Acquisitions Speculation - General

Terrence

@terabyte said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:

Btw, what was the meaning behind the RTFM hint for Slave Elf Bride?

"How to" = Manual / Guide? Idk what the connection to the story was. I think I heard the title took some liberty too, so probably not easy to guess from that?

Sam Pinansky

@terrence the fan translations version of the title was “but how do I love her?” So the idea is that I gave him the usual answer of rtfm. Assuming one came with her at the slave auction anyway.

Terrence

Ah, thanks.

@terabyte said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:

So, A license "rescue", huh? I wonder which one...

Rescue in quotation marks... Curious.

Edit: I think this may not be a license rescue on Sam's part, but on a Japanese publisher's part. Someone hinted at one of the licenses being

spoiler

jampodevral

@sam-pinansky Really glad you got both Elf Wife and Lazy DM. Started reading both the f-t's this month, though some of the grammatical errors in LDM made my brain boil.
I am very curious and equally worried about what the snu-snu hint means.

Crimson Wise

Any school romcoms among the new titles? I always enjoy them, so would love to see one.

Terabyte

@crimson-wise Not in the 2 titles that we already know of. We still have 10 left and another 5 after AX, based on what Sam said. There might be one (or more?) in those 15 titles left...

LegitPancake

@terabyte Also 2 of the remaining hints are single volume series’.

Crimson Wise

@terabyte I know, it was something more like a wish/request :P

myskaros

@crimson-wise That's what the Licensing Suggestions! forum is for :P

Raitoiro

I hope Mushoku tensei is part of the anoucement. At least to of the hints ("You Asked for Snu-snu..." and "Highly requested") could corespond.

LegitPancake

@raitoiro Yea, but how hard is it to license from Media Factory? J-Novel hasn’t gotten any titles from them before.

Drone205

@fezu said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:

AX Announcement #4: A license "rescue"

Now is will it be something that has already been licensed like Kinos' Journey or Aria the Scarlet Ammo or something else? Why is rescue in quotation marks?

Raitoiro

@legitpancake It may be hard, but anythink need a beginning. And parts of the LN are realeased as bonus with the english version of the manga, so the editor may be willing to export it, even in digital version.

zchronos

"Highly requested" and "They don't make them like they used to"

Maybe... Rakudai Kishi? it would be great.

"Finally my String Theory background comes in handy"
Hmm.... Growth Cheat?

DTTA

My guess for string theory is rather than science, it'll be sewing or knitting or something. (If they didn't already have Rokujyouma, I might think that. :)

Guspaz

Growth Cheat certainly does have some zany reality stuff going on (like how when you get isekai'd, your existence is erased from the old world and everybody forgets you), but beyond that I'm not really sure how it would fit "string theory"...

That said, I adore that series. I just wish that the author hadn't slowed to a crawl. There were 130+ chapters in its first six months, but only 12 chapters in the last six months.

Raitoiro

The "string theory" one may be for Kara no kyoukai (the garden of sinner) given how complex are the world, characters and story structure.

BloodyGaikotsu

@rahul-balaggan said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:

Help! I'm drowning!

I can only think of 2 possibilities and both are quite the long shots lol

The Ocean Chronicle Series
From Hayakawa

And
In The Pool
from Bungeishunjuu (Mari's autobiography publisher)
It was translated once then it went outta print. (It's part of a series of 3 books tho)

Like is there an isekai where the MC is a marine creature?

BloodyGaikotsu

@raitoiro
That's more of a rescue title tho lol
But Kodansha Novels, huh?
Dunno if Vertical will let him have it...

Drone205

@fezu said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [11 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED!9 AQUISITIONS LEFT TO BE ANNOUNCED! NEW PUBLISHER!!!]:

AX Announcement #6: Finally my String Theory background comes in handy

maybe has something to do with the string of fate?