@doublemangekyo Seeing that Fuurou wrote Frontier Lord, one of my favourite fluff manga, I'm super looking forward to seeing what the licensed series will be like.

Updated with December 2021 catchups. 😺

We have the usual manga for the first time on catchup: A Very Fairy Apartment. Also 3 out of 5 series are complete while the other 2 are currently being translated (with one of them, The Apothecary Diaries, being for the first time on catchup, too).

I really hope JNC will translate volume 12 before the next volume of Zero.

Faraway Paladin releasing next March will be the first time JNC will publish single-volume hardbacks. JNC has never re-released a series in a different format, so there is no precedent for this publisher at least to release hardcovers after paperbacks. Bookworm would need to be a substantial bestseller in paperbacks to warrant a rerelease, especially since it’s projected to be 33 volumes. Releasing 33 paperbacks, and then 33 hardcovers (maybe less if they did omnibuses) is a huge financial risk.

Nice to see those 2 in color. Really love this series.

@harmlessdave iBooks. I didn’t think about converting it. Thanks for the idea. I really miss Stanza. :(

@wellwisher ah I see I truly appreciate it. Saying for the time being does give that hope. Overlap seems to cancel a lot of series after the usual 3 or 5 books has ended. At least with LDM they gave him a 3 book notice.

@amakaze said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:

@wellwisher said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:

@jon-mitchell
Newton and the Apple Tree game got pulled from stores.
When asked "why", admin of JAST (VN distributor and publisher) discord server answered "Be good and pay your royalties, folks".
There's also this tweet from NekoNyan employee from few days before game got removed.

I'm glad I managed to catch news of NewRin being removed from steam, before they did the same at JAST. I bought it and I've been playing it for a while now and I really enjoy it so far. It is a real shame that it has been removed from stores...

If the allegation about non-payment is true, then sadly it is a pirate release :(

If true, it's a shame Sol didn't do something like a GoFundMe to at least pay their royalties and the translation teams.

@whyohwhy1

Sounds more like something that you should contact Amazon about if they have dispatched it and you haven't received it.

I got my copy a while ago and that was from Book Depository with them shipping to Australia, so it's definitely been released.

Tales of Reincarnation in Maydare fits the bill and looks amazing.

@amakaze said in [In what Light Novels the main characters have a

Black Summoner: Kelvin had sex with Efil right in the first volume, or at least, it was heavily implied that was the case.

More than that, Kelvin, Efil, Sera, and Melfina sleep together on a regular basis. Typical arrangement is MC plus a couple girls on a rotation schedule, unless one of them did something recently to earn a special bonus from the other haremettes. They are strongly implied to have passionate sex unless too exhausted or injured (by the superhuman standards of OP adventurers) to do anything but cuddle. As of last update, Angie joined the harem and is implied to share the arrangement in the near future.

Kelvin and Rion have gone second or third base as part of indulging their 'sibling bonding' activities (shared baths and the like). Fun thing is, these two being unrelated (as far as we know) people that met as reincarnated late teens/young adults, in the end they are vanilla bf/gf that roleplay a shared brotacon/siscon kink.

@harmlessdave Thank you very much for this information. :D I guess I'll have to be a little patient but I am glad there is something to be looking forward to.

This description reminds me somewhat of the description of the 1999 Isekai Anime Now and Then, Here and There. Unfortunately, I've never watched it, as it went out of print with ADV Films' bankruptcy.

Found the site for the WN, and it looks like it's still updating regularly. So maybe they're just waiting for the WN to get so far ahead before the next volume of the LN. Also looks like they're restructuring it a bit from the WN, so that probably takes some time.

@someoldguy I read about half of this so far, based on your recommendation, and I'm really enjoying it. The main character has amazing analytical skills (I'm pretty sure here that her analytics are a standalone ability that goes beyond her Saint power to read someone's health status, because she can list off all the cues that clued her in on something when people pester her about how she knew - "Your step is just a bit longer on your right leg, and you tend to put your weight on your right foot when standing, yet you're a highly trained knight who should have perfect posture, which makes that unusual. That's how I figured out that your left leg was injured." - and figuring out monsters' attack patterns by observing how they fight so she can take advantage of the openings they leave, etc)

But she reads the room and interprets what others say about as well as Bakarina (i.e. she can't)

This confuses the hell out of her superiors in the knight brigade on the order of "how can someone so stupid be so smart" and vice versa, which leads to great comedy.

I like these (long) series:

Overlord, 13 books.
I think this series just keeps getting better.

Lazy Dungeon Master.
Funny series, I never get bored with it.

Campfire cooking in another world, 10 books.
This series is consistently funny. Book 10 is really nice, too.

Death March, 14 books.
Nice series, but there are too many childish characters in the books and that's getting worse with each new book.

Konosuba, 14 books.
The last few books aren't that great, I think, but up to book 10 or so it's funny. The spin-off Konosuba: Explosion with 3 books is also funny.

Skeleton knight in another world.
Epic story about a (skeleton) knight fighting horrible nation-scale evil in another world, using large-scale over-the-top magic.

So I'm a spider so what, 12 books.
I like this series, but it's very confusing to read because the timelines are so messed up that it's actually annoying. I like the over-the-top action in this series so that makes it worth it. You can just ignore the messed up timelines. In book 10 or 11 there's a lot of side-stories that are so different from the main story that it's like a completely different book. I don't like it. The last book 12 also has a lot of different stories but this time it's done well, because they're back to point for the main story and I enjoyed those. The only thing I don't like is, that the series gives many hints about the ending. I think that's just frustrating as a reader, because every time I think it's the final book and then it isn't ! The end is not near.

Reincarnated as a slime, 11 books.
Nice series about a city/nation-building reincarnation with over-the-top powers. It gets quite absurd in the last few books, though... what with a dragon-powered-dungeon and all... I'm not sure where this series is heading to be honest.