@exedore Thank you for letting us know!

@Wellwisher said in More ero titles (or just reccomendations):

I think Madan no Ou to Vanadis or Index are good examples of editorial meddling I wrote of earlier - there is a set amount of fanservice per volume, and it is often pretty uninspiring. Heck, in Madan no Ou author just recycles the same 3 scenes, just with different characters, and one of Index 2-volume arcs moved the lewds quota so the first book had double the usual amount of it, leaving the second one purely plot... things like this really raise a question if the oldschool lewds were something authors had wanted in their books to begin with?

I guess we have slightly different thoughts on what the tropes are then. I consider both titles I mentioned to be pretty in line with the type of tropes that I enjoy and I actually didn't enjoy Index ero tropes at all. I mean more "serious" ero content and not just used as media for slapstic/humor.

@IOK1-0 It's only been two and a half months since volume 5 came out in Japan. The average turnaround on caught up novels tends to be a fair bit longer than that. There will likely be no update from anyone on the JNC side until they're ready to start releasing the pre-pubs.

Hello,

As of right now there is no set date for when Volume 17 will start pre-publication on the site.

For a general overview of how new volume starts are handled on J-Novel Club, please refer to the following topic: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3477/future-volume-release-schedule?page=1

Please note, Realist Hero would fall under the "caught up" category.

Thank you

@khokkanen
Exactly. A spear of stone from the earth would leave a stone pile behind.
Meh. It was just a guess, considering you're 100% right that pyre makes no sense.

@endoftheline There is a direct line of causality from the Bookworm anime to my being here, so I don't doubt the influence of anime on sales.

I just thought of another useful subset: the most recent tranche of new series. As these all started at the same time on JNC, they should be fairly equal on recency bias, so it should be a pretty fair comparison.

spoiler

And I think these are the previous tranche of new titles

EDIT: Spoiler tags are triggering a bug making this text inaccessible, so I've removed them

22858,2021-10-25,A Late-Start Tamer's Laid-Back Life,,
23021,2021-10-13,Hell Mode,,
23428,2021-12-03,Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers,,
24571,2021-09-08,My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer,,
33011,2021-12-09,Private Tutor to the Dukes Daughter,,
36016,2021-09-10,Chillin in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers,,
52295,2021-06-28,Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire,,
55087,2021-09-27,Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools,,
60004,2021-09-27,Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World,,
93801,2021-09-27,The Reincarnated Princess Spends Another Day Skipping Story Routes,,
160525,2021-11-19,Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte,,
183085,2021-09-13,Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness,,
486307,2021-12-10,"Goodbye Otherworld, See You Tomorrow",,

I'd like to point out that compiling this data is also a service to any time-travelling JNC license acquisition editors. You're welcome.

Introduced in Volume 4

Garyl
Flio and Rys's first son
Wyne calls him Gare-Gare
Named after Rys's late older brother Fengaryl

Elinàsze
Flio and Rys's first birth daughter
Wyne calls her Eli-Eli
Named after a goddess from Flio's old world

Riliangiu
A familiar of the Mistress of Evil (Sterner)
Travelling with Hero Gold-Hair

Valentine
One of the Twelve Evil Generals
Decided to stop being evil after going sledding
Travelling with Hero Gold-Hair

Maglion, Powlion, Speelion
Djinn who mastered the [magic, power, speed] of the Dark World
Maglion is in Hiya's mindscape
Powlion is ded
Speelion is ???

Tia -> Charun
Magic doll :|
Servant of Calsi'im
Makes tea

@myskaros thanks for your information. I ask about this volume because the japanese version already out around 3-4 month ago.

I take a rather... 1990s-inspired view on this:

If you're wondering how he eats and breathes
And other science facts
Just repeat to yourself, "It's just a show
"I should really just relax"
For Mystery Science Theater 3000

Although Eizo has a few up on Mike, Joel, and Jonah, in that he (1) doesn't have to deal with a member of the Forrester Family and (2) isn't stuck watching bad movies. Although they do have him beat for number of companions who are wisecracking robots.

You raised my hope and dashed them expertly with the title. I thought we are finally getting another volume.

I'm still holding out for this just like I'm holding out for the hope that one day Fire Girl will be licensed.

@blacksun said in My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World:

At some points of volume 2, part 2, Rike's name was used when it should be Diana's.
Sorry if this wasn't the right place to report it.

It's been reported already. If you notice more errors you can post in this corrections topic: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/5082/my-quiet-blacksmith-life-in-another-world-corrections-topic/ 👍

Of those currently being translated:

Ascendance of a Bookworm A Late-Start Tamer's Laid-Back Life Tearmoon Empire Bakarina Endo and Kobayashi

Still going through all the new licenses, but from the ones that interested me enough to start reading that I've gotten to so far Land Mines seems interesting, but I'll need to see where this one is headed before I commit to it fully. Fantasy Inbound has some potential, but it's not catching my interest enough to do more than keep tabs on the pre-pubs so far. Magic Knight doesn't appear to be the type of story I'm interested in after reading the first two parts, so I'll probably pass on it.

Still have to try Quiet Blacksmith, but I've seen the manga, and I'm not sure it's going to pull my interest enough to keep going, I guess I'll find out once I get to the reading part.

Supernatural Battles I plan to read simply because I liked the anime and I'm interested in seeing where the story goes after where the anime left off.

@ephidiel
yup you can order via Bezos- or BN or wherever (or ask your local indie bookseller to get for you)
I'm in favor of the latter - support small/local biz and all that

side note -I just realized that the algorithm (?) at Bezos and co. tags Slayers as a children's book - I wonder if that mis-categorization has anything to do with the censorship some LNs have been getting - in general these are not 'chapter books' for 8-12 year-olds

@jon-mitchell I'm waiting a bit because I like to binge so that makes me very happy to know someone who's read it and likes it so far

@myskaros Thank you, I will keep that in mind for the future.