Acquisitions Speculation - General
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@caramelwithoutthesalt Question out of curiosity, roughly how many light novels released recently (let's say last two years or so) would make you excited to be licensed?
My theory regarding some discontent over recent lower-profile licenses is that most of the older, high-profile titles have either already been licensed, or have reasons why they aren't readily available, which leaves mostly lower profile options. So I'm curious how much that applies here.
Though as mentioned in the last comment, some of 7S's were likely simply targeted at a different market segment.
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From what I can tell it doesn’t say either or. so I’m assuming it’s probably a mistake that they haven’t said it was print, digital, or both I have reached out on Twitter to see if they respond to me if so I’ll drop it in this thread
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@caramelwithoutthesalt Well if I helped you come to some conclusion and you are satisfied with that is good.
I'll just be looking out for the announcements from Yen Press and J-Novel that the series I hope beyond all hopes that one of the 2 gets licensed finally (aka Death Mage Doesn't Want a 4th Time OR So you think someone like you can defeat the demon king?)
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@caramelwithoutthesalt Thanks for the reply. Sounds like my theory doesn't apply much to your case.
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@tremorc Good.
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@rahul-balaggan I'm honestly surprised, it usually takes Yen Press much longer than that to release a book after an announcement.
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@caramelwithoutthesalt said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:
I like good ol’ fashioned manga/light novels that I can sit back, pop my earphones on, and escape the real world for a while.
In that case, I think you'll really like Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear.
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@tremorc I see now thanks for the update
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Mixed feelings hearing that SOL Press got Rakudai. I'm happy that it got licensed since it's a big title that has been begging to be localized. But at the same time, SP does not have a good LN track record. It's nice they are releasing V1-3 in just two weeks on the same day (no word yet on physicals I don't think), but their distribution of paperbacks is horrendous, and everything is always out of stock on amazon (not to mention no bookstore or rightstuf), and they take nearly a full year to release volume 2 for many of their series. They have 17 volumes to go (with more probably coming out in Japan), so we'll see I guess.
Also...
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The following is my personal opinion fully understanding that they are trying to release this series at a decent pace.
Today is the darkest day in overseas Light Novel history...
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I would have preferred any other publisher to get it, but I'm glad that at least someone picked it up.
It's always been one of the most requested series, and now I'm wondering why the other company's didn't pick it up is SP was able to.
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@timmaaah said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:
Only thing I can think of is that the licence was too expensive for the others and SP wanted a big licence name to actually sell some books.
That will only matter if they come around to actually release the damn thing. Given their track record so far, 17 volumes and SP mix like oil and water...
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Given my policy of buying official translations for series I've read the fan-translation of, I'll buy them. But yeah...
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This is a disaster, I always thought it was just an impossible license because no one picked it up despite the popularity.
But now sol press got it which has to be the english publisher with the absolute worst reputation and track record.
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I am really curious what happened with this license. Did it get priced out of profitability for other pubs, did Sol have some connection we don't know about, or did Sol sit on the license for a long while and just now announce it?
Or was it just a license publishers in the West didn't want to take a chance on for some reason?
We'll probably never know
