Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Ah.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_the_Dragons
^ It used to be Kadokawa, but it moved to GaGaGa. Has an anime. Someone was talking about a former Kadokawa title that switched pubs being a possibility for JNC.
Mardchen Madchen is another curious one, but I'm too lazy to look up it's publisher and viability right now. xC
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^ It used to be Kadokawa, but it moved to GaGaGa. Has an anime. Someone was talking about a former Kadokawa title that switched pubs being a possibility for JNC.
Gagaga is anti digital so not gonna happen. Sorcerous Orphen switched from Kadokawa to Too books. ^^
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@hak0 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [12 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!11 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
Gagaga is anti digital.
I get what you mean, they may be anti digital only for releases, but the work is digitized in Japan on Kindle as well. Still, seems unlikely if they weren't willing to play ball earlier with digital only and wanted a physical release too in the west (and assuming Seven Seas would take on this property so JNC can release it to begin with would be a stretch).
I know there are some other pubs that were assumed to be anti digital-only that changed tunes, like the SB Creative label behind Ryou's work seemed before that released on Bookwalker.
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Well even those Japanese digital books are region blocked. In any case if you ask me Sam is more likely to license from Kadokawa than Shogakukan. They have just made their position clear to him. They won't just have a change of heart the next day ^_^
They were against releasing it digitally first even if Sam got the license for the physical release. Which means they weren't even fine with a physical release unless it was done before the digital release which goes completely against how J-NC makes profit.
Look at every Shogakukan book Yen Press has. Not a single one has a digital release.
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I almost watched the classic Orphen, but didn't (rented the DVD collection, but the 50 episodes was too imposing to finish in a week). I'd be all for that too as a fresh series to me.
Something like, hmm, Schwartzesmarken, I'd be a bit less crazy about since I have seen the anime and read some of the differences from the Wiki.
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It has been a long time since i have taken any guesses on the new licences, but after very carefully reviewing all the hints Sam has been dropping the past 3~ months in Discord, I feel very confident in saying that 1 of the remaining 11 unannounced titles is the light novel that is part of Hobby Japan's catalog.
The other 10 are definitely of Japanese origin, i am at least 31.895% sure of that.
Sorry but J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on any potential licensing decision or acquisitions.
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I'll make that <1% guess that Sam has expanded into the K-Novel Club market and licensed The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor or Dungeon Defense.
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@aruseus493 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [12 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!11 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
I'll make that <1% guess that Sam has expanded into the K-Novel Club market and licensed The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor or Dungeon Defense.
I find that to be unlikely. I mean, it's not impossible, but Sam's physically in Japan isn't he? His connections and business relationships are mainly in Japan, it's not like he can just take a quick trip over to Korean and talk to some publishers there.
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Why not? It's a short flight, and he's already taken business trips elsewhere in Asia.
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Gotta rebrand then.
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I have a personal request, take it or leave it. When there is a new announcement of possible acquisitions. Could we perhaps start a new thread of it instead of resurrecting this 2 year old thread? It makes it harder to find the start of the context. For example, we should have a thread for the Anime Expo announcements. A couple months later when we get another set of clues for unrelated books we start a new thread for that one, etc.
I'd also like to see a link to his hints page because sometimes I find those hard to find on my own.
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@malloc I agree that a new topic makes sense.
You can always find announcements/hints here: https://j-novel.club/announcements
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The context is given in the opening post, the latest discussion is for the latest aquisitions. Clottering up several threads for announcements instead of a general thread like this I would say is unsmart. If you had checked the Opening Post it would've given you all information about the latest aquisitions.
Sometimes announcements are random for new aquisitions and therefore I've found the topic surrounding aquisitions for J-novel to be hardly formatted for single threads of new aquisitions. It just doesn't work.
We're also in a weird situation where we have the AX aquisitions, but also 5 more aquisitions that haven't been finalized for Autumn. In a way the current topic is all about AX aquisitions. Not the Autumn ones.
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Sam said he had to rewrite one of the new contracts, so one announcement won’t be ready in time for AX. Personally I don’t think it’s that big of a deal lol
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@legitpancake yeah, that still leaves 11 announcements, and given that every newly anounced series comes with 4 parts right out of the bat, we'll have material to read for a long while.
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A little delay on a single title isn't really a problem. If the contract had to be canceled, that would have been bad. But since it just requires some rewriting that's fine enough.
For now I just want to know all the new titles, once I know them I can see if I should pick up some WN fan translations I had my eyes on for a while (like Lazy Dungeon Master). There's no point in reading WNs that might be translated shortly, I better use my time for something else. Even more so because quite a few WNs/LNs I want to read are from publishers JNC works with :D
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Hrmm hrmm. New series by Grimgar author...
https://bookwalker.jp/decd4a06c4-59c4-41e1-8176-4a899fd6bebe/?acode=WpfPW3yk
(I'm not going to read the synopsis in case it has a Grimgar connection).
Edit: Publisher: Kadokawa...
T_T
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So... print edition of Smartphone confirmed? (Enlarge photo.)
Quof got a break.
WHAT'S THE STORY WITH THAT FREAKING BLACK DRAGON?! -
@crimson-wise Even with J-Novel Club on the spine.
