Acquisitions Speculation - General
-
Quite happy about this announcements panel. I think I'll read most of them. Also happy about having more romcoms.
Hopefully we'll have another Black Friday sale this month, I'll need those credits...
And with Softbank, more chances of OreShura. -
Anyone who wants more info on these, this article gives good details:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-11-14/j-novel-club-adds-5-light-novels-2-manga/.166328This is the biggest announcement for me in a long time. Love seeing more RomCom and everything here looks at least with checking out. Wish I had more time!
-
I wonder if Sam plans on doing a Rokujouma with the translating of Sponger Life and Tomodachi no Imouto. Lots of fan-translated series can be stiff/bad, but I thought these two were really well done. I'll definitely buy them.
-
I was really surprised to see so many romcoms licensed, I assumed we'd at least have to wait a while how well Social Game did before we got any more.
-
Huh, I'd seen Der Werewolf's manga a while back, didn't realize until now that JNC was doing that LN. Guess I'll have to wait a while for it to come around on catchup again to see if it's interesting enough for me to warrant following it.
Well I consider having one title I'm planning to follow on a more romance oriented licensing reveal to be pretty good since I'm generally more inclined to go after fantasy rpg/isekai/sci fi titles.
-
@jpwong said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
Huh, I'd seen Der Werewolf's manga a while back, didn't realize until now that JNC was doing that LN. Guess I'll have to wait a while for it to come around on catchup again to see if it's interesting enough for me to warrant following it.
Just saying, Der Werwolf is one of my favorite series. Before I started working at JNC, I waited until all the parts for volume 1 were released, binged it one night, and immediately slapped down a premium credit for it.
-
I'm sure everybody has seen by now, Seven Seas having a licensing event on the 30th to debut their new novel label name, Airship (think more Yen On than JNC Heart; a label name for all the LN they license that separates them from their normal Seven Seas manga logo and brand).
Kinda curious what they could grab.
-
@Terrence
That's definitely an interesting bit of news. Can't wait to see what new titles they might have snagged. -
Am I the only one currently craving for surprise licenses from J-Novel Club? I want more surprise licenses!!! I want more fantasy novels, more romance novels, more isekai novels and more gaming novels!!!!!!
-
They haven't even finished putting out v1s from their previous set of announcements. I can wait a little longer for more.
-
For when are the next announcements scheduled? 6 of the series I'm reading will end soon and I'm needing new ones. 12 ongoing series left isn't enough for me.
-
Hmm MicroMagazine is advertising "Mynoghra the Apocalypsis - World conquest by Civilization of Ruin" as licensed in English, but it's not announced for a publisher yet.
-
@LegitPancake Same thing happened with Pupil Of The Wiseman. In that case Seven Seas announced the license a few months later. As long as Slow Press didn't get it I'm good. Maybe Tantei Books? They have a few license announcements coming up.
-
@LegitPancake
Is there anyway J novel can get the liscene right for it? I’m really interested in the LN after reading the manga. -
@Tk67 The rights have already been sold. There's of course the possibility that J-Novel is the one that got it, but if they weren't, then there's nothing they can do about it.
-
@Tk67 @LegitPancake Seven Seas Entertainment just recently announced two new light novel licenses, but this one wasn‘t included in that. So the chances aren‘t low that it actually got licensed by another publisher.
-
@Liber-Monstrorum They're going to be announcing licenses through the end of the month, so it's too soon to say, and in any case there's no reason to believe that it's going to be announced soon anyway. Whoever has it could keep it to themselves until they have a translator assigned and a translated title or whatnot.
-
So it is licensing month at Seven Seas Entertainment? Yen Press recently released a bunch of new licenses too. JNC will do it in April, if I‘m correct?
-
Tentai has a license March 17th too.
First license hint already up (something like "How many times you can you say I Love You without your cheeks blushing in embarrassment").
-
Seven Seas got Loner Life in Another World. That's a good one. The manga is already coming out in English(Kaiten Books).
