Novel pick-up requests
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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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@aruseus493 You weren't kidding about that wishlist, I scrolled through and that's definitely a lot XD
Also, how does Bookwalker choose what LNs they want to license anyway? I don't get why they licensed "Combat Butler And Automaton Waitress". Was it to highly requested or to start off their LN publishing?
But, "Ryuuoh No Oshigoto" made sense considering how it's quite popular in Japan and it won Kono Light Novel Ga Sugoi! twice AND there's also an anime.
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@xftg123 I don't think they've ever said how they pick their licenses, but I know back when they still used a Google Doc, they said they'd forward requests directly to the various publishers. It was more of a "people want series x from you in English" from what it sounded like.
Otherwise, it's Combat Baker. It's surprisingly good. If only Bookwalker didn't come with DRM.
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@aruseus493 Oh, that makes sense.
I'm also kind of hoping though that Bookwalker fixes their grammar errors and such as well.
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@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence
I kind of feel like doing a license request dump on Bookwalker's site, but I might get banned considering the size my wishlist has grown to in the last few years since I last did a request dump.My wishlist on Bookwalker is over 600 books long. =P
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence
I kind of feel like doing a license request dump on Bookwalker's site, but I might get banned considering the size my wishlist has grown to in the last few years since I last did a request dump.My wishlist on Bookwalker is over 600 books long. =P
Series or volumes?
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@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence
I kind of feel like doing a license request dump on Bookwalker's site, but I might get banned considering the size my wishlist has grown to in the last few years since I last did a request dump.My wishlist on Bookwalker is over 600 books long. =P
Series or volumes?
There's a few series with two or three books on the list, but mostly single volumes / volume 1s. Some manga, but not much.
Edit: 48 of the 636 books are manga.
Edit 2: 45 Volume 2s or repeated volumes.
So 543 unique novels / light novels.
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That's definitely a lot. I don't come up with wishlists for requesting light novels. Rather, I use LNDB or Amazon Japan's light novel section to see which books are quite popular under their respective label.
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@terrence I looked at Book Walker, what's the difference between the brand and the publisher?
