@Outinthegardener
Kei & Iori, um, no, never mind, while Kei got his after taking down a Dungeon Boss (or worse), Iori got hers from earlier in the dungeon.

The specific examples you list do support your theory.
Statistically far too small a sample size, but then again the current point of translation [end of volume 7] is indicating that statistics can hang, there is intent involved.
Random drops aren't.

There've been musings [in story as well as in these forums iirc] that the first to trigger orb drops for a given critter is the one who sets what orbs they have the potential to drop; things have been far too convenient otherwise. iirc Kei & Miyoshi realize it's been too convenient...

@Lex said in If you could only read five JNC series- what would you choose?:

I'm not good with these kind of lists because I like many things and I'm sure that the answer I'll g8ve now it's not the same I'd give next month and that would be different from what I'd say next year.
Having said that, I'm going to cheat a bit and make two different lists based on two different criteria. The common thing is that I'm excluding series that are complete or canceled or in hiatus, so no Arifureta, How not to summon a demon lord, Monarer tamer, despite being among my favorite.
The two series I'm not going to give up no matter what are Rokujouma and The misfit of the demon king academy. I love both of them, and the former is the one that brought me to this site. As for Misfit...did you really think I can give up my weekly dose of Anos?
So, for the other mentions. The first list is made of series that are ending and I'd be crazy if I miss the conclusion. Those are Zero Believers, Realist hero and You like me, not my daughter.
The second list is instead made of series that I think will keep going for a while and would give me a food amount of content to read. Those are Infinite Dendrogram, Elf bride and An introvert hookup hiccups,

And, in fact, reading again this post makes me think if I shouldn't have picked Rebuild World instead. Which series would be excluded to make room for it, I don't know.

@Valanduin My apologies and thank you for reporting! The release date on the series page is correct. The calendar release date has been updated to reflect this.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience. Volume 8 of Making Magic is now back on BookWalker.
https://global.bookwalker.jp/de164d2b3b-7fca-48f4-a0b7-042b8be29f9c/?acode=KKXypfby

@SomeOldGuy Got it. I’ll cruise the link for the corrections that I found and if they’re not there, I’ll submit it via email first.

@saffire Ahh thanks. Did not see this posting. And puh, was wondering where I should get it if it doesn't get a reprint. Funny that I see 20-30 listings for Banner of the Stars 4-6 on ebay but none for 1-3...

@PaperPrincessAi said in Has Apothecary Diaries stopped being translated?:

@Rahul-Balaggan Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly! I was so used to seeing volumes back to back I took it for granted! Can't wait to see the next one :)

It is the downside to catching up close to the Japanese releases. When a new series comes in, we are all happy knowing that everything currently released is licensed (normally, I assume exceptions can happen). But once we catch up, we never know when or if a new book will get licensed or when the translator will be free again. We know that J-Novel wants to continue, but so many pieces to the eBook!

@jpwong ah okay thanks hopefully they figure whatever's going on cause misfit is my fav series and would suck if it didn't finish lol

@SomeOldGuy I believe this has been fixed now, sorry for the confusion!

@Terabyte said in Chillin' In Another World names:

@lighthawk96 In this case, the name change was appropriate for an English audience to keep the joke intact, IMO. Changing it back because the (JP) spoken audio will sound too different is what I don't get... I don't care about that kind of thing at least. 🙄

Yup!
．．．this is kind of a cheap excuse!
How many times the audios said "oni-chan/-san, etc (big /-dear brother)" and we can read the character name (surename) instead in the subs!

So, doesn't really matter if in the anime they said "charun" if then the subs they can change it and keep with the initial "Tia" … to match with the actual translation.

(well, not now that they are using the original name).

@myskaros said in Any news about „Great Cleric“ Volume 11?:

@Zicco1 Unfortunately, "light novel" is simply a marketing term; it has no strict definition separating it from other types of books other than "is published under a label specifically for 'light novels.'" There are light novels that are 500 or more pages, and there are light novels without anime covers or insert art. Yes, light novels tend to be "anime-like stories in prose form" but other than that there's nothing special about them.

Is that so? I was under the impression that light novels usually were 30-50K words. I know of an exception (quite a big one at that) where the book was almost 900 pages long. But aren't books usually divided into light novels, novels or novella?

@Lily-Garden I was getting sleepy, but my comment on that one was going to be that the author was tripping on acid.

@PuckGoodfellow00-0

I'm sorry for your loss... that's rough.

I recently finished my first read through of the series and yeah, I can see how it would be just the right kind of series to help... serious enough to hold your attention and yet light hearted enough that it doesn't demand your attention.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go cuddle my kitty, who turned 14 last month...

@myskaros Thank you!

@Rahul-Balaggan Thank you for the links, I didn't realize you had to secure licensing rights to the new volume in order to translate it.

@CrimsonScholar said in About Demon King Daimao illustrations:

@Geezer-Weasalopes Oh, that's nice. Though, question, where exactly do I find those textless illustrations after buying them? For one, I have in general difficulty finding where colored illustrations are. (I only see the cover and the black and white illustrations for light novels while reading them)

For example, I have bought Reborn to Master the Blade V1 but I can't find the colored illustrations for it anyway. (the ones with text)

You've downloaded the book, yes?
Not the prepub stuff, but using the download link from the item in your User Library? (The prepub stuff never has the color illustrations beyond the cover illustration, whether you have purchased the boo or not.)
You have to do that and then open the epub using an ebook reader capable of doing so.

Bear in mind that JNC ended up shifting all the color images to the end of their epubs to reduce the number of Amazon takedowns; the folks getting their jollies by reporting things for violating Amazon's amorphous 'community standards' can't be bothered to purchase the works but use what's in the Kindle preview as their justification...and some of those images were awful convenient to them.

So you need to purchase the book directly from JNC at this site, download the purchased copy, and open up the downloaded file and go to the end of the book to find the color illustrations.
The black and white will be where they should be within the text.

If you purchase the book via a different site it won't contain the bonus content, so for this it has to be purchased direct from JNC.

Ah.
Timing.
Welp, hopefully this wall of text will be of use to someone down the line!

The other nice thing about purchasing direct from JNC is that it'll be DRM free.