Acquisitions Speculation - General

HarmlessDave

@myskaros said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [No upcoming announcements currently]:

@harmlessdave said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [No upcoming announcements currently]:

I'm too lazy to add a license request thread but I'd upvote yours.

You quoted a link to the suggestion topic, FYI.

D'OH! (slaps forehead)

I guessed (for no reason) that was a link to an outside description of the series and didn't click it. Instead I searched the suggestion subforum topic titles, but this topic only lists the Japanese version.

Oh well, upvoted it is. :)

myskaros

@harmlessdave said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [No upcoming announcements currently]:

Instead I searched the suggestion subforum topic titles, but this topic only lists the Japanese version.

You should search the stickied list of suggestion topics too.

Village Idiot

@hamsterexastris said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [No upcoming announcements currently]:

@crimson-wise said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [No upcoming announcements currently]:

It looks like the Oregairu light novels are finally having a digital release on June 25th:

It's perhaps a bit too early to tell, but I hope it's correct. Have been waiting for them for quite a while.

Apparently they had false listings before, for Log Horizon. I (mostly) hope these are real, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

(I also kinda hope they don’t, just so I don’t have to figure out how to handle having half the series in print...)

Nah, they had glitched listings like previously physical-only series appearing on their Upcoming Digital release page, but if you click into the thumbnail, the book doesn't say it has a digital release. Also nothing on hachettebooks.

As for Log Horizon, they had the last two volumes on their upcoming digital release AND had entries on hachettebooks which gets added on months before it was taken down. The theory is that Yen Press had been planning a digital release for it but something fell through so they had to cancel the digital release.

MenyKanzaki

@terrence I personally want The World God Only Knows

Nosgoroth

11 volumes of Oregairu@comic are listed on Amazon for digital release on June 18, all at once, a week before the LN listing, so I'm guessing japan's side really have changed their minds.

It looks like they plan to release a bunch of volumes of the LN on the 25th too.

Give me ImoSae as well!

Terrence

I would have liked to have gotten A Sister is All You Need volumes digitally.

I think I only have two My Youth Romantic Comedy volumes sitting on the shelf, so that'll be easy to transition over for me if I do that.

Crimson Wise

Hmm, ImoSae seems to have digital releases on July 23, Tomozaki-kun too. ~~Although these don't even appear in Yen Press' website itself.~~ Wait, ImoSae does.

Nosgoroth

@crimson-wise Oh yesss. Also four volumes on the same day, looking at the related items, and the 5th on September.

Hyperion

Great news! I'll switch to digital for A Sister’s All You Need if it's true and I'd be really happy if Tomozaki starts digital, so I don't have to buy them twice. Btw, this is the list I have compiled of Shogakukan request topics for those interested:

Terrence

Tomozaki digital is a very good dream! Yay.

I've already got 3 Sis is all You Need volumes, but I'll likely switch after reading those. 2 SNAFU physical volumes here.

cosm1cfall

@crimson-wise regarding tomozaki digital:
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LegitPancake

Hope Middle aged Businessman isekai is coming soon :/

yumenokage

@legitpancake said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [No upcoming announcements currently]:

Hope Middle aged Businessman isekai is coming soon :/

Ah, I keep forgetting about that one and then when reminded thinking like it sounds interesting. Luckily I have enough on my plate to keep me occupied for now, but at this rate I wonder if we won't get it until the next round of acquisitions.

Hyperion

Yay, the Monogatari series is coming digitally! I saw them listed on Kodansha's website yesterday, but Vertical will make it official tomorrow: https://twitter.com/vertical_staff/status/1135993444357328896

the green death

Soon the days of print only Light Novels will be behind us!

HamsterExAstris

No, it’ll be the days of “all digital but print is often cheaper”.

(Vertical priced the Masquerade and the Nameless Woman ebook at $13, when it’s retailing in print for $10-something. I expect Monogatari to be similarly overpriced.)

the green death

@hamsterexastris That doesn’t really bother me, as long as they’re available from legitimate publishers on digital, I’m ok if they have to cost a little more in order to get them.

Terrence

I'm pretty sure the prices are reasonable (like, 10 bucks). They were up on Google Play for a bit. I want to say Bakemonogatari was regularly 10, but it was discounted 2.00 for some reason to 8.00.

Rahul Balaggan

We will have to disagree on what makes a digital LN reasonably priced, cause to me $10 is not reasonable, hence why I do not buy Sol Press and SS LNs digitally...

Honestly speaking if JNC premiums cost $10 I would pay, no DRM and high res pictures with premium bonuses...

SomeOldGuy

I've been looking at the Toradora LNs for some time. But I haven't decided whether I want to buy the kindle edition (with DRM), or dead tree, because the DTE is cheaper at rightstufanime.com (with GotAnime discount) than the kindle edition.

I keep thinking, "DTE because it's cheaper and I can share it", then I do something like go try to organize my book shelves, and think, "Why do I need MORE paper here?"

Not going to order Monogatori digital, though... Already have DTE of everything that's been released.