@doceirias Awesome thank you. I was looking at her amazon page to compile these. I'm not great at Japanese yet so I knew there would be some I missed.

@PatrickPhelpsnpc I think it's a funny story that's written for fun, and just like volume 1 there's little description of the city and stuff to it. In volume 1 he was summoned to the new world, and next thing you know, he's left the city. The story is more about how he's dealing with all the hardships that are thrown at him, ever since volume 1.
I do agree with the shortness of the stories, though. They're cut off right in the middle of a story line. I don't like that... This one is especially skimpy on details. Could've had a few more, I think.

Kinda interesting but I’m just wondering if it is yuri, I’m kinda getting the vibes.

If so, not my thing.

@Goober JNC has willingly dropped exactly 1 license out of 416 series so the odds are very good. (It was early on, a manga with terrible sales where the publisher supplied the source in a hard to work with format.)

There's also New Life+ LN but that was removed from publication in Japan because of the author. They should have followed Smartphone author's example and kept their feelings about China "Yulong" more subtle.

It is out now actually was released on the 10th.

The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods also felt like the Apothecary Diaries to me, at least the first volume. Second volume is currently being translated, not that I have started it yet. Maybe the Wandering Witch, though I have only watched the anime.

@fjordobordo, thankyou for that list, it's r/fantasy book bingo on reddit, 25 squares which runs from April 2025 to March 2026, so i've still got most of a year to read 24 books and one 'not a book' (there are so many anime to chose from). I have read 6 books already and have locked in most of the rest, got some interesting ones to look forward to - its my own choice to do a Japanese theme for this year's card, its just a personal challenge. I'm way past school age!

The description is literally what i put in the OP 'Read a book in which a main plot revolves around disrupting a system' they encourage you to find your own definitions and read a variety of speculative fiction. I was thinking something where they are deliberately trying to overthrow the system, i had not considered that they could break it just by having knowledge or being powerful, i'll have to see what they think.

Solo levelling is Korean, so that is out.

Maoyo is not translated so that's out

I've had Tsukimichi mentioned a few times from different places, that may be the one I go with.

Dorky NPC Mercenary is what i have pencilled in for pirates already.

@TrinaBear if you have an epub file for the book (which you will if you bought it from J-Novel Club) then Moon+ Reader and ReadEra on Android will both read it to you with the phone's built-in text to speech engine. I'm not sure what's available on other platforms. Stuff from other ebook stores is unlikely to work (not out of the box anyway). Kindle won't allow you to read it out loud with text to speech because they want you to use their Audible service, for example.

@marto9862 said in Rebuild World LN vol. 6 part 2 premium Digital edition for 699 coins:

When Rebuild World LN vol. 6 part 2 premium Digital edition for 699 coins will be available to buy?

This page says that I can preorder it now, and that the ebook will be available on 8 July.

@GeorgeMTO thank you!

Ascendance of a Bookworm (listening to part 1,volume 3 at the moment). Reba Buhr is the voice of Myne for English dub of the anime. She has also voiced several other anime characters, such as the tactical-pink dressed P-90 loving LLENN.

It is likely watching the anime with your ears.

I’ve also listened to the following enjoyable series:
In Another World with My Smartphone
My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World
The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent
Solo Leveling (this was my first encounter, read/watched the series later)

Bullet Hellion has not been announced for a print release.

@Passiflora-C Interesting perspective.

I'm not as hard-core as many of the readers here. I'm usually only aware of what has been officially translated and that's about it. To the extent that translation houses don't make side-story content available, I mostly won't even know what I'm missing.

For me, it takes time to get into a story, and what really interests me is the characters. I may be a bit of an extreme case, but I have a hard time caring about spin-offs or prequels or anything that doesn't directly result in me spending more time with the characters that I know and love. Just some silly examples:

The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy were transformational for me as a young reader. The Silmarilion sits mostly unread on a shelf 30+ years later. If it doesn't tell me more about Frodo and Aragorn and Merry and Pippin, then I just don't care.

I could never get into the 2nd Mistborn trilogy, because it wasn't about Vin or Kelsier.

I didn't care about the Star Wars prequels because it's not about Luke and Han and Leia. By contrast, I very much enjoyed the sequel trilogy despite all the "true fans" hating on those movies.

I've watched the Danmachi anime, but only the three main seasons currently available. I haven't yet managed to watch any of the spin-off or prequel series (familia or oratoria or whatever it's called), and there's a good chance I never will.

I have yet to watch the Re:Zero prequel movie with Emilia in the winter forest or whatever.

I watched Fate:Zero and then Fate:Stay Night. But I've lost interest in that series after that - I find the explosion of Fate series almost incomprehensible at this point and don't even know where to start.

Anyway, my bottom line is this. I agree that in an ideal world all the content should be translated, because I know there are people who would want it. Heck, given the choice between having it or not having it, I would vote to have it (I'm still waiting on those Bookworm drama CDs!). But it's actually a pretty low priority for me, personally, as a casual reader. Given that resources are limited, I'd prefer the translation house focus on completing the main story sequence rather than side-story content.

@RoaringKitty Volume 14 Part 3 was released (for pre-publication readers) on the 10th of January this year. Volume 14 has 16 parts, the last of which was released the Friday before last.

As for volume 15, we generally don't get much advance warning of when a book will begin pre-publication releases. As a matter of policy, JNC staff won't talk about release times until they're ready to be added to the release calendar - which normally happens shortly before the release of the first part of the volume. I can't even give you a rough guess as to when that might happen, much as I wish I could.

@Lcaldas80 It's right here on JNC. You can access it by either subscribing to JNC's premium or regular membership on the website, or preordering the volume using coins (which can be purchased on either the website or the app).

@mjun I watched the anime

@Perplexed Interesting thought. Licenses are contracts though, and generally don't get changed in the middle. A novel getting an anime though would increase the workload of the Japanese companies, which could be a possible reason for a delay.

Licensing of "new" volumes, meaning ones that didn't exist at the time of the original contract, always takes time. Then there is the long-standing fact that we the readers do not know how many volumes get licensed per contract, but it never is the entire series unless that series is complete.

J-Novel Club has only "dropped" one series without translating all the available volumes, and that was the Japanese publisher's decision. I'm fairly certain this volume will show up, eventually.