By the way
How far would that point be as of now?
Like volume 9 lol
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Unless we end up reading any of the side story volumes, since I think some of those were released sometime before then? (And Iām pretty sure the anime doesnāt cover the stuff in them)
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Wow, 200+ pages a week sounds tough! 
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I was really surprised when @mrahhal said that a while ago, but seeing just how little of the anime was covered in the first volume, I can kinda see that happening.
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Does that mean youāre not going to watch season 2?
This is partly what makes me never want to read light novels (or manga) like these. It just seems like they move at a snailās pace.
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I feel more like the anime moves too fast, to be honest 
I feel lost watching most anime, but the light novel pace is perfect for me.
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For what itās worth, I havenāt really felt like either re:zero or SAO have been particularly slow paced while reading them, and thatās even though Iāve watched the anime for both already. I think it helps a lot that the books provide extra info and monolouges and sometimes have viewpoints from other characters or things like that, and that anime adaptions often skip over a decent amount of non-essential stuff, especially when it comes to side characters
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Gotta respect how directors routinely manage to condense entire novels into 1 hour of anime
Nah Iām gonna watch it when it comes out in another 10 years
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Yes. Like, I really liked what I got from ć©ć¤ć³ćć«ć in the LN, while I donāt remember having any strong impression from the anime.
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It seems very likely that you put an extra zero there given how it was announced a while ago and I donāt think it takes that long to make 
Thatās actually specifically one of the things I was thinking about when I gave those examples 
That kind of makes me look forward to getting to the side characters I already did like in the anime
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How many times can I make the same mistake T.T
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@sigolino @Ditto20 Maybe Iād feel differently if I could read these books in a few days like in English, and if they didnāt cost so much in aggregate.
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Have you tried buying a forwarding service like Tenso? You could probably buy used books for like 100 yen and have them forwarded to you since Tenso provides a temporary Japanese address
I get that. Reading a light novel series for me is also something that takes a long time, especially because I donāt want to read only one series from start to finish before moving on to the next.
Iāve still only finished one light novel series, and it was just 5 volumes 
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Iāve looked into it a few times, and it never seems like it would save that much money. A lot of the cost comes from shipping / import fees, and those tend to be higher with everyone compared to Amazon.
Wait you sure?
I havenāt looked into it a ton because I prefer ebooks but I figured itād be worth it with the sheer amount of used books you can get off amazon for like 1 cent. But again, idk havenāt looked into it a ton.
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Well thatās on the expensive side. I bought a bunch of books/manga recently on Amazon and most were less than 600 yen (the most expensive was 840 yen). But I looked up the forwarding service stuff so long ago I donāt remember the actual numbers.
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In particular, from volumes after 3. Itās said there were lots of cut content from those.
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