Acquisitions Speculation - General
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT We’re thrilled to announce we’ve licensed a #LIGHTNOVEL adaptation of a popular #GAME! Can you guess what it is? First two successful guesses before the official announcement on Thursday will #WIN a copy when it's out! Guesses won't be confirmed until then!
Via Cross Infinite World's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrossInfWorld/status/1150782642595360770
Hints added:
#1: the original game artist did the art for the novel
#2: a school life adventure turned a survival thriller
#3: the light novels are published by Kodansha in Japan
#4: the 50+ hour visual novel is covered over four lengthy light novel volumes -
Interview about Square Enix getting into English manga publishing. I copied some of the answers more salient to consumers here:
Will they all be available as digital releases too, or just in print, or a mix?
It's going to be a mix. Our first priority is print releases for now, but we're also planning digital editions to give people more options to access our content.
Will Square Enix continue to license manga to other N. American publishers, or will your focus be more on publishing your top manga, novel and art book titles under your own imprint?
Yes, we will continue to license manga to other North American publishers. We hope to grow the total number of Square Enix titles published in English by licensing to our existing partners, and through our new imprints.
You've announced 4 titles for starters, and added six more manga titles to your roster at Anime Expo 2019 – how many books do you project you'll be publishing in 2019, and in 2020?
8 books in 2019, 50 books in 2020. It may vary depending on our schedule. -
Cross Infinite World has licensed Root Double -Before Crime * After Days: http://www.crossinfworld.com/news-articles/Special-Announcement-License.html
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So were 3 day away from Otakon do you all think will be getting any announcement there ?
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@jagd-mirage Seems like the next J-NC presence might be at Otakuthon. I saw some mention of it in the discord. Sam is a special guest or something. XD
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Lets not get too ahead of ourselves, many of the licenses announced at AX are still not up on the site so lets at least wait till those are up before we start predicting new ones.
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To be fair, I'm fine with some downtime. Too much to read.
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@cosm1cfall said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AX is over]:
@crimson-wise regarding tomozaki digital:
I got my digital copy of Tomozaki today. I'm good now.
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So, nothing at Otakuthon?
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No new licenses at Otakuthon
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If the new side topic goes on I will probably end up moving it to it's own specific post...
Edit: it has been moved.
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Hasn't it been a bit too quiet around here lately? Nothing new? Any events to look forward to or something?
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Sam yesterday on Discord said he got a big new one. Nothing more than that though.
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He said he made offers on 7 new titles, one of which was rejected because Seven Seas has it. He met with 3 new publishers, which he thought were positive meetings. And like Terabyte said, he only has one confirmed license right now, but he said it is a "biggie."
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It has been a little over 2 months since Anime Expo licenses were announced, can't really say it has been "quiet" it takes time to go from not having a LN license to actually having it...
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@legitpancake said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:
he only has one confirmed license right now, but he said it is a "biggie."
O_O
Hype! (but I can wait for it; lots to catch up on).
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Any guesses on what the "biggie" might be?
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Eh, there's any number of titles it could be just based on that.
