Acquisitions Speculation - General

yumenokage

Looking at Anime NYC's panel schedule, these seem to be the only light novel industry ones, and are all on Saturday (tomorrow).

Square Enix 1:30-2:20 PM EST
Yen Press 4:30-5:30 PM EST
JNC 6:30-7:30 PM EST

Nosgoroth

Ahh, too late in the night for me in CET. I'll have to find out what happened Sunday morning.

CaramelWithoutTheSalt

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dargonsUnited

Squeenix licensing kusuriya is pretty cool even though it is just the manga from what I can tell. None of their other stuff seems interesting to me though

Raitoiro

Some guy did a thread with square enix announcements on Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/VLordGTZ/status/1195780805718622208

dargonsUnited

https://twitter.com/yenpress/status/1195816764183130118
holy shit yen press got High School DxD

Now thats one that I didn't expect in a million years

custodes

A few great licenses, but Quiet Life is one I am most happy with as I loved the Web novel.

Raitoiro

Not really hype for any license aside from maybe 3 days of happiness.
But good for all those people who finally get Hight school DxD.
Ps: Can we have an other miracles and get some Fate LN ^^

Hyperion

I'm the most excited for Three Days of Happiness, after that Quiet Life and maybe that Leadale one.

Here's the light novel licenses from Yen Press for those that don't use Twitter or the Discord:

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High School DxD, story by Ichiei Ishibumi, art by Miyama-Zero (#lightnovel): Issei Hyoudou’s perverted life is filled with dreams of having a harem, but then one of his dates ends with his murder! He’s revived, but his school is filled with deadly angels and demons?!

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High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World!, written by Riku Misora, art by Sacraneco (#manga): After crash landing in a foreign land filled with magic and monsters, seven of Japan’s high school geniuses wonder, how much are they allowed to mess around?

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The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy, written by Yu Shimizu, art by Asagi Tosaka (#lightnovel): A powerful demon lord is sealed away for 1,000 years, but when he awakens, he is reincarnated as…a 10-year-old boy?! Now Leonis must navigate the Excalibur Academy!

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Banished from the Heroes’ Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside, written by Zappon, art by Yasumo (#lightnovel): Red was born with incredible powers, and he was ready to join the fight to save the world—but instead, he finds his destiny in an apothecary?

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In the Land of Leadale, written by Ceez, art by Tenmaso (#lightnovel): The last thing she remembers is her life support failing. Her body suffered terribly and the only freedom left came from the VR world Leadale. How did she end up somewhere that looks like her game?

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Three Days of Happiness, by Sugaru Miaki (#lightnovel): In this dark, moody love story, college student Kusunoki decides to sell off the next thirty years of his life at a mysterious shop in exchange for money—and maybe a chance to find something worth living for.

Happy

Holy...

That was extremely unexpected. I have to say Yen Press truly delivered this time. Personally I am interested in 3 novels:

Highschool DxD - well, not all that much needs to be said about this one
I Was Kicked out of the Hero’s Party Because I Wasn’t a True Companion so I Decided to Have a Slow Life at the Frontier - seems to be a fun, laid back SoL series
Excalibur Acadamy - this is actually the author of "Seirei tsukai no Blade Dance", its his new series. I saw it as a potential candidate when it was announced as his new work, and it seems it was a good guess. The story seems interesting enough, and the art seems good, but I honestly don't know how to feel about the protagonist being 10 year old. Hopefully he will grow up as the story progresses.

All that is left now I guess is JNC. I don't know how they will stack up to YP but I really hope for some SoL.

Malloc

Is anyone going to stream J-Novel’s panel?

Terabyte

@malloc Usually @Rahul-Balaggan streams it. Not sure if he will this time too though.

Raitoiro

@malloc Soleone asked on Twitter and apparently there will be a stream
https://mobile.twitter.com/Justin01641780/status/1195414765738303494

Malloc

@raitoiro @Terabyte thanks you two. I will try to watch it live.

Eternal Wanderer

I hope someone posts a link soon.

Hyperion

Panel stream: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lDxLokMAokJm

Timmaaah

Well that was a disappointing set of announcements for me, but the best news of the day was DxD got licensed and YP hit a few others I wanted so I'm still happy.

Raitoiro

Sam didn't lie when it said that it woukd be unknown titles but the whole Legend line up look great, I'm really hype for all of them.
I really don't care about JNC heart tho, aside from the first one (beheading queen resonate with my french spirit ^^).
Also that isekai doujin look really cool.
Overall it look like a great batch of series, I hope most turn out to be as good as they look.

Hyperion

I'm particularly happy there's going to be more shoujo released. The Legends label seems interesting, especially that Isekai Rebuilding Project one.

regex

Several titles are fantasy and potentially have expansive world and over-arching plots. This is good enough. Still hoping that Assassin Pride will be licensed soon.