S-TIER Ascenance of a Bookworm\ The Eminence in Shadow\ Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?\ Mushoku Tensei\ So Im a Spider, So What?\ Tearmoon Empire\ Violet Evergarden\ A-TIER 86 Eighty Six\ Altina the Sword Princess\ JK Haru is a Worker in Another World\ KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!\ No Game No Life\ Reign of the Seven Spellblades\ RE:Zero\ Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Rokka no Yūsha\ The Saga of Tanya the Evil\ Spice and Wolf\ What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?\ Alderamin on the Sky, Nejimaki Seirei Senki - Tenkyou no Alderamin\ That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime\ The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt\ B-TIER Amagi Brilliant Park\ Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest\ Chivalry of a Failed Knight\ Classroom of the Elite\ The Devil Is a Part-Timer!\ Fate/Apocrypha\ Goblin Slayer\ The Irregular at Magic High School\ The Rising of the Shield Hero\ Sword Art Online\ Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online\ Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte\ C-TIER Are You Okay With a (Slightly) Older Girlfriend?\ Beyond the Boundary\ Black Bullet\ Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools\ Eromanga Sensei\ Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash\ Infinite Dendrogram\ Log Horizon\ Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?, Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sō Desu yo?\ My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!\ My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World\ Prison Life is Easy for a Villainess\ Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire\ The Apothecary Diaries\ The Faraway Paladin\ The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady\ D-TIER The Cave King Will Live a Paradise Life -Becoming the Strongest With the Mining Skill!\ An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride\ The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent\ The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress\ The Great Cleric\ Great list and insight, I’m just getting into light novels so I wanted to make easier for me to see the list. Lol
Out of the light novels I have read, spice and wolf takes the top for me. I know he put it In A tier, but I personally love a slower pacing in many circumstances.
Bro, I recommend you read Shadow Slave and Lord of the mysteries. They aren't Japanese light novels but you could say they're some of the best fiction you'll ever read.
I would recommend Orc Eroica and Fake Saint of the year. Both of these LN's EN translations came out relatively recently and I had fun reading them. They both are misunderstanding comedies. Orc Eroica is about a virgin Orc War Hero that wants to get laid after the long war he fought in was over. It has some really neat world development, as well as fun fights and decent comedy. The main character, Bash is so fun. Basically, orcs of that world, while being rampant rapists and horny bastards, actually have a deep sense of chivalry in their culture, and nobody personifies that chivalry better than Bash. Bash is stoic, loyal and strong. But he's also horny, awkward and is part of the orchish culture just as much as any other orc. Gigachad energy is strong with that one. Watching him repeatedly try and fail to get out of the maidenless gang is so amusing fr fr. Fake Saint of the year is actually one of my all-time favorite WNs, filled to the brim with emotional scenes. While some of the jokes might get overplayed a little too much, I stayed for the characters. It's about an otaku dude who gets reincarnated as a villainess Elize in his favourite VN and aims to save the main heroine from gruesome death. He basically steals the identity of the heroine and becomes a "saint", a hereditary hero who fights the evil forces of the witch and dies at the end. The main shtick is, that Elize becomes so fucking good at pretending to be a saint, she breaks the whole system and completely derails the plot. I know it sounds like a cliche story, but it's written well, it has a clear goal and an amazing ending. The LN is still at it's first volume though, so I would recommend reading the WN.
About classroom of the elite, volume 1 and 2 are set up so it's pretty normal to find it mediocre during the start. It definitely gets better volume 3 onwards so I hope you read further. I know it's tiring to hear "it gets better after x amount of volumes" but it definitely holds true for classroom of the elite.
@@kabirarya5381 yeah for me a low B probably But it does have a cultural impact on the light novel community, by how many new LN readers this novel produced
I really appreciate this video, as I’ve only recently gotten into light novels and have been trying to figure out what to read next. I’ve been doing tons of research but it just seems like such a toss up when a solid premise can so easily make for a mediocre series in the medium. That being said, seeing that our tastes appear to be fairly similar, this has seriously helped me narrow down my list of titles into the ones I think are worth my time. So thank you, your opinions were very helpful! And my god, you have read a LOT of light novels.
@@Belmakor19 Hey, I'm writing a Light novel. After watching this vid of yours, I think you'll love it. Can you give it a read & review when I'm done & it's published?
i would like to recommend some light novels "i was caught up in a hero summoning" "road to kingdom" "i am the evil lord in an intergalactic empire" "ghosujin sama to yuku isekai servival" "Me a genius? i was reborn into another world and they got the wrong idea" All solid S for me
I was nodding my head along until you put spice and wolf as an A and spider as an S. I'd flip those in my list. And I actually yelled at you when you put Apothecary Diaries as a C
I was wondering when I'd get the first comment about Apothecary Diaries placement. When I was putting this together I had only read the first couple volumes. The writing for the series gets way better as it goes on and I would put it in at least A now that I'm fully caught up to the most recent volume.
Not to be rude or anything, but the only complaint you said about dendrogram was that the story didn't capitalize enough on the npcs being like humans, but vol 3 tackles the fact that players can't permanently die and uses that to show how the npcs use it as a form of entertainment. Volume 7 is entirely about how they are so human that people actually fall in love with these npcs and how players and npcs can have kids under specific conditions. Vol 8 is about how the npcs view the sudden appearance of players and how the governments willingness to employ them drastically changes warfare. Big Spoiler And volume 9 specifically hints towards the world being an actual place and the history that led towards it being used as a game and how the game mechanics work in this real place.
Putting Kumoko is S-tier when it has the worst ending (shame on you author) is certainly an opinion to have. Still, I hope Ariel has a good ending; Sike, you don't even know because the author only gave her a one sentence conclusion just like the other characters.
Read first then give opinion. Classroom of the elite deserves straight S. The series get better and better. It got first position in kono light novel ga sugoi many times.
14:40 yeah, great world building in Mushoku Tensei, so nobody know any magic above simplest one, so our MC stuck with fire and stone bullets. And is last episode is same as in LT, author forget what MC live 15 years in new life, and should heal most of his psyche wounds. And cliche one after another... sorry, it was trash, I skip most of episode, because was so obvious what happen than why waste time?
I just gotten into Light novels and I only read MT and I absolutely loved it and it definitely changed my life for lack of better term. I also read Arifureta and Slime and I mostly agree with your description. great video and definitely saving it as a recommendation video for my journey in reading more LN
the world settings of mushoku tensei is very good but unfortunately, the MC is putting me off due to his origin story is bad, his attitude is also questionable and the story plot is too blend. In the end, the potential of story plot is totally wasted and I drop it 2/3 of the way.
I haven't read lot novel but here some of my favourites: • Omniscient Reader • The Beginning After End • Violet Evergarden • SNAFU •Reaper Of The Drifting Moon •SSS-Class Suicide Hunter •Trash of the Count’s Family • COTE •Return of the Mount Hua Sect
I agree on your s class recommendations bro, I also suggest you to continue reading classroom the of the elite yhe characters are really dynamic and all of them have unique and complex personalities that make them extremely interesting.
The only thing from your s tier that I have to disagree with is Violet Evergarden. The LN was a mixed bag some good stories and some very bad ones. The anime was better then the LN.
Given your large experience in the light novel world, I found surprising that you haven't read "The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria" yet. I haven't read it either, and thanks to it's big popularity in the LN world, I was hoping to get an better idea with an overview of the series. Also, another one among those lines is the "Haruhi Suzumiya" and the "Monogatari" novel series. Those 2 I've already read some volumes - definitly recommended. Anyways, nice tierlist. Liked your vid.
If you only got Schadenfreude from re zero I'd assume you're not even through volume 3. The reason I love it is it's the opposite of grim dark, as return by death gets him to care about everyone who dies around him to an insane extent, and also shows how people with many layers of struggles in their lives can act at their lowest points while still being able to grow with understanding.
What an amazing list to pick something to read from. Its always cool to find someone with similar tastes putting something high that I havent read. "Monster Tamer" is one that i never see mentioned anywhere but does a good job of developing the characters.
You haven't read Peak Fiction "Toaru majutsu no Index"? Man I'd heavily recommend the god tier unbeatable piece of peak fiction top 1 selling novel for years. Really man, in terms of writing with no plot holes and the best power system/world building/top 3/2/1 protagonists canonically over the years. Man, the badly adapted Anime of the main series "Index" is enough for me to call it the one above all.
And yes, seeing how you really like fantasy novels, Index will give you the experience of a student who studies in a science class while reading an accurate bible. 100% guaranteed for Index to beat every of yours expectation and make you call it peak fiction after about 4 volumes out of 50+
My favorite novel is "Lord of Mysteries". It's a bit dark but the best novel out there if you are a fan of H. P. Lovecraft. I'd love a video about that.
Irregular at Magic High: For me it is A-tier mostly because I really like the world building (how dark it is if you read in between the lines), and since the incest is depicted as something that is supposed to be disturbing so it does not bother me that much. It is the result of genetic and magic manipulations on unborn children and everybody except potentially the two MCs are just as disturbed about it as we the readers would be in RL. I might also make it S-tier were it not that it looses steam later on.
Could you check out the new Apple Black Light Novel? :) Havent read it yet, but was curious to. Apparently it has its own unique world and story (not an isekai)
Before I watch this, you better not shit on a Light Novel I enjoy or else Im unsubbing. 😤 EDIT: OK I cant really disagree with any of your placements. Good taste. If you have room to add to your reading list, I beg you to read "A Sister's All You Need". It is criminally underrated. The characters are mostly adults, the comedy is great, the series delves really deep into the Light Novel/Anime industry, and the entire series has been translated into English, making it a pretty quick read.
I love all your S Tier picks! I would recommend Reincarnated as a Sword as an S Tier series for you! And Skeleton Knight in Another World as an A Tier pick!
Yeah, love to see Eminence in S tier. All 5 volumes so far have been amazing. And yes, classroom of the elite is amazing later on, takes a few volumes until it picks up a bit. Mushoku tensei is also amazing man. Re:zero is probably my fav on the list but A tier is def acceptable. How far did you read of re:zero? Bakemonogatari is pretty good if you have not read that one.
Intersting , i have too read quite some ln or wn and i could tell we share some taste but not all but that fine ; For serie i advice i would say i would say : acomplichement of a duke daughter The Ideal Sponger Life the vilainess live twice sword isekai even if it not for every one i quite like it aristocrate with a apraisl skill Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu and probaly one of the best The Rebirth of Han Yuxi
Rend and The Reincarnation of Alysara are two novels I’d like to recommend. The Reincarnation of Alysara is about a fox girl who was a little too curious and blinded herself now blind she must use mana to see helping her discover the secrets of Magic. Rend is set in a alternate history, with creatures from other dimensions try to invade earth and a law student with psychopathic tendencies that accidentally gets turned into an aberrant a being with super powers with the con that a being from another dimension is trying to invade your mind. These are both web novels with them both being on the same site which is scribblehub. Both novels are really good plus there free so there’s no reason not to read them. also with rend the main character with psychopathic tendencies I don’t mean in a edgy way. Honorable mentions NENOmancer reborn. empress evolution. Who Says All Saints Need to be Good?. And d.e.m.o.n.s getting summoned weekly.
I've only read the first three books and I'm loving Grimgar, I hope it doesn't get too bad (I'm pretty insecure with my writing in english so I can only say that xD)
started reading the light novel for Mushoku tensei this past month already caught up to volume 24. its world building and story is amazing. sadly got to wait for 25 and 26 tho ive already pre ordered them; sadly wont be reading them anytime soon cause 25 comes out in December and 26 march. now going to start a different series most likely "the beginning after the end"
Obviously this is your own preferences but i don’t really get why some novels were put further down the list for not having an complete english translation, but Ultraman, which doesn’t have one at all still gets A. Other than that, good video
Was eating breakfast when you said "slight age gap" immediately followed by "he's 15 and she's 27" and i went "HUUUHH" out loud. For Classroom of the Elite, I definitely feel like it was stronger in the beginning so if the first volume didn't hook you then I probably wouldn't read further. But I've only read the first year. Not a light novel, but I recommend the RPGmaker series "Black Souls"
Oh Jesus you haven't read The empty box of maria? I unsure of it if you heard it before, but I highly recommend it since it's a light novel exclusive with no prospects of becoming an anime or manga, also it's just 7 volumes long. The genre is a time travel story with supernatural elements and human drama with characters that don't have a powers, or more so powers that are combative and direct.
Thanks for the list! Thought Let's see if these top tiered novels are good. One thing I disagree with is Shield hero. Just like you I said I think it was brilliant in the beginning but it wasn't "fine" afterwards, it just got really bland and for me at least unreadable.
You said you like fantasy and world building? So I think: Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody As it is isekai, so... and MC is OP, but how story is told and goals of MC making his OP not boring. ofc sometimes you must skip cooking... I don't know why people liking when MC in fantasy world repeating cooking book from japan. "Reincarnated as a Sword" anime is a lot weaker than LN, unique story, and we slowly discovering world, characters are changing with time (not as in Mushoku Tensei) Some bonus: "Lonely Attack on the Different World" isekai, MC OP, but not light story, and MC is not normal, story get weaker later, but I still will read it. "Seirei Gensouki - Spirit Chronicles" have interesting start, and some parts of story, but drop it with vol 7, autor drop ball and make next Team Rocket cliche. "Walking in Another World" isekai, rejected and walking in new world, I still reading it, but I would give it more B tier. "Goshujin-sama to Yuku Isekai Survival!" isekai as survival game ;)
The order is Best, to less Best. :) They are all great, at least imo. I'm a fan of OP characters, who are intelligent. Legendary Moonlight Sculptor Battle Through the Heavens The King's Avatar, read this around a dozen times as well. Solo Leveling Solo Auto Hunting Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World By the Grace of the Gods In Another World With My Smartphone Overgeared Parallel World Pharmacy Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement I've read both Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, and Battle Through the Heavens at least a dozen times. They are great to listen to when working out. Both you and the character are working to get more powerful at the same time. So it gives you motivation to push harder. :) These have great anime's for them. In order again. Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World By the Grace of the Gods In Another World With My Smartphone Battle Through the Heavens Solo Leveling coming this month Parallel World Pharmacy Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement The King's Avatar, though this one could have been much better, and it does have a Live Action. Which is good, but more loosely based on the Light Novel, which is so well written with a character that has the upper hand because his Strategies, Experience, and Skill is just better than everyone else from years of training. Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, Unfortunately, doesn't have anime. I really wish that it did though. I think a live action would be good as well. Casting the most beautiful girl in the world might be difficult though. :( Battle Through the Heavens, does have a live action series, and it's called Fights Break Sphere. This is so not the Light Novel. It's good for what it is, but it's so very different from the light novel, it could be a different story. Think of it as a Parallel universe, very loosely based on a Light novel. They really missed out on something great. Shame. Just like Amazon, taking the best Epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, and making it into trash. They had something so good, it would have been like that had their own money printing machine, instead, they can't get people to watch it. At least with Fights Break Sphere, it's worth watching, The Wheel of Time is barely that. smh And to think, the director is suppose to be a fan of the series. I wonder if he even read it. smh It should be a crime for what they did to that series! Anyway, if your looking for good light novels, that will keep you entertained for many, many hours, and some of the best, check these out.
Fine... _fine_ , I'll go and have another look at Danmachi already Also, in other news... I've noted it before and I will note it again, you read stuff waaay faster than me 😂
if you just see 'slow prison life' or 'prison life is easy for the villainess' as a comendy and ignore the stupidness of some characters it is actually very good
I have read all the year 1 of classroom of the elite volumes and few year 2. I have to say that first two volumes were definitely the weakest of them all.
Thanks for the tier list. I am relatively new to the light novel scene. I only started reading LN at the end of April. I was watching the Danmachi anime. Now 2 months later I have read the entire Danmachi series including its spin-offs like Sword Oratoria. I’m still deciding which LN series I am going to read next.
Classroom of the Elite for sure gets better after volume 1. Volume 1 is just a set up for the series. It introduces characters and the overalls structure of how the school works. It’s basically just a info dump. The story gets better and better
As a huge Danmachi fan it makes me really happy to see it in S tier. It's easily one of my favourite Light Novel series and Fantasy series in general I am also a Shield Hero fan but you are right. I have struggled to continue reading the series after volume 15. It also struggles from the issue of while not technically being on Haitus. It's been years since the last novel
I would say the first 5 volumes of Shield Hero are S Tier material like was shown in the first season of the Anime but after that it gets pretty bad although it recovers somewhat once Atla becomes a main character, and then it somewhat goes downhill again sadly... I can't really argue with an overall B Tier ranking...
S-TIER
Ascenance of a Bookworm\
The Eminence in Shadow\
Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?\
Mushoku Tensei\
So Im a Spider, So What?\
Tearmoon Empire\
Violet Evergarden\
A-TIER
86 Eighty Six\
Altina the Sword Princess\
JK Haru is a Worker in Another World\
KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!\
No Game No Life\
Reign of the Seven Spellblades\
RE:Zero\
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Rokka no Yūsha\
The Saga of Tanya the Evil\
Spice and Wolf\
What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?\
Alderamin on the Sky, Nejimaki Seirei Senki - Tenkyou no Alderamin\
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime\
The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt\
B-TIER
Amagi Brilliant Park\
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest\
Chivalry of a Failed Knight\
Classroom of the Elite\
The Devil Is a Part-Timer!\
Fate/Apocrypha\
Goblin Slayer\
The Irregular at Magic High School\
The Rising of the Shield Hero\
Sword Art Online\
Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online\
Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte\
C-TIER
Are You Okay With a (Slightly) Older Girlfriend?\
Beyond the Boundary\
Black Bullet\
Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools\
Eromanga Sensei\
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash\
Infinite Dendrogram\
Log Horizon\
Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?, Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sō Desu yo?\
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!\
My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World\
Prison Life is Easy for a Villainess\
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire\
The Apothecary Diaries\
The Faraway Paladin\
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady\
D-TIER
The Cave King Will Live a Paradise Life -Becoming the Strongest With the Mining Skill!\
An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride\
The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent\
The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress\
The Great Cleric\
Great list and insight, I’m just getting into light novels so I wanted to make easier for me to see the list. Lol
Commenting so I can remember where this is
After the ending of So I am a spider so what? Novels....
I would 100% rate it to be below D tier....
Goat❤
Out of the light novels I have read, spice and wolf takes the top for me. I know he put it In A tier, but I personally love a slower pacing in many circumstances.
@@austinlewis1212as it is my favorite series of all time, I totally agree.
I am a simple man.
if I see bookworm, I click
Good tier list by the way
Huh, same😅
Bro, I recommend you read Shadow Slave and Lord of the mysteries. They aren't Japanese light novels but you could say they're some of the best fiction you'll ever read.
Shadow slave mentioned :DDDD amazing novel
I would recommend Orc Eroica and Fake Saint of the year. Both of these LN's EN translations came out relatively recently and I had fun reading them.
They both are misunderstanding comedies.
Orc Eroica is about a virgin Orc War Hero that wants to get laid after the long war he fought in was over. It has some really neat world development, as well as fun fights and decent comedy. The main character, Bash is so fun. Basically, orcs of that world, while being rampant rapists and horny bastards, actually have a deep sense of chivalry in their culture, and nobody personifies that chivalry better than Bash. Bash is stoic, loyal and strong. But he's also horny, awkward and is part of the orchish culture just as much as any other orc. Gigachad energy is strong with that one. Watching him repeatedly try and fail to get out of the maidenless gang is so amusing fr fr.
Fake Saint of the year is actually one of my all-time favorite WNs, filled to the brim with emotional scenes. While some of the jokes might get overplayed a little too much, I stayed for the characters. It's about an otaku dude who gets reincarnated as a villainess Elize in his favourite VN and aims to save the main heroine from gruesome death. He basically steals the identity of the heroine and becomes a "saint", a hereditary hero who fights the evil forces of the witch and dies at the end. The main shtick is, that Elize becomes so fucking good at pretending to be a saint, she breaks the whole system and completely derails the plot. I know it sounds like a cliche story, but it's written well, it has a clear goal and an amazing ending. The LN is still at it's first volume though, so I would recommend reading the WN.
Mushoku peak
Great list. Thank you so much for the recommendations.
Glad you also enjoy Bookworm to that degree.
About classroom of the elite, volume 1 and 2 are set up so it's pretty normal to find it mediocre during the start. It definitely gets better volume 3 onwards so I hope you read further. I know it's tiring to hear "it gets better after x amount of volumes" but it definitely holds true for classroom of the elite.
Nah, cote is B at best
Reading upto year2 volume10
@@jyothishlal3128 didn't say it was amazing, for me it's a low A.
@@kabirarya5381 yeah for me a low B
probably
But it does have a cultural impact on the light novel community, by how many new LN readers this novel produced
@@jyothishlal3128 What makes it a low B for you
@@djodylol8258 the story is too edgy for me ... And I don't feel any emotional attachments to any characters in the story.
I really appreciate this video, as I’ve only recently gotten into light novels and have been trying to figure out what to read next. I’ve been doing tons of research but it just seems like such a toss up when a solid premise can so easily make for a mediocre series in the medium. That being said, seeing that our tastes appear to be fairly similar, this has seriously helped me narrow down my list of titles into the ones I think are worth my time. So thank you, your opinions were very helpful!
And my god, you have read a LOT of light novels.
Glad the video was helpful!
I highly recommend Reincarnated as a Sword and Skeleton Knight in Another World.
@@Belmakor19 Hey, I'm writing a Light novel. After watching this vid of yours, I think you'll love it. Can you give it a read & review when I'm done & it's published?
Currently in volume 10 of kumodesu and I heard the ending is lackluster
Honestly scared of finishing it now
13:00, would u have preferred if konosuba didn't have a canon ship?
Also, who best girl in you're opinion and why?
Where do you read these light novels? For a person who is thinking about getting into reading some
Jnovels website or justlightnovels if you wanna pirate else buy from your nearest store
I buy it from Amazon, Crunchyroll Store or Barnes & Noble.
i would like to recommend some light novels "i was caught up in a hero summoning" "road to kingdom" "i am the evil lord in an intergalactic empire" "ghosujin sama to yuku isekai servival" "Me a genius? i was reborn into another world and they got the wrong idea"
All solid S for me
Try baccano and how a realist rebuilt a kingdom
I second baccano
I was nodding my head along until you put spice and wolf as an A and spider as an S. I'd flip those in my list. And I actually yelled at you when you put Apothecary Diaries as a C
I was wondering when I'd get the first comment about Apothecary Diaries placement. When I was putting this together I had only read the first couple volumes. The writing for the series gets way better as it goes on and I would put it in at least A now that I'm fully caught up to the most recent volume.
Not to be rude or anything, but the only complaint you said about dendrogram was that the story didn't capitalize enough on the npcs being like humans, but vol 3 tackles the fact that players can't permanently die and uses that to show how the npcs use it as a form of entertainment. Volume 7 is entirely about how they are so human that people actually fall in love with these npcs and how players and npcs can have kids under specific conditions. Vol 8 is about how the npcs view the sudden appearance of players and how the governments willingness to employ them drastically changes warfare.
Big Spoiler
And volume 9 specifically hints towards the world being an actual place and the history that led towards it being used as a game and how the game mechanics work in this real place.
Survival in another world with my mistress, bro basically got a system similar to playing survival minecraft, or maybe blockheads is more accurate
Putting Kumoko is S-tier when it has the worst ending (shame on you author) is certainly an opinion to have. Still, I hope Ariel has a good ending; Sike, you don't even know because the author only gave her a one sentence conclusion just like the other characters.
Coteee b tier areeee touuu kiddiinggggg mee?????
Read toaru majutsu no index
agreed 👍
+
can't be more true.
What is Blud talking about cote at b tier? Alr bro 😭🙏
yeah... It was kinda irritating
PLEASE read "the conqueror from a dying kingdom" it really really good
its fantasy but has no magic and the writing is really damn good
Read lords of the mysteries, omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, reverend insanity. These are top 3 ln ever written
@@souvikpal7309 fr
Re zero is SSS tier
Read first then give opinion. Classroom of the elite deserves straight S. The series get better and better. It got first position in kono light novel ga sugoi many times.
Where is High School DxD?
I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I really need to at some point.
yes AoaB is also my favorite!
C'mon man combat Baker is fresh out of the oven! 😁
Where do you read all of them?
Mostly Jnovel Club and Bookwalker. I own physical copies of a couple of them.
@@Belmakor19 is there a particular reason to purchase in bookwalker instead of kindle?
I would put grimgar in D tier for the amount of Ranta ranting+annoying+disgusting.
Tanya W
14:40 yeah, great world building in Mushoku Tensei, so nobody know any magic above simplest one, so our MC stuck with fire and stone bullets. And is last episode is same as in LT, author forget what MC live 15 years in new life, and should heal most of his psyche wounds. And cliche one after another... sorry, it was trash, I skip most of episode, because was so obvious what happen than why waste time?
cant judge a LN completely off 1 volume.
I just gotten into Light novels and I only read MT and I absolutely loved it and it definitely changed my life for lack of better term. I also read Arifureta and Slime and I mostly agree with your description.
great video and definitely saving it as a recommendation video for my journey in reading more LN
COTE , Arifureta in B and Re*Zero un A??!! Hahahjayajaha wtf you should make up your mind... That novels deserves better!!!
the world settings of mushoku tensei is very good but unfortunately, the MC is putting me off due to his origin story is bad, his attitude is also questionable and the story plot is too blend. In the end, the potential of story plot is totally wasted and I drop it 2/3 of the way.
I haven't read lot novel but here some of my favourites:
• Omniscient Reader
• The Beginning After End
• Violet Evergarden
• SNAFU
•Reaper Of The Drifting Moon
•SSS-Class Suicide Hunter
•Trash of the Count’s Family
• COTE
•Return of the Mount Hua Sect
Cote is too underrated
Good taste, but mostly webnovel.
I agree on your s class recommendations bro, I also suggest you to continue reading classroom the of the elite yhe characters are really dynamic and all of them have unique and complex personalities that make them extremely interesting.
Completely agree with that
Mushoku tensei #1 LN
The only thing from your s tier that I have to disagree with is Violet Evergarden. The LN was a mixed bag some good stories and some very bad ones. The anime was better then the LN.
Toaru
he didn't even mentioned it, we need him to get to the peak fiction fr.
Given your large experience in the light novel world, I found surprising that you haven't read "The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria" yet. I haven't read it either, and thanks to it's big popularity in the LN world, I was hoping to get an better idea with an overview of the series. Also, another one among those lines is the "Haruhi Suzumiya" and the "Monogatari" novel series. Those 2 I've already read some volumes - definitly recommended.
Anyways, nice tierlist. Liked your vid.
Empty Box is actually very underrated even in japan. It's mainly relevant because of myanimelist
@@LolitaFashionLover-lt1kk its a total mindfuck, nothing else.
If you only got Schadenfreude from re zero I'd assume you're not even through volume 3. The reason I love it is it's the opposite of grim dark, as return by death gets him to care about everyone who dies around him to an insane extent, and also shows how people with many layers of struggles in their lives can act at their lowest points while still being able to grow with understanding.
for real, this guy doesn't even know what he's saying
What an amazing list to pick something to read from. Its always cool to find someone with similar tastes putting something high that I havent read.
"Monster Tamer" is one that i never see mentioned anywhere but does a good job of developing the characters.
Just started getting into light novels so this video is a great resource
86 should be S definitely
I really like COTE, after the first volumes it gets really good!
What about Shadow Slave,LOTM,and reverend insanity?
Those aren't light novels.
You haven't read Peak Fiction "Toaru majutsu no Index"?
Man I'd heavily recommend the god tier unbeatable piece of peak fiction top 1 selling novel for years. Really man, in terms of writing with no plot holes and the best power system/world building/top 3/2/1 protagonists canonically over the years. Man, the badly adapted Anime of the main series "Index" is enough for me to call it the one above all.
And yes, seeing how you really like fantasy novels, Index will give you the experience of a student who studies in a science class while reading an accurate bible. 100% guaranteed for Index to beat every of yours expectation and make you call it peak fiction after about 4 volumes out of 50+
My favorite novel is "Lord of Mysteries". It's a bit dark but the best novel out there if you are a fan of H. P. Lovecraft. I'd love a video about that.
I have been wanting to continue reading it, but the crazy amount of chapters have been keeping me off
where should/can I read it?
@@themasteraj6587 Google the name. Second link. Be careful tho, it's rather long
@@themasteraj6587 drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qrUJ6fOFDgvN-9xgzH2BTrfaAivkLDYA
that's a webnovel though
Hope you continue reading Classroom of the elite.
Don't do a review until at least volume 3.
Irregular at Magic High: For me it is A-tier mostly because I really like the world building (how dark it is if you read in between the lines), and since the incest is depicted as something that is supposed to be disturbing so it does not bother me that much. It is the result of genetic and magic manipulations on unborn children and everybody except potentially the two MCs are just as disturbed about it as we the readers would be in RL. I might also make it S-tier were it not that it looses steam later on.
The characters and dialogue are boring
i hate female character
Could you check out the new Apple Black Light Novel? :) Havent read it yet, but was curious to. Apparently it has its own unique world and story (not an isekai)
Before I watch this, you better not shit on a Light Novel I enjoy or else Im unsubbing. 😤
EDIT: OK I cant really disagree with any of your placements. Good taste. If you have room to add to your reading list, I beg you to read "A Sister's All You Need". It is criminally underrated. The characters are mostly adults, the comedy is great, the series delves really deep into the Light Novel/Anime industry, and the entire series has been translated into English, making it a pretty quick read.
I think Rezero deserve to be in S tier
S tier is not enough for re zero
it deserves SSS tier
S for Simp Tier
"Basically Harry Potter if the professors lost any semblance of caring for the safety of their students..."
So... still Harry Potter right?
That's what I thought he was going to say lol
Black bullet c teir is crazy
Have you read OVERLORD yet? if so which is your favorite volume?
I love all your S Tier picks! I would recommend Reincarnated as a Sword as an S Tier series for you! And Skeleton Knight in Another World as an A Tier pick!
Skeleton knight is better
WHA...you did not just put fucking eminesence in shadow above rezero...the writing is so much better in rezero..wtf (kumo still s teir)
Yeah, love to see Eminence in S tier. All 5 volumes so far have been amazing. And yes, classroom of the elite is amazing later on, takes a few volumes until it picks up a bit. Mushoku tensei is also amazing man. Re:zero is probably my fav on the list but A tier is def acceptable. How far did you read of re:zero? Bakemonogatari is pretty good if you have not read that one.
give a go to shana or toaru's novels :) gud video !
Lumi Lumi on website Royal Road. Hopefully future high tier... *Crossing fingers.
Grimgar in C cause there is no purpose is acceptable but in term of suffering obviously S tier.
Intersting , i have too read quite some ln or wn and i could tell we share some taste but not all but that fine ;
For serie i advice i would say i would say :
acomplichement of a duke daughter
The Ideal Sponger Life
the vilainess live twice
sword isekai even if it not for every one i quite like it
aristocrate with a apraisl skill
Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu
and probaly one of the best
The Rebirth of Han Yuxi
Mushoku Tensei S tier based af, this is a really good list too
So you made a tier list based on the first volume... thought you read all chapters so that you can actually rate them
READ INDEX
True.
have u not read Hakomari? its great you should check it out
never cook again the Eminence in Shadow in s tier naww dude
Kyoukai no kanata has a novel?!!!!!.... What!!!!!!
Bro took "i aint waiting for seazon 2..." to whole another level😭😭😭
Rend and The Reincarnation of Alysara are two novels I’d like to recommend.
The Reincarnation of Alysara is about a fox girl who was a little too curious and blinded herself now blind she must use mana to see helping her discover the secrets of Magic.
Rend is set in a alternate history, with creatures from other dimensions try to invade earth and a law student with psychopathic tendencies that accidentally gets turned into an aberrant a being with super powers with the con that a being from another dimension is trying to invade your mind.
These are both web novels with them both being on the same site which is scribblehub. Both novels are really good plus there free so there’s no reason not to read them.
also with rend the main character with psychopathic tendencies I don’t mean in a edgy way.
Honorable mentions NENOmancer reborn. empress evolution. Who Says All Saints Need to be Good?. And d.e.m.o.n.s getting summoned weekly.
Bro im sure you didn't read arc 6 of re zero if you ranked it A
Your video got me to impulse buy Eminence of the Shadow light novel. And I have not seen the anime because of availability.
Glorious!
I'm glad I could get you into Eminence of the Shadow!
I love Eminance in Shadow! Volume 6 can't come soon enough!!!
READ LOTM. also read the Bible.
I've only read the first three books and I'm loving Grimgar, I hope it doesn't get too bad
(I'm pretty insecure with my writing in english so I can only say that xD)
I'm sorry, but Re:Zero is an easy S bro. 😭
28:06 for full list
started reading the light novel for Mushoku tensei this past month already caught up to volume 24. its world building and story is amazing. sadly got to wait for 25 and 26 tho ive already pre ordered them; sadly wont be reading them anytime soon cause 25 comes out in December and 26 march. now going to start a different series most likely "the beginning after the end"
Obviously this is your own preferences but i don’t really get why some novels were put further down the list for not having an complete english translation, but Ultraman, which doesn’t have one at all still gets A. Other than that, good video
LN 86-Eighty Six is my S Tier 💖
Where is shadow slave?
Was eating breakfast when you said "slight age gap" immediately followed by "he's 15 and she's 27" and i went "HUUUHH" out loud.
For Classroom of the Elite, I definitely feel like it was stronger in the beginning so if the first volume didn't hook you then I probably wouldn't read further. But I've only read the first year. Not a light novel, but I recommend the RPGmaker series "Black Souls"
Oh Jesus you haven't read The empty box of maria?
I unsure of it if you heard it before, but I highly recommend it since it's a light novel exclusive with no prospects of becoming an anime or manga, also it's just 7 volumes long.
The genre is a time travel story with supernatural elements and human drama with characters that don't have a powers, or more so powers that are combative and direct.
I've heard good things about The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria. I definitely need to get around to reading it it. Thanks for the recommendation!
@@Belmakor19 You sure do need to read it my friend
Tearmoon Empire Supremacy gang
reading tearmoon empire, S tier for sure. I love the troupe that an idiot protagonist is mistaken as dumb because nobody can possibly be this dumb 😅
Thanks for the list! Thought Let's see if these top tiered novels are good.
One thing I disagree with is Shield hero. Just like you I said I think it was brilliant in the beginning but it wasn't "fine" afterwards, it just got really bland and for me at least unreadable.
A man who loves AOB enough for S tier!!! Do you wanna be friends?!
You said you like fantasy and world building? So I think: Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
As it is isekai, so... and MC is OP, but how story is told and goals of MC making his OP not boring. ofc sometimes you must skip cooking... I don't know why people liking when MC in fantasy world repeating cooking book from japan.
"Reincarnated as a Sword" anime is a lot weaker than LN, unique story, and we slowly discovering world, characters are changing with time (not as in Mushoku Tensei)
Some bonus:
"Lonely Attack on the Different World" isekai, MC OP, but not light story, and MC is not normal, story get weaker later, but I still will read it.
"Seirei Gensouki - Spirit Chronicles" have interesting start, and some parts of story, but drop it with vol 7, autor drop ball and make next Team Rocket cliche.
"Walking in Another World" isekai, rejected and walking in new world, I still reading it, but I would give it more B tier.
"Goshujin-sama to Yuku Isekai Survival!" isekai as survival game ;)
All this but no trapped in a dating sim 🙄
Underrated series that's fun as hell. I'm reading the newest volume right now and shit just got real
Toaru Goad tier
The order is Best, to less Best. :) They are all great, at least imo. I'm a fan of OP characters, who are intelligent.
Legendary Moonlight Sculptor
Battle Through the Heavens
The King's Avatar, read this around a dozen times as well.
Solo Leveling
Solo Auto Hunting
Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World
By the Grace of the Gods
In Another World With My Smartphone
Overgeared
Parallel World Pharmacy
Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement
I've read both Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, and Battle Through the Heavens at least a dozen times. They are great to listen to when working out. Both you and the character are working to get more powerful at the same time. So it gives you motivation to push harder. :)
These have great anime's for them. In order again.
Chronicles of an Aristocrat Reborn in Another World
By the Grace of the Gods
In Another World With My Smartphone
Battle Through the Heavens
Solo Leveling coming this month
Parallel World Pharmacy
Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement
The King's Avatar, though this one could have been much better, and it does have a Live Action. Which is good, but more loosely based on the Light Novel, which is so well written with a character that has the upper hand because his Strategies, Experience, and Skill is just better than everyone else from years of training.
Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, Unfortunately, doesn't have anime. I really wish that it did though. I think a live action would be good as well. Casting the most beautiful girl in the world might be difficult though. :(
Battle Through the Heavens, does have a live action series, and it's called Fights Break Sphere. This is so not the Light Novel. It's good for what it is, but it's so very different from the light novel, it could be a different story. Think of it as a Parallel universe, very loosely based on a Light novel. They really missed out on something great. Shame. Just like Amazon, taking the best Epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, and making it into trash. They had something so good, it would have been like that had their own money printing machine, instead, they can't get people to watch it. At least with Fights Break Sphere, it's worth watching, The Wheel of Time is barely that. smh And to think, the director is suppose to be a fan of the series. I wonder if he even read it. smh It should be a crime for what they did to that series!
Anyway, if your looking for good light novels, that will keep you entertained for many, many hours, and some of the best, check these out.
Fine... _fine_ , I'll go and have another look at Danmachi already
Also, in other news... I've noted it before and I will note it again, you read stuff waaay faster than me 😂
Will we ever see another video from you bro, i really miss your content.
if you just see 'slow prison life' or 'prison life is easy for the villainess' as a comendy and ignore the stupidness of some characters it is actually very good
I have read all the year 1 of classroom of the elite volumes and few year 2. I have to say that first two volumes were definitely the weakest of them all.
I can confirm that cote gets better in later volumes. Like, much better. As an avid reader, I would have put it in S-tier.
Thanks for the tier list. I am relatively new to the light novel scene. I only started reading LN at the end of April. I was watching the Danmachi anime. Now 2 months later I have read the entire Danmachi series including its spin-offs like Sword Oratoria.
I’m still deciding which LN series I am going to read next.
Classroom of the Elite for sure gets better after volume 1. Volume 1 is just a set up for the series. It introduces characters and the overalls structure of how the school works. It’s basically just a info dump. The story gets better and better
As a huge Danmachi fan it makes me really happy to see it in S tier. It's easily one of my favourite Light Novel series and Fantasy series in general
I am also a Shield Hero fan but you are right. I have struggled to continue reading the series after volume 15. It also struggles from the issue of while not technically being on Haitus. It's been years since the last novel
Danmachi is a fabulous read.
One of those ‘wow-the title really downplays the intensity and depth of this great writing/storytelling’.
I would say the first 5 volumes of Shield Hero are S Tier material like was shown in the first season of the Anime but after that it gets pretty bad although it recovers somewhat once Atla becomes a main character, and then it somewhat goes downhill again sadly... I can't really argue with an overall B Tier ranking...
Thanks I got some new light novels I want to read because of you
Glad it was helpful!
Does anyone know where I could find violet evergarden in English physically cuz I’ve been looking for a while