Acquisitions Speculation - General
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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.
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A couple new series announced at Virtual Otakuthon 2020:
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1294788410180341762
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1294788900955852802They'll be starting around the end of the month!
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So now that Date a Live and Highschool DxD are here, what does light novel Twitter clamor for next?
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Guin Saga
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Now I wonder if I need to meme the hell out of Akashic Records to get it licensed *sigh*
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New licences being announced on Friday.
https://twitter.com/jnovelclub/status/1313199899274608643?s=19
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Hooray! New stuff!😄✨🎆🎉😊
......not gonna lie though, I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get some hints on the announcement page this time 🤷♀️
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Hopefully one of them is Kenja
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Ghostly Good Time? Hmmm...
(I'd like some more horror, but if that's a hint, maybe something like Holy Grail of Eris that has a ghost as a major character in a more traditional Fantasy / royalty based setting).
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I’m not big on horror, but I think I’d be a little disappointed if the majority of October announcements were anything else. It just wouldn’t feel right.
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There are no hints for our announcements this time.
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I hope we get a Bofuri announcement, I"m amazed that no one has licensed that series yet.
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My fear is someone like Sol Press has licensed it and is just sitting on it like they did for Chivalry.
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@catstorm yeah Sol press are the destroyer of dreams and licences...
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@Eternal-Wanderer I recall Sam mentioning at some point that his bid for Bofuri was rejected(?). I might remember wrong though (or he was just messing around maybe, lol).
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@Terabyte
You remember right but that was before they did print so it might change. -
Stream has started
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I was pretty happy with the announcements. In for some fun stuff (Yuri and Dungeon Busters) and our first real world romcom.
