Novel pick-up requests
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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?
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@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.
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Who gives a flying fart about the cover, if the story is good that’s all I care about.
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I’m just worked up at the moment, I feel like the popular series I’ve been seeing picked up each time all have the same content (I’m not judging by cover), so I just want a good story that’s different.
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Have you read The Faraway Paladin yet? No harem antics, no fanservice, there isn't even a really heroine, just epic fantasy adventure.
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I just found out about that manga. I'd be all for the light novel being picked up.
I had the opposite reaction to the cover. I don't think we get enough mature looking women on our light novel covers and as love interests. Most light novels are still younger Isekai leads. This one stars an office worker dude? And the female lead on the cover isn't even really that scandalous. The plot and future covers may turn out controversial, but this looks tame (I just looked at what I think are future covers, and they all look tame to me).
But I'm honestly worried about the tag for this one I saw... (spoilers)
Anyways, I can't find this novel on Bookwalker. No digital version currently released? That probably makes it harder to license? =[
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
But I'm honestly worried about the tag for this one I saw... (spoilers)
There is no harem -.- dunno where you saw that tag. People like to lump in "anytime lots of girls happen to exist around the male MC" as harem I guess.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@myskaros yeah... and anyways if you want to be technical, like 99% of "Harems" would not be Harems. but this ain't the post to delve into "Harems" not being Polygamous.
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@chi-c yeah, I had an interest in that series for quite a while, even has manga adaptation, but didn’t had the time as there was always a new interesting series every few months in English or Raw. Still, might give it a look soon if I can.
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@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:
There is no harem -.-
Interest increased tenfold!!
Yeah, it was in the tags on Novel Updates. I understand if the cast of characters is mostly female, some call that Harem (like Akame Ga Kiru manga).
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@terrence For Ideal Sponger Life? There's no harem. It is very specifically anti-harem.
Literally, it's a plot point. Once the main character becomes Prince-Consort all the other nobles and families try to curry his favor, and they do so by constantly introducing him to their daughters and nieces, with the not so subtle hint that he should take a mistress or five, but the MC is stubbornly devoted to his wife.
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@legitpancake the anime was as, Bland and generic as you can get.
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Even when I saw Seven Seas Tweet about them licensing the manga adaptation of "Risou no Himo Seikatsu", people were slightly salty about it being the manga license and not the light novel license. Plus from looking through comments, a few people still want the "Date A Live" LNs to be announced for English release.
Don't get me wrong but I'd enjoy if "Date A Live" possibly gets licensed, but at the moment, the series is at 24 Volumes (counting the Encore Volumes)
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@xftg123 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Don't get me wrong but I'd enjoy if "Date A Live" possibly gets licensed, but at the moment, the series is at 24 Volumes (counting the Encore Volumes).
I'd be wary too... except New Life Plus is a 19 volume work iirc (and counting? Still going?). I think there was a Curiosity Cat post about being cautious about longer releases, but that recent license shows they aren't totally opposed to more Rokujouma-like long / ongoing series.
But personally, I like shorter series, especially if they feel planned out to be in that 4-7 volume range.
What does Date a Live do that people are clamoring for it?
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@xftg123 it’s still possible, after all yenpress is translating The Irregular at Magic High School with the main series currently having 24 volumes.
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It's just a bigger risk to license a longer series that isn't super popular. With each volume that releases, there is a good chance that sales drop from people dropping the series, and it also becomes harder to attract new fans due to the sheer amount of money they would have to spend in order to be caught up to the latest volume. Meanwhile you still have to do the same amount of work to release each volume.
This is definitely more of a problem with physical, but consider that there are 85 One Piece volumes available in English right now. Even at a cheap price of $5/book, to catch up a given person would have to spend $425. If you're buying physical books, you also need physical space to put 85 books.
Obviously it's simply a calculation of risk vs. reward, so it's not impossible for long series to get licensed, but those are the big reasons there might be some hesitation over picking up a long-running series that isn't explosively popular.
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I agree. Then again it all boils down to sales.
Anyway, one thing I'm glad about though is Seven Seas licensed the novel "Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai", which will be out November 2018 :-)
