@wellwisher said in Question about Arifureta being censored and how to approach buying Light novels from them in the future, along with talking about Light novels.:

@weasalopes said in Question about Arifureta being censored and how to approach buying Light novels from them in the future, along with talking about Light novels.:

There's also that the copyright page on the physical editions should, if the publishers understand how these things are supposed to work, have some indication that it's a revised edition or later printing; in this case, technically, there should be a new ISBN, but I wouldn't hold my breath about that.

Yes, revised editions are marked as such on the bottom of copyright pages.
Unfortunately, they still share the same ISBN, which turns getting the right version of the book into a lottery while ordering online, which is an only option for a decent amount of people.

They aren't supposed to; reuse the ISBN with a revised edition. That's a no-no.
Yes, it's done all the time, but they are supposed to obtain a new ISBN if there are substantive changes to the work. Substantive changes can be pretty durn minor in reality.
There are regulations concerning the use of ISBNs and ISSNs, but there isn't an enforcement arm so publishers get away with this shit

Librarians hate it when they do this.
I worked in ILL at the Chicago Public Library's central library for four years... this is one of those things you continue reacting to some 29 years later... grimace

@jpwong said in Is Tentai Books looking to outclass Sol Press for the slowest releases?:

@jon-mitchell Oh I totally missed that, I was expecting it to be mentioned in the upcoming releases area where they gave each license it's own small update.

Yes, I thought the same but did a search and found that sentence.

I'm still going to hold off on buying anything else from them, but if they do release WT 2 I'll buy it.

Generally JP publishers will announce when a series is complete. I haven't heard of such an announcement for this series so we can only assume it's ongoing.

Thanks for the update.
I can wait half a year between volumes, it's worth waiting for.

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Dahlia in Bloom yet. It's not supposed to be about food, but anyone who's been reading it will be happy to tell you that every other chapter will make you wish you had some of Dahlia's cooking to eat in a really bad way.

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

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

@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.

@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.

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.

@legitpancake Hanashi might be a a new established Kadokawa partner.

Awwwww, I feel cheated! I wanted to read about Rio getting the axe. XD

@heimdal7 nearly 10 years ago is positively ancient compared to most popular LN series in English.

I really hope we get the third one too. This was one of the first series I read on this site and I really enjoyed it!

anyway my i have a vague idea that the story may be going towards a devine accendance path simply because of mynes repeating pattern of losing and gaining families... adoption into a pantheon as a lesser assisting godess of literature seams pretty logical...

Hmm... Forget the paper version of the story, I just need a Maomao plushie.

Err... Maomao (the kitten) not Maomao (the young woman) just to be clear here...