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the legendary pain of small fandoms
Mar. 20th, 2019 08:49 pmI finished Legend of the Legendary Heroes last night. That's an entire 24-episode series watched in about a week and a half -- not bad going by my standards.
I enjoyed it! But at the same time, I'm frustrated because the anime only really covers the beginning of the story!
It wouldn't be half as bad if the original light novels were readily available in English, but that's the thing -- there's barely any chance that they'll be licensed, because it's not exactly a brand-new series (started in the early 2000s, I think) and it's made up of so many volumes. As far as I can see, the licensing companies that do LNs mostly go for very-currently-trending isekai and/or harem stuff, and since DenYuuDen is neither isekai nor a harem... the only hope for it would be if anyone was willing to release it in a two-volumes-in-one format, like Vertical did for most of the Seraph of the End novels they've put out so far (and they could possibly promote it as being from the same writer as Seraph too), but that's still a very dim hope at best. Even fan translations seem to be spotty and abandoned. =/
It's a shame, because the story and especially the characters are so damn good. I actually liked the male protagonist! That's proof of how good the character writing is! There's so many of them that I like, plus one thing I really enjoy about the show in general is how much moral greyness abounds in the cast.
Finally, like so many things I take a shine to, the fandom is tiny. Feels like par for the course by now, though...
I enjoyed it! But at the same time, I'm frustrated because the anime only really covers the beginning of the story!
It wouldn't be half as bad if the original light novels were readily available in English, but that's the thing -- there's barely any chance that they'll be licensed, because it's not exactly a brand-new series (started in the early 2000s, I think) and it's made up of so many volumes. As far as I can see, the licensing companies that do LNs mostly go for very-currently-trending isekai and/or harem stuff, and since DenYuuDen is neither isekai nor a harem... the only hope for it would be if anyone was willing to release it in a two-volumes-in-one format, like Vertical did for most of the Seraph of the End novels they've put out so far (and they could possibly promote it as being from the same writer as Seraph too), but that's still a very dim hope at best. Even fan translations seem to be spotty and abandoned. =/
It's a shame, because the story and especially the characters are so damn good. I actually liked the male protagonist! That's proof of how good the character writing is! There's so many of them that I like, plus one thing I really enjoy about the show in general is how much moral greyness abounds in the cast.
Finally, like so many things I take a shine to, the fandom is tiny. Feels like par for the course by now, though...
