Sol Press Discussion Thread
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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.
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I'm mainly apprehensive because of Sol Press's history regarding their other 2 LNs. But I do want to read more of FUNA's stuff, and the Ryukishi07 manga seemed pretty interesting and never got scanlated very far, so I'm willing to put my fears aside and just hope for the best.
@Terrence You'll probably like the Ryukishi07 manga too, since it's a death game :o
EDIT: Just read the press release, they say it straight up so not a spoiler :X
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@myskaros said in New Challenger Approaches! Sol Press Shines Down with Two LN Licenses:
I'm mainly apprehensive because of Sol Press's history regarding their other 2 LNs.
Mind telling?
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@korppi They took ages to announce Vol 2 of their first 2 LNs.
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@terrence in my opinion you can never make a second first impression, between the horrendous quality of the physical releases, the higher price point for digital books, the huge delay for V2s, the radio silence on all fronts regarding whether they even will do V2s, and the fact that they seem to have bitten off more then they can chew, all lead me to be sad rather then happy.
Sure they can grow and employ competent people, but all the stuff I mentioned is not a resource issue it’s a management issue.
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@korppi Rahul (above) explained it well.
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A few updates from their blog on nearly completed stuff:
Light Novels:
Strongest Gamer Volume 2:
Translation & Editing complete, entering Typesetting and QABattle Divas Volume 2:
Translation & Editing complete, entering Typesetting and QAManga:
Harem Royale ~When the Game Ends~:
Translation and Editing finished, in TypesettingSaving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement:
Translation and Editing finished, in Typesettinghttps://solpress.co/blog/513/sol-press-weekly-round-up-11-26-2018
Why Shouldn't a Detestable Demon-Lord is the only other one being worked on at the moment (translation + editing in progress).
The other two (MMO and the 80,000 Gold Coin LN) are said to start on the translation process soon.
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Sol Press posted another update.
https://solpress.co/blog/521/sol-press-weekly-roundup-12-14-2018The two manga are completed and awaiting release.
The two sequel light novels (Battle Divas and Strongest Gamer) are done, they just have some typesetting stuff.
