Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
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Bumping the most voted suggestion, it was fun show, I'll definitely read it when once it's licensed
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Apparently this series will be wrapping up with the upcoming V23 release. Sure would be nice to get to read it. The anime was really fun and I hear the LN is much better.
At 10-12 parts per volume, there's a good 5 years worth of releases here.
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Half of V24 Cover, finale wraps up on November (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Last chance JNC, better this be done in yalls hands than the other publishers who would license it just to banish it to never gonna continue hell.
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Volume 23 cover, is the 1/2 of the finale in November
Cone on JNC, don't make us fork out a 33 volume long stick to poke with D:
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GODDAMMIT Fantasia Bunko
Have a combination folks, it's both covers at once.
Now where did they put the "Poke JNC-inator"
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@akashicwiki said in Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor:
GODDAMMIT Fantasia Bunko
Have a combination folks, it's both covers at once.
Now where did they put the "Poke JNC-inator"
Wouldn't it be epic if JNC picked this up as a way to preserve the series in English as well?
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@kbm15 Well that was weird, last post got nuked.
But yes, better them than someone else.
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@akashicwiki This isn't a place for you to attack or insult other people, companies, or entities.
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Enjoyed the anime,will love to read the source.
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@Arsh-Ali-Tanzeem-ho4fqbg said in Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor:
Enjoyed the anime,will love to read the source.
JNC has licensed some other older series I believe, so there is hope.
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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 :)
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@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 :)
Right.
JNC is likelier to do so again if the earlier 'older series' became profitable.
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@myskaros well the one that immediately jumps to mind is Chivalry of a Failed Knight which I love. However I also bought the first 3 vol once all ready.
I will be picking them up from 4 onwards as monies just to tight to justify buying books twice at the moment.
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@myskaros Out of curiosity, what would you define as an 'older' series?
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@QuixoticHorizon In this case, what we're talking about are specifically "series that had an anime 2+ years ago." 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.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@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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@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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@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
