Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Excited about the Rokujouma thing, but a bit concerned like @Shiny about how it'll work with being outside the US
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@lazyproblems said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [Double-digit JNC announcements at Anime Expo on Saturday!]:
Regarding Beatless, does anyone know what the difference is between the 2012 release and the two volumes they released last year? Are those rereleases that got split up for the anime?
There's likely no differences between the 2 releases, except for the number of volumes, Jp publisher seems to prefer a higher number of smaler books nowday, they did something similar to Shiki and Shinsekai yori
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Really excited for the Rokujouma Kickstarter, I definately plan to support it once its up. I just hope they offer shipping outside the united states for those in other countries.
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@artistofmanga Sam said in the panel (I watched the live stream from the link one or two pages back) that it'll be an international affair, so presumably intl shipping will be available.
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I've been wanting to read Altina for some time now, happy that I can read it here in the near future. As for the other LNs I don't really know them but Otherside Picnic and evil organization look interesting.
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@an4th said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AX is over]:
I've been wanting to read Altina for some time now, happy that I can read it here in the near future. As for the other LNs I don't really know them but Otherside Picnic and evil organization look interesting.
Fan translation is up to volume 5 of Altina, never thought someone will pick it up.
To me, this batch of licenses looks like a whole bunch of nothings.
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Fairly empty batch of announcements for me. Nothing I'm really interested in, though I will check out a few titles to see how they read.
Altina... I think I checked the manga a little and the beginning of the fan translation. Didn't really grab my attention and as I understand there's a lot of war. But I know lot of people have requested it.
Assassin one might be ok, also read just a bit of fan translation. Got the impression it will get heavy on vengeance?
Demon Lord, Retry I read the first volume/arc of fan translation and it was... weird. Not sure if that's due to translation or is it truly the author's style. Also didn't find any likable characters except perhaps Aku.
And good luck to everyone enthusiastic about the kickstarter. :) I read digitally and don't buy physical, but hope you will make the target amount and all the extras. -
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JNC definitely saved the day with other publishers' announcement being so bleak. I'm interested in almost all of their licenses (except for Retry and, maybe, that chuuni knight one).
And Rokujouma kickstarter was a cherry on top. I hope basic info on tiers/rewards will be out soon - I need to know how many kindneys I need to sell beforehand.@zing it's up to vol.14 + side story volume.
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@wellwisher said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AX is over]:
@zing it's up to vol.14 + side story volume.
That's nice, I suppose.
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So, now that JNC has a relationship with Futabasha, here's a list of all Futabasha titles that have been requested here if you're interested in giving them another look:
- Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
- Guild no Cheat na Uketsukejo (The Guild’s Cheat Receptionist)
- Hisshou Dungeon Un'ei Houhou
- Monster no Goshuujin-sama (Monster Tamer)
- Shingan no Yuusha (Hero of God Eye)
- Shini Yasui Kōshaku Reijō to Nana-ri no Kikōshi
- Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei (The Seed of Evolution ~Before I knew it I was one of the champions~)
- Suterareta Yuusha no Eiyuutan
- Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru
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@caramelwithoutthesalt said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AX is over]:
Yen Press and Seven Seas underdelivered.
And it's not like JNC overdelivered either, unfortunately. Before actually reading them, my top 3 LN announcements would probably be: 1) Bunny Girl; 2) Altina; 3) Majo no Tabitabi (or maybe Bullet Witchcraft and Ghost Program?); - so even with a relatively weak effort Yen Press steals the show anyway lol
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@novurdim total agree with you all three major publishers really under delivered, there were a few gems Altina is a decent pick up but nothing really got me excited all In all been very disappointed in the last number of batches from all the publishers.
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As far as light novels go, excluding auxiliary announcements like the Rokujouma print Kickstarter, JNC's announcements fall squarely in the "guess I'll check it out" realm; nothing particularly excites me but a good number of stuff at least looks interesting enough for me to try out prepubs for. That's really about as much as I can hope for; hopefully some of them will turn out to be super good or at least lots of fun.
I suppose Demon Lord, Retry is one I'm at least looking forward to; the anime has some issues but they're mainly with the animation so it should be good to read in novel/manga form.
The auxiliary announcements are what especially stand out to me, though. Kickstarter for Rokujouma prints are great, and the sub-license for The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress from Bookwalker is interesting, too. Wonder if JNC can get print rights for that, too. The whole Tokyo Otaku Mode thing is odd, and Beatless isn't enough to make me want to sign up with them, but it could be something worth keeping an eye on.
And we have a new publisher to license books from!
@hyperion said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AX is over]:
So, now that JNC has a relationship with Futabasha, here's a list of all Futabasha titles that have been requested here if you're interested in giving them another look:
- Elf Tensei Kara no Cheat Kenkoku-ki
- Guild no Cheat na Uketsukejo (The Guild’s Cheat Receptionist)
- Hisshou Dungeon Un'ei Houhou
- Monster no Goshuujin-sama (Monster Tamer)
- Shingan no Yuusha (Hero of God Eye)
- Shini Yasui Kōshaku Reijō to Nana-ri no Kikōshi
- Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei (The Seed of Evolution ~Before I knew it I was one of the champions~)
- Suterareta Yuusha no Eiyuutan
- Takarakuji de 40-oku Atattandakedo Isekai ni Ijuu Suru
As for Sol Press, while licensing an H-novel is interesting in the greater industry picture, I have no interest in them myself.
Finally, overall, there has been very little isekai in the LN announcements across the board. Only JNC had any at all, and even then, out of eight titles announced, only two seem to be isekai, with one of them (Otherside Picnic) looking very much not like your typical LN-style isekai at all. There definitely seems to be more in the way of non-isekai fantasy, though. What does this all mean, if anything, I'll leave for others to speculate.
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agree with you very disappointed, I also think the general feeling is they under delivered because if you look at the past number of posts the major topic is the Kickstarter and not any of there new titles was the highlight of the show.
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@stardf29 I missed the announcement about Combat Baker. That’s cool to hear. I’ve only read the first two but I think it’s a solid series and am happy it’ll get notice outside of BookWalker now.
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@ant13099 Well, that's to be expected, most of the titles are an unknown quantity so it's difficult to have a conversation about them.
I suppose we should separate excitement from quality. Are the announcements exciting? No, we hardly know anything about them. Could they be good picks? Yeah, sure, we just don't know yet.
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@stardf29 said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AX is over]:
Finally, overall, there has been very little isekai in the LN announcements across the board. Only JNC had any at all, and even then, out of eight titles announced, only two seem to be isekai, with one of them (Otherside Picnic) looking very much not like your typical LN-style isekai at all. There definitely seems to be more in the way of non-isekai fantasy, though. What does this all mean, if anything, I'll leave for others to speculate.
What I think is Isekai titles are really really big in Japan and the more popular the title the more costly it is to licenses
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So what huge currently published series aren’t already being published over here? I think some of the disappointment comes from the fact that we are now getting a lot of the heavy hitters, so what’s still around that doesn’t have specific licensing issues are stuff people don’t know as much about (that said a lot of stuff coming over did have a suggestions thread so it’s not like no one wanted it).
It’s been a while since I’ve watched Justin’s Light Novel Top 10 in Japan, so I’m not as in touch with what’s currently popular. What I remember when I was watching was a lot of stuff we already had, some Isekai stuff that was already into double digits of volume number (which I’m assuming makes it a riskier prospect to license as the whole Isekai thing may wane in popularity and you don’t want to drop nor be stuck with 15 volumes to publish of an unsuccessful series), and then a few random things.
