Acquisitions Speculation - General
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@eternal-wanderer to build up hype for next week
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For those of you who don't Discord:
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Tries to think of series with English titles or series with unedited Japanese titles for anime that are popular enough not to change.
Hmmm intensifies.
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Are there any titles that just consist of a name or other proper noun? Or maybe it could just be titles that already have an official English name from an anime adaptation. Or both. Or a title that was written in English originally (and properly) for whatever reason.
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“Gamers” can be one of em XD
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@hyferzftw said in Acquisitions Speculation - General [AnimeNYC Nov 15-17]:
“Gamers” can be one of em XD
I'd die and automatically revive out of happiness if this was true. Others that come to mind would be High School DxD, Campione and Date a Live but I doubt we'd get those, GAMERS seems much more plausible.
Going for recent stuff with anime adaptations, Assassin's Pride would be a decent guess. On lesser known stuff I'd kill for would be Chronicle Legion, the first 3 volumes were great, with that characteristic style by Takedzuki Jou with lots of historical references.
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My first guess is Cop Craft. Sam got Gatou's other series, and Liz is done with Amaburi so he can release it now and still keep Liz the dedicated Gatou translator.
Second guess is High School DxD. If you take Sam at face value, you'd rule this one out because he said "Calling it now: high school dxd ;)" with respect to guessing Sol's last license. But I think Sam likes misdirection, and it's been over a year (maybe?) since he first mentioned looking at licensing DxD. This is also the only series I can really think of as "winning the convention," which Sam has claimed this batch will do.
Maybe Date A Live could count, but my impression is that its following is much smaller than DxD. (Though neither are my cup of tea, so I may not have the most accurate view)
I think Gamers is a good guess too, though it didn't jump to my mind immediately.
The other "no need to come up with an English title" series that come to my mind (stuff like Campione) I feel have been completed too long ago to be worthwhile licenses.
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My hope are on Sevens, CopCraft or (let's dream) some Fate title, but Assassin pride seems like the best bet.
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 -
I see a bunch of english titles on unknown series.
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@eternal-wanderer Maybe but now that the anime adaptation is out and quite popular he may have changed his mind. Especially since Assassin pride is from a genre and has characters, similar to what a sizeable part of JNC readers like.
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I'll throw Tokyo Ravens into the mix of guesses. Not that I think it has a lot of a chances, but one can hope, eh...
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One title I can think of is “I applied as a swordsman, but my magic is at 9999” or something along those lines that’s my hope at least
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I'm hoping for "I Hate Being in Pain, so I Made a Full Defense Build" or Shield Heroine. That one will probably get an altered title though, doesn't fit for the "we didn't have to do anything to the title" hint.
A few others I'm putting my hopes in JNC getting since I think they'd fit their majority target audience.
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@terrence that’s my other hope right there but as you said that title would need to be changed so that’s why I didn’t mention it
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Sam mentioned that some of them wouldn't have to be changed, not all of them so any unlicensed series is fair game.
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@terrence Oh, that one'd be nice.
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We lack romcoms so hopefully we get some. At least that’s what I hope are some (One at least) of the licenses that we get.
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I think Sam mentioned wanting rom-coms before, but said a lot of them lie behind publishers and labels he didn't have yet.
Hopefully he sweet talked some new labels for this conference. x)
(Gamers, Hensuki, or Oresuki plz; or some wild fun thing we haven't heard of yet).
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Hm, there aren't that many titles that don't need changed for an English audience. Gamers and Cop Craft seem like good guesses.
Wonder how the Marginal Operation manga has been doing for JNC. If it's been okay then the original LN might be an easy target.
Mayyyybe Heavy Object? That's not licensed yet right? I don't care for it but a Kazuma Kamachi title might be seen as a feather in the cap for JNC.
Edit: Wait a minute Slayers doesn't require a new title
