Read The Beginning After The End Light Novel Novels & Stories

So, from everything I've been able to find and what the community generally agrees on, the main place for 'The Beginning After the End' is Tapas. That's where TurtleMe serializes it officially, with the latest chapters coming out weekly or on a schedule. You can read the early chapters for free with the waitwall system, or use Ink to unlock chapters faster.

The light novel, which is really the web novel version, is also on Amazon Kindle and the like if you want to own the compiled volumes. I've bought a few volumes there to support the author; the editing and extra content are pretty nice.

A lot of people ask about other sites, and yeah, you'll find aggregators and fan-scraped copies all over the place. Those are always a gamble—formatting gets weird, translations can be machine-made nightmares from earlier versions, and you never know if you're getting the final revised text. Sticking with Tapas or buying the volumes feels like the right move if you actually enjoy the story and want it to continue.

Honestly, the Tapas app isn't my favorite for reading long-form stuff, but it gets the job done and the comments section for each chapter can be weirdly entertaining.

Man, I've been trying to sort this out myself for weeks because it's a bit of a moving target. The core issue is that 'The Beginning After the End' exists as a webcomic on Tapas and as the light novel. People often mix up the counts. The light novel, which is the source material, is the one written by TurtleMe. It's been published on Amazon Kindle and other platforms like Tapas as well. From what I've pieced together from my own library and updates in the fandom, the light novel is complete. It has 10 volumes. The last volume, Volume 10, was published in late 2022. So, if you're asking about total chapters, it's not a single continuous serialized number like a web novel; it's divided into those 10 volumes, with each containing a chunk of chapters.

Each volume has roughly 25 to 35-ish chapters? It's not uniform. I own the first few on Kindle, and Volume 1 has 27 chapters plus prologue and epilogue. So if you do a rough estimate, you're looking at somewhere around 270 to 300 total chapters across the entire published light novel series. But honestly, I'd recommend forgetting the total count and just looking for 'Volume 10' as the endpoint. That's the cleanest way to know you've got the whole story. The webcomic adaptation is a whole different beast and is still ongoing, which is probably where a lot of the confusion comes from. My bookshelf feels a lot lighter now that I've got the whole set, I can tell you that much.

The Beginning After the End' is one of those stories that hooked me from the first chapter—I binge-read it over a weekend! If you're looking for places to read it online, you've got a few solid options. Tapas is my go-to platform since it releases official chapters regularly, and the UI is super reader-friendly. Webnovel also hosts it, though you might hit paywalls for later chapters. For unofficial scans, sites like Wattpad or NovelUpdates sometimes have fan translations, but quality varies wildly. Personally, I’d stick to Tapas to support the creator, TurtleMe. The art and community there add so much to the experience.

If you’re into audiobooks, Audible has a narrated version that’s surprisingly well done—great for commuting. Just a heads-up: avoid sketchy aggregator sites that pop up in Google searches. They’re riddled with ads and often have incomplete chapters. I learned that the hard way after wasting an hour clicking through broken links. TBATE’s world-building deserves better than that!