Novel pick-up requests
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Justus posted his new Japan Light Novel weekly sales vid. I figured I'd mention since there were two unreleased works in America with lots of volumes and new to the list here.
*8. *9,275 **9,275 Kenja no Mago Vol.7
aka Magi’s Grandson
https://myanimelist.net/manga/90561/
http://www.novelupdates.com/series/ma...
No license.*7. 10,026 *14,419 Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki Vol.13
aka A Certain Middle-Aged Man’s VRMMO Activity Log
https://myanimelist.net/manga/75121/
http://www.novelupdates.com/series/a-...
No license for the light novel or manga
No anime has been produced
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VRMMO is pretty good in a slice of life way. Or at least, the Manga is. The LN, I'm not sure. I tried to read it, but the translation gave me a headache, the grammar was pretty bad.
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All but the latest volume of 賢者の孫 have been on sale on BookWalker (and probably elsewhere) for a couple of weeks which might have boosted sales.
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@terrence That Middle Ages Man’s VRMMO one looks really fun. Hope it comes over!
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about Kenja no Mago, it's getting an anime adaptation so it'd be a good time to license it.
Also would like Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi, been wanting to read that one for ages
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Only Sense Online too is good too~
We need to spread Yun-chan's
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Please pick up To Deprive a Deprived Person. All good people like seeing bad people suffer and this is the book to read.
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There's a manga adaptation of a Light Novel called Boku no Heya ga Dungeon no Kyuukeijo ni Natteshimatta Ken being fan-scanlated. From the first 5 chapters, it looks like a really damn cute series. I really want more as it's exactly what I'm in the mood for right now. Currently 2 volumes out in Japan at the moment with the 3rd coming next month according to Amazon. Publisher is Softbank Creative from a more recently started Light Novel label apparently called Tugikuru.
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The one I really want to be picked up is:
Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kun -
I might be in the minority of the light novel readership (which isn’t good for business decisions) but I’d really like more light novels aimed at women and/or have female main characters. Unfortunately since I don’t read Japanese very well yet I don’t know of many light novel titles like that. I have absolutely nothing against harems but it gets tiring when there are so many harem light novels translated into English and not many in other genres.
I’ve really wanted to read the Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken series because it was about a girl protagonist, it was a more unusual pseudo-European historical setting, and it was a romance/adventure series. However I don’t know how realistic it is for that to be licensed since it’s published by
Kadokawa.I’m really glad J-Novel Club is picking up so many titles. There are several I hadn’t heard of before and they look interesting.
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@ehmk said in Novel pick-up requests:
The one I really want to be picked up is:
Jaku Chara Tomozaki-kunThat description makes it sound like a cross between Oregairu and TWGOK, is that at all accurate?
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I'm not the first one to say this, but can we have more female-friendly titles?
Also more queer-friendly titles too. I know that a lot of Yuri and Yaoi titles mostly fetishes queer people for straight people, but there is still some good stuff out there. There are only four fan-translated chapters out, but so far "Autodoll" seems like a good example. Also "Weisselillie" and "Maid in Iseki" (but I think those are only web novels, so not sure if getting those would be possible).
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@warstalker I would like this
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I already put it in the survey but Hybrid x Heart Magis Academy Ataraxia would make me real happy, mostly because I've tried to read the current fan-translation and it feels really hard to get through with awkward prose and flow. I sure hope lewdness isn't a barrier to something getting picked up!
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I sure hope lewdness isn't a barrier to something getting picked up!
The lewdness isn't but Kadokawa is.
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Yeah. I dream of the day they start getting a few Kadokawa properties Yen Press didn't get. Campione, Date a Live, and more. :)
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@hakomari I'm very new to LNs in general and J-novel in particular, is Kadokawa a publisher that is hard to work with? I know about the Kemono Friends fiasco.
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Kadokawa owns 51% of Yen Press. So most of their properties go to Yen Press. It's technically possible to get one if Yen turns it down, but it's only really happened for a manga or two, no LN.
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@dtta said in Novel pick-up requests:
Kadokawa owns 51% of Yen Press. So most of their properties go to Yen Press. It's technically possible to get one if Yen turns it down, but it's only really happened for a manga or two, no LN.
They have ownership of Bookwalker too, right? That's another venue to request their LNs from.
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Yup. They owned Bookwalker first, started bringing that West more, and picked up Yen Press stock.
