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  • Serah

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  @rahul-balaggan I knew about you joining the community that soon, but not about that sort of collector habit. As being a collector myself, I express my utmost admiration and respects for your manifold dedication towards J-Novel Club. I noticed that you seem to have access to plenty of novels, but that goes beyond my expectations. (At some point I thought you got maybe rewarded for your work with an all-access-pass - but this... just wow.)
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  Smartphone Vol. 19? are we not getting it
  • Garyauger1981

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  @serah Smartphone comes out in Japan fairly regularly. Other titles, not so much. Grimgar, released 14+, 14++, and 15 fairly close together. JNC is in process of translating 14++ now. I almost expect 16 to be out before 15 is finished. Mixed Bathing and Otherworld Magic both went well over a year between volumes. Both series easily caught up to Japan. That doesn't even consider the normal back and forth that goes on when licensing a new volume. Patience is a necessity. JNC is still faster and more consistent than some publishers.
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  Grimagar the story of an introspective coward who has no manhood (some light spoilers)
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  I think it's a mistake to assume that all isekai need to be self insertion power fantasies. Grimgar is not a feel good story about some sniveling neet going on a hero's journey and becoming a God in another world with waifu hanging off both arms, but rather a rather disturbing and more realistic look at flawed people doing their best in crappy situations and failing as often as they succeed. If you really look at Grimgar this is not a hero's story at all, but rather the story of sympathetic villains selling their asses as mercenaries in a racial cleaning war to survive. If your looking for a shounen power fantasy or simple black and white morality this is not the series you should be reading. Not all stories need to about the characters' growth as a human beings. There are are plenty of very well regarded stories about precisely the opposite. For instance Moby Dick is the story of a man destroying himself and everything he loved over his all consuming obsession with vengeance.
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  A List of Jnovels Most Popular Titles?
  • Melting Sky

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  As far as "top-selling" goes, I believe the top 4 are Smartphone, Realist Hero, Arifureta, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, in some order. In addition to those, any series that has a print version also most likely has good sales, though not always coughlastandfirstidolcough
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  How do You Personally Use Your Membership?
  • venerablemonster

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  @prationality said in How do You Personally Use Your Membership?: This isn't much different (to me) then supporting via Patreon (I'm not criticizing the poster here) If I recall correctly, the original intent of Patreon was to wave a way for small independent artists ('starving artists') to have a way to get something for their work--do you know any wealthy poets? unfortunately (IMHO) Patreon now is riddled with two-bit crooks, posting unauthorized copy-written works, plagiarism, and other derivative crap. JNC took the risk, did the work, and is (I believe) reaping the rewards of being a legit outlet for LN/Manga. as much as I'd like for there to be a 'wild west' on the internet, free of government nose poking/meddling/regulation/taxation- until someone clamps down on patreon/youtube/ebay etc to make it less profitable/easy to peddle pirated works for pay, the inconvenience of (as noted on other forum topics) not getting access to quality work in your language/region (or at all) will continue to be a problem
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  December Catch up
  • the green death

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  @melting-sky Yeah it's exactly that, normally each catch up should last for a month but usually they're a bit longer sometimes going on for multiple months. To know what's on catch up you can either look on the forum for a post like this one: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2795/stock-up-on-fantasy-in-december-s-catchups or you can look in the news section at the bottom of the front page of the main site (which is, in my opinion, the easiest way since catchup content is, with new license announcements, the only info put there).
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  Can't spend credit
  • Dreadocto

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  The situation should be fixed now.
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  Potion Loli Vol. 4? (LN)
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  oof, posted in the wrong section. Thanks for telling me about it, and regarding the state of the series. Better than nothing i guess!
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  Bought an e-book with credit, but no idea how to open after downloading it
  • Aurelian

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  I use the pro version of Moon+ Reader on my Android tablet. On PC, calibre would probably be the most obvious solution. However, almost all e-reader applications (be it on mobile or PC) should be able to read .epub files (at least as long as they don't have DRM, which the files from JNC do not), because epub is the standard format that's used by almost everyone other than Amazon.
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  high school prodigies have it easy even in another world
  isekai light novel novel high school • • Iroksox101

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  Possible...? Yes Probable...? Not so much. Basically there is a possibility that JNC can acquire that title just not a very high one...for now at least. JNC doesn’t have any existing relationship with GA Bunko, SB Creative, or Softbank, YP does so it is more probable for them to get it. However there is always a chance, for now you can show your support in the Suggestion Topic, and who knows maybe we get lucky...
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  Don't really spend credits but read prepubs, will it affect metrics?
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  The easiest way to know likely is to directly ask Sam on Curious Cat. But it seems like they do take into account prepub readers https://curiouscat.me/jnovelclub/post/872951566
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  Question regarding premium eBooks
  • Laurion96

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  @terabyte Thank you so much for that and sorry for a late reply. I haven't checked this forum in a hot minute. I just verified that info and it is indeed correct. Maybe my memory has been wrong, but I feel like it use to say just Premium on there instead of In Library. Either way, I am thankful for that feature. Thank you again
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  Pre-Pub typos & errors
  • Mirage_GSM

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  @mirage_gsm The discussion topics are USUALLY created when the first part goes up, by whoever is posting the volume. Occasionally not (only saw it once myself). They determine where THEY think the "appropriate section" is. The thing about looking for them is that sometimes they fall far off the first page of "Recent", because there may be no activity for a few days (weeks?). And we have how many active volumes right now? A lot. For me, it's sometimes faster to go find the link Rahul illustrated.
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  Why does Arifureta Volume 10 keep getting pushed back on releases?
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  They really dropped the ball on shield hero no volume releases during the anime was a real shame
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  Where are Arifureta 10, Mixed Bathing 6, and How Not To Summon a Demon Lord 10-12?
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  @paul-nebeling Probably, but that the case for any books, it's not a delay due to licensing one book at a time like it's apparently the case for the other series.
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  Ending and "Caught-up" series
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  @legitpancake I'm reading Daimaou. In fact, it was one of the first volumes I purchased, back in the days before catchup. Hard to believe, but there's a few long-running series about to wrap up: Demon King Daimaou For My Daughter Little Apocalypse and for good measure, I'll throw in My Little Sister Can Read Kanji
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  [Opinion Poll] Dedicated threads for typos
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  Forums for typos in prepubs. Email for typos in published books.
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  Question about Premium Credit after Premium ends
  • ashark71

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  @sam-pinansky said in Question about Premium Credit after Premium ends: @ashark71 @Rahul-Balaggan is correct but just to be official, yes: credits are tied to the account, not the status, so any credits you've accumulated will stay around for as long as the account exists. You can redeem credits as a member or premium member through the site, but as hinted above it's possible to do it even when you are not with a direct link to the redeem page. Assuming you're not trying to keep the fact credits do not expire along with the premium membership hidden it would be nice if the FAQ (https://j-novel.club/faq) was updated as the existing wording is quite misleading.
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  Hate to ask...
  • Gen17

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  @gen17 there is usually a couple weeks break between volumes
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  What's the April catchup gonna be?
  • jjdynasty

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  Once Sam decides he'll update the homepage. He'll decided soon hopefully, but sometimes it takes him a few extra days to update it. You can follow this topic for now, I'll post a reply when there's an update: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1060/catch-up-titles-february-march-2019/1