Top 10 Light Novels of 2014 – Mangaoh
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Dec 31, 2014 22:13 JST
- Tags: A Certain Magical Index, Light Novels, Rankings, Sword Art Online
With the year’s end rapidly approaching, light novel fans have taken an interest in ascertaining what they believe to have been the best volumes of 2014 – the top spots unsurprisingly being occupied by an immensely popular VRMMORPGLN franchise.
The ranking, including volumes released between December 2013 through November 2014:
1. Sword Art Online Volume 14
1. Sword Art Online Progressive 2
3. Sword Art Online Volume 15
3. The Irregular at Magic High School Volume 13
5. The Irregular at Magic High School Volume 14
6. Isekai Cheat Magician Volume 2
6. A Certain Magical Index: New Testament Volume 9
8. A Certain Magical Index: New Testament Volume 11
9. Accel World Volume 17
9. Accel World Volume 16
9. Eromanga Sensei Vol 1
Onagi’s Oni Seed WIP Ero-SFM Promisingly Pumping
Shiness Trailer Fabulously furry
Dagashi Kashi More Mouthwatering Than Ever
King of Fighters XIV Reveals More Brawlers
Vocaloid-Inspired Sakura no Ame Trailer Mostly Melancholic
Phantasy Star Online 2 Bathing Event Ensues
Titillating Chitose Ero-Figure
One Piece Kabuki Adaptation Highly Unique
Subarashii Sekai Cracked Combat Anime
Nissan Parking Chairs “For The Extremely Lazy!”
Netorare Magical Girl Absurdly Cruel
Bountiful Bunny Girl Charlotte Figure
Phantom World Nekomimi Abounds
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun English Dub PV Unveiled
Star Ocean 5 Trailer Exposes Fiore Brunelli
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X Trailer Sings Incessantly
Monmusu BD Infinitely Amorous
Kantai Collection Ero-MMD “Dirty Dancing!”
Akatsuki no Yona Stage Play Trailer Emerges
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: “The Pole-Dancing Returns!”
Reimu Ero-Cosplay by Nishizuku Hiyo Superbly Sticky
LVL18 Goddess of Twitter: “Spreading More Than Just Her Legs!”
Bunny Girl Non Cosplay Bouncing with Beauty
Hestia Cosplay by Fleia0124 Unfathomably Cute
Haruhi Ero-Cosplay by Riku Minato Quite Godly
Shiguma Rika Ero-Cosplay by Yurina Ayashiro Sheer Genius
Goddess of Twitter: “F For Fearless!”
Scantily Clad Kill la Kill Cosplay by Mikehouse Dead Sexy
Wonder Festival 2016 Cosplay Braves the Cold
Taiga Seifuku Cosplay Infinitely Charming
I got one of these because the picture on the front was nice but I discovered to my disappointment that there's nothing but a bunch of words inside. Are you supposed to put your dick between the pages or something? I can't figure out what to do with it.
Usually, you are supposed to let your eyes wonder all over the words, and occasionally laugh and/or make weird faces.
At least that's how it was in the 20th century ... I feel old.
I only they were all in a language that we could understand
>2015
>still doesn't know japanese
pleb
Why do you think they are called Light "Novels"?
Ever read a book before?
Heh, this is a nice, subtly sardonic comment about the current state of LN's.
Of course the two people that replied so far have a bunch of wind blowing through their hair.
pick one with sexier art next time and you might have more luck
sarcasm translation:
*hand on forehead*
"OOOOOOH, woe.. WOE is meeeee.... OOooh, the skin being shown is a detriment to my classy being... You know I'm classy because I am experiencing the winter of emotions as a result of art showing skin not being banned from my high class literature... One day, OH... one day, everyone may see the evils of shown skin and return to the days of roomy jumpsuits and fedoras for all..."
That's all I could make out.
No need to thank me!
Who the fuck thanks fucking idiots?
I SAID NO NEED TO THANK ME
AKA: list of all the more evidences beta Jap males needing pathetic self-centered ego boost through Gary Stu fantasies.
It's like the equivalent of Twilight tweens, only male and with much bigger age range but still with the same amount of mental maturity.
Need to jack off their egos as much as their tiny, tiny penises.
only idiots get married these days. Those beta male got more money to bang more chicks in their life time even if their dicks are small. These days, your bank account is the new dick size. All my considered beta male friends use prostitutes monthly if not weekly... for me, I am the true beta male... fapping at anime or building robots and writing codes... Since I am kind of a Christian and I don't go to prostitution as a solution. Ahhhhh, now I wanna kill myself. Btw, I hate reading bunch of text about how a cute boy gets all the chicks while I am here jacking off 2D anime. Hentai is more of my taste.
Let me guess, you only know SAO by the anime, and even moreso only by S1?
Oh excuse me, which part of S2 did you not see that it kept sucking on Kirito's dick with all supposed "cool" plot as written by the mind of a 14 years old?
OMG people are dying from an MMO again! I'm not ripping off .hack enough!
OMG Kirito instantly has the ability to win against all guns with a friggin knife for no supposed reason because this is SWORD Art Online and not Logic Art Online!
OMG Sinon immediately trusted Kirito and fell for him with no reasons given!
OMG the random nurse also fell for him for no particular reason even if she's uber minor, because the notion of any respectable girls not liking Kirito is just blasphemous!
OMG Death Gun kills people for the lulz! Because I can't write villains with better motivations or depths than that!
OMG Kirito survives thanks to dumb plot convenient electrode on his chest! Way to go plot armor ex machina!
OMG Klein why are you still even alive!? Oh yes we need another male just to contrast with him in order to show how awesome Kirito is!
OMG Yuuki is implied to be stronger than Kirito, but I still have to tell the audiences that Kirito ONLY lost because he held back!
OMG Asuna's arc! She's going to prove her independence now by relying on Kirito to do everything for her!
OMG Mother's Rosario! It's an attack that pokes you 11 times, that's a big deal!
OMG Yuuki's gonna die! Of course we can't leave anyone implied to be stronger than Kirito alive for too long!
OMG Yuuki's dying and a bunch of nameless characters showed up, that's so dramatic!
Top 10 light novels of 2014
3 SAO, 2 MAHOUKA, 2 INDEX, 2 ACCEL, 1 ISEKAI, 1 EROMANGA
A top 10 LNs... but only 6 series when there are a shitload of them out there...
I'm kinda worried for the japaneses... and Japan's LN industry...
Maybe, but truth is, bot Index novels included were outstanding. Clearly in the best 5 of the whole series, not just New Testament.
Lol Index and Accel World continue to be successful yet the fuckers won't make more seasons.
And we're still waiting for new seasons of ToAru and Accel World... And hopefully SAO 3rd season
The list got fucked up at #9
And #9 picture_title don't match
Well, considering there are three ex-aequo #9, it's good that they only mixed two out of three of them.
Also, it just so happens that there are 11 light novel volumes listed in total. 'Tis silly.
i need to read index NT 11
me too
Honestly, it wasn't that great. For a volume finally covering Misaki Shokuhō and pre-memory loss Touma, it fell kinda flat. The fact it placed higher than NT vol 10 is rather surprising, and NT vol 9 should be way higher on the list than all that SoA crap.
You confused the pictures for Accel World Vol 17 and Eromanga Sensei Vol 1.
Shit list missing 2,4 and 7?
Some series are tied so they skip the following numbers. Two series are tied for first so they skip 2, two are tied for third so they skip 4, and two are tied for sixth so they skip 7. Notice how three series are tied for ninth, if they continued the list, they'd continue at 12.
It isn't a mistake, some of these light novels share the same position.
I wish Rakuin no Monshou was on here, but naturally it's a bunch of shit...
SHIT
If only I could read japanese... Instead I have to wait for fans to translate the novels.. if they ever do, because everything is getting licensed by fucking Yen-Press these days.
I can read Japanese. Still not worth the time or effort to read any of these. Too much Vidya to play.
Well...as a fan of Japanese media, you could take 1 or 2 hours of your daily schedule every week and learn the language instead of waiting for someone else to translate it. Your hour of porn watching could be replaced with hour of Japanese lessons.
The gods of porn frown on this statement.
if it was only 1 or 2 hours, it wouldn't be an issue, specially when learning new kanji, you will review it for hours specially when it starts to accumulate.
I agree and well said.
That's a GOOD thing. I prefer to read manga in official book format.