Most hoped for new licenses in 2023

Crimson Wise

Somebody please license Bocchi the Rock, thank you.

Otherwise, these days I always have something to read, although I'll always appreciate a license for Humanity has Declined and OreShura.

LegitPancake

@Crimson-Wise Wow no one has made a request thread for Bocchi yet? Damn. You'd think it would be a high-priority license for all the publishers at the moment.

Crimson Wise

Wow no one has made a request thread for Bocchi yet?

Fixed.

You'd think it would be a high-priority license for all the publishers at the moment.

I certainly hope so. I don't expect JNC to get it, since it doesn't seem like the kind of things they license. I'd love to be wrong though, the more Kirara, the better.

Lily Garden

@Lily-Garden I forgot to add Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival

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Geezer Weasalopes

@HarmlessDave said in Most hoped for new licenses in 2023:

Second choice is an old LN with probably no market potential: Maoyū: Maō Yūsha

I want this.
I've wanted this for some time now.

jpwong

My most hoped for license is Isekai Yururi Kikou (Raising Children While Being an Adventurer). It's unfortunately not terribly realistic due to the fact it's an alpha polis title. I'll still push for it, if there ends up being only a single license from that company that anyone can get that's the one I want.

For more realistic options, I'm Not Even an Otome Game Mob Character from To Books looks interesting. It's a short 2 volume series, so maybe it can be brought in as a bonus with something else.

Mangawise, I'd love if Nukoduke! could be picked up, the problem is it's both manga, and it's a high volume series from a publisher JNC doesn't currently do business with.

Korppi

I'm still holding out hope that someone will pick up Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta?(And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online?), how vain that hope may be...

FacelessOne

I think the main thing I'm hopeful for is JNC continuing their streak of romcom licenses that they had this year. Other than that, here are some of the individual series I'd love to see:

I Became Friends with the Second Cutest Girl in Class

I Was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but That World Is at Peace

I Know That After School, The Saint is More Than Just Noble

Frontier Lord Starts Out with a Population of 0

The Banished Villainess' Husband