Acquisitions Speculation - General

Rahul Balaggan

@yoshimin when the day arrives and they license Saekano, or Inou Battle it will be all the sweeter.

For now they gotta lay the ground work and for companies like Kadokawa (Saekano) and SoftBank ( inou battle) they are gonna wanna see solid results in the form of sales.

No company will take a chance on something that looks like it will fail, so they wanna wait and see.
J-Novel Club just turned 6 months old, and just today released their 25 Light Novel volume.

I am hoping SoftBank sees good things in J-Novel soon...but I have no hopes for Kadokawa, at least not in the near future.

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sparhawk6

@Rahul-Balaggan

Softbank ... Rakudaaai or Hundred pleaseeee :D

Terrence

I want Inou Battle in Everyday Life too.

Anyone know if it continues past the anime a bit (like what volume the anime ends at, and what they're on now)?

sparhawk6

Well, cute LN from Softbank is also Majo no Tabitabi. There is also Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut, Seiken Tsukai no Kinju Eishou. ( 11 and 19 vol )

WhiteCloud

Yeah....Inou battle and noucome is a good comedy focused series alongside henneko

jeffrey.nic

When is there usually an announcement? Just curious.

Paulo27

@jeffrey.nic Either the announcement page https://j-novel.club/announcements or subscribe to the newsletter and you should get notified for stuff like that.

Rahul Balaggan

@jeffrey.nic

If you wanna look at past announcements (all of these are based on either Forum topics for Vol 1 or the newsletter)

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Clockwork Planet parts 1-3 went online. No time for speculation this time.

sparhawk6

This makes me happy, I read the fan translation and have manga at home. Nice Sam!

erictbar

Surprised that Kodansha let someone other than their sister company into their walled garden of licensing.

Wasn't a fan of the anime though.

But I wonder what else Kodansha has that I might like.

sparhawk6

They have LN from Rakudai author, Ultimate Antihero. That is a good one LN.
Also ecchi Unlimited Fafnir , Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu :D

NeoAnkara

Kinda hoping for something fresh that haven't been translated everywhere else.

Nico

I wonder if I should read Clockwork Planet... I really like the anime, but being more consistent than I've ever been reading 9 books that are not any kind of comic... can I make a 10th and be okay with my choice, not knowing what awesome stuff is still in store?

sparhawk6

@Nico Clockwork planet LN is pretty good actually. Anime is not really good adaptation. Also, there are only 4 volumes out. Sames author as NGNL so he have lots stuffs to do. (Vol 4 came out over 1 year back)

Nico

@sparhawk6 Eh... not really that fussed over whether something adapts the source well, since I'd hardly have enough time to check out the source of everything I watch.

More so just want something to be enjoyable enough in the medium it is, as the medium it is, and I think it's decent enough at that. Of course, that's a lot easier to say without having actually read the source, and I can't do that with most things, but I probably will for this.

Rahul Balaggan

@sparhawk6 is it over at 4 volumes?

Or is it still ongoing and only 4 volumes were released.

Volume 4 came out in December of 2015.

If the story is not over it looks like it will never release a 5th volume.

sparhawk6

@Rahul-Balaggan Well, on bookwalker is vol 4 out 15th January 2016, but no, vol 4 is not the last one. Vol 5 simply didn´t came out yet. (As I say author is working on NGNL, don´t forget that movie is coming next month. Vol 10 NGNL came out at the end of 2016. Also I read somewhere that author is sick or something.)

@Nico Well, this LN is actually pretty good. I really recommend to read it.

Cynigami

@Rahul-Balaggan

It is at volume 4 and still ongoing. Pretty sure it wouldn't get an anime and manga adaptation if the author had dropped it. Yuu Kamiya just has too much to do, I guess. No Game No Life hasn't been updated in a year either. Volume 5 will probably be released long before we catch up.

Rahul Balaggan

@sparhawk6 & @Hakomari

You have my thanks.