Acquisitions Speculation - General

Crimson Wise

They have been dropping hints(?) for a bit as well, if I didn't miss anything:

saffire

On Discord, exedore says that this is a pre-recorded video, not a stream. Which is pretty unusual for JNC, so it'll be interesting to see what this is about.

TheGrimLich

@saffire ~~clearly jnc is buying bethesda from microsoft~~

kuali

@TheGrimLich The Yurgenschimdt DLC for Starfield will be a big hit, I'm sure!

Crimson Wise

Announcements next Friday.

Announcements

saffire

Hints!

I guess the first 6 didn't cut it.
Solving your own assassination has never been so romantic!
You killed Myne! You bastard!
Extracurricular activities have never been so deep.
Falling from noble status isn't only for female protags anymore!
The swords have a socket setting.

Also, they are confirmed as light novels.

Geezer Weasalopes

@saffire said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:

The swords have a socket setting.

There are bayonets that fit into sockets. I suppose, depending upon the style of sword, one could fit into a socket on a pole creating a bladed pole arm.
Sockets can also be found upon sheaths and pommels and such for holding jewels {portable wealth] or if a magic accessory scenario magic stones, that kind of thing.
I kinda doubt it's an electrical socket thing, but who knows?

@saffire said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:

I guess the first 6 didn't cut it.

There are various titles talking about it being their 'seventh time around' or the seventh prince, these types of things.
Something where you know there were six before them.

kuali

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:

There are bayonets that fit into sockets. I suppose, depending upon the style of sword, one could fit into a socket on a pole creating a bladed pole arm.

There was an actual thing called a Sword Bayonet, where the bayonet has a long enough handle (and blade) that it could be wielded as a short sword even when it wasn't attached to the paired rifle. They saw a decent amount of use between roughly the Revolutionary/Napoleonic wars and the First World War. And there have been Light Novels set around that period (or its fantasy equivalents) before...

Geezer Weasalopes

@kuali said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:

There are bayonets that fit into sockets. I suppose, depending upon the style of sword, one could fit into a socket on a pole creating a bladed pole arm.

There was an actual thing called a Sword Bayonet, where the bayonet has a long enough handle (and blade) that it could be wielded as a short sword even when it wasn't attached to the paired rifle. They saw a decent amount of use between roughly the Revolutionary/Napoleonic wars and the First World War. And there have been Light Novels set around that period (or its fantasy equivalents) before...

There was something along those lines in a work here at JNC "recently", wasn't there?
I'm flashing on having commented it being a misuse of terminology until someone provided info such as you mention, but it clearly didn't stick.
...or maybe I was the one who researched that it did exist; I'm having Wikipedia article searches suddenly flashing before my eyes related to this... Checking to see where it's been mentioned in the forum discussions might provide a possible lead if this does relate to a new license.

GeorgeMTO

In case some people don't pay attention to unfollowed series, we got a batch of hints hidden in the April Fools release of "I Got Hit By a Truck But I Wasn’t Sent to Another World! What the Heck?!" for this week's upcoming announcement stream.

The only one I've managed to try and guess at myself is no skeleton haunting this place, no cursed saint remains as a Drecom title: 骨骸の剣聖が死を遂げる～呪われ聖者の学院無双～ MTL:The Skeletal Sword Saint dies ~ The Academy of Cursed Saints Musou

Maybe one of you can find one I did not.

Lily Garden

I am disappointed that no one mentioned on the forum that the announcements were happening today @admin @hirei

I don’t do social media so I completely missed the livestream and one of my favorite things is to see Sam talk about the new stuff live

geetop

@Lily-Garden

I had asked in another thread if they would let us know on the forums about the twitch meeting (they used to) and was told definitely it would be this time. But it never happened.

I would appreciate it greatly if they would put it on their to do list going forward.

https://forums.j-novel.club/post/346194

mlindner

Is there any chance of anyone acquiring Kenyuusha Sikorski Zeelife no Oinaru Tankyuu?

It's been on my radar for a while.

Mods, please move this post if there's a better place for it.

sindafelix

Hajime Kanzaka has written a short tales book for the 35th anniversary of Slayers (2025). Would it be possible to translate them and combine them with novels 16 and 17 (which were already translated by JNC but are only available digitally) to release 'Slayers Collector's Edition 6' as a hardback book? Thanks!