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      corp20 Premium Member @Sean O'Hara
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      @sean-o-hara said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [8 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 3 LNs)! 2 AQUISITIONS YET TO BE CONFIRMED! IT'S MANGA TIME!!!]:

      Apache

      also could involve a motorcycle. I remember some LN/Manga having some middle aged dude riding a motorcycle in a fantasy world.

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        Terrence Premium Member @corp20
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        @corp20 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [8 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 3 LNs)! 2 AQUISITIONS YET TO BE CONFIRMED! IT'S MANGA TIME!!!]:

        also could involve a motorcycle. I remember some LN/Manga having some middle aged dude riding a motorcycle in a fantasy world.

        Would love to get that one. It has a lot of volumes out too (it's up to volume 7). =)

        https://bookwalker.jp/deceb9657a-0b7c-46f7-b9e1-28bff25427c9/?acode=WpfPW3yk

        Don't know anything about that Apache hint though.

        You think we'll get any manga that don't have light novels in this set?

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          Jaquobus Premium Member
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          Couldn't

          Just call Terminix

          be a reference to Infinite Dendrogram's beginning?

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            Terrence Premium Member
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            Another random guess for the Terminix hint.

            Mushiuta
            alt text

            While it seems to be referring to The Terminator, maybe it's referring to "Who You Gonna Call? GhostB(ug)sters" too? ...(tugs at neck sleeve) cough, cough.

            Still hope it's Exterminator though.

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              Terrence Premium Member
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              One little bump for discussions sake.

              "The manga we deserve, but.."

              That's a Batman reference, right? The "hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now..." quote comes from the Dark Knight apparently if that is the case. So maybe something with a Dark Knight?

              Just a random guess that I don't know has anything to do with Dark Knights: The Legendary Hero is Dead manga. Because it was a hero that thought he was needed by the village, but nope, and he

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                paulnamida @Terrence
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                @terrence Yuusha ga shinda?? I for one would pre-order this ASAP. We have to spread the Thighs cult.

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                  stardf29 Premium Member
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                  The LNs in this batch are a bit further away than the manga, but here is a Curiouscat answer worth noting:

                  does any one of the five light novel that you are about to release have dark fantasy element on it like grimgar or goblin slayer? ☆_☆ and wheres the hint?

                  The LNs are a bit farther off than the manga. All of them are pretty light actually. But you have a point we should go grab something dark, we haven't licensed anything much like that lately!

                  MAL
                  Beneath the Tangles (the blog I write for)

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                  • TerrenceT
                    Terrence Premium Member
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                    Yeah, I saw that earlier. So we can expect them to be lighter. Probably means Mushi-Uta is out, but Exterminator still in (it looks laid back on the cover).

                    I'm curious, if the LN licenses are a bit further off, will we get manga version of something we don't have LN wise first (like Exterminator)? I always thought of the manga as good for catch up purposes, though I guess they still can be that if there's a manga license in the catch-up titles sometime down the line.

                    @paulnamida said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [8 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 3 LNs)! 2 AQUISITIONS YET TO BE CONFIRMED! IT'S MANGA TIME!!!]:

                    @terrence Yuusha ga shinda?? I for one would pre-order this ASAP. We have to spread the Thighs cult.

                    I would love it, but it's definitely my wishful thinking that is seeing it here. T_T

                    I have no clue about the Touhou hint. Touhou is a bullet-hell space shooter thingamajig with Moe gals with vampire fangs and cute dresses + ribbons... So I'm expecting whatever manga that is to look like that? Idk.

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                      AlvinoBrooka Premium Member
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                      #3 Hint: Preferred Apache

                      Gate. It is definitely Gate.

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                        AlvinoBrooka Premium Member @corp20
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                        @corp20 It's downright Gate and you know it.

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                          Aruseus493 @AlvinoBrooka
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                          @alvinobrooka

                          As much as I would love Gate, I doubt it's Gate. Last I checked, it doesn't seem like Sam has been able to get a meeting with Alphapolis (the publisher).

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                            Malloc Premium Member @Aruseus493
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                            @aruseus493 Alphapolis is the publisher of the light novel. The publisher for manga isn't always the same. Do we know the publisher of the manga is Alphapolis for sure?

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                              Rahul Balaggan Staff @Malloc
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                              @malloc Yes we do

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                                Aruseus493 @Malloc
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                                @malloc Yes, Alphapolis is the publisher of the manga too. They self-publish most of their manga digitally. (They're one of the earlier LN publishers to have a heavy digital model for manga as far as I know.)

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                                  Malloc Premium Member
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                                  Thanks. Hopefully their comic book division is more willing to license digital only. I swear I once read Sam on Discord say that Alphapolis wasn't interested in digital only licensing.

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                                    Terabyte @Malloc
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                                    @malloc I think that was Micro Magazine (Reincarnated as a Sword). The problem with Alphapolis is that they don't have an international licensing department(?) and he'd have to go through an agent or something like that.

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                                      Malloc Premium Member
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                                      It wasn't just Micro Magazine that said that. When he finally got a hold of someone that was something they told him if I remember correctly. Sam could of course correct me this was in Discord a long time ago.

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                                        Rahul Balaggan Staff
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                                        • TerrenceT
                                          Terrence Premium Member
                                          last edited by Terrence

                                          Yeah, it sounds like Justus is going to hold off on the Anime NYC podcast to include them, which I think is smart (and it selfishly gives me more time to research the other light novel announcements if so).

                                          Since I think one of them is potentially a manga adaptation of a novel we already have, I think it's worth covering them, even if only briefly. =)

                                          @guspaz said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [8 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 3 LNs)! 2 AQUISITIONS YET TO BE CONFIRMED! IT'S MANGA TIME!!!]:

                                          Manga announcements (launches) will start tomorrow.

                                          (Eyes.emoticon)

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                                            Manga announcements (launches) will start tomorrow.

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