Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Any word on how many licenses are being announced?
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There will be a panel at AnimeNYC on Saturday the 20th at 6:30 pm Eastern Time.
There will also be announcements on twitter, and plenty of conversation in Discord (link available on the bottom of the page on J-Novel.Club)
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@myskaros said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
@silver-sugar-duchess Unfortunately, we are completely swamped getting things ready to go for AnimeNYC, so we just don't really have time to do hints this round :(
Since there are no hints this around I shall just have to make random guesses mwahahah:
Now all that's left to do is to await the announcements and see how wrong I turn out to be...
“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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I'm going to go with five anime series I liked that have absolutely no hope of being acquired:
- Campione!
- If Her Flag Breaks (Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara)
- Kino's Journey
- Maoyuu Maou Yuusha
- Problem Children are Coming from Another World, Aren't They? (Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?)
(See: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/1156/read-first-compiled-list-of-existing-suggestion-topics?page=1)
I predict that the accuracy of my guesses for new LN titles will be slightly less than 0%
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My two biggest hopes are Isekai Yururi Kikou (unlikely as it's an alphapolis license) and Rebuild World. But JNC's licenses have been pretty good overall, I think there's always been at least one thing they announce that I end up buying.
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I really hope they announce Sugar Apple Fairy Tale!!!
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@jpwong - JNC has a great track record of getting me to read and then buy series that I'd never have picked up from a paragraph description or even a too-short kindle sample from Amazon.
I wish other publishers had the equivalent of prepubs and catch-up months to lure me into buying more of their books.
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My wishlist:
- Kino's Journey
- Ascendance of a Bookworm sides stories
- Death Mage who doesn't want a 4th time
- SukaMoka (sequal to WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? aka SukaSuka)
- Crest/Banner of the Stars Anthology
I doubt the first will get licensed, but I would be ecstatic if it did.
Assuming the fanbooks sell well I expect the second will eventually get licensed by J-Novel Club.
During the hanashi media test site hullabaloo it sounded like the third may have been in the works by some other company, but I suspect Seven Seas is a more likely licensor if so, since they have one other work with the same publisher. The covers are kind of risque, unfortunately, so I imagine it might cause some amazon problems.
The fourth would be Yen Press if anyone picked it up since they have SukaSuka, but I'm not too hopeful on that front.
The last would of course be JNC if anyone picked it up, but idk if Crest/Banner has done well enough for it to make business sense for JNC to get it.
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@yumenokage said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
SukaMoka (sequel to WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? aka SukaSuka)
I liked that anime, how are the English LNs if you've read them?
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@harmlessdave said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
I liked that anime, how are the English LNs if you've read them?
The first three are fantastic (and make up the anime). And then the ending of the anime happens and my enjoyment for the rest of the series is greatly diminished. Not bad, just...not as good.
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@harmlessdave I picked the LNs up after the anime, and liked them quite a bit. They're give a bit of a different point of view (more Willem-focused) than the anime (more Chtholly-focused), and have more detail, including about what the past was like and what the leprechauns are. They're also even more brutal/tragic than the anime.
As GeorgeMTO mentioned, the anime basically lines up with books 1–3, although I'd definitely recommend reading from the beginning. I personally thought books 4–5 were fine.
There's also an EX volume with side stories following the various wielders of Seniorious.
My understanding is that SukaMoka picks up after a timeskip and deals more with the younger leprechauns, at least initially, but I don't know too much about it beyond that.
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Thanks @yumenokage and @georgemto
One of the things stopping me from trying the LNs is that the anime was good, but also depressing. It sounds like I should be in the mood for that when I read them.
(Sometimes Girls Last Tour hits the spot, others I want something lighter like Dragon Daddy Diaries or Demon Lord Retry.)
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@lily-garden said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
@myskaros said in Acquisitions Speculation - General:
@silver-sugar-duchess Unfortunately, we are completely swamped getting things ready to go for AnimeNYC, so we just don't really have time to do hints this round :(
Since there are no hints this around I shall just have to make random guesses mwahahah:
Now all that's left to do is to await the announcements and see how wrong I turn out to be...
We both turned out so wrong... When will we finally see Sugar Apple Fairy Tale getting licensed!!!
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Isn't it slowly time for the next (small) licensing announcement?
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"Late winter" so perhaps soon.
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@silver-sugar-duchess We definitely have a lot of series that we're working on that we haven't announced yet. Almost a pile up really.
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@admin - the last wave was a great batch of licenses even if a few were not my cup of tea. I'm looking forward to the late winter license storm :)
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@admin That sounds very promising. I hope there will be a few light novels I will like. Unfortunately there wasn‘t really one in the last batch.
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@admin What I forgot to ask, will there be hints again? They are always so much fun.
