Acquisitions Speculation - General
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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 🤷♀️
It's just so much fun to see people guesses whenever that happens 😊 -
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
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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.
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@Terrence so I don’t see the news posted anywhere. Which is the Romcom? Want to follow that for sure
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