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No.

Novel translations are hard. The translator has to be able to write interesting sentences, not only translate. Even works translated by professionals often have a different feel and can easily lose their original charm.
Now try to guess what kind of quality B-T translations are, done by amateurs that hardly know Japanese and can't even write for shit.

>>17484064
>The translator has to be able to write interesting sentences, not only translate. Even works translated by professionals often have a different feel and can easily lose their original charm
I think that would require either a great deal of incompetency or for the novel to be written in some special prose that is difficult to translate. I don't think that the latter applies to most LNs so it seems that it's mostly dependent on the translator's skill. I don't see how difficult it could be for a competent translator to capture the "charm" of the original, when the original (LN) isn't exactly wonderfully written to begin with. The fan translations that I've read have never felt bland or disconnected from my expectation of how the novel should feel so I suppose they did a good job.

Hyouka is supposedly well written, so I would understand if the translation wasn't good. But it's either this or two (or more) years of study before I can read it. That's why I asked whether or not it was acceptable, I don't know what you think of HakoMari and Oregairu, but I think their fan-translations were acceptable at worst, and pretty decent at best. I want to know if the Hyouka translation is of a similar standard, where some subtleties are missed out but the general essence is retained. Of course I can just find out for myself but I felt like discussing this for some reason.

Boot to the head.

Satano is my favorite stripdancer!

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Really /jp/?

>>17479205
I was talking about falling in battle and being propped up and left for dead, was it not an obvious trail of clues lesser fuzzy ears?

What is a siesta

>>17481541
What you do in bed but not sleep

>>17478656
I just want to FUCK Cirno and maybe Sunny.

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>>17478656
Anyone who helps Cirno is gets an OK/10 in my book.

>>17478910
you got something against the other fairies pal

Where is Memea?

>>17477615
What's with the random placement anyway? Makes it hard to find a certain character.

Don't forget Phiona the Phoenix

>>17475911
Is she always going to be drawn with cum on her hat even when it's not winter?

>>17475911
welcome to the new 'Magazine Madonna" of sorts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxU3fUU9QYk

>>17475930

Don't you fricking dare make another post like this again or you'll regret it.

I saw her puss, she's legit.

>>17475486
thanks Derek

you know what せん means? Enter it in 半角 form. Worked for me.

>>17474342
I must be a idiot because I tried it in half and still didn't get it. I'm sorry, but I don't do this often.

>>17474379
Ye, I've tried multiple conversions to half-width and didn't accept any of them? Do you mind posting the password directly here or is that not allowed?

In the past, yeah. Does anybody still use PD anymore? It was all but dead when I stopped using it years and years ago.

>>17475210
>In the past, yeah. Does anybody still use PD anymore? It was all but dead when I stopped using it years and years ago.

Anon, what other service do you use?

>>17475342
Also interested what other services? Just general torrent sites?

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Getting the obvious one out of the way

Think outside the box

It was pretty good at the time, remember it's over twenty years old at this point

Yeah it's pretty damn good
Much better than F/SN

>>17468711
>Hisui is nearing 40

>>17466908
Yeah, but you didn't pull off the posting in the correct board thing.

>>17466908
Very nice Clownpiece. If I could ever be arsed enough to paint, my stuff would all be in Parsee scheme.

>>17466908
That suppose to be an elder hatlewuin panties like clownpiece?