Light Novel series Outbreak Company is coming to J-Novel Club!

J-Novel Club have started their special announcements with various hints and teases. Today their first title has been revealed.

Over the past couple of weeks the light novel website J-Novel Club had started providing hints and teases on the next batch of novels that will be coming to the service. For those who don’t know about J-Novel Club, they are a special legal reading website that offers light novels translated into English digitally. Their catalogue so far offers titles such as Clockwork Planet, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (known as Grimgar: Ashes & Illusions for the anime version), In Another World With My Smartphone and Occultic;Nine.

Today the first title has been announced, and it’s…..

Outbreak Company

アウトブレイク・カンパニー 萌える侵略者

Hint: #1: Fate. Destiny. Tacos? / Did I say tacos? That’s so 90s, I meant burritos.

Author: Ichiro Sakaki
Illustrator: Yuugen
Translator: Kevin Steinbach
Editor: Sasha McGlynn

The year is 20XX, and Shinichi Kanou is a pretty typical otaku: he loves anime, manga, games, and light novels, but his devotion to the two-dimensional hasn’t always made him the most popular guy around. What he doesn’t know is that Japan has discovered a portal to another world in the vicinity of Mount Fuji. The people of the Eldant Empire, though, only have eyes for one of Japan’s traditional exports: pop culture. Enter Amutech, a purveyor of “general entertainment” that’s secretly run by the Japanese government. Shinichi lands a job as the company’s general manager. Now he finally has a chance to put his nerd know-how to good use spreading the otaku gospel in the Eldant Empire. And wait… he has to work with a half-elf maid, an empress, AND a female soldier to get the job done?

That’s right, the light novel series Outbreak Company will be coming to J-Novel Club translated into English for the first time legally! The anime adaptation ended a couple years ago and has been released on DVD by MVM Entertainment, but you can now read the original source starting with Volume 1! This will also be J-Novel Club’s second title from Kodansha and the second title from author Ichiro Sakaki, with Blue Steel Blasphemer being the first. Ichiro Sakaki is also the author behind Chaika -The Coffin Princess- and Scrapped Princess.

J-Novel Club had this to say about the title:

Outbreak Company is not only our second Kodansha title, but our second Ichiro Sakaki title, the author of Bluesteel Blasphemer and favorites like Chaika and Scrapped Princess! A “portal to another world” isekai with all kinds of moe fun, plus a little bit of politics and real-world Japan in the mix, and you’ve got a long running series that fans of the anime have longed hoped to be able to read in English in full!

You can check out the J-Novel Club catalogue here.

NormanicGrav

Known simply as 'Grav' by the anime community, his interests are flexible as he is generally not that bothered by what he watches, whether it's a top-tier series or an enjoyable isekai harem trash type. Either way, he does his best to bring folks the latest news on AUKN and also any other information and unboxing hauls over on his Normanic Vault blog.

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