@weasalopes Well he did take off his helmet and he does take off his armor to get it repaired so... not showing his face is part of the gag about him.

@weasalopes True, a rushed job is a poor job, measure twice, cut once. It is fun to speculate where the author can or will go next. I did find Demon Lord to be a little sad, as far as a story goes. I felt sorry for Shera, she loves Diablo and Rem but being an Elf, she will see them grow old and die while she remains relatively young (thus I reject the idea she's only 16 in Elf years, by human standards she's still a baby, would make more sense if she was 60 and just got tired of the forest and her brother's abuse). I did find it enlightening when Silvie admitted that while Grasswalkers stay young looking all their lives they are still aging on the inside.
But where can the author go next? Diablo has defeated anyone who was a threat, and the author could have just had a happy ending where Diablo starts a family with Shera and Rem, Horn and Lumachina come later, but no. He sends him and Kleb to another world? I hope this means he has some good story ideas for Diablo.

How adult are you wanting? Because there's always Fakku books.

@windsagio said in No Adult Light Novels Anywhere:

@kurosov On the flip side, Amazon's bad enough on removing works without notice or sufficient explanation, I don't blame publishers for shying away.

You don't just give up on what is far and away the largest market if you wanna make much money.
As to the other adult content, I'm sure it's how they have them categorized. Amazon specifically seems to treat LN's under YA fiction rules, rightly or wrongly.

I expect this is so. After all, there are plenty of smut writers on amazon.

@kurzaa said in Any kindle ebook reader here? I‘m thinking of buying a kindle:

I like my stepdads 3rd gen Kindle, but considering upgrading to a smaller form factor (no keyboard, touch screen) mostly for the screen light. Currently on sale for Valentine's day.

My biggest issue with a Kindle reader however, is I can't read j-novel pre-published translations. So I have a Fire 8 (the 7s screen resolution sucked, only 1gb of ram, and it felt slow) on order, though I will need to hack it to load the play store for access to the j-novel app, which doesn't appear to be in the app store.

You can also read the prepubs in a web browser (Chrome, Safari), though I don't know if the bundled Fire browser will work for that. I had a 7 years ago and the "silk" browser was pretty bad.

@sniper_samurai
The two most recent of Der Werwolf (15 came out in December). Also in the same situation is Average Abilities 14 by Seven Seas (they have it on the calendar but given how many times they’ve delayed it as well as the Arifureta 12 listing it can’t be trusted).

I honestly don't know that the ties to Kadokawa would help on the financial side at all, it's not like those costs change at all. What it might do is let them be able to actually pitch the idea rather than having the door closed in their face and maybe make a more compelling argument as they'd be able to use in house data that maybe can't be made public.

@harmlessdave I assume they're referring to Shueisha/Viz/MangaPlus's decision not to publish certain chapters of Ayakashi Triangle.

@windsagio Cecilia's first encounter with her prince was more entertaining than Katarina's...

@matti said in There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!:

Do we know the reason for it? First volume got top reviews both in Japanese and in English sites. Why axe a good series? Because failed marketing?

We don't know, but poor sales is the reason behind most axes. Unfortunately, "good" and "profitable" are not synonims, and there are plenty examples of that.

@Argonometra I assume you're talking about buddhist manthra bathing scene? It is very mild by LN standards, so that's definitely not the case, not to mention that both volumes are still up for sale. Moreover, japanese branch seem to not care about that, and doesn't delist much worse "offenders" like,for example, 伯爵家女中伝, where some scenes are not -ish by any stretch of imagination.

@windsagio

NO! Never, EVER ask "What could be worse? Murphy's Law WILL activate.

@legitpancake
Rwby has a manga, regardless of it being a youtube show originally. And it has an official japanese dub.

@andrew_ligas ok thanks a lot😊

@paul-nebeling said in Invaders of Rokujouma Volume 39:

@weasalopes Yeah, since Japan isn't allowing any visa holders into the country, "face-to-face" is probably a Zoom call.

If they (the Japanese IP right's holders) are interested in licensing stuff, yes.
I'm pretty sure they could use the revenues.

@weasalopes About the only thing I read these days from Baen is the Vorkosigan books; Liaden was the other big Baen series I read, and they've been losing my interest since Dragon Ship.

Hello there, Avatarian here.
To be honest, I did enjoy book 8

....so it kind of hurt that the series (most likely) ends here. Still, kudos to the author for making it to 8 LN on his debut work. Personally, I had a blast reading this series.

@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.

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.