Delicious dark elf is delicious.

Cover illustration for volume 5 releasing October 8th

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@master-zen-4kidgkf Cause it's a Kadokawa title. Kadokawa isn't known for playing nice with all publishers. For the last 10 years or so, they've owned Yen Press and have pretty blatantly played favorites with reserving any licenses they think would do well for YP.

The issue is that Yen Press is just one company and can't support all of Kadokawa's series which make up around half the entire LN market in Japan. So a whole lot of stuff that's highly requested doesn't get licensed.

Hopefully we can start to see this change considering Kadokawa bought out J-Novel Club which might give JNC a higher level of access to Kadokawa titles.

Tsukumodo Antique Shop's first few volumes was a novel I read alongside Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria, back when I still new to light novels.

So, imagine this scenario: there's someone new to light novels, and those two novels were the very first ones he read. At the time (and to this point), he likes one as much as the other. Years later, I still have difficulty finding novels that can rival the writings of those novels. From the top of my head, I can only name probably novels like Biblia Koshodou or works by Sugaru Miaki that can rival them.

Now of course, as a random anonymous person, my opinions hold little to no importance. But I do hope my point comes across, point beingTsukumodo Kottouten is an excellent novel.

Cover for Vol.2 released Feb,7thalt text

娘じゃなくて私が好きなの!?
Musume janakute Mama ga sukinano!? (Cover)
Musume ja Nakute Mama ga Suki nano!? (MAL)
Musume Janakute Mama ga Sukinano!? (The Site That Shall Not Be Linked) Author: 望公太 Nozomi Kota | Twitter Illustrator: ぎうにう Giuniu | Twitter Pixiv Publisher: Dengeki Bunko (Series Page) (Imprint of Kadokawa) BW Series Page Manga: Manga Park Mangaka: 東鉄神 Tesshin Azuma | Twitter

I think that pulls all the LN & Manga publication specific stuff together...

Anime was good, hoping we could see LN getting licensed. It is one of the high selling LNs in JP. JNC please license it..

I would also very like "Usotsuki" to be published, foremost because the character's dialogues are intersting and the protagonist's lies, to the reader and other characters, are, at least for me, both entertaining and unique.

I'm still wondering when someone'll pick this up or if we'll end up with a 'Highschool DxD' scenario where it gets picked up many, many years later.

5th volume came out last month:

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I wish I could give this more than one upvote.

@ctrl said in Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai:

It would be nice for Oreimo to get an official translation. Especially now since new content is finally being released in the form of the "what if" stories.

Agree. Doesn't change the fact I'm a bit sour how

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Just read some of the scanlated manga. It feels super rushed. Also I can definitely agree on it feeling a bit like Dungeon Defense. At least in initial setting although the entire feeling of them are different. I should go re-read the translated volumes of Dungeon Defense...

But yea, I'd be interested in the LN for this.

Updated the LNDB and found the official JP site. The actual publishing label is Dengeki Bunko apparently. Don't know why Amazon just lists it as Dengeki. https://dengekibunko.jp/product/realist/

Some said Fate? Take my money

add me to the wish list!

This looks pretty pretty good

I've enjoyed the Anime so far. Episode 12 airs tonight.

Still keeping my fingers crossed that this series will be picked up one day. Volume 9 came out on Christmas:

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Volume 7 is set to release August 6th in Japan.
Volume 7 Cover