Korean Fantasy/Romance Novels - Why don’t they ever get licensed?
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@lotteliese said in Korean Fantasy/Romance Novels - Why don’t they ever get licensed?:
@weasalopes Solo leveling might fall under Urban Fantasy
One could label it as such, given the results of a quick web search; the genre is a tad more amorphous than I'd thought.
I think of stuff by Charles de Lint and that crowd, so kinda a different take on things than this series.
But if one looks at it as fantastic elements mixed in with modern urban settings, um, yeah, Solo Leveling really does fall inside the classification. -
I hope j-novel continues to focus on Japanese light novels.
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@freyr said in Korean Fantasy/Romance Novels - Why don’t they ever get licensed?:
I hope j-novel continues to focus on Japanese light novels.
While it's possible there are JNC staff members who could do stuff with other Asian languages than Japanese, to date that's the only Asian language they've been working with for translations.
If it weren't for the recent batch of European language works being brought over by JNC I'd have been willing to make grandiose (and fatuous) statements concerning JNC not doing any TLs of anything other than Japanese, with no actual basis for saying so...
There's a sufficient difference in 'feel' between most Japanese LN/Manga and the equivalent Korean & Chinese works that I'm still willing to make unfounded pronouncements to the effect that I consider it unlikely that JNC will branch out to including non-Japanese Asian lit.
