Sol Press Discussion Thread
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That does not sound good at all.
I don’t have high hopes for Sol and was really bummed that they got a FUNA as I think we will be lucky to get one a year. I just hope they don’t fold taking the rights with them
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In other FUNA related news:
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Sol Press is not bad as a vn publisher so I just hope they'll concentrate more on that front.
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That desapointing, i wish SOL and JNC could swap their FUNA licence :(
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@raitoiro those are words that could elicit a lot of arguments (from people who like Potion loli) let’s just say We wish JNC could pilfer (legally) all SOL manga and LN licenses and leave the VNs behind.
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@rahul-balaggan Well, if we go that way i wish JNC could be the one doing all the licence from other publisher, aside from the lack of physical release their service is better than the other.
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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
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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. =(
