Sol Press license rescues!
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Already have Detestable Demon Lord and Strongest Gamer. But will rebuy from Jnovel if Chivalry of a Failed Knight gets rescued 😜
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Of course we'll never know as I suppose it's trade secrets, but it would certainly be fun to know what the sales of these license rescues will eventually be, compared to original Sol sales.
The precedents we do have, like Slayers, are all old stuff so they aren't directly comparable.
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@myskaros will there be a difference between the j-novel versons and the sol press versions. As i already own Why Shouldn't a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?!
Also if you can save "saving 80000 gold in another world" i would love you forever ❤
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@Dicara said in Sol Press license rescues!:
Also if you can save "saving 80000 gold in another world" i would love you forever ❤
This is already relicensed by Kodansha US
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@Dicara said in Sol Press license rescues!:
@myskaros will there be a difference between the j-novel versons and the sol press versions. As i already own Why Shouldn't a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?!
Read the main post. The top 4 series in the image (which includes Detestable Demon Lord) are simple republications of the existing Sol Press translations. All that will be different is a quick additional QA pass to check for typos/errors. Sol Press translated all 4 volumes so there’s nothing additional to publish; they’re simply just making them available again as ebooks legally on the market.
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@Dicara FYI the translations for Detestable and Strongest Gamer seemed fine to me, no better or worse than ones from Cross Infinite, Yen, etc.
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@LegitPancake said in Sol Press license rescues!:
@Dicara said in Sol Press license rescues!:
@myskaros will there be a difference between the j-novel versons and the sol press versions. As i already own Why Shouldn't a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love?!
Read the main post. The top 4 series in the image (which includes Detestable Demon Lord) are simple republications of the existing Sol Press translations. All that will be different is a quick additional QA pass to check for typos/errors. Sol Press translated all 4 volumes so there’s nothing additional to publish; they’re simply just making them available again as ebooks legally on the market.
I think the implication in 'rescue' is that JNC will try to license the series beyond what is in print now - yes they'll clean up vol 1-4 of whatever, and I want them streamed (cuz' that's how I consume LNs) but the rescue part is that once they show that they can generate revenue on the back issues...the original publishers will want JNC to do volume 5 and beyond. Folks who invested emotionally or financially in a series won't be abandoned.
I've posted multiple times that SOL was not gonna get my $$ because of reasons, and I'm glad they are gone - that the artists who got held hostage by Sol's business practices will be getting royalties, and the works will continue to be translated - all good news (Hooray for JNC)
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@Jon-Mitchell Detestable Demon Lord does not have a volume 5+, the series finished and was completely translated before. VRMMO Academy is a different situation, however, and JNC has said they plan to translate beyond where SP stopped.
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@LegitPancake
I wasn't commenting about a specific series, but rescues in general - and not as a criticism to your comment (I hope it didn't come off that way)that being said - I hope JNC 'streams' Detestable Demon Lord it looks fun and that's how I consume my ln's --is the series complete? are there WN's waiting to be the next volume? maybe this interest (the rescue) will be a reason for more volumes?
I read banned books
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@Jon-Mitchell Detestable Demon Lord does not have a WN, and it had a happy ending and all the stores say it ended at v4.
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One of the very nice things about JNC is that once they license one volume of a work, unless events completely outside of their control intervene they'll do their utmost to continue that series through everything published in Japan.
Unlike certain other publishers.This impacts the whole Sol Press rescue thingy, in that there shouldn't be any question but that JNC will continue beyond the volumes Sol had published for those series where the translation was not complete.
While the background is that of a 'rescue', the reality is that these are now JNC licenses in every sense going forward. -
@Jon-Mitchell we might make it available for catch up one day or some other way to cheaply read the parts for members! No promises though.
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Thought Redefining Meta looked familiar.
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@myskaros WOOOOOOO "I SURRENDERED MY SWORD!!!!"
FUCK YEAHHHH!!!!
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So glad that "Why Shouldn't a Detestable Demon Lord Fall In Love" got picked back up here. It's a great little story. Sad that it only lasted 4 volumes, but it's still a great little story. I have all of the Sol Press releases, but will gladly rebuy them under JNC. I just can't have enough copies of this story.
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Given that these releases aren't available for normal reading on the online reader, can these be tagged with an additional tag so they can be excluded when searching for new series? It's rather depressing when looking for new releases to find that they won't actually be available on the site. They should have a special tag so that it's more obvious that these aren't regular web releases.
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Detestable Demon Lord Vol. 3 is scheduled to be available in about 2 hours!
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@myskaros said in Sol Press license rescues!:
Detestable Demon Lord Vol. 3 is scheduled to be available in about 2 hours!
It's a cute series. Everyone who buys it needs to top off their insulin supply to prevent a sugar overdose. Volumes 3-4 are 100% slice-of-family-life.
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@HarmlessDave Honestly, It's my first time reading the series, but it's non-stop smiles from all the family goodness in Volume 3. Anima is such a relatable character in his worries and joys. I can't wait to see what awaits in the 4th volume.
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@myskaros I'm new to J-Novel Club. I bought the digital release of the first volume of Detestable Demon Lord, but I can only read the first part that's available for preview. Will the other parts be available soon?
