How Important are Side Story, Vol. 0, and X.5 Volumes in LNs?
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@raitoiro They probably will considering they have the Rokujouma x.5 books up there.
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@raitoiro yes but outside of JNC no one is doing that, and OP called out some YP titles by name which I will just assume we will never see .5 volumes for...
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@timmaaah Yeah JNC seem rather likely to translate that kind of stuff anyway but Rokujuma isn't really the best exemple since the circonstances are rather unusual.
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@rahul-balaggan YP probably won't translate short story or .5 vol but i can see Sevens Sea do it, they did translated Mushoku Tensei short stories after all.
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@raitoiro did they?
On the website I see listings for just the manga the light Novel & the spin-off manga.
I don’t see any mention of a .5 volume.
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For Yen Press, it’s on a series-by-series basis; they’re releasing the .5 volumes for Oregairu.
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@rahul-balaggan Yeah the short stories are bundle with the manga.
Mushoku Tensei has no .5 volumes anyway, but to take an other serie they recently licence, i would be surprised if they don't translate the .5 of Classroom of the elite. -
I think it'd be best to separate the .5 stuff from SS stuff. There seems to be a difference where all .5 stuff are getting translated, but "SS" stuff is getting skipped. (From YP's history so far.)
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It’s funny that you mentioned this, but labeling a volume as x.5 instead of just a ss volume is actually a relatively recent phenomenon intended for boosting sales in Japan. The consensus is that ss volume will almost always undersell the main series, with some fall as low as just 1/3 of the numbered volumes. Labeling something as x.5 boosts sales, at least anecdotally.
