I was really bummed when they put their light novels on hold since they never got to the titles I was interested in... (Vamp! and Gun Princess) Something has been bugging be about it though. I've been thinking that if they had started with any other title other than Ballad of a Shinigami, it would have sold better.
Now I'm not saying Ballad of a Shinigami was bad, but I think the pacing and the subject matter wasn't attractive enough (a lot of people said the books were really boring when I tried to convince them to read it. One just read the back summary and handed it back!). Vamp! would probably do well during this weird vampire craze the US is having, too.
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