The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time [Licensed by One Peace Books]
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Yeah, the two series aren't remotely related in any way, so kind of a weird comparison.
I'm pretty sure the only reason Death Mage isn't picked up (besides some of the subject matter) is just that its publisher (Hifumi Shobo) isn't that well established, and has only had a single one of its series picked up by an English publisher, (SCP Foundation picked up by Seven Seas just weeks ago)
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@yumenokage said in The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time:
Why would that be a sign for this one? Type of story, publisher, or something else?
Mostly wishful thinking, recently a lot of works that I like were getting licenses, by not j-novel. Which bring me to the work that I like the most :)
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The premise of this story sounds interesting. I’d definitely buy it if it gets licensed.
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The current web novel is being translated at a snails pace, but it finally reached a conclusion on one of the main characters primary ambitions.(as in for what we have translated unofficially so far) I'd personally love for this series to be translated officially. The web novel itself is in the range of 300+ chapters at this time while the actual light novel itself only has 5 volumes out currently, barely covering the 2nd arc/3rd arc of the series. Its a good time to pick up this series solely because its a period where the light novel is actually lagging far behind. Personally I love the art for the cover/illustrations. All the characters looks really cool and the newest volume has an awesome cover:
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So I looked up the Japanese publisher and it seems it's Hifumi Shobo. According to the English Licenses sorted by JP Publisher thread there's been only one English license from them, SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking-Glass from Seven Seas Entertainment.
Anyone know anything about this publisher and how hard it likely is to license stuff from them?
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@yumenokage Like I said a few posts up, SCP Fondation seems to be the first license from them, and it was only about a month or two ago. I think they're just new, as far as LNs go, so there aren't any licensors that have any established connection with them (besides SSE, that is…)
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the beginning is too cruel to soo good an this is GOLD
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yeah, fingers crossed that this gets picked up, preferably by JNC. Now every time we get announcements of a new batch of licenses I'm hoping for this one.
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@yumenokage well JNC have a panel at Anime Expo next month so we will see:D
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Only problem is I don’t think any English licensor has been able to get deal with this publisher, let alone JNC.
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@legitpancake Seven Seas got one from them. And since the JP publisher is small if I'm not mistaken, it might be more of a matter of English publishers not really trying to get stuff from them.
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Yeah they got that SCP one
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fingers crossed for a license announcement at Anime expo.
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It‘s a really interesting and exiting novel. It would be nice, if it gets licensed!
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Great novel, hope it gets translated
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Does this novel has a chance to get licensed?
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Every LN has a chance to be licensed.
This particular LN’s chance is probably closer to 0% then 100%
only because no one has previously licensed form the JP pubsliher Hifumi ShoboI am like 95% sure no one has licensed anything from them, if any company has someone will correct me shortly.Even though 7S got one I will still say this title is closer to 0 then 100
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@rahul-balaggan Seven Seas licensed SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking-Glass from Hifumi Shobo.
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Seven Seas has a reader survey every month, keep submitting this light novel as suggestion, maybe one day it will be picked up.
