Sol Press Discussion Thread
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@the-green-death It'll soon be five months since the first one. It hasn't been that long, but just not knowing anything, particularly with their track record, is the worst.
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@nosgoroth Totally fair, I just get frustrated with Sol’s lack of transparency and speed.
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@the-green-death And just their total inability to inspire trust. They promise a blog post updating us weekly, then almost immediately the weekly blog post goes MIA, then when it resurfaces they joke about how they can't do things on time. Just, ew.
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@stardf29 actually looking forward to that one, looks cute and funny
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Detestable Demon Lord comes out in about a week's time from Monday iirc.
This will be their first digital light novel release on their personal store. I believe they said it'll be EPub format for their digital stuff there.
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@renofury said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
@stardf29 actually looking forward to that one, looks cute and funny
True, but possibly waiting a year for volume 2 undercuts that a bit.
Their last "weekly" blog (from August 19) dropped all mention of 80K volume 2 so I have no confidence in them releasing it this year.
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Can't J-Novel also get license to translate the series?
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@warstalker Not unless SOL Press hires JNC as a sublicense like what happened with Beatless. Though I and probably everyone else here have my doubts that would happen anytime soon.
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@piisfun said in Potion Loli Vol. 4 Discussion!:
P.S. I keep hearing about it, but just how slow is Sol Press?
Bad, real bad, I posted this comment over a year ago, and nothing has changed.
Also I purposely responded in the Sol Press thread to keep Potion thread on track.
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Did not see this thread, sorry.
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There is no reason to apologize, I just chose to respond here
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Ignoring their old issues which are as bad as said before (QA and typesetting are just stagnant / moving at a snail's pace, speculated to be because they don't have the staffing / pay), they're currently dealing with printer issues for the first three physical Rakudai / Chivalry of a Failed Knight volumes (I'd suspect this could hold up future volumes if they want to have print and digital dates announced at the same time).
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Since Sol Press started their negative aspects kept on increasing and worsening as time goes on. I thought that they might change when they licensed Rakudai but the promised 3-4 months interval is will come to pass in two weeks but there is still no sign of a release date of volume 4.
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@bartzbb I don't have much hope that this is the true reason you haven't seen anything but because of their bad track record they might not be allowed to prerelease digital books, at least on Amazon. I believe Amazon doesn't like it when digital copies miss their release date. Other digital release sites might be the same way as well, I don't know.
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@malloc
In 2 weeks we'll know for sure if it will be released within the promised interval and if not then that just proves how bad they are.JNC LN Ranking:
1st - Rokujouma
2nd - Realist Hero
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@bartzbb I'm not holding my breath. I don't have much faith in Sol Press when it comes to Light Novel translation and distribution.
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@bartzbb I don't think I need any further proof.
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In any case I'm just giving Sol Press one last chance.
Rakudai is a series that fans have been clamoring to get licensed for years even before the anime aired. If they fail in Rakudai as well then all those fans would become an angry mob clamoring to RESCUE Rakudai from Sol Press.
I just hope that the JP publishers will still try again for a localization if a RESCUE does occur.
PS: WHY THE HELL DID SOL PRESS GOT THE RIGHTS AND NOT JNC!?!?
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@legitpancake but what prevents original publisher selling license to another translator, because for example first translator is too slow translating light novel?
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@warstalker said in Why Shouldn’t a Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love:
@legitpancake but what prevents original publisher selling license to another translator, because for example first translator is too slow translating light novel?
The original publisher here is HJ Bunko, or Hobby Japan, they licensed the series to Sol Press for translation into English, Sol Press can do whatever they want to do with that title as long as it stays within whatever contract terms they worked out with Hobby Japan.
So Sol Press has full exclusive English rights to Detestable Demon Lord, and unless Sol loses those right for whatever reason no one else can license it.
If theoretically Hobby Japan said that if Sol Press does not release at least 1 new volume every 2 years or something they will then forfeit the license, then other companies such as J-Novel Club can try to secure the title.
As of right now today, nothing can be done.
