Kaifuku Jutsushi Yarinaoshi (Redo of Healer) from the Author of Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City!

Lily Garden

Yeah, if I was a LN publisher in English I wouldn't touch it for exactly that reason

On the matter of personal taste, I'm put off by the fact the he travelled back in time so the people he reeking his terrible vengeance against technically have not done anything bad yet. That's just a whole quagmire that I do want to get involved with.

myskaros

@Lily-Garden said in Kaifuku Jutsushi Yarinaoshi (Redo of Healer) from the Author of Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City!:

On the matter of personal taste, I'm put off by the fact the he travelled back in time so the people he reeking his terrible vengeance against technically have not done anything bad yet. That's just a whole quagmire that I do want to get involved with.

To be fair, he lets them abuse him again so that they don't suspect him. Not exactly a redeeming fact, but that specific complaint is addressed at least :< it's still a story about a piece of trash human getting revenge on other humans who are 10x worse than he is.

Lily Garden

@myskaros said in Kaifuku Jutsushi Yarinaoshi (Redo of Healer) from the Author of Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City!:

@Lily-Garden said in Kaifuku Jutsushi Yarinaoshi (Redo of Healer) from the Author of Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City!:

On the matter of personal taste, I'm put off by the fact the he travelled back in time so the people he reeking his terrible vengeance against technically have not done anything bad yet. That's just a whole quagmire that I do want to get involved with.

To be fair, he lets them abuse him again so that they don't suspect him. Not exactly a redeeming fact, but that specific complaint is addressed at least :< it's still a story about a piece of trash human getting revenge on other humans who are 10x worse than he is.

Fair point. Well.....to those who derive enjoyment from such...things I say enjoy,
I will be over here in the next room enjoying my fluffy romances and snarky isekai protagonists.

LegitPancake

Yea the only publisher I could see getting it is maybe Bookwalker and then translate it as an exclusive there like Ryuo's Work. Or maybe Fakku. But I don't see it getting a physical release either way.

jdmmis

Sol press might do it or more specifically their sister company (?) pantypress.

They did Busy Wizard: This Warlock Just Wants to Provide for his Wives! which is the only 18+ light novel to be officially picked up as far as I know.

ShipTeaser

Yeah I can see why no-one wants to translate it, it's probably not worth the negative PR for all you'd earn...

I'd buy it though... I do love a bit of OTT vengeance now and again

Zing

I kinda like this story, its unique in a sense that there is no good or bad, just many degrees of evil. I like how the main character end up being the lesser of two evils. I like how the author presents main characters past experiences and makes you realise how they have affected protagonist in the long run. How it manages to turn into a love story halfway through. I like how protagonist changes over time, begins to doubt his goals and consider alternatives. How the author writes in gods and world destroying crisis without shifting story focus from its original goal and revenge targets.

Kaifuku is certainly not top of the shelf reading material, but its one of those guilty pleasure reads that you know you cant get anywhere else.

Eminent

Are they gonna license this or what?

Torka

@eminent

Apparently, the author once recounted how they went to an English publisher to see if they were interested in licensing it. They weren’t.

With Kadokawa now licensing their own light novels (HigeHiro is one known, alongside the manga they’re releasing on Bookwalker), there’s the possibility of them just publishing it themselves. But no, no current English publisher would want to license a series about a guy who is constantly raped, but then finds a way to turn back time so he can rape all of them.

Korppi

@torka said in Kaifuku Jutsushi Yarinaoshi (Redo of Healer) from the Author of Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City!:

With Kadokawa now licensing their own light novels (HigeHiro is one known, alongside the manga they’re releasing on Bookwalker), there’s the possibility of them just publishing it themselves.

Yeah, that's what I'm hoping.

Eminent

@torka I did find the Higehiro Manga on Bookwalker, but the LN still doesn't have a professional English translation (though people are still doing fan translations of it.) So is Kadokawa working on their own translation then?

Anywho, perhaps it just needs a solid fan translation.

Rahul Balaggan

@eminent

That light novel has been licensed by Kadokawa directly.

It was very recent

https://forums.j-novel.club/post/146982

Edit:

@Torka The manga is been put out by One Peace Books, not sure if you already knew, your comment made it seem like Kado was putting out both.

Eminent

@rahul-balaggan I see! That's great, though RIP to all of the fan translations that'll have to be taken down at some point.

Rahul Balaggan

Also if anyone would like to see a bit more about Kadokawa’s dive into direct publishing, we do have the following topic:

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4798/kadokawa-goes-direct?_=1631303154283

Eminent

@rahul-balaggan WOW. Could this be a good thing? Or perhaps not so good since you'll have fewer things to license at JNC? And how would we ask them about their plans for publishing a translation of Redo of a Healer themselves?

Rahul Balaggan

@eminent

Only time will tell, some people commented on how they feel about the news in the above linked topic, if you want to see how some members in the community feel.

Edit: as for asking them questions I am sure they have a Twitter, if not other forms of social media

myskaros

@rahul-balaggan said in Kaifuku Jutsushi Yarinaoshi (Redo of Healer) from the Author of Dungeon Builder: The Demon King’s Labyrinth is a Modern City!:

I am sure they have a Twitter

https://twitter.com/KADOKAWAdigipub