Novel pick-up requests

Aruseus493

@Sam-Pinansky Would you happen to know if Ikai Shinki to no Reunion from Softbank Creative is cancelled or still ongoing? MAL has it listed as a completed series while MU doesn't really have any tags or indicators as to whether it's truly ongoing. I've read both translated volumes a while back but it's definitely not a completed story.

Sam Pinansky

@Aruseus493 no insider info there. Series are rarely cancelled publicly, they will just have next volumes never listed or have the schedule just as "mitei" 未定

kuuderes_shadow

I've put together a list of the most requested licenses on this site to date in case anyone is interested in this. As the list is rather long I'll just link to the blog post where I posted it rather than listing it out on here. I hope that's okay.

Terrence

@kuuderes_shadow I love this. =)

I know at least one vote for this was me.

Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru – 2

This too. =)

Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de – 3

Kokoro Connect leading, eh. It was a pretty popular anime. I'm curious to see how natural some of the developments I've heard about from the OVAs / post series are, or if it feels like the writer was playing to fan favoritism.

crismond

If we are requesting only from Overlap or Hobby Japan then would be the following:

Kou 1 Desu ga Isekai de Joushu Hajimemashita
Sword and Wizards
Hyakka Ryouran – Samurai Girls
Mythical Spirit Chronicle
World Teacher: Other World Style Education & Agent

Sam Pinansky

@crismond It won't be long until that's not true anymore...

Fezu

@Sam-Pinansky Oh this is going to be exciting!

LilithR02R1

@Sam-Pinansky hype!

gocav

@kuuderes_shadow Thanks for the list, that's pretty interesting. Now I'm going to have watch the Kokoro Connect anime to see why people are wanting the LNs.

Karsing

Other posts mentioned this once in a while, so here are my requests as a fan of oldies:

The Adventures of Duan Surk - MediaWorks (Complete at 23 volumes)
Guin Saga - Hayakawa Shobou (Ongoing at 140 volumes)

While I'm a big fan of both of these, I'm not holding my breath since both have previously been licensed in English. Since quite a few publishers seem to focus on recent light novels that have anime adaptations, there may be an opportunity to monopolize old-school long form light novels. Although Seven Seas has already announced licensing the precursor of these with "Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch", I'm hoping this is an indicator of an upcoming licensing trend.

This one may be pipe dream, due to being extremely niche, would there be interest in picking up "tabletop RPG replays"? Although they're typically written as dialogue transcriptions, genre-wise they already line up with most contemporary light novels. I don't have any specific titles to request, but the following two would be marketable since their core rule books are official available in English:

Double Cross The 3rd Edition - KADOKAWA (Multiple series, from 3 to 5 volumes each)
Call of Cthulhu (クトゥルフ神話TRPG) - KADOKAWA (Multiple independent volumes)

Both of these happen to be published by KADOKAWA, but I'd say it's pretty unlikely for Yen Press suddenly start publishing tabletop RPG replays.

sparhawk6

Well, when I think about shorter LN. Violet Evergarden have only 2 volumes I think, but it is a amazing reading. It have a really strong story and a good female MC. I will be happy to see it licensed from someone.

Jaquobus

@sparhawk6 Yeah, it would be nice if someone would license Violet Evergarden, considering that it a) gets an anime adaption and b) is afaik still the only novel which won KyoAni's grand prize. Regarding the shorter: While the series has currently only 2 volumes out, isn't it still ongoing?

sparhawk6

@Jaquobus Actually, I don´t know, I didn´t hear much about a vol 3 release, but it is still under tag ongoing, so we will see.

Fezu

@sparhawk6 I do wonder if KyoAni would be interested in J-novel Club. Last time I checked there weren't many Yen Press releases of their latest Light Novel inspired animes, so who knows? They're at least not owned by Kadokawa, so that's a positive lol.

Sam Pinansky

@Fezu They're located in Kyoto, have no international sales department that I know of, so I'd basically have to take the bullet train out there and camp their office. I've got a few leads though...

(Note I'm exaggerating, please don't camp out their office)

Rahul Balaggan

@Sam-Pinansky I am in desperate need for the Kyōkai no Kanata novels as well as the Free! novels.

Rahul Balaggan

In other news right now on twitter J-novel club Is following 77 people, while while also having 777 followers,

spoiler

If that isn't a sign from above to announce some new stuff I don't know what is.

Jaquobus

@Rahul-Balaggan Now if that isn't a sign that we're going to get Sevens or Seven Saga…

sparhawk6

@Sam-Pinansky I almost buy the ticket bah :D
But in June I will visit Japan for 2 weeks so who knows, maybe I will try it haha. Btw Sam, did you hear about Violet Evergarden?

Aruseus493

@Rahul-Balaggan Time to announce a pick-up through Seven Seas. :3