Oh wow. I guess I really have been too busy with work the past few of weeks. Never saw this news until today.

Excited that Hero & the Sage is licensed! I enjoyed the (fan-translated) manga and was looking forward that somebody would license the LN. I'll check that out soon.

@Mugen said in [CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:

@jazzyjeoff damn this is hard. my plot outline + character profiles are now 9k+. adding power system + a little bit of world building info would surely surpass the 10k-words limit lol.

but yeah, thanks for the info.

For mine, I suppose that I could delete all of the extras, except for the system of magic—it is not that super-complex, but it is still unique enough that if you are a judge skipping around the story, or on your fifth magical system of the day, it would be good to have a reference bookmarked. And yes, I will use every single word of my 10K allotted!

A few additional announcements went up on Twitter today!

https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1662172325586796544
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1662173185796702208
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1662174165242204160

YAY, more Endo and Kobayashi. The other one sounds interesting too.

@Windsagio I have two categories for JNC series I follow - the ones I buy, and the ones I keep as prepub only.

Bookworm, Apothecary Diaries and Dahlia in Bloom are examples of the former. These are series I really enjoyed and will definitely read again.

The latter category mostly includes manga includes those books I either won't read again, or simply didn't like enough to justify the purchase. My funds are also limited, unfortunately... .

As for buying the Japanese versions, well, I don't do that very often, just with a couple of series as shipping can be expensive. Right now, the only ones I'm actively buying are manga (My Happy Marriage's special editions and Shoukoku no Altair, both of which get like one book per year) and the Honzuki junior bunko.

My Happy Marriage is also a strange example in that I'm getting the English novels but the Japanese manga... perhaps it's because the setting, but that one just feels like I have to read it in Japanese ahaha.

@myskaros Mia looking so BOSS there

@Tube Yeah, but that's not up in the cycle of side books until after Fanbook 3.

Here's hoping it fixes also email notifications. 😋

@PhantomOfTheKill said in Sol Press license rescues!:

@myskaros will grieving souls volumes flow uninterrupted up to the latest jp volumes? Hoping for weekly updates to parts with the typical 2 weeks between volumes. If not, can i know the schedules for it?

There is always only one answer to that question.

@arghc Correct; the only discount comes from your subscription status, otherwise the cost per coin is consistent regardless of quantity.

I bought a lot of credits not to game the system but to hedge against the pound falling against the dollar (which it subsequently did).

@Ingraman said in Anime Boston 2022:

@myskaros said in Anime Boston 2022:

Here are our new licenses from Anime Boston!

... but can we place a limit on main characters who are dressed all in black? ...

And on characters named Aisha or any abbreviation of it. I start mixing them up. Is that the most beloved name of Japanese authors or what? (this is not just JNC titles, but across all English light novel releases. There are so many I get confused).

I read both parts of 4 of the new novels, they seem promising. Let's see where it goes from here :)

@pcj said in New J-Novel Coins are here!:

@admin said in New J-Novel Coins are here!:

@saffire We're kind of waiting to make a few other changes all at once to the app so it might be a little while but we'll definitely get to it (along with allowing purchases of coins etc IN the app).

Amazon just stopped allowing you to purchase within the Kindle app because they didn't want to give the app stores their cut.

I think JNC are in a pretty different situation to Amazon though. The app stores cut likely aren't much different to what Kobo, Bookwalker and Amazon themselves are taking for selling the books 3rd party. If they can bring more people over to buying direct by offering that additional payment method, that balances out.

@bfennema Nothing announced, someone asked in the discord on Friday though

myskaros: We're working on it, but we aren't able to start streaming it yet.
eMPTy: Unfortunately, the only answer we can give is when everything's in place for it to happen

@jpwong
Thanks! Yes, my app is indeed new version, updated Dec 5.

@the_ascended_fox-lej5qfs https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/5292/heat-up-your-winter-with-some-steamy-february-catchups

Holy moly that's a lotta new content. Grats JNC!

Would limiting opening new chats to subscribing members solve the spam bot issue?