@wanderer_1204 said in Dahlia in Bloom:

PSA: Volume 11 will released on November 25th in Japanese.

Edit: Sorry, had mistyped the date. Corrected it now.

Nice! Aside from the story, which I do love, I really like the world building happening here. It is slow, but constant and interesting in its own right.

I don't mean to bring new life to this post. But I just want to say with the fact that J-Novel Club is being professional with there translations and localizations. I am not worried about their political biases getting put in to the work they put into translating the material they get licenses for. This for my self has made me trust their work over other translation companies to name one as an example though they deal with anime not books Crunchyroll.

So with this all of this I put a great deal of trust in the work this company does and am glade they hold to their standers and to not and will not cut corners.

@Kilocron said in Demon Lord, Retry! volume 9:

Bump for impatience! Pretty sure 10 just came out like yesterday or something, too.

The worst part is that even when it starts we'll have to wait 8-14 weeks to it to finish. I want it all, nowwwwww! (whining)

Despite Amazon's best attempts to hide it from me by telling me about manga volumes instead, I stumbled on the release date for volume 6 (Japanese volume 7): October 15.

On Amazon it's ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DHN93BFP : Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement Vol. 6 (light novel)

Fanbook 9 Cover Art (Japanese Release Date: 2024-11-09)

Short Story Collection 3 Cover Art (Japanese Release Date: 2024-12-10)

If you look at the Calendar you can see which volumes of books are being translated now and so are available to members: https://j-novel.club/calendar

There will also be some volumes that have finished being translated recently and do not yet require you to purchase them: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/534/expiring-volumes-light-novels/342?page=18

From the expiring topic, Expiring September 16th, 2024:

Ongoing series list:

VTuber Legend Vol. 7
Campfire Cooking Vol. 15
Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 2
Misfit of Demon King Academy Vol. 7
I Parry Everything Vol. 6
Knight's & Magic Vol. 4
Peddler in Another World Vol. 8
Private Tutorto the Duke's Daughter Vol. 13
Taking My Reincarnation One Step Vol. 6
Zilbagias the Demon Prince Vol. 2
After-School Dungeon Diver Vol. 3
Black Summoner Vol. 18
Record of Wortenia War Vol. 25
Holmes of Kyoto Vol. 19
Seirei Gensouki Vol. 25
Enough with This Slow Life Vol. 7
Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf! Vol. 9
Rebuild World Vol. 5
Min-Maxing my TRPG Vol. 9 Canto I
Goodbye, Overtime! Vol. 2
The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World Vol. 1
Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1 Vol. 2
A Surprisingly Happy Engagement for the Slime Duke and the Fallen Noble Lady Vol. 2
DUNGEON DIVE Vol. 8
The Crown of Rutile Quartz Vol. 2
Cooking with Wild Game Vol. 25
Earl and Fairy Vol. 7
Tearmoon Empire Vol. 13
DUNGEON DIVE Vol. 9
Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 5 Vol. 12
Blade & Bastard Vol. 4

The volume 1's are these:

The Blessing of Liefe Vol. 1
The Fake Hero Crashes the Party Vol. 1
The Royal Hostage Has Vanished Vol. 1
The Hero and the Sage, Reincarnated and Engaged Vol. 1
Dagashi-ya Yahagi Vol. 1
The Poison King Vol. 1

If you like to be able to read more than the bite-sized samples that Amazon, etc. give you for their ebooks then the membership is a great way to read an entire volume of a series before deciding if you want to buy it.

@Kaleissin
That's even a possibility for attending!
...gonna have to think about that...

@QuixoticHorizon not only did it not get a v4, they reprinted the 3 volumes with a new illustrator.

@Cid said in Unlicensed LN that were/are to popular for there own good:

more fans means more people willing to spend money.
Older titles tend to be less popular than newer ones.

My wallet whenever I find stuff for old media disagrees 😂
I might be outside the norm but I'm willing to spend a pretty penny to get merch from older series I like.

@Zeteni said in Is it just me?:

I don't know what your habits are with new batches but I've found more than a few times that if I try out everything (or at least close to it) I'll end up liking something I either had no particular interest in or even outright scorned based on the premise.

I do something completely different with the same result - I open every single part and chapter, and sometimes just glancing at that first page is what hooks me. Zilbagias is one of those, with After-School Dungeon Diver and Strongest Exorcist being two other recent ones. ...I really should go back and read the beginnings though. Though my impression from the comments is that Dungeon Diver basically starts abruptly anyway. But given that I've actually gone to Kakuyomu to read a few chapters ahead in Zilbagias at times...

Others haven't hooked me, but they're still worth skimming through to get a chuckle. (Looking at I Could Never Be A Succubus!)

@HarmlessDave said in Is it just me?:

Big-name actors do that all the time in Hollywood, they join a blockbuster movie in exchange for getting some passion project funded. Stephen King books pay for a publisher printing a few Pulitzer-bait Serious Novels.

And also to take risks on first-time unknown authors.

@Geezer-Weasalopes Yup. Also I notice that they'll announce the availability of things and links to order in social media first at amazon, then other places and often very lastly their on own site.

And often quite a while after it's been available elsewhere they don't have it available on their own site. So I've had to reach out to them a couple of times about having things available to purchase on their own site, then they apologize and do it.

Oh, well that's shitty, I did look at buying World Teacher from them, but since the bonus for Vol 1 was limited to the physical, the shipping costs were absolutely nuts for one volume I was going to wait until they had a few out, guess that's out the window now.

Have we had a reason why bookworm part 1 vol 2 isnt on audible yet? from what ive seen its been out a while in other places

@Seandrake said in Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody Vol 21:

I’m getting a little long in the tooth now and I’m more worried that I reach my conclusion before the series does.
It’s I think the last long running series I’m waiting on now strike the blood and so what I’m a spider have concluded, well Asterisk Wars has I think a volume left but I feel confident I can outlast that.

Well, here's hoping that you're around to see the end of this series. I'm honestly not sure how many volumes the series is likely to cover by the time it is finished.

I'm a bit frustrated by the pace of the translation. The author has been regularly releasing three volumes a year, yet Yen Press seems to struggle to do just two. It took them 6 months to release Volume 21 and 22 isn't scheduled until October!

No such general purpose thread exists but there are tips on how to assess status and discussions of this issue.

Generally speaking Japanese publishers never publicly announce a series has been cancelled they just stop announcing new volumes. However you can look up a series to see if new volumes have been published or announced in Japan. In some cases fans may have designated a series as on hiatus or dropped but those are typically informed guesses rather than anything official.

For a given series you can search the forum and Twitter to see if people know anything and ask a series specific question if necessary. A good place can often be the volume discussion thread for the last translated volume. For example https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/6005/oversummoned-vol-2-discussion/62?page=4 has discussion for Oversummoned. Sometimes series on JNC are marked as completed.

Other relevant threads include:

@Micah_Media J-Novel Club is primarily a translation company. We translate from Japanese into English. We do not have any application process for original novels to be published under us. If you wanted to publish right now your best bet would be through Kindle direct publishing.

We recently held an English light novel writing contest. It has concluded, and recently plans have been announced about a 2nd contest. If you would like to keep up with information on that, please subscribe to the newsletter found here:

https://j-novel.club/jncolncontest

@Silvermane it is released in Japan, now you just have to wait for licensing contracts to be signed, and the translation team to have time to work on it.