[New Life+] Young Again in Another World Light Novel Shipments Halted
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I honestly don't have many hopes for the series returning. If it was reaching the conclusion the author might be allowed to write another volume or two for the ending. I bet there are now people thinking "why did we grrenlit that damn anime...."
The irony is that at the same time of this debacle, Valve announced that they are going to change their policy allowing on Steam any contents unless it's illegal. My worries about censorship were eased a bit. -
Well.. first "New Life+" now "Fate/Grand Order".
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-06-07/fate-grand-order-game-new-event-set-in-1945-stirs-controversy/.132525Tomorrow maybe another.
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@myskaros Not going to put up a preorder, will just release it when it's done.
It looks like it will be a few days (not until Monday Japan time) when things will get resolved with Hobby Japan so thank you everyone for your patience.
Part 8 is soft released now.
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@zchronos That doesn't surprise me. The phrase "give an inch and they'll take a mile" is appropriate here. Basically, any argument for standing up to this will be shot down because of what's happened with New Life+ setting the precedent.
Perhaps more thought should have gone into the shutting down of NL+ rather than rushing it, as the consequences are now being felt on other franchises.
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@fozzedout Fortunately, the FGO thing is simple misinformation. I mean, at some point the ones that were trying to push this claimed that Sakamoto Ryouma (who was going to be released as a free servant) was one at fault for Japan joining the war... which makes no sense as he had been dead for 80 years when the war started.
The event is simply set at 1945, the Imperial Japanese Army is the enemy and the whole point of the event is to stop them from using the Grail to create a bomb. It's an alternate universe where the IJA is still shown as enemy to be defeated. There's no real controversy there, just some people that thing that you can't make fiction set in 1945 for some reason.
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@paulnamida Yeah, this appears to be a storm in a teacup. That said I could see the Korean release for it being yanked because politics - I don’t see it going past that and I doubt this would have gotten much attention if the NL+ shitstorm hadn’t just rained down.
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Just heard about this, I'm kinda bummed. This was a pretty good series and one of the ones I looked forward to each week.
And while NL+ getting pulled sucks, I also hope MINE doesn't get shafted too much either, since I expect a ton of hate from the japanese. It'd be nice if he could manage to get another work published, if 100% certainly unable to complete NL+.
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I'm too much of a "Judge people by their actions, not their words" person to care about whatever asinine shit the author wrote whenever in the distant past on twitter. Twitter is for shitposting anyways and anyone who doesn't get that ought to be banned from there. I'm paying people, including Mine, for their goods and services, not their dumbass opinions. I bet the dude never even punched anyone, even less someone Chinese. Now that would be a different topic.
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@sam-pinansky If theres a possibility to continue the series please do! One of my favorite on the site.
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@sam-pinansky said in [New Life+] Young Again in Another World Light Novel Shipments Halted:
@myskaros Not going to put up a preorder, will just release it when it's done.
It looks like it will be a few days (not until Monday Japan time) when things will get resolved with Hobby Japan so thank you everyone for your patience.
Part 8 is soft released now.
Thanks so much for your efforts on our behalf.
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Well this sucks, I´m not going to argue about the author comments, no action goes without consequences and he found out the hard way, but still I really enjoyed the series.
On another note to be honest I believe HJ won´t cancel the series, my reason? the japs are very honest people and whenever something happens that they don't like usually is completely shunned at the moment, I don't know which ranking was this novel over there but if they didn't cancel it right away was because they know it sells, 18 volumes is not for show and probably all this process is of course disciplinary action and you could say "emergency procedure" at most maybe a hiatus for a couple of months, worst case yeah probably only another 2 or 3 volumes to finish, just look at No game no Life or Ruroni Kenshin like someone said some posts ago, what really worries me JNC position on this because this is basically the only way we can keep reading the story at least, hopefully they don't abandon ship but can´t blame them if they do.....A Real shame about the anime, the manga probably is going on the same direction. Hopefully Sam won´t pull the plug but like Edmond Dante's said..... "Wait and Hope"
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For everyone that enjoys the series I think the best message we can send to HJ and Sam is simply by buying the premium or Amazon edition if you can. If it sells well they won't simply cancel it because of this.
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It wasn't that the books themselves contained dissimilatory remarks, but instead the authors comments on twitter that sparked the outrage. I'd hope that common sense would prevail and after he apologises for his remarks his series can resume print (so long as the apology is meaningful and honest). I'd hope that JNC continues to translate the series as regardless of the questionable personality of the author the series itself is one of the better Isekai series out there.... though there’s not a hope in hell that the anime will ever get released since all the voice actors walked and the studio pulled out.
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@nonmelodic said in [New Life+] Young Again in Another World Light Novel Shipments Halted:
It wasn't that the books themselves contained dissimilatory remarks, but instead the authors comments on twitter that sparked the outrage. I'd hope that common sense would prevail and after he apologises for his remarks his series can resume print (so long as the apology is meaningful and honest). I'd hope that JNC continues to translate the series as regardless of the questionable personality of the author the series itself is one of the better Isekai series out there.... though there’s not a hope in hell that the anime will ever get released since all the voice actors walked and the studio pulled out.
But they should be quite far into the anime development since it was going to be this year no? Maybe it's just a PR thing to pull out and they will be "back on board" once the author had a few month to apologize and learn his mistakes kind of thing.
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As I mentioned above, the LN is actually pretty clean. It's the fact that the author made those comments /coupled/ with a lot more obvious references to Nanking in the WN. Yes, the LN was sanitized but Renya looks a lot like Asaka Yasuhiko. That's what has a lot of people creeped out. Take myself. I bought the first volume, was thinking of maybe buying the others. Won't at this point, as Renya is really creepy now. :)
If others still like the series, more power to 'em.
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Well, after reading about the Nanking tragedy and the hidden meaning behind the numbers I can understand why Chinese people might feel uncomfortable reading the series. For me personally, as an Italian guy without any kind of connection to those events I can't say I feel affected, so I'll keep reading if J-Novel keeps translating.
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@lex They used to censor works that didn't fit a specific culture/location, now they just go straight and get the works canceled before they're released. That's quite the jump...
That's all I'm gonna say on this whole thing.
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@terabyte I think I read it was a Japan born Chinese person that complained non stop and made a big deal out of it.
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@bryan I also heard the author's initial behavior, when asked about it by particular parties, wasn't exactly cooperative, and might have been the real trigger behind the whole mess.
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@shrike_al Normally you don't respond to trolls or people who yell at you on social media. Especially when there's a lot of those kind of ppl online.
