Acquisitions Speculation - General
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@terrence said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [5 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED! 1 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED!]:
Not a Light Novel
When was that hint mentioned?
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@bloodygaikotsu said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [5 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED! 1 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED!]:
When was that hint mentioned?
It was the first hint, they gave 2 hints per title, apart from the fifth one.
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To go with "Not a Light Novel", maybe it isn't a novel-novel, but not a light novel. In other words, a heavy, emotional novel.
could fit there.
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@terabyte
Ah~
I only started playing the guessing game recently so, I didn't know... -
Or maybe the Horizon series?? Those 1000 page long novels can't be considered "light"
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I only know that 86 was on Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!
Would it fit the other hint?
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@paulnamida said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [5 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED! 1 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED!]:
Or maybe the Horizon series?? Those 1000 page long novels can't be considered "light"
Exactly.
I mean, I definitely would love it if it is a novel label novel, but I think "emotional" or "lengthy" novel would be good too. So... I think I'll be happy either way.
Unless it's the unforseen option 4...
@bloodygaikotsu said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [5 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED! 1 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED!]:
I only know that 86 was on Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!
Would it fit the other hint?
"A personal story"?I feel like "A Personal Story" will be something like the Japanese equivalent of that in the title. Like My Love Story is Ore Monogatari. Monogatari meaning "story"? And there's all sorts of other stories with Monogatari in the name, like Bakemonogatari.
If it weren't already licensed, I'd be thinking something fiction but based on personal experiences, Welcome to the NHK. Personal experiences made into manga stories are a hot commodity now with My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness, The Bride Was A Boy, and even something fiction like My Brother's Husband hits a personal tone to me.
I feel like that hint isn't extremely helpful though since everything can be considered the main character's personal story (especially if told from First Person).
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@terrence
I think a novel from other Kodansha labels may fit too since they ain't exactly light novel labels (or that's just my wishful thinking speaking~) -
@terrence
Well, I did find an overlap series with very similar title "Lonely Myself Saga" but that's light novel (and It didn't look like it's that heavy emotionally).Hmmm, Welcome to the N.H.K.
I'd love to see it licensed again (but that's by Kadokawa Shoten)Well, according to this, we may ignore the titles with long volumes.
https://curiouscat.me/jnovelclub/post/343001981?1521248913They are really useless hints tho, as they only raise our expectations...(lol)
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@bloodygaikotsu said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [5 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED! 1 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED!]:
Well, according to this, we may ignore the titles with long volumes.
https://curiouscat.me/jnovelclub/post/343001981?1521248913To counter that a bit though, a title that has a fan translator who already worked on it can reach a deal that is a bit more cost friendly than asking a translator to start from scratch. So if there's a title with really dense material that some passionate fan translator has been uploading, maybe they'd look at licensing that.
As long as the series length isn't insane, I don't mind long volumes... With the caveat that I'd like more prepub parts to separate them into manageable chunks. Some long prepub parts read by Text to Speech programs set to Fast take an hour and a half. O.o
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Regarding "Not a light novel," within the last few months ago, Sam was talking about wanting to license something that I vaguely remember being some kind of memoir or autobiography. I wasn't too interested, so I didn't pay attention, but I think he mentioned which one specifically.
That fits the hints very well, so I am very much expecting it to be whatever non-fiction book he had mentioned back then.
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@hatguy12 Maybe this one Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/6lleyt/jinrui_wa_suitai_shimashita_is_really_good/
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AS MUCH AS I would like it to be Jintai, it is not. Hint 4 is exactly what it sounds like. It is a personal story, an autobiography. No fiction book - which is why we got the "not a light novel" clue.
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Not really knowledgeable enough to speculate, but a personal story and not a light novel could be Kino’s Journey, but I’m probably way off base, seeing that it was started to be translated then cancelled.
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@carolinefelicity Oh, in that case, I think Majo no Tabitabi would fit. It's pretty much a fantasy version of Kino's Journey and the protagonist wants to eventually write a book about her travels.
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Bidding War confirmed a forced meme! If that was ever in doubt, lol (it was totally in doubt after the title he mentioned it with got picked up by the prestigious Yen Press).
The "something spiceh" confirmed not to be "Do You Like Your Mom?"
https://curiouscat.me/jnovelclub/post/382824999?1522605672
You said you were working on licensing something spiceh, was it Do you like your Mother light novel or something else? It's the LN that Yen Press recently announced and you said you were sad that you lost the bidding war on it?
Nope. And the whole bidding war thing was just a forced meme I made up FYI.
I think the bidding war joke was about Vending Machine iirc though, not Mommy Isekai.
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@terrence He made a bidding war joke on the reddit thread for Do You Like Your Mother license announcement.
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From Curiosity Cat:
What are all the publishers jnovel club is currently licensing from?
Hobby Japan, Overlap, Kodansha, PHP Institute, Earthstar Novels, Bungeishunju...and more coming soon
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Can we expect license in AX or no ?
Just one license? No...
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He made a comment elsewhere about twintails. I'm looking forward to hearing what that one was. Kind of hoping it's Lazy Dungeon Master, as I believe I recall Rokuko having twintails and it's Overlap.
