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    • TerabyteT
      Terabyte @Terrence
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      @terrence No, they have early digital releases.

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      • TimmaaahT
        Timmaaah
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        Even when taking in their early digital release, they still take forever to actually start releasing.
        For example, Mushoku Tensei:
        Announced: 8th of July 2018
        Volume 1 digital release: 4th of March 2019
        Volume 1 physical release: 21st of May 2019

        Still about 8 months from announcement to early release. Classroom of the Elite was announced at the same time, and has the same scheduling.
        So even if they announce a new one next week, probably won't see it till mid next year.

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        • myskarosM
          myskaros Staff @Timmaaah
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          @timmaaah Well, there are other examples that could be more in line with how these next announcements might be scheduled.

          Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!

          • Announced Sep 11, 2017
          • Digital release Feb 1, 2018 (+5 months)
          • Print release Jun 12, 2018 (+9 months)

          Reincarnated as a Sword

          • Announced Jan 9, 2019
          • Digital release May 2, 2019 (+4 months)
          • Print release Aug 6, 2019 (+8 months)

          MT can be considered an exception because it was obviously a big crowd-pleaser and they probably wanted to announced it at AX even if it meant longer waits.

          Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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          • TimmaaahT
            Timmaaah @myskaros
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            @myskaros Classroom of the Elite was also announce at the same time as MT and was only released a month earlier than MT.
            I only really picked MT as I was waiting for this to be released for so long, so I really noticed it.
            It more of a "don't be surprised if you have to wait awhile for it", plus the first person mentioned it taking 7 months, so I provided 2 recent examples of it taking that long.
            At least it's not as bad as YP making us wait a year for the Konosuba spin off....

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            • myskarosM
              myskaros Staff @Timmaaah
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              @timmaaah But again, those were both very highly anticipated titles announced at the biggest anime convention in the United States. It's entirely possible that they forced those out earlier than usual, unlike this "random weekdays in October that no one's expecting" event.

              Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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              • TimmaaahT
                Timmaaah @myskaros
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                @myskaros That is true, that could be the reason.
                It still doesn't take away from the point that even if they have early releases you could have to wait up to 7-8 months from past performance.
                This is all speculation and nothing definitive.
                I probably shouldn't have been so definitive with my first line when I said "they still take forever".

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                  • WellwisherW
                    Wellwisher
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                    @CaramelWithoutTheSalt I wouldn't call Seven Seas AX2019 licenses all these. Yeah, the more the better, but novel spinoffs for manga are not exactly common things to license yet, so they are more than welcome. "At night I Become a Monster" is from the same author as "Pankreas", which is quite popular, so no wonder they licensed more of their works.
                    Lastly, recent "Adachi no Shimamura". It is in no way "mediocre license 00.1% of people requested", andis well-known and popular.

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                      • TerrenceT
                        Terrence Premium Member
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                        I feel like their AX was weak cause they've decided to spread out their LN licensing between different promotional social media events through the year (like this one coming up).

                        They could have saved Skeleton Knight and SCP for that event to bolster their lineup just a bit.

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                        • CreyC
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                          So some more yuri coming this way next week. Hopefully it's not the whole of the announcements. 1-2 per day makes minimum of 3 and maximum 6?

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                            • LegitPancakeL
                              LegitPancake Premium Member
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                              Sam said in discord that there will be "somewhere between a bucketload and a truckload" of license announcements at anime nyc, and that there may be so many licenses that they "probably won't have time for questions."

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                              • RaitoiroR
                                Raitoiro Premium Member @LegitPancake
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                                @legitpancake I'm kinda worry by those statements, cause aside from JNC capacity to work on so many things at the same time, people can only follow and buy so much books.

                                Do you like death, war and misery ?
                                Do you like badass op loli who let nobody got in their way ?
                                Do you like vengeance story?
                                If so then then vote for The girl who ate a death god

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                                • TerabyteT
                                  Terabyte @Raitoiro
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                                  @raitoiro The are several series that are ending/caught up/complete, not to mention that some of the licenses will probably be manga.

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                                  • TerrenceT
                                    Terrence Premium Member @LegitPancake
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                                    @legitpancake said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:

                                    Sam said in discord that there will be "somewhere between a bucketload and a truckload" of license announcements at anime nyc, and that there may be so many licenses that they "probably won't have time for questions."

                                    O_O

                                    @raitoiro said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:

                                    @legitpancake I'm kinda worry by those statements, cause aside from JNC capacity to work on so many things at the same time, people can only follow and buy so much books.

                                    I mean, as long as they're in diverse genre, it shouldn't be a problem. If they get a good batch of Fantasy action and say, Slice of Life, those two don't always converge; only the real bibliophiles who read everything may feel overwhelmed.

                                    And like someone said, there's manga too, so if the truckload is like, 8 new LN licenses, 8 new manga, that wouldn't be too bad.

                                    If they got 15 Isekai LN at once, then yeah, that could be a problem maybe? I guess we'll wait and see. xD

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                                    • Aruseus493A
                                      Aruseus493 @LegitPancake
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                                      @legitpancake He also mentioned that "Actually it's all pretty much stuff none of you have heard of!"

                                      My Light Novel List

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                                      • Eternal WandererE
                                        Eternal Wanderer Premium Member @Aruseus493
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                                        @aruseus493 Kinda makes me sad that we aren't getting any of the licenses were hoping for but at the same time its fun to jump into several new series completely blind. I just hope it doesn't take several months to get them all up on the site.

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                                        • TerabyteT
                                          Terabyte @Aruseus493
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                                          @aruseus493 said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:

                                          @legitpancake He also mentioned that "Actually it's all pretty much stuff none of you have heard of!"

                                          If none of us have heard of it, it means it's not posted in the licensing suggestions forum. Too bad, I was hoping to see some LN I already know to be licensed.

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                                            regex Premium Member @Terrence
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                                            @terrence

                                            If they got 15 Isekai LN at once

                                            Don't jinx it, I don't want to eat isekai anymore.

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