@Cid This is an author who escaped light novels into the world of mainstream fiction and became an award-winning best seller so those 'unknown' books probably sold 40 times what her early career light novels did...not that I read them either...
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.
The problems with 23 were pretty obvious, but I did send Yen Press my assessment of it and a link to the Death March subreddit thread on the volume. Any fixes beyond that are out of my hands.
Its crazy to me that there was almost no effort to tell people about this. I only just learned about this today because I saw someone on discord with the new role and was curious what the reader club thing was.
Yeah I'm not subscribed to the newsletter as I don't want more spam on my email but something important like this should have been sent to everyone with an active billing subscription.
I'm not JNC staff, but I believe the (direct from JNC) epubs will always have all content from the printed editions plus any bonus content, while the printed versions will be missing the bonus content just like it's missing from the ebooks from Amazon, Apple, etc.
That's because the bonus content is easier to license if it's only for a more limited "JNC members" epub.
@Elijah203223 I believe the age rating system was put in because of some EU regulation, so they're likely assigning ratings to content based on EU standards, not American ones.
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.
