http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new s/2016-04-11/kadokawa-pu

>>139969399
They'll probably just get more books. If they were going to be faster, it's now offset by the fact that they'll be doing more books.

Volume6 of AW when?

This is actually pretty interesting.

>One day ALL manga and light novels will release simultaneously with Japan release dates.

>>139969481
That'd be pretty neat. I don't know how authors will feel about having their work either be delayed for translations, or have it looked over by foreigner before it's released.

As long as they're as cool as Marmalade it should be good.

Dang kadokawa must be hyped as fuck for re: zero

>>139969523
I'm hyped as fuck for it.

Active, faster releases please.

Fuck Yen Press for their slow sitting on publishing right bullshit.

>>139969399
That's fantastic news and I hope this is another bridge towards quicker japanese-english publications.

Unfortunately that means much stronger enforcement on scans and translations but I guess by then I'll be out of school with income to spend.

They need to capitalize when there's still interest. It's fucking stupid when they announce they have the license for a LN for an anime that's airing and put out the first volume over a year later.

>>139969523
Hope that gets licensed. Seems really interesting and if the anime doesnt sell enough for more seasons, I'd like to read it.

>>139969481
>One day ALL manga and light novels will release simultaneously with Japan release dates
This would be a dream come true. No one e-drama shit with translators or fucking retarded DMCA's.

So to anyone who is literate about this subject.

How huge is this?

>>139969606
It's already licensed, but I'm not too sure if the first volume is out yet.

>>139969399
>So will Yen Press move faster now?
Digitally, yes. Print, no.

Distribution and retail is still way too different a beast compared to Japan. You absolutely cannot build a sustainable market for light novels in North America if you flood retailers with that many books every single month. This proved to be one of the major instigators right before the major collapse in the mid-00s.

The NA market is unfortunately not suitable for that many niche products. The retailers cannot handle the stock, and the mass market sure as hell won't be able to sustain it. Reader attrition rates would be worse then ever before (and yeah, reader attrition rates are god awful for manga and light-novels in the US). I'd like for them to be faster too, but it's not realistic. Plus, Kadokawa isn't able to call the shots on that, it would be Hachette Book Group, and I doubt they're going to risk such a move.

>>139969631
oh good shit

>>139969590
And then the publisher's wonder why the series doesn't sell. You got to strike when the iron is hot. Hype dies down very quickly when an anime ends.

>>139969652

Yeah it got it not too long ago

>>139969642
I can't believe I'm saying this but I would gladly buy digital only LNs if it meant they came out much faster than a couple of volumes a year. My interest plummets when someone licenses a LN I'm reading and it takes the publisher 3 years to catch up to were I left off.

>>139969704
What's the feasible schedule to release a translated LN for a publisher? Once every 4 months? Can that be?

Crunchyroll, Kadokawa Announce Partnership
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-04-11/crunchyroll-kadokawa-announce-partnership/.100932

>>139969772

What's gonna happen with this?

>>139969814
I don't know, but I'm cautiously optimistic.

>>139969747
>Once every 4 months
The problem with a lot of LNs in the west is a erratic release schedule. A series can be released on schedule for one volume every 4 months but then can just shift gears to being one volume every 6 months. There is almost no consistency. And all while this is going on the Japanese LNs keep getting further and further ahead.

>>139969399
The better question is will they still read like they were localized by a soccer-mom pretending to be a 18-25 year old male.

>>139969399
I-is it Happening?
There's dubs at least.

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YenPress Keit-Ai LN when?

A boy falls in love with a girl.

Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NShEKYoPXw
ED 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIX9aoN7g4o
ED 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZHiGLt7g8E
PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g
EP 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k

>>139969871
I see. So with Kadokawa, is it possible for them to rein this erratic schedule? I hope so.

>>139969772
Wow Kadokawa. What did Re:Zero do.

>>139969704
Digital releases will be faster, I imagine. Kadokawa likely wants that increased and streamlined, since they have a lot riding on this deal. But keep in mind, you (the reader has already read most contents online) are not the intended demographic or consumer. You're more an afterthought for them, so it is in their interest to market their goods to [new] readers and a pace which allows them to continue buying them.

>>139969747
Light-novels still take more time to translate than manga. Wordcount is typically 4x as much as your average manga. That's a lot more to translate, edit, and then proofread. You could probably churn out a new volume every 2 months, but you're setting up that translator to get burned out quickly with that pace. 3 months is more reasonable.

You ideally want to keep the same translator and editor(s) attached to the series for the sake of consistency and efficiency. Note that most translators are attached to multiple projects, so it isn't as though they're only working on a single series.

>>139969772
This is the same thing but with anime titles. Not as excited for this for some reason. LN translations are just suffering.

Doesn't Kadokawa own like fucking everything?

>>139969908

Just has massive boner for it I guess. LN wasn't even selling well and they gave it 26 episodes and a 1 hour long first episode.

How did that even fucking happen it's bs

>>139969898
FINDS

>>139969963

in my opinion yes

Should have brought Seven Seas, they have better translators.

>>139969898
Threadly reminder that you should stop posting that because it's a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/

>>139969772
W-what's going to happen? Are they going to release a Crunchyroll Girls anime?

>>139969966
>LN wasn't even selling well
Really? It's sold like 450k right? That isnt bad before an anime.

>>139969908
>is it possible for them to rein this erratic schedule
My hope is that all series go digital format with the physical copies coming out a few months later. Digital releases would hopefully speed up the release dates. I would totally pay for digital if they could release volumes once every two months. This would help catch up to the Japanese releases that are 5+ volumes ahead when a series get licensed. At the rate the Index novels are coming out it's going to take decades to catch up to the Japanese releases.

>>139970029

Other things are/were selling better. Maybe he just believes in it. 450k is kinda shit desu.

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>>139969898
Every fucking thread.

>>139969399
It's not like Yen Press can get any worse.

>>139970052
>Other things are/were selling better.
Like what? Non anime adapted stuff of course.

>>139969963
They're Japanese Disney essentially.

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>>139969963
Kadokawa may own my body but they'll never own my heart.

>>139970103

Death March

>>139970052
To be fair buddy, Log Horizon was around 370k before the anime, and Konosuba was 400k before anime.

Re:Zero's number isn't high, but not spectacularly low.

>>139970194
>Suzuki, an adult programmer, suddenly notice that he's been thrown into a different world while wearing a casual clothes at level 1. He gained high level and treasures after using the 3-times-disposable-magic, Meteor Shower, once. After that he intend to do different world "sightseeing tours"?
>Meeting 3 beast girls, beautiful purple and black haired sisters and an eccentric blond haired elf girl along with various people during his trip. Although there are occasional fights with demon and demon lord, this is a heartwarming fantasy story at heart.

So glad ReZero happened. That at least has interesting premise with developing MC.

>>139970224
He's not talking about the the weekly rankings. He was talking about a different ranking Nuroge(?) I think.

Log Horizon and Death March were in the Top 10s. Re:Zero was only in the top 30s.

>>139970254
Satou is a very chill and nonchalant bro, but his OP-ness and unwillingness to give two shits about girls' affection does make him a bit boring.
I read it mostly to see his philanthropy work come to fruition.

Vertical all the way, the monogataris are safe, for now.

>>139970294
>the monogataris are safe, for now.

Kissshotacceleraorion Heartunderblade

>>139970289
I'm not talking about rankings.
I'm talking about sales. Number of copies out in the market.

As for web based novels turned to anime goes, Re:Zero is on the same level as Log Horizon and Konosuba as far as Light Novel sales go.

Log Horizon was under 400k sales before the anime. After the anime, it was boosted to 1 million.
Overlord was around 500-600k, and it was boosted to 1.5 million after the anime, and now sitting at 2 million.

>>139970264
>posts a pic bashing keit-ai, sages thread
>hurr durr replying to yourself

How new?

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>>139969898
How about a VN?

>>139970289
>450k
>he's talking about Narou rankings!

Nothing in Narou rankings even reach 400k pts you ignorant mutt.
He's talking about sales figure.

>>139970342

A lot of the most popular LNs at the moment are utter fucking trash.

I'm sort of glad re zero is getting such a big shot hopefully it'll surge

I like the Comic Beam stuff they should translate more of that

>>139970407
>A lot of the most popular LNs at the moment are utter fucking trash.

A lot of the most popular anything is utter trash, LN is no different.

>I'm sort of glad re zero is getting such a big shot hopefully it'll surge

I am too, and hopefully it'll enjoy the same success as the other two mentioned.

The samurai are out-jewing the jews.

>>139970436
Good luck with that.

>>139970374
Why the fuck are you hostile? I was just stating something without even being snarky about it.

If I'm wrong then I'm wrong. Goddamn. I was replying to the fact that the other guy said Death March and its ilk.

>>139970103

Shield Hero

Also why do people like yahari so much? 8man is fucking trash.

Is re zero any good?

>>139970456
I just like to call people who are wrong ignorant mutts.

>>139970445
>I am too, and hopefully it'll enjoy the same success as the other two mentioned.
>ranking 1.5k on amazon rank
gulp. But the important thing is LN sales though. The anime should boost it well regardless. I'd like to see the anime sell well anyway.

>>139969898
I don't get this meme.

>>139969399
>So will Yen Press move faster now?
If they do, I hope it isn't to cater to retarded normalfag babies and instead try avoid doing insanely stupid localizations. But, I doubt that'll happen and they will keep making stupid liberties. Not that fan translations are any better.

>>139970498

I like it but check it out for yourself before you catch a shit posting storm.

>>139970536

2nd episode dude. Plus I'm sure interest will pick up as the anime progresses. I know it sounds dumb but it gets REAL halfway through the 3rd arc.

Plus Kadokawa put a lot into it already so maybe it won't take much to get more.

>>139969481
I don't think this is happening in the foreseeable future.There's no reason to pay someone to translate most of the manga out there.

>>139970339
I can deal with that, the pretty book cover makes for it. Tho the jap silver color covers were my faves.

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Is there hope?

>>139970569
>trying to understand a meme

Waiting mass purge on Baka-tsuki. Guess time to learn Nip than read localized translation.

>>139970619
Give it up anon

>>139970569
It's spam by r/anime

>>139970465
It's a relatable character.

> Yen Press, LLC
Does this mean they'll change their logo? Cause I sure like different book spines.

>>139970635
Thank goodness, most of the translations there are Doki's weebsubs tier bad.

>>139969399
>So will Yen Press move faster now?
Yes, more faster licensing (if you can call it that now) and more faster wide net bans.

>>139969481
That's not happening m8.

Viz's SJ is a shittier version than japanese SJ. Same thing here.

They'll just bring a little more stuff but that's it.

LN sales for all the Web novel turned into anime

Sword Art Online - 10 million (620k before anime)
Mahouka - 6 million (1.6 million before anime)
GATE - 4 million (2.4 million before anime)
DunMachi - 4 million (1 million before anime)
Overlord - 2 million (600k before anime)
Log Horizon - 1 million (370k before anime)
Konosuba - ~1 million (400k before anime)
Re:Zero - 400k

As you can see anime effect is pretty fucking huge.

>>139969590
Main reason for that(at least according to Seven Seas) is that they have to schedule their print runs with their printers at least a year in advance.

>>139970569
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keit-ai-finds-a-way/

>>139970729

Youre implying re zero means jack

It wont do nearly as good they should have done something else

>>139970729
Konosuba's 1.7m actually. Wow that anime did a hell lot of work for it.

>>139970729
>DunMachi - 4 million (1 million before anime)
How the shit has it sold that much before the anime? That's a shit ton. Wow
Danmachi sucks.

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>>139970728
>One day

>>139970729
what about for ones where the anime sold >1k?

>>139970675
The spines already have Yen On logo instead of Yen Press, right?

>>139970777
Why do you hate it so much?

>>139970664

Hes not fucking relatable

I swear the only reason I hate yahari is because of the threads and the retards the show attracts

>>139970777
I know you have some hate boner for the show, but it's too early to tell at this point.

Is this why YP has been able to retroactively get digital publishing rights for Index and Maou-sama? Could we see more Kindle releases for other series they have.

>>139970820

Because its just another stuck in another world harem shit show

Character is dumb as fuck girls are not even cute and the story is just edgy for being edgy.

Death March should have fucking gotten adapter not re zero

>>139970859
I read Deathmarch and Re:Zero and like both, but really, the latter is a better story than DM.
DM is a guilty pleasure read, but it's terrible objectively.

>>139970842

I've read the WN it's no good

Bad shit keeps happening and I hate it grimderp retard mc

>>139970859
This
even the nips are disappointed by this
and god knows that the nips loves the "stuck in another world/harem" thing.

>>139970805
Yeah, one day there'll be enough interest in some nobody mangaka's oneshot in a minor magazine for them translate that, I'm sure. Don't hold your breath.

>>139970859
>harem
It isnt

>Character is dumb as fuck
He isnt. It's nearly unbelievable to think you'd die and respawn.


>Death March
You mean >>139970254 this shit? That is another world harem shitfest with a boring souding MC. Are you shitposting?

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>>139969898
When will Ghost Slide get a resurgence?

>>139970777
I tend to not believe anything anymore /a/ says.

You people said Konosuba will never sell, never be good, never have an audience, laughing at the stalker points being high up in the rankings because it's just trolling.

Then it sold 13k BD/DVDs, with an immediate season 2, and other authors making a whole lot of illustrations of it.

Then there's you people saying anime has been in decline for 6 years straight. Turns out it has been on the fucking rise for 5 years straight.

>>139970912
>>harem
>It isnt
Oh you.

>>139970859
Oh I get it. You're a sour grape because YOUR favorite generic shit didn't get animated, and this equally generic shit got the deal instead.

Fuck you're pathetic.

>>139970936
Tell me the girls in his harem.

>>139970825
Well, I'm trash so...

>>139970936
You can call Re:Zero shit, generic, or whatever and I won't argue.

But harem it isn't.
The number of male to female character ratio is the same, and the protagonist only has two love interest after 400 chapters.

But sure, whatever, keep trolling.

I tried reading a light novel once. I couldn't get into it too much wish fulfilment stuff

>>139970934
There's a lot of shitpost on /a/ so you need to sort the good serious posts and the people who just say dumb shit.

>>139970889
>even the nips are disappointed by this
sauce? It got a lot of twitter hits but I have nothing else to gauge interest right now.

>>139970791
People buy it for pictures of oppai loli goddess.

>>139970921
Hopefully never because it's trash. Fuck off.

>>139971003
He's trolling. I've read what the nips say and it's no where near to what he's implying.

>>139970814
I was referring to their manga as well.

>>139970897
You sure love reality anon.

>>139971020
>loli
I dont get it. 4'7" is too big for loli. That's just a shortstack.

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I'm worried that this means Yen will stop localizing novels from Kadokawa's rivals.

Also, I hope they release the Strike Witches LNs that Kadokawa publishes, the ones fan groups decided to TL have been in limbo for over 4 years. Seven Seas is the only western publisher really pushing out /ak/ books, though.

Damn you fucks get trolled to easily. Ignore the retard he's just butt blasted turbo garbage didn't get adapted and I'll laugh when the rest of Re: Zero gets adapted. It may be shit but at least it's shit with a twist.

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>>139970960

Die

Reminds me of Robocop 3, when the Japanese take over the corp who ran the city.

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>>139970454
>The media will soon be controlled by the Samurais

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>>139970889

The only negative thing I've ever heard is that it's too graphic for those wimpy nipps. Other than that they love it, I'm sure it'll do a lot better here in America.

You sir are a troll and not my friend.

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>>139970921
It's too much of a joke to actually get an anime.

>>139970921
>>139971225

kek

So, do you know any good kadokawa titles that might be published now?

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>>139970455
I was just looking through thier catalogue there really isn't much hope. They did Thermae Romae though

>>139971258
Kyoukai Senjou no Hori- eh, fuck that, it won't happen.

>>139971216
This. What they actually said is that, it's too heart-wrenching for them. Fucking nips.

>>139971298
If fucking only.

>sjw's will try to ruin this.

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>>139969898
>OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NShEKYoPXw [Embed]
>ED 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIX9aoN7g4o [Embed]
>ED 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZHiGLt7g8E [Embed]
>PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g [Embed]
>EP 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k [Embed]

This got really complicated at some point.

>>139971310

I think a lot of people over here would enjoy things like this. All you need is kill and edge of tomorrow was a big hit. I'm sure it's from the fact that we're not a bunch of turbo pussies though.

I have faith with kados faith and these new partnerships re: zero will do great. It'll be well received over here when it gains some popularity

>>139970713
Is bakatsuki kill?
Especially now the translators usually have their own websites

HOLY SHIT does this mean we'll finally be getting Kino no Tabi???

>>139969399
Why would anyone want to read Japanese comics in English? You lose almost all of the idiosyncrasies of the characters and narration.

>>139971258
they'll probably do that dungeon cooking comic

>>139971410

Eat a dick weaboo fag

>>139971410
Fuck off.

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>>139971298
A man can dream.

>>139971298

Please god PLEASE

So what doesn't Kadokawa own in the japanese media industry?

>>139971385
Js06 is pretty much the only thing keeping it alive.

>>139971619
I don't know if they have porn

>>139971619
Aniplex?

>>139971408
We have like 15 volumes of that translated already.

>>139971619

Sony, Dentsu.

>>139971676
I meant in print.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengeki_Bunko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujimi_Fantasia_Bunko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadokawa_Sneaker_Bunko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Bunko_J

For those who want to see what Yen might start releasing because of this new deal

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>>139969898
Back in my day, memes were actually funny.

>>139969481
>>139969514
>>139970605
>>139970728
Only retards would actually believe this.

Only way this would be possible is if Robots or Software have become advanced enough to make Human Translators extinct.

No human translator would aim for a low paying job like translating manga or light novels.

The goal of all translators is pretty high money earning jobs like translating medical or law textbooks and documents for international scientists or doctors.

And to take it one step further, being UN approved translators.

And the highest of all is being the personal translator of World Leaders like for example, the translators that were present with both Putin and Obama and getting a chance to hear highly sensitive information while translating in real time.

But most translators don't aim so high because being the personal translator of a world leader requires security clearances, obviously, and the fact you could be a target from spies or foreign organizations.

>>139969590
Fuck Yen Press, though.

They killed a lot of fanbases like Strike the Blood's fanbase since their super slow schedule for Strike the Blood killed any remaining interest toward the series.

>>139970289
Web Novel rankings mean jack shit when it comes to sales.

Plenty of web novels that got turned into light novels don't really sell that way.

>>139971108
DeathMarchfags have always been cancer.

They are near the cancer levels that are Re:Monsterfags.

say goodbye to fan translations and scanlations
and dropped series if they don't sell well

>>139970791
It also had pretty well done manga-adaptation.
Mahouka and GATE have them as well, so that's why they were pretty successful.
SAO didn't have one until anime, iirc. And it was hot garbage.

>>139971385
Baka Tsuki staff were always fucking retarded.

Light novel translators should be Decentralized anyways.

>>139971831
This post started off reasonable, and then hit some extreme levels of retardation.

>>139971410
Because the language of FREEDOM need to be present in all world literatures.

>>139971619
OverLap is one of the few remaining LN publishers not owned by Kadokawa.

They publish a lot of fantasy novels, both pure fantasy without game elements and ones with video game elements.

A lot of people who read fantasy web novels will notice Overlap picked them up.

There is one more publisher I forgot to mention.

AlphaPolis, the publisher behind Gate.

They are the most disliked publisher since any web novel they picked up, gets ordered to be deleted or forcibly edited to turn into just summary teasers for the LN.

Everyone always makes sad faces on that web novel site when they hear AlphaPolis picked up their favorite web novel.

>>139972083
>They are the most disliked publisher since any web novel they picked up, gets ordered to be deleted or forcibly edited to turn into just summary teasers for the LN.

Sure, but Alphapolis editors actually do their job and quality control their shit.
MF Bunko is utter garbage in comparison.

>>139969481
>LNs in English instead of Ngrlsch

>>139969871
Yen Press already has a consistent schedule. But that schedule is 3 Light Novel volumes a year (for each series)

That's just far too slow, and people lose interest far too fast.

>>139970635
>>139971385
>Is bakatsuki kill?
Possibly. Talking about this stunt reminds me of the massive take-down of most of Baka-tsuki's Translations by Kadokawa.
Amusingly, everyone was quick to blame Yen Press, even though it was Kadokawa, and none of the projects were even owned by YP.

>>139970675
Better re-buy all your manga.

>>139971981
>and dropped series if they don't sell well
People seem to list this as a worry, but has Yen Press ever dropped anything? They're slow, but I haven't heard of them dropping anything.

>>139972689
Viz didn't drop Shana either, and look what happened to that.

>>139971298
I want to believe.

Seriously though, I don't really see anyone apart from Kawakamifags buying it. Also catching up even with js06 translation would take forever.

>>139971831
One day.

>>139972917
Yeah, I see that you're worried about companies picking up a project, stopping, and just sitting on the license forever, but is there yet a case of YP doing that?

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I'd buy Ro-Kyu-Bu!, that's all.

>>139969481
They'd have to make a lot of js06es to keep up. Do you have any idea how much one of those costs?

>>139973491
More than all of Yen Press put together that's for sure.

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I'm hoping more niche LNs

>>139972383
They hire the worst artists for their manga adaptions and what quality control?

They pick up shit like Re:Monster

>>139973932
The novelized version of Gate was far superior to the web version for example.

Awful news.

This mean the japs will start to pander white pigs more.

>>139969642
>>139969704
>>139969929
>>139970042
>>139970854
I'm not excited for more digital releases if it means having to deal with Kadokawa's stupid shitty Bookwalker app instead of buying from the Kindle store.

>>139974991
Not at all. Japan will continue to pander to Japan, but if Kadokawa thinks that something will pander to westerners, they'll push it on Yen Press.

>>139975042
Considering Hachette has had beef with Amazon in the past (particularly about ebooks), don't keep your hopes up.
BookWalker already has an English site too, so it's highly likely your fears will come true.

>>139974991
Not really. It seems more likely that they'll try to coordinate the western releases of LNs with currently airing anime better, and try to speed up the releases of popular series via digital distribution. I really doubt we'll see any OELLNs any time soon, or JP LNs doing things that'll hurt sales in Japan, such as reducing fanservice or westernizing the prose with new characters or set pieces

>>139969399
>>So will Yen Press move faster now?
no

more shit

>>139973615
I'd love to see Dantalian localized.

>>139969481
>Implying they can keep up with Kamachi.exe

>>139969399
The LN industry in the west could use a face lift. I'd also like to see more niche titles coming out rather than well known titles. But who am I kidding, more than likely nothing will come from this.

>>139975361
It would be really nice. I wanna see Gosick resurrected as well. Only two volumes made it to the West.

>>139970921
Ghost Slide was actually funny because nobody ever took it slightly seriously.

I'm quite bitter at kadokawa because after they took over Fujimi, they canned LN releases of one of my favorite WN.
Then adding insult to injury released only the final volume with the new spine design, now making only that volume stand out on my bookshelf and triggering my autism.

>>139969704
I would prefer faster releases as well but I think the problem is that the actual authors aren't faster than the English releases. Faster releases would only make sense for new series that already have 10+ volumes in Japan, everything else will just get a waiting time of 3 to 7 months as soon as the translations are up to date, depending on how fast the author is.

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>Now Grimgar can't be licensed
Thanks Kadokawa.

>>139975649
There's also Gosick BLUE, RED and PINK.

>>139975660
This.

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>>139975791
Do want so very badly.

>>139969704
>it takes the publisher 3 years to catch up to were I left off.
Imagine Yen Press' release of Index. I'd be surprised if Yen Press actually ever finishes it.

>>139975779
We still don't know if Yen Press plans to exclusively license Kadokawa works.
Once Yen Press announces their next batch of licenses, we can compare them, and pass judgement.

That said, yeah, the majority of their licenses will likely be Kadokawa-related.

>>139971831
That's like saying there are no fry cooks because all people who want to work with food aspire to be top chefs serving world leaders or working high paying jobs in top restaurants. It'll be fine, the foreign language majors (and ultimately, the translation market) is already saturated, there'll be no problem if they just open up more jobs for translation in an official way desu senpai.

>>139975952
51% of shares is kadokawa's now.
Kadokawa makes the decisions.

>>139969399
this bullshit company better be able to release B5 books now, fucking tiny american release shits

>>139976044
Doesn't mean they'll refuse to license anything not related to Kadokawa. They have decision making power, but not all the decision making power.

>>139975649
Is the author writing anything at the moment?
The anime datebases say all of her novels are finished.

>>139975952
I would be very surprised if Yen Press will be allowed to publish non-Kadokawa works anymore. Kadokawa spent all that money to be competitive in the Western market, they're sure as fuck not going to allow what is technically one of their subsidiaries now to publish its own competition.

>>139976218
Didn't Viz continue to publish non-shuueisha works after they were bought out by them?

>>139976174
Still writing Gosick >>139975791

>>139976167
Why would they? Kadokawa obviously bought 51% to get a firm hold of the company. They intent to expand their own business to west, not play a charity to Japanese LN market.

>>139976253
Were those acquisitions of new licenses, or just them continuing series they had already begun?

It's likely that Yen Press will be allowed to continue with series that it has already started, but Kadokawa may prevent them from picking up any new non-Kadokawa licenses.

>>139976218
They will probably allow it for only the most popular works so that they can at least get some money out of it .

>>139976318
Because they can still make a profit off of other publisher's series? Are you this retarded?
They're doing this to make money. They can make more money by letting Yen Press publish things other than their own licenses. There's no competition in the West, they purely make money. The only possible issue would be oversaturating the market.

>>139970294
Vertical kind of sucks now. Excusing them getting lucky with the Gundam Origin they just pick up any cheap license they can buy for series that are getting anime adaptations and hope that they sell from the flavor of the month attention.

They went from publishing manga from Usamaru Furuya, Kyoko Okazaki, Osamu Tezuka, and Keiko Takemiya to shit like Cardfight Vanguard, SnK light novels and Queen's Blade. They also picked Asumiko Nakamura's worst series to publish so now we'll probably never get anything decent from her besides whatever DMG claims.

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>Muh 4 months is forever to wait for a new volume

It's like some of you fags only read 1 series.

>>139976278
This wasn't showed where I looked, thanks for the info.

>>139976471
Look up what Kadokawa owns, yen press will not have enough resources to cover what they can be given and any profit made from other publishers' series will always be lower that from their own.

FUCK BOOKWALKER

>>139977845
Why?I love their 50% discounts.

Is this really a good thing? While Yen Press was a wholly owned subsidiary of Hachette, any losses they incur can be absorbed by one of the world's biggest publishers, now that they're a separate entity they could just sink if they don't make money?

>>139978054
They are not a separate identity, they now can half their losses between USA and JAPAN market.

>>139978054
>now that they're a separate entity
Hachette still owns (close to) half of Yen Press, and Hachette will still be the ones distributing solid books, so now Yen Press is leaning on two different companies.

>>139978054
Kadokawa is also an enormous publisher.

>>139978011
The app is utter garbage. Image-based format, seriously?

>>139978344
BookWalker is an EPub-based format, as far as I know.
Pretty sure they just rasterize the contents so that the text can't be easily copy-and-pasted.

>>139972689
>Yen Press already has a consistent schedule. But that schedule is 3 Light Novel volumes a year (for each series)

It's 4 releases a year. Stop spreading misinformation. 4chan is too retarded to know better.

>>139973005
No, there is not.

>>139976539
It's 3 months.

>>139969514
>I don't know how authors will feel about having their work either be delayed for translations

Unless you're self published, you can have a book finished for months or years before it ever hits shelves. Books don't just magically materialize out of thin air on store shelves the second you finish.

>51%
Yo, we Seto Kaiba up in this bitch.

>>139978586
>It's 4 releases a year
For manga, maybe.
But I know for Light Novels it's 3 releases a year. (One volume every 4 months)

>>139978723
Are you implying that purchasing just enough so you hold the majority of shares in a company is uncommon practice or is it something you only have seen in yu-gi-oh?

>>139976539
Someone people like to be capable of finishing a story instead of having to wait 50 years.

>>139976586
They're not going to push out every single Kadokawa series, they'll publish what they think is profitable. If they find other works by other publishers to be profitable they'll select those instead.
There are plenty of series that are popular on /a/ but wouldn't sell if they were licensed, whereas other series like Grimgar had mildly successful anime and will probably sell decently in the West. While their own IPs would get priority, they'd be stupid to focus exclusively on that when there are more saleable licenses they can acquire from other publishers.

>>139978723
Does this mean that Blue-Eyes White Dragon jets will be real?

>>139978780
He's implying that you're a humourless faggot.

>>139979235
>humour
the only faggot here is you

>>139978672
It can be also 2 per year, it all depends on how Yen Press sees the interest for the series. Though 2 per year was the very starter series speed.

Now it's usually 3 per year at start and maybe 4 per year later down the line to risk more attrition.

Why don't they do Kino?
Does Tokyopop still own the rights or something like that?

>>139979235
It was a terrible joke.

>>139969898
>keit-ai found a way to get posted here

Why am I not surprised?

>>139979158
Again, look up what Kadokawa is, 7 out of top 10 LN bestsellers from 2015 belongs to Kadokawa group. They have no reason to publish anybody else but their own series.

>>139978672
It depends on the series. Index is 3 months, but most of the rest of their shit is 4 months.

>>139979391
I really hope they'll start publishing Kino...

>>139970921
Depends. How much of the original premise do you want intact? Or can anything work as long as it's titled Ghost Slide?

>>139971385
>>139972689
I don't mind TLs being taken down if it means being released officially, digitally or physically doesn't matter but I do muchly prefer the latter.

So are kadokawa basically the Japanese equivalent to Diamond?

>>139971831
>No human translator would aim for a low paying job like translating manga or light novels.
I would. As long as I like what I'm doing and can support myself...

>>139978741
It's also 4 for LNs. SAO for example had one out in January, April, August and December. Same with Index, Accel World and Danmachi.

>>139980724
It's more than that for B-list series like Strike the Blood and Black Bullet.

>>139981238
>Strike the Blood is B-list
Feels bad man

>>139980724
>SAO for example had one out in January, April, August and December
>January
What?
>Volume 3 - December 16, 2014
>Volume 4 - April 21, 2015
>Volume 5 - August 18, 2015
>Volume 6 - December 15, 2015
>Volume 7 - April 19, 2016

Anon, nothing SAO related released in January.

>Index

>Volume 2 - February 24, 2015
>Volume 3 - May 19, 2015
>Volume 4 - August 18, 2015
>Volume 5 - November 17, 2015
>Volume 6 - February 23, 2016
>Volume 7 - May 24, 2016
4 releases a year, huh. And it's a faster release schedule than SAO, too (by a month)

>Accel World and Danmachi
Same story as SAO.
Index just seems to have a better release schedule than the others.

Is there a reason Index has a better release schedule than Yen Press's other stuff??

>>139981490
I guess it is because index has way lotter stuff released and they want to catch up.

>>139979069
>Someone people like to be capable of finishing a story instead of having to wait 50 years

Then why read manga and LN's when those fags in most cases will do anything to extend the fuck out of their publishing time instead of finishing their story?

I bet you read those garbage harems or mmo series and bitching why they never finish.

>>139981490
There was Progressive in between there. So it was 4 for SAO.

>>139969898
OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycfdfinG_P8
ED1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDNGS9V4Us
ED2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4DyTjrruVo

>>139971298
No one is mad enough for that

>>139969814
CR will get every Kadokawa show now instead of most

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>>139970921
Ghost Slide had a summary. It's essentially Bleach Lite.

>Ghost Slide (ゴーストスライド, Gōsuto Suraido) is a series created by Kaishaku. The series centers around the main character, Akira Ōhashi, who is transported to an alternate universe (called Daisuru) where there is a war between “Ghosts” and “Slides” after making a post on an internet forum.

>The series began as a manga in 2006, enjoying widespread critical, though only limited commercial, success. As a result of its limited commercial success, it was forced to end sooner than the authors wanted, resulting in an ending fans of the series saw as “rushed”. Following the manga, an anime series was announced, with plans to air 12 episodes.

>>139973615
More Dantalian would be nice.

>>139975660
>>139975887
>these anons are so new they're not aware of the Ghost Slide fake anime torrent made mere days after the forced meme exploded on /a/

I hate newfriends.

I hope you faggots share whatever they release so I don't have to buy it.

This will make other publishers move away since kadokawa will be getting their profits as well.
Farewell shueisha titles.

>>139980026
So you're basically saying they'd sit at 70% market share instead of 100% market share when they have the opportunity to do?
Makes sense.

We can also pretend that I don't know what Kadokawa publishes, too, if it makes you feel better.

If anything, what >>139982970 said seems more reasonable in that other publishers would avoid Yen Press because they'd be feeding profits to their competitors.
However, for Kadokawa there is no reason to to try and snag every popular release, since they will still be more profitable than their own stuff. There's a reason companies grab everything they can instead of just focusing on their own market, they want to maximize profits. You can't maximize profits if you stick solely with your own IPs, they now have the opportunity to monopolize LNs in the West, and even if that means they have to publish works of their competitors, they'd still be able to profit off of it.

>>139982417
Well, if you want to include Progressive, it was actually 6 total, seeing as it's actually treated as a separate series.

>>139970619

There is only despair, Haunted would be proud.

>>139969399
>yahari 1st volume got delayed till september
Fuck YP

>>139969523
I have no idea why they are putting so much money on it

>>139969523
Meh something definitely went behind the scenes for that series.

>>139984353
Blowjobs

>>139984442
People can only suck so much cock dude. that goddamn blowjob must have been top tier in order to get so much recognition.

>>139984290
>Re:Zero begins its serialization in 2012
>Within a year despite its ranking nowhere near in the top 100, Kadokawa picks it up for publishing and manga adaptation. Begins publishing 2014
>Novel sales are low, in the 200k and Narou ranking is 100ish
>Kadokawa announces anime adaptation
>Now Re:Zero is at 400k circulation and ranks 29th on Narou ranking

It's quite odd indeed.
I'm a fan who's been keeping up with the series since 2014 so I'm not complaining, but the support this title has been getting has been puzzling.
Especially since Naoru has plenty of more successful novels in the higher rankings.

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>>139969898
I CAN'T ESCAPE

>>139984982
This meme will never die, right?

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Ultimately, we won't know what this means for a good while from now, but honestly I think we can all agree it'll mean something. Whether it be faster releases or exclusively digital releases or who fucking knows, but somethings going down, even if it doesn't seem to be HAPPENING levels of, y'know, happening.

I don't know shit about economics, but I'm still trying to figure out if this will be an ultimately successful business venture for Kadokawa. Its not like the US can sustain the LN market the same way Japan can, and although there is always digital releases, I'm not sure how many people who, say, own a crunchy account would be willing to read LNs.

>CR partners with Kadokawa
So is funimation gonna lose all their Kadokawa stuff now?

>>139985519
>Aniplex abandons Funi
>Kadokawa abandons Funi
It's coming

>>139984226
HOLY WAT
why?

>>139988454
Mahouka was also delayed from January to April. I didn't think Oregairu was that difficult to translate. Oregairu's manga comes out this month.

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>>139969898

>>139975779
well it could also be picked up by vertical

>>139985519
I hope funi dies.

>>139969399
I hope Kadokawa fucking revamps Yen Press' shitty localized translation.

>>139981490
Speaking of Accel World, why do you think volume seven is being delayed until September? According to the usual schedule, it should be out in July.

>>139985403
Only one thing i can say about crunchy.
Woolay

>>139990686
They moved 3 series released this summer to fall, it's possible it's related to this. On the other hand volume 7 is only released 3 months after volume 6 which I hope is an indication they have upped the release speed.

>>139991287
Wait, what are you talking about? Volume six is out already. I'm looking at it on my bookshelf right now. It made me really excited for volume seven because it's another two-book-arc deal, like three and four.

>>139991396
meant 7 and 8...

>>139991396
I stopped reading after volume 3 and read the manga version of vol 4.
Vol 3 was for me so unbelievable bad. I nearly threw the book in the trash.
Does it get any better?

>>139991913
The translation was bad?

>>139991913
Honestly, that depends on your taste. Volume four is a continuation of the story from volume three, but I believe it's better. The climactic fight against Dusk Taker is really exciting, and he doesn't do any of the "good guys spare the bad guys!" thing that you might expect. Dusk Taker gets what's coming to him.
Volume five was even better than that, in my opinion. Plot threads from throughout the series slowly start to converge. It's consistently exciting, and it provides some great development for the newest member of Nega Nebulus.

>>139969772
>even more shows that fansubbers don't bother with because they get a crunchy release

Gee I sure am excited for having to put up with more crunchyshit rips.

>>139993022
I find they are the quickest unless you want to wait 2 weeks after the episode for fansubs.

>>139993301
I'm willing to wait, I have other shit I could be doing while waiting for an episode.

>>139992493
Ok thx
Maybe I will give it a try

>>139992491
No
It was the plot, all the bad cliches and mainly how dumb the mc was.

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Why don't they just look at an anime chart a couple of months in advance and see what LNs to pick up?

>>139993766
Danmachi is probably the only one they had a volume out before the anime. Not sure why they don't do that more often.

>>139983172
>So you're basically saying they'd sit at 70% market share instead of 100% market share when they have the opportunity to do?
pretty sure he is saying that they never be able to cover their 70% of the market, so they wouldn't even consider the other 30%

>>139993766
They seem to do that, but then they release their first volume months after the season ends, that there's no point.

>>139983172
>>139994237
Few hours late, but yes, that's exactly what I was trying to say. Not to mention Yen press already publishes mostly LNs from Kadokawa so it wouldn't be nothing new. And if they actually have free resources they can use it to publish a supplementary material to make their own series stand out even more.

>>139969399
they are talking here about being yen press being second biggest in the west. Which 1 is the biggest then? I cannot imagine tokyopop being one.

>>139999228
VIZ

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>>139978586
>>139978741
>4 releases a year
Yeah I wish, when in japan itself the series was released one volume a year there's nothing you can do about it.

>>139999228
Who da biggest

>>139969399
This is shitty news.

The real headline is "Kadokawa eyes English market".
I suspect the amount of DMCA's will increase.

>>140000311
And exactly how would it increase the DMCA's?

>>140000365
Nips now even more interested in enforcing draconian intellectual property laws.
That's how.

>>139988454
The easy bet is that american distribution is severely FUBAR.

Yenpress, Sevenseas, Vertical etc. need to register their publications a year in advance.

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>>139971258
Is there any chance?

>>139971258
Most stuff from Comic Beam is good

Any chance they'll license the Fate Zero or El Melloi II case files novels?

>>140001192
I fucking hope so. Muv Luv is pretty popular right now thanks to the KS and schwarzes.

>>140000635
Fuck that shit, if they want to kill fantranslation first they gotta release shit faster.

>>139970635
Bakatsuki is fucking garbage and their translators mostly just reword Google Translate.

Maybe the next Yotsuba&! volume will be released sooner than the almost year long wait we have right now for volume 13.

>>140000311
They already sent a large batch of take-down notices to Baka Tsuki just a couple months ago.
Looks like that was just a prelude.

Hopefully this all means faster release schedule for more of their stuff.

>>140002806
Agreed.