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INTEREST: Light Novel Authors Team Up For 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Isekai' Doujin Novel For Co




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LiteMangime



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:20 pm Reply with quote
I'll be the first to say it, I want this.
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FilthyCasual



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 4:23 pm Reply with quote
Then I'll be the second person.

I WANT IT
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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 4:57 pm Reply with quote
LiteMangime wrote:
I'll be the first to say it, I want this.

FilthyCasual wrote:
Then I'll be the second person.

I WANT IT

Sure, I'd read it, but Confused ...

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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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 6:43 pm Reply with quote
God can the obsession with this not unique at all genre die already?
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DRWii



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 7:15 pm Reply with quote
“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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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 8:12 pm Reply with quote
it's well known in the circles it should.

Blanchimont wrote:
LiteMangime wrote:
I'll be the first to say it, I want this.

FilthyCasual wrote:
Then I'll be the second person.

I WANT IT

Sure, I'd read it, but Confused ...

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?

first time buying a doujin from the comiket ?
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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 10:27 pm Reply with quote
maximilianjenus wrote:
first time buying a doujin from the comiket ?

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



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 2:00 am Reply with quote
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
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 11, 2019 4:53 pm Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
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


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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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:02 am Reply with quote
DRWii wrote:
“In the beginning Isekai were created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”



*laughing at this more than I probably should*
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Guspaz



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 7:20 pm Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
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?


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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PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2019 8:11 pm Reply with quote
DRWii wrote:
“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?

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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PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 9:10 pm Reply with quote
DRWii wrote:
So is Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy actually well-known in Japan, or are the authors making a super obscure reference?

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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