Novel pick-up requests
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@myskaros I remember reading the first chapter of the manga adaptation and I can 100% say it was NOT Pochi-Goya. Just for the sake of it I'm just checking the chapter again and it definitely isn't Pochi-Goya, I have his art-style engrained to my brain... for research purposes of course... >.>
@Paul-Nebeling that's the biggest problem YP has IMO, they take way too long to release their volumes, so by the time they get to the part the story picks up after the end of the anime, the hype has died down quite a bit. I could bet that there's more people that pick up a LN from the part the anime ended than there are that pick it up from the beginning after watching the anime. I'm in the latter camp, but laziness will always outnumber diligence.
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@paulnamida Ah, then the BakaUpdates entry must be correct.
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@paulnamida Yea, YP isn't very good for picking up long-running series considering the amount of delays. I think that's actually J-NC's strong point in how they can turn out volumes every 2 months in comparison. I'd say YP should keep sticking to newer series, but they also have trouble with getting the latest volume of a series that recently came out in Japan. See Sword Art Online: Progressive which I asked about at Sakura-con, and got the most non-answer ever of them having no idea of any release schedule for it. There's also Isekai Pizza Parlor which was announced at Anime Expo last year but still doesn't have a release date for volume 1.
So yea, I love a lot of series YP publishes, but I wish they'd get their shit together.
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I just read this Light Novel and found it hilarious, thought I'd add it to the suggestions thread.
"Yuujin Character wa Taihen desu ka?" by Date Yasushi, published by Gagaga Bunko.
Here's the premise, as explained in my own words:
Our protagonist is Kobayashi Ichiro, an average guy with an average name. He is however, very genre savvy, and he recognized early on that as an average guy with an average name, he's suited to be a side character. So when he entered high school and met Hinomori Ryuga, a mysterious loner with a bad ass name, often mysteriously vanishes from class only to return later with hints of dirt and blood, he knew what was going on. Ryuga is a main character, an action hero fighting some sort of evil without anyone at school knowing.
Kobayashi then knew exactly what role he wanted to play in the story. He was going to be the best friend. The comic relief, the goofy best friend, who knows nothing about Ryuga's secret struggles, but provides a slice-of-life counter balance to the drama of his action hero epic.
So Kobayashi played his part well. When Ryuga runs off to fight monsters, Kobayashi would make himself scarce and only appear after the fight is over, pretending not to have seen anything. He would help come up with convenient and comic misunderstandings that lets Ryuga get away without explaining anything.
He would help Ryuga set up flag events with the three members of Ryuga's harem of girls by playing the part of the pervert, and dragging Ryuga along to do things like peep on the girls while changing, and then deliberately sneezing so they get noticed.
Everything was going well, Ryuga, for all his complaints, was glad to have Kobayashi as a friend. And Kobayashi was perfectly happy with his role in the story.
Until one day, everything changed. Ryuga revealed to Kobayashi his greatest secret. The fact that he was part of an ancient bloodline with powers sworn to protect the world from chaos and evil? No, that one he already knew. But there was one other secret, one that not even Ryuga's fellow fighters, his harem of beautiful girls know about. Once he learned this secret, Kobayashi's goal of being just the clueless best friend is in danger, as his character setting gets more and more twisted.
"What's going on? What is my role in this story supposed to be!?"
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@chi-c I requested it several pages earlier but I definitely want this series to be licensed. It hasn't even been picked up for fan translations IIRC.
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@paulnamida That makes sense now. Hopefully someone will ask at their next event why NGNL keeps getting delayed.
Also, Pochi's actually female, not male.
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@xftg123 Really? I searched the thread for the title to see if it's been mentioned but got no hits.
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@chi-c https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/14/novel-pick-up-requests/1100
Located on the bottom
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@aruseus493 said in Novel pick-up requests:
Yea, YP isn't very good for picking up long-running series considering the amount of delays.
At least A Certain Magical Index has been consistent with 4 volumes every year. Then again, Yen doesn't look keen on getting the two side story volumes... I'm sad now.
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@doublemangekyo Yea, I asked about the Side Stories and the way they answered the question at the panel was that "they don't talk about potential licenses" which seems to mean that the SS volumes aren't considered part of the original contract and that they probably just won't even bother licensing them. I hope Sam gets any SS volumes for any series J-NC has when the time comes. I mean hell, Index should have been not even a question considering the SS volume was adapted into the anime, and it's relevant to the main story.
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Agreed. It also makes me wonder if YP will publish the "Oregairu" side volumes...
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Also it seems that Yen Press may push out more Fujimi Shobo titles. They have “Death March” and the now recently licensed “Do You Like Your Mom?”. So they may pump out more titles from that company soon.
Then again, I do know a LOT of people are requesting “Date A Live” and the “Akashic Records” light novel in the Seven Seas survey. But mostly “Date A Live” keeps getting heavily requested.
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@xftg123 Man... Like seriously... You might take this as rude but why the hell do you people still buy stuff from YP? Only thing they want is to rip you off not caring at all about the quality of the products they are supposed to deliver. The U.S. market, as huge as it is in general, is the worst in terms of eastern media (be it manga, novels, anime, etc.) You've got Crunchyroll, Funimation and SekaiProject as examples and on the top of that list is YP as the worst companies in the business. Smaller companies with less resources (SevenSeas, J-NC, MangaGamer) are delivering way better products than YP has ever done and ever will yet, somehow, they're still on the market.
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@mmkop It's cause YP is literally holding series hostage. If they go away without finishing series, it's literally another Tokyopop in lost series which still haven't been recovered. And LN fan-translations are pretty much a dead part of the community as well. Exclusivity isn't a good thing here. I imagine if J-NC could licensed titles YP has, they'd probably be able to put YP on a run for it's money. Hell, I think they're doing a pretty good job already with licensing pretty much half the total of YP's titles in only a year and a half. At some point, YP will hopefully realize that they're shit and need to stop being shit. One of the things I asked about at Sakura-con was about setting up a forum, and they did say it's in the works to hopefully reboot their old one. Assuming they don't start censoring, I think it's a great first step to letting them realize how fucking bad they are at times. (Looks at Danmachi translations.)
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@mmkop said in Novel pick-up requests:
You might take this as rude but why the hell do you people still buy stuff from YP? The only thing you're for those guys are piggybanks. They do not care about the quality of the products they supposedly deliver.
... Because they publish series I like and I want to support the creators while being able to actually read the stuff I buy?
Of their novels, I'm buying Index, NGNL and Log Horizon.
Yen's novel translations are hit-or-miss for me but the titles above are fine IMO.
I didn't like their The Devil is a Part-Timer! TL so I opted to collect the fan translations for that one.
If they end up not doing anything with Index past vol.22, I've already got everything up to vol.18 of the sequel on my computer.And, personally, I see VIZ as the worst company (Still waiting for the last three Naruto Hiden novels, probably in vain!).
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@aruseus493 I disagree. "at times"? They are fucking bad at whatever they do. Just look at NGNL? A whole mess since it started publication. Shitty translator, no editor whatsoever, shitty localization. Mahouka? Why would you hire a translator who has not a fucking idea of what the series is about? Then you go and hire an editor who's basically on the same boat. I mean, how do you mess a series plot so bad since volume 1. How much of an idiot you've got to be to pull that off?
@doublemangekyo said in Novel pick-up requests:
... Because they publish series I like and I want to support the creators while being able to actually read the stuff I buy?
Of their novels, I'm buying Index, NGNL and Log Horizon.
Yen's novel translations are hit-or-miss for me but the titles above are fine IMO.Exactly the reason why they are still here. Just don't buy their stuff and that's it. Whenever a company starts losing money is when they realize something is wrong and needs to be fixed, either the do it or disappear (TokyoPOP). You're paying for their stuff, there never should be something like "hit-or-miss". Everything should be a hit since you're not getting it for free. In these circumstances "pirates" are getting a better value for their money.
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Speaking of YP, I might as well link this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/63o7rq/why_does_mostly_everyone_here_on_rlightnovels_not/
Its from the LN subreddit, in which I asked as to why people were not fans of Yen Press's LN imprint, Yen On.
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I believe that the english light novel market needs some more "Senki" light novels: Grancrest Senki (Record of Grancrest War) and Arslan Senki (The Heroic Legend of Arslan) for example.
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@doublemangekyo said in Novel pick-up requests:
Yen doesn't look keen on getting the two side story volumes... I'm sad now.
I don't think they'll be getting that extra Psycome volume either...
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@mmkop My position is similar to that of @Aruseus493. YP has the licensing exclusivity from Kadokawa that makes them very difficult to compete against. I personally think that JNC is starting to get close to the point where they will be seen as legitimate competition for YP. After all, three (more) JNC titles are being made into anime, and I haven't counted how many have already been made into anime.
