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    • Drone205D
      Drone205 Premium Member @BloodyGaikotsu
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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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        BloodyGaikotsu
        last edited by Z_Goddard

        Well, I dug into my license wishlist and picked some of the non-Kadokawa novels:

        Akaoni wa mou Nakanai
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        The 5th Shogakukan Light Novel Award, Jury Special Award Winner
        Genres: Drama, School Life, Supernatural

        • Gagaga Bunko (Shogakukan)

        Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
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        • Gagaga Bunko (Shogakukan)

        Seitokai Tantei Kirika
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        • 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)
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        • 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)
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        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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        Ryukishi07. Period.

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          paulnamida @BloodyGaikotsu
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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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          • TerrenceT
            Terrence Premium Member
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            This novel that has the Grimgar artist working on it is up to volume 3.

            "Mercenary Story"
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            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.

            https://bookwalker.jp/author/8959/?acode=WpfPW3yk

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              BloodyGaikotsu @Terrence
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              @terrence

              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)

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              • TerrenceT
                Terrence Premium Member
                last edited by Terrence

                This looks really dumb. Anyone know what the title is?

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                https://bookwalker.jp/debf6e7aff-c4fc-462c-8d36-10d56ffc8703/?acode=WpfPW3yk

                Bottle of one detergent. That was the beginning of me and her.

                spoiler

                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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                • Aruseus493A
                  Aruseus493 @Terrence
                  last edited by Aruseus493

                  @terrence
                  Doesn't look like it has a Romaji title yet as it's a new series from Novel 0.

                  My Light Novel List

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                  • myskarosM
                    myskaros Staff @Terrence
                    last edited by myskaros

                    @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?

                    Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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                    • TerrenceT
                      Terrence Premium Member @myskaros
                      last edited by Terrence

                      @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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                      • myskarosM
                        myskaros Staff @Terrence
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                        @terrence

                        Kanzaki Keiko

                        Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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                        • Aruseus493A
                          Aruseus493
                          last edited by Z_Goddard

                          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.

                          Volume 1 Cover

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                          • myskarosM
                            myskaros Staff @Aruseus493
                            last edited by Z_Goddard

                            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

                            Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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                              Kite-XX @Aruseus493
                              last edited by Z_Goddard

                              @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.

                              Volume 1 Cover

                              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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                              • Aruseus493A
                                Aruseus493 @Kite-XX
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                                @kite-xx

                                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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                                  Kite-XX @Aruseus493
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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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                                  • Aruseus493A
                                    Aruseus493 @Kite-XX
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                                    @kite-xx

                                    One chapter of a manga which doesn't accurately represent the entire LN series.

                                    My Light Novel List

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                                      Kite-XX @Aruseus493
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                                      @aruseus493 geez, whatever, the evidence is all around us, surrounding series that’s been published recently.

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                                        Eins Premium Member
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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?

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                                        • myskarosM
                                          myskaros Staff @Kite-XX
                                          last edited by

                                          @kite-xx said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                          I’ve seen the first chapter of the manga for this series, and I rest my case that I want a moderate series.

                                          @aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                          One chapter of a manga which doesn't accurately represent the entire LN series.

                                          It doesn't even represent the manga adaptation of the LN series :/ First of all, women have boobs. This is just how humans work. If you object to the presence of boobs in your reading... I dunno, I can't think of anything witty here. Yes, there's a romance aspect, since the main pair fall in love.

                                          It's almost all about politics and how to maneuver in a society of rulers and powerful political figures. There's no harem since pretty much any other woman in the story is just trying to exploit the MC for his position, and the he refuses their advances anyway. There's no ecchi, unless you count the implication (i.e. it's not shown) of consensual sexual intercourse between consenting adults.

                                          @kite-xx said in Novel pick-up requests:

                                          geez, whatever, the evidence is all around us, surrounding series that’s been published recently.

                                          Get over yourself.

                                          Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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                                          • Rahul BalagganR
                                            Rahul Balaggan Staff
                                            last edited by Rahul Balaggan

                                            Who gives a flying fart about the cover, if the story is good that’s all I care about.

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