Novel pick-up requests

Terrence

@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

It's the first page of the book on digital store. The line is the first of the 5th paragraph.

Well, it's not in the print edition, and I checked the "read the first few pages" thingy on Amazon and don't see anything either :x

Must be a Nook on release exclusive! x(

LegitPancake

@terrence This is my print edition of Zeroth Maria volume 2:

Terrence

@legitpancake said in Novel pick-up requests:

@terrence This is my print edition of Zeroth Maria volume 2

Yup, there's the error. It's literally page 1! x(

Xftg123

Looks like the "Shinmai Maou No Testament" LN series won't get an official English release

spoiler

paulnamida

@xftg123 it's also the last volume I believe, and the main story ended on the previous volume so the author just let himself loose for the epilogue I guess

Rahul Balaggan

@xftg123 there are 2 ways

JNC launches a second label called J-Novel Club Black
FAKKU starts publishing Light Novels.

Xftg123

@rahul-balaggan That could also work

myskaros

H-Novel Club
J-Novel Club: Darkness
Re:J-Novel Club
J-Novel Heart
J-Novel Club Kai Super
Unchained ~a j-novel club production~
Mufufu

Xftg123

Wait, maybe Seven Seas's Ghost Ship Imprint could do it! Despite being adult/mature manga under that imprint, they could possibly do mature/adult LNs!

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Terrence

@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:

J-Novel Club: Darkness

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Rahul Balaggan

@xftg123 Did in fact cross my mind, however with Amazon's recent Kindle purge of content that was to "risque", I felt it would be easily for JNC and FAKKU (who have their own distribution networks) to get them... in theory.

MMKOP

@rahul-balaggan If YP takes hostages for the english-speaking market the F! is way worse 'cause they do it in a global scale. I'd rather wait a few years for J-NC to grow big enough to license risque content that having the guys at F! bring their monopolistics "International Distribution Rights" to the novel market. FYI, only they can translate content they license to whatever language they like effectively closing licensing rights to every publisher, be it in english or any other language.

Edit: SevenSeas would be good as well if they finally decide to expand to Kobo which isn't as strict with their content policies.

myskaros

@terrence I was aiming for this reference actually >.> there have been a few manga that joked about the series getting replaced with an edgier Darkness version too :x can't think of which ones off the top of my head though...

Rahul Balaggan

@mmkop we actually have no way of knowing if the deals they worked out for their Hentai Manga titles will also apply to any theoretical LN titles. It really depends on what the Japanese publisher wants and is willing to give it, other then that even though I dislike FAKKU management and I think they have some terrible business practices they still release grade A material.

I have every single physical FAKKU release to date and the quality (in both translation and presentation) is better then anything any other publish is doing in the US.

Aruseus493

@rahul-balaggan Okay, now I'm curious. What does Fakku do to make them all hated?

Rahul Balaggan

@aruseus493 okay let me start with a small statement,

Ever since FAKKU hired a former Vertical exec to be their new VP a lot of things have gotten better.

That aside their customer service (not counting shipping dept) is Terrible with a capital “T”.

In 2017 I submitted 12 support tickets between Feb and June, 8 were left with no response, these included small things involving technically problems on the site for specific situations, as well as things like I bought this doujin and the download link has a page fully scrambled and I can’t read it. (After I contacted the founder directly after 1.5 months it was resolved.)

Before let’s say Sept of last year they provided no details of when books would go up for sale just we licensed this it will come at some point ... random Thursday 8 months later it’s up for sale.

Even now they don’t really share what they have to release until a week before or with their most recent license the day of.

The most requested additions to the site they keep saying they are working on (like being able to blacklist tags, and sorting your virtual library) I have been a member of the site for 2 years and they have been saying that they are working on it for 2 years.

Some may argue that it takes time for QC and blah blah, but they did a major site UI change a year or so back and none of those features they have been “working” on were added, instead my iPad became almost completely unusable on their browser and their comic reader and even after posting to the forums and submitting tickets for support I still have great difficulty actually reading on the site.

There are other small stuff I won’t bore you with but I will say their shipping dept is 10/10 and I don’t say that lightly, every single time I have had any issue I have gotten a response within a day once within an hour, Crazy Ben in charge of shipping is a godsend. Also they do have a user named YQII who was in charge of books but now overseas the subscription, and he has always been helpful on the site in the past, I have distanced myself from their forums recently cause it’s just not worth pointing things out if no one is listening to fix it.

That’s just me most people hate them cause they “sold out”, and “made it so they can’t read for free anymore”, and they “ruined Hentai by legalizing it”, there was 1 user who said FAKKU owner was a monster for not working to legalize piracy...I face palmed so hard a year and a half ago the mark is still on my face.

myskaros

@rahul-balaggan said in Novel pick-up requests:

there was 1 user who said FAKKU owner was a monster for not working to legalize piracy...

Sounds like those crazies who come around here saying they hate JNC because of how they oppress freelance translators by not making them actually do anything and now they can't read the things they want for free anymore.

MMKOP

@rahul-balaggan @Aruseus493 You forgot to mention that their president is a douche with capital J for Jacob. As for their deals: you've done it once, you've done it twice, then why would it change? Their Illusion partnership is an "International Distribution Rights" thing. Why would you do that if you've got no real intention to publish said content to any other language but english? Monopolistic behavior. The light novel market is awful enough with YP in it. Why would you want two with exactly the same business practices?

@myskaros It's more like the guy used to be the owner of the piracy platform for normies so he knew most of the core translation community. After he made the wani deal, he goes after whoever dares to translate whatever he might have any intention to publish. If you search well enough through the archives you might find many translators who have posted the threatening messages Jacob have sent them.

Rahul Balaggan

@mmkop no but again I am saying it’s up to the Japanese publishers if they want to give FAKKU those rights, if FAKKU asks and they say no then that’s it either they take only English rights or they just don’t take anything and we all move on to not having it licensed again.

I also have nothing personal against Jacob he made it so I can legally read E-Musu Aki Hentai uncensored and HD.

Edit: are you only referring to their games?

If so I don’t think it would roll over to other places for manga and hentai, I already know that a polish publisher licensed Renai Sample for release from Wani so obviously FAKKU didn’t have exclusive rights for that, plus French publishers get a lot all not in English.

myskaros

@mmkop I'm not making any judgments on Fakku since I have zero experience with them as a business or their products, I was simply commenting that the specific situation Rahul cited sounds very similarly entitled to the occasional idiot who makes a new JNC account just to whine about their favorite source of copyright infringement voluntarily choosing to take down their translations.