Did you guys see Bookwalker are bringing Overlord and Goblin Slayer authors (and Overlord's anime director too iirc)? So I don't know if we should be expecting any new Bookwalker licenses or just Q+A with those guys.

@sam-pinansky said in Let's play a guessing game. What will be licensed in AX?:

@terrence Mimic is by the same author as "My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World".

Ahh, I hadn't even realized. I love that series too.

The opening for Mimic is really fun.

I haven't checked out anything beyond though. Maybe I should toss out a real request for it anyways.

@terrence

Lol, I'm amazed anyone thought of them as the same. NU is less of a database site and more of a fan-translation tracker. LNDB is pretty much completely open for users to add whatever they want. (This can be bad when you get spam and the admin is MIA and no moderators exist.)

@paulnamida said in Which do you prefer for your romance in stories?:

@terrence In Search of the Lost Future is soooooo underrated. I know that the CGI can be off-putting for some people, but the story was awesome. Too bad the ending was so rushed and we didn't get the full story. I'm pretty sure the VN is worth reading.

I really want to read the VN. Dunno if it's one that's been fanslated or no, I should look into that.

Rumbling Hearts VN is also one I need to see. Only ever found a few subtitled videos of it on YouTube, and I guess a fan project to translate the latest version of the game is in limbo. Apparently, the people that made the Japanese VN are the same people behind MuvLuv, "âge". So fans were hopeful that if Muv-Luv did well we'd get Rumbling Hearts... but Muv-Luv is no longer an active project from American localizer Degica (they gave the full reigns to another company to complete the Kickstarter rewards and republish the games on Steam). So I don't know how hopeful that is now. =[

At least we got Shuffle.

https://twitter.com/BOOKWALKER_GL/status/998941563475582979?s=20

Here's another hint for our guests at @AnimeExpo this year:

We're bringing 2 authors and 1 anime director! >That's 3 guests!

@sam-pinansky Just sent an email. Not sure if you can see my email on here, but I sent through same email address on my account. I read back through to Chapter 3 then realized what I believed was Grammatical Errors (although, I did find some actual grammar errors) could possibly not be an error. I detailed my findings in the attached word document in the email. Thank you for taking the time to read.

@village-idiot Inner narration is mostly cut in a lot of anime I think.

@dryurimom said in Magical Girl Poll:

I love well written Mahou Shoujo and will always give the genre a try, but because of my adoration of the genre I'm harsh on stuff that doesn't live up to the standards I hold in my heart.

Have you read the light novel / watched the anime Magical Girl Raising Project? I still need to make it through volume 1, but I did watch a little of the anime. It seems like a decent dark Magical Girl focused one.

I need to watch Magical Girl Site from this season's set of anime.

I chose indifferent in that I'll glomp an isekai with good writing or story elements (So I'm a Spider, Log Horizon, .//Hack, No Game No Life, etc) but reject one that doesn't have good writing or treats female characters as nothing but foils to the guys (I'll respectfully refrain from naming names, but there are many) rather than as independent personalities with their own goals and aspirations. I came here looking for some good stories and, well, I'm struggling a bit. I'm going to keep at it, though! I'm open to suggestions! :-)

Speaking as a mother of two, best anime mom ever is Kaname Junko, mother to Kaname Madoke in Puella Magi Madoka Magika. Independent, smart, and wise. She fulfills her own wishes; incubators need not apply. Even her daughter finds her scary. Watching that scene in the shelter in Ep 11 when Junko gives Madoka the push to go out into the Walpurgis storm still sends chills up my spine.

And yes, a runner up for best anime mom ever, looking at it from the evil side, is Ryoko's mom in Kill-la-Kill. She is so deliciously evil, isn't she?

Thank you to everyone posting thoughts on this topic. I'll be taking up all the stories you mention. I'm always on the lookout for good moms to enjoy sharing my time with. :-)

Independent female characters with their own personalities and drives that are not always centered around reacting to or pleasing male characters.

Mother characters are a sure way to my heart. Miki Arakawa in "I'm a Genius" has me hooked although I wish we saw more in her head than just reacting to/pleasing her son. I'd like to know more about who she was before she gave birth. Something must have prepared her to bring all the ideas Kouki comes up with to life.

This is one of those series where the author is writing it as a web novel but it's clearly not their day job. He only updates the webnovel with a new chapter once every other week, so it takes him about 1 year to finish a volume's worth.
There is already enough material for 1 more volume, but maybe they are waiting to put out v6 for some other reason.

@amicus JNC has "Catch Up Months" where a few series are available as pre-pubs in their entirety. There are also some series that are always available to read.

@sam-pinansky Thank you for clarifying that. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

Seems I was right, I made a new topic for May catch up if you want to discuss it: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1060/catch-up-titles-may ;)

@the-green-death said in Q+A: Rikako Akiyoshi, author of Dark Maidens (Submit Questions on Justus R Stone's YouTube Until May 10th):

@terrence it annoys me that Yen’s Slice Of Life/Romance books have been physical only... Fingers crossed this and SNAFU make their way to digital.

I'm guessing this has something to do with them testing the waters? Or needing a better way of tracking sales? =[

The physical order I cancelled was two bucks less than it will be if I order it again. So now I'm waiting on a sale or something, idk (Manga Monday sale someday maybe if Amazon price matches).

@the-green-death said in Why is there so much "wry smiling"?:

My translation bette noir isn’t one phrase so much as when translators add letters to words to show shouting but add letters that make no sense if spoken such as “benddddddd!!” Or something like that. How would that sound? I can see adding vowels but rarely are constanents doubled like that.

I think there's a very significant difference between "Beeeeend" and "Bennnnnd," but I agree that "Bendddd" makes no sense :x

@legitpancake said in Gamers (Japanese Language Novel) on sale for 30 JPY right now on Bookwalker (30 hour sale).:

$1.42 for 5 books is a sweet deal. I won't be able to read them, but I bought them anyways :P

I bought the first two so far with my change. Probably get the rest.

I think I'm also going to get that one I asked for in the license requests earlier since it is 255 JPY.

https://bookwalker.jp/de0b28479e-b371-4d2b-96cf-52585c26b8b7/?acode=WpfPW3yk

@terrence yeah looks exactly like it. That thing was so cute and adorable.