Novel pick-up requests

BloodyGaikotsu

@aruseus493
With how popular it is in Japan and how the publisher twitter talk about it, I have feeling that it might get licensed by Yen Press soon.

Duel protagonists, huh?
Something like
A Lollypop or a Bullet
Publisher: Kodakawa Shoten

Usotsuki Mii-kun to Kowareta Maa-chan
What I find really interesting about this one is the fact that our narrator is Mii-kun a.k.a. the liar.
So, it's safe guess to treat him as unreliable narrator.

But I think what I will go with this time is

Seitokai Tantei Kirika
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How to describe this...
Think of Hyouka, small-scale mysteries with underlying drama, but instead of a whole club as main character, we have a sleuth, Kirika, and the narrator (her Watson), Hikage.
I think inferiority complex plays huge role in this one.

Publisher: Kodansha LIGHTNOVEL

Drone205

Kinos's Journey, There is Kino and there is the Bike for dual protagonist.
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klingerman01

I'd like to see (Kaifuku Jutsushi) and (Isekai Nonbiri Nouka) would be great.

galactuskahn24

@drone205 thankfully the webnovel is being trnslated a chapter every couple days.

Aruseus493

Let's do another theme.

Competition of Publishers

Pick a series from another publisher, and pick something you consider similar for J-Novel Club to compete with.

Aruseus493

@aruseus493

To compete with KonoSuba, I'd go with Kono Sekai ga Game da to Ore dake ga Shitteiru. Both series feature a similar style of over the top absurd comedy. But I've requested this one before.

So instead, let's compete with Sword Art Online with an obscure title I've dug up. :3

Death Game kara Hajimeru MMO Slow Life

Publisher: Fujimi Shobo

We've seen Sword Art Online where the first arc is about escaping a death game. We've gotten The New Gate (fan-translated) which is about going from a death game to an Isekai series. Now let's have a Death Game where the protagonist isn't even trying to end it. Death Game kara Hajimeru MMO Slow Life from what I could dig up about it, is a slice of life series where the protagonist is living a romcom/harem life inside the game.

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Terrence

Kadokawa:

"Dowl Master"

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https://bookwalker.jp/de2095534b-cb5b-4b27-8eed-b1177516c0ab/?acode=WpfPW3yk

Overlap:

"Lunar weapons of the galactic war record <Antique> 1 When I was awakened by a high school student I was in a spaceship"

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https://bookwalker.jp/de661ee717-1e74-4bf5-81a2-4e2d4e5e263e/?acode=WpfPW3yk

For this ^ May want to do some finagling to get the Syosetu chapters licensed since the physical novel is likely cancelled, but the Syosetu has continued to be updated to the present.

Ichijinsha:

"Destruction Flags"

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https://bookwalker.jp/dea817b88a-e559-4b56-9c73-5ecd624bcd4c/?acode=WpfPW3yk

Arian Rose:

The Villain's Daughter

https://bookwalker.jp/de5b8f4cdb-1fe3-4e31-a56b-f6734e07f39c/?acode=WpfPW3yk

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We can compete with titles that aren't out in English yet, right? =P

Drone205

Ok, another kinda cliche Request at this point (I lost track how many times even I made this request):

Chivalry of a Failed Knight (Rival Asterisk War)
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A great series where there is a real romantic relationship that actually goes somewhere.

paulnamida

@drone205 To this day I can't understand the reasoning behind licensing the Asterisk War over this. They got an anime adaptation at the same time and this was the superior one by all means!!!!

Rahul Balaggan

@paulnamida how dare you question our supreme overlords Yen Press, if you get out of line again we will be forced to isekai you to a world full of plot holes and traps...

Terrence

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

if you get out of line again we will be forced to isekai you to a world full of plot holes and traps...

I wouldn't mind living on the island from LOST.

I just saw this. I like love triangles, but this one is "Bizarre".

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I believe it is about "Guy loves girl. Girl loves guy"...

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fozzedout

I'd like to see "Knights and magic" (it brought me here in my search for light novel translations, as I did not know they existed), but when I've done a search for it, the response given previously is "it's by Hero Bunko" as if that explains everything.

Could someone clue me in please?

DTTA

@paulnamida To be fair, the Asterisk War LN is really pretty good. The adaptation was fairly lackluster though. A lot of the complaints about Asterisk War is due to either the adaptation or the person just wanting to hate on it. Though I do think personally Chivalry is better.

Drone205

@dtta said in Novel pick-up requests:

@paulnamida To be fair, the Asterisk War LN is really pretty good. The adaptation was fairly lackluster though. A lot of the complaints about Asterisk War is due to either the adaptation or the person just wanting to hate on it. Though I do think personally Chivalry is better.

well, Digibro has a whole Video series about why Asterisk Wars sucks and he gives some genuine reasons why and it involves the writing of the show witch the LN would have (though it is possible it wont be as bad). This video series ends with a 2-part comparison with Chivalry (witch highlights the flaws in Asterisk War even more). I dont believe a person will Hate something because they just want to hate it, though if you go into something expecting to hate it that will influence your opinion; I watched Chivalry expecting to hate it yet I was pleasantly surprised. I believe in a sort of Universal quality, A good series will always be a good series and a bad series will always be a bad series and these series will ultimately reach their quality in the eyes of the general people. To argue the Adaption point, I do think adaption can "ruin" a story but if the adaption remains as faithful as it possibly can than the writing and characters should be at around the same level right? say if The Minotaur Fight in Danmachi had the same animation Quality as SAO fights (SAO fights are really boring, flashy lights don't make good fights), That Minotaur fight would still be good (maybe not great but still good) and this is because of the writing in the fight.

Edit: I believe to some extent you can judge a series by the quality of there fights, this reins true if you compare the Minotaur fight in Danmachi vs the Gleam Eyes fight is SAO too.

DTTA

Actually, Digibro is the guy I was referring to. Some his stuff is valid, a lot of it isn't in a lot of respects. Some of his examples come off as "THIS SHOW IS TOTALLY NOT REALISTIC! RAR!" Kinda like people who bag on superheroes or bitch about the Endor Holocaust and other stupidity. Not to mention the things he mentions that are actually contradicted by the books and anime itself.

Not saying it's high literature, but it's not nearly as bad as people say. But much like SAO, it became a big meme thing where people liked to bag on Asterisk War to show how developed an anime person they are, not like those PEONS who like that stuff. It's basically virtue signalling, anime-style.

Drone205

@dtta said in Novel pick-up requests:

Some his stuff is valid, a lot of it isn't in a lot of respects. Some of his examples come off as "THIS SHOW IS TOTALLY NOT REALISTIC! RAR!"

This is a clear case of Strawmaning Digibros's argument but I will let it slide. It would help if you name some specific points he makes and say why they are false.

DTTA

edited I was snarkier than I should have been, I think, so am rephrasing.

Suffice it to say I don't think it necessary to 'let it slide'. ;) I will note that I do think the Asterisk War adaptation is rather flawed in various ways, but do think Digibro's critique was in some ways biased - which he admits to from time to time himself. :)

I don't care to derail the thread with a long dissertation on Digibro's critique, however, so we'll have to agree to disagree.

BloodyGaikotsu

@paulnamida
Publishers
Asterisk is Kadokawa title while Chivalry of a Failed Knight is GA bunko's
Well, for me, both ain't that great nor one is better than the other.

BloodyGaikotsu

Well, personally I like Chivalry of a Failed Knight anime more cuz of the direction.
Silver Link. directors (Shin Onuma's proteges we may say) are really good and innovative~

Terrence

Execution Tarot is getting a volume 2. This is a VR Escape Room death game thingamajig I think. Unfortunately, it is Kadokawa, so I'll be submitting my rec to Bookwalker (and I guess Seven Seas).

https://bookwalker.jp/de76448317-6499-4acb-8cec-e685a34a8321/?acode=WpfPW3yk

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This also looks like fun. "Is not it true that the brave is too cute and can not be defeated?

http://dengekibunko.jp/newreleases/978-4-04-893855-6/

Basically, the devil goes to stamp out the brave in reality before she comes to the different world, but he falls in love with her instead... I think? That's what I got from Google Translate. This one is brand new.

In terms of the Asterisk War debate, I've always wondered if people have read anything after the anime to see if the novel goes to better places they didn't expect. But hearing the anime basically covers to (through?) volume 6, that would be a long slog of potentially poor content to get through to get there.