Acquisitions Speculation - General

Rahul Balaggan

It has been a long time since i have taken any guesses on the new licences, but after very carefully reviewing all the hints Sam has been dropping the past 3~ months in Discord, I feel very confident in saying that 1 of the remaining 11 unannounced titles is the light novel that is part of Hobby Japan's catalog.

The other 10 are definitely of Japanese origin, i am at least 31.895% sure of that.

Aruseus493

@rahul-balaggan

I'll make that <1% guess that Sam has expanded into the K-Novel Club market and licensed The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor or Dungeon Defense.

Chi C

@aruseus493 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [12 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!11 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:

@rahul-balaggan

I'll make that <1% guess that Sam has expanded into the K-Novel Club market and licensed The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor or Dungeon Defense.

I find that to be unlikely. I mean, it's not impossible, but Sam's physically in Japan isn't he? His connections and business relationships are mainly in Japan, it's not like he can just take a quick trip over to Korean and talk to some publishers there.

Guspaz

Why not? It's a short flight, and he's already taken business trips elsewhere in Asia.

Fezu

Gotta rebrand then.

Malloc

I have a personal request, take it or leave it. When there is a new announcement of possible acquisitions. Could we perhaps start a new thread of it instead of resurrecting this 2 year old thread? It makes it harder to find the start of the context. For example, we should have a thread for the Anime Expo announcements. A couple months later when we get another set of clues for unrelated books we start a new thread for that one, etc.

I'd also like to see a link to his hints page because sometimes I find those hard to find on my own.

myskaros

@malloc I agree that a new topic makes sense.

You can always find announcements/hints here: https://j-novel.club/announcements

Fezu

The context is given in the opening post, the latest discussion is for the latest aquisitions. Clottering up several threads for announcements instead of a general thread like this I would say is unsmart. If you had checked the Opening Post it would've given you all information about the latest aquisitions.

Sometimes announcements are random for new aquisitions and therefore I've found the topic surrounding aquisitions for J-novel to be hardly formatted for single threads of new aquisitions. It just doesn't work.

We're also in a weird situation where we have the AX aquisitions, but also 5 more aquisitions that haven't been finalized for Autumn. In a way the current topic is all about AX aquisitions. Not the Autumn ones.

Drone205

@fezu I agree with you that this Thread is good and making new ones just would not work. The way @Malloc propose would create a lot of dead threads where this one will have continuous traffic.

LegitPancake

Sam said he had to rewrite one of the new contracts, so one announcement won’t be ready in time for AX. Personally I don’t think it’s that big of a deal lol

paulnamida

@legitpancake yeah, that still leaves 11 announcements, and given that every newly anounced series comes with 4 parts right out of the bat, we'll have material to read for a long while.

Terabyte

A little delay on a single title isn't really a problem. If the contract had to be canceled, that would have been bad. But since it just requires some rewriting that's fine enough.

For now I just want to know all the new titles, once I know them I can see if I should pick up some WN fan translations I had my eyes on for a while (like Lazy Dungeon Master). There's no point in reading WNs that might be translated shortly, I better use my time for something else. Even more so because quite a few WNs/LNs I want to read are from publishers JNC works with :D

Terrence

Hrmm hrmm. New series by Grimgar author...

https://bookwalker.jp/decd4a06c4-59c4-41e1-8176-4a899fd6bebe/?acode=WpfPW3yk

(I'm not going to read the synopsis in case it has a Grimgar connection).

Edit: Publisher: Kadokawa...

T_T

Crimson Wise

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/06/24/general/can-japanese-light-novels-remain-publishing-heavyweights/#.Wy_riiB9jZt

So... print edition of Smartphone confirmed? (Enlarge photo.)

Jaquobus

@crimson-wise Even with J-Novel Club on the spine.

_08

@crimson-wise Without seven-seas logo (and a smaller size) I suspect it may be just a limited AX print.

Fezu

@_08 I'ma wait for a clarification on this one before confirming it to be more than just a limited print.

Terrence

I don't see a photo. Did it get taken down?

Rahul Balaggan

@terrence it’s at the bottom link text

Terrence

Ah, I see it, thanks.