Why light novels?

The main reason I started this blog was to promote light novels to as many people as I can. Why? I think they're fun to read. If you can pick one up and enjoy it, I've done my job.

What do I like most about light novels? The characters. Longer novels can elaborate on some grandiose plot and overarching themes. I don't think light novels get that sort of luxury. There's a reason it's light, right?

So what do you get in a light novel? Dialogue. Communication. Characters interacting with one another. The characters make friends, sever ties, grow apart in their relationships from one chapter to the next. Some die, some fall in love. It's life, right? Then the book ends. It's up to the reader to decide if they want to know what happens next~

Yes, this is me procrastinating and not working on that Bungaku Shoujo/Book Girl post. I'll finish it (soon-ish). Also, thinking of giving away some light novels in the future. What kind of contest would you want to do?

An Intro of Sorts

Never had a proper intro for this blog. Name's Sabas and I'm a light novel enthusiast, dabble in visual novels, watcher and reader of anime and manga. But really, I'm just a sailor who happens to be stationed on a rusty tin can outside of Sasebo, Japan. Not that it means much because Sasebo is a small sailor town where the only thing worth doing in the evenings is get wasted. That or stay kooked up in an internet cafe into the wee hours of the morning watching anime and talk about how mundane my life really is on Twitter.

I had this blog sitting here for who knows how long. So I'm making some effort to update this place somewhat regularly. In-between getting underway for a few months at a time, and the brief moment on dry land, I hope. I'm not much of a writer so most my posts will be short, but hopefully with a few pictures to catch your eye. Like my pictures from Anime Expo of last year. Or whatever port visits I make in the near future.

I'm working on a little project of mine, Neverath Academy. Basically it's a pen and paper RPG anime-style campaign revolving around a magic school full of epic beamspam, traps, and whatever happens to catch my eye. It's a silly project, but I'm having fun with it as I go. It probably wouldn't ever be a completed project, but I'll probably post a few things here and there that I think looks good enough for the general public.

Like I said, I'm a big fan of light novels, even if they don't get the attention or sales they deserve. Like, Zaregoto, for example. I was shocked by the fact that the second one even came out. I'm glad it did though. Ending is twisted in its own special way, and there wasn't enough Tomo, but that's just me. I'm hoping there'll be enough sales for the third one to get released, but I might have to buy a few more copies for friends to boost sales (again) before Del Rey considers it. 

So that's me. I'm still working on the site, and working on updating it as often as I can, but who knows? Maybe the next time I post I'll be at Club Mogra listening to yet another mix of Only My Railgun.