Japan's Weekly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for Jun 9 - 15

Alright, I'll try giving it a shot. Thanks for the recommendation.

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.

Oratario any good? I've read the original ones, but not the spinoff.

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.

GOOOO ONE PIECE GOOOOOO

Somehow this doesn't sound right at all.

I'm always saying that Horizon will never get a 3rd series, but I sure would have liked it to happen. And not only a third, but next ones as well. While Horizon isn't a LN fit to be animated due to the sheer amount of info dump/explanations needed to understand what's happening properly, someone who has already read the novels can sit and just enjoy the animation without any trouble to understand what's going on.
So many awesome fights in the next arcs.

Gimme Horizon 3 already. Yeah, yeah, I know it's not happening because of >reasons but I still *want* it to happen. At least I can buy the volume and support the series...

OP never bored to read no matter how time much time flies.

I don't pay attention to everything that goes on in this thread, so can someone enlighten me as to what is it that ichii_1 and keragamming have been bantering for few pages on end actually about?

I bought this. Haha

But I think I'll buy the rest depending on how good the anime is I guess.

the toriko manga is equal to hunter x hunter and one piece in my eyes :p

the anime has removed parts, a filler character (tina) cencored blood,gore and the cooking fest arc was ruined ( bad animation, cencored) and they changed the whole ending ( filler ending) of the arc

i recommend you to read the manga at the beginning of cooking fest ^^

I watch the anime.

^ Why do you hate Toriko? you didn't even read it?

Yea, let's just end this argument for now. I'll be looking to see if toriko comes back into the top 30 this year.

No, NO! Sena >>>> Yozora. She's blonde how can you resist that? ;)

The 65 million is if it keeps it's current pace but it will obviously jump in sales and don't give that "no it won't with no anime" BS.

SNK sells great, yes, BUT IT'S A SHORT SERIES and that will be it's downfall.

I see you have some good taste

but Yozora>>>>>Sena XD just saiyan

Toriko started in 2008, it took toriko 6 years to sell 20 million volume copies, Toriko is at volume 30 and you said the mangaka has announce that it will end around volume 100 right? So going by the trend, toriko would make 70 million in sales, that's if toriko continues to sell at its normal pace. Which is not happening at the moment.

Now for attack on titan it started in 2009, it made 8 million in the first half, let's say attack on titan made 14 million in the entire year this year, attack on titan will end around 2017, so even if titan makes just 10 million sold copies for the the next 3 years, it would still have more overall sales than toriko. Attack on titan would make about 75 million. It could be higher but I predict the sales will drop after everyone has bought the older volumes.

Interesting, I think most cast want the anime to continue. But it's actually likely since it was close to the manga and it was about time for DBZ Kai.

The guys at Toriko Wkia translated the tweets send after the last ep. aired, okay it's not set in stone but close enough.
http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:40221