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    • Rahul BalagganR
      Rahul Balaggan Staff
      last edited by

      Just a reminder that J-Novel Club will be live in less then 15 minutes on Twitch

      https://www.twitch.tv/jnovelclub

      Sorry but J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on any potential licensing decision or acquisitions.
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      • G
        GHDpro
        last edited by GHDpro

        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):
        https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1273730308861505542

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        • NosgorothN
          Nosgoroth Premium Member @GHDpro
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          @GHDpro Yeah, same. I'll just have to wake up to the news.

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          • Silver Sugar DuchessS
            Silver Sugar Duchess
            last edited by Silver Sugar Duchess

            Will we get hints again? It was really fun the last time.

            💖Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn - then be a unicorn!💖

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            • Rahul BalagganR
              Rahul Balaggan Staff @Silver Sugar Duchess
              last edited by

              @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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              • Lily GardenL
                Lily Garden Member @Rahul Balaggan
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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 😁

                “There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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                • TerrenceT
                  Terrence Premium Member
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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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                  • Lily GardenL
                    Lily Garden Member
                    last edited by

                    Hints are up! 😁😄😆

                    Y'all got any guesses?

                    “There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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                    • piisfunP
                      piisfun Member @Lily Garden
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                      @Lily-Garden #4

                      Something with science as a theme. Those are all subatomic particles.

                      No idea on the others

                      Green's Theorem

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                        sniper_samurai Premium Member
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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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                        • saffireS
                          saffire Premium Member
                          last edited by saffire

                          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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                          • ApollonA
                            Apollon Member @saffire
                            last edited by Apollon

                            @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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                            • saffireS
                              saffire Premium Member @Apollon
                              last edited by saffire

                              @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/

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                              • WellwisherW
                                Wellwisher @saffire
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                                @saffire That one was not me, but Aruseus493. I just provided a link.
                                Tbh, hint 3 can be anything depending on how one would spin it, from Hulk to King of Queens.

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                                • stardf29S
                                  stardf29 Premium Member
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                                  This might be a possibility for the fourth hint: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1479/when-we-go-to-a-different-world-we-first-confirm-the-law-of-physics-oretachi-wa-isekai-ni-ittara-mazu-massakini-butsuri-hosoku-o-kakunin-suru?_=1593208571937

                                  MAL
                                  Beneath the Tangles (the blog I write for)

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                                  • myskarosM
                                    myskaros Staff
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                                    2nd round of hints are up!

                                    Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.

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                                    • TheGrimLichT
                                      TheGrimLich Member
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                                      OK, so Galoob were the creators of the Game Genie. And while he's most famous as the Hulk, Lou Ferrigno also played Sinbad the Sailor a couple years before his return to bodybuilding, so him not needing a stunt double for that movie is totally believable to me.

                                      My grasp on sanity remains absolute.

                                      Oh, right, the poison, the poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. ...That poison?

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                                      • Crimson WiseC
                                        Crimson Wise Premium Member
                                        last edited by Crimson Wise

                                        Went through Discord and saw @stardf29 mentioning Instant Death ("The Other World Doesn't Stand a Chance Against The Power of Instant Death") for the third hint, and... yeah, it's definitely Instant Death.

                                        Quof got a break.
                                        WHAT'S THE STORY WITH THAT FREAKING BLACK DRAGON?!

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                                        • saffireS
                                          saffire Premium Member @Crimson Wise
                                          last edited by

                                          @Crimson-Wise said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:

                                          Went through Discord and saw @stardf29 mentioning Instant Death ("The Other World Doesn't Stand a Chance Against The Power of Instant Death") for the third hint, and... yeah, it's definitely Instant Death.

                                          I would call this one settled, thanks for finding that page.

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                                          • LegitPancakeL
                                            LegitPancake Premium Member @Crimson Wise
                                            last edited by LegitPancake

                                            @Crimson-Wise Is there not a JNC suggestion thread for this novel? I don't see one.
                                            Here's the Bookwalker page though: https://bookwalker.jp/series/89773/
                                            Also what does "Galoob’s lamp" have to do with it?

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