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J-Novel Club Announces Licenses of 7 New Light Novels, 3 New Manga (Updated)

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Anime Expo on Saturday:

• There Was No Secret Evil-Fighting Organization (srsly?!), So I Made One MYSELF!
• Otherside Picnic: Their Strange Exploration Files
• The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress
• Ameko Kaeruda's Onna dakara, to Party wo Tsuihōsareta no de Densetsu no Majo to Saikyō Tag wo Kumimashita (English title not yet approved, pictured at right)
• Seinaru Kishi no Ankokudō (English title not yet approved)
• Demon Lord, Retry! (Maō-sama, Retry!)
• Altina the Sword Princess

The company also announced the following manga licenses at the :

• Yoshinobu Akita's light novel arc)
• EDA's light novel series that J-Novel Club is also releasing)
• Maō-sama, Retry! manga, pictured at right, based on Kurone Kanzaki's light novel series)

The company also announced it will launch a Invaders of the Rokujouma!? light novel series. The campaign will fund releasing the series in 10 softcover omnibus books, with each book containing three or four volumes of the light novel series.

The primary goal of the campaign will be US$50,000, with an extra reward of a print art book, and two stretch goals of a collector's box and drama CDs. The company plans to deliver the rewards from the Kickstarter campaign in the first half of 2020 if funded.

J-Novel Club licensed the series in 2017, and will be caught up with the Japanese releases of the novels "shortly." The novel series' 32nd volume launched in Japan on July 1.

Additionally, J-Novel Club announced that it will release Tokyo Otaku Mode.

Update: Made some corrections and additions after J-Novel Club clarified its licenses on BookWalker (BookWalker has already released some of the novels on its service).

Sources: J-Novel Club's Anime Expo (Deb Aoki), J-Novel Club's Twitter