@Cid I doublechecked her works on Bookmeter and it looks like I'm almost certainly wrong, but only because Gosick was republished through mainstream labels and outsold the light novel versions (not that Bookmeter is accurate to sales but when the first volume has 10000 readers from Kadokawa Bunko and 2000 from Fujima Mystery one can spot a trend.)

Red Girls is split over two editions but has ~9000 and A Small Charred Face at around ~4000 (both still far higher than the average light novel.)

Arslan is by the author of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, which people like. And it gets exposure through a manga drawn by the artist of Fullmetal Alchemist, which people like. So I think people would like Arslan too.

I've read a part of this WN and liked it, but had a hard time with the pacing. I would love to read the LN.

Volume 10 is scheduled to release in November 14, 2025

The Synopsis of this Volume says that it will be the final Volume.

So basically he has to protect her from accidents, but with only 7 seconds of warning? Must not be easy.

Volume 3 is scheduled for release on November 4, 2025.

VOLUME 3 COVER

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@LilithR02R1 I need j-novel take it

Since I've been learning Japanese I decided to go ahead and read the entirety of the manga in Japanese for practice. And it's really good. I highly reccomend Apothecary Diaries fans picking up the English release of the manga and I really hope the light novels get picked up for translation too. Especially since they're supposed to have branching stories with ln5.

@Hylebos

@Lily-Garden said in 護衛騎士ヨナスはふりむかない ～スカルファロットの魔付きの誓い～ (The Escort Knight Jonas Will Not Look Back: The Cursed Oath of the Scalfarotto):

So I want this on my desk by next week 😉

Yes, why do we not have this yet?! It released in Japan last month.. It should be here already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I hope we get this. Everything in this world has been great so far.

@Ingraman I wouldn't be surprised if the author got his inspiration from Legend of the Galatic Heroes tbh.

@molanaisahq Did you really use an AI-generated message to advertise your Roblox software

With a new anime season it would be a good time to license this. Considering there are other popular licensed other world cooking type series this might have a good chance.

This just got a new light novel volume released it would be great to see J-novel try to license it (again?).

@Torka ...and now J Novel Club, apparently

It‘s a really nice and cozy manga, you have my upvote!

My Deer Friend Nokotan is another show that did a MArimite parody scene.