easy and actually discuss your interest instead of discussing if it should be here or not.

>>8575580
you're honestly fucking disgracing yourself comparing idol shit & kojp to light novels. jesus christ man. get a hold of yourself and think before you write this stupid shit. index will not be taboo or persecuted by a bunch fucking /b/tards who stumbled into /jp/ and feel at home.

>>8575593

We have no control over what the spammers do and have considered them terrible for a long time. But we will help out by reporting them every rime that we see them. As for the meta, I have been discouraging it since I first saw this thread.

>>8575623
Try taking a deep breath.

I don't understand why there is all this arguing. If people want to discuss Raildex in the thread, then do so. If you don't want to discuss it, don't.

So can we have threads about individual LN characters, like we have threads about individual 2hus and Rika?

>>8580127
Absolutely not.
Keep discussion focused for your own sake, you people simply don't have the numbers to warrant several threads on whatever random aspect of the light novel universe you want to sperg out on.

You're just looking for an excuse to spam Saten anyway. Be grateful you even get this and don't overstay your welcome.

>>8580127

I would highly recommend against it. Tensions are high as is. Plus there is no need to make threads about individual characters.

ABSOLUTELY no spam of Kuroko and Saten. We don't need even more people to hate us than there already are. There is >>>/c/ for that. Plus, Kuroko hasn't appeared in the LN for about 13 volumes and Saten's only appearance was a cameo in the corner of an illustration.

>>8580131

That's just the spammer/s who want that. This fanbase has always kept its LN discussion to one thread, and often just kept it on the archives unless it absolutely needs a thread.

One person dumping their Reimu/Youmu/whatever random Touhou collection: legitimate poster
One person bumping a Rika thread for months (with nonsensical posts like "rika's feet are a miracle of the universe"), going as far as to delete their old posts so that it stays alive longer: legitimate poster
One person dumping their Saten/Kuroko collection: spammer, shitposter

Oh well, at least this is one step forward for the community. Shame it couldn't have happened years ago.

Are there any other LNs like this?

>>8580160
>Are there any other LNs like this?

Yes, most of them are shit like this one.

>>>/a/

>>8580160

The Saten/Kuroko posters make the same thread multiple times-per-day and call themselves spammers...

In what way do you mean like this? This LN covers many bases, so it is hard to pinpoint one. Which aspects should a recommendation be focused on?

>>8580160
http://archive.foolz.us/jp/statistics/image_reposts/
Saten and Kuroko are both in the top 5. It's about the history of spam, not the content.

Which is why I'm glad that there actual fans now instead of just obsessed spammers. Feel free to make this your home, /jp/ is very tolerant of different fanbases when they keep to their own.

I don't know of another LN series like it that still is translated as extensively. I mostly read Spice & Wolf, Haruhi and Monogatari series.

Guys, guys. Why are we fighting? Can't we all get along?

>>8580179
But everyone is on the same page here: Fuck the spammers, specially if they're trying to ruin things for such nice people like the actual raildex fans.

I might not share their interests, but I wish them nothing but good times.

What is the difference?
Just make a thread in /a/ if you want to talk about it with your /a/ friends.
If you want to talk to about it in /jp/ then learn to deal with the slow speed and no posts.
They didnt enforce anything 4years ago, they wont suddenly enforce it now.

>>8580127
Of course you can. Saten is not in any Index novels though, so she doesn't really belong.

>>8580259
Personally I think an index thread would be better suited on /jp/ due to the boards overall slower speed. I'm not sure the people from /a/ would agree though as I'm sure they are already used to /a/.

Placing this as a nice question from an outsider that just happens to be struck with a bit of curiosity.

"To Aru", this is the phrase of which every part of the franchise has in common.
So why do people either call of it "Index" even though Index is just the main branch, or something like "Raildex" even though it still technically misses what everything in the franchise shares?

>>8580691

It began as a joke a few years ago. People argued what to call the threads because they needed a constant string of threads for projects and translations, and there was a rivalry between people who liked Index or Railgun more. This led to people fighting over what to name threads, and it boiled down to Ingun and Raildex. It eventually became a sort of joke to always call it Raildex and then have a few people at the beginning of every thread saying

>Raildex
>Rail

Is this a newfag thing?

Eventually it became natural and people never changed it. The 2ch threads are named similarly. Sometimes called Raildex but most often named something with Kamachi as part of it (they also include Heavy Object which he also writes as well).

So it boils down to a slowly evolved fanbase culture thing.

>names that people have called it over time
Ingun
Raildex
Shiageverse
Kamachiland
Mikotofest
DEEPdex
and a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head

>>8580712

Also, calling it Toaru or Toaruverse is something that is more prevalent on Animesuki and other similar sites, which we have a terrible history with involving hate that rivals /v/'s hate for Reddit except for a few select people there who translate, run the wiki, and do other important things. Simply because of the association between them and that naming scheme is the main reason why it is not used. Although that rivalry was more prevalent in past years. I don't think that many people around now remember that.

>>8580691
>it still technically misses what everything in the franchise shares?
Well, there is only Railgun and Index, so it's not missing anything else in the franchise with the name Raildex. 'To Aru' is also kind of generic. They are on the same tier as words like 'a' or 'the', so it would seem a bit silly (to me at least) to use that as the name to represent the series.

New anime adaptation when?

>>8580839
Hopefully soon. Considering the abysmal sales of Shana Final so far, I'm sure JC Staff would like the good money that Raildex gives.

>>8580839

That really belongs on /a/, but there is an Index movie coming out sometime in the future. Hopefully all original content, because the anime is not at a part that would be good for a movie. They have also hinted at something "interesting" for both Index and Railgun, but nothing beyond that.

>>8580846
I was thinking they'd do something like animate Aqua novels for a movie, or do something original like you say. As long as it isn't recap stuff.

>>8580846
Just Index. Miki said that an anime project for Railgun is still a "secret". Also, expect the movie to be a recap.

>>8580853

I wonder how they would even do a recap.

Redo the Index arc? Redo the Vento arc? Recapping the entire series would be abysmal.

>>8580858
Recap the daihaseisai arc.

>>8580858

A "we're sorry" recap of Deep Blood, Angel Fall, and Remnant arcs that are actually faithful to the novels.

>>8580858
Going by the promo blurb (and the poster's background art), a recap of vol 12-13 is the most likely candidate.

Discussing this here doesn't bother me. What bothers me is
> If you are under the age of 18, or it is illegal for you to view the materials contained on this website, discontinue browsing immediately.

Seriously, this is the 2010s generation of Bleach or Naruto.

>>8581722

>>>/v/

>>8581732
Why are you linking to the videogames board?
>>>/mlp/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/mlp/
>>>/mlp/

>>8581722

Wrong thread. You are looking for the Typemoon threads.

>>8581757
>this is the 2010s generation of Bleach or Naruto.
I think he's talking about Index.

>>8581761

Sounds like Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime respectively to me.

>>8581732
>>8581755
>>8581757
>>8581764

Ignore the autistic troll from /a/. He will just try to samefag his tired bullshit as long as possible.

Also, quit trying to start shit with other people.

If all the characters became level 5s, who would win?

If all the characters became level 5s, who would win?

If all the characters became level 5s, who would win?

>>8582775
Glad I sent an email praising the janitor and warning him about faggots like you.

Though given moot's track record recently, he'll probably cave to the shitposting masses.

>>8582783
>Glad I sent an email praising the janitor
That's just retarded. Why would you get attached to a janitor? He isn't excellent or anything and I can guarantee you there are hundreds of legitimates /jp/sies looking for he spot.
Your actions make no sense and that just leaves one option. That you are the present janitor. If you don't want to get excluded from the team I recommend you to man the fuck up and follow the rules. Not your heart.

Your posts are being deleted because they resemble the Satenspam that plagues /jp/. If it was because it was LN discussion, the entire thread would be deleted long ago.

Anyway, to put my 2 cents in for that topic, it would be a tossup between Kakine and Accelerator. If it was Angel-mode Accelerator, Accelerator. If it was vanilla Accelerator and vanilla Kakine, Kakine.

Guys, please... Stop btiching about the janitor(s) or something like that. Let's stay on topic.

Should I start reading the NT volumes? I dropped paused waiting for the first 22 to be finished, but never continued. How is NT? Any exciting esp battles or big plot information?

>>8583257
>I dropped paused waiting
What?

>>8583262
I dropped/paused reading them as I waited for volume 22 to be finished. I want to know if it's worth reading them so I can continue onto NT.

NT is shit. Just drop it.

>>8583401
Birdway is god tier and makes everything better, so nah.

>>8583257
>>8583337
>not reading vol 22
Get to it.