Novel pick-up requests
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
What does Date a Live do that people are clamoring for it?
As far as I know, despite its ridiculous and jokey premise, Date A Live breaks its own pattern so often it creates a string of really unexpected developments. Not just with the dating aspect, but also with the plot and action scenes in general.
From the beginning, it's obviously a series you don't need to take seriously. But then it gets some serious development, you get interested. Then it becomes jokey again, then serious again, you become interested again, etc. Something like that.
This isn't noticeable from the novel's early volumes though.
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@shrike_al Pretty much this. It mixes comedy and drama together, but there are times where the series is more comedic than dramatic, or vice versa.
Plus the anime's quite popular, the series is going to get a S3 soon, and also the novels have been DMCA'd by Kadokawa as well.
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Sounds somewhat similar to Full Metal Panic, I've also heard that used as a positive trait when describing FMP, the well-executed cycle of comedy and drama.
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Also, other than "Date A Live" being highly requested to get picked up, a TON of people also want "Classroom Of The Elite" to be licensed.
Like with "Date A Live" being highly requested, "Classroom Of The Elite" gets requested a lot since the anime came out, the light novels have been dominating in Japan, and its also another slice of life series like with Oregairu.
Plus there's not a lot of Volumes out right now. Including the side stories, there's currently 9. Not including the side stories, there's 7 Volumes (the 8th one to be released in April)
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
Remake Our Life: Let's Travel Back To Ten Years Ago and Reenjoy Creative and Sweet Youthful Days!
https://bookwalker.jp/de122b90d3-01a0-4ec2-ae12-6829241a10a6/?acode=WpfPW3ykLooks like a time travel triangle? I guess I'll see. It has 3 volumes out. Of course... It's Kadokawa.
You can get the first novel of this series for free (legally? Seems it) on Kakuyomu for a limited time. So for the curious:
https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054885320356
http://ln-news.com/archives/70600/post-70600/
The 4th volume in the series releases in April.
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Call me trash but I'd really love to see Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Oreshura) translated. The fan translations are completely dead but I'm a sucker for a self-hating protagonist and a main girl with abandonment issues.
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@elphus said in Novel pick-up requests:
Call me trash but I'd really love to see Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru (Oreshura) translated.
I'd be trash too then
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Same here. I'd also love if their works were also published, as in a series from the "Oreshura" author and a series from the "Oreshura" illustrator.
From the "Oreshura" author, "29 to JK"
From the "Oreshura" illustrator, "Unbreakable Machine Doll"
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@xftg123 Damn. I didn't notice they were done by the same illustrators. What a failure.
(I really liked the Oreshura anime, but I dunno if I'd be interested in reading the novels right now.)
(For some reason, I've never been a fan of the comedic side of FMP. I can't figure out why.)
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Was just randomly thinking about how Seven Seas has the license to the borderline-hentai manga adaptation Series: How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King. So to counter, J-Novel Club should go after Zettai ni Hatarakitakunai Dungeon Master ga Damin wo Musaboru Made.
Publisher: Overlap (What a coincidence that J-NC just so happens to have a partnership with them.)
All I really know about it is that it has a protagonist that's a lazy dungeon master and all the volume covers like most LN series has cute girls on them. Currently 6 going on 7 volumes out for the series at the moment in Japan.
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@aruseus493 trying to counter with a dungeon master series? Then how about Hisshou Dungeon Un'ei Houhou and Jashin Average (Average of Evil Gods).
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@shrike_al "29 to JK" was done by the Oreshura AUTHOR, not the illustrator :-).
The illustrator of "Oreshura", Ruroo, did the art for "Unbreakable Machine Doll" respectively :-)
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@aruseus493 Just saw the volume illustrations, it's definitely up there in terms of Borderline H. And seeing how JNC licensed "How NOT To Summon A Demon Lord", they do have the guts to license something like this....
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I do wish though that, other than "How Not To Summon A Demon Lord", the author's other work, "Altina The Sword Princess", was licensed as well
unfortunately, its from Enterbrain....
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@xftg123 Um, yes, it was the illustrations between Oreshura and Machine Doll that I was talking about. It really went above my head since their respective anime adaptations used very different visual tones.
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@xftg123 said in Novel pick-up requests:
"29 to JK"
Anyone know how the story presents its premise (I understand it's like an arranged marriage type scenario, getting married off to the boss' son?)? Seems controversial.
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With all this clutter, how does J-Club know which novels are in the most demand? Is there a page that lists a bunch of novels that people can just click on the ones they want and the computer will keep count of different peoples clicks?
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First things first this topic is an unofficial request thread, and the founder of JNC has openly stated that he checks this thread “occasionally”.
Also the most requested books in this thread are from Kadokawa which JNC (at the moment) has absolutely no ties to, and with Kadokawa owning a majority share of Yen Press it will probably be some time till we see a JNC X Kadokawa project.
The new licenses are most likely stemming from the survey JNC did during there 1 year anniversary month, also at this point they have acquired a sizable amount of data on what titles sell and what don’t.
They have already done, battle harems, school harems, stand-alone, adventure, mystery, economics, isekai, etc. so they take the sales data they already have, see what’s popular in the current market place, maybe look around see if anything is getting a little more attention in Japan and then come to a decision on what to license. It has also been openly stated that whatever is highest ranked on MAL or other such sites plays very little in the license decision process, and on a recent curious cat question it was said that, “highly requested doesn’t necessarily translate into highly successful”.
Last food for thought the most requested Novel in the survey was Mushoku Tensei.
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@rahul-balaggan Definity can agree with "Mushoku Tensei" being highly requested. The series is also quite requested a lot in the Seven Seas survey.
Another one that's got requested a lot too is "Classroom Of The Elite" as well, seeing how that also got flooded in the survey.
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@followernumber1 said in Novel pick-up requests:
With all this clutter, how does J-Club know which novels are in the most demand? Is there a page that lists a bunch of novels that people can just click on the ones they want and the computer will keep count of different peoples clicks?
I look at this thread more as a repository of licenses people are excited about and want others to get excited about and request here / elsewhere.
Don't forget to request books you really want on Seven Seas' monthly survey and Bookwalker's request page too.
Bookwalker:
https://bookwalker.jp/ex/inquiry/request/Seven Seas: (see picture with the hamster in middle of page).
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