@Cid said in Unlicensed LN that were/are to popular for there own good:

more fans means more people willing to spend money.
Older titles tend to be less popular than newer ones.

My wallet whenever I find stuff for old media disagrees 😂
I might be outside the norm but I'm willing to spend a pretty penny to get merch from older series I like.

@Zeteni said in Is it just me?:

I don't know what your habits are with new batches but I've found more than a few times that if I try out everything (or at least close to it) I'll end up liking something I either had no particular interest in or even outright scorned based on the premise.

I do something completely different with the same result - I open every single part and chapter, and sometimes just glancing at that first page is what hooks me. Zilbagias is one of those, with After-School Dungeon Diver and Strongest Exorcist being two other recent ones. ...I really should go back and read the beginnings though. Though my impression from the comments is that Dungeon Diver basically starts abruptly anyway. But given that I've actually gone to Kakuyomu to read a few chapters ahead in Zilbagias at times...

Others haven't hooked me, but they're still worth skimming through to get a chuckle. (Looking at I Could Never Be A Succubus!)

@HarmlessDave said in Is it just me?:

Big-name actors do that all the time in Hollywood, they join a blockbuster movie in exchange for getting some passion project funded. Stephen King books pay for a publisher printing a few Pulitzer-bait Serious Novels.

And also to take risks on first-time unknown authors.

@Geezer-Weasalopes Yup. Also I notice that they'll announce the availability of things and links to order in social media first at amazon, then other places and often very lastly their on own site.

And often quite a while after it's been available elsewhere they don't have it available on their own site. So I've had to reach out to them a couple of times about having things available to purchase on their own site, then they apologize and do it.

Have we had a reason why bookworm part 1 vol 2 isnt on audible yet? from what ive seen its been out a while in other places

@Seandrake said in Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody Vol 21:

I’m getting a little long in the tooth now and I’m more worried that I reach my conclusion before the series does.
It’s I think the last long running series I’m waiting on now strike the blood and so what I’m a spider have concluded, well Asterisk Wars has I think a volume left but I feel confident I can outlast that.

Well, here's hoping that you're around to see the end of this series. I'm honestly not sure how many volumes the series is likely to cover by the time it is finished.

I'm a bit frustrated by the pace of the translation. The author has been regularly releasing three volumes a year, yet Yen Press seems to struggle to do just two. It took them 6 months to release Volume 21 and 22 isn't scheduled until October!

No such general purpose thread exists but there are tips on how to assess status and discussions of this issue.

Generally speaking Japanese publishers never publicly announce a series has been cancelled they just stop announcing new volumes. However you can look up a series to see if new volumes have been published or announced in Japan. In some cases fans may have designated a series as on hiatus or dropped but those are typically informed guesses rather than anything official.

For a given series you can search the forum and Twitter to see if people know anything and ask a series specific question if necessary. A good place can often be the volume discussion thread for the last translated volume. For example https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/6005/oversummoned-vol-2-discussion/62?page=4 has discussion for Oversummoned. Sometimes series on JNC are marked as completed.

Other relevant threads include:

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/7817/status-of-novels https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/6076/status-exception-updates https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3517/complete-books-where-are-they

@Micah_Media J-Novel Club is primarily a translation company. We translate from Japanese into English. We do not have any application process for original novels to be published under us. If you wanted to publish right now your best bet would be through Kindle direct publishing.

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@Silvermane it is released in Japan, now you just have to wait for licensing contracts to be signed, and the translation team to have time to work on it.

@Silver-Sugar-Duchess A mechanical translation is just that - mechanical; it has no insight into the meaning.

A person who understands the reason behind the words has a better chance at both being "correct" and "understandable".

That said, I have better luck by including context around what is being translated. That's why I just copied in the WHOLE thing, rather than individual phrases. I used to just copy individual parts... and laughed at what come out (when doing French to English, which I'm more familiar with).

None of it would hope to work on a major work, where individual rules get in the way. Several years ago, I tried reading a mechanical translation of volume 18 of The Irregular at Magic High School that was Japanese->Russian->English "for accuracy" (?!?). I'm sure glad we have an official translation now, so that characters don't switch genders between paragraphs...

@sorvani Thanks!

Sorry if that sounded too negative, it was only intended to be pragmatic with a touch of dark humor:

There's a new release, the quality is fine, and it's OK to buy it even if the delays continue.

Edit: @Rahul-Balaggan - actually it might make sense to lock this thread and start a fresh one, so new readers don't need to wade through 4 years of past delays and disasters to discuss the present state of the company.

Tentai has been a bit cursed so far, everything from an office break-in where their equipment was stolen to losing control of their discord server after a malware infection, but they've kept struggling forward despite that.

Their latest update is here: https://tentaibooks.com/blog/

@GeorgeMTO Thanks for the heads up.

@luparguru I'm not staff, but: You just need to be very careful about starting topics in the Streaming section. Normally only staff start topics there, and they already do start one discussion topic per volume per title.

So if someone starts a Land Mines volume 10 topic, it is confusing to people because:

If the official topic hasn't been created yet, people think the new volume is about to start, when it might still be weeks or months away. This disappoints people and makes some of them extra salty. If the topic has been created, then it confuses people because there should only be one topic per volume.

If you want to start a topic about a series or a new volume of it, it's usually best to do it in this Light Novel Discussion area not in Streaming.

For this case, you might have created a topic here in LND with a title like "Magician Who Rose 7 delayed by artist illness"

@Paul-Nebeling The new backend deals with this smartly by having "people" a first-class database class with theoretically many different name variations in all languages. When we fully switch over to that we can handle that, but also situations like staff changing their names, etc.

@Silver-Sugar-Duchess said in License expire notice?:

Buuut, does anyone know how long the “updated“ mark will remain? I don‘t want to redownload each book every month again.

It's a simple date check. If "your most recent download date" is earlier than "the most recent file modification date" then it shows you the [Updated] tag.

Is it your book? I am also learning Amazon KDP now. just learn from Youtube