New volume delays in the first half of 2020
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Amazon IS listing the march 2021 preorder for volume 6 LN in paper, with no cover picture.
https://www.amazon.com/My-Next-Life-Villainess-Routes/dp/1718366655
I wander if this is related to the Kindle version vanishing?
I also see that volume 5 says the publisher is J-Novel Club, while the above listing for volume 6 says J-Novel Heart. -
@Zehd Print editions are listed via our print distributor, and Villainess is released as a J-Novel Heart title in the print edition.
As for why there's no cover... can't say. It's in the distributor's system...
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@myskaros said in New volume delays in the first half of 2020:
Banner of the stars
Just don’t drop it. Please.
You guys might be the last hope we have of seeing Seikai fully translated. Tokyopop stopped relatively early in the series and their translations were garbage anyway.
To be fair, that you guys decided to pick up this old novel series is a minor miracle already. Even more so considering how famously hard it is to translate.
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@Lease We haven't dropped any series of our own volition to date, so rest assured that we want to complete every series we've picked up :)
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@myskaros May I be so crass as to mention volume 5 of SisKan?
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@myskaros Being a fan of Seikai is difficult. The first volume is going to be 30 in a few years. We're just used to stuff going horribly wrong so any delay sets our alarms off.
For you to have an idea, when the news of the delay came the very first thing asked in the kin of the stars discord was "are they dropping it?". Lol.
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@Paul-Nebeling I don't recall seeing anywhere that it was dropped? :P And I think you can understand that I can't really speak to projects involving my boss other than "it hasn't been dropped."
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@myskaros Dropped no, but that last volume has been waiting to be translated for a very long time. Yes, I know Sam is busy and doesn't necessarily have the time to translate it. I'm just hoping it gets done before the license expires, though I'm pretty sure Sam can wrangle an extension if he needs to. Handing it of to another translator, while an option, wouldn't be my choice.
Yeah, I am aware that I'm poking the bear. I've said enough. Moving on.
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@Paul-Nebeling said in New volume delays in the first half of 2020:
Handing it of to another translator, while an option, wouldn't be my choice.
few days ago no discord:
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@DoubleMangekyo Quarkboy is???
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@Paul-Nebeling Quarkboy is Sam Pinansky, president and founder of J-Novel Club.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
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@Paul-Nebeling According to dictionary.com and urban dictionary, a “scab” worker is a temporary one who takes the place of another worker on strike. So just sounds like a replacement translator who is reading the series to be acquainted with the style and story, but hasn’t officially been revealed yet.
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@myskaros Thanks.
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@LegitPancake said in New volume delays in the first half of 2020:
@Paul-Nebeling According to dictionary.com and urban dictionary, a “scab” worker is a temporary one who takes the place of another worker on strike. So just sounds like a replacement translator who is reading the series to be acquainted with the style and story, but hasn’t officially been revealed yet.
A scab doesn't have to be temporary or indeed a new worker, they could just be someone who is not respecting a union strike for example. In this case it seems to indicate someone who will be working in Sam's stead as a translator. A less pejorative term could have been to call them a locum, stand-in or replacement translator.
It is possible that Sam is unaware of the extent to which 'scab' is a charged term for a strikebreaker in some communities.
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Hi how long is How not to summon a demon lord vol 13 gonna be delay till ?
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@Pokemon Unfortunately, we are still working on obtaining the license and have no updates or ETA.
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@myskaros said in New volume delays in the first half of 2020:
@Pokemon Unfortunately, we are still working on obtaining the license and have no updates or ETA.
Patience, while being a virtue, seems to be in short supply around here. I can sympathize though. After all... (Demon Lord spoiler)
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What about otherside picnic v4? Has been one of my favs series lately, and seeing that there might be some sort of "winter" theme, which I highly like, makes me so impatient XD
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@Melkor42 They are still working on licensing it. https://twitter.com/myskaros/status/1286744077480808448
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@LegitPancake thought it was in the waiting for materials part according to what I saw in discord, guess that's not the case after all
