Yen Press said it's coming out in November 2020. I don't think they've got a specific date yet though.
Thanks you for the reply!
However, I reject the offered publication date and counter with . . .tomorrow as its release.
Amazon is now listing volume 15 available for pre-order with a release date of November 17. https://www.amazon.com/dp/197531610X
Danmachi 16
^Yup! 10/15/2020 or 15/10/2020 or 2020/10/15 whatever format your country use, to make it simple October 15 of 2020 ?
So volume 16 is just comming out in October?? Then + the time someone translates it...and volume 15, but i heard v15 is mostly flashbacks....d*mn. The story is already progressing pretty slowly. There's also a decent amount of gore and people dying, but v13 just pissed me off how the MC was in such opposition to killing lunatic murderers.
Translation takes little time its just publisher that for some reason releasing vol. per year when they catch up instead right away when vol is out.(translation takes a month or less,depends on translator,it can take even just a week or two)
The whole slowing down releases to prevent catching up to the latest release confuses me. SO is going to be caught up as of July 22 so the only other reason I can come up with is COVID delays.
Yen Press regularly pushes back release dates, there is no reason to assume COVID is the culprit here when it is normal operation proceedure. The the release schedule before the constant push backs was four month between translation releases. Publishing a translated volume involves a lot more than just the initial translation, editing, rewriting, converting cultural phrases, and copy editing are just some of the tasks involved. Saying one month or less is completely unreasonalbe.
One possible reason to delay? To balance there projected income avoiding feast and famine situations. But if that were the case it is still stupid to post release and the amend them later