Acquisitions Speculation - General
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There are two problems with that:
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It's crazy expensive. You have no idea how ridiculous the costs for fixed broadband are in venues. They price bandwidth like it's 20 years ago, and charge a few hundred dollars just for the right to plug in the Ethernet cable (not including any bandwidth with that). Our convention uses LTE wherever possible because it's actually cheaper to pay a mobile provider per gigabyte than it is to pay the venue for Internet service. The venue themselves don't really care because they (like most venues) outsourced that sort of IT service. This doesn't even take into account all the gear they'd need for reliable and professional live streaming. An event like AX doesn't own any of their own hardware, so they'd either need to get the gear from their AV supplier (meaning professional gear) or they'd need to hire a company that specializes in streaming that might have access to more consumer-focused gear (to avoid the need for all the equipment required to get an HD-SDI camera onto YouTube). Also, there would be labour charges for the setup/teardown. Even conventions that have their own tech staff don't usually handle the physical setup/teardown of rented gear.
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Unless you're at an attendance cap, free live streams of panels or other events reduces the incentive for people to actually attend your convention, which is bad. Even if you charge for access to livestreams, you'd have to charge less money than the cost of a badge, and you lose out on all the benefits of having an attendee physically on-site (improving sales of dealers, for example).
AX has an attendance cap and is big enough that they're going to more or less hit that cap no matter what, so they can get away with some live streaming. At the same time, because they don't charge for their live streams, they can't really justify the expense of doing it in all their rooms.
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@sam-pinansky However the author herself mentions often that LN takes a different turn from WN so we should try reading both. As I'm reading the WN, I am much interested in the differences in LN. So I'll buy the LN while continuing reading WN. (P.S. I can read japanese)
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@terrence said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
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
Hey past self, don't feel so glum. It could happen. O_O
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https://curiouscat.me/jnovelclub/post/558677729
Now that you are going to offer print does that mean it could open possibilities of publishers who were not interested in digital only licencing such as reincarnated as a sword
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@legitpancake said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
https://curiouscat.me/jnovelclub/post/558677729
Now that you are going to offer print does that mean it could open possibilities of publishers who were not interested in digital only licencing such as reincarnated as a sword
YesWhich is why, as someone who really doesn't buy physical if I don't have to, this is still big for me. To be getting those pubs that needed both phys + dig, opens up possibilities.
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@terrence Second that sentiment.
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@terrence Yea, getting publishers on board that didn't really favor digital only since they're doing physical releases as well is awesome! I heard Chivalry of a Failed Knight's license holder had been like that originally, so hopefully now J-Novel can pick up Chivalry of a Failed Knight so my husband and I can die happy, hehe.
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Sam accidentally leaked what one of the manga launch titles were this morning in the Discord. I’m not gonna say what it was, but it’s an adaptation of a LN J-Novel already has ;)
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@legitpancake My bet's on the Realist Hero manga.
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I hope he doesn't, the manga version is pretty badly drawn.
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@guspaz But it could get more people interested in the series (and light novels) who read manga. And art style is subjective after all.
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I don't think the art is amazing for Realist Hero, but I find it acceptable.
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@sam-pinansky It might also make them a bit disappointed when they find that the light novels aren't nearly as focused on female chests as the manga artist clearly is :P
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The girls look border line deformed.
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It ain't the best art, that's for sure, but I've seen plenty worse I suppose.
But yeah geez, tits literally bigger than heads ain't that common on otherwise skinny chicks - is that meant to be Juna? Jebus!
Edit: an art style where that works is Maid Dragon & the rest of that mangaka's non-pr0n work - deformed looking on purpose can work.
Edit: skimmed further in the manga and the way overboobed woman is the queen, so I guess I can let that slide.
Edit again: Looks like it was Juna, but her and the queen basically look 99% identical except for clothes.... (could be I can't see their faces past their enormo-boobs)
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OK, I just looked through the scanlated chapters of the Realist manga.
The "balloon boob syndrome" is there, yeah (HOLY HELL EXCEL). But aside from that, the art is pretty well done IMO. I really like Tomoe and Liscia's designs and the crowd shots really made the world feel alive to me.And I'm so glad I can finally distinguish between Souma and Hal without a struggle.
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I don't like how the manga art largely does not have shading, does not use variable line thickness, comes off looking sort of like sketches, and the way that every female character got huge... upgrades.
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If Realist Hero is getting a manga adaptation, is an anime in the future? (Please don't screw it up like Master of Ragnarok.)
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@paul-nebeling I imagine this happens and they use the LN art as a base & there'll be a vocal manga only fanbase that goes off their nut over it not looking right cause teh bewbs are too small.
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@smashman42 Well, then we will know what they were really interested in.
