Novel pick-up requests
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@xftg123 it’s still possible, after all yenpress is translating The Irregular at Magic High School with the main series currently having 24 volumes.
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It's just a bigger risk to license a longer series that isn't super popular. With each volume that releases, there is a good chance that sales drop from people dropping the series, and it also becomes harder to attract new fans due to the sheer amount of money they would have to spend in order to be caught up to the latest volume. Meanwhile you still have to do the same amount of work to release each volume.
This is definitely more of a problem with physical, but consider that there are 85 One Piece volumes available in English right now. Even at a cheap price of $5/book, to catch up a given person would have to spend $425. If you're buying physical books, you also need physical space to put 85 books.
Obviously it's simply a calculation of risk vs. reward, so it's not impossible for long series to get licensed, but those are the big reasons there might be some hesitation over picking up a long-running series that isn't explosively popular.
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I agree. Then again it all boils down to sales.
Anyway, one thing I'm glad about though is Seven Seas licensed the novel "Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai", which will be out November 2018 :-)
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@xftg123 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Anyway, one thing I'm glad about though is Seven Seas licensed the novel "Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai", which will be out November 2018 :-)
The English title for that one is a doozy! xD
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
What does Date a Live do that people are clamoring for it?
As far as I know, despite its ridiculous and jokey premise, Date A Live breaks its own pattern so often it creates a string of really unexpected developments. Not just with the dating aspect, but also with the plot and action scenes in general.
From the beginning, it's obviously a series you don't need to take seriously. But then it gets some serious development, you get interested. Then it becomes jokey again, then serious again, you become interested again, etc. Something like that.
This isn't noticeable from the novel's early volumes though.
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@shrike_al Pretty much this. It mixes comedy and drama together, but there are times where the series is more comedic than dramatic, or vice versa.
Plus the anime's quite popular, the series is going to get a S3 soon, and also the novels have been DMCA'd by Kadokawa as well.
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Sounds somewhat similar to Full Metal Panic, I've also heard that used as a positive trait when describing FMP, the well-executed cycle of comedy and drama.
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Also, other than "Date A Live" being highly requested to get picked up, a TON of people also want "Classroom Of The Elite" to be licensed.
Like with "Date A Live" being highly requested, "Classroom Of The Elite" gets requested a lot since the anime came out, the light novels have been dominating in Japan, and its also another slice of life series like with Oregairu.
Plus there's not a lot of Volumes out right now. Including the side stories, there's currently 9. Not including the side stories, there's 7 Volumes (the 8th one to be released in April)
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
Remake Our Life: Let's Travel Back To Ten Years Ago and Reenjoy Creative and Sweet Youthful Days!
https://bookwalker.jp/de122b90d3-01a0-4ec2-ae12-6829241a10a6/?acode=WpfPW3ykLooks like a time travel triangle? I guess I'll see. It has 3 volumes out. Of course... It's Kadokawa.
You can get the first novel of this series for free (legally? Seems it) on Kakuyomu for a limited time. So for the curious:
https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054885320356
http://ln-news.com/archives/70600/post-70600/
The 4th volume in the series releases in April.
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Call me trash but I'd really love to see Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Oreshura) translated. The fan translations are completely dead but I'm a sucker for a self-hating protagonist and a main girl with abandonment issues.
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@elphus said in Novel pick-up requests:
Call me trash but I'd really love to see Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Oreshura) translated.
I'd be trash too then
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Same here. I'd also love if their works were also published, as in a series from the "Oreshura" author and a series from the "Oreshura" illustrator.
From the "Oreshura" author, "29 to JK"
From the "Oreshura" illustrator, "Unbreakable Machine Doll"
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@xftg123 Damn. I didn't notice they were done by the same illustrators. What a failure.
(I really liked the Oreshura anime, but I dunno if I'd be interested in reading the novels right now.)
(For some reason, I've never been a fan of the comedic side of FMP. I can't figure out why.)
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Was just randomly thinking about how Seven Seas has the license to the borderline-hentai manga adaptation Series: How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King. So to counter, J-Novel Club should go after Zettai ni Hatarakitakunai Dungeon Master ga Damin wo Musaboru Made.
Publisher: Overlap (What a coincidence that J-NC just so happens to have a partnership with them.)
All I really know about it is that it has a protagonist that's a lazy dungeon master and all the volume covers like most LN series has cute girls on them. Currently 6 going on 7 volumes out for the series at the moment in Japan.
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@aruseus493 trying to counter with a dungeon master series? Then how about Hisshou Dungeon Un'ei Houhou and Jashin Average (Average of Evil Gods).
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@shrike_al "29 to JK" was done by the Oreshura AUTHOR, not the illustrator :-).
The illustrator of "Oreshura", Ruroo, did the art for "Unbreakable Machine Doll" respectively :-)
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@aruseus493 Just saw the volume illustrations, it's definitely up there in terms of Borderline H. And seeing how JNC licensed "How NOT To Summon A Demon Lord", they do have the guts to license something like this....
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I do wish though that, other than "How Not To Summon A Demon Lord", the author's other work, "Altina The Sword Princess", was licensed as well
unfortunately, its from Enterbrain....
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@xftg123 Um, yes, it was the illustrations between Oreshura and Machine Doll that I was talking about. It really went above my head since their respective anime adaptations used very different visual tones.
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@xftg123 said in Novel pick-up requests:
"29 to JK"
Anyone know how the story presents its premise (I understand it's like an arranged marriage type scenario, getting married off to the boss' son?)? Seems controversial.
