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I Wrote This Light Novel In Like A Day, It Sucks And I Hate It, But If It Gets An Anime Adaptation I'll Pretend It Was A Work Of Genius
161 pages, ebook
Published May 6, 2017
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September 21, 2019
A type of fun and lightheartedness that i honestly can't find anywhere else. It's heavy on the narrator's personality, because the narrator just is the character of digibro. So if you're interested on his perspective on lightnovels, delivered through the examples of many hypothetical light novel passages, you'll like this.
September 11, 2019
Parts of it are comedic genius, parts are genuinely interesting self-reflection, parts are kind of boring, parts are just completely fucking stupid. Overall though it's a wild ride that's enjoyable even the 4th time around. Audiobook highly recommended.
September 11, 2019
Conrad "Digibro" Collins did a podcast in 2017 in which he talked about an anime called Eromanga Sensei every week, episode by episode. Most of the characters in this show are light novel authors. They were shown as being able to write an entire light novel in one day, which is, of course, absurd. After being annoyed at this preposterous detail, Digibro challenged himself to write a whole light novel in one day. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t able to do that, having to extend the deadline to one week rather than one day, but that’s neither here nor there.
This is that light novel. It isn’t very good. Half of the book is extremely overblown, hyper-sexual, hyper-violent absurdist satirizations of light novel cliches. The entire time, using meta-humor to segue from scenario to scenario and to point out how (obviously) retarded light novels are and how (obviously) retarded the act of him writing this one is. That might sound interesting, but the problem is that Digibro is not funny. At least, he isn’t being funny here. A lot of it is just like, “Oh, here’s this character, and she has huge tits and wants to fuck her brother, nigga, and then she dies! Okay, next story. Chapter 10…” and it just really isn’t doing anything for me. Also, he is still shoehorning loli into his writing.
But see, the thing is that a lot of these vignettes give way to Digibro just writing from his own first person perspective as if you’re just reading one of his video scripts or watching one of his vlogs, which is kind of annoying because, if the fact that most of the book isn’t taking itself seriously as a light novel, this just isn’t a light novel at all, and somewhat takes away from the fun of reading an LN by Digibro. However, the most interesting part of the book comes towards the halfway point of the book wherein one of these sections, Digibro has a moment writing about his aprehension at writing erotic literature. He brings up how, while he likes to be open, he still feels guarded in this respect. It was a moment of sincerity in the book that was appreciated after like a fucking hour of unfunny bullshit.
I don’t know. It was interesting to see how Digi has changed since his first LN, and as someone invested in his narrative, that made it worth it, but this is bad and should not be read by anyone who isn’t a super deep lore Diglet.
This is that light novel. It isn’t very good. Half of the book is extremely overblown, hyper-sexual, hyper-violent absurdist satirizations of light novel cliches. The entire time, using meta-humor to segue from scenario to scenario and to point out how (obviously) retarded light novels are and how (obviously) retarded the act of him writing this one is. That might sound interesting, but the problem is that Digibro is not funny. At least, he isn’t being funny here. A lot of it is just like, “Oh, here’s this character, and she has huge tits and wants to fuck her brother, nigga, and then she dies! Okay, next story. Chapter 10…” and it just really isn’t doing anything for me. Also, he is still shoehorning loli into his writing.
But see, the thing is that a lot of these vignettes give way to Digibro just writing from his own first person perspective as if you’re just reading one of his video scripts or watching one of his vlogs, which is kind of annoying because, if the fact that most of the book isn’t taking itself seriously as a light novel, this just isn’t a light novel at all, and somewhat takes away from the fun of reading an LN by Digibro. However, the most interesting part of the book comes towards the halfway point of the book wherein one of these sections, Digibro has a moment writing about his aprehension at writing erotic literature. He brings up how, while he likes to be open, he still feels guarded in this respect. It was a moment of sincerity in the book that was appreciated after like a fucking hour of unfunny bullshit.
I don’t know. It was interesting to see how Digi has changed since his first LN, and as someone invested in his narrative, that made it worth it, but this is bad and should not be read by anyone who isn’t a super deep lore Diglet.
August 19, 2020
A deep dive into the mind of Digi-née, formerly Digibro. Can be summed up best by chapter twenty one:
Writing this light novel is a terrible idea right now. I don’t know why I impulsively promised to produce this in the week between episodes of the Eromanga-sensei Every Week podcast. I think some part of me honestly believed I could do it in one day like the characters in the show, even though, as stated earlier, my typing speed alone would prevent that from being possible. Even doing it in a week would be considered an impressive feat by most, and I’m trying to do it while juggling six or so weekly podcasts, a ton of new shit that I have to do now that I’ve reformatted my patreon, cleaning up the house so that it’ll be presentable to renters, figuring out where the fuck I’m moving because I want to move into an RV and even looking at those involves driving absurd distances to the few dealerships that have jack shit, and still managing to produce the cavalcade of vlogs and editorial videos that my entire career is based around. This was quite possibly the actual worst possible time that I could have promised to write a light novel in under a week. In fact, right now my actual everyday personal life is probably more interesting than any kind of fictional story that I could come up with. I’m practically living a fantasy-slash-nightmare life. I just dropped a mini-album of me rapping over anime songs earlier to night, apropos of nothing. Literally no one was asking for that, and barely anyone seems to care now that it exists, but for some reason I saw fit to put that on my plate along with everything else. And now I’m just trying to get this thing written before the weekend, because I’d like it if I also had the audiobook version completed by the time the next Eromanga-sensei podcast comes out. This will probably be a three or more hour audiobook mind you, which will take three times that long to edit. I sincerely think that I have actually lost or broken my mind, and that there may not be any recourse anymore. I am just a human machine built for content generation. I am Digibro--who the fuck is Conrad?
Writing this light novel is a terrible idea right now. I don’t know why I impulsively promised to produce this in the week between episodes of the Eromanga-sensei Every Week podcast. I think some part of me honestly believed I could do it in one day like the characters in the show, even though, as stated earlier, my typing speed alone would prevent that from being possible. Even doing it in a week would be considered an impressive feat by most, and I’m trying to do it while juggling six or so weekly podcasts, a ton of new shit that I have to do now that I’ve reformatted my patreon, cleaning up the house so that it’ll be presentable to renters, figuring out where the fuck I’m moving because I want to move into an RV and even looking at those involves driving absurd distances to the few dealerships that have jack shit, and still managing to produce the cavalcade of vlogs and editorial videos that my entire career is based around. This was quite possibly the actual worst possible time that I could have promised to write a light novel in under a week. In fact, right now my actual everyday personal life is probably more interesting than any kind of fictional story that I could come up with. I’m practically living a fantasy-slash-nightmare life. I just dropped a mini-album of me rapping over anime songs earlier to night, apropos of nothing. Literally no one was asking for that, and barely anyone seems to care now that it exists, but for some reason I saw fit to put that on my plate along with everything else. And now I’m just trying to get this thing written before the weekend, because I’d like it if I also had the audiobook version completed by the time the next Eromanga-sensei podcast comes out. This will probably be a three or more hour audiobook mind you, which will take three times that long to edit. I sincerely think that I have actually lost or broken my mind, and that there may not be any recourse anymore. I am just a human machine built for content generation. I am Digibro--who the fuck is Conrad?
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June 30, 2022
One of my favourite books
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