Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Fortunately both licenses are right up to my taste, but I‘m a bit disappointed that they announced only two new licenses and one of them is additional material.
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For me the greatest news was the fact that Sam is in Japan for business reasons. Meaning he's probably negotiating new licenses for new series and/or licensing new volumes for current series.
JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
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@pcj
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@BartzBB Yeah. This gives me great hope for the next round future licences.
Anyway I'm not surprised that the Bookworm fanbook is liscenced but I kind of didn't expect it to happen so soon. Is it going to be released part by part like any other LN or is something different going to happen given that it's a fanbook?
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I'm kinda surprised that Seirei Gensouki didn't have a physical version announced since its also getting an anime.
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@Eternal-Wanderer it already has one announced and is coming out next month. Unfortunately it's a 2 volume omnibus though.
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I usually always check a few titles from each new batch but this time it's been really disappointing. There's only 1 really new license and then all print announcements.
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Yeah it was a bit disappointing, maybe j novel club saw everyone else doing announcements and just went welp guess we should too.
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@Terabyte I'm in a sense a little relieved, I'm already reading 20 or 30 series so having 4 or 5 new titles on top of that would be a lot to manage. Yes I would have enjoyed checking out 5 new series but for right now I'm satisfied with 1 new just from a practical standpoint.
“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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@Lily-Garden said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
@Terabyte I'm in a sense a little relieved, I'm already reading 20 or 30 series so having 4 or 5 new titles on top of that would be a lot to manage. Yes I would have enjoyed checking out 5 new series but for right now I'm satisfied with 1 new just from a practical standpoint.
That's true too... 😅
A bunch of series will be gone from the schedule soon though (either catching up or ending; Game Club just caught up for example and Combat Baker ends in 3 parts) so I would have had a bit of leeway to check out new ones.
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@Lily-Garden From its licensing suggestion thread (which I assume is partially info revealed on the stream, didn't watch it myself)
When and what part of the book will be streamed is not determined yet, according to the announcement.
Print will be available Oct 5, 2021.
Subsequent fan books will be worked on at the right spoiler free timing
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/2930/ascendance-of-a-bookworm-official-fanbooks/58
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so, my next question is when will the special, limited edition, 4-hole tortoise shell "stab" bound, version be released? (preferably on archival/artisanal mulberry paper)?
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@Lily-Garden Indeed, I've only recently caught up after the last round of licences.
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@Lily-Garden
I feel your pain. I too have been struggling to keep up with all of the series that I'm following, so getting a short list was a bit if a relief. I'm to the point now that if certain titles that I REALLY want to read come out I will have to sit back and decide on which titles I will inevitably have to drop. It's a sad reality that I am and most likely will have to face. -
I just found out that Culinary Chronicles is from Kadokawa Beans. So this means Kadokawa titles are not as untouchable as people used to believe? Can I start hoping for more licenses from among these?
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@nofairytale
It's not that Kadokawa is 'untouchable'. It's more like thanks to JNC's track record they can finally step into the negotiation table with Kadokawa. -
I hope Tentai builds up a track record enough to do the same. (Obviously going to need more staffing to reach that point though, and we need to see if they can capitalize on their success with Side Character with future romcom).
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@Lily-Garden I would be happy with a little bit more. I currently have 20 light novel series in my library and 5 light novels have already ended (well, besides one novel they got more likely canceled by the japanese publisher) and 4 are ending soon.
@lighthawk96 If it's about physical books I could so understand you, but if it's about ebooks, I can't get enough.
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Neither can I. But it's not about storage space, it's about the lack of time in the day and dollars in my wallet that is POTENTIALLY holding me back. -
I wouldn't mind having had a few more announcements, with a number of my follows about to or actually are caught up with Japan, I foresee myself going from too much to read to too little to read soon. I also can't imagine that fanbook getting much of a prepub (if at all). How many parts can you split a QA into, since I don't think they'll put up the images.
But if Sam's in Japan for work, maybe we can look forward to another set of announcements in a few months. Not like they need to hold back announcements for anime cons this year. I'm really hoping JNC can pull a surprise reveal that they've opened negotiations with AlphaPolis since the last "update" on the subject that seems to be around on the forums is from years ago that they wouldn't even meet with JNC to discuss the possibility of licensing anything.
