Acquisitions Speculation - General
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@terrence
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@bloodygaikotsu said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
@terrence
That's even way more of a long shot lolMore of a never shot since it's Kadokawa (well, never say never I guess). But yeah, I hear marine, my mind goes there (and to George Costanza). xP
Edit: Just for funsies, here's a Bookwalker light novel search excluding the word "Kadokawa" from the search.
https://bookwalker.jp/search/?order=rank&qcat=3&np=0&qnot[]=Kadokawa&x=12&y=15
If anyone has the Japanese names of other publishers we know JNC almost certainly doesn't work with, I could try excluding them too.
Edit 2: Ascendance of a Bookworm a possibility? I don't remember if it was highly requested or no.
Edit 3: Bookwalker search with all those exclusions:
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@terrence
Shogakukan | 小学館
AlphaPolis |アルファポリス
Micro Magazinesha | マイクロマガジン社That's all I guess?
We just don't know about the rest...
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@legitpancake I'm wondering if either of those single volume titles will be non-fiction.
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Here are some of my notes for the guesses. Posted them on reddit, just follow the parent comment.
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@hak0 I'm reeeeally careful about getting hyped for Rakudai, but those are some pretty good points. My heaaaaart!
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It was the most requested non-Kadokawa LN in J-NC's survey from October. I can't think of any other hint that would fit it as well as "Highly requested".
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@hak0 Just to add to my guesses, I am fairly certain "Finally my String Theory background comes in handy" is hinting at a Hayakawa novel since they are the only publisher Sam has met with that publishes actual Sci-fi. I don't count all those mecha LNs as real sci-fi :3
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I was thinking of this one for one with "lots of snu snu", but it is a Kadokawa Novel Zero title, so fat chance.
"Hard boiled school Days Orihara Mitsuki and Tanaka"
https://bookwalker.jp/dec40d35b3-88fd-4681-910c-ffec000fc3ac/?acode=WpfPW3yk
I'll take a look at Hayakawa later. I really like the SciFi focus there from the little I've seen.
Seems Inou Battle is being called a possibility for the "Wryyyy" hint since I guess the anime has some JoJo references? I'd love that (finished at 13 volumes).
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Also just a quick note as far as I know Hayakawa doesn't have any LN specific labels so whatever we get from them will be more mainstream literature probably which means JN-C is branching out to more than just LNs.
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A bit of speculation:
- A license "rescue" - Ragnarok, I vaguely remember that HJ or Overlap "rescued" this title by re-releasing it after another publisher stopped it years ago.
- Finally my String Theory background comes in handy - There was some title Sam talked about reading that was some weird Sci-fi intergallactic/interdimensional idol kind of thing. By no means a sure bet, but that's what comes to mind.
- They don't make them like they used to - Orphen
I'm not counting out MT or Rakudai fully yet. I know Ningen's comments imply they're not licensed, but I think Ningen is capable of misdirection. Of course, I think those titles are long shots anyways. If I were to trying to fit the story of them being picked up, I might add in the fact we've seen Sam has managed to make print editions of Smartphone; they're probably only limited convention-copies, but if Sam has managed to set up a reasonable way to do print editions, that could help with negotiating for titles, since I think lack of print was one of the sticking points.
It's also vaguely my theory that "AX Teaser Announcement" will be Sam saying he's figured out a way to do print, and that print editions for some JNC series will be coming up in the future (beyond what Seven Seas already does).
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One other popular one could be that Destruction Flag one. It's not super super popular compared to other ones at the top of request lists, but it has been requested and talked about a decent amount.
I think there's some difficulty related to the publisher Ichijinsha though (Wiki says they're Kodansha owned though)?
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There was some title Sam talked about reading that was some weird Sci-fi intergallactic/interdimensional idol kind of thing. By no means a sure bet, but that's what comes to mind.
The story itself is short like 60 pages; I own it. But I believe it is a part of a book with several stories so your guess might be correct nonetheless.
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Made a list of previous hints. @Fezu, can you add it to first post? Even just hints themselves are pretty painful to look up. Edit: I guess you may want to separate lines in that or make it a bullet list.
Seems Inou Battle is being called a possibility for the "Wryyyy" hint since I guess the anime has some JoJo references?
Then the hint would be referring to a very minor aspect of series (we don't even know if LNs have those references) while also being applicable to tons of other titles. That would be like using "protagonist saw panties in this one" as a hint and I hope Sam won't ever get to that level of disappointment. Personally I think it's more likely to be something with vampires (like a nap-loving one from ES-novel). Or with time manipulation. Or with a steamroller.
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Then the hint would be referring to a very minor aspect of series...
Iirc, we did get at least one hint that referred to a minor thing in a volume 1.
I know there was one about eggplant?
Found it:
The "not part of the Nasuverse" hint ended up being for Yume Nikki.
It was a reference to a minigame in it where you collect eggplants (eggplant means Nasu). -
@terrence Nasu is a very memorable part of Yume Nikki (plus, that was a part of multi-hint thing). Meanwhile I can't remember Inou Battle having any JoJo references.
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Yeah, I can't recall them either (they said one of the characters can stop time..which isn't a power specific to JoJo, but is the way they do it specific?). So I doubt it, but I saw it thrown out there on the Reddit (the other one was Oreshura).
I was thinking something more fabulous art style wise like JoJo with poses, but I don't know anything offhand.
@_08 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:
Or with time manipulation.
Time manipulation was in the guess for Inou Battle on Reddit, yeah.
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@terrence Again, every anime these days have a JoJo reference or two. Can be art style, SFX, direct/obscured quotes (try remembering or googling ones used in steins;gate, did you find this one?) or even reproduction of entire scenes.
Oreshura directly named JoJo so if fits that reasoning a bit better. -
I have updated with the previous hints that you mentioned @_08
They're at the bottom of the Opening Post.
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