Novel pick-up requests

Aruseus493

@camytang
Harem? There's no harem at all. Unless a bunch of giant soul-less robots count as heroines.

camytang

@aruseus493 Well the anime had several girls who loved the MC as a body pillow

paulnamida

@camytang but the MC can only get hard when thinking about robots so he doesn't really care. I certainly liked his lack of fucks about his "harem". His annoyed face whenever Addie hugged him was priceless. "Fuck off bitch, let me build my roboto."

Aruseus493

@camytang There were only two of them. And only one of them made any sort of regular appearance. I wouldn't even call that a love triangle honestly, let alone a harem.

camytang

@aruseus493 apologies i think i mistook adie's sister as a third girl in a different scene. honestly, the lack of girls after him was refreshing to me.

paulnamida

K&M spoilers ahead, but I really loved this about the last arc in the anime.

spoiler

camytang

@paulnamida I thought the exact same things!

Terrence

I dunno if this link works, but it should be the Kono Light Novel Ga Sugoi section on Bookwalker. These are basically the best / most popular light novel series of the year, so a decent place to look for suggestions / peek at covers.

「このライトノベルがすごい！2018（宝島社刊）【文庫部門】BEST50」

https://bookwalker.jp/campaign/8043/?acode=WpfPW3yk

At the top of the list is "Dragon's S#it" according to my Google Translate (it's really "A Ryou's Work Is Never Done", which is out in English on the other North American / World site). :poop:

seault

Not sure if anyone has suggested these, or if we have any Danganronpa fans in here, but:

Danganronpa/Zero - 2 volumes
Danganronpa Togami - 3 volumes
Danganronpa Kirigiri - 5 volumes

They seem to have backstories for some of the franchise's characters.

There's a few more, but I thought those sounded the most interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danganronpa#Novels

Terrence

@ren-chan said in Novel pick-up requests:

Not sure if anyone has suggested these, or if we have any Danganronpa fans in here, but:

Danganronpa/Zero - 2 volumes

I suggested Zero earlier, because it's an essential story to the DR franchise we haven't gotten.

Some Muv-Luv novels would be cool too. Was Total Eclipse a novel series? That might be nice to see in English.

seault

@terrence

Zero is the one I'm hoping for most, though Kirigiri is a close second 😃

ImIlyaz

@paulnamida but if you think about it, Ernestie is basically an adult, it makes sense why he shows zero interest in the girls his age in his new life(not that he has shown any affection towards older women either)

paulnamida

@imilyaz imma stick with my theory that he's robophylic, like Clockwork Planet's MC, that guy is just way too true to his desires xD

Terrence

Inou Battle (When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace) is ending at volume 13. I don't know publisher wise whether it's viable, but certainly size wise, that sounds doable for publication.

ImIlyaz

@paulnamida inb4 he's going to start showing affection to one of the girls later on if they grow up or do a time skip

Terrence

Posted Bookwalker and Seven Seas license request link on a Tweet that Seven Seas retweeted. =D

https://twitter.com/GRNKRBY/status/939225472331845633?s=17

Do you like Light Novels / Manga? Are there licenses you want to see translated into English?
Here's two places to request licenses!
Bookwalker:
(link: https://bookwalker.jp/ex/inquiry/request/) bookwalker.jp/ex/inquiry/req…
Seven Seas: (see picture with the hamster in middle of page).
(link: http://www.sevenseasentertainment.com) sevenseasentertainment.com

Hopefully a lot of people using those request spots after the retweets. :fingers_crossed_tone1:

I might add this forum page to a Tweet posted below it (I think the official J-Novel Club survey page that ran a bit ago is done, right?).

Anyone know of any other good official license request pages or even just community forum request hubs like this?

Konchen

@terrence Thanks for the info, and before anyone does the bookwalker survey make sure you make an account because Im quite sure it dumps it after confirming if your not logged in.

WhiteCloud

now that both bluesteel of blasphemer and my sister live in fantasy world finished, what will be the replacement for it?

i hope jnovel would take noucome, inou battle, gamers as the new series

Rahul Balaggan

@white-cloud noucome and Gamers are Kadokawa properties, and Inou Battle is Softbank, so none of those can currently get licensed.

Paul Nebeling

@rahul-balaggan Sad, but true. I think JNC has a ways to go before Kadokawa is going to let them license the LN that Yen Press doesn't want to. I'm confident they will get there someday, but it won't be this year. I'll add Eromanga-sensei to the list of Kadokawa properties I'd like to see JNC translate. I'll second the request for Gamers! too.