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NEWS: J-Novel Club Licenses Infinite Stratos, The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Light Novels

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.

gravediggernalk wrote:

I request Infinite Stratos and High School DxD in every novel survey that Seven Seas and Vertical sends out.

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.

Woohoo! J-Novel Club has been releasing some interesting stuff, but with so many anime series being based on light novels never being completed, I'm most interested in getting the light novels for various anime and am always somewhat disappointed when a light novel license is announced that isn't for an anime that was previously released (much as a number of those are quite good, and some will eventually join the ranks of unfinished anime). So, I'm particularly excited when J-Novel Club announces a license for a light novel series that was previously adapted into an anime and unfinished, and Infinite Stratos is definitely one of those I've been hoping to get my hands on. So, this is great news. The other series may be great too, and I'll probably end up picking it up, but it's the announcement for Infinite Stratos that I'm excited about.

Of course, that leaves High School DxD, Campione!, Maburaho, Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Date a Live, Dragonar Academy, Tokyo Ravens, Lord Marksman and Vanadis, Hundred, Magika Swordsman and Summoner, The Testament of Sister New Devil, Unbreakable Machine Doll, etc., etc. There are so many good anime series that were adapted from light novels and never finished that even if J-Novel Club focused on those entirely and were able to license whatever they wanted, I doubt that they'd end up translating every series I'm interested in, but at least they're releasing several good series (both those which have been adapted into anime and those which haven't), and the light novel situation in English is worlds better than it used to be, in part thanks to J-Novel Club. A decade ago, getting light novels in English was almost completely a pipe dream, and now we're getting quite a few, even if getting every series that Japan has continues to be a pipe dream and likely always will be.

i mean if harem series like trinity seven and the asterisk war can get manga adaptations of their light novel counterparts released in the US

not to mention log horizon which is now in limbo due to the author's legal troubles.

you forgot about kyokai senjou no horizon (horizon in the middle of nowhere) which had a large fanbase back when it was popular. not to mention log horizon which is now in limbo due to the author's legal troubles.