Forum - View topicNEWS: J-Novel Club Licenses Infinite Stratos, The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Light Novels
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Shiroi Hane
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In 2009 the illustrator was okiura and the series was published by Media Factory. Following the 7th volume in 2011 there was some sort of legal dispute which led to a hiatus until the series re-launched under Overlap in 2013 with Choco as illustrator from vol. 8 onwards and for reprints if the earlier volumes. |
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Yune Amagiri
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J novel club is guaranteed to take my money for another year, they keep announcing things i wanted them to localized. IS anime was decent but the LN is far better.
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MetalGarurumon
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Good news with Infinite Stratos, finally the latest volumes are going to be translated (Although the translation is not going to reach volume 9 until 2020 probably)
The other is a disappointment, I was expecting Kou-1 with the godly Goban art and this Unwanted Undead Adventurer doesn't look very interesting. |
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Merxamers
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Infinite Stratos sounds like the guiltiest of pleasures, and Undead Adventurer sounds like it could be interesting. I'll be checking both of these out.
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gravediggernalk
 Space Cowboy Posts: 246 Location: Alabama |
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Good god almighty I can't believe we're finally getting an official release for Infinite Stratos, I'm ecstatic.
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Siegfriedl88
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lame...just like outbreak company , would love too get infinite stratos if it was in physical form, why cant yen press/seven seas pick these titles up!
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Double Mangekyo
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If you're so adamant about "muh paperbacks" why not go over to Seven Seas' twitter (or better yet, their monthly surveys) and tell them you'd like to have those titles in print? They're already doing it for 5 other JNC series. You gotta let them know there's demand... |
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gravediggernalk
Space Cowboy Posts: 246 Location: Alabama |
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LegitPancake
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If J-Novel keeps up with their usual pace of ~6 volumes a year, they should be on volume 12 by 2020 (which comes out in Japan sometime this spring). Since the author of IS has had several multi-year hiatuses, they may catch up with Japan by mid 2020. |
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Merxamers
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I'd say that there's a greater chance now than ever before of IS getting physical volumes printed, especially if the digital sales do well. J-Novel Club has worked with Seven Seas to get several titles published physically. |
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myskaros
 Posts: 604 Location: J-Novel Club |
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Maybe you should give it a shot before writing it off?
Just saying, the post you quoted was directed at someone else :v |
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Hades_ANI
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JNC said that a series needs at least 2000 sold volumes to be profitable as a print version. Something like Outbreak company also has lower chances since it has 18 volumes and JNC never wants to start printing (or seven seas, how you want to take it) and then stop the print. Also, everything in print right now is rather actual and has some anime adaptation in the past or near future (so we can expect one from Realist Hero around beginning of next year, too). IS is rather old, but a big franchise (or at least it was, the author was a bit lazy) with 11+ volumes. How high or low the probability for a print release is, is now in your hands.
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Ali07
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I'm hoping this will be the case for IS, would like to read the novels...as I don't believe we're getting another anime season (at least not any time soon). |
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Siegfriedl88
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i'm old fashioned and only get physical releases of light novels/manga, and similarly only buy eroge games with hard copies :p. I guess a survey is better than nothing too get support for it. even if the anime rights and LN publishing rights having nothing too do with one another I already offered my support by buying the infinite stratos 2 blu ray box set last jan. |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13626 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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The pace that J-Novel releases their volumes is actually good compared to the length people sometimes wait for fan translations of a light novel chapter. If the company gets bigger (say they had 13 staff members and 10 translators), they could potentially increase yearly output to 10-12 vol.
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