Ascendance of a Bookworm - Official Fanbooks
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I really want these. If JNC licenses them I would hope we could get them in physical format since I think that would be better for the artwork, but if we only get them digitally I would still buy them from JNC for the translated content and to support them, and then I would also see about importing the Japanese physical copies from Japan.
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Haaaa... it would be expensive but WORTH it!
I would love to see different POV stories, it's refreshing when the MC whose POV we read all the time is a dork... -
I don't know if it has been suggested elsewhere... There are also two additional volumes with short stories told from other characters PoV.
This one was published after Part 4 Vol. 4 and takes place during the first half of Part 4.
This one was published after Part 4 Vol. 8 and has SS from Part 1 to Part 4.It would be nice if J-Novel Club could license them too.
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@jugoes said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - Official Fanbooks:
I don't know if it has been suggested elsewhere... There are also two additional volumes with short stories told from other characters PoV.
This one was published after Part 4 Vol. 4 and takes place during the first half of Part 4.
This one was published after Part 4 Vol. 8 and has SS from Part 1 to Part 4.It would be nice if J-Novel Club could license them too.
I've read the first of these, and I'd say it would be best served by being read when it was released, between 4-4 and 4-5.
It isn't just going over the first half; it's also setting up a lot of subplots in the back half of part 4. But not in a way that would substantially affect your enjoyment of part 4 itself, more like reading it after finishing the main series would be suuuuper weird since it's set at such a specific moment in time. -
YES!!! ALL THE YES +1!!!
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I would be very interested in this!
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If it were released at the right time then for me it'd be an instabuy. If necessary I'd even spend two premium credits on it.
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I can’t see me not buying them if they become available in English.
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Fifth fan book is in the works and would be read after Part 5 Volume 2.
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@LurkingMcLurk said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - Official Fanbooks:
Fifth fan book is in the works and would be read after Part 5 Volume 2.
If it follows the regular pattern of past years, it is likely to be published between P5V3 (9/10) and P5V4 (12/10).
I posted about a dozen questions for the Q&A section. I hope some of them will be selected.
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From a tweet echoed to the discord server: It sounds like J-novel would love to publish them, if the timing and liscences line up.
So they are definitely on the radar, at least.
link to message: https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1278099062965878784
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I wonder if they'll cost the same as the full books, or if J-Novel will only sell them in ebook stores for like half the price or something (since they can't change the price of premium credits with the way the site is set up now).
Though if it means taking Quof's time away from the series, I am less inclined for wanting them. -
@LegitPancake said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - Official Fanbooks:
I wonder if they'll cost the same as the full books, or if J-Novel will only sell them in ebook stores for like half the price or something (since they can't change the price of premium credits with the way the site is set up now).
Funnily enough if we look at the prices on TO BOOK's site the fan books cost more than the regular volumes by 100 to 400 yen.
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@LurkingMcLurk I see. I just can predict the angry Amazon reviews now saying "I paid $7 for only 80 pages of Q&A, one short story, and some short manga?? Ripoff!!" But if it means J-Novel can get a better profit by charging the same as the normal books then I support that.
I know this may be greedy, but if JNC does license them, I would really only want Quof to translate the short stories and bonus mangas, and then let another translator to work on all the Q&A lol. Otherwise this could significantly postpone the main series translation. xD -
@LegitPancake said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - Official Fanbooks:
I know this may be greedy, but if JNC does license them, I would really only want Quof to translate the short stories and bonus mangas, and then let another translator to work on all the Q&A lol. Otherwise this could significantly postpone the main series translation. xD
They actually i something similar with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Isekai, which was an anthology. Because there is no need for consistency between stories, they just split it between six translators.
Not that the Q & A should be that large of a portion...
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Throwing my hat in as well to say that I'd definitely buy these! A physical copy would be amazing and would blow me away completely, but I'd definitely still buy it if it was digital only! I love Ascendance of a Bookworm, and I think I'd pretty much devour anything I could get for it.
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@yoshikagequeen If they did release them physically it could be kinda tricky. They are way too short to release for English market individually (though I suppose it could be done), but if they released them in omnibus, it could mess up the read order. Though I could see them release them in 2-in-1 omnibuses like as "Part 3 fanbooks" and "Part 4 fanbooks" since there were two released for each part.
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Q btw what about Bookworm fanbooks? Any news for us?
A Errr. The news is that we are errr probably going to do them but I don't laughs I don't want to get into anymore specifics. We haven't errr we will we will errr we will tell you more when we have more information about the Bookworm fanbooks. Seriously ehm working on it. Lets put it that way.It'd really suck if it doesn't happen because, say, TO BOOKS are asking for too much.
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@LurkingMcLurk On plus side, there is hope. We know they are working on it. That gives me enough hope for now :)
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@LurkingMcLurk said in Ascendance of a Bookworm - Official Fanbooks:
It'd really suck if it doesn't happen because, say, TO BOOKS are asking for too much.
I'll just say that Sam wouldn't publicly say that we were working on them if we didn't already pass that hurdle.
