Novel pick-up requests
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I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before (since this thread has gotten really big), but has there been any English licenses for the KyoAni light novels?
I have been kinda interested with the original Musaigen no Phantom World novels, among others.
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Ah oops, my bad
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@shiroi-hane said in Novel pick-up requests:
@kite-xx there is an illicit translation of Word Master and I seem to recall it being fairly decent (IIRC it was the title where I was so relieved at the quality of the English after sampling so much dross that I went and bought the Japanese ebooks right away). Pretty sure I’ve brought it up in this thread before for that matter.
was it cloudy translations that translated Konjiki no Word Master you were talking about? I was really disappointed when they stopped in the middle of Volume 3. I prefer the LN over the manga if the series ever get published to the west.
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More isekai ones, I`m reading all of those you already have and would love to get even more.
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@shrike_al
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You guys have such good LN requests I wanna just read them all but if I do that I’ll get interested and end up getting depressed cuz of the hiatus on some LNs :(
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@hyferzftw said in Novel pick-up requests:
You guys have such good LN requests I wanna just read them all but if I do that I’ll get interested and end up getting depressed cuz of the hiatus on some LNs :(
LN delays are nothing. A Dance with Dragons was published in 2011, but there's no inkling on when Winds of Winter will be done. Words of Radiance came out in 2014, and Oathbringer just came out a few weeks ago, meaning the next book might not be out until 2020.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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I would like to request the light novel Isekai Yakkyoku published by Media Factory.
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@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:
@hyferzftw said in Novel pick-up requests:
You guys have such good LN requests I wanna just read them all but if I do that I’ll get interested and end up getting depressed cuz of the hiatus on some LNs :(
LN delays are nothing. A Dance with Dragons was published in 2011, but there's no inkling on when Winds of Winter will be done. Words of Radiance came out in 2014, and Oathbringer just came out a few weeks ago, meaning the next book might not be out until 2020.
Have a look at this for delayed
Obernewtyn (1987)
The Farseekers (1990)
Ashling (1995)
The Keeping Place (1999)
The Stone Key (2008)
The Sending (2011)
The Red Queen (2015)28 years for a 7 book series from Isobelle Carmody.
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@catstorm I know, right? And people in the LN world complain about 4-6 months :)
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If anything, Tolkien's Unfinished Tales have taught me to never complain about release dates unless the author dies
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@catstorm alright alright I’ll stop complaining. Guess I better start taking Japanese classes or something.
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I just got my first Japanese novels on Bookwalker to test that out... Though I know no Japanese. xD
We have a distinct lack of OL (office lady) focused light novels, so I grabbed this one!
美人上司とダンジョンに潜るのは残業ですか？
(Are you Working Overtime with a Beautiful Boss and Dungeons?).
Edit: The first chapter is titled "Slime is good for Beauty".
Her name is Kuroki Himezo, and the main character is the male employee working under her, Makino. I should try doing a Let's Fumble through Google translation thread.
Edit: Read a bit more of this. It's a bit like GATE in that an Isekai kinds of worms it's entrance into our real world. I think dungeons just start popping up in random houses and ruins across Japan, bringing with them monsters.
But if my Google translation isn't failing me, this all occurs 30 years prior to the book's start, so there's a long history of its existence. Interesting... Oh, turns out their "job" is dungeon questing. The paperwork probably has to do with their expenses and stuff?
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Well I like mature characters leads/LNs since I turned to an adult officially myself XD weeks ago.
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This is one reason I like Death March and have a fond spot for Realist Hero. Least Souma is out of HS and starting college when he's summoned.
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Top Ten Light Novels in Japan for this week...
Just another reminder that we don't have any way to continue Alderamin in English legally. =[
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@terrence wait what?? Why is that?? Alderamin was on my PTR list but with a low priority but ever since the last chapter of the manga, it really got me hanging with that final scene, I need explanations!!!
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@paulnamida said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence wait what?? Why is that?? Alderamin was on my PTR list but with a low priority but ever since the last chapter of the manga, it really got me hanging with that final scene, I need explanations!!!
It was in the top ten sellers in Japan this week, but no license for the light novel stateside yet is all I'm saying. Dunno which publisher would have to license that one.
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I'm going to go ahead and suggest tie-in novels in general. Whether or not they're as profitable as series, they would go a long way to attracting attention from fans of anime-originals and the like. As an offhand example, Yuuki Yuuna is a Hero has the tie-in novel Nogi Wakaba is a Hero, chronicling the first generation of Heroes(as well as several others).
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Just started rewatching Bodacious Space Pirates / Miniskirt Space Pirates / Moretsu Pirates / Minisuka Uchū Kaizoku, I consider it a enjoyable light sci-fi series... And it's only now that I notice that it was adapted from a light novel, as with other works. AFAIK It's a completed series as well.
I haven't seen translations of it anywhere, and I think it's relatively recent enough... And it's been mentioned here twice.
