Shakugan no Shana
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Although the third season adapted the light novels closely, the studio still made major changes in their adaptation. For example, Fumina Konoe does not exist in the light novel, and was purely an anime-only character but nevertheless still played a major role in the second season.
Due to Kadokawa's DMCAing, there are virtually no fan translations, so anyone interested in reading will have to purchase novels published by J-Novel, which is a plus for the company.
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@godonan said in Shakugan no Shana:
so anyone interested in reading
I consider myself to be a fan, even my phone has Shana as wallpaper and I dont care.
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I honestly would love to somehow read the light novels
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Yeah.. really appreciate if it get rescued...
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@doublemangekyo I also want this title to be rescued with uncensored art too. Viz cutout a bunch of artwork. Artist Nozoi Ito is a goddess at drawing. I really really want this to be picked up!
It's one of the series I believe is regrettable that it wasn't given a chance to finish due to poor PR decisions, and lack of foresight regarding light novels. Back then nobody thought light novels would sell well because of slow turn over. To have it abandoned after 3 months of the second volumes release was a mistake, because viz got blinded by greed expecting sales to match how anime and manga does. Viz didn't understand the light novel market and used an old business model. Now with the current digital age of ebooks and social media and the profitability of the light novel boom, I can guarentee Shakugan no Shana will be very popular. What can we do to get J-Novel Club to pick up the license for this series? I mean J-Novel Club rescued Crest of the Stars. Why can't this series be rescued?OH J-Novel Club gods! TELL ME WHY?!
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@bookmaniareader said in Shakugan no Shana:
Now with the current digital age of ebooks and social media and the profitability of the light novel boom, I can guarantee Shakugan no Shana will be very popular.
What exactly are you basing this statement on?
Urban fantasy is not a money-maker anymore, isekai is.
I sincerely doubt Shana will be popular today. It's too old (ended almost a decade ago). People have moved on to other series.What can we do to get J-Novel Club to pick up the license for this series? I mean J-Novel Club rescued Crest of the Stars. Why can't this series be rescued?
Growing the overall LN market would make it more likely to get picked up.
Crest and FMP are much shorter series (being 9 and 12 vols. respectively), and JNC already had connections with their publishers. Neither of which is the case for Shana. -
man, that would be so nice, it's not even licensed by Viz anymore since 2014, and I think there is no one wiht a license on it right now at all, soo it'd be a great candidate
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Yes please! This series is absolutely deserving of a proper English release and I think it would be very popular. I hope it will be seriously considered, as I'm dying to read the novels in English.
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I'd at least give this a chance if you guys license it. I didn't love the anime, but it must count for something that I willingly watched all 3 seasons.
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@Sean-O-Hara pls rescue this light novel.... J-novel🥺🥺
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I'd be interested too, only watched season 1 of the anime and I'd like to know about the rest of the story.
But how many sales would it (or any other series) need to be profitable for J-novel club ?
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@ManusDei said in Shakugan no Shana:
But how many sales would it (or any other series) need to be profitable for J-novel club ?
IIRC Sam said that 2000 is the break even point. So every volume would need to sell more than 2K copies to be profitable for JNC.
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Season 2 and 3 cover all volumes, just watch them and be done with it? Spoiler alert, it's very typical Japanese drama BS.
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The anime covers the novels however it skipped two volumes due them not focusing on the two main characters. The novels go into greater detail and VIZ butchered the translation as well as censored artwork and certain scenes in chapters due to problematic themes, which i found as BS.
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Hey, I'm pretty new here, but just wanted to say that Shana was my gateway into anime and I would really love to be able to read the source material for the series that got me into my favorite hobby of all time! I want to say that I feel that the series is nostalgic enough for a lot of older anime fans to be a successful rescue, but I have to admit there's a chance that's just my own nostalgia/hopefulness talking. I hope JNC will genuinely consider it though.
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It was one of the first animes that I watched and it will be always special to me. I wanted to read the light novels but it was impossible (viz discontinued them and nobody bothered to fan translate them after that).
I even began to study Japanese but I'm not at the level on which I can read as fluently as in English. So I hope someone rescue Shakugan no Shana and bring all the volumes here. -
Pls rescue this series.. it's one of my favourite anime series & really want to read light novel....
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I recently just start collecting manga about 4 years ago and I was so sad when I couldn't buy this manga please license Shana
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I too would love to see the rest translated. The existential dread Yuji feels and how he grows out of it along with the rest of the cast was great to see in the anime.
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While the series have some volumes licensed by Viz for release and translation, according to my understanding on light novel translation industry in other countries, such right shouldn't be unlimited in term of number of volumes, and there should also be other conditions in the contract that allow actions to be taken whenever necessary. With the length of time passed and with JNC's current relationship with Kadokawa group in mind, there should be something JNC could do to help?
