Acquisitions Speculation - General
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@Fezu, make sure to update the title. :3
Otherwise, holy fuck at the this. 12 titles. Just for scale, J-Novel Club currently has 31 licenses. That's almost 50% increase in the span of a month or so.
Yen Press has around 60-70 series currently and they only announce 1-3 light novels per convention usually.
So one of two things has happened.
- Sam has imprisoned the translators in a dungeon and is whipping them to work harder.
- Sam has perfected cloning technology and is truly our messiah.
I'm will to approve of either case. Good job @Sam-Pinansky. Just try not to spoil us too much or actually kill your translators.
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@aruseus493 Sam has put US ALL in Stockholm Syndrome. JNC is just so great that we depend on JNC but the Translations are just so fricken fast that it hurts us. With this big Announcement Push, Sams
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@aruseus493 there's always the choice of buying more translation hamsters and adding a few wheels. They should like the company.
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@aruseus493
YP prints their release, so they have to look out for their print schedules.That's why they can't release as much or as fast as JNC.
It's the only advantage of the digital-only thing (but it also makes it so difficult to keep up)
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Two of the titles to be announced are oneshots. There's also the possibility that not all of them need translations (like Isekai Mahou and Rokujouma).
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I'm referring more to YP's other problems like how it takes 9+ months for them to release a new volume of a caught up series. Or how at this point, almost every series is delayed at least 2 weeks. Or how garbage in consistency some of their translations are. (Looks at Danmachi.)
If they can keep their original 4 month pace at least, I'd be happy. At this point though, I'd prefer if they worked to do better for the series they already have licensed. (Which is why Sam worries me sometimes with how many licenses.)
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@aruseus493
Tbh, I haven't checked their schedule for some time now, being overwhelmed by Verical's almost-monthly release of NisiOisiN.
My recent order is mostly Vertical aside from Konosuba and Toradora.So, I don't know how late their series got aside from NGNL. (Yeah, I haven't read DanMachi yet, is it that bad?)
I was referring to how YP's announcements are fewer than JNC's tho.
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I was referring to how YP's announcements are fewer than JNC's tho.
Ah, I was being more general in regards to how many light novel licenses are typical for publishers rather than ragging on YP for only 1-3 LN licenses per convention. This is more of J-NC being outside the norm.
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@aruseus493
Well, to be fair, they also license Manga as well, while JNC don't.
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Also, Justus' month release videos are getting longer and longer that I'm starting to give up on keeping up with anything anymore.
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JNC has a basically public and fixed schedule though, so it's obvious when they get off track. YP is sort of just nebulous. It will be quite obvious to us if adding this many new series causes scheduling issues.
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If we're speculating what the new licenses are, I'm gonna guess that one of them is ギルドの新人教育係（自称）/ Trainer for Newcomer at Adventurer's Guild (Self-Styled). Someone mentioned that two of them are oneshot volumes and this one is also a oneshot. It's from Overlap, came out last month, and features a pretty unique concept in which the protagonist is one of those asshole villains that harasses the main character in a lot of fantasy series when they try to register with the Guild. It's interesting to make that character a protagonist so I think it'd do well.
(Also, the typesetter/layout designer for the cover is totally the same guy that does the UchiMusume Covers.)
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I think this is new (unless I missed a convo earlier)...
The pre-AX announcements now have hints associated with them:
- Pre AX Ann. 1 - Classic Millennial
- Pre AX Ann. 2 - RTFM
I feel like you could potentially make some good guesses with those hints, but nothing comes to mind immediately for the titles I'm familiar with.
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Hmmm. My knowledge base of LN titles isn't that large, so I can't suggest specific titles, but still...
Classic millennial makes me think that it might be a title that came out about 20 years ago and had a popular anime made from it.
RTFM... Read The "Fine" Manual... An isekai where the protagonist gets a guidebook?
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RTFM probably wrong guess...
"A century later I was reincarnated as a magical book, but modern magicians are too weak"
https://bookwalker.jp/dec899d37e-cb17-422e-bdb2-c909f7b5b353/?acode=WpfPW3yk
Release date: 5/25/18 (just one volume)
Publisher: Shueisha (I forget if they're one of the ones that doesn't want all digital).
The main character is literally a manual on magic.
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@terrence Shogakukan was the anti-digital ones. And GC.
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@paul-nebeling I've always heard it as "Read The Firing Manual," so my first thought was it would be something to do with the army, guns, or the army and guns.
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@tremorc Lots of different words for that "F"... XD
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Heh. Read the FSCKING MANUAL.
<--- Worked in Computer Support.
