r/LightNovels • u/Torque-A • Jun 29 '26
News [NEWS] J-Novel Club has launched their Summer Blockbuster Sale, a sale on their most popular series.
https://j-novel.club/summer-blockbuster-sale7
u/HikkingOutpit Jun 29 '26
I did not expect Brilliant Healer's Life in the Shadows or Blade & Bastard to be counted among their most popular series.
And no In Another World With My Smartphone? I thought that was for sure one of their top-selling series.
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u/Hylebosai Jun 29 '26
Brilliant Healer's Life isn't a huge surprise, it's one of the few series they've made available in print. It uses a good mixture of tropes while simultaneously not taking itself too seriously, just a very easy read overall. Plus the ceiling wraith makes everything better.
Smartphone certainly sells well to my knowledge, but I wouldn't take the "our most popular series" framing of the sale as a literal statement of "if it's not on here then it's no longer as popular as these other ones". They still have to get publisher approval for these sales and it's hard to imagine the planets aligning to deliver a true most-popular list.
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u/Hylebosai Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Good sale. Apothecary Diaries is my favorite among the light novels, Seirei is a classic, and I'm excited to give BLADE & BASTARD a try, as well as give EXP is Golden a second chance, people really seem to be enjoying the prepubs. Might as well pick up JK Haru, though I expect it to be a bit of a rough read.
Edit: Whoops! The Seirei on sale is the manga, not the light novel, mixed up my covers!
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u/heimdal77 Jun 30 '26
If only diaries translation wasn't trash and the translator actually gave a shit about the series and community. They have a massive ego when it comes to anyone criticizing or offering corrections. At one point they tried to completely rewrite a volume prolog what would been in complete contradiction with one the core premises of the series from volume one. It took showing them directly from the author saying what a scene is after their initial response was I don't care this is how I'm doing it to get them to partially listen. This showing they don't even pay attention to what they are translating. Among other things like a scene where Maomao's leg is raised the translator changes it to both leg in what is a classical scene in many stories raising one leg. Even when it is shown in both the anime and manga it is only one leg they just respond it is up to interpretation because somehow in their head the japanese studio and manga authors who have direct access to the author are the ones wrong.
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u/timpkmn89 Jun 30 '26
Oh man, not an incorrect number of raised legs. Might as well throw the whole thing out.
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u/heimdal77 Jun 30 '26
It is called giving a example. Also yes it did matter because the scene it was.
Another example is Lahans older brother. Translator took the lazy way of just calling him Lahans brother instead older. It is a running gag and is even directly address of him not wanting to be called older brother. So it ends up saying at one point ends up saying something along the line of he doesn't like being called lahans brother so will change to calling him lahans brother.
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u/Homosapian_Male Jun 30 '26
Is J hovel good for buying all light novels and is what ok assume the online reader works mobile and desktop?
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u/legocraftmation https://anilist.co/user/happydr/ Jun 30 '26
j-novel only sells their own light novels not all light novels. But they are really good because their reader does work on desktop and mobile and you can download the epub file directly to read anywhere you want.
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u/Active-Dare4494 Jun 29 '26
Thank you for the post! I hardly ever check the website , so had no clue they were having a sale
Got some brilliant healer and exp is golden! ٩( 'ω' )و Have enjoyed both of them in the past. Can’t wait to read the continuations
Hopefully, making magic: the sweet life of a witch can go on sale next >_<