Novel pick-up requests
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@paul-nebeling add Overlord to that mash-up, the whole concept is the same, just with boring human characters ;)
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@terrence Not the first time I saw a Light Novel fantasy cover with a character holding a nintendo DS. Although, I don't know which Light Novel had that type of cover first.
"The other world doesn't stand a chance against the power of instant death."
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Both of these novel series are super awesome to read with great stories, I really hope they will get picked up and officially translated someday!
Name: Parallel World Pharmacy
Different World Pharmacy
Isekai Yakkyoku
異世界薬局
Author: Takayama Liz
Artist: keepout
Original Publisher: Media Factory
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Seinen, Slice of Life
Year: 2015
Volumes: 6 (Ongoing)
Manga Adaption: Yes
Synopsis: A young pharmacologist and researcher in Japan died from overworking, and was reincarnated in a Medieval Parallel Europe.
He was reincarnated as a 10 year old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, had attained an inhuman skills of ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction.In a society in which dubious medical practice are rampant, price gouging through the monopoly of the pharmacist guild and good medicine isn’t available to the commoners.
He was recognized by the Emperor at that time and opened a Pharmacy at the corner of the town.
He will wipe out the fraud that has swept the world, and deliver to the commoners a truly effective medicine that was developed using present day pharmacology.
Thus the boy pharmacist will cheat by using his previous knowledge to create innovative medicines while helping the people of the parallel world, a story about living his new life to the fullest this time.
Name: A Wild Last Boss Appeared
Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta!
Yasei no Rasubosu ga Arawareta!
野生のラスボスが現れた！
Author: Firehead
Artist: YahaKo
Original Publisher: Earth Star Novel
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Gender Bender
Year: 2015
Volumes: 6 (Ongoing)
Manga Adaption: Yes
Synopsis: It was in the year 2800 of the Midgard calendar. Back then, there was a Overlord who once reigned supreme and had reached the very brink of subduing the world.
Her name was Ruphas Mafahl, a great woman dreaded as the Black-Winged Overlord.She was too strong, too fast, and too beautiful…
However, she was defeated by Heroes who opposed her ferocity, and her ambition was brought to an end.
――or so went the story of our protagonist’s in-game character, whose body he now possesses for some reason in a world 200 years after Ruphas’ downfall. Follow our protagonist as he becomes unnecessarily feared by his surroundings and unnecessarily worshiped by his former subordinates as he―or now she―cheerfully travels around this fantasy world.
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@silvercat422 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Name: A Wild Last Boss Appeared
Yasei no Last Boss ga Arawareta!
Yasei no Rasubosu ga Arawareta!I love this concept, and the manga has been pretty great, I hope this one does get picked up!
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I posted about the mecha Dowl Masters a while back, it has a 5th volume up for preorder.
(Kadokawa publishes iirc, so again, don't get your hopes up for it).
https://bookwalker.jp/dec388b287-dc9b-4d4d-ab05-ab1f926a911d/?acode=WpfPW3yk
It's previous volume 4 release was 2016, so that's some proof that successful series with no new volumes for a year plus can still continue.
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These are next to 'Accomplishments of the Duke's Daughter' my absolute favorite 'villainess noble girl' novels. They are both really great and absolutely worth reading and I totally hope they will get picked up! (While you read the second novel you really get the urge to begin sewing and create dolls too.)
Name: The Reincarnated Princess Strikes Down Flags Today as Well
Tensei Oujo wa Kyou mo Hata o Tatakioru
転生王女は今日も旗を叩き折る
Author: Bisu
Artist: Yukiko
Original Publisher: Frontier Works
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Shoujo
Year: 2014
Volumes: 3 (Ongoing)
Manga Adaption: Yes
Synopsis: I was reborn as a princess in the world an otome game with memories of my previous life.
Wait, what? I’m the Heroine’s love rival? You’re kidding! I have no intention of falling in love with any of those pathetic guys, because the one I like is a support character, the Commander of the Royal Knights.Except the Heroine, after being reincarnated in this shitty game where the support characters are way better than the love interests, is threatening to bring down my own life with flags, and I am determined to strike them down.
Name: I Decided to Not Compete and Quietly Create Dolls Instead
Hariawazu ni otonashiku ningyo o tsukuru koto ni shimashita
張り合わずにおとなしく人形を作ることにしました
Author: Tohno Konoe
Artist: Mikuni Kohma
Original Publisher: Frontier Works
Genre: Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life
Year: 2013
Volumes: 3 (Ongoing)
Manga Adaption: No
Synopsis: Apparently, this looks like the fantasy world from the Otome game that I used to play in my previous life. “Me”, Altrea, is the lively rival character who challenged the heroine again and again until she/I received painful backlashes. Like only chasing to have the engagement canceled in the Magic Academy, even breaking and taking over the Duke’s house. For all these eventful stuff, please just give me a break! Or should I say the heart of the game’s heroine is too scarily impregnable! Living differently with the game’s knowledge? Dating the love interests in real life is super troublesome, so I refuse!
And so my main priority is to definitely not get involved. I will absolutely not go to that academy. I will go to a different country. Living as a Magic Doll Master in a new land is the best way to live. Eh- The Mystic-eyed Doll Princess? Queen Mage of the Netherworld? Even though I seriously tried my best, I have changed class into the last boss. Why !? Wait for a second, It’s a misunderstanding, Stop, forgive me-. -
@silvercat422 I've never been into the villainess trope, but the second one sounds too damn good to pass up XD I hope someone picks that one up.
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This is the absolutely BEST 'Monster Reincarnation' novel series I've ever read! I think everyone who've read the translation of the web novel version agrees to it. Please, someone pick this up!
Name: The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time
The Death Attribute Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time
Yondome wa Iyana Shi Zokusei Majutsushi
四度目は嫌な死属
Author: Densuke
Artist: Ban
Original Publisher: Hifumi Shobo
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Mature, Seinen
Year: 2015
Volumes: 3 (Ongoing)
Manga Adaption: No
Synopsis: Amamiya Hiroto is unlucky. His life consisted of misfortune after misfortune, culminating in an unlucky death during an incident on a school boat trip, trying to save a girl he barely knew. After death, he met a god of reincarnation who requested that the hundred or so dead passengers—one of them being the girl he tried in vain to save—be reincarnated into another world.
Yet a series of unfortunate events forced Hiroto to reincarnate with even less luck than before, starting with nothing but a tremendous amount of Mana. His second life, far worse than his first, came to a cruel end.However, upon meeting the god a second time, he was informed that there would be yet another reincarnation—one that had already been set in motion and could not be stopped. Not wanting Hiroto to live long, the god cursed him before he was reborn in the hopes that he would either die quickly or commit suicide.
Hiroto was reborn once more as a half-Vampire, half-Dark Elf. A Dhampir. Not wanting a fourth life, he is determined to live this third life with the only things remaining from his previous lives—death-attribute magic and his enormous Mana pool.
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Sevens is also a really good novel. Thought the web novel is completely translated.
LN is still ongoing & i hope J-Novel Club will License it.
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- Youjitsu
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*Shinwa Densetsu no Eiyuu no Isekaitan(overlap)
*Haken no Kouki Altina(enterbrain)
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i don't know if was already suggested but i'd like to recommend this series
Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan
Madan no Ou to Vanadis -
@sam-pinansky said in Novel pick-up requests:
Did you know that the sound euphonium novels (the originals) were actually not light novels, but normal good old fashioned novel novels?
It means that they were published by a publisher that doesn't publish any other things like we have... It's something I'd love to go after if I have the time.
The spinoffs are normal light novels and they are on my radar too. First step, show those publishers we mean business!Also thanks for proving our forum actually works.
The publisher also have other LN labels, despite Sound Euphonium is not published in one of them.
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Is there any interest in picking up <I, the Demon Lord, Took a Slave Elf as My Wife, but How Do I Love Her?> It is also published by Hobby Japan and it looks like it would be heartwarming romance story.
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@oristo42 OMG I've been reading that too! I absolutely love it, it's so adorable. Not isekai, not harem, pure fantasy and MC is faithful to the main girl. My only complaint
Other than that, it's very heartwarming, and I am waiting VERY impatiently for Mountain of Pigeons to continue translating the second volume. I also bought the first volume on Bookwalker haha. I REALLY want J-Novel to get it :) -
Recommendations:
- Eiyuu Kyoushitsu (Classroom for Heroes)
- Chihou Kishi Hans no Junan (The Misfortunes of Local Knight Hans)
- Hon Issatsu de Kototariru Isekai Rurō Monogatari (The Different World Exile Story Where One Book is Enough)
- Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi (Regarding the Display of the Outrageous Skill Which Had Bullshit Power)
- Yobidasareta Satsurikusha (Summoned Slaughterer)
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I recommend The Ambition of Oda Nobuna, myself. I loved the anime and would really like to see the crazy historical AU stuff.
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Risou no Himo Seikatsu aka The Ideal Sponger Life
This novel is really good.
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@saurabh112 I seconded this...
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I got these Kodansha series from Bookwalker since my coins were expiring. A lot of these are single volume works.
Serious system Kudzu, Kuzu who is seriously doing kudzu # Kusuzu
https://bookwalker.jp/de5eade7ce-fc95-4d6f-87a8-c0b85e5fa051/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Unlucky Fungus Girl (People around her get into accidents because of a curse?)
https://bookwalker.jp/deeb418407-e2d3-4f57-b8d8-9eaca7d3392f/?acode=WpfPW3yk
My Childhood Friend Was Abducted By An Alien
https://bookwalker.jp/debf448352-3b73-4c24-8a7b-cbe5acad9434/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Akiba Tarian a thousand dead, summer, the end (Zombies)
https://bookwalker.jp/deaa45df2d-3d34-4407-996b-0a21c007dfc7/?acode=WpfPW3yk
... I'm never going to find time to read these all with machine translation. I really ought to learn Japanese.
Of these, the fungus girl one and zombie one seem the most up my alley (and most complete I'm guessing?). The alien one looks cute, but probably incomplete? The Kudzu system one I got just because one of the leads looks not so typical. I would like more leads who look different, and I think she is a Gal, so that intrigues me.
