@Jon-Mitchell they only said “nonhuman” so I think elves and dragon girls are up for grabs 😉

@topgnu said in Memories of Another World in May:

@PuckGoodfellow00-0 said in Memories of Another World in May:

I managed to get through everything that I really wanted to read this last month.

I have observed that if I manage to read all catchup series I am interested in before the end of the month, the new ones are released on the 3rd or 4th of the month. When I am struggling for time to finish a volume or two, the new monthly catch-ups arrive on the 1st crisp.

I may have gotten to sleep really late for me because I wanted to finish Volume 2 of Deathbound Duke's Daughter....

A few additional announcements went up on Twitter today!

https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1662172325586796544
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1662173185796702208
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1662174165242204160

@geetop

Hello,

They are set to change today, we appreciate everyone's patience until the changeover can happen.

Thank you

edit: it happened

@geetop said in Moving On with March Catchups!:

I am pleased to mention that I was able to finish Altina the Sword Princess and awaiting V15 whenever it should show up.

One of us!

YAY, more Endo and Kobayashi. The other one sounds interesting too.

@PhantomOfTheKill said in Sol Press license rescues!:

@myskaros will grieving souls volumes flow uninterrupted up to the latest jp volumes? Hoping for weekly updates to parts with the typical 2 weeks between volumes. If not, can i know the schedules for it?

There is always only one answer to that question.

Reminder that catchups will be changing on March 1 around noon-ish US time, so 1 week left to finish catching up!

So I've bought all of By the Grace of the Gods, and have just finished Volume 6.
I'd have to look through my various files where I've kept track of my reading progress to be sure, but I believe I was reading the fan translation at one time; Volume One was just too familiar in too many ways.

ETA:
Finished.
Eagerly awaiting the licensing of Volume 12, released in Japan in late 2022...

@Windsagio I have two categories for JNC series I follow - the ones I buy, and the ones I keep as prepub only.

Bookworm, Apothecary Diaries and Dahlia in Bloom are examples of the former. These are series I really enjoyed and will definitely read again.

The latter category mostly includes manga includes those books I either won't read again, or simply didn't like enough to justify the purchase. My funds are also limited, unfortunately... .

As for buying the Japanese versions, well, I don't do that very often, just with a couple of series as shipping can be expensive. Right now, the only ones I'm actively buying are manga (My Happy Marriage's special editions and Shoukoku no Altair, both of which get like one book per year) and the Honzuki junior bunko.

My Happy Marriage is also a strange example in that I'm getting the English novels but the Japanese manga... perhaps it's because the setting, but that one just feels like I have to read it in Japanese ahaha.

@endoftheline That actually was set up, even if only in passing back near the start of the series.

"You'll need language and crafting skills. I can also throw in some fighting skills for your self-defense. As a tradeoff, you'll have the bare minimum in magical ability, but you won't need it for day-to-day life anyway. What do you think?"
"Sounds good to me."

Admittedly, the actual combat skill he ended up with would seem rather disproportionate to its description...

@myskaros Mia looking so BOSS there

Sounds like if you get to the JNC booth at AnimeNYC early enough they're gonna have some stuff on sale you can't normally get your hands on these days.

From discord courtesy of LurkingMcLurk

@Geezer-Weasalopes

I'm looking forward to Volume 5 of Redefining the Meta at the VRMMO Academy.

I might re-read the first 4 volumes now that they are on catch-up.

Hooray for rescues!

Just a note for our members, catchups will be changing on Monday, October 3, since the first of the month is on a weekend and we unfortunately have not created an automated system for it yet!

@Tube Yeah, but that's not up in the cycle of side books until after Fanbook 3.

Thank you for the heads up and what you said makes a ton of sense. It's unfortunate because I thought it was a great series. Nice character development compared to most titles out, character grind versus OPed from day one, enough fan service, and a nice balance between comedy and seriousness.

I hope the creator attempts to make a sequel one day.

@arghc Correct; the only discount comes from your subscription status, otherwise the cost per coin is consistent regardless of quantity.

@pcj said in New J-Novel Coins are here!:

@admin said in New J-Novel Coins are here!:

@saffire We're kind of waiting to make a few other changes all at once to the app so it might be a little while but we'll definitely get to it (along with allowing purchases of coins etc IN the app).

Amazon just stopped allowing you to purchase within the Kindle app because they didn't want to give the app stores their cut.

I think JNC are in a pretty different situation to Amazon though. The app stores cut likely aren't much different to what Kobo, Bookwalker and Amazon themselves are taking for selling the books 3rd party. If they can bring more people over to buying direct by offering that additional payment method, that balances out.