Anime Expo: Times and Announcements
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I'm really happy with almost all of the announcements - but the two biggies for me, one happy one worried.
1st have to be prints ... Oh yes, definitely buying smartphone... For the 3rd time (Kindle, premium and finally print)
But the one that has me worried for the future is the manga announcement... Considering that we've had various attempts at this in the past, with crunchy roll currently in a weird state where I can only see it failing. I do wish JNC all the best of luck with this endeavour, because I think they will need it.
There was a silent announcement as well with this: JNC has gained heavyweight publishing status that other big publishers are taking notice! Congrats JNC!
And finally, my thought on all these new releases: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@fozzedout If they focus on manga of LNs they are already translating I think it will be fine. A big part of the translation work is already done there after all.
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@terabyte said in Anime Expo: Times and Announcements:
@fozzedout If they focus on manga of LNs they are already translating I think it will be fine. A big part of the translation work is already done there after all.
I wish I could agree, but manga, and well any comic format tend to streamline the text for fitting in the speech bubbles, so it would need retranslating as well as then streamlining to retro fit. It's not easy at times.
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@fozzedout Crunchyroll isn't even trying with manga. They don't seem to get new publishers, and the reader and app suck. Can't imagine JNC's manga endeavor being that mismanaged.
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@blueshift said in Anime Expo: Times and Announcements:
@fozzedout Crunchyroll isn't even trying with manga. They don't seem to get new publishers, and the reader and app suck.
I couldn't believe they removed ReLife (and a few other series I was somewhat interested in). If I want to read legitimate copies of some of their licenses they dropped, there's no way to do so, right? =[
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@terrence Yeah ReLife is one of my favorites and I wish I could buy the volumes... They lost everything from that publisher I believe.
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The only benefit of the method that JNC use is that if you pick up anything at the start, you don't have to go anywhere else to then read the rest of the published works. This is where crunchy roll fall currently. No chance of catch up, no purchasing to unlock the published chapters. Whereas JNC already have the systems in place, simply because they are not just translators - they are also publishers.
In this regard, I am hopeful - this can work.My nervousness is more from history, where other companies tried to do this venture and failed.
Still Sam started with a lot of concern over the longevity of JNC, and here we still are: In Sam We Trust!
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So happy to see that Kokoro Connect and Amagi Brilliant Park are licensed! Especially Kokoro Connect, as I've been wanting it since I watched the anime. Also super excited about J-Novel Club publishing physical books. I read digital books here and there, but I mostly like to read physical. I'll definitely pick up Smartphone when it releases. It's been one I've been meaning to check out anyway. ^_^
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have there been any announcements from other publishers about novel pick ups, i don't really know where to look to find out.
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@catstorm Most of the other publishers have their panels on Saturday or Sunday.
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@catstorm said in Anime Expo: Times and Announcements:
have there been any announcements from other publishers about novel pick ups, i don't really know where to look to find out.
Nothing I've noticed novel wise (as long as you kept up with Cross Inf World's stuff a little while ago).
Elfen Lied manga is coming from Dark Horse.
If you're into "visual" novels, there's been some announcements there too (Spike Chunsoft stuff).
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Any news on anyone picking up Class Room of the Elite? I feel I ask this too much. But I really wanted to get a legit translated LN.
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@hyferzftw said:
Any news on anyone picking up Class Room of the Elite? I feel I ask this too much. But I really wanted to get a legit translated LN.
@blueshift said:
Most of the other publishers have their panels on Saturday or Sunday.
Today's Date and time is Fri Jul 06 2018
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@myskaros oh lol I guess I skipped that comment. But Saturday and Sunday is good cuz I’m off those 2 days. Can’t wait!
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Was there a fan taping of the meeting, or was there a no recording rule in effect for j-novel's panel?
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@alocervancouver If you mean the JNC panel, there's a Periscope: https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1014956009658331136
If you mean something else... I don't think anything else interesting has happened in the past day :x the "So you want to be a translator?" thing starts in ~5 minutes, Kodansha/Vertical panel is tomorrow, YP/7S panels are on Sunday.
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Mangagamer panel tonight. This will likely be visual novel focused, so I won't add it to the OP.
MangaGamer: Lastly, we will be hosting our panel later this evening in LP3 from 11pm to midnight! We have some exciting announcements… https://twitter.com/MangaGamer/status/1015603437629657089?s=17
Idea Factory also has a panel.
IdeaFactoryIntl:
Don’t forget! Our Localization Team is having a panel for Anime Expo 2018 TODAY at 2PM PDT! https://twitter.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/status/1015667597642092544?s=17
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@terrence You're welcome! :D I almost always try to RT anything and everything VN-related, hahah!
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Jyumonji-sensei's panel:
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Yeah, I can't connect to the Grimgar author session on my device. Hopefully I'll be able to catch the replay.
NVM, on now
