Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" short story book
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I knew about the fanbooks (which I plan to import if they're not picked up within a few years), but not the side story volume.
+1 for all the bookworm things. I want them all, preferably in English. If it comes down to it I could probably work my way through it (very slowly) in Japanese, but I'd rather not given my current reading level (I'd still probably miss some of the meaning even looking up unfamiliar stuff) and desire to prioritize series that are unlikely to ever get a translation (cough Kino's Journey).
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If I may ask, how do these licensing threads work? How do I commit my support and my money to this idea? Is it enough to "like" the main post? Must I comment in support? Does participation affect likelihood at all?
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@unknownmat All you can do is purchase the books, read the prepubs, and voice your interest that you would like them in English. Nothing you or I do alone can guarantee anything will be licensed. However sometimes they do take people's requests and votes on this forum as a gauge for interest. But do be aware the translator is working on the main series, the manga adaptation, and Lazy Dungeon Master, as well as his own personal matters and other localization projects. Even if the fanbooks or Gaiden/SS volumes get licensed, there may be no immediate announcement until they can work up a translation schedule around Quof's (and all his editors) other obligations.
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@unknownmat basically what @LegitPancake said. They can help with gauging interest but ultimately there are no guarantees. (And if I had to guess they probably aren't even close to the biggest factor in what gets picked up—there is still price, publisher relationships, length, how well JNC thinks the series will do beyond the 1% that comments here, etc). But if you are super excited about something, both upvoting and providing a more specific comment(s) about how much you would love to be able to read and buy the series in English, why you think it would fit in well with JNC's current catalogue and base (or fill in a hole?), etc. would probably be best.
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The fact that this licensing request forum even exists means that JNC cares what we want to get licensed. I don't think they would waste their staffs' (moderators') time to play a game where they pretend to care what we think. We're giving them free market research here, so if the research looks good, it would be stupid for them to not utilize it. That is not to say that just spamming the like button and commenting will guarantee that they'll license something, but I assume that a very active thread might rise to their awereness and be the step number one to seeing if licensing something would be profitable for them.
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I would also really like to read these books! I’m totally fine with waiting until the main series is finished though.
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I love these books and want to read everything that I can.
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Please yes please
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What's one more book on top of the pile, really?
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If we can license it, bring it on. I've been having too many weekends lately anyway.
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Just like Rozemyne, bookworm fans are nice. However we show no mercy when it comes to getting what we want. 😂
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@segoth said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:
Just like Rozemyne, bookworm fans are nice. However we show no mercy when it comes to getting what we want. 😂
WHAT DO WE WANT?
I wanted to have a witty signature once I saw some of the ones some guys on the Bookworm forums had but None of the ones I thought felt witty enough...
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@alfonso_rd_36 Lots of books and for people to leave us alone so we can read them, usually.
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@xdrfiredogx said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:
@alfonso_rd_36 Lots of books and for people to leave us alone so we can read them, usually.
Gosh darn it! Twarted by the lack of memetics knowledge!
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@quof As Ferdinand would say "take a potion". More seriously, thanks for your speedy translation, and much love.
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This obviously fits right after P4V3 in the timeline (since year 1 at the RA ends with P4V3). I wonder if JNC will get this... (I know we'll find out a few hours before the first part goes live if they do, so that's kind of a rhetorical question).
When Altina pulled this, we got it side by side with the main story volume that was running at that time. With the size of the Bookworm project (and the concurrently running Fanbook 2) I wonder if it would make better sense to do it in place of a main story volume before starting P4V4... or if they could handle all three at once.
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@pcj I think if we do get it we'll get it side-by-side with V4 right after FB2 ends.
