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Today's arrival is more light novels (for once) with ARIFURETA: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Novel 5, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom Novel 4 and Monster Girl Doctor Novel 4, all from publisher Seven Seas. It's been a while since I had actually bought light novel volumes so I wanted to speed up the pace like I have been doing with the manga.
Majority of Yen On's books are still in print but I have noticed some are now going out of print (A Certain Magical Index, Durarara!! are two notable ones) so I aim to start buying more volumes for the Yen titles I have later this year (OVERLORD will be first due to the Hardcover format). With Seven Seas some of their light novels are also selling out like Restaurant to Another World so I want to try and get these books as close to a safe position I can. ARIFURETA had a large gap between Novel 7 and 8 due to COVID which was interesting but I'm going to try and grab enough volumes before Season 2 airs.
You'll notice that the only series that I haven't continued yet under that publisher group is Grimgar, which I want to but Novel 2 kept selling out here and there so once it becomes available again I'll try and catch up as much as I can.
The goal I have set in place is to get all (or at least most) of the novels that were released prior to 2020 acquired. Some like SAO will very likely stay in print far longer than others though.
[SPOILER]J-Novel Club:
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord - 1 of 12
In Another World With My Smartphone - 1 of 13
The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! - 1 of 9
Seven Seas:
ARIFURETA: From Commonplace to World's Strongest - 5 of 7
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash - 1 of 11
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom - 4 of 5
Monster Girl Doctor - 4 of 5
Yen On:
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody - 1 of 9
Defeating the Demon Lord's a Cinch (If You've Got a Ringer) - 1 of 4
Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? - 1 of 4
Goblin Slayer - 1 of 8
The Hero is Overpowered But Overly Cautious - 2 of 2
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? - 2 of 14
KONOSUBA: God's Blessing in this Wonderful World - 2 of 10
OVERLORD - 2 of 11
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- - 1 of 11
The Saga of Tanya the Evil - 1 of 6
Sword Art Online - 1 of 17
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime - 1 of 7
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Also arrived today is Destiny Lovers Manga Volume 2 also from publisher Seven Seas via Ghost Ship imprint. This series was one of the few that I had yet to properly catch up on and now was the right time to do so given that half of the series is out in English already. Interestingly the second volume also sold out everywhere except Amazon so I decided to pay full price to play-it-safe (and it would not surprise me if Amazon decides to delete the series soon considering their recent batch).
Outside of Monster Musume, the Seven Seas batch of manga I own so far is roughly in a safe position which helps (not to mention both Destiny Lovers and World's End Harem will wrap up later this year with no word on Part 2 being acquired for both titles yet). I would like to start buying more titles like Dumbbells and GIGANT as Amazon has started deleting both series.
[SPOILER]Seven Seas:
Destiny Lovers - 2 of 4
Monster Musume - 9 of 16
Plus-Sized Elf - 5 of 6
World's End Harem - 9 of 9
World's End Harem: Fantasia - 3 of 3
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs - 11 of 11
Yen Press:
Interspecies Reviewers - 1 of 4
Sekirei - 2 of 9 (Vol. 5 is OOS, probably OOP which is out of character considering it's only 2-3 years old)
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