Acquisitions Speculation - General

TheRedJet

Pretty dissapoiting with the Light Novels this time with Seven Seas :(

ant13099

Boy hope J Novel got some good pick ups because both 7 seas and Yen press licenses are big let down

Timmaaah

Wow, that was super disappointing... Both Yen and SS didn't announce anything of interest so far... JNC is the last hope...

Raitoiro

7s was a huge desapointement this year :(
They did so well last time, annoucing Classroom of the elite and Mushoku Tensei, but here aside from "At night, I become a monster "
(Btw does anybody as a synopsis for it?) there's nothing good.

Yoshken

I’m at least I got to sit here a tell you guys what is coming I don’t think I will get any of the titles myself

yumenokage

@raitoiro

I'm curious about the At Night, I Become a Monster title too

and I also don't think I'm interested in anything else they got. But I suppose fans of yuri and such might be happy?

TheRedJet

Day 2 of Licences
Square Enix:1 Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town(Manga Adaptation of LN/LN licenced by Yen Press
2 Marked for Failure, the World's Strongest Sage Reincarnates for a Do-Over!(Manga adaption of LN)
3Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina(Manga adaptation of LN/LN licenced by Yen Pres)
4Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!(Manga)
5My Dress-Up Darling(Manga)
6The Misfit of Demon King Academy: History's Strongest Demon King Reincarnates and Goes to School with His Descendants(Manga Adaptation of LN)

Seven Seas : 1THE KING OF FIGHTERS: A NEW BEGINNING(Manga)
2THE CONDITIONS OF PARADISE(Manga)
3MY STATUS AS AN ASSASSIN OBVIOUSLY EXCEEDS THE HERO'S(Manga adaptation of LN)
4PRIMITIVE BOYFRIEND(manga)
5AT NIGHT, I BECOME A MONSTER(Novel)
6MY ANDROGYNOUS BOYFRIEND(manga)
7GIGANT(manga)
8METAMORPHOSE NO ENGAWA(manga)
9 BLOOM INTO YOU(Light Novel)
10CITRUS+(Manga)

ant13099

Truth be told the last 5 or so Licensing batches from yen 7 seas and J Novel have been super disappointing, I feel like they are not listening to what the fans want and are filling the markets with what they can get on the cheap. I have not heard of any of these titles while titles we have been clamoring for have yet to be picked up.

I mean in all the groups and fan clubs I’m apart never heard any one say there interested in any thing yen or 7 seas have picked up.

I mean how has death mage who dose not want a 4th time not get licensed every one I have talked wants that one big time.

My fear is if these companies don’t start listening to what there fans want and pushing what they can get on the cheap there going to head into an industry crash

ant13099

@theredjet thanks for the information,

Raitoiro

@yumenokage Apparently it's from the author of "I want to eat your pancreas" so it could be really good

Yoshken

Much better than my list

myskaros

@ant13099 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [More than 5 JNC announcements at Anime Expo on Saturday!]:

I feel like they are not listening to what the fans want and are filling the markets with what they can get on the cheap. I have not heard of any of these titles while titles we have been clamoring for have yet to be picked up.

Just because "fans" want it doesn't mean it would be profitable.
Just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean other people didn't want it.

Raitoiro

@ant13099 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [More than 5 JNC announcements at Anime Expo on Saturday!]:

Truth be told the last 5 or so Licensing batches from yen 7 seas and J Novel have been super disappointing, I feel like they are not listening to what the fans want and are filling the markets with what they can get on the cheap. I have not heard of any of these titles while titles we have been clamoring for have yet to be picked up.

I can't see how you could come to that conclusion when Sevens Sea license "Mushoku Tensei" which a huge part of the community had been asking for for years, "Classroom of the elite" which was also on a lot of people wish list and "Reincarnated as a sword" which while less popular still had a somewhat big fanbase.
Same for JNC, they just give us "Ascendance of a bookworm" which so many people have asked for, "Full metal panic!" which is kind of a classic, "I shall survive using potion" which as one of FUNA series was requested by quite a lot of people.
If you look at the Licensing request you will see that quite a number of series between the 35~20 have been licensed.

I mean how has death mage who does not want a 4th time not get licensed every one I have talked wants that one big time.

Sure "The death mage..." is quite popular but that doesn’t mean it's a good idea to license it, it could be a situation similar to Highschool DxD.
Also, it's nitpicky, but not everyone wants it, I sure don't and I have read the WN up to the orc empire arc.

My fear is if these companies don’t start listening to what there fans want and pushing what they can get on the cheap there going to head into an industry crash

You seem to confuse what you want and what the community as a whole want cause nearly every company has "recently" license really popular series (JNC: Ascendance of a bookworm; Yen: 86; SS: Mushoku Tensei).

Timmaaah

So the hints were that one is a story that involves a demon lord, or has "demon lord" in the title, he mentioned there were a lot of titles that involved demon lords, The other was hard to understand. Either a rescue or a title that everyone thought that they would never get, but somehow they got it.

Rahul Balaggan

Let’s all remember that this is a topic to discuss speculation of potential future licenses, if you wanna talk about how you feel about already licensed novels make a new topic.

Also let’s all remember to be respectful of each other’s opinions, what one individual may consider to be “good” & “popular”, may not fit everyone’s definition of those terms.

Aruseus493

With one of the hints being about Demon Lords while he was talking about how many there are, I'm betting on that Demon Lord Academy which just got the manga licensed from Square Enix. Seems like a shoe-in for a licensed LN.

Zing

Assassins status and reincarnated demon lord is not bad, but its disappointing that they licensed manga instead of light novel.

Paul Nebeling

@myskaros An example for number 1: High School DxD Lots of fans would love to see licensed LN, but several people have explained why it probably wouldn't be profitable.

Number 2 seems to be where JNC excels, though I can't think of any standout examples.

Looking forward to see what comes out tonight. If I can stay up that late, I might watch the livestream.

novurdim

I have faith in you, JNC-chan! Maybe not a Bunny Girl-level but I do believe this time the announcements won't be all about other worlds and their demon lords.
...
Inb4 we get a weird mishmash of yuri, otome and BL.

ant13099

Sams hints were very vague can’t wait for the news from the panel

The demon lord title could be any number of LN my top two guesses

Realist Maou ni yoru Seiiki naki Isekai, kind fits with realist hero theme and is in line with allot other titles j novel has

The Demon Lord’s building a city! The strongest Dungeon is a modern day city, seven seas has the manga license and I know two companies will Some times coordinate and license different products of the same IP to feed into each other’s fan base

As for the project that is a license that they never thought they would get my thought is recently in a bunch of the fan groups I am a part of there is a ton of interest in titles from Alpha Polis, maybe Sam an company finally cracked that shell and got a licenses from them