Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Mixed feelings hearing that SOL Press got Rakudai. I'm happy that it got licensed since it's a big title that has been begging to be localized. But at the same time, SP does not have a good LN track record. It's nice they are releasing V1-3 in just two weeks on the same day (no word yet on physicals I don't think), but their distribution of paperbacks is horrendous, and everything is always out of stock on amazon (not to mention no bookstore or rightstuf), and they take nearly a full year to release volume 2 for many of their series. They have 17 volumes to go (with more probably coming out in Japan), so we'll see I guess.
Also...
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The following is my personal opinion fully understanding that they are trying to release this series at a decent pace.
Today is the darkest day in overseas Light Novel history...
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I would have preferred any other publisher to get it, but I'm glad that at least someone picked it up.
It's always been one of the most requested series, and now I'm wondering why the other company's didn't pick it up is SP was able to.
Only thing I can think of is that the licence was too expensive for the others and SP wanted a big licence name to actually sell some books. -
@timmaaah said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:
Only thing I can think of is that the licence was too expensive for the others and SP wanted a big licence name to actually sell some books.
That will only matter if they come around to actually release the damn thing. Given their track record so far, 17 volumes and SP mix like oil and water...
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Given my policy of buying official translations for series I've read the fan-translation of, I'll buy them. But yeah...
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This is a disaster, I always thought it was just an impossible license because no one picked it up despite the popularity.
But now sol press got it which has to be the english publisher with the absolute worst reputation and track record.
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I am really curious what happened with this license. Did it get priced out of profitability for other pubs, did Sol have some connection we don't know about, or did Sol sit on the license for a long while and just now announce it?
Or was it just a license publishers in the West didn't want to take a chance on for some reason?
We'll probably never know
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@terrence Looking at Sol Press' releases, and them suddenly dropping 3 volumes two weeks after announcement, they had likely already licensed this years ago and YP/JNC/SS couldn't tell everyone that it's already been picked up before Sol Press announced it or were just refused by the publisher on licensing it.
This actually makes me worried about other series with popular requests like Akashic Records/Date A Live :P
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@terrence they got it thanks to SentaiFilmWorks
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@theredjet I know Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime but what do they have to do with the Sol Press?
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@eternal-wanderer Probably had a contact with them with a connection to the LN somehow. Their twitter announcement even publicly thanks Sentai: https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1190771869009502209
Special thanks to @SentaiFilmworks for helping arrange this announcement!
How they "helped arrange" the announcement is the question.
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@tusf Sentai may have referred the publisher to them/help them get in contact with the publisher.
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@tusf At the panel, the license was announced with a trailer that was basically the anime OP. As Sentai owns the anime license and would have to be the one to approve the usage of said OP as an "announcement" trailer, that's arguably all the involvement Sentai has in "helping arrange" the announcement.
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I do kinda wonder what Sentai has to gain from this but whatever at least were getting it.
On another note I gotta say I'm a fan of releasing releasing multiple volumes at once to get past where the anime left off, hopefully Sol Press is able to keep a consistent schedule for future volumes (though I'm not too optimistic on that front.)
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@eternal-wanderer said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:
I do kinda wonder what Sentai has to gain from this
There's folks that don't watch the anime until they read the LNs. I don't think it's a demonstrably large amount of folks, but it's potential sales nonetheless.
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I have absolutely no faith in Slow Press, I wouldn't be surprised if they had the licence for a long time and are only publishing the first 3 volumes now, at once to hide their terrible publishing pace and attract fan of the anime who likely don't know about their reputation.
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I mean, there's pessimism, then there's flat-out paranoia.
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Every Sol Press announcement is a reason to be happy instead of sad that it isn't a title I care about. :) Strongest Gamer was the only halfway decent one and I still wouldn't be terribly disappointed if two volumes is all there will ever be.
Well, I do hope for the sake of all those Rakudai fans that they turn the new page starting with this series. -
If you look up the definition of paranoia it reads:
An unrealistic distrust of others or a feeling of being persecuted.
This is not unrealistic, Sol Press has a history, (I am not using this term with a negative connotation) everything they have done in the past will paint their future whether they want it to or not.
True time will tell how well Rakudai is handled, and if they can give all their titles the attention they deserve. On the other hand if they focus solely on that 1 big name they will still not be regarded as a “good” company because they locked up so many other titles, big or not...
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