Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" short story book
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As @Tube noted on the Bookworm Discord, the Royal Academy Stories side stories were indirectly mentioned by Sam as part of the Q&A section of JNC's September 2021 announcement stream and this was transcribed by the Reddit user LurkingMcLurk. I watched the stream at the time and it accords with my recollection of what was said, but it looks like the Twitch streams are no longer archived.
Q. Since we got the fanbooks (thank you!), are there any plans to license the short stories?
A. Um, well, I'm not going to answer that directly. All I will say is that, that when it comes to Bookworm is that if it's written by the author we'll probably license it. If it's something like, that's like an anthology from other artists or mangaka like, um, you know, official doujinshi type publication, there are a couple of those, then, erhm, probably not just because the rights might be difficult to handle on all of those and also it's not really canon. Um, but maybe, yeah I mean I'm not saying never to these sorts of things but our focus is on stuff that's written by the author. So the short stories? We will get to those as soon as we can.
Stay shiny, y'all.
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@shiny Yay! I know it's not an official announcement but still hope!
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@shiny That's a lot of "err's" and "um's" for what basically translates to "we will probably do that eventually, because Bookworm is popular, but we have a policy of not talking about future licensing and other internal business information unless it directly impacts our users."
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@piisfun said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:
@shiny That's a lot of "err's" and "um's" for what basically translates to "we will probably do that eventually, because Bookworm is popular, but we have a policy of not talking about future licensing and other internal business information unless it directly impacts our users."
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He was clearly trying to avoid any landmines. I agree that his response could be summarised as you suggest. I really hope that they get or have already secured the license.
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Quotes often omit the filler words which are normal in everyday speech, so because it was transcribed verbatim it sounds more uncertain than it did hearing it live.
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I add myself on the list of people who like this side story !
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So, JNC has a happy (one assumes) business relationship with Kazuki-san. Does she not hold the translation rights to her entire output or is Gaiden (?) involved in securing rights to the side story and are CD publishers involved in the rights to those stories? eg. Is it not a straightforward "ok, add story X that you did for Glico, story Y that you did for Nintendo, and that short story volume for ¥Z and we'll talk about the stuff you did for Uniqlo next time." discussion with Kazuki-san?
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@arghc Rarely if ever is the author involved in business deals, unless JNC were licensing directly the WN. But yes, spin-offs, short stories, fanbooks, etc are all not included in the main license. They all require a new contract with the JP publisher.
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@legitpancake said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:
@arghc Rarely if ever is the author involved in business deals, unless JNC were licensing directly the WN. But yes, spin-offs, short stories, fanbooks, etc are all not included in the main license. They all require a new contract with the JP publisher.
It's a question, I guess, of if it's "the JP publisher" or "the JP publishers". After all, based on my understanding of how rights work: translation rights, movie/tv adaptation rights, toy rights, etc. can all be separate depending on the contracts you sign, so Kazuki-san could have retained translation rights, especially after starting to do business with JNC she could just have retained translation rights of subsequent stories and spin off works to simplify matters... Sorry, pointless idle speculation (but that's what the forums are for! 8-)
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She explicitly said that translation can be only negotiated between foreign publishing companies and TO Books. She does not want to waste time on such matters.
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Nice!
I made this thread a year ago. Soon?
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@tube said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:
@LurkingMcLurk pointed out that the one released after 4.4 and the one released after 4.8 might have to be treated separately. I hope that JNC will license both but I edited this thread to be about the one released after 4.4.
I saw an announcement today of what I think (assuming I understood the MTL of the press release correctly) is a third collection of short stories coming out next spring. So that would be released after 5.7 or 5.8, I think? One more to keep track of/distinguish from the others (and to request in due time).
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@b-scot-morgan At least after Royal Academy Stories: The First Year, the names are going to be Short Story Collection 1 and Short Story Collection 2, so it won't be confusing.
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@b-scot-morgan said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:
a third collection of short stories coming out next spring. So that would be released after 5.7 or 5.8, I think? One more to keep track of/distinguish from the others (and to request in due time).
I see no reason not to request it now. 8-) They can translate them in due time, being only human and all. ;-) Still, I don't really see why they need us to clamour for them since I'd think it's completely obvious what we want. But if they need clamouring, here it is! 8-)
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Has there been any new info on whether the short stories will be translated now that the publishing of Volume 4 part 4 is almost happening?
I would love to read these!
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Hello,
Unfortunately, J-Novel Club does not comment publicly on possible licensing acquisitions or negotiations.
Thank you
Sorry but J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on any potential licensing decision or acquisitions.
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@rahul-balaggan said in Ascendance of a Bookworm: "Gaiden" side story book:
Hello,
Unfortunately, J-Novel Club does not comment publicly on possible licensing acquisitions or negotiations.
Thank you
Come on! Can't you even give USA hint?
(I'm joking of course)
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@rahul-balaggan when (realistically, it's all but confirmed J-novel would try and most likely succeed) J-novel does license these volumes, when is the soonest in that process there would be a public announcement? I assume we would hear something before @Quof got told, “Ok, put those SS collections next in your queue.” Am I wrong?
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Hello,
Sorry, I fully understand what your question is, but my answer will not change from what you replied to:
Unfortunately, J-Novel Club does not comment publicly on possible licensing acquisitions or negotiations.
Thank you
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@rahul-balaggan um. Not quite what I meant (I mean yes I would love to know anything more there too). I'm not even talking about Bookworm. I'm legit confused about where and when official (not unofficial) announcements are made. I looked at the news thread, but I don't see a single title license announcement.
Is the calendar the official way to find out a new title has been announced or is there a blog post somewhere listing these things somewhere I don't know about?
I see in the about us page it mentions licenses being announced on twitter, but is that and the Q&As really the only official source?
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@solarmist Our previous licensing announcement was in November:
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/5062/j-novel-club-at-animenyc-2021
