Novel pick-up requests
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@kite-xx they are involved in manga and many of their manga has been licensed in English.
I am not sure about light novels, I don’t think they are but if they are someone will come here see his and want to correct me.
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I'd really like to see "Akuyaku Tensei Dakedo Doushite Kou Natta", by Sekimura Imuya. It's a really interesting story, in my opinion.
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Awhile back I said that JNC could pick up newer LN with 3 or fewer books out since JNC translates really quickly and we would be only 1.5 - 3 months behind the Japanese releases. I still think that can happen but I was thinking and maybe JNC should either focus on older series with a lot of books or divide newer and older series 50-50. If JNC picks up a series with 20+ books then It would take about 5 years to get in the 20s (and this is assuming a slow release or something happens with the translator or just taking breaks) whereas if say Yen-On gets that 20+ series it would take nearly 7 years to get into the 20s. I would rather have JNC get the older series with a lot of volumes if it means a faster release and I get behind a bit.
some long series I would like to see translated if possible are:
Date a Live
Highschool DxD
Familiar of Zero
Mushoku Tensei
Madan no Ou to Vanadis
Campione!and just some series I would like to see here:
Only Sense Online
she professed herself the pupil of the wiseman
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@rahul-balaggan I assumed they were involved in light novels when I searched up light novels I liked and know what companies it was related to. Square Enix popped up on a site when I searched up "Classroom for Heroes" :
Still, even if it's impossible, I really, really, really want to read "Konjiki no Word Master". It's one of the reasons I got into light novels in the first place.
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I'd love my most recent reading list to get picked up and licensed...
Wortenia Senki
Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru
My Beautiful Wife is a CEO. (A bit hard to read. Overly repeatitive in descriptive prose. Would need heavy editing and PR to make it readable in English.) (warning, MC is a retired OP person wanting to live a dull uneventful life... at like age 30...)
Risou no Himo Seikatsu
Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu
Tales of Demons and Gods -
shinmai maou no keiyakusha
high school dxd
Dungeon Kurashi No Moto Yuusha
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if I can request series to pick-up, please pick "Oda Nobuna no Yabou"
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Vol 20 will be release in February in COO -
@paulnamida they delay it again until April
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@aoiripper holy crap... that's it, I'm cancelling that pre-order. Fuck YP
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If you could you try to pick up any of these series
Isekai Shihai no Skill Taker ~Zero kara Hajimeru Dorei Harem
Haken no Kouki Altina
Hisshou Dungeon Unei Houhou
Seichou Cheat de Nandemo Dekiru you ni Natta ga, Mushoku dake wa Yamerarenai you desu
Kujibiki Tokushou: Musou Hāremu kenThank you if you can
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I recently found some that looks interesting:
Shingan no Yuusha!
Next Life
The Dungeon Seeker
The Forsaken Hero
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@drone205 said in Novel pick-up requests:
I recently found some that looks interesting:
The Dungeon Seeker
I'm very interested in this one, so seconded. The first cover is so cool.
I hear it's really dark, and it sounds like the people who read it really enjoyed it (they say the art doesn't quite keep up with the tone of the books though, which you can see in the cover images outside of the first cover).
If I get through my first crop of series I've been getting on Bookwalker (Zoa Hunter, Attacking Dungeon with My Beautiful Boss Is Overtime Work, Sakurako-san Investigation), this'll be on my list.
I'm definitely looking for stuff that's dark or stuff that has unpredictable romantic pairings. A lot of LNs telegraph who the two leads are (or it's just "everybody marries the MC" wackiness).
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@terrence Sakurako-san as in the mystery one about the anthropologist that loves corpses?? I loved the anime for that one and been waiting for someone to pick up the novels.
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@paulnamida said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence Sakurako-san as in the mystery one about the anthropologist that loves corpses?? I loved the anime for that one and been waiting for someone to pick up the novels.
Yeah, I picked up some of the Japanese novels since they were on discount. Dunno how they'll read with machine translation since they're mystery, but I'll give it a go.
I'm still waiting on someone (Yen Press or Bookwalker) to license. Bookwalker Global knows I want it (they responded to my Tweet about requesting it saying it was a good series). xP
Just a friendly reminder that the best way to get those Kadokawa series in English is to request them from Bookwalker here:
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
Just a friendly reminder that the best way to get those Kadokawa series in English is to request them from Bookwalker here:
https://bookwalker.jp/ex/inquiry/request/Is it free? Or do you got to be a bookwalker member? Plus; thanks for the link.
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@kite-xx said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
Just a friendly reminder that the best way to get those Kadokawa series in English is to request them from Bookwalker here:
https://bookwalker.jp/ex/inquiry/request/Is it free? Or do you got to be a bookwalker member? Plus; thanks for the link.
Bookwalker Global is free to sign up. It's just a regular online storefront, no service fees or anything. There may be some services you can subscribe to on the JP store for coins and such, but I don't think you even need to enter any card info to sign up for a basic account, and it works on both global and JP stores (the only way to buy things on Bookwalker if you're a member from outside Japan is PayPal anyways). =]
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@terrence credit cards work on the Japan side too, mine does anyway. In fact, three are some things you can't but with Paypal for some reason (e.g. books with digital bonuses), although you can get around that also by buying coins through PayPal and using that instead.
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@shiroi-hane said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence credit cards work on the Japan side too, mine does anyway.
Probably depends on the card / whether your bank allows international purchases without flagging the card.
There's some stuff that they don't allow you to buy outside of Japan too.
I have also run into the "book can be placed in cart, but can't be paid for with PayPal" issue with a lot of Kodansha stuff unfortunately (I really wanted to try that "My Childhood Friend Became An Alien" book).
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Buying coins in bulk gets around that (or use free coins awarded from buying stuff you can buy with PayPal).
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@shiroi-hane said in Novel pick-up requests:
Buying coins in bulk gets around that (or use free coins awarded from buying stuff you can buy with PayPal).
Ooh, that's a good idea.
There's still some stuff you can't even put in the cart though. Gotta "go to Japan" for those. =[
Another tip; use the "Conclusion / Completed" tag to look for series that are finished. If you don't know which tag that is, use Google Translate. When in the "light novel for guys" tab, should be the second tag on the desktop site under genre. I believe that completed also means "cancelled", so be careful when choosing stuff from there.
I'd assume Death Need Round got cancelled? It's very short at 3 volumes. Dunno if that's in the completed tab, but it hasn't updated since 2015.
