Acquisitions Speculation - General
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Wow, snuck that title in there right at the end of the month! Turns out that "maybe" wasn't like your mom saying "We'll see, maybe we'll go to Disney World next Summer". xP
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A speculation thread is already up and running on reddit for the new J-Novel license hints, but I'll post them here for any who want to speculate here:
- It happens to me all the time...
- Half an Army of Evil
- They Usually Appear Around Lv 3
- Not a light novel
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- Not a light novel
O.o
Yay! This opens up a whole world of license possibilities if they start getting novel-novels.
- It happens to me all the time...
Progressive something or other?
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For not a light novel, the popular one that comes to mind is Hyouka. But I remember Sam talking about trying to get a book that was some kind of non-fiction (I don't remember exactly what it was, but I thought it had some kind of well-known author in terms of manga/anime), so that's perhaps more likely.
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@hatguy12 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [5 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED! 2 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED!]:
For not a light novel, the popular one that comes to mind is Hyouka.
I was thinking Shiki or Shin Sekai No Yori.
Of course, that's just wishful thinking on my part.
I think we should probably look at alternate labels from publishers we're already getting for that novel.
On a side note, someone said Sam mentioned the new horror books he got haven't exceeded expectations. I do wonder if that is in part because they're adaptations of videogames, not original light novels. I mean, most of the time, I'd prefer to participate with the original source (hence avoiding manga and anime adaptations of light novels / Visual Novels).
Of course, it's still early to judge those since they're relatively new, right?
I read An Oni on here, so I probably won't grab that. I'm going to pick up Yume Nikki with a credit (but debating if I should run through the game on my own first before reading the book).
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Hm, I'm wondering if the Kodansha Box titles would count as “not a light novel”. They would have some interesting titles like Umineko. However, considering Sam it might as well be a LN about a heavy character or about a very dark place.
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Someone was speculating on Reddit the novel could be The Perfect Insider. I think that's Kodansha label.
I really am curious about it, though I wonder how that series would hold up for the long haul (Is there romance? Do the mysteries stay self-contained, or do stories ever extend into multiple volumes or have lots of set up between volumes?). I'm definitely interested though.
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@hatguy12 Where did you find that page? I can’t seem to navigate there from the main site.
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I'm not sure when or if it was ever linked from the main site. It was probably in twitter at some point. It's linked in the first post of this forum thread and in the reddit post.
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Well honestly I can’t wait.
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@legitpancake I don't have a direct link within the site itself.
It's designed to be linked to in social media posts and newsletters when I update things.
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any word on "what's wrong with a great hero being jobless" ?? J-novel already have grimgar and its in the same universe.
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@yog1389 Looks like there hasn't been a release for the series in almost 3 years. It may be cancelled/dropped.
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@aruseus493 that sucks :(
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@hyferzftw Yea. :(
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@aruseus493 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [5 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED! 2 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED!]:
@hyferzftw Yea. :(
That's like when I saw that neat Death Need Round series only had three volumes and last released in 2015 (and I don't think the last release said anything in the description about "final" or "last"). Completely moved it off my list of stuff I want. T.T
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Well we know Hiroshi Mori is open to this kind of thing since he's letting Skycrawlers get serialized in English. In fact, that company has published a couple short stories from the Perfect Insider series. Sadly, the translations are kinda crap.
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I Love adventure I want more adventure!
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From Curiosity Cat.
How many of your announcement hints do you expect to have revealed the answers to by the end of this month? — All of them.
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New hints up.
https://j-novel.club/announcements
I reckon the second licence is Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere considering the new hint.
