Novel pick-up requests
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@bloodygaikotsu so you have read through all of Spice and Wolf then? Half of the appeal is the Romance. You can even make a reasonable argument that it is more important than the economics (but I will stick with both being 50% important). Holo And Lawrence have been flirting with each other for almost as long as they met (Holo did the most of it early on). for me, a Perfect Romance is not Perfect. Ikki and Stella have very different ideas on Sex, Stella wants to have Sex and is sexual while Ikki wants to wait until he is married. Ikki and Stella are not a perfect match they are awkward in the beginning and do not even act like a couple when they should, they were pushing each other away. Holo and Lawrence are not Perfect matched either, they get into fights and every now and then, they have personality traits that can clash with each other but they still get along in the long run. This is what I mean when I say a Perfect romance is not perfect, even chaotic sometimes.
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@drone205
However, Holo And Lawrence have this charm if you know what I mean.
Their bickering—their presence together makes you smile, enjoy the idea that they can be together, will be together and are together.
That's why we can't help cheering them on during the difficult time or when they argue for real.
Ikki and Stella just didn't have a similar charm.It's just smth a bit difficult to explain...I guess.
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@bloodygaikotsu I understand what you mean by that charm. The Romance between the two series are completely different, and one aspect is the age of the characters. Ikki and Stella can make mistakes Holo and Lawrence really should not for example Holo and Lawrence flirting with each other very early on. Stella and Ikki are believable Teenagers while Holo and Lawrence are believable Adults.
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Well, I dug into my license wishlist and picked some of the non-Kadokawa novels:
Akaoni wa mou Nakanai
The 5th Shogakukan Light Novel Award, Jury Special Award Winner
Genres: Drama, School Life, Supernatural- Gagaga Bunko (Shogakukan)
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
- Gagaga Bunko (Shogakukan)
Seitokai Tantei Kirika
- Kodansha LIGHTNOVEL (Kodansha)
Kirika Hijiribashi is the Executive Committee Treasurer managing a high school's student council budget of 800 million yen. She is also the only committee member with an additional title: Student Council Detective. As shy as she normally is, she is able to sniff out amazing solutions to bizarre cases.
Hikage Makimura transferred into the same high school to escape living in the shadow of his brilliant older sister. Suddenly, he finds himself tricked by the mentally and physically strong female President into not only joining the Student Council, but also becoming Kirika's assistant, to the dismay of them both.
Can he create happiness for himself, much less others, in the midst of money-motivated intrigues? Can he make a name for himself when his own name is given to the the lop-eared bunny somehow filling the PR position, a rank higher than his own? And when will people stop asking him to betray a position he never wanted in the first place!?
Kinda similar to Hyouka, solving small-scale mystery cases with some drama here and there.
Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai (I Want to Eat Your Pancreas)
- Futabasha
One day, I – a high schooler – found a paperback in the hospital. The “Disease Coexistence Journal” was its title. It was a diary that my classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, had written in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from Just-a-Classmate to a Secret-Knowing-Classmate. It was as if I were being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. However, the world presented the girl that was already suffering from an illness with an equally cruel reality…
Yagate Koisuru Vivi Lane (How Vivi Lane Falls in Love)
Heard of it from Frog-kun's article
https://frogkun.com/2017/09/13/how-vivi-lane-falls-in-love/- Gagaga Bunko (Shogakukan)
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai & Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei
-Kodansha BOX
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@bloodygaikotsu anything associated with the When They Cry series and Ryukishi07 is a must buy for me. Even the mediocre-at-best Ookamikakushi.
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This novel that has the Grimgar artist working on it is up to volume 3.
"Mercenary Story"
https://bookwalker.jp/de643bf94e-b4b9-4a0c-9e4b-c55848fa6a09/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Publisher is... Ichigo Shobo?
That artist has a lot of different series, though most short compared to Grimgar. Here's a link to the different works she has drawn for.
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Shirai Eiri is one of my favorite illustrator along with VOFAN, loundraw, Yukiko Horiguchi, and Toi8.
Well, Youhei Monogatari's publisher is called Hifumi Shobo not Ichigo like in Abe, Hifumi (阿部一二三) -
This looks really dumb. Anyone know what the title is?
https://bookwalker.jp/debf6e7aff-c4fc-462c-8d36-10d56ffc8703/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Bottle of one detergent. That was the beginning of me and her.
Description makes it sound more normal. Dang, I was hoping it'd be like the King of Mayo. Still, I like my slice of life relationships sometimes.
Edit: It may be Yuri. Well, that'd make it more interesting.
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@terrence
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@terrence Hetero pair. Your spoiler should be "Takashi" in both instances, not "Takahashi" the second time. Seems like a pretty standard romance/drama, Golden Time vibes with the memory loss. Or, well, I haven't seen "Takashi" as a girl's name before, I guess that's a possibility then?
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@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence Hetero pair.
Ah. The insert confused me because it features two women with character descriptions, and the pairing part of the book's title "Mitari-kun + Saku" is labeled above them, so I just assumed that was Mitari and Saku... But nope.
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Seven Seas just licensed the manga adaptation of The Ideal Sponger Life, otherwise known as Risou no Himo Seikatsu.
Publisher: Hero Bunko
The basic premise of the series is that the protagonist moves to another world to marry a Queen and it's about him adjusting to his life as the Prince-Consort. This includes stuff like learning the necessary nobility manners, magic, and even introducing his own world's technology and cooking to a new world. The world doesn't really just suddenly explode with what he introduces though as he's only one person and doesn't know all the steps in reproducing his world's technologies like glass.
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Seven Seas just licensed the manga adaptation of The Ideal Sponger Life, otherwise known as Risou no Himo Seikatsu.
Only the manga? Sounds like a reasonable cue for JNC to have picked up the LN :v
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@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Seven Seas just licensed the manga adaptation of The Ideal Sponger Life, otherwise known as Risou no Himo Seikatsu.
Publisher: Hero Bunko
The basic premise of the series is that the protagonist moves to another world to marry a Queen and it's about him adjusting to his life as the Prince-Consort. This includes stuff like learning the necessary nobility manners, magic, and even introducing his own world's technology and cooking to a new world. The world doesn't really just suddenly explode with what he introduces though as he's only one person and doesn't know all the steps in reproducing his world's technologies like glass.
I’m seriously getting tired of seeing those type of covers. I’ve already accepted and tolerate romance, ecchi, and harem being a part of various series, but seeing those series that emphasize the genres non-stop is really irritating me! Can JNC pick-up a series that’s a bit moderate in that regard?
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Risou no Himo Seikatsu isn't really ecchi or harem though. Otherwise, putting the heroines on the cover is just universal for most series.
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@aruseus493 I’ve seen the first chapter of the manga for this series, and I rest my case that I want a moderate series.
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One chapter of a manga which doesn't accurately represent the entire LN series.
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@aruseus493 geez, whatever, the evidence is all around us, surrounding series that’s been published recently.
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Err, what's bothering you exactly? That the cover is an illustration of a girl with a seductive look? Or that most light novel series have a type of mildly sexual romantic possibly harem subplot?
