English licenses sorted by JP publisher
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Newly added title (Square Enix Books):
Balan Wonderworld: Maestro of Mystery, Theatre of WondersIt's a tie-in novel for the upcoming video game, Balan Wonderworld.
https://squareenixmangaandbooks.square-enix-games.com/en-us/product/9781646095995 -
Newly added title (Tentai Books):
How to Melt the Ice Queen's Heart -
Recap of all the novels Seven Seas announced this month:
@DoubleMangekyo said in English licenses sorted by JP publisher:
Newly added titles (Seven Seas):
Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss!
My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s
Loner Life in Another World
The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real!
The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan -
The English publisher Vertical has been merged into Kodansha and rebranded as Kodansha Books.
I've replaced the [Ver] tag with [Kod] on the list.
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Newly added title (Cross Infinite World):
Romance of the Imperial Capital Kotogami: A Tale of Living Alongside Spirits -
Square Enix has licensed Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life manga.
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I don't think they licensed the LN sadly.
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Oh my bad, there was "and" and in there and I read it that they licensed both, not that the LN was a join publication between two authors.
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Newly added title (Cross Infinite World):
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin -
@DoubleMangekyo said in English licenses sorted by JP publisher:
Newly added title (Cross Infinite World):
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of RuinThat one's seinen though. I'm surprised they licensed something outside their usual otome stuff, had I seen this title on YP or SS lineup there'd be no question-marks on top of my head, but, here?
It's a good title though, if the manga adaptation is anything to go by...
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Newly added title (Yen On):
I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final BossAlso, they finally licensed No Game No Life: Practical War Game. It was originally released between volumes 9 and 10 in Japan.
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Newly added titles (JNC):
Reincarnated as the Piggy Duke: This Time I'm Gonna Tell Her How I Feel!
The Sidekick Never Gets the Girl, Let Alone the Protag's Sister!
Guide to the Perfect Otaku Girlfriend: Roomies and Romance
Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀
The Emperor's Lady-in-Waiting Is Wanted as a Bride
Villainess: Reloaded! ~Blowing Away Bad Ends with Modern Weapons~ -
Newly added title (Tentai Books):
Turning the Tables on the Seatmate Killer -
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I don't think Eat Panchreas, Same Dream Again, and Another is Light Novel, because they have no illustration or use A6/B6 paper. If they are LN, would I put Murakami Haruki's novel or Minato Kanae's Confessions as LN too?
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@mochamaal said in English licenses sorted by JP publisher:
I don't think Eat Panchreas, Same Dream Again, and Another is Light Novel, because they have no illustration or use A6/B6 paper. If they are LN, would I put Murakami Haruki's novel or Minato Kanae's Confessions as LN too?
Term light novel doesn't have anything to do with whether it has illustrations or not. More apt description would be young adult literature, usually with a length of around 50.000 words. Besides, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas was originally published on Narou as a webnovel.
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Okay, so put Minato Kanae's Confessions and Penance in the list (Futabasha, English by Muholland Books)
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@mochamaal For simplicity sake, I believe DoubleMangekyo decided to limit the list to only the major non-defunct LN publishers. If that English publisher started getting more books (those were released 7 and 4 years ago, respectively) maybe they would be considered. But the fact that they have no sort of anime-style cover, no manga adaptation and no anime adaptation, really would make most of us say it's not a LN in any form, other than the JP publisher just happens to also release LNs.
Like, Penguin Highway is considered a regular novel, but the fact that it also has anime movie adaptation makes it marketable to LN fans.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes and All You Need is Kill also more or less fall under this category due to manga/anime adaptations (though they are not on this list due to being released by a non-major LN publisher).The only exception to this I can think of is No Longer Human, which does have a manga adaptation (by Junji Ito), but given it was published in 1948 I don't think anyone considers it a LN.
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@legitpancake Does Namiya General Store have anime adaptation? I think novels from Kadokawa Bunko are not LN (maybe BEATLESS is some exception, I dont buy it here yet but when I checked in Amazon example for Japanese ver there's no illust, only on cover)
BTW Minato Kanae's Confessions (告白) uses same label as I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
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