Sol Press Discussion Thread
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@nosgoroth said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
Oh boy, I was looking forward to 80k LN next week, but it wasn't on Amazon so I googled a bit and landed here. ...It's delayed? And they haven't even changed the release date on its product page? I didn't know Sol Press was an organizational disaster.
Yes, I really wish JNC had gotten 80K instead since I loved Average and am liking Potions so far.
I'm just hoping it doesn't end up like Lee & Miller's The Tomorrow Log, where a bad publisher messed up things to the point that it's never going to get the planned sequel :-(
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I doubt the English sales of light novels has any bearing on Japanese publisher decisions to cancel or continue them, at least for most series.
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@guspaz said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
I doubt the English sales of light novels has any bearing on Japanese publisher decisions to cancel or continue them, at least for most series.
You're probably right it would just mean we never get the rest of a series translated, at least not until after the rights revert back to the Japanese publisher in X years.
In some ways that would be worse -- knowing there are 10 volumes of 80K but with Sol holding the rights for 5 years. All that LN goodness just out of our reach.
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It seems like the Kickstarter for Irotoridori may make it. Less than 5,000 to go with a little over an hour left.
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It made it by the skin of its teeth: $318 over the $85,000 goal.
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Did you see someone pulled their 2500 tier with 7 minutes to go too?
Yeah, very close.
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@terrence said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
It seems like the Kickstarter for Irotoridori may make it. Less than 5,000 to go with a little over an hour left.
At one minute remaining they had ~$100 left to raise. It crossed the finish line with 30s remaining...
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Yeah, that was extremely tight.
Sol Press just announced their Visual Novels will be on JAST.
Hopefully their LN stuff will get more active soon now that all this cool VN stuff has happened. Good to see them still making partnerships and having success on Kickstarter (however tight it was).
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Big weekly Roundup. Release dates for the two volume 2s (Strongest Gamer and Battle Divas; April 12th), and Redefining the Meta at VRMMO Academy and Saving for My Retirement have been translated and edited, just awaiting typesetting.
They have two secret project volumes that are 100% translated as well (could be manga, could be LN, who knows).
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@terrence said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
Saving for My Retirement have been translated and edited, just awaiting typesetting.
Thanks! We might get Saving for My Retirement in 2019 after all. (In even better news, Average #6 comes out next Thursday.)
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That’s a volume per year at their current rate, JNC better watch out!
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Given both "Strongest Gamer" and "Battle Divas" only have two volumes each in Japan (and basically on hiatus/canceled/whatever), I can imagine they weren't really in a rush to catch up.
But yeah, it doesn't really inspire confidence that it took so long to get any kind of news.
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@tusf Battle Divas has three volumes actually.
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@tusf No I agree that neither title were exactly going to have a large number of rabid fans hungry for the next volume. Neither, however nor were most the launch titles for JNC. I think launch titles should be designed as much to build trust for future customers as they should be to be instant sellers. Still, they must have done something right as it did seem to lead them getting better titles licensed.
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Ah, I thought they both only had 2 volumes. I still think the "no rush" mentality is part of why it took so long, but yes, the massive delay has certainly hurt any kind of trust in Sol's punctuality. I can only guess that they made some scheduling mistake, given how backed up parts of the American book publishing industry appear to be (from my outsider perspective).
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The video views took a massive hit. I'd say you could attribute that to some lost mindshare in the LN space (their VN video has 700+ views; most of their other VN videos are between 1-2K after months, so they're still about reaching their average).
Maybe a press outlet like ANN will repost the trailers though and give them a boost, idk.
Their first two trailers for their LN had 51K and 58K respectively. Pretty crazy. Saving 80K coins had 14K views.
@tusf said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
I can only guess that they made some scheduling mistake, given how backed up parts of the American book publishing industry appear to be.
We do know a translator left, so there's that too (was it just Demon Lord Orphanage LN and Harem Royale manga one that got affected?). We don't know any other behind the scenes either. Obviously they're looking for typesetters too, so that's a position that either had turnover or was never really filled.
If Hyourin actually happened, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they were hoping to launch with a bunch of content there too, so holding stuff back.
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I don't know if this is new, but I just saw 80k Gold back on Amazon for the 26th of this month, next Friday.
This might even actually come out this time, people.
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I did pick up Strongest Gamer 2. The first volume was decent and it’ll be finished in just two volumes. I also want to support them and hope they do get it turned around as more quality publishers is always a good thing (said all the while praying under my breath that they don’t fuck up 80k, the one I really care about).
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@nosgoroth Yeah, what the heck Sol? At least give people a reasonable heads-up before a release instead of suddenly going "Hey, this volume comes out in a week."
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Meanwhile they're also teasing some news for tomorrow:
https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1119347427629129728Got some exciting news, but it'll have to wait until tomorrow. 👀
