Novel pick-up requests
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Not sure if this was ever mentioned/requested. Apparently it has a few Light Novel's published so far so I hope that J-Novel can snag the licenses for them if they're able to.
"The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Forth" (Death Mage)
Story: Densuke
Art: Ban
Publishers: Hifumi Shobo & Syosetu
(syosetsu is the Web Novel publisher and Hifumi Shobo is the Light Novel Publisher in JapanDescription (From Novel Updates):
I've been reading the webnovel and I've fallen in love with it.. so I figured I'd post about the Light Novel's that are being published in Japan here in hopes J-Novel can pick it up!
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I was looking at this one today. For people looking for stuff with villainess type romance stuff, it could be a decent one.
https://bookwalker.jp/de5b8f4cdb-1fe3-4e31-a56b-f6734e07f39c/?acode=WpfPW3yk
「悪役令嬢後宮物語」読んだ！ https://ncode.syosetu.com/n6169bb/ #narou #narouN6169BB
"The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl"
It's about a noble family that has the unfortunate trait of being born with evil eyes, so the people around treat them as if they are comic villains even though the family is very kind and loving. Looks like it's a romance comedy starring the daughter who I think is named Diana.
It has 6 volumes out in Japan, from 2014 to the latest release just this year. Publisher is Arian Rose / Frontier Works.
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-inner-palace-tale-of-a-villainess-noble-girl/
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@terrence I like the sound of that one
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I have said similar thing already on this topic (I probably will say them again in a few months) but I believe there are certain books or series, or types of series that would really work with how we experience JNC. There are the Episodic series like Kinos's Journey that would really work well with the Prepub format JNC runs. I have argued both getting long and short series with how fast JNC translate being very good for catching up on a long series; getting short or new series can be good because JNC can probably get 2 or 3 short or new series and when they are all fully caught up can be about equivalent amount of Translating work to one long-running series (say if two books A and B are published 2 months apart and JNC can translate each book in 2 months, JNC can translate Book A then Book B right after). Now there are the more Niche series or series that Other Companies such as Yen On would not translate and I think these series are ones JNC should also get.
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Just thought I'd chime in again with my stubborn streak regarding Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu.
I'd really like to see the gates of Shogakukan breached and Sam's recent Curious Cat answer's got me hopeful! I pray that one day the English market be enlightened to the glory of the twintails.
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Twintails
Are you sure you don't mean gender-bent characters?
Also, Ponytails Master Race.
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@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Are you sure you don't mean gender-bent characters?
Also, Ponytails Master Race.
I see you follow a different faith. Still, I believe ultimate salvation lies with our twin-tailed saviors.
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I second the ponytail master race. I mean, look at this
Even a quitenssential twintail character looks better with a pony tail!!!
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@paulnamida I’m a simple man. I see Rin Tohsaka, I upvote.
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Straight hair Rin = Twintail >>>> ponytail. Fight me!
Speaking of ponytails, I still want Remake Our Life! It is Kadokawa though (I bought the first few volumes, but haven't gotten motivated to try Google Translating them).
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/remake-our-life/
Volume 4 spoiler (maybe)
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On the topic of Ponytails, I'll request Chronicle Legion.
From the author of Campione! and the illustration abec/BUNBUN, this is an alternate history war series featuring a Japanese Empire, Rome's Caesar, and the reincarnated protagonist is of a Hero. Overall, I just want all of the author's stuff licensed. Taketsuki is really good about going deep into research for his series and it really shows. I've learned more about religion and Gods from Campione than from any other entertainment medium.
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You probably learned a lot about kissing as well. =P
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@terrence That's totally my favorite part of Campione! I can go a good 3 other shitty romance series without progress because of how much satisfaction Campione! gives me.
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@aruseus493 IKR!!! The amount of research Takedzuki does for his series is amazing!!! I've always loved history and mythology so all of his series cater to all my tastes, and when he goes into obscure topics (like Phoenician and Sarmatian mythology) he totally blows my mind. I soooo want Chronicle Legion translated. The fan translation stopped at such a good point, just as I had my theories confirmed about the MC's identity!!!
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Since you, guys, are talking about pony tail
Can I mention this?
Shomin sample~
Ichijinsha Bunko (Ichijinsha) (A kodansha company) -
@bloodygaikotsu That’s one I would rather read the manga for tbh, but seeing as Seven Seas doesn’t offer that digitally, I usually end up reading scanlations.
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@legitpancake
I wonder why won't u get the physical copy tho?
I am the kind of guys who prefers physical over digital (weird saying this here in JNC forums tho)
Like I see a lot of people telling Vertical to care more about Digital market while I wanna annoy Kodansha about their Digital-only titles~lolEven tho, I don't live in US so getting the physical copies is always really expensive especially when customs here cracks down on books with any "questionable" cover
(that's why my local bookstores refused to special order Hideo Okuda's Lala Pipo for me and I am afraid that I won't even be able to get some of the future NGNL releases if they get out). -
@bloodygaikotsu as someone who prefers physical one billion times more then digital let me just say that when you run outta room for books and outta rook for more shelves it is just great that my digital bookshelf only takes up the space in my pants pocket.
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@bloodygaikotsu Not only is space an issue, but I have a family and a social life too. I’d rather not own a book of a middle-school girl lifting up her skirt.
Even as someone who owns every volume of Berserk, I’m kinda self-conscious about that stuff. -
I had an opinion I was going to share, but as I started writing a post I kept changing my mind like every other sentence, so I'll just contribute that yeah, it's rather complicated to want to, as a person, both conform to societal norms and support things that can be easily misconstrued as being socially deviant D:
