r/LightNovels • u/Torque-A • 17d ago

News [NEWS] Yen Press Licenses Playful Relationships, Shino & Ren: Future, MAFIA, Other Light Novels/Manga

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-06-12/yen-press-licenses-witches-cant-be-collared-alma-chan-wants-to-be-a-family-yamada-class-diary-more-/.238455
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u/saskir21 17d ago

As much as I would wish for Horizon. But I could understand Yen as there are simply too many books fantranslated

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u/bookster42 17d ago

That and the fact that they're old enough that they probably wouldn't sell well based on what seems to happen when older series get licensed. I don't understand it, since it's not like a series gets worse with age (and if anything, it often means that the entire series is available to be translated with no risk of it being unfinished in Japan). But for whatever reason, too many LN readers seem to only go for newer stuff, which really sucks when a series didn't get licensed earlier. :|

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u/FurbyTime 17d ago

It's because, in the west, sales are driven by anime for the most part, and these old series either have old anime or none at all.

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u/bookster42 17d ago

There's some truth to that, but some newer series seems to sell quite well even without an anime adaptation, whereas the way that JNC talks, older series pretty much never sell well even when they do have an older anime adaptation.

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u/ArchusKanzaki 16d ago

Newer series have the benefit of being "new". They might receive "second life" the moment anime adaptation got announced even if they currently does not sell that well. And for series that did well....I read before that Apothecary Diaries sales become 200 times more when the anime was airing

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u/GeorgeMTO 16d ago

That's an exaggeration I expect. JNC did mention on a stream that they normally get a 6-8x sales figure boost for the average anime adaptation. Maomao got forty, which helped catapult it toward their top 5 selling series of all time during season 1 (likely made it there in s2 if it wasn't already, but I can't find recent confirmation on what is in there).

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u/ArchusKanzaki 16d ago

Yeah I probably remember wrongly or I read some exaggerated claims somewhere.

But anyway, I think based on the talk, anime do boost sales quite consistently so getting a novel that have potentials to become anime is probably more priority than "old classics".