Acquisitions Speculation - General
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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/
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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. -
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
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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.
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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.
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@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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@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/
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@LegitPancake Thanks, didn't find one either, and LNDB is gone so...
As for the second hint, Galoob is a toy company that made Game Genie, to Cheat on games. And Lamp because of a Genie's Lamp.
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ok I'm looking at the 4th title:
the first hint are sub-atomic particles, physics type stuff
the 2nd hint - could be a reference to John Templeton (actually to whoever his Japanese equivalent is) John Templeton was a billionaire investment banker/philanthropist- but I think more relevant is that his foundation has as one of it's missions resolving the schism between faith (the spiritual) and science --could this be one of those 'rational magic' type series? Something like Ghostbusters or Girl Genius? (I know both of those are western examples - but that's the type of trope I'm thinking of...) -
Glad to know Instant death is a likely candidate, it's a pretty fun novel with a cool worldbuilding but the fantranslation is terrible, so reading it in proper English will be a welcome change.
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the 2nd title:
Ya know Dr. Stone has a LN series, the 2nd volume was just published"not a philospher" ...MC is a scientist
"you're breaking up" a plot point (at least in the anime) how folks emerge from being encased in stone...and MC created crystal 2-way radios...I read banned books
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@LegitPancake said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
@Crimson-Wise Is there not a JNC suggestion thread for this novel? I don't see one.
It was mentioned a couple of times but that was before separate suggestion threads were a thing.
Incidentally, Liz translated WN's title as "My Instakill Cheat Is Too Strong and These Fantasy World Guys Don’t Stand a Chance" in NeeChuu's afterword here 2.5 years ago.
