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@terabyte said in Premium E-Book Bonus Contents List!:
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest: I see the first 3 volumes have extra stories so that's one I'll consider
Every volume comes with Bonus Short Stories as the Bonus Stories come from the Japanese Retailer Exclusive Pre-Order and Limited Edition bonuses. A personal favorite series of mine.
Outbreak Company: what exactly are these extensive notes for volume 2? Any quick example? Also, what about volume 1?
Not a series I'm following so I can't remember what volume 1 is mentioned to have.
Infinite Dendrogram: the first 3 volumes seem to have extra short stories so that goes on the list to consider too. What about volumes 4 thought? Does it have extra stories too?
Yes, volume 4 comes with bonus short stories and I think all subsequent volumes come with them.
In Another World With My Smartphone: the first 3 volumes have extra stories, but what about the other 3?
Yes, another series with lots of bonus stories.
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom: first post lists mini stories for each volume, but since it hasn't been updated in a while I wonder if the new volumes after that post have any too?
Yup, each volume comes with bonus stories.
If It’s for My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord: first post lists extra stories for the first 2 volumes, what about the other 3?
Every volume from J-NC so far on this series has bonus stories. I assume they continued in Japan too.
Demon King Daimaou: first 2 volumes have only textless pictures so I won't consider it either, I assume volume 3 (and 4) will be the same but I'd like to know for sure.
I think so.
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@legitpancake said in Premium E-Book Bonus Contents List!:
@terabyte I recently got the Arifureta volume 1 in paper and it’s really cool. Although one of the illustrations is kinda washed out, it includes the bonus stories and is only $7.49 on Amazon right now. And it’s huge (for a light novel) to say the least.
Unfortunately that only applies to amazon.com and I live in Italy. I also often read while I'm outside the house and/or traveling (like on the train) so I prefer the digital versions I can read anywhere without taking a physical book with me :)
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WataFuta Volume 2 Premium Bonuses according to Sam on Curious Cat.
There's a bonus SS and I'll include the full wraparound cover image/textless illustrations like with volume 1.
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@terabyte as for the Outbreak Company "notes" refere to explanations of used tropes or a special japanese figure of speech.
You can probably describe it best as a kind of glossary.
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@qeeh thanks for the update. If it's that kind of thing it may be worth it.
In any case I'll wait for a while until they translate more content for Outbreak Company.
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Hmmm wouldn't it be nice if we had the Bonus content directly on the series page? this would help to have it somewhere anyone finds easily.
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@saskir I agree. It's something we have to constantly bug @Sam-Pinansky about at every opportunity.
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It would be nice to have not only the bonus content but the series status too honestly. A simple "Completely translated" or "Ongoing translation (X of Y)".
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@terabyte said in Premium E-Book Bonus Contents List!:
- [New Life+] Young Again in Another World: this one is already out since it has only textless illustrations
Correction: the book was just released today. The newsletter was incorrect, the Premium book includes two short stories and some comments from the author (no textless illustrations though.)
Quof got a break.
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@crimson-wise said in Premium E-Book Bonus Contents List!:
@terabyte said in Premium E-Book Bonus Contents List!:
- [New Life+] Young Again in Another World: this one is already out since it has only textless illustrations
Correction: the book was just released today. The newsletter was incorrect, the Premium book includes two short stories and some comments from the author (no textless illustrations though.)
Oh, thanks for the update! That definitely goes on my list then.
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For the two newest series (Isekai Genius, and Undead Adventurer), they're both gonna be coming with bonus stories.
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For some of the volumes that came out this month so far.
WataFuta Volume 2
- Bonus Story
- Bonus Full Cover Illustration (Combined Front/Back Covers of the Book)
Infinite Dendrogram Volume 5
- 2 Bonus Stories
In Another World With My Smartphone Volume 7
- Bonus Story
- Author Bonus Story
Arifureta Volume 5
- Wallscroll Clean Illustration
- 6 Bonus Stories
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@crimson-wise thanks for the correction.
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@aruseus493 thank you. I wish they'd update the main forum page. Need to figure out which series I bought off Amazon have stuff so I can play catch up with the bonuses.
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How are the bonus stories in Smartphone and Realist Hero? Compared to say Arifureta. I'm debating rebuying the Premium vers of Smartphone and Realist Hero for the bonuses (I own them on Bookwalker) but wasn't sure if the extra stories were really worth it. From what I've seen the three shorts in the first three volumes of Smartphone are pretty vapid. But some of the shorts in Arifureta volume 1 were pretty interesting.
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Re: Realist Hero - The bonus stories really add to scenes already shown in the book, like what was Aisha doing before she left for the kingdom to try an get an audience with souma, or what are some embarrassing thing Souma and Liscia talk about, we hear that Souma has some people do some stuff to try and advance civilization in the main storyline and in the bonus story we see those people actually doing what Souma says.
The stories are not a necessity to understand Realist Hero, they just add to the character’s traits and the build upon the story ever so slightly.
Re: Smartphone - Some stories so directly relate into the main story, however a lot of them don’t they are your average run of the mill slice-of-life stories that are one-offs.
However sometimes we get the author actually telling stories about his actual life experiences instead of what Touya is up to, which is nice.
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@rahul-balaggan ok, cool. About how many shorts are there per volume? If I recall, I think Smartphone had only one each for the first three volumes.
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It varies. Volumes 6 and 7 each only had one bonus short story and one author story. Volume 5 had 4 bonus short stories and volume 4 had 2.
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@joshua-caleb in Smartphone, there are usually 1-2 interlude stories and also a 1-3 bonus stories that are about 1-2 pages long.
