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LiteMangime
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I'll be the first to say it, I want this.
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FilthyCasual
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Then I'll be the second person.
I WANT IT |
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Blanchimont
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Sure, I'd read it, but  ...
It's using intellectual property from a whole gallery of works. It's a self-published work by a whole bunch of authors sold exclusively at an event without any official publication status. Tell me, how would any overseas company ever even go about trying to license it? |
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IanC
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God can the obsession with this not unique at all genre die already?
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DRWii
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“In the beginning Isekai were created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
So is Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy actually well-known in Japan, or are the authors making a super obscure reference? |
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maximilianjenus
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it's well known in the circles it should.
first time buying a doujin from the comiket ? |
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Blanchimont
Posts: 3603 Location: Finland |
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Sure, the only thing a private person needs to do is find a reseller. Or be in Japan to attend the event itself. I've purchased doujin online myself. But that was not what my previous reply was pertaining to. |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13626 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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It would be nice if these light novel writers at least offered sample pages of this doujin or the whole thing as a pay-to-read version on-line. From there, someone could give a synopsis or summary of the points to avoid piracy of fan translations
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samuelp
Industry Insider
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It's for sale on Kindle. https://www.amazon.co.jp/異世界ヒッチハイク・ガイド-自由脱走協会文庫-自由脱走協会編集部-ebook/dp/B07WLNPJ1R/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=ヒッチハイクガイド+異世界&qid=1565560354&s=gateway&sr=8-1 |
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Fred Lougee
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*laughing at this more than I probably should* |
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Guspaz
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By being at the Comiket that it was introduced at, and asking one of the authors if they could license it. Because that's how J-Novel Club licensed it. |
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Megiddo
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Pretty sure one of the books that Chidori is carrying in a very early Full Metal Panic episode is So Long And Thanks For All the Fish. |
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shosakukan
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Major publishing firm Shinchōsha had released Japanese translations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and Life, the Universe and Everything in the 1980s (translated by Kazami Jun). Another major publishing firm Kawade Shobō Shinsha released new Japanese translations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Mostly Harmless, 'Young Zaphod Plays It Safe' and And Another Thing... in the 2000s-2010s (translated by Yasuhara Kazumi). So probably Japanese fans of science fiction know about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 'Ordinary' Japanese people may not know about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though. |
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