February 2025 Announcements!

Rahul Balaggan

Join us on Youtube on February 14 at 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT / 8 PM UTC for some exciting new series announcements hot off the presses! We're looking forward to bringing you more amazing light novels and manga! 😁 Plus, we'll answer some Q/A if we have time!

https://www.youtube.com/live/2kDulzHHwjw

Recap:

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Lily Garden

Yay! New Stuff! 🥳

karasutengu

@Rahul-Balaggan This will be a great birthday treat for me. Looking forward to it.

ultimatehaki

Seven Seas just picked up a LN I was geeking for . Hopefully more of my wishlist comes true next week.

Ingraman

Given what day the announcements are coming on, will all the series be for the J-Novel Heart line? :)

Lily Garden

So...what are y'all hoping gets licensed this time?

morbelek

@Lily-Garden Dark Summoner to Dekiteiru would be perfect as it is a series about love. In a way.

Lex

@morbelek agree.

lilitu93

@Ingraman I’m hoping for both Heart and the first J-Novel Knight titles.

karasutengu

@Lily-Garden Dungeon People. It's so unlike any non-isekai dungeon manga/story that it's refreshing. I saw the anime on Hidive before I started reading the manga and would love JNC to pick up the rights to stream it on line.

kingpendragon

@karasutengu I think Dungeon People is already licensed by Seven Seas.

Geezer Weasalopes

@kingpendragon said in February 2025 Announcements!:

@karasutengu I think Dungeon People is already licensed by Seven Seas.

Confirmed.
Five volumes released so far.
Manga original, so no LN.

Gat

@Rahul-Balaggan Please relay my thanks to the team for taking this off twitch and trying out other channels, I very much appreciate this.

Lily Garden

@Gat indeed! I always have trouble logging into Twitch so I often miss out asking questions on the Q & A section

Silver Sugar Duchess

@Lily-Garden As you know I‘m always, ALWAYS hoping something from my wish list gets licensed, but recently only Seven Seas Entertainment licensed something I really want to read. The novel I will definitely buy, but the manga… I don‘t really like buying manga on English, safe for J-Novel Club. It just stresses me out too much when something is out of print and where I live it's not so easy to get hold of used English manga.

Rahul Balaggan

We are live - https://j-novel.club/blog/february-2025-announcements

You can watch on YT, or that link is to a blog post on our site. You can watch it there as well.

Rahul Balaggan

First post updated with recap. Also blog post is up on the main site with a banner ad

https://j-novel.club/blog/exciting-new-adventures-await-j-novel-club-acquires-12-new-titles

rkkn

You guys should expand the scroll limit in the "Our Latest Series" section on the front page. It doesn't show all the new releases. Only the first 10 are shown.

wanderer_1204

Quite a nice haul this time too.. I quite like what I have read of a couple of them and I will definitely following:

The tiny witch from the deep woods
Long story short, I am living in the mountains.
Happy to see some LNs which aren't in the isekai genre.

Although I usually don't read such such, I will stick with My tiny senpai for now and see how it goes. Seems breezy.

Geezer Weasalopes

Working in the order shown in the Series listings.

Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains: Seems worth sticking around for. 'Real World' for certain values of 'Real World'; there's just something odd about this semi-isolated section of Japan, in a not bad oddness. Silliness ensues.
Revenge of the Soul Eater: Cast Out as a Weakling by My Sword Saint Father: 'If you can't say anything nice, keep yer damn trap shut!' ...so I'm keeping my trap shut. Likely to be popular in the marketplace.
Fluffy-Eared Realm Restoration: Taking It Slow With My Cool Big Brother: Haven't checked it out as of yet. Could be a kneejerk negative reaction to characters named 'Liam'...
My Tiny Senpai: To be read in small dosages, to prevent sweetness overload. But also decidedly to be read.
My Fiancé Cheated, But a New Love Rings! & 11. My Fiancé Cheated, But a New Love Rings! (Manga): I wasn't going to check it out, but comments I saw as I was changing my viewing options to 'ignore' in the manga discussion topic led me to rethink that. Let's just say I'm very glad I did.

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And it goes from there, and some lovely stuff is left out of my spoilered comments, and it's sweet.
Highly recommended.

Three Cheats from Three Goddesses: The Broke Baron’s Youngest Wants a Relaxing Life: Um, it's got some problems, but not quite an insta-drop. But I'm not making book on how long until I drop it.
The Villainess Is Dead! Long Live the Empress! Redoing the Story After a Poisonous End: Um. Er. Um. It's a wonderful example of a Mary Sue story. All the more so as it seems well-written. But lordy, is it ever a Mary Sue.
I'm not into Mary Sue stories these days. I predict it will be a profitable license for JNC.
Abducted Princess Running Rampant: Wielding Forbidden Magic in the Demon King's Castle: Heh. Hee hee. Guffaw, even. A silly work.
Bullet Hellion: The Gunslinging Demon Prince Crushes Another World with Modern Arms: Have not looked at it. Don't plan to. Suspect it will sell well.
The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods: I should note this is the first one I read of the new batch. I should report that 'The Next Button is Broken.' I believe this should prove popular with Bookworm readers, among others.
See: Entry 5 above; LN & Manga starting at the same time. The artwork is lovely, as is the adaptation of the story.
Flung into a New World? Time to Lift the 200-Year Curse! (Manga): This is not a serious work. It does seem to appeal to my sense of humor, as far as we've gotten.

From my perspective this is quite the haul of new licenses.
The ones that I dislike will do a fine job of aiding JNC's fiscal bottom line.
And a nice selection of titles I do like, some of which I believe may still prove successful financially.