Acquisitions Speculation - General
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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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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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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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@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?
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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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@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."
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@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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@legitpancake He also mentioned that "Actually it's all pretty much stuff none of you have heard of!"
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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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@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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Yeah I wonder how literally to interpret that comment. It's pretty difficult to find stuff that no one on a forum full of weebs has even heard of...
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@saffire It could mean really new series, the kind where they're no translated name yet, things like "Holy Knight dark road"
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That's...not at all a reasonable stance, looking at how they've operated so far.
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When I think of J-Novel Club I think of diamond in the rough titles with quality translations made available at a faster then usual pace.
As such I don’t think they are putting their reputation on the line at all, there have been so many titles that I have never heard of before, that I probably never would have heard of if J-Novel Club didn’t take a risk and license them.
Also I wouldn't say they are ignoring their fan base, at the end of the day they are bringing over licenses that will (hopefully) do well going forward, just cause no one has heard of a particular title before doesn’t mean it is a bad LN, it just means it hasn’t gotten to the point of being a well beloved LN yet...
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@caramelwithoutthesalt I don't think it could backfire that much.
Sure some of us on the forum could get angry enough to stop using JNC if it turn out to be all bad unknown licenses, but most would stay for the series they like (I know I would).
And more importantly most of JNC readers likely buy their book off Amazon, google book, Bookwalker, ... and don't know about the forums and the suggestions.
Hell, most, likely don't care much about editord, and find new series not through announcement or editor site but by word of mouth and store recommendation.
The worst that could happen is that all thoose new series are bad and do terrible (which is unlikely) and since they're unknow title, the licenses costs are likely low anyways. -
I'm just hoping it isn't a bunch of completely new titles that just started publishing as I'm getting a bit sore with Japanese publishers that don't support their new series and they end up just stalling forever.
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@aruseus493 said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:
"Actually it's all pretty much stuff none of you have heard of!"
ok everyone, don't panic
if Sam licensed a license that was blockbusters/highly sought after/on many folks' wish lists and a dozen that most of us had never head of (with at least a few turning out to be good) I think that would be GREAT.
so far the JNC team has done a great job of uncovering some hidden gems as well as landing some higher profile titles. Sam might be being coy, Sam might not want to reveal what he's cooking until it's ready (who knows what stage in negotiations whatever title is at?)
the question seems to be, WHY? why would JNC license relatively unknown works? I can speculate:
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the economics makes sense; some of these may be less expensive to license and Sam thinks that they have commercial potential in the JNC marketplace.
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artistic merit; a good quality work that was otherwise overlooked for whatever reason
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strategic engagement; winning over a particular publisher, demonstrating what JNC can do for one of their titles, test run whatever (or testing if a particular type of work does well in JNC's marketplace)
if you were hoping for chocolate ice cream and but the restaurant only served spumoni, would you be pleasantly surprised? upset? would you even know before you tasted it?
I read banned books
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I think it’s likely it’ll be a lot of newer titles that may or may not make it past volume 3.
Eventually I suspect English LN fans will start to divide into two groups.
- Those who don’t care if they get an ending to their stories or not and just read stuff irregardless of whether it will be satisfyingly completed
- Those who wait to see if a series goes a certain distance in Japan before starting a series.
I think there’s room in the market for both approaches, though those with the second approach will likely get burned a few times before solidifying their approach.
