[OUT OF DATE] Compiled list of existing suggestion topics

Serah

Is there a list of titles JNC is currently negotiating for or interested in?
Seeing so many licensing suggestion is fine, but I cannot figure out the factors for JNC to react like with "Bookworm - that one must be gotten asap". It would be highly interesting to know more in order to support suggestions to become more likely to be picked up by JNC.

Rahul Balaggan

@serah there is not, generally no company will make there acquisition strategy available for the public to see.

There are a variety of reasons, some of which include:

Other companies can then also see what you are interested in and try to out bid you.
If you do not acquire said title and the public is aware you were going after it then your name is unfortunately tied to it, people will continue to assume you are just dragging your feet. A large amount of people who read LNs seem to think licensing titles consists of asking a publisher and then immediately paying the price.
Japanese publishers probably don’t want their own business discussions out in the public until something concrete is formed.

There are other reasons, but it all just points to J-Novel Club and other companies won’t make potential acquisitions available for the public eye.

Edit: Also we now know that licensing Bookworm was not a “must be gotten asap” situation, as mentioned in this post. They originally only got the manga, and at the suggestion of the translator for the manga decided to go for the LN.

Serah

@rahul-balaggan hm... my impression I got was definitely more like "oh, they get an anime, so it has become a must-have-item on our acquisition list!!!"

That said, why the arguments you stated are understandable it feels too much like a matter of luck if any title gets licensed at all - leaving some gems behind simply because of lack of interest as a follow up of lack of example (that is, since without a translation of XYZ you would not know if XYZ is interesting to support unless you can read Japanese for XYZ).

Let me rephrase the question then: is there a list where we users - do not have to be users, you can put it in the members only section by all means - can see which titles JNC picked up due to it being suggested by the users/members?

Rahul Balaggan

@serah said in [READ FIRST] Compiled list of existing suggestion topics:

@rahul-balaggan hm... my impression I got was definitely more like "oh, they get an anime, so it has become a must-have-item on our acquisition list!!!"

That definitely played its part as well...

That said, why the arguments you stated are understandable it feels too much like a matter of luck if any title gets licensed at all - leaving some gems behind simply because of lack of interest as a follow up of lack of example (that is, since without a translation of XYZ you would not know if XYZ is interesting to support unless you can read Japanese for XYZ).

I wouldn’t say “luck”, we as consumers do not get to see what is behind the curtain, for the people licensing titles they get to see more then we ever will really, so they can make their own decisions based off of that.

Let me rephrase the question then: is there a list where we users - do not have to be users, you can put it in the members only section by all means - can see which titles JNC picked up due to it being suggested by the users/members?

To my knowledge there is no list, and one will probably never be made available, the decisions on what to license are pretty much made at the top, as in the owner of the business.

Also the following is just my personal opinion:

When J-Novel Club decides to consider a title to license they look at a multitude of factors to decide if they should or should not, when they are 98% sure they want something they come to the licensing request sub forum and see if there is an discussion of that title to put the final mail in the coffin. Again just my personal opinion.

Edit: Here is a link to a Curious Cat question where they did say that the sub forum is one of various things they take into consideration for licensing a title.

and here is a link where they do say they check the sub forum occasionally.

LegitPancake

@serah said in [READ FIRST] Compiled list of existing suggestion topics:

Let me rephrase the question then: is there a list where we users - do not have to be users, you can put it in the members only section by all means - can see which titles JNC picked up due to it being suggested by the users/members?

The very first post of this current thread has a list of suggestion posts that eventually got a license, many of which were taken by JNC. They are labeled for which company licensed which. Companies don’t usually make known why something was licensed, though.

Serah

@legitpancake I expect it less from a company, but more from a club ~

Kruszer

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Juliko

Would it be okay to suggest a novel license here? I'm new here so I don't know where else I can do so. If you know a place I can do so, feel free to direct me toward it. There's one light novel series that I really want someone, anyone, to license and bring to the US, and that's Shounen Onmyouji by Mitsuru Yuuki. It tells the story of Abe no Seimei's grandson and his dream of surpassing his grandfather, but also having to deal with demons, youkai, and a bunch of other things. I absolutely adore the anime, and I'd love to read the novels as well.

Rahul Balaggan

@Juliko

Yes feel free to make a post in the licensing sub-forum.

You can take a look at what other have posted on how to format your post, but in the end you can try to "sell" the title anyway you wish.

Terabyte

@Juliko You can make a new topic in this same section. Have a look at some of the other topics already available to have an idea of what you should include in your topic to appeal to others to upvote it.

EDIT: Looks like @Rahul-Balaggan beat me by a few seconds lol

treiz

Another wish for Maoyu, I will buy it. Loved the anime, still waiting on the last two volumes of the manga to be posted in english >.<b

perch

Wishlist for licenses:
Redemption of the Blue Rose Princess

The Daughter of the Albert House Wishes for Ruin

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen Who Will Become the Source of Tragedy Will Devote Herself for the Sake of the People

I’ll Become a Villainess That Will Go Down in History

I Decided to Not Compete and Quietly Create Dolls Instead

My Father is a Hero, My Mother is a Spirit, the Daughter (Me) is a Reincarnator.

I’m Spying on the Heroine in an Otome Game World

Cid

Aura and Earl & Fairy should be moved, as both have adaptations available in English.

yourparade

@perch I feel like someone just read my mind hahaha, these are all great, would especially love to see House Albert and Blue Rose

Nico

Just wanna make note of what I noticed is missing here:
Kill Me Baby
Why Did I Enter the Art Course!?/Doushite Watashi ga Bijutsuka ni!?

~~You wound me, Doubiju is the only manga I've bought in Japanese so far.~~

WaterDweller

Just poking my head in to say, it seems Lv2 kara Cheat datta Moto Yuusha Kouho no Mattari Isekai Life (The Laid-back Life in Another World of the Ex-Hero Candidate) is missing from the compiled list.

Freyr

The Heroic Legend of Arslan
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3734/the-heroic-legend-of-arslan?_=1602952592158 seems to be missing from this list

Darkapostle

Ah I see someone else suggested Tsuki ga Michibiku, I've read read manga a bit but can't get my hands on the LN it seems, all that I've found is a kinda awkward TL of the webnovel.
But I hear the JP publishers refuse to even talk about other language translations.

hessbri

can we get the manga version of The Sorcerer's Receptionist

hessbri

@WaterDweller this was just licensed by another publisher