Spice and Wolf Light Novel Discussion

[JThree]

You're not the only one, Kazinski. I want to know too,

carolyn@nemont.net

[Redeyes260]

Did you guys not read any of the 77-79th pages?

[AlaAlba]

spoiler for volume 17, thanks for kaibayugi2002

Just got my copy today and did a quick read of the interesting part. Didn't read all the way just certain parts.

Spoiler:

Larance and Holo are getting ready for a party. Larance does not know why Holo wants a party He think she is mad about something. They're in Nyohira. They have a bath together in the hot spring. They seem to be opening a bath house. At the end Holo tell Larance there is something she forget to tell him and that they need to think of a name. Larance thinks she is talking about the store and tell her they all ready have one but they can change it if she wants. She saids that not what she talking about. Larance thinks for a while then says "you don't mean..." and one of Holo hands is holding Larance's and the other is pushing on her stomach. She said the reason she is having the party is to boost about it. She and Larance have their big kiss in front of the other guest(Nora, Ebu, Dianna, Elsa, Frans(girl from part 12),ect).The name of their store is 狼と香辛料(おおかみとこうしんりょう)Wolf and Spice.

[Fallenis]

Wow that's beautiful . Thanks for sharing that!

[JThree]

Originally Posted by Redeyes260

Did you guys not read any of the 77-79th pages?

What I think I and kazinski are referring to are plot summaries to the books 5-16, not just the finale.

Those have been hard to come by.

JThree

[poleno]

Thank you, AlaAlba!

[Redeyes260]

Originally Posted by AlaAlba

spoiler for volume 17, thanks for kaibayugi2002

D: epic. Definitely need to get my hands on the rest of these books. By the by, I talked with someone from Yen Press, just to reassure myself because the one Tyranuus posted was from 2010. And they have in fact licensed all of Spice and Wolf for English! Yay <3. but now everyone had to wait about 7 years.. Lol.

[Rajura]

Originally Posted by Redeyes260

D: epic. Definitely need to get my hands on the rest of these books. By the by, I talked with someone from Yen Press, just to reassure myself because the one Tyranuus posted was from 2010. And they have in fact licensed all of Spice and Wolf for English! Yay <3. but now everyone had to wait about 7 years.. Lol.

I'm gonna have to check on this... I have to see what we can do/what has been done about some of the elusive works. With whom did you converse? I would like to ask them a question or two.

[tyranuus]

Originally Posted by Redeyes260

just to reassure myself because the one Tyranuus posted was from 2010. And they have in fact licensed all of Spice and Wolf for English! Yay <3.

The comment I posted was only about two months old

Amusingly it sounds like the several page long letter I sent a while back may actually have reached Yen Press via Hachette.
http://www.yenpress.com/2009/01/december-2011/#comments

Unfortunately it also sounds like they aren't planning to up the release schedule though
Surely they realise this release length could hurt the series.

[Redeyes260]

Yea, I had asked the same question in another one of those, got pretty much the same blunt answer. I think that they know it will hurt their fan base, but then again, do thu not only have 1 person translating, while another spell-checks? I mean if they really do have the Spice and Wolf employees understaffed, I can see why that would take 6 months to complete. Any other factors anyone else can come up with?

[LKK]

Originally Posted by Redeyes260

Any other factors anyone else can come up with?

Retail shelf space. Most retail chains do not want books to come out too quickly because the inventory piles up faster than the sales can disperse it. I daresay that the inventory turn-over speed drives Yen Press's release schedule far more than translation & editing time requirements. Kurt Hassler, head of Yen Press, used to be one of the book buyers for Borders nationwide. He's well aware of the need to properly schedule book releases in order to best get the new books into the retailers' hands.

[Kunagisa]

Originally Posted by AlaAlba

spoiler for volume 17, thanks for kaibayugi2002

I want this animated so badly. I wish I have the time to read the books as this is one of the few LN --> Anime adaptation that I didn't read a single page of the LN, and really don't see any huge gaps of time in the future to catch up on all the volumes since the end of season 2.

Not to mention these insert art are uber awesome ....

Spoiler for Last:

[Redeyes260]

Originally Posted by stuopidget

I want this animated so badly. I wish I have the time to read the books as this is one of the few LN --> Anime adaptation that I didn't read a single page of the LN, and really don't see any huge gaps of time in the future to catch up on all the volumes since the end of season 2.

Not to mention these insert art are uber awesome ....

Spoiler for Last:

You should probably make time then. It is all well worth it, though Volume 4 is really the only thing you'd be missing in the English versions, as 5 will be the end of Season 2. (Everyone who can not read Japanese must wait a full year before getting volume 6)

[Redeyes260]

Originally Posted by LKK

Retail shelf space. Most retail chains do not want books to come out too quickly because the inventory piles up faster than the sales can disperse it. I daresay that the inventory turn-over speed drives Yen Press's release schedule far more than translation & editing time requirements. Kurt Hassler, head of Yen Press, used to be one of the book buyers for Borders nationwide. He's well aware of the need to properly schedule book releases in order to best get the new books into the retailers' hands.

**Sorry for the double post..**

Seeing as how other books get released every 3-4 months, do you not think that they could do the same with Spice and Wolf? The sales of the books would be tremendous because of the long wait for book 5. So assume they speed it up for books 6-17, 85% of people will have bought the books within the first week. So then inventory of said stores would diminish, depending on what stores it is placed in. Or am I wrong?

[Dark Wing]

Originally Posted by AlaAlba

spoiler for volume 17, thanks for kaibayugi2002

Well now that I've spoiled myself I can now die in piece...

[faythz]

Could any of you help me?
I want to buy Spice and Wolf Novel unfortunately there is no Yenpress release in here, but there is another alternative "Publisher: Baker and Taylor - (USA)"
Did any of you know any difference between Baker and Yenpress?
Which release did you recommend?
thanks

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by faythz

Could any of you help me?
I want to buy Spice and Wolf Novel unfortunately there is no Yenpress release in here, but there is another alternative "Publisher: Baker and Taylor - (USA)"
Did any of you know any difference between Baker and Yenpress?
Which release did you recommend?
thanks

Can you provide a link? I know of no one besides Yen Press who has the rights to publish it and the Baker and Taylor website doesn't list S&W in its catalog that I noticed.

edit: I *think* I found what you are looking at on the www.alibris.com website. From what i can see... that trade paperback is a "book about books about wolves" and not the story of S&W itself.

Yen Press has sole rights in the US for both the manga and the light novels to my knowledge. You can buy their books through amazon, barnes&noble, and many other book retailers in North America. UK Amazon as well in Britain.

[faythz]

Originally Posted by Vexx

Can you provide a link? I know of no one besides Yen Press who has the rights to publish it and the Baker and Taylor website doesn't list S&W in its catalog that I noticed.

edit: I *think* I found what you are looking at on the www.alibris.com website. From what i can see... that trade paperback is a "book about books about wolves" and not the story of S&W itself.

Yen Press has sole rights in the US for both the manga and the light novels to my knowledge. You can buy their books through amazon, barnes&noble, and many other book retailers in North America. UK Amazon as well in Britain.

My mistake it seems they sell Spice and Wolf (Manga) not Light Novel
http://www.dymocks.com.au/ProductDet...=9780316073394
but for volume two they have same cover , I'm kinda confused. I think I'd better check it in amazon
thanks for the answer.

SPICE AND WOLF Volume 1 | December 2009
SPICE AND WOLF Volume 2 | June 2010
SPICE AND WOLF Volume 3 | December 2010
SPICE AND WOLF Volume 4 | June 2011
SPICE AND WOLF Volume 5 | Coming December 2011
SPICE AND WOLF Volume 6 | Coming June 2012

so Yen Press release Spice & Wolf every 6 month , that was horrible I must wait it for 6 and a half years to end

[Vexx]

Ah, I see now - you're in Australia. My guess is they've used the wrong image in their catalog or they've totally screwed up. The light novels (if they have their jackets) will have a "live action" pose of a wolf-girl on the jacket protector. That volume 2 you linked to is the Light Novel vol 2. The volume 1 you linked to is the manga vol 1.

Best bet is to compare the ISBN numbers with amazon's listing to verify you're getting what you want.

And yeah, we may all go nuts waiting... but some of us are writing Yen requesting a faster pace since the series is complete in Japan.

[tyranuus]

Unfortunately it sounds like even with that fact, right now they have explicitly stated they aren't planning to increase release speed, although I think 3 novels a year would make more sense at the least.