Isekai Yururi Kikou (Raising Children While Being an Adventurer)
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Unfortunately, the main issue with this LN is that the published is Alpha Polis 😧
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@terabyte didn’t seven seas license a ln from Alpha Polis? I might be wrong, but if we did there is hope.
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@hyferzftw no they did not so far no one has, they recently licensed from Micro Magazine (Reincarnated as a sword) which before only YP had access to.
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@hyferzftw It was a manga. You can find the discussion about Alpha Polis in this other licensing topic: https://forums.j-novel.club/post/44039
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Please J novel Club... have this title English translated! I really love this light hearted story! Also some of the characters are exclusive to the LN so if they become available as ebooks (like in google play books or in amazon kindle) I would definitely buy all the volumes!
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@Jealyn I'd love to see this one too, but the LN has a critical issue with it
Original Publisher: Alpha Polis
Unfortunately there's been nothing indicating that this company has changed it's stance from when it flat out refused to meet in person to discuss licensing options. They simply do not wish to entertain the notion of international licensing of their LN products.
It's really sad since there's a few LNs now under their label that I would love to see licensed.
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@jpwong Anyone know why? Are they allergic to money or something?
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@NekrozTrish It's not necessarily good money at this point, and it's potentially a lot of hassle. There are manga publishers that do the same (e.g. as I understand it, Flex Comix used to license their stuff and then at some point decided that they weren't going to do that anymore). As another example, IIRC, Sam previously tried to license some stuff from KyoAni and pretty much couldn't even get them to talk to him.
The Japanese publishers (particularly the larger ones) certainly care more about the international market now more than they used to, but light novels in particular are not big outside of Japan, and they're written for the Japanese market. So, it would be very easy for a smaller publisher to think that it's just not worth their time to deal with licensing for international distribution. As the LN market grows in the US, that may change over time, but ultimately, most of these companies are Japanese companies producing stuff for Japan, not international companies producing stuff for international distribution.
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@NekrozTrish As Kalessin said, they might see it as more hassle than it's worth. If you take a look through some of the discussions around this company, they don't have an international marketing division (at least they didn't 3 years ago) and they're also apparently the company that holds the Gate license. Gate's manga did not go so well, it seems like the English licensor really dropped the ball on actually doing anything with it. That could easily have soured their opinion of any future licensing of their products.
I went and took a look at what LNs they have listed under on NU and (besides realizing that they're the licensor for something like a dozen LNs I would love to see licensed) I think Gate might be their only title that's gone on to get an anime series. They might be more adverse to dealing with all the stuff around licensing particularly because their series don't see the huge popularity other companies are when it comes to having internationally funded anime series on their titles.
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Somehow the Manga adaptions of Alphapolis novels which are Re:Monster (Seven Seas) and New Gate (One Peace Books) were licensed by US publishers. There might be a minimal chance that it could work for their manga licenses despite the hot mess of Sekai Project with Gate.
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That's good to know, hoping that JNC is occasionally reaching out to see if there are open to licensing. This is probably my top Alpha Polis owned want for licensing (followed by nonbiri vrmmo).
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This series seems to be quite enjoyable.
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I’d prefer the manga here myself... so another +1 regardless!
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I'm currently Re-reading the manga for this series and will probably reread the WN after. It's such a cute fluffy story and I really hope JNC can License both the LN and Manga.
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@demonskid said in Isekai Yururi Kikou (Raising Children While Being an Adventurer):
I'm currently Re-reading the manga for this series and will probably reread the WN after. It's such a cute fluffy story and I really hope JNC can License both the LN and Manga.
I'm still hoping for the LN since the WN translations have a bunch of holes in it from LN only content, but I don't know what the likelihood of the manga is at this point. AlphaPolis is releasing a bunch of their series directly through their AlphaManga app (even stuff they have licensed out to other English licensors), so it would be really weird to see JNC pick up the manga and have to directly compete with the Japanese publisher's version. The only thing they'd really have going for them is AlphaManga doesn't actually let you buy anything being released, only rent.
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@jpwong said in Isekai Yururi Kikou (Raising Children While Being an Adventurer):
AlphaManga
Everything I saw was that the manga wasn't Licensed and I never heard of this AlphaManga app. I'll check it out, thanks!
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@demonskid said in Isekai Yururi Kikou (Raising Children While Being an Adventurer):
@jpwong said in Isekai Yururi Kikou (Raising Children While Being an Adventurer):
AlphaManga
Everything I saw was that the manga wasn't Licensed and I never heard of this AlphaManga app. I'll check it out, thanks!
Their manga may not show up as licensed since it's not being released the way other companies normally do it. It's being released in English directly by the Japanese company, not through a US or international branch of the company. They also aren't offering any way to purchase what they're releasing through their app, so the situation is a bit unusual.
There's a discussion topic on their app over at https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4694/alphapolis-manga-app-discussion?_=1637604441113
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I would also like to see this licensed as well. As of March 8, 2022, according to Novel Updates, Status in COO is now 346 WN Chapters (Ongoing), 15 Side Story (Ongoing), 11 LN Volumes (Ongoing).
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It's an Alpha Polis title unfortunately. If someone is ever able to license even a single series from them everyone's gonna throw a party I bet... 😋
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J jpwong referenced this topic on
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Too bad no one picked this up before the anime started airing this season (since it seems like alpha might finally be open to overseas licensing now), the series is up to 16 volumes (vol 16 came out June 19, 2024).
