As much as Sam says that sci-fi series don’t sell well in Japan, I always hope that it’s just a matter of finding a series with that secret sauce. Let’s hope this one fits the bill.

Edit: I checked the author/artist credits to see if they did anything I know of and WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE ARTIST DREW A BOOK VERSION OF BACK TO THE FUTURE

Volume 2 is scheduled for release on October 10, 2025.

VOLUME 2 COVER

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I’ve actually purchased a few of the JP raws for this series due to the interesting (historical) premise, from what I could make of the blurb. But unfortunately it sits in my Bookwalker reader’s bookshelf as mere display items since I can’t actually read the contents in Japanese.

Stories set in historical eras in Japan would be something I’m interested in.

@Shiroi-Hane said in ゲーム世界転生〈ダン活〉:

This has been on my radar in that the art has sucked me in enough that I’ve picked up a bunch of volumes in sales, but I’ve not actually read any of them and would give it a try. The length and that the WN looks to have a mature fan TL may be marks against it, although considering the most recent available chapter was translated or edited by someone with a tenuous grasp of English grammar and they have over two dozen paywalled chapters, to heck with them.

Never ever support "fans" who put translations behind a paywall. Those are not fans but scammers. There is a lot good to say about fan translations, with a lot of them responsible for many series to become so popular in the west that official translations are on the way. But they must never ask money for it.

Things could always have changed, but in a past Q&A Sam indicated that they’re not interested in licensing these anthologies. So don’t get your hopes up.

@Shiroi-Hane I took the kanji from another site and translated it with DeepL, so I probably missed the commas when copying it. I thought it was just mistranslation lol

Manga Version Licensing Suggestions page: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/8530/manga-the-villain-princess-who-officially-became-a-witch-for-the-second-time-vows-never-to-lose-someone-important-to-her-again

CORONA EX Manga page: https://to-corona-ex.com/comics/165496450891893

The serialization of the new version started: https://to-corona-ex.com/comics/214091844321466

Volume 9 is scheduled for release on October 1, 2025.

VOLUME 9 COVER

Raw Site: https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/comic/34334

I'll give this a bump since it seems interesting, but it looks like it may have stalled. Nothing's come out since vol 5 and even the syosetu web version stopped updating in 2021.

The manga for this series is so good! It'd be cool for the LN to get licensed too!

As a physician this would be an instant buy, if anything just to see how a novelist tackles this moral dilemma.