@pcj Thank you for asking. I've checked, and it was approved and published to the Play Store, but its rollout was misconfigured to 20%. So only 20% of users would have seen it. We've fixed that, and everyone should see it now.

Yay for progress!

Can we request features for the mobile app? If so, I’d like a way to see future releases like on the website and a way to access “recently read” titles, what with the reader’s library not needing rentals.

@hirei I was more referring to the fact that at all the other conventions this year someone from the discord channel was at the panel in the audience who could either post picture or at least the titles of what was being announced live. This has typically allowed whoever on staff is managing the slide deck release for the discord to post the slides during the panel rather than everything just being dropped once the panel's scheduled time wraps up.

I don't think anyone expects any official livestream of the event exactly due to wireless limitations at these events.

Unfortunately there is nothing which I am really interested in. Might give S-rank adventurer and green thumb a try.
I am not complaining. The last haul including the many OLNs were a lot that I am barely catching up each week.

@topgnu As catch-ups are now going away. They probably won't update the site to remove them until tomorrow at the earliest.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9646/new-subscriptions-vs-your-library?page=1

@myskaros will there be a 2026 contest? I have a work I’d love to submit to it.

This is rare, all of the light novels in this batch suit my tastes.

The manga My Death Defying Dog is great. I wish it was a light novel too, but I'm definitely going to follow it. (I'm a really big dog person. Well, I'm a person who really likes dogs, and I am very big. However I prefer small dogs, and the heroic dog is really cute.)

Just a notice that Monday, September 1, is Labor Day in the US, so catchups will be changing on Tuesday instead!

@Hylebos thanks for the reply

@karasutengu said in May 2025 Catchups:

DVDs

Ah, if it's DVDs, then I can't buy them. I don't have an all-region Blu ray player and I don't want to buy one. So any DVDs I buy would be locked out of my region. I'm in the same region for Blu ray as the US but a different region for DVDs.

Dragon Daddy Diaries is adorable and complete.

I've only read the LN for Water Magician but it's silly fun.

Sexiled wasn't my cup of tea. It takes the misogyny to absurd lengths to make its point, but I suppose it's no more extreme than the over-the-top mistreatment of MCs in many other "banished from party" and "betrayed by party" LNs.

@jazzyjeoff
Usually, I would advice against it. Maybe there is nothing to refine. But you passed to the second round and if you think you can enhance the story, then maybe it is not such a bad idea. But I think it would be best to continue your work and make it a priority to finish your novel first.

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in June 2025 Catchups:

It has...my not having gotten that far into the series because I just wasn't into it that much at the time; I have purchased the first eight

I watched the Outbreak Company anime and mildly enjoyed it, but I'm way too casual about my anime and LNs to get into the ultra-hardcore otaku culture.

For example, I vaguely understand from reading LN that knee-high socks and a "thigh gap" is a special fetish thing for otaku but it's not something I care about myself. I just shrug and move on.

Many of these I quite enjoyed so far.
One I noped out of fast...had to force myself to finish the first section, it was that fast a Nope. ...I've already seen comments thinking it's da bomb, so clearly YMMV.
And the manga concerning Crow...looks like it will hit what the LN was focusing upon nicely, but the LN didn't hold my interest. It wasn't a bad concept, wasn't badly done, but slipped off my reading list for some reason; wasn't in the right mood, I guess. Anyway, if you enjoyed the LN I'd recommend taking a look at the manga.

@Lincelp Thanks for reporting! It should be fixed now!

@HarmlessDave said in Is It Foolish to Have This Many Catchups?:

prepubs don't get all of the corrections added for the final releases, so the issue might or might not exist in the ebook and (if any) print volume. Reporting things like typos isn't needed because the prepubs for released volumes are usually frozen in time forever.

I know this has been the rationale given in the past, but we still appreciate when it's reported, and if we have time/bandwidth we will fix it!

I noted this on the forums, and in Discord. After V5 The Great Cleric does come back strong and goes back to its OG roots.

All of the V4 and V5 stuff comes back later on to be relevant in a good way.

Others who dropped it did come back and say the same.

But yes, The Great Cleric is meant to be a slow burn.