Sol Press Discussion Thread
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I mean, I'd be happy if JNC just stole every LN license from every publisher and gained a total monopoly on the English LN market...
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I'd like to avoid a monopoly so just steal from all the failing/disliked publishers. Like Yen Press, Sol Press, and Sekai Project. (I want my Gate manga.)
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I like Yen Press' licensing though. So don't dissolve them in this hypothetical unless you'll license more of the type of stuff they do, lol.
I'd personal prefer Sol rebounds from whatever this unforseen circumstance is and remains a real licensor (with better release pacing...). One of their first manga licenses, Harem Royale, is the kind of thing I absolutely want more of. Illusion that anyone can die, some twists, and psychological warfare. Gimme!
Their LN licenses are fun. Nothing too crazy, but fun certainly. The one I really want is that Orphanage Demon Lord one, and I'm curious about 80,000 gold coins of course.
Their VN licenses don't excite me as much so far (young character focuses for the most part), but I definitely like having a competitor that takes license requests there.
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@terrence I was thinking along the lines of absorbing YP's licenses. Like they publish some long series which are still years behind where fan-translations died and then there are also their delays for stuff like NGNL or how because they're physical first, caught up series end up with super long wait times.
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@aruseus493
How about a similar partnership JNC has with Seven Seas in Arifureta. In this case JNC will publish Digital first to catch up with the Japanese release and Yen Press can handle all the physical release.JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
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If it ends up with J-NC translating stuff, what's the difference from just transferring the licenses? XD After all, part of YP's problem are their localization practices which get them traditionally yelled at during their convention panels.
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@aruseus493
Partnership has a higher possibility of happening compared to transferring of licenses.JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
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@bartzbb that would be cool, YP are annoying because they're way too slow, but their physical realease are great quality-wise, at least for some serie like "So i'm a spider, so what".
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We weren't really talking about realistic since licenses rescues themselves don't really happen much anyways. And I don't think YP would give up their translation/digital rights when they already do them all themselves and don't really care about their own release speed.
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@aruseus493
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@bartzbb
No, Yen Press licensed that and it's already caught up with Japan so you gotta wait for Japan to dream first then wait 10 months after. -
Exciting news! We'll be launching the Kickstarter for the localization of Irotoridori no Sekai on February 4, 2019! This will be your chance to back for exclusive goods such as hard copies, artbooks, shirts, and much more!
https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1088135535732969472?s=20
Some good news for Visual Novel fans (the recent blog post still said they delayed the Kickstarter into January, which people pointed out must be wrong since January was almost up... Now it's delayed to February 4th; at least that's around the corner if you were interested in this one).
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This was how Keiji Inafune got in trouble with kickstarters: he started a kickstarter for a new project while he was delaying the release of his previous project. It looked really bad. This is the same situation, starting a kickstarter for a new VN while they're delaying their LNs. This, too, looks bad.
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^ And Sekai Project. =(
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Always waiting for Gate to be rescued. T_T
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@guspaz said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
This is the same situation, starting a kickstarter for a new VN while they're delaying their LNs.
Those two aren't even at the same category with completely different teams. If there are problems with LN side, what sane person would stall VN releases just to wait for the resolution of unrelated issues? And LNs aren't even kickstarted. I'm getting more and more confused by the minute.
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@novurdim said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
Those two aren't even at the same category with completely different teams.
Translators still come from the same pool of people. Most of JNC's translators have also worked on official VN TLs, so it's a very fair complaint to make.
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@myskaros if the same translators don't work on Sol's VNs and LNs at the same time - no, it's not. Not even close. If you ask me, them going insane and delaying all their VNs because they are not able to properly release light novels is literally the last thing anyone could want. It simply doesn't make any sense.
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@novurdim Considering one of their LN/manga translators already quit because of pay problems, it looks really suspicious to then start a Kickstarter for a different project. That's kind what we're kind of talking about. Sorry, I thought everyone was up to date on that.
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@myskaros you guys are really enjoying mixing up stones and potatoes. How exactly is it suspicious for a company that already has two successfully kickstarted and released VNs to start a new VN kickstarter is anyone's guess. And how would you make a connection here with Steiner being unsatisfied about his payment for manga translation is pretty mind-boggling too. I can understand that you don't like Sol and there are quite a few things to dislike but this is going overboard, as if you want to criticize at least something.
