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    • Eminent
      Eminent Member @myskaros last edited by

      @myskaros said in Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor:

      Eminent said in Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor:

      JNC has licensed some other older series I believe, so there is hope.

      We have and they generally perform poorly, so if you do want to see more stuff like that, it would help to show other LN readers those series we've already translated and see if they want to buy them first :)

      Hmm, I see. Which ones do you think we should support most then. :) I know Earl & Fairy is one, and Knight's & Magic. I wonder what can be done to get more people interested...

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      • sorvani
        sorvani Premium Member @myskaros last edited by

        @myskaros said in Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor:

        We've tried licensing plenty of those, thinking that readers would like to read beyond the anime end, but in our experience it very rarely actually happens that way. I'm sure that there are a handful of individual readers who do buy the series, but we are still a business, and if these series don't break even when it comes to the costs of licensing and translating the books, then we hope everyone understands our hesitation to license more.

        Wanting to know how the story of an anime continued is what pulled me into the LN scene, eventually resulting in my subscription here.

        I think that J-Novel does not have any method to count pre-pub reading in sales numbers hurts here. We do pay for our membership and I know that J-Novel does have the data to track what we read since the mobile app shows completion bars for everything. Sure, it is not a full sale, but my membership was used to read various things. It just seems, from posts like this and what has been said on release streams, that subscription revenue is simply ignored when it comes to any given book profitability numbers.

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        • myskaros
          myskaros Staff @sorvani last edited by

          @sorvani We do in fact have numbers for subscriptions. However, successful series perform well in ebook sales despite/in addition to the existence of the subscription, so that's not really a convincing argument. To repeat, we are a business, we need to be able to pay our translators and editors and letterers. And unfortunately, subscription completion bars don't put bread on the table :x

          Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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            Village Idiot Premium Member last edited by

            It sucks, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

            I do appreciate you giving it a try though.

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              Quixotica Premium Member @myskaros last edited by

              @myskaros Gotcha, thanks. 2+ years makes sense as a threshold. I know I try to follow series I enjoy the anime of, but I often don't get around to actually reading them even if I buy them (looking at you Supernatural Battles and Outbreak Company).

              That said, I do want to say that I appreciate J-Novel continuing to license volumes from series with a low readership/that aren't very profitable. As a reader it makes me glad that I can read a series through to the end.

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                Mylu last edited by

                This is by far one of those series that needs a light novel license. The manga did an amazing job showing this masterpiece but sadly theres alot that wont be adapted by the manga. And to see such potencial in what could very well be one of the best series that we have gotten in the last decades going down the drain is sad. I pray that this get licensed so that light novel can show its wings and fly just like how it was made to do

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                  omegapotato last edited by

                  please license it, I beg you.

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                    SightFad last edited by

                    Recommend licensing!

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                        Setrion last edited by

                        Please license this one, the Anime has been awesome, i watched it 3 times by now, and i'd love to be able to read the Novel!

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                        • Ekun
                          Ekun Premium Member @Crimson Wise last edited by

                          @Crimson-Wise said in Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor:

                          Didn't see this posted already so,

                          English title: Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
                          Japanese title: ロクでなし魔術講師と禁忌教典 (Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records)

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                          Author: Tarou Hitsuji
                          Illustrator: Kurone Mishima (KonoSuba)

                          Publisher: Fujimi Fantasia Bunko (Fujimi Shobo)
                          Books released: 21 (ongoing) + 9 spinoff
                          "UPDATE: Finished 24 + 11 Spinoff [ロクでなし魔術講師と追想日誌] = 35 volumes in total."
                          Manga adaptation?: Yes (licensed by Seven Seas in 2018) End #16 volumes
                          Anime adaptation?: Yes [Crunchyroll]

                          spoiler

                          Hi, Just binged the anime recently. [don't know why... previously I left it on standby at chapter 2,] So Yesterday decided to give it a 2nd chance ...
                          & yeah, quite an enjoyable adaptation. Even checked with Wikipedia that the anime adapted barely the five first volumes ... it will be great to know how it ended from its original source LN

                          I'm very surprised that the original post being from 2018 [July 26] nearly 7 years now ... and it is still unlicenced.

                          Mangawa kikenjanai, kedo mugakowa! >_<

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