>>1450035LOOKING FOR A MANGA to read by title, theme, types of plots, types of character personality, situations, or manga target audience::
https://www.mangaupdates.com/SITES TO READ MANGA, MANWHA, MANHUA ONLINE::
https://mangadex.org/https://mangakatana.com/https://lhtranslation.net/home/ SITES TO DOWNLOAD MANGA::
{english}
https://tokyotosho.org/?cat=3{untranslated raws}
https://anidex.info/?q=&id=7,8{english}
https://nyaa.si/?c=3_1ARTBOOKS::
{both NSFW & SFW}
https://e-hentai.org/tag/other:artbook{SFW}
https://bakabt.me/ {large collection}
LIGHT NOVELS (text-only stories)::
Many manga or anime are based upon the light novel story which preceded them. If you have questions, use their forums.
https://www.novelupdates.com/ TEXT STORIES::
Royal Road is a great site. Here is an example of a canon-style addition to an existing light novel "Overlord". The anonymous write feels like a professional author using a pen name to write more stories in the "Overlord" universe while trying to remain as canon as possible. That is, events, NPC people. timeline, plots, and characters remain as canon as reasonably possible. It really is well-written and quite detailed in the way the original light novels are.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/39336/valkyries-shadow