Acquisitions Speculation - General

[Terabyte]

@_08 I'm not seeing it listed. Was it taken down perhaps? 🙄

[_08]

@terabyte You can see it in the app or through other non-obvious ways. Official reader can't open it though, which is probably for the better because the first two pages in the chapter are misplaced.

[Terabyte]

@_08 Oh okay. I barely use the mobile app, and I don't have the beta installed either way. I'll just wait, I'm not in a hurry.

[Crimson Wise]

That was an obvious license. The art looks good so let's see how it ends up.

So, after guessing which hint was for each license, for now we have,

Manga

• The Manga Adaptaton of LN#1 -> Potion Loli (eventually I presume)
• Not Actually An Imouto Harem
• Now With Less Laborious Lecturing -> Isekai Mahou
• Fall In Love All Over Again -> Elf Wife
• Ironically No Anime Adaptation

Light novels

• Complete the Triptych -> Potion Loli
• My Frenchman Will Be Pleased -> Cooking With Wild Game (I don't get the hint but I guess it's this one.)
• It's Definitely Not Stocks
• Abe's Last-Ditch Solution

If the pending mangas are adaptations for light novels, can't think of any.

[Raitoiro]

@crimson-wise Cooking with wild game could be the frenchman hint since France as a big part of culture around cuisine, but the "It's definitly not stock" hint seem more fitting since the MC is cooking use wild game and not stock, plus the frenchman hint seem to be reference to a video game which has no link to cooking.

[Terrence]

Does anyone know any manga about anime? That hint I feel should be easy to guess. Maybe Animeta?

https://bookwalker.jp/de9ca60bfa-4abb-498c-a89d-8536f557a710/?acode=WpfPW3yk

@crimson-wise said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [9 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 4 LNs) 1 LN Unconfirmed!]:

• Abe's Last-Ditch Solution

I wonder if this is about the current decline in birthrates in Japan?

[_08]

It's properly available now but magic's page order in still wrong.

[Hosikuzu]

@terrence said:

I wonder if this is about the current decline in birthrates in Japan?

I just started reading Cop Craft in light of the anime announcement, and it deals with a large influx of immigrants from another world to Earth. Certainly fits with Japan's recent attempts to open the country up to more immigration, and I feel like earlier someone mentioned that one of the titles was supposed to be reverse isekai. It would be a nice pickup with the anime just having been announced, too.

[Terrence]

^ Ah, looks interesting. Last volume release was 2016 though. Let's hope if that is it, it gets a continuation (or it wraps up in the 2016 volume, but I don't think it does judging by the comments in the Bookmeter reviews, people waiting for the next volume).

https://bookwalker.jp/de081c1445-3ce3-435f-b34f-27d30b69fd87/?acode=WpfPW3yk

[LegitPancake]

@hosikuzu Cop Craft would be an awesome license (someone should really make a forum recommendation tbh), but I don’t see Shogakukan/Gagaga’s contempt towards digital licenses ever abaiting any time soon.

[Aruseus493]

There's still that other hint about one of the LNs being reverse isekai.

[stardf29]

I'm still thinking "It's definitely not stocks" is The Hero's Success is Now, given that stocks right now are very much not successful. It's also a reverse isekai, so it'd fit that bill.

If we're talking stories where immigrants from a fantasy world have assimilated with Japanese society, there's also On the Way Home, I Got a Bride and Twin Daughters, Who Were Dragons, which has this sort of setting, and is an Overlap title so it's obviously within JNC's reach. Whether that'd count for that fourth clue or as a "reverse isekai" is... well, up to Sam's interpretation, really.

[novurdim]

@terrence said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [9 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 4 LNs) 1 LN Unconfirmed!]:

^ Ah, looks interesting. Last volume release was 2016 though. Let's hope if that is it, it gets a continuation (or it wraps up in the 2016 volume, but I don't think it does judging by the comments in the Bookmeter reviews, people waiting for the next volume).

There's a new volume in summer.

But I really doubt JNC would license something as good as Cop Craft rn.

[Terrence]

@novurdim said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [9 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 4 LNs) 1 LN Unconfirmed!]:

There's a new volume in summer.

Ooh, nice!

That one with the guy bringing two kids and a wife home is a good guess too since it's family based, jump-starting some repopulation.

Another reverse Isekai I've seen a lot of lately is "Elf, Welcome to Japan" from Hobby Japan. Again, doesn't really fit the government based idea, nor a husband + wife + kids idea, but I believe it has a manga coming, and it just had a volume two release.

https://bookwalker.jp/de814b6291-6d07-43f5-9842-579f3882df3e/?acode=WpfPW3yk

I'm sure there's plenty of other reverse Isekai we could throw out there, but at least this one is about getting a new citizen / visitor participating with everyday stuff, and not the demon-king trying to take over Japan. And, spoiler, judging from the inserts

spoiler

[pleco_breeder]

Ironically No Anime Adaptation

Don't know who guessed Animeta, but it's now listed in the Manga.

[Terabyte]

@pleco_breeder It was @Terrence a few replies earlier.

[Terrence]

Yup, I finally got one right. x)

We expecting to know all of the licenses before too long this month (besides license #5?)?

[Crimson Wise]

Thinking that Engaged to the Unidentified (Ichijinsha) could fit the pending "Not Actually An Imouto Harem" hint somehow.

[BloodyGaikotsu]

@crimson-wise
Well, if that's true, I would be definitely pleased (but I think it's a long shot)

[Terrence]

Yen is teasing license announcements Monday, including at least one Light Novel.

https://twitter.com/yenpress/status/1081301291320651776?s=20