One Peace Books
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I find One Peace to be kind of the strangest of the Light Novel publishers. They have one wildly successful title with Shield Hero but where most other publishers would have tried to capitalise on that and build out a line of licenses, they just kept regularly publishing Shield Hero with nothing else for seven years (well there was Spear Hero and I think one volume of some Vocaloid crossover thing). Now finally in 2022 they’re adding some more titles. I know they also do manga and a number of non-genre books but it still is a surprising approach.
Personally, I would obviously take this over the Sol approach of tons of licenses but little progress (I imagine almost everyone would), but I’m curious to hear what others think about One Peace and also to hear if anyone has insight into their approach.
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I'm not that interested in supporting them after they dropped Mikagura School Suite after just 1 volume.
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It does make me worried when they have released the first volume of The Death Mage, but can't see any mention of the second volume anywhere...
This is the only series of theirs that I have bought that wasn't shield hero related, so it doesn't shine a good light on them.
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@Timmaaah Since volume one isn’t out yet, I wouldn’t be too worried yet (they did drop one series but that was over 5 years ago so not necessarily indicative as to how they’ll behave now).
After giving it some thought I actually just popped over to Barnes and Noble to preorder the eBook and I found they’re charging a massive $11.50 for the eBook. $10 is my upper limit, that’s a crazy price for a single volume of a light novel. Checked Amazon and it’s that much there too. Just stupid pricing.
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@the-green-death Ah true, I forgot the release date since I already have had the physical for a week or 2.
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@the-green-death There is a coupon on Kobo that still works, it takes 40% off one ebook and you can use it as many times as you want as long as you buy one at a time.
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It also combines with the 10% discount if you have the $10/year Kobo membership.Note that the member discount and this coupon do not work on Yen Press ebooks. But it does work on Seven Seas, One Peace, Viz, and J-Novel Club titles.
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@LegitPancake that’s a great code, thanks! Did the preorder!
