Well, this IS the section for non-JNC series to be discussed.

@HarmlessDave My concern is that I dislike DRM. I'm sorry I did not make that clear.

Late responder here, but my take on it. It is, as previously mentioned, a very "world building" focused novel. The main only shows doormat in the first chapter and after a good cry gets over it. Essentially, as mentioned, he isn't so much reincarnated as he is imbued with memories of a college graduate from Japan.

He does have some honor or principles It mostly in the form of loyalty to and protection of companions He isn't above revenge spoiler

Hope that helps

@admin Thanks for the reply, appreciate it.

@WaterDweller said in LN pre-orders on book depository no longer available:

Just a small update. I sent an email to Book Depository inquiring about their pre-orders, and this whole Amazon blanket decision, and the reply I got didn't comment on the EU issue at all. Rather, all they said was:

We are currently working to improve the quality of service we provide with pre-order purchases. As we take payment when you place your order we have decided to only allow pre-orders for items two months in advance of the release date.

I don't know if that means Book Depository is unaffected by the issue (seeing as they're located in the UK, which is no longer a member of the EU), or if customer service representatives just don't have the information to respond to such queries.

I think that this might actually be the case.
I went and looked up a much larger publisher (Orbit) and it seems to be the same thing right up until the 23rd of May, which would make it 2 months in advance. Although there were a few exceptions that could be pre-ordered, it looked very similar.

Quite annoying if that is the case as I like to keep about 4 months in advance of pre-orders in case of some unexpected bills. But it's better than not getting them at all and having to order from places that are much more expensive because of shipping.

Omnibus 4 (vols 10-12) releases September 2023. There are already preorders out there. Here's Amazon, B&N, Books-a-Million, and Book Depository.
Staff have stated on Discord that they have new omnibuses scheduled every 9 months.

If you guys want to start a new topic for this other discussion, feel free, but otherwise you shouldn't hijack this one to have separate conversations.

@jjyoung Yea unfortunately the 8th of the month is the cutoff date for that month's expirations. Books that release on the 9th of the month and beyond usually expire the next month :/

Keep in mind that JNC is in the midst of trying to set up a new round of audiobooks with two different new partners; so a fair number of internal resources are going to that. Might delay new print announcements while they are working on developing that

@Apairon That's partially why it takes so long.
The new team has to go through everything that the old team left before starting.

@Windsagio I see. That's one way to look at it, yes.
Maybe it was just the shock.
Sometimes, a book is better when I read it another time; I'll give reading it another try in a couple of months :)

@HarmlessDave My main complaints were that it felt rushed and that they cut out too much material from the LN. That made Touya seem pretty shallow. They really needed two seasons to introduce all 9 of the girls and get past the prologue material.

As Kotenmaru says, this series very much believes that its characters should earn their happy endings... but it's perfectly willing to give them a happy ending they've earned. There is one other wrinkle, but every single thing that could've been a diabolus ex machina (aka evil thing popping out of left field) thus far has been telegraphed in advance.

@pcj I think one of the reasons I find her hard to understand is that she's a "battle junky." I'll fight if I have too, but I have NEVER found it enjoyable, unlike Fran who loves to fight. I just don't understand people who get a thrill from it, I just feel sick, angry, and cold inside. Sparing is fun but a real fight? I hate it.

@Lokison The real answer to that question is "we don't know." The author stated in the afterword for Volume 2 that there was a Volume 3 coming. But it's been 3 or so years since then and it hasn't yet. And the pandemic happened right after volume 2 came out in Japan. So pretty much anything could have happened to the author in the mean time.

@Folker46 I stopped reading it because I wanted to start with the protagonist the story started with. I came back to it later because I enjoyed the beginning so much but I skipped a few books as there were low original protagonist interest in it. Then I started picking up what was going on with Shun et al and went back and picked them up after all. I like the new version of Kumoko and after the various plot lines with Shun and friends settle out and the stories are all caught up to the same timeline it's interesting again, but it did get confusing in the middle. Personally though my favorite arc of the book was the first one.

@Shiny thanks for letting me know I really enjoy the series