Acquisitions Speculation - General
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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. -
@Jon-Mitchell said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
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...Myskaros says the hints are all intended to reference the title, not plot points.
Edit: For the Japanese Templeton, I proposed it may be a reference to Charlotte's Web.
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Gonna go out on a limb and make a called shot or
fourthree:1: 公爵令嬢は騎士団長(62)の幼妻 ("The Duke's Daughter Is the Knight Captain's (62) Young Wife") (shoutout to Mental Potato on the J-NC Discord, who I saw mention this)
2: 魔法世界の受付嬢になりたいです ("I Want to Be a Receptionist of The Magic World")
3: 即死チートが最強すぎて、異世界のやつらがまるで相手にならないんですが。 ("The Other World Doesn't Stand a Chance Against The Power of Instant Death"... or perhaps "My Instakill Cheat Is Too Strong and These Fantasy World Guys Don’t Stand a Chance"?)
4: 異世界に落とされた…浄化は基本！ ("I Got Dropped Into Another World... and Purifying It Is Elementary!", maybe?)Confidence levels are something like 3 > 2 > 1
>>> 4.edit: I'm pre-emptively nuking my pick for 4, given that I have absolutely no confidence in it after coming back a few hours later. If anyone has any suggestions for that license, I'd love to hear them — my hunch is that the second clue is an A-Team reference, but I can't figure out exactly how. ("Face"?)
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Hmm, if it’s like this, I don’t think there is anything for me this time, what a pity...
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@Liber-Monstrorum
You do know that those 4 are only part of the new batch of series.Here the exact words from the Announcement page:
Here are some hints for our upcoming stream, but they aren't the only new titles we'll be announcing! Tune in to our Twitter and Facebook on July 3rd for the full unveiling of these mystery titles!
So keep your hopes up that the others will be to your liking.
My guess as to why they only have 4 series with hints are:
- They weren't able to make hints for the other titles.
- The others are too popular that any hints would be obvious.
- The others are fan favorites so they want it to be a surprise.
- Just for fun.
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@BartzBB But what if the unannounced titles are only manga? I’m not fond of manga in ebook format, so I hope they will announce more light novel titles.
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The 4th hint could be Ben-To:
- "To" is a Japanese Particle
- Japanese Templeton -> Franklin Templeton Investments (google result / has Japanese branch) -> traded as BEN on the stock market
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@Lake seems a stretch but hades I'd love you to be right as I've wanted that one for years...
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Oh hell yes! At least one of those is on point! Both the light novel and the manga! Hell Yeah! Thanks for licensing Black Summoner!
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kinda disappointing round of announcements for me, a couple of titles i will give a chance but nothing I'm actually excited for.
Ho hum can't always get what you want, I'll just hope for better luck next time.
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This time I got disappointed, there is nothing really for me... I might check out The Sorcerer’s Receptionist and Slayers though.
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I feel really stupid for not getting the Zelenograd hint. I know I thought about googling that exact combination of words and just...didn't.
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Although it was fun to get so many series at once it also feels kinda overwhelming, I'm kinda worried some of these new licenses won't catch on here because they might get lost in the shuffle. It would be a shame since I really enjoy reading the discussions here.
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The website and app upgrades are the best announcement of the bunch.
Some licenses are/sound interesting like Instant death, Holmes and Bloodlines, but the rest is kinda meh.
Slayers will probably attracted a whole new fringe of readers so that pretty cool. -
While there wasn't anything I was dying for or what I would have had in my top ten wants, most everything that got licensed I had on the wishlist (outside of the two black robed character series in Gluttony and Black Summoner, the anime based titles, and the Minotaur and Bloodline ones I never heard of). Holmes of Kyoto in particular a good sign for mystery. So I was pretty happy.
People are really down on Failure Frame as a "clone", huh? I always liked the look of the art, though that's subjective, and I try not to look too deeply into a story before I've read it to give it my full attention / as blind a reaction as possible, so I didn't realize this was the title folks were talking about.
Even if it's a "clone", the girl on the cover appears not to be a Loli, so that already is a big superficial difference. And a lot of titles do that "they threw me off into a pit to die, but I just became stronger / changed my hairstyle / came back for revenge", so I wouldn't begrudge it that set-up necessarily. A lot of set-ups in LN follow similar formula (Meet god, god gave me these OP / crap abilities, I wake up in the forest and save a girl, etc), and then they settle in after.
