Anime NYC 2018 Time and Date Thread

Terrence

So, I'll try to grab all the announcements and info (unless someone is already on it). Some really fun announcements at Yen's event.

(Work in progress)
Announcements:

Tomozaki-Kun!
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Fremd Torturchan (Torture Princess)
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TUEEEE (the overpowered but cautious hero one)
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(The one where the guy becomes a demon-king?)
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Arthur and Merlin something something
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Wolf Children Novelization.

BloodyGaikotsu

@terrence said in Anime NYC 2018 Time and Date Thread:

Arthur and Merlin something something

Suspecting that it's by the same author as Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor

Rahul Balaggan

@terrence are you in NY?

Terrence

@rahul-balaggan said in Anime NYC 2018 Time and Date Thread:

@terrence are you in NY?

Nope. Just saw the posts on Twitter.

Maybe next year though. It's only a stone's throw away from me (Anime Boston would be super close though).

Rahul Balaggan

@terrence damn I was gonna say we should meet up, next year if you come.

Rahul Balaggan

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Terrence

Excited for those Yuri titles! Adult Yuri!

BloodyGaikotsu

The Dirty Way to Destroy the Goddess’s Hero

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/hero-blessed-by-the-demon-king-the-largest-human-traitor/

Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki (light novel)
Novelization of Anime movie by Hosoda (Mirai/Summer wars)
Torture Princess https://j-novel.club/forum-link-removed
Our prayers and calls are heard~
Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki
https://j-novel.club/forum-link-removed
The Hero Is Overpowered But Overly Cautious
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-11-06/anime-adaptation-listed-for-kono-yusha-ga-ore-tueee-kuse-ni-shincho-sugiru-novels/.139143
Last Round Arthurs: Scum Arthur and Heretic Merlin
The author is that of Bastard instructor series

Terrence

The Organization of Antisocial Geniuses posted Yen's release on the titles (the synopses and stuff for the press).

https://twitter.com/TheOASG/status/1063923667514597377?s=20

Terrence

@bloodygaikotsu said in Anime NYC 2018 Time and Date Thread:

The Dirty Way to Destroy the Goddess’s Hero

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/hero-blessed-by-the-demon-king-the-largest-human-traitor/

This one was on my Bookwalker Wishlist. Always glad to take more stuff off of that (you can only have up to 1000, and it's nice to see wishlisted stuff coming stateside!). =)

https://bookwalker.jp/de2d36f948-2782-4f4b-ae42-d77d9ef809cb/?acode=WpfPW3yk

Tomozaki-Kun was also on the wishlist.

And I bought V1 of Fremd Torturchan (I might check that out a bit tonight or tomorrow to prep for a potential Anime NYC focused podcast without having to read a synopsis).

Edit: TUEEE was also on my wishlist. It was kind of impossible to ignore, it got a lot of sales promotion on there.

https://bookwalker.jp/debe23a431-21ac-4760-924d-208f3abb8c3d/?acode=WpfPW3yk

The Arthur one was nowhere on my radar. I guess it only has one volume out so far, volume 2 releasing November 20th in Japan.

https://bookwalker.jp/dee5fe9e58-11d5-43dc-8aae-402c64d96d04/?acode=WpfPW3yk

(Adding the Bookwalker links so I can read the previews easily too if possible).

novurdim

@bloodygaikotsu said in Anime NYC 2018 Time and Date Thread:

Last Round Arthurs: Scum Arthur and Heretic Merlin
The author is that of Bastard instructor series

Should have just licensed the Acashic Records =(

BloodyGaikotsu

@novurdim

Well, they might be testing the water.
So far, all Fujimi titles ain't titles with more than 10 volumes released, after all.
(Either for Seven Seas or YP)

novurdim

@bloodygaikotsu said in Anime NYC 2018 Time and Date Thread:

Well, they might be testing the water.

Yeah, to bail out when a completely unknown and unmarketed title flops hard. Oh well, maybe next time they'll at least mention that it's from the same author+illustrator from index.

Theo

I was there, at the Yen Press Panel, I was really disappointed with the announcements. They should have licensed Record of the Grancrest War.

Terrence

Personally, I am hyped for all the announcements but the Wolf Children one, and I just don't know a lot about the Arthur one. I was very pleased. I had no expectations going in, and I walked away with 4 Yen LNs I plan to pick up, 1 Seven Seas work announced outside of the conference (Restaurant to Another World), and one Haikasoru work.

Other than maybe the one about the girl putting her points into defense, there's nothing I expect to happen license wise that I'd be surprised and disappointed if it didn't at some point (I guess no Zaregoto was disappointing, though I haven't invested into that series yet). I was happy we got a few licenses with older characters in the Yuri space, but yeah, maybe branch that older audience idea out to the novel space as well with some Novel Zero label works in the future. And I obviously still want some mystery label stuff, specifically Sakurako-san. Doesn't sound like that's possible here though. =(

Terrence

The OASG (who recorded the Anime NYC presentation of Yen Press for Twitter / Periscope) has an Anime NYC podcast up.
https://www.theoasg.com/podcasts/its-not-my-fault-the-oasg-podcast-is-not-popular/episode-66-the-mostly-anime-nyc-edition/11088

The Light Novel Podcast is recording on Monday or Tuesday this week, but I have no clue when it'll go up (usually takes a week to edit, but we also have another podcast that's been recorded but not posted yet). Anime NYC focused and a tiny bit of Kono Light Novel Ga Sugoi likely too.