thoughts on the light novel? after s3 should i read?

can i read the novel on the internet?

Im currently rereading the lns, and i gotta say that it isnt the best ln out there however its a pretty good read. The characters are better fleshed out, you can actually see a lot of them developing, you see a lot of interactions between the characters that lets you pick up a lot abt them.

Besides that, i think this story offers a good amt of buildup with a good payoff at the climax of each volume.

Personally i watched the first season and started reading from vol 4. I know there was cut content but i never felt confused when i pick up vol 4. Now, i cant say the same of s2 and s3 cuz they have omitted scenes that are important imo, like the majority of scenes with nagumo have been cut, so you really dont know the extent of his abilities, plus there has been scenes omitting characters talking about the private points system, which is an important element to understand.

So basically to know if its worth your time, did you find the premise and the setting of the story interesting? if you do, then i advise you to read the lns, if you dont like it, then dont.

Hmm... sorry for giving my opinion? I thought it was pretty clear that my comment was coming from my own subjectivity.

so you just download them and use Google books?

I've never seen anything like this before.

thank you btw.

The light novels are better than the anime in every single way.

And you should buy the volumes to support the author instead of reading it for free.

I would recommend to start from Volume 4, because I think season 1 is a good adaptation and you can skip the first two volumes which are pretty bad imo.

@FarWalker It's been a while since I've read them, but Volume 1 and 2 felt more like an Oregairu clone with a hornier protagonist, while later on he says that all that inner monologue was just an act and drops it. I also remember cringing a lot, for example how he confronts the store clerk.

im gonna be honest with you bro, just read it from volume 1. the adaptation is god awful for such a great novel

I started reading the LN a few days back and I've covered S1 stuff and I can easily say that the LN is way better and you should start it from the beginning. The characters are very different from the anime and it gets better with time.

Read the novel from the beginning.
The anime changed a lot including the best girl due to director bias

You should read from the start.

From my perspective the anime gives you the main points of what happened in the novel, while changing some of the details to save time. This makes sense since in an anime they have a limited amount of time per episode. In the novel on the other hand, there is definitely more details, especially since the story is told from a 1st P.O.V. so you get the full thought process. In the latest chess game, for example you can really tell how suspicious the Class B teacher is of Ayanokouji, how carefully Sakayanagi planed this to not inconvenience Ayanokouji, and how different the game was once the leaders joined. It also gives you a better understanding of the characters and helps you guess what might happen in the future.

That said, the novels are not perfect, it definitely suffers from the “every girl falls for the protagonist” syndrome. So if that is really not up your alley I say maybe don’t bother. In my case, I don’t enjoy it but I can overlook it since the main focus is still on the plot and not the romance.

either wait for the end of season or read from the start