Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Moist, soft, slippery makes me think of Ore to Kawazu-san no Isekai Hourouki
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"J’étais une grande personne" could hints at the light novel version of Sweet Reincarnation, it would explain the use of french for the hint since it's a story about pastry and cuisine and some of the names are french.
Plus "J’étais une grande personnel" can mean "I was a great person" or "I was an adult" and Pas was both a world-class chef even describe (at least in the WN) as a gifted by god, and he also used to be an adult but is now a child. -
@Eternal-Wanderer Alphapolis? I wouldn't get your hopes up...
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I hope there will be a J-Novel Club Heart novel too.
@Terrence Didn’t this already get licensed?
@Raitoiro “J‘étais une grande personne” could also very well mean Isekai Yakkyoku. The protagonist was an adult when he died from overworking and got reincarnated as a child in a medieval fantasy world mainly based on France. And he was a renowned doctor in his previous life.
It could also mean Fake Cinderella. The protagonist was an adult when she died and got reincarnated as a child in a world loosely based on France too. -
@Clarabelle
Only the manga for Demon King Academy has been licensed so far.
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"When the magic fades..." could mean a J-Novel Club Heart title, specifically The Redemption of the Blue Rose Princess. The heroine, a queen is madly in love with her husband the king and sees him and all what he does through rose colored glasses. Only right before her cruel death, she realizes he did never loved her and even had an affair the whole time. Her whole world collapses after that realization. The magic of love faded, it was never there in the first place...
On another thought, "J'étais une grande personne" could also mean Musketeer Rouge. Although the heroine doesn't know it at first, she was/is originally of pretty high status. And the world is also loosely based on a medieval France too. -
It’s possible that “When the magic fades...” could refer to Legend, where a soul from another world is summoned to keep certain magic from being lost entirely. The more I think about the hint, the more convincing I find the romance interpretation, but I enjoy guessing.
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Just a reminder that J-Novel Club will be live in less then 15 minutes on Twitch
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Weird that nobody has mentioned this yet as it's been on Reddit for a few hours, but J-Novel Club & Yen Press will have virtual Anime Expo panels (on Twitch) on July 3rd:
https://www.anime-expo.org/plan/schedule/
The timing for the J-Novel Club panel is a bit unfortunate for Europeans though, that's like 2 AM Saturday for me. I'm not going to stay up that late.
Edit: New licenses confirmed for J-Novel Club (no surprise here, Quarkboy already said as much at the stream earlier this month):
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@GHDpro Yeah, same. I'll just have to wake up to the news.
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Will we get hints again? It was really fun the last time.
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@Liber-Monstrorum Hints coming Friday (tomorrow)
Sorry but J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on any potential licensing decision or acquisitions.
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@Rahul-Balaggan Hooray, I love the hints; my favorite part of the way J-novel.club does licensing announcements is that they put up hints first so we can get together and guess what the new series will be 😁
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It's a lot of fun.
And usually I guess them when I've just about given up (I guessed the zombie one on Justus' Discord after someone told me itchy tasty was a Resident Evil thing + cause I recalled time being in the title + the whole "when the magic fades" being the main character's fantasy world fading to stark reality when taking off the VR set [but I thought for sure I was wrong], and JNC Discord I guessed Welcome to Japan Ms Elf cause Abe's solution to the birthrate / unmarried men / population issue would be importing women from a fantasy world).
The more cryptic the better. Then you can wow at the solution. But too hard and you get no guesses. All things in balance. x)
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Hints are up! 😁😄😆
Y'all got any guesses?
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@Lily-Garden #4
Something with science as a theme. Those are all subatomic particles.
No idea on the others
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#3 probably involves a muscle bound protagonist giving that Lou Ferrigno played the Incredible Hulk.
#2 is probably a reference to a sorcerer due to the title change in the US of the first Harry Potter book.
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Hint 1: Zelenograd is a Russian city known for electronics. SSSS makes me think of Gridman.
Hint 2: Piggybacking off of sniper_samurai, the Philosopher's Stone in Japanese is "kenja no ishi", so "sage" is also on the table if we believe it's a HP reference.
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@saffire Hint 2 might relate to Wise Man's Grandchild (Kenja no Mago), in that case. JNC has already licensed titles from that publisher before, so it's a possibility.
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@Apollon Discord (cibastian) has also proposed "Yuukyuu no Gusha Ashley no, Kenja no susume"'
For the third hint, Aruseus493 put forward this one: https://bookwalker.jp/dedd602cdd-868d-4657-9a7c-7dc690dd9b92/
