Forum - View topicNEWS: One Peace Books Adds The Rising of the Shield Hero Fantasy Novel, Manga Series
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OH&S
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I am flabbergasted that this one actually got licensed! Its even more surprising than Danmachi which at least had an anime in the works.
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This one has a lot of popularity currently in the dodgy machine translation scene, which is I am guessing why they picked it up. Not sure how well that will translate into actual sales though, particularly as the writing isn't particularly accomplished and I would say the machine translation stuff skews towards a younger fan crowd. Also it is a hugely long series, seems a bad choice in my books. Not that I dislike the books, I just can't see sales being sustained to release it.
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Little_Hawk
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What a pleasant surprise, I've been looking forward to how things played out in the LN version.
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Hameyadea
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Technically, there area few adaptations to this series:
I'm hoping an anime is in the works; the series has a No Game, No Life-esque feeling to it (in a good way), and being somewhat reverse from Log Horizon, in that the MC gets outcast from the get-go. Last edited by Hameyadea on Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:40 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Niyari
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interesting. while it was definitely a matter of time till this was picked up, i'm a bit surprised by who did. no complaints tho
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Kadmos1
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I wonder how often the chapters are released because that's a lot of chapters already. |
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_Cyphon_
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I love this series. Wish they could get an anime adaptation rolling out for this, but like partially said, it isn't all that popular and the sales might not sustain it. Still, if you're a fan of the video game anti-hero genre, give this a try! The synopsis might sound a little generic at first, but after you get into the series it turns quite good.
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Hameyadea
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On average daily, from October 29th 2012. |
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martinic
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Ooh interesting gonna buy it if I can when it comes out. The web novel is being translated quite well. The first few chapters were machine translated but later on they are a machine assisted translation.[/url]
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jimmydip
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Some reason Amazon has only the second volume of the light novel and the first manga for preorder, wonder what happened to the first volume of the light novel
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Kadmos1
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Wow, that frequent since Oct. '12? Talk about a dedicated author.
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enurtsol
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They're picking up a web-fic?
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martinic
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Not the first time it has happened
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They are picking up the light novel version of it. The series was picked up by Media Factory, edited, and compiled into volumes. Of which there are 9 so far. They aren't doing the web-version. A fairly large number of current JP light novels have begun their lives in this way. For example one of the most recent big examples is Sword Art Online, which was web-fiction. |
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