Novel pick-up requests

BloodyGaikotsu · Mar 9, 2018, 4:32 PM

Today, I watched Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome and it made me wanna read the novel.

So, forgive me for suggesting weird titles~

Both are by Kadokawa.

Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei (Tatami Galaxy)
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Yoru wa Mijikashi Aruke yo Otome
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Terrence · Mar 9, 2018, 4:55 PM

Sam actually worked on Tatami Galaxy anime subs iirc.

Xftg123 · Mar 9, 2018, 5:05 PM

@terrence Wait really? That's pretty awesome. And technically, Tatami Galaxy is more so a novel/literature then a light novel. Like with "Shinsekai Yori", "Monogatari", and "Hyouka", they are all literature novels.

"Tatami Galaxy" could work for JNC or Vertical....

BloodyGaikotsu · Mar 9, 2018, 5:24 PM

@xftg123
Tatami Galaxy is, unfortunately, by Kadokawa tho.

Well, there are many novels under Kodansha I would like to see:
More NisiOisiN
No.6
Shinsekai Yori
Ryukishi07

However, so far, JNC has only dealt with Kodansha Light Novel line not Kodansha Taiga, Box or novels lines...

Terrence · Mar 9, 2018, 7:31 PM

@bloodygaikotsu said in Novel pick-up requests:

Shinsekai Yori

I wonder if this would count as "not a light novel". I definitely want it.

Jaquobus · Mar 9, 2018, 8:06 PM

@terrence Well, it's definitely not a light novel and it's a story about 私( Watashi → I/me), so it is a personal story 🤔.

Edit : Read that wrong. I obviously referred to Tatami Galaxy, not Shinsekai Yori.

BloodyGaikotsu · Mar 9, 2018, 7:45 PM

@terrence
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It doesn't even have illustrations.
it belongs to Kodansha novels/bunko just like Zaregoto series.

Saurabh112 · Mar 9, 2018, 8:43 PM

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Terrence · Mar 10, 2018, 1:01 AM

I forget if I mentioned this before, but I saw it had an English title on the cover.

Remake Our Life: Let's Travel Back To Ten Years Ago and Reenjoy Creative and Sweet Youthful Days!
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https://bookwalker.jp/de122b90d3-01a0-4ec2-ae12-6829241a10a6/?acode=WpfPW3yk

Looks like a time travel triangle? I guess I'll see. It has 3 volumes out. Of course... It's Kadokawa.

Here's another one that is definitely a Triangle of sorts.

Favorite Handmaiden (Two girls on cover 1 and on the final cover; pretty even cover distribution throughout).
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https://bookwalker.jp/de73e291ff-d4b7-4ffb-a44b-4df1d28b11e0/?acode=WpfPW3yk

This one is Kodansha. It's a 5 volume complete series.

From the description:

Which house can win more money? The Prize? - "The right to make Kyoichiro your servant for the rest of your life"! What?

Xftg123 · Mar 10, 2018, 2:34 AM

Both do sound quite interesting.

Also, speaking of Shinsekai Yori, Vertical did this: http://vertical-inc.tumblr.com/post/42116170457/any-chances-of-seeing-a-from-the-new-world-translation

Sadly this was a while ago.

Anyway, as for light novels, it'd be nice to see "Seiken Tsukai No World Break" licensed alt text

it's still ongoing with about 20+ novels out, being a long running series. And it's under Softbank Creative company wise.

Terrence · Mar 10, 2018, 3:37 AM

^ I really like that character's design. She's got the aura of a cool, dark beauty... But with Auburn / Rust colored hair! Totally steals the show from the bro-con idiot from what little I saw of the World Break show. xD

Eins · Mar 10, 2018, 5:31 AM

I think that got an anime a few years back.

About World Break with spoilers

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Saurabh112 · Mar 10, 2018, 2:32 PM

This might be requested before by someone else
But anyways

I would like Jaku-chara Tomozaki-kun aka The Low Tier Character "Tomozaki-kun" to be Licensed by JNC

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Snopsis

This is a walkthrough of life (a shitty videogame)!

Life is a bad video game. This cliche phrase is, sadly, a reality.

However, life doesn’t have simple, easy rules. What it does have is irrationality and inequality. The strong say that they have a lot of freedom, but the weak have no choice but to live an overwhelmingly disadvantaged lifestyle.

Therefore, it’s a shit game. There’s no mistake because I, the best gamer in Japan, declare it to be shit.

— However, that person, who is on the same level as me, goes around saying “Life is a great game.”

The school’s perfect, strong-willed heroine, Hinami Aoi. Furthermore, “I’ll teach you the rules of life (game)”?

…Normally, I wouldn’t believe in those words. However, Hinami Aoi is a character that doesn’t even fit in a normal frame at all!

From the winner of the 10th Shogakukan Light Novel Award for Excellence. A jaku-chara takes on life’s strategy guide, but with instruction from a bishoujo!

LNDB

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BloodyGaikotsu · Mar 10, 2018, 12:39 PM

@xftg123
I watched the anime, I kinda felt it's meh but I heard that the anime screwed a lot of things up so, this makes me wonder.
Ah, this reminds me of another disaster.
An anime whose director skipped 2 volumes and make it end nonsensically.

Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara
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I liked the setting, characters but, somewhere at the middle of the anime, things started to make no sense.
It's by Kodansha LIGHTNOVEL that JNC already deals with

BloodyGaikotsu · Mar 10, 2018, 12:34 PM

@saurabh112
Actually, I am really interested in this one.
Well, I am interested in every and each LN that hits Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! ranking.

Saurabh112 · Mar 10, 2018, 12:48 PM

@bloodygaikotsu I also want this one to be Licensed.

Saurabh112 · Mar 10, 2018, 1:40 PM

I really want Seishun Buta Yarou Series to be Licensed by JNC.
I read its manga since it was Translated/Scanlated and loved it till i read.

This series just got an announcement for an Anime Adaption as well so it might (will) be popular when the anime airs (i.e., Fall 2018)

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Snopsis

“Hey, shall we kiss?”

She who was teasing me with these seductive words temporarily disappeared before my eyes.

There could not be a bunny girl inhabiting a library. Azusagawa Sakuta faced a scene that toppled common sense—he encountered a bunny girl, and she is nowhere a normal bunny girl. She is Sakurajima Mai senpai, a student studying at the same school as Sakuta and a retired yet renowned actress. It was said that starting from a few days ago, those around her could no longer see her anymore, and she came to the library just to confirm this. Is this related to the hit topic on the internet, the unimaginable phenomenon known as “the puberty syndrome”? Sakuta, wanting to know the reasons behind and get closer to Mai, decided to solve the puzzle. However, the situation then developed in an unexpected way—?

In the city surrounded by the skies and the seas, the romance story of I and she began.
The brand new romantic comedy presented by the Sakurasou combo.

This author & Illustrator is same as The Pet Girl of Sakurasou

Which is also a great LN series.

Cynigami · Mar 10, 2018, 2:22 PM

@bloodygaikotsu I love Tomihiko Morimi's novels. The Tatami Galaxy already has a really great fan-translation.

Cynigami · Mar 10, 2018, 2:23 PM

@saurabh112

My guess is Yen Press will license Seishun Buta soon if they already haven't.

Terrence · Mar 10, 2018, 2:32 PM

@saurabh112 said in Novel pick-up requests:

This might be requested before by someone else
But anyways

I would like Jaku-chara Tomozaki-kun aka The Low Tier Character "Tomozaki-kun" to be Licensed by JNC

Yeah, I've requested this and seen at least one or two other mentions, so it isn't neglected. I like the idea of seeing the world as a "game", whether for good or bad reasons. =]