2012-01-12, 15:30 | Link #622 | |
The Owl of Minerva
Join Date: Apr 2006
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The pubisher of Biblia is MediaWorks Bunko, a de-facto branch of Dengeki Bunko that targets young adults and mature light novel readers (and an outlet for the more mature and less moe-centric writers in Dengeki who suffer from the moe boom). So far it seems to be the only MW bunko series apart from the Arikawa works that has successfully grabbed mainstream attention. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact reason for its success, but it is likely a mixture of intelligent writing, excellent marketing and luck. The story is a bit like Bungaku Shoujo with a more mature atmosphere. The general reading public being into conventional novels can easily recognize their favourite titles and immediately form a connection to it at a personal level. Somehow book stores have played quite a significant role to its success. Being extensive readers by nature, many small-sized book store owners and employees (who in the past were not proactive in stocking non-Arikawa MW Bunko works due to their mediocre sales), are very satisfied with the story and actively recommend it to their consumers. Initially its popularity was spread by only word-of-mouth but later the publisher realized its potential and started extensive PR work. With even newspaper columns and TV reports paying attention to it, gradually it has received mainstream attention. Since the later half of 2011, its popularity has been rising continuously. The publication of vol.2 in the last quarter helped to prolong the boom. Being ranked by 本の雑誌 as No.1 among all 2011 bunko gave another strong push to its sales. Since then there is an additional 50-60k towards its total sales every week. With no major novel release by bestseller authors nor novel awards in recent weeks, the series has climbed all the way to the top of the charts.
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2012-01-12, 22:44 | Link #624 | |
The Owl of Minerva
Join Date: Apr 2006
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I see it as Tiger & Bunny in the light novel world. TB is a solid anime that caught the industry by surprise when everyone had been expecting the sales be horrible due to the lack of certain commonly found tropes. However the production team was at least quick in picking up the market trend (early popularity achieved merely by word-of-mouth over twitter by anime fans) and started intensive marketing campaigns afterwards. A variety of factors combined to turn it into one of the top-selling anime in 2011. * (sans Arikawa stuff, whose writer achieved mainstream status long before the existence of the label)
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2012-01-17, 05:40 | Link #626 |
Pedestrian
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Sweden
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I'm 285 pages into Denpa-onna v2, and the author just pissed me off entirely. Meme (age 40) is having a flashback to when she was 12, where an old lady is talking to her and mentions MacGyver. The book was written in 2009, so the flashback takes place around 1981, but MacGyver didn't start airing until 1985 (in the US). Immersion destroyed!
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2012-01-17, 09:01 | Link #628 |
~Maru~
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Highschool DXD
The story follows Issei Hyōdō, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student, killed by his girlfriend on his first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward he serves as an underling of Rias, a high-level devil who is also the prettiest girl on Issei's campus. 2vols translated so far i reccomend this to everyone who like ecchi
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2012-01-18, 06:36 | Link #631 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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From what I can tell it's one of those action monster hunting kind of series. Looks good though....will certainly pick up if I have time...
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2012-02-02, 11:24 | Link #637 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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Unlike many others that got worse over time....like HnA for example... I must say though, each one of the Monogatari books hits the wallet hard....to think I'd spent over 120 bucks on just 5 books...
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2012-02-02, 11:45 | Link #638 |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Yeah, I won't disagree on that, I know my complaints over the PLOT are subjective. But when he says "the series is going to end" and then says "the second season of the series is going to end" it means there is something else hidden.
Oh, HnA, I said this needs real situations where an antagonist appear who needs to be a man with different view to the MC buuuuuut no, the author throws every girl possible to fall for him each time. |
2012-02-17, 17:10 | Link #640 | |
Blooming on the mountain
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light....
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Kudos to Baka-Tsuki forum member Krikit for the work he did....
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