Novel pick-up requests
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@xftg123
Well, If NisiOisiN still sells for Vertical, I think it might be the next or they will get NisiOisin's Densetsu Series.
After all, Densetsu Series was finished this month.
Or maybe, Sekai series:
I think they might prefer completed series over ongoing rn. (but that's just my thoughts)
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@rahul-balaggan said in Novel pick-up requests:
[異世界迷宮の最深部を目指そう]
Aiming for the Deepest Part of a Different World's Labyrinth.
Going through to see if anyone else asked for it. 👍
Dunno if there's any trickiness for licensing it, as I see it is Overlap.
@bloodygaikotsu said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
Vertical announced some detective novel too. =]
It's not some detective novel.
Well the title gives away that it's more than just "some" detective novel...
But yeah, I haven't generally followed many Japanese author names super closely (and it's unfortunate that a lot of LN authors are one hit wonders too). It helps a bit to stay in the dark because if I do pay attention to the author name, there are certain bias that crop up for me (see Narita and Nisiosin). But it's not something I'm consciously doing or anything.
Even reading Empty Box, I knew it was well liked by the general public going in, so that carries some weight of its own (expectations may be more lofty). Of course, now that it's out in English, I've seen some people who really couldn't stomach it, so there's more than just glowing reviews out there, which is good for balance. I hear some say it gets even better as it goes, and I enjoyed volume 1, so I shall see. =]
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@terrence
Actually, I start liking Eiji Mikage for Kamisu Reina Series not Hakomari, it was dark, broken and captivating. (which seems like smth staple in his work, the broken characters and I am sucker for those~xD)@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
(and it's unfortunate that a lot of LN authors are one hit wonders too)
Well, a lot of authors get one hit here but no one knows about their other works.
Even NisiOisiN, people are mostly only aware of 3-4 titles (and their spin-offs) but there are titles like Sekai series, Bishounen series, Fugitive Detective, Legend series, etc. which ain't known by that many people.Hitoma Iruma is author of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko and Usotsuki Mii-kun to Kowareta Maa-chan but he has other hits in Japan like Yesterday I fell in love with her and Tomorrow she fell in love.
Watari Wataru, Oregairu author, was involved in Qualidea Code and Girlish Number which were ongoing in the period where he wasn't writing Oregairu.
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There are even authors that hit Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! list multiple times but the fame never transferred here like Morihashi Bingo, author of
Shinonome Yuuko seires (8th in 2013)
& Kono Koi to, sono Mirai. (9th in 2015 and 10th in 2017)
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@bloodygaikotsu said in Novel pick-up requests:
Well, a lot of authors get one hit here but no one knows about their other works.
At least on Bookwalker, there's a lot of authors that get one finished series and that's it besides one unfinished series after.
Maybe too soon to say she won't get anything else, but I did look to see what else the woman who wrote Psycome was up to, and... Nothing.
Of course, I haven't checked through Syousetsu (Become a Novelist?) site much. Maybe I can find some good stuff from authors I read previously that isn't published / isn't on Bookwalker there.
@bloodygaikotsu said in Novel pick-up requests:
& Kono Koi to, sono Mirai.
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). =[
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
the woman who wrote Psycome was up to
In 2016, she wrote one-shot
Cafe de Blood
I think she has a title in 2018 called "Shinigami Shoujo to Saigo no Hatsukoi"
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@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).
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@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
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@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.
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@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.
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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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@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
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@terrence
Well, if it's really melancholic, that's one more reason to read it (at least, for me)~ -
I didn't even know the author for "Psycome" was a woman. The more I know I guess.
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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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@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. =]
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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
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)
Kuuchuu Buranko (The anime based on it)(won 131st Naoki Prize)
Chouchou Senkyo
Moon and Crab
A Naoki Prize winner piece
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
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
-was voted Number One in the 2011 Konomys rankings
-nominated for the Naoki Prize.
-Same author as Shinsekai Yori
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Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@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...
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@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:
[Yen Press got Do You Like Your Mom?
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?
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.
