Chivalry of a Failed Knight
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@drone205 Still no license though...
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Personally I believe that we're being made to face the same trial as Ikki prior to the start of the story. Eventually Kurono will take over the light novel industry and give us a real chance.
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Just recently watched the anime... While I didn’t love it, I definitely want to read more. Now the big question is just why his hasn’t been licensed yet.
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This is definitely one of my favourite light novel series, though it has been extremely hard to source. I am aware that there was a fan translation, but that appears to have stalled just after volume 8.
(Btw, how do you vote for series? I cannot see the vote button anywhere.)
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@custodes On a given post, next to the "Reply" and "Quote" links, there's a "^" symbol. Just vote on the first post.
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@ironman628 We can only hope. I really like the underdog and the beauty story.
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@jcoth yea, I keep seeing new announcements being made by the other LN publishers, not just JNC, so hopefully one of them will license this series as it seems to have at least somewhat of a desire from LN fans. So until then hopefully everyone continues to recommend/suggest it whenever possible.
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JNC actually announced a lot of licenses during Sakuracon so its not like they've been short on announcements.
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So, we didn’t get a license announcement for this series at AX. But it seems that some of the license announcements were from series I’m not familiar with, so do you think that with many/most of the very popular series getting licensed and relationships with Japanese licensors improving that there’s a better chance Chivalry of a Failed Knight will get licensed eventually?
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@ironman628 said in Chivalry of a Failed Knight:
do you think that with many/most of the very popular series getting licensed and relationships with Japanese licensors improving that there’s a better chance Chivalry of a Failed Knight will get licensed eventually?
I'd say the really high-profile series like this, Date-A-Live, Highschool DxD, etc., are in the territory of "everyone and their mothers know that 'les fans' want it, so there are probably reasons it hasn't still gotten licensed despite that." Until we know what those reasons are, it'll be very hard to guess whether chances have gone up or down.
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I think I remember something about the Japanese licensor didn’t want to do an ebook only release; however, now that JNC and everyone else is doing print runs hopefully that is no longer an issue. As for any other issues, I have no idea however out of all the novels I’m familiar with this is the one that I hope gets licensed the most.
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@ironman628
I hope it isn’t a case where JNC or others don’t want to license a series where there is a perceived disadvantage in the marketability because of extensive fan translation being available. Unfortunately there’s only so many translator (and editor) man/hours available and JNC has to allocate them to titles that they perceive will get the most return on the investment of licensing fees. If fans have already read and are satisfied with the fan translations this would lead JNC to steer the resources elsewhereI read banned books
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@jon-mitchell said in Chivalry of a Failed Knight:
@ironman628
I hope it isn’t a case where JNC or others don’t want to license a series where there is a perceived disadvantage in the marketability because of extensive fan translation being available. Unfortunately there’s only so many translator (and editor) man/hours available and JNC has to allocate them to titles that they perceive will get the most return on the investment of licensing fees. If fans have already read and are satisfied with the fan translations this would lead JNC to steer the resources elsewhereYes this would be extremely unfortunate as I (and more than likely, many others) refuse to read any fan translation, whether it be ethical or some other reasons. So as it stands we will never get to enjoy those good? higher profile series.
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@jon-mitchell said in Chivalry of a Failed Knight:
@ironman628
I hope it isn’t a case where JNC or others don’t want to license a series where there is a perceived disadvantage in the marketability because of extensive fan translation being available. Unfortunately there’s only so many translator (and editor) man/hours available and JNC has to allocate them to titles that they perceive will get the most return on the investment of licensing fees. If fans have already read and are satisfied with the fan translations this would lead JNC to steer the resources elsewhereI see what you’re saying however they just licensed Altina, I think it was, that had a much more extensive fan translation than Chivalry does. Not to mention that Chivalry is many volumes well beyond any fan translation that I’m aware of. I haven’t kept up with it as I keep praying this gets licensed. From the others I’ve spoken to that also like Rakudai they’re e all looking for it to get licensed as well so I don’t think any old FT would impede that, hopefully. I know many people that would purchase the series so hopefully there isn’t a negative perception that you mentioned and we can see this series get licensed soon, by JNC or one of the other publishers. I’d just be happy that it was licensed, lol.
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Considering how many translators have been requested to continue the series, it does appear to be popular. I know I am a fan..
The poorer version i. E. Asterisk was given an official, so maybe someday.
I prefer a Mc who makes a decision and the Ikki and Stella romance is a big breath of fresh air.Author of Praetor's Blood.
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I really want this to be officially translated, here's hope that one day it will.
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@custodes boy do i agree with you on that, and still i wait like all of you (for an official translation).
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