Acquisitions Speculation - General

myskaros

@raitoiro I believe it's a brand-new series, that's probably why there's little info on it. It has a web novel, but those don't get much English press unless someone fan translates it.

yumenokage

hmm, for jnc licenses the only one I remember seeing in suggestions or otherwise hearing about was the otherworld picnic. Kinda disappointed that out of my wishlist only Majo no Tabitabi was licensed (by yenpress), but on the bright side a number of these look interesting and I'll probably try them all and should find at least a few that I'll follow.

Anyone know when the next event that licenses are likely to be announced at is?

lighthawk96

Some good gets there. "Cooking With Wild Game" manga and both of "Demon Lord Retry" have me really excited.

gocav

@hyperion I was AFK when he was talking about Beatless, so can you give me the details on that. I know it somehow involves a contract with Tokyo Otaku Mode but that's all I caught.

Terrence

I wanted that "Kicked Out of the Party for Being a Woman, now I join the Legendary Witch in my own Party" one based on how Verdelish was enjoying it and the social commentary read into it by a poster on Twitter (about the Tokyo Medical thing), just never made a thread.

Citation for the Tokyo Medical aspect:
https://twitter.com/Mecasonic13/status/1100443558878814209?s=20

The comedy one with the guy starting his own evil organization sounds fun too (kind of chuuni comedy?). That red dress really stands out on the cover.

Altina I've seen the cover for, but I don't know much. Go in with an open, blind read-through I think. =)

And the Yuri SciFi horrorish one I'm intrigued by (the one they said was like creepypastas come to life as the enemies / obstacles). x)

myskaros

@gocav Tokyo Otaku Mode has the "streaming" rights to Beatless, and they've contracted JNC to do the translation. You can read the prepubs only as a TOM premium member. JNC will be publishing the ebooks in 2020.

Terrence

I'll be curious to see how their reader is.

TOM Premium itself sounds interesting. You get 110% cash back if you do the 90 day auto renewal thingie (so you effectively get 10% free cash, and your money back to spend on site?)?

Eternal Wanderer

Gotta say I hope the novel version of Maou Sama Retry is better than the anime has been so far. Really the only reason I remember the first episode is because the female lead looks like a blonde version of Rem from Re:Zero.

chainpullz

Never unhappy to see licenses for stuff that isn't heavily requested. Usually that just means it flew under people's radars. Given this is a translation group, most of the people who come here do so because they aren't fluent enough to read the raws. Hence most readers have a high degree of ignorance when it comes to what all is out there. I think it is less that we aren't getting the titles we wanted and more that we are getting the titles we never knew we wanted. Just have to go into it with an open mind.

Crowdsourcing for print runs seems like a cool idea. Probably more efficient for expressing interest than buying the ebooks. I'm sure there are people who would glady dump more than the $200 worth of ebooks if it meant a print run and this provides a better outlet for them to do that.

ant13099

Most excited for the Kickstarter if that’s a big hit you might see j novel do more of them for some other passion projects or harder to get licenses

yumenokage

@ant13099 well, Sam said he didn't intend to do it for licenses and thinks that's a bad idea in principle, so we probably won't be seeing Kickstarter Kino's Journey anytime soon

Jon Mitchell

@eternal-wanderer

It was pretty generic/weak. But I’ll give it more than a couple of episodes before I write it off (and I’ll read the LNs regardless, smartphone and ragnarok both had pretty lousy anime’s but the LNs are very good)

Crimson Wise

So Altina, Isekai Maou's author and Isekai Mahou's original illustrator. I'll definitely take a look. Perhaps the illustrator was able to put insert illustrations this time.

As for Rokujouma, I love the series. Hopefully there will be a way to back the digital/bonus stuff since I don't buy physical stuff. I don't have a place to put 31 33 freaking volumes!

Paul Nebeling

@crimson-wise I will find the space. I will MAKE the space!

ant13099

@yumenokage misspoke a bit I more meant if the Kickstarter is a big hit than the funds it brings into J Novel will allow them to get more licenses and do more passion projects

Raitoiro

@crimson-wise said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [Double-digit JNC announcements at Anime Expo on Saturday!]:

I don't have a place to put 31 freaking volumes!

It will be compiled into 10 volume, 3-4 regular volumes each.

SomeOldGuy

@terrence Will have to see if I still have a TOM membership... Used them to buy most of the To Love-Ru Darkness manga... Ordered the last of those just a few days before the English editions were announced.

Crimson Wise

@raitoiro That's true, although to be fair, they are still 31 volumes worth of content. Well, actually 33, since I wasn't counting 7.5 and 8.5. Volume 32 was also just released in Japan so it keeps growing...

Rahul Balaggan

@ant13099 there would have to be a massive & I mean MASSIVE amount of money for that to be true.

If they hit the 50K goal that will allow V1 - V31 to be put out physically, if they make more money that will all go towards the stretch goals (like the box & Drama CDs). So they would have to theoretically clear all of the stretch goals and then make even more money on top of that for then to say hey let’s use this cash to license more stuff.

Not to mention if they do clear all stretch goals and make extra money anything on top would probably be ear marked to be used for future volumes of Rokujouma to be put out physically.

novurdim

Wasn't as good as I hoped, especially after the amazing last year's AX, but I suppose it wasn't as bad as I feared either. An okay batch. On a first glance will at least read Altina.

Overall this AX was really underwhelming in terms of ranobe announcements, huh. Oh well, at least we finally have some closure with Bunny Girl.