Novel pick-up requests

Eternal Wanderer

@hakomari It is, I tried running a poll a while back with some of the more popular suggestions I kept seeing, Rakudai easily won.

Shiroi Hane

@gonki said in Novel pick-up requests:

Isekai de “Kuro no Iyashi Te” tte Yobarete Imasu

I happened to flick through the first volume of the manga adaption the other day, because it's temporarily free to read on Bookwalker and I'm interested (even with the abundance of pretty boys which isn't really my thing).

Since I pick out LNs based mainly on the art and can't really read them, I'm not really in any place to make suggestions. I have started tracking down fan translations for some of the books I own, but the first time I did that it was licensed soon after (Youjo Senki) and my second attempt.. well, it's hard to gauge the quality of the original through the lens of a poor adaptation.

I could easily make a list of "what happens next?" requests for unfinished anime adaptations mind...

lein11

I would like to see this one

Kou 1 Desu ga Isekai de Joushu Hajimemashita (Hobby Japan)
I´ve read the manga and I like the story.

Theo

I would like to request とある飛空士への追憶 "Recollections for a Certain Pilot" by Koroku Inumura. This light novel and the subsequent sequel/spinoff light novels are really popular in Japan, even made it to the Amazon.jp light novel best seller list. It has been adapted into a feature anime film titled The Princess and The Pilot in 2011 and an anime addaption for the spinoff light novel series a year later.

I would also recommend the Black Lagoon spinoff light novels. The Anime and manga series of Black Lagoon are popular in both Japan and the US, but the light novel spin offs have never been published in english, so translating them could attract the manga/anime fans to light novels.

Shiroi Hane

I've been browsing descriptions and some sample chapters on a fan translation site and the one which hooked me enough to go and buy the first volume with my spare BookWalker points is something called Konjiki no Word Master (金色の文字使い). Perhaps in terms of recommendations I should have paid more attention to publisher though, since it's a Fujimi Shobo/Kadokawa title...

DoubleMangekyo

Would be great if you guys could license these:

Outbreak Company
Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu.
Suisei no Gargantia (sequels+prequel)

MelnikSuzuki

I pretty much choose based on the title and the covers that interested me. I'll split this into two, between currently licensing with and not.

Licensing

Hobby Japan:
Ano Hibi wo Mou Ichido
Ano Shinpu wa, Yappari Kuzu Datta
Boukoku Ou no Ken to Spy Hip
Deus Replica
Glau Standear Koukoku Monogatari
High-School Secret Service!
Hikikomori no Kanojo wa Kami nano desu
Kanojo wa Megane-HOLIC
Luminous☆Idol
Maou na Ore to Ghoul no Yubiwa
Nishuume Eiyuu no Arakasegi Koukokuki
One Turn Kill of the Dark Partisan
Ore no Real to Netgame ga Love Come ni Shinshokusare Hajimete Yabai
Ore to Kanojo no Love Comedy ga Zenryoku de Kuro Rekishi
Ore to Kanojo no Zettai Ryouiki
Ryuu to Kitsune no Giant Killing
Seirei Gensouki
Seiten no Musou Shinki
Senkan Ningen Hayato
Sentou Ishi Noguchi Eiyuu
Vampire/Lord ~Kunrinsuru wa, Shuuen no Kenou~

Overlap:
Cosmic@Live
Infinite Stratos (Yes, I know this is pretty much impossible, but I can dream)
Isekai Mahou wa Okureteru!
Isekai Meikyuu no Saishinbu wo Mezasou
Jingi Soukoku no Aion
Kiniro Quartet!
Leangrad no Manabiya Yori
Maken Senki

Kodansha:
Sengoku Sniper

Not Licensing

Hayakawa Shobo:
Ultraman Dual
Ultraman F

Unknown:
Ultra Monster Anthropomorphic Project light novels

Village Idiot

Its a long shot, but Knight's & Magic.

Roland

I'd love to see Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita get picked up.
I'm currently rewatching the anime and almost forgot how enjoyable it was.

Eternal Wanderer

@roland I second this one, I would love to read the original books.

StrykeAnjel

Just going to put these 2 novels here as I got teased by fan translations that were abandoned due to real life.

Fuyuu Gakuen no Alice and Shirley http://www.novelupdates.com/series/fuyuu-gakuen-no-alice-and-shirley/
Gekka no Utahime to Magi no Ou http://www.novelupdates.com/series/gekka-no-utahime-to-magi-no-ou/

Aruseus493

Overlap announced an Arifureta Spin-Off last night and the first volume comes out December 25th (same day as volume 7). So yea, please license the spin0ff.

For anyone wondering what it's about:

spoiler

Terrence

I want:

I Reincarnated into an Otome Game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags.

😂

Here's the cover if it works

Cynigami

@terrence Steiner would like this one.

sparhawk6

@aruseus493 Yeah, also how Mileidy ask him to join but he refuses on the start, I did read that short synopsis.
Also, there is not many choices for that secret project, so we will see in winter

Thomask

@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:

I Reincarnated into an Otome Game as a Villainess With Only Destruction Flags.

Here I am popping up again out of seemingly no where.

Shiroi Hane

Reflecting on my previous post.. I'm not sure that looking at existing translations is as much help as I thought since a lot of them are really bad and my last suggestion was pretty much also the first I encountered with at least average English writing, which might be swaying my opinion somewhat given that what I'm going to bring up now also happens to be the second in that category...

Realising that someone out there has been translating a book I had sitting there which I had bought largely for the cover (although IIRC I'd also looked at sample pages for the manga before buying both so it wasn't entirely a blind buy) and I've really enjoyed what I've now read of it. Assuming that's not just bounce back from all the rape and slavery etc. in a worrying amount of the titles I've researched while looking through sale titles on BookWalker.

Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita: http://micromagazine.net/gcn/sword/

Shiny

@roland Good idea. Jinrui was such a great show!

Juis

Hi,
I`d love to see these tittles picked up. Otherwise, I might have to learn Japanese XD

AlphaPolis
Tsuyokute New Saga (http://www.novelupdates.com/series/tsuyokute-new-saga-ln/)
The new gate (http://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-new-gate/)
Rain (http://www.novelupdates.com/series/rain/)

Mushoku TenseI (http://www.novelupdates.com/series/mushoku-tensei-ln/)

Terrence

If anyone is looking for ideas on books that are popular in Japan and could be worth licensing, Justus R Stone has been posting a regular video about the top ten weekly LN sales in Japan.

https://youtu.be/qqaxXbgj0YA

https://youtu.be/D9gEoUjpbXQ

Classroom of the Elite very popular right now with the anime.