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    • Hylebos
      Hylebos Premium Member last edited by

      I wanted to do a quick series search to look up the full series name for Goodbye, Overtime! This Reincarnated Villainess Is Living for Her New Big Brother, and so I tried searching for Goodbye Overtime and was surprised when the results page only turned up the manga and not the light novel: https://j-novel.club/series?search=Goodbye Overtime.

      If you include a comma in the search result it returns both series as expected: https://j-novel.club/series?search=Goodbye, Overtime, but ideally I would expect the presence of a comma to not matter insofar as a series search is concerned.

      I played around with the search and the same issue exists for most other symbols I tested, including question marks (as can be seen with Fired? But I Maintain All the Software!), colons (as can be seen with Starting on Hard Mode: God Levels, Got Problems), hyphens (as can be seen with Flung into a New World? Time to Lift the 200-Year Curse!), and exclamation marks (as can be seen with Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! This White Mage Is One Heck of a Healer)

      Even the fact that my original search for Goodbye Overtime turned up the manga in the results is extremely unusual: for most other series with commas (like Old Knight, New Post: From Retiree to Her Majesty’s Blade), omitting the comma with a search like Old Knight New Post would result in neither the light novel nor the manga being found as can seen with https://j-novel.club/series?search=Old Knight New Post. I can only assume that the manga was found for Goodbye Overtime only because the Overtime was being matched in one of the blurbs or other fields that is indexed by the search?

      I dunno. Best of luck!

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