Hanashi Media - New LN Publisher?
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Another World 2 is back up on other sites, but the date was pushed back to 2-14. Volume 1 is available again at Amazon and Hanashi says volume 2 will be there too, without any censoring.
Fruit of Evolution 3 is still scheduled for 2-28, including at Amazon.
You can buy DRM-free versions direct from the Hanashi store. The store registration was broken for me last week (no confirmation email ever arrived) but it worked today.
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Despite Amazon's best efforts to stop it, Hanashi has successfully released Another World volume 2, including at Amazon. Volume 1 was added back there January 27.
Fruit of Evolution 3 will be out February 28.
Very nice pace for releases Hanashi, that's only 3 months between volumes for Fruit, and 4 months for Another World (2 weeks of which was from Amazon's pearl-clutching censorship).
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They really do seem to be doing a good job of it.
I discovered via DM with one of their staff (they recognized my nym included with an error correction I sent in and contacted me to thank me for doing so) that their core staff are a former fan translation group.
So while the licensing and sales aspects may be new to at least some of them, the translation end of things they have prior experience at. -
On time once again - The Fruit of Evolution volume 3 just delivered itself to my kindle.
The discord says Another World volume 3 will be out sometime in April, so 2 months after volume 2.
The anime covered a bit past volume 3 of Fruit, but I've enjoyed reading the LNs despite knowing what will happen. If you haven't watched it, the anime is a good adaptation of the LN.
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Another World volume 3 preorders are up, including at Amazon, and they promise it is uncensored: April 29, 2023.
For volume 2, they placed the images in context in the middle of the text instead of at the start, and for the 3 "questionable" ones (two with gore, one with semi-nudity) they used something I've never seen in a Kindle book before: a warning and a link to tap that then opens the image. With those changes, easily offended busybodies can't download the free sample then complain about seeing "bad" content while taking a break from reading 50 Shades or Twilight.
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@HarmlessDave
They do seem like a canny bunch.Other than the weird glitch of their "under development" site going live when they hadn't intended it to, they've seemed on top of things, including figuring out ways of dealing with Amazon (no small feat, that.)
I need to give a look at how they've handled Otherworld Survival; I'd been reading the Fan TL at one time.
I've very much enjoyed their translation of The Fruit of Evolution.
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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Hanashi Media - New LN Publisher?:
I need to give a look at how they've handled Otherworld Survival; I'd been reading the Fan TL at one time.
The quality isn't quite up to Fruit which is excellent. The writing is fine but the proofreading is about like JNC prepubs before Terabyte tells the staff what to fix ;-)
Nothing too bad, but I find myself noticing sentences where "swords" should be "sword" and similar little mistakes. That's only happened a few times per volume for Fruit.
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@HarmlessDave said in Hanashi Media - New LN Publisher?:
@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Hanashi Media - New LN Publisher?:
I need to give a look at how they've handled Otherworld Survival; I'd been reading the Fan TL at one time.
The quality isn't quite up to Fruit which is excellent. The writing is fine but the proofreading is about like JNC prepubs before Terabyte tells the staff what to fix ;-)
Nothing too bad, but I find myself noticing sentences where "swords" should be "sword" and similar little mistakes. That's only happened a few times per volume for Fruit.
This. My only problem with Fruit was that they used Donkey and Mule interchangeably. But their staff is extremely attentive on discord (like JNC) and are fixing it.
I dropped their other series, not due to misspellings just due to how quickly it devolved into harem bait.
