How Important are Side Story, Vol. 0, and X.5 Volumes in LNs?
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@cosm1cfall said in How Important are Side Story, Vol. 0, and X.5 Volumes in LNs?:
- Do these kinda volumes get officially licensed and translated?
If you want to know if JNC translate those just wait a bit, Grimgar has a Vol 14.5, currently vol 14 is getting translated so we should know around june/end of may if JNC does .5 vol.
It seem like they will, since the translator gave explaination on the content of that vol while not saying anything about it not being licence.Do you like death, war and misery ?
Do you like badass op loli who let nobody got in their way ?
Do you like vengeance story?
If so then then vote for The girl who ate a death god -
@raitoiro They probably will considering they have the Rokujouma x.5 books up there.
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@raitoiro yes but outside of JNC no one is doing that, and OP called out some YP titles by name which I will just assume we will never see .5 volumes for...
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@timmaaah Yeah JNC seem rather likely to translate that kind of stuff anyway but Rokujuma isn't really the best exemple since the circonstances are rather unusual.
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@rahul-balaggan YP probably won't translate short story or .5 vol but i can see Sevens Sea do it, they did translated Mushoku Tensei short stories after all.
Do you like death, war and misery ?
Do you like badass op loli who let nobody got in their way ?
Do you like vengeance story?
If so then then vote for The girl who ate a death god -
@raitoiro did they?
On the website I see listings for just the manga the light Novel & the spin-off manga.
I don’t see any mention of a .5 volume.
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For Yen Press, it’s on a series-by-series basis; they’re releasing the .5 volumes for Oregairu.
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@rahul-balaggan Yeah the short stories are bundle with the manga.
Mushoku Tensei has no .5 volumes anyway, but to take an other serie they recently licence, i would be surprised if they don't translate the .5 of Classroom of the elite. -
I think it'd be best to separate the .5 stuff from SS stuff. There seems to be a difference where all .5 stuff are getting translated, but "SS" stuff is getting skipped. (From YP's history so far.)
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It’s funny that you mentioned this, but labeling a volume as x.5 instead of just a ss volume is actually a relatively recent phenomenon intended for boosting sales in Japan. The consensus is that ss volume will almost always undersell the main series, with some fall as low as just 1/3 of the numbered volumes. Labeling something as x.5 boosts sales, at least anecdotally.
