Sol Press Discussion Thread
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No, Strongest Gamer had two volumes in Japan, Battle Divas had three.
I haven't read Battle Divas (and no way am I going to considering how badly they bungled Strongest Gamer), but it seems obvious that Strongest Gamer must have been canceled after the second volume because the first volume was definitely not setting up a two volume series.
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@guspaz said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
I haven't read Battle Divas...
Battle Divas definitely seems like it should be more than 3 volumes. They give the amount of Divas in volume 1, and I remember thinking they'd really have to squeeze some in and not develop some to have them all appear and the story wrapped by volume 3.
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Is there a way to tell between whether something has been cancelled or if the author just dropped it?
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I didn't realize that there were more than one volume for each, I just remember reading that Sam figured they picked the series they did since they were going to be less of a risk to translate since both series were cancelled already.
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Sol Press Tweeted:
We'll be live from @kumoricon shortly with our first panel! We have a lot to share, so be sure to tune in!https://t.co/dyWD8Wa4qh https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1056251579534315520?s=17
Stream link:
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrGmnBBkDBJyWhy Shouldn't A Detestable Demon Lord Fall in Love announced!!
One more LN announced (I missed the trailer, it had Meta in the title).
Distribution Platform for LN, VN, Manga, etc. First major distribution platform dedicated to Otaku interests across publishers and not tied to a more broad content platform (at least that's the intention). Definitely the first of its kind in the VN space stateside.
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I wonder what this was going to be... Hopefully we see it in the future.
Steiner HELLZONE 💀 DistantValhalla Tweeted:
We literally decided this twenty minutes before the panel as the thing I was supposed to announce got delayed by the Japanese side. https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/1056280109458440192?s=17As a side note, Sol Press did confirm more announcements for tonight. About 8 hours from now (1:00 AM EST afaik).
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Sol Press Tweeted:
RT Fred_the_Barber: All right! Those all ages announcements were nice, but the night is still young, folks. https://t.co/2P77TOZkBK https://twitter.com/Fred_the_Barber/status/1056361121827831808?s=17O_O
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I am more looking forward to there other title, Redefining the Meta at VRMMO Academy, but the demon Lord title sounds interesting too, & man was I happy when I looked at my tweeter account & saw the announcement for Strongest gamer volume 2
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Night conference (18+) is live:
Sol Press (@SolPressUSA) Tweeted:
We're live with our 18+ panel! More announcements coming your way! https://t.co/etAuKNAiKx https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1056412248724267009?s=17Nothing too major, just a few more VN announced (one of them looked colorful + apparently "gritty" in its second trailer).
I missed the trailer for Battle Divas. Hope it goes up at some point on YouTube.
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@rootbeermaster The problem is that V2 came out February 25, 2016. There is no V3 published for Strongest Gamer, neither any news about it.
It looks like an interesting series, too, which is too bad. Does anyone know if there is any WN for it? Or is it LN only? I haven't been able to find any WN.
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@terabyte said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
It looks like an interesting series, too, which is too bad. Does anyone know if there is any WN for it? Or is it LN only? I haven't been able to find any WN.
I haven't found a WN for either. =(
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@terrence said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
I wonder what this was going to be... Hopefully we see it in the future.
Steiner HELLZONE 💀 DistantValhalla Tweeted:
We literally decided this twenty minutes before the panel as the thing I was supposed to announce got delayed by the Japanese side. https://twitter.com/DistantValhalla/status/1056280109458440192?s=17Xev apparently said on 4chan that it'd be a manga.
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Seems to be some child safe picks they got there.
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Sol Press has a license request survey link now (it's like Bookwalker's, except it has individual pages for Light Novel, Manga, and Visual Novel licenses).
https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1058105442465771520?s=20
Make sure to grab Amazon links for those book requests, and VNDB links for the Visual Novel games.
It seems like you can submit multiple requests, just go through the survey, finish, and then there's a link on the page after you're done to submit another survey.
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Something manga wise is happening in a few hours according to their Twitter.
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One more bump, I swear. Big announcement. That 80,000 Gold Coin saving series is coming.
"Saving 80,000 Gold In Another World for My Retirement"
Both manga and novel!
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@terrence said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
One more bump, I swear. Big announcement. That 80,000 Gold Coin saving series is coming.
"Saving 80,000 Gold In Another World for My Retirement"
Both manga and novel!
Okay, that got me interested now. I was actually checking out the LN/manga a while ago. But the fan translation/scanlation really sucks. Being able to get an official english release is really good.
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Another announcement. I have seen the cover on Bookwalker and was interested in this one. Should be interesting.. it has Yandere? (Apparently not). It's a manga only.
"Harem Royale ~When the Game Ends"
https://twitter.com/SolPressUSA/status/1061011950199427072?s=17
Link to the Japanese book on Bookwalker if you want to preview it.
https://bookwalker.jp/de0a3843b3-d221-4668-bf21-13743b6b1dda/?acode=WpfPW3yk
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I don’t know if I am alone, but every time I see SOL get a new LN I get more sad that they got it then happy that I get to read something new.
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@terrence said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
it has Yandere
Ehm, not really :x You'll understand if/when you read it.
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@myskaros said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
You'll understand if/when you read it.
Ah, the trailer made it seem that way. I'll have to see what happens. x)
@rahul-balaggan said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
I don’t know if I am alone, but every time I see SOL get a new LN I get more sad that they got it then happy that I get to read something new.
I'm happy because most of their releases seem to have had borderline localization chances. This reminds me of when JNC started, I think some were upset that Grimgar was going to these unknowns instead of Yen.
It seems like their process for translation and production should be faster soon (remains to be seen of course), so it may just be a matter of if it'll stay quality. One of the other series was confirmed to have a translator that has worked with JNC, so even on that front they may be getting better.
Edit: Steiner is translating that Harem Game Ending one.
