[CONVENTION APPEARANCE] Anime Expo 2023 with J-Novel Club!
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@myskaros said in [CONVENTION APPEARANCE] Anime Expo 2023 with J-Novel Club!:
Knight's & Magic
Holy shit, I was expecting this one to never get a licence from any translator.
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For anyone who wants to see the actual slides (as shown in discord)
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"You Like Me Not My Daughter" "Knights and Magic." If you suddenly get "Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero" I'm going to think that one of you is reading my personal translation wish list from my thoughts...
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Loved the panel! I'm looking forward to the extra one on Tuesday too, even if the way it was pitched made it sound like everyone who attends is going to be truck'd.
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@kurosov I always had a faint hope because JNC already had a few Hero Bunko series.
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@PuckGoodfellow00-0 said in [CONVENTION APPEARANCE] Anime Expo 2023 with J-Novel Club!:
"You Like Me Not My Daughter" "Knights and Magic." If you suddenly get "Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero" I'm going to think that one of you is reading my personal translation wish list from my thoughts...
That would be nice. I loved the world building in which so many Japanese kids had been summoned to other worlds that they needed their own high school (and university? it's been a while since I watched it)
I'm looking forward to Knights, the anime was fun.
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Crap, I mistakenly set the reminder for 4 July... 🤦♂️
I'll have a look at the new licenses now. 😅
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Bookworm audiobook?! Whenever this comes out that may make it the fourth time I’ve bought the same volume. Physical, Kindle, JNC ePUB, and now audiobook (whenever it releases). I want to wish that this continues long into the future. Just like how Audible Japan uses Myne's seiyuu we'll have her English equivalent. Absolutely stunning.
Now to hope one day ya'll can do the unprecedented and get rights to the Drama CDs and release transcripts or get them dubbed with their English VA's. Dreaming a lot here…
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That panel was hype! I can't believe Knight's & Magic is finally getting an official translation, 6 years after the anime aired.
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Knights & Magic?! You beautiful amazing people thank youuuuu!!! I’ve been waiting for more since the anime ended. That was so long ago…
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Nothing I was explicitly waiting, but I read mecha and that automatically makes me interested.
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I hope @jazzyjeoff and @zwabbit enter the en light novel contest; you guys have written some of the best ficlets on the forums and I would love to see what you guys could do with a full volume 😁
“There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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Thanks for Knight's and Magic. I wonder what made it hard to license? Was it because the license holder was Square Enix?
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@clockwarriortock The Knight's & Magic LN isn't under Square (just the manga is), it's under Shufunotomo, the same publisher as The Apothecary Diaries, The Ideal Sponger Life and Seventh for JNC. Long ago on the Discord Sam mentioned the amount they wanted for it in the price was more than he thought it could sell. He confirmed the price was lowered from that, so JNC put in an offer.
Difference in what Japanese publishers think a series is worth and what English publishers think it can sell has kept a fair number of series away over the years.
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I wasn't able to find the right booth at anime expo -- unless it was the big kadokawa booth (hard to miss!) but they didn't seem to understand when I asked about J-Novel. (The folks at the booth when I went by were very friendly and helpful but there might have been a language issue too.)
Edit I found it! Wow, the kadokawa booth is huge. I didn't realize the parts across the aisles were all kadokawa too. It's right at the very front section.
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@Lily-Garden Thanks for the note. I don’t have anything written that is not a riff on Tearmoon Empire, and I don’t think I could produce a polished original work quick enough—but it might be fun to try!
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@jazzyjeoff said in [CONVENTION APPEARANCE] Anime Expo 2023 with J-Novel Club!:
I don’t think I could produce a polished original work quick enough—but it might be fun to try!
6 months is a reasonable time period, might not be perfect but what WN ever is?
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@GeorgeMTO said in [CONVENTION APPEARANCE] Anime Expo 2023 with J-Novel Club!:
6 months is a reasonable time period, might not be perfect but what WN ever is?
A week or two of planning and then just 400 or so words a day and you're done. I'm certainly going to give it a try, although it'll be interesting writing something that isn't AFF material for a change 😳
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I'm tempted to make a submission to the contest as well, though I've already got a few finished stories to choose from. For me, the problem will be whether I can actually force myself to revise one of the stories, as what I have is just a bunch of (highly) flawed, unpolished first drafts, and I really struggle with revision. For me, writing is fun. Revising? Not so much. (And the chances that any of my unedited first drafts will make the cut are practically non-existent. 😓) Still, with six months to choose a story and having a go at fixing and improving it, there's at least some hope (if only a little). 😐
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Six months for 100K words is doable, with a bit of focus. There was a time when I was doing something like 5K word chapters per day for about two weeks when I was in an especially "inspired" mode. I think my bigger challenge would be keeping the story compact enough to fit within 100K words. The shortest of my "recent" works that's actually complete breaches the 300K mark. Might have to think about breaking up the plot arcs.
