A question about the novels...

[winterthur]

I was interested in buying some of the German novels and was wondering where would be the best place to order them online? I'm in USA, so it has to ship there. US Amazon has some, including 11 and 13, which are so far untranslated as far as I'm aware? 14 is hard to find for some reason

Comments

[kamerin_chan]

I'm not too familiar with German shopping online (still consider myself a novice to importing Japanese goods to the US), but when it comes to books and importing two major options come to mind

[kannnichtfranz]

I bought the novels from www.lesen.de and www.amazon.de more or less as they were being published. Both sites are slow at shipping. You do have to be careful whether you're getting the novels or the manga -- the "Nippon Novel" is the light novel, different from the manga. They stopped publishing the light novels at 14 I think -- which sucks a lot. It sort of felt like the story was just getting going. :(

Some more info on that: http://animexx.onlinewelten.com/forum/thread_5413879/0/

They're probably getting harder to find as they get older and go out of print, so I wouldn't put it off too long.

They're still publishing the manga in German, which they stopped doing in English, so I'm picking up German manga books where the English manga left off. Unfortunately that's all I can find that's still being published.

If it helps, I can try to photograph all the German covers I have so you know what you're looking for.

[kannnichtfranz]

PS. I don't remember which ones were side stories off the top of my head.

And -- I would imagine they're getting pretty hard to find in stores, though I don't know for sure.