User:Kalessin
I love to read and I love anime, so naturally I want to read the light novels which many anime are based on. Unfortunately, they can be rather hard to find since they're rather expensive for companies to license and translate and yet don't yield as high a profit as either manga or anime. It can be hard to find fan translations as well. Fortunately, we have this site, for which I am quite grateful. Still, I prefer to have the actual books in hand when I can.
I'm a programmer by trade, but I'm good at writing and am well-versed in English grammar. I tend to be quite picky about it too, so if a particular phrase or page is bugging me, there's a good chance that I'll edit it to improve it.
My native tongue is English - my being from California and all - but I'm also fluent in French. Unfortunately, I don't know Japanese, so this site is a godsend. Though it's not like every light novel series ever published gets translated here, so one of these days, I may have to break down and go through the huge hassle of actually learning to read Japanese.
Series which have been licensed and I've bought
- Full Metal Panic
- Moribito
- Scrapped Princess
- Shakugan no Shana
- Twelve Kingdoms
Series here that I've currently read at least some of
- Kaze no Stigma
- Shakugan no Shana (why, oh, why did Viz have stop translating it... At least it's here.)
- Spice and Wolf
- Toradora!
- Zero no Tsukaima
Series here that I'm likely to read in the future
- Baccano!
- Fate/Zero
- Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun (assuming that it graduates from teaser status)
- Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (assuming that it gets approved)
- Strike Witches
- To Aru Majutsu no Index
Series I'd love to see here some day but currently aren't
- Asura Cryin'
- Maburaho
