bioober said:Zefyris said:
^_ All of the titles quoted above, I bought them during June 9-15 so I'm participating here!
Without me those titles would have sold one less volume~
....Yes, only one less, I know x].
But wow; I'm participating in 10 volumes among the 23 light novels listed this week. I think that's the first time I ever reached such number.
Almost bought claymore 26, could have had one on the manga side as well, heh.
Still, nice to see those titles doing well. Horizon is slowly selling less it seems. Well, it has to be expected after so much pages I guess~
Bannou Kanteishi Q no Jikenbo still has the drama boost and No Game No Life the anime boost.
How's the Horizon series? I wanted to start them, but the sheer massiveness of the books seemed to much for me. Wanted to ask since our taste in light novels seems to match. Especially, Rokka no Yuusha.
Well, that would be opposite of rokka no yuusha I would say, in that the only problem I found on Rokka no Yuusha is the lack of descriptions. Horizon has info dump everywhere. Rather than not having enough description, you have explanations for everything.
Horizon's simply the best world building I ever saw in a book (LN and novel altogether). I read quite a good amount with a fantasy/ science fiction settings, but never saw such thing before. Not only that, but the setting is extremely original as well, so managing to make a logical world building in a such weird world is far more difficult than it would be on more "normal" settings. History, economy, religion, war strategies, ethnicities, and so on, every things are covered and very convincing.
Scenario by arc are really interesting as well, because it's really NOT predictable. You know where you start, but it's more often than not impossible to predict which direction it will take.
Lots of cool characters, with very tactical and epic battles (sure enough, you have a lot of info dump to pass. But when fighting start, you're in for 400-600 pages with a lot of epic/strategic battles everywhere, so it's fairly well balanced in the end).
I really like negotiations (both political and economical) in Horizon as well. They are convincing and you really feel that people negotiating are smart and know their job. Some of the most convincing negotiations I ever read are in there.
Humor sometimes require extended knowledge on the otaku culture to be understood. Not all, it mostly depends on which character do the joke. Even so, removing some difficult to understand jokes, the remaining ones are still fairly numerous and funny.
All in all, Horizon is gigantic. Not only by the size of its books, and not only by the sizes of the chest of some girl ( that point is just satoyasu's style~ ); but by the word created, the amount of characters involved, the amount of details, epicness (several ship bigger than 2km long, 120m long dragons, gigantic bushin, and so on), originality...
Definitely worth reading. Info dump can be a bit harsh to pass at first (especially if you're going to read it in japanese), but the result is worth it, because all this info dump is necessary to enjoy what comes next each time. |