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NEWS: J-Novel Club Adds 10 Light Novels, 4 Manga

Hope ya'll like isekai, and European aristocracy... (Why are Japanese authors so into pseudo-traditional Europe... Now imagining if suddenly hundreds of authors in the UK suddenly all wrote thousands of novels set in medieval China's inner court for the next ten years.)

Cho_Desu wrote:

Hope ya'll like isekai, and European aristocracy... (Why are Japanese authors so into pseudo-traditional Europe... Now imagining if suddenly hundreds of authors in the UK suddenly all wrote thousands of novels set in medieval China's inner court for the next ten years.)

They did slip during livestream that Apothecary Diaries(which, incidentally, is set in medieval China's inner court), well, has, to put it mildly, under-performed, and that the audience tends to lap up isekai like water. So the answer to your question is, well, I assume, money?

I keep waiting for them to announce a license rescue of some sort. Scrapped Princess, Twelve Kingdoms, Kino’s Journey, something along those lines. Instead we keep getting isekai stories that are really starting to blend together for me. All I want I a bit of variety, please.

but if it's under-performing then I imagine it'll have to start wrapping up soon.

They did slip during livestream that Apothecary Diaries(which, incidentally, is set in medieval China's inner court), well, has, to put it mildly, under-performed, and that the audience tends to lap up isekai like water. So the answer to your question is, well, I assume, money?

PumpkinMouse wrote:

but if it's under-performing then I imagine it'll have to start wrapping up soon.

That's on J-Novel's side. I'm pretty sure it's still selling well on the Japanese side(after all, it's got two ongoing manga adaptations of the main story...), and I doubt j-novel will drop it mid-series(would be first for them*). So there's no worry for the English releases.

But it all might have an impact on what stuff gets licensed in the future

*They're one of the few(only?) English publishers to never have dropped any series(voluntarily at least, [New Life+] Young Again in Another World was dropped both here and in Japan due to author controversy, so their hands were forced). Also, any other publisher would have buried Siskan(My Little Sister Can Read Kanji) in all quietness...