Novel pick-up requests

BloodyGaikotsu

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

the woman who wrote Psycome was up to

In 2016, she wrote one-shot
Cafe de Blood
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I think she has a title in 2018 called "Shinigami Shoujo to Saigo no Hatsukoi"
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Yeah, it was only released yesterday too.

Terrence

@bloodygaikotsu said in Novel pick-up requests:

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

the woman who wrote Psycome was up to

In 2016, she wrote one-shot

Ooh, I'll check that out.

Is there a good way to know if something is designed as a one-shot? I see a lot of single volumes on digital stores that look like cancelled series.

Edit: That is one lonely parfait (I saw that cover before, didn't realize that was hers).

BloodyGaikotsu

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

I forget if I added this one to my wishlist, but I was kinda interested. I feel like none of the many romance and triangle romance stories will make it stateside (unless they get converted to anime). =[

Unfortunately, romance, drama, SOL are some of my favorite genres
looks at his huge wishlist and cries

BloodyGaikotsu

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

Is there a good way to know if something is designed as a one-shot? I see a lot of single volumes on digital stores that look like cancelled series.

I don't think there's a way to tell tho.
& most of debut series started from one-shots anyways.

BloodyGaikotsu

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

Edit: That is one lonely parfait (I saw that cover before, didn't realize that was hers).

Is it bad that I wanna read it only cuz of the cover.

BloodyGaikotsu

Just noticed but Bingo and Mizuki Mizushiro along with authors of Baka to test and Book girl were part of anthology called
Shōtosutorīzu Boku to Kimi no 15-Senchi
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Terrence

@bloodygaikotsu said in Novel pick-up requests:

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

Edit: That is one lonely parfait (I saw that cover before, didn't realize that was hers).

Is it bad that I wanna read it only cuz of the cover.

Nope. I want to eat a parfait because of the cover. =P

For the curious, here's the Bookwalker page for it. It's got two color inserts that don't tell you much visually (guy looking at the woman with dark hair outside her apartment? And then her at an aquarium, though both images have a dark lighted look to them).

https://bookwalker.jp/de2c1b0b9f-0e68-4bad-a86b-a9f191a82089/?acode=WpfPW3yk

BloodyGaikotsu

@terrence
Well, if it's really melancholic, that's one more reason to read it (at least, for me)~

Xftg123

I didn't even know the author for "Psycome" was a woman. The more I know I guess.

Xftg123

Anyway, from seeing Kono Light Novel Ga Sugoi! 2018, its be nice to see "Tsuki to Raika to kyuketsu hime" licensed. Its from Gagaga Bunko though...

As far as I know, it involves a vampire going to space(?)

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Terrence

@xftg123 said in Novel pick-up requests:

I didn't even know the author for "Psycome" was a woman. The more I know I guess.

The Psycome author is on Twitter. =]

https://twitter.com/MizushiroMizuki?s=17

BloodyGaikotsu

Just noticed that Mari Okada's Autobiography was announced.
Bungeishunjū, huh?
I got a list of Bungeishunjū novels that I wanna read~
Well, for the possibility of JNC being willing to deal with them again, let's throw this list~

Kuuchuu Buranko
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I loved the anime so much.
It was episodic series based around a weird psychiatrist called Ichirou Irabu dealing with different patients.

The anime is based on one of 3 books which make up the short stories series, "Psychiatrist Irabu Series".
In the Pool (Was released by Stone Bridge Press but it's out of the print now)
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Kuuchuu Buranko (The anime based on it)(won 131st Naoki Prize)

Chouchou Senkyo

Moon and Crab
A Naoki Prize winner piece

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Synopsis
The town of Kamakura in early summer provides the backdrop for this powerfully told novel focusing on ten-year-old Shin'ichi.
Two years earlier, after his father's business failed, Shin'ichi moved into his paternal grandfather's solitary home here in this historic town nestled between hills and sea.
The father died of cancer a year later, and so now the boy lives with his grandfather, Shozo, and mother, Sumie. Bullied at school, Shin'ichi has no friends save for Haruya, a new student from western Japan who is enduring abuse and sometimes even starvation by his own parents. A third classmate is Narumi, whose mother, a university researcher, had been aboard Shozo's fishing boat several years ago when it collided with a ferry in deep fog, costing Shozo his leg and the woman her life. Shin'ichi and Narumi soon make the shocking discovery that his mother and her elite businessman father are secretly seeing each other. The two children and Haruya become engrossed in a ritual of their own invention which involves making a wish while burning a hermit crab out of its shell with a cigarette lighter.
Although at first they wish for one another's pain to go away, a rift develops as Haruya and Narumi's closeness sparks jealousy in Shin'ichi, who also has feelings for the girl.
Here is a moving portrait of a young boy's passion toward his mother and his friends, and of his struggle to stand up to the difficulties buffeting him.

Fusé Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden

The novel which Fuse: Teppou Musume no Torimonochou is based on
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Both novel and film are an adaptation of Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden tho.

Movie Synopsis
In Kyokutei Bakin's classic Japanese epic novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden, eight samurai serve the Satomi clan during Japan's tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era. The Edo-era samurai are the reincarnations of the spirits that Princess Fuse mothered with a dog named Yatsufusa. In Fuse Gansaku: Satomi Hakkenden, the female hunter Hamaji comes to her brother in order to hunt Fuse. Thus, the karmic cycle of retribution that began long ago with the Satomi family begins anew.

Lesson of the Evil
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-was voted Number One in the 2011 Konomys rankings
-nominated for the Naoki Prize.
-Same author as Shinsekai Yori
It's slasher serial killer novel.

myskaros

Yen Press got Do You Like Your Mom?

Xftg123

@myskaros I'm glad that YP is licensing it, even though I wanted JNC to pick it up. Oh well!

Hopefully more novels get announced soon. And by the looks of it, the first volume of "Do You Like Your Mom?" probably won't be out until either Late 2018 or Early 2019...

Terrence

@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:

[Yen Press got Do You Like Your Mom?

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Yay yay. I felt like that one was up Yen's alley. Well, now I won't look into reading the JP version I got. x)

Wonder if there'll be any chance they get that 40 year old dude Isekai one that I also grabbed a volume of someday?

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https://bookwalker.jp/deceb9657a-0b7c-46f7-b9e1-28bff25427c9/?acode=WpfPW3yk

That and Zoa Hunter are the top two I'd want licensed that I believe are both Kadokawa.

Kite-XX

I’ll be frank, I want Spirit Migration light novel series. The WN was being translated before, but the whole WN series on that syosetu site was taken down, so kind of impossible to have Novel Updates translate it. I would place an image here, but having some computer problems for a while.

Terrence

Anyone know what Cross Inf World is teasing?

“Guess what? Guess what? Turns out I’m the main character of an upcoming #lightnovel! Me, a shapeshifting wolfboy! Oh, look, meat! Meat! Meat!”

“Wolfie, did you escape from Master Oswald to play an April Fool’s Day joke on these people? We aren’t supposed to be announced for another month and I am quite certain you are not the main character… Unless…did Master Oswald finally rid himself of Lady Nichika?”

https://twitter.com/CrossInfWorld/status/980481757270048769?s=20

Edit:

Overlap is running a 5th Anniversary sale on Bookwalker JP.

https://bookwalker.jp/ex/feature/overlap5th-bw/

I have some expiring coins to spend, so I'll use them on these I think. Just try to find ones I don't think will make it over.

Drone205

Assassins Pride
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Novel Updates Synopsis:
As an aristocrat, Merida Angel studied at an academy that developed mana users but she did not have any mana. Kufa Vanpiel was dispatched to be her tutor and at the same time he was ordered to assassinate the girl if she did not have any talent. “Do you want to try to entrust your life to me?” he asked, as not an assassin nor a tutor but as someone that was betting on his pride as an assassin tutor, to show the girl’s worth to the world.

This seems like an interesting series that I could get behind.

followernumber1

What do you think about this idea? J-Club can post a page with a long list of light novels. People can make donations through the title they want; all donations go to obtaining licenses and paying for additional translators. J-Club will prioritize licensing titles that attract a significant amount of donations. By seeing which titles attract the most money, people can have a better guess on which titles J-Club will license.

Rahul Balaggan

@followernumber1

I just wanted to say it isn’t always money that will hold back a license.

There are times when an author will actually say no to having their work get licensed, because they have certain reservations.

And JNC still has no ties with many publishers like Kadokawa and Alpha Polis so even if though the money is there the connection is not.

Best way is to keep supporting JNC as it grows bigger and bigger and when those hold out publishes can’t say no, they won’t.

The owner of JNC also has publicly stated the Patreon method of money raising is not durable for a business, and if we see what series are popular that means other companies will as well, if other companies get that data for free they can swoop in and license it before JNC has a chance.