Yen press- Konosuba

Really? They waste money on this FOTM shit?

>>141770247
We will still get fanfiction , wont we?

>>141770247
How is the manga compared to the LN? Just saw on shitter that they're releasing the manga in November and LN at a later date.

>>141770277
They could have wasted it on [your favorite here].

>>141770288
of course
its fanfic after all

>release one volume every year at best
>drop it a few volumes in once fans inevitably get bored of waiting when there's fanlations
At least we have fanfic this time. A lot of LNs are forgotten entirely once they get licensed and then dropped.

Also, just FYI
>>141753354

as long as the yen press jews dont try to DMCA i'm fine. if they shut shit down like danmachi i'll just finish what i already have and move on elsewhere.

>>141770848
That's already happened.

>>141770848
They obviously will.
And if they translators aren't such faggots like the one from DanMachi was, they won't stop.

>>141770949
>>141770973
good, about time these LN trans grew a set and stick it to kadokawa

http://skythewoodtl.com/yen_press/
fucking hell

>>141771027
>LN trans
There are no LN translations. Let's be 100% clear on this.

>>141771038
This is a joke, isn't it?

>>141771038
And there we go, proven faggots again.

>>141771038
Non-US fags again getting the short end of the stick.

>>141771099
Not really, there are websites like the Book Depository.

>>141770973
lol, people who don't give you free stuff are faggots now eh?
>>141770848
Sorry, but volume 9 will be the last one, just the principle I set on myself. Don't let me hold you back though, your translations are great.

>>141771193
I won't even try to discuss this with you since it will results in nothing.

>>141771193
>free stuff
There's a Donation link on your site.

>>141771314
That's not a purchase translation button, that's a donate if you like the work that have already been done button.

Just learn japanese already

fucking lazy kids I swear

>>141771379
>>>a/djt/

i just love how these LN trans break the law by translating unlicensed stuff, but the minute it get's licensed they wanna pull the moral high ground. spare me this nonsense please, it's textbook hypocrisy

>>141771190
>Book Depository
i'm not even going to touch this one, toostupid4me

I'm just waiting for
ISBN 9781935548539
ISBN 9781935548522
myself.

>>141771416
That's just drawing the line somewhere and what do you mean by moral high ground? High ground relative to who?

>>141770847
>release one volume every year at best
actually, Yen press release 3 volumes of Index every year

>>141771416
>moral highground
The reason why theyre even translating is because theyre making an accessible channel for the fans who cant read moonrunes.
Once its out in a native language its pointless for them to continue translating so now you can actually support the people who made it through an official source. And yes I know Yen Press is slow.

>>141771520
4 per year, actually.

>>141770847
>fanfic
I don't get it.

>>141771597
3-4 volumes for each LN a year isn't slow.

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>>141771675

>>141771685
tell that to the mahouka fags

>>141770247
>another drop by sky

>>141771597
I have more of a problem with their need to grab something the second it's popular despite already having way to many LN as it is also some of their translations are meh probably from giving them to their c team.

>waiting 20~ years to catch up to Mahouka
no thank you yenpress.

>>141771516
For people who have been reading the title through fan translations, they understandably get upset when they are no longer able to read new fan translations for the sole reason that a company will get around to localizing volumes beyond the fan translation years down the road. Especially when such things are much rarer in anime or manga due to a combination of fan translators not caring and the official efforts doing a better job of releasing titles at the same time.

They also do see it as hypocritical that a fan translation group goes out of their way to justify blatant copyright infringement, even ignoring DMCA notices in this case, until a US publisher announces it. It's understandable to draw the line somewhere and I personally don't fault you guys for doing so, but for those unhappy about the situation it's also understandable that they don't see the difference between copyright infringement before it was picked up and after it was picked up, especially because the official translations won't pick up progress wise anytime soon.

>>141771597
by translating something kadokawa doesn't want them to do, licensed or not. dont pretend to give a shit about supporting the author just because of a license when you had no problem putting out their work for free against the wishes of the property holders when they weren't looking. (sometimes even excepting donations for it)

if you dont want to do it because now someone else will, fine, but let's not pretend this is about 'supporting the author'. most of the people who read fantrans are the same ones buying the physical releases in spite of them being localized to hell or even buy the raws because they know the author will actually see a good chunk of that money. so let's also drop the "muh you just want something for free" BS.

>>141770247

Are LNs genre popular in western? people buy LNs in english?

>>141772309
it's a niche market and in the case of physical release, like everything else in the west, a dying one

>>141772309

Considering that all the popular titles are continuing to get licensed, and that Kadokawa felt it was a worthwhile investment to acquire a controlling interest in Yen Press, someone is buying them.

>>141772309
There is a lot of demand for books that middle and high schoolers can read, often called Young Adult (YA) fiction. Many LNs are suitable for that.

>>141772256
>most of the people who read fantrans are the same ones buying the physical releases in spite of them being localized to hell or even buy the raws because they know the author will actually see a good chunk of that money.

By most, do you mean 5%?

>you had no problem putting out their work for free against the wishes of the property holders when they weren't looking.

But I brought them plenty of sales according to your other point?

>>141772256
>most of the people who read fantrans are the same ones buying the physical releases
Youre projecting pretty hard right there. Also, im not the translator so i dont know why youre going all ad hominem about MY intent vs whatever the fuck their intent are.

>>141772585
don't bother m8, keep the good work

>It's a thread where people who read the fan translation shit on YP and spout crap like 1 volume a year thread

Look, i know you guys are mad YP caused your translations to stop but the only reason that has occurred because the translators for LN's are incompetent fags who don't know about keeping their identity hidden and thus allow them to get traced.

If manga adaptions of LN's can get localised and then even still get translations without a problem of getting taken down, then that says a lot about the people who do LN's.

Why do people read light novels?
They're shit.

Thank god, I won't have to read the shitty fan translations now.

>>141770247
>Cover not final

What did they mean by this?

Jew Press needs to die in a fire

>>141773065
>spout crap like 1 volume a year thread
It's not crap though, Yen Press is notorious for licensing shit, releasing 1 volume, seeing it doesn't do as well as they expect it to do and then they drop it while keeping the license.
The problem is everyone could've told him that stuff like Korean Zombie Desk Car wouldn't sell, and they still license it, release some shit and now they haven't done shit with it for almost 3 years.

>>141773065
so much truth here it hurts.

guess it's time to switch to the manga community be done with this same song and dance

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So we have to wait ~2 years for the official volume 10?

>>141772585
Thanks for all your hard work

>>141773460
It means that the final cover image is subject to change before release.

>>141773460
They will probably change the title into English.

>>141773065
Also
>who read the fan translation shit on YP
Do you actually think that Yen Press translations are a lot better than decent fan tl? They're not. Hell most of their translation staff used to be fan translators and not even the good ones.

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Isn't this old news? Why is everyone sperging about it now?

>>141773065
Aimless copyright trolling is still trolling.

>>141773641
They didn't have a license before, they just send a DMCA notice to skyth ewood.

>>141773641
The announcement of Yen Press having the license was just made at Anime Central earlier today. Granted everyone had expected it for some time now though.

>>141773605
>remembers what they did to no game no life
>they don't bother with honorifics outside of the occasional mr/ms
>they replaced names that start with R with L
>their tendency to fuck up names in general
>changed dialogue to sound more "politically correct"
>most releases dont even offer a digital format
>paper quality is rubbish
>frequent misprints

Yup, quality translations.

>>141773498
>Index
>log horizon
>Durarara
>Devil is a part timer
>Accel world
>Hestia

These all have 2 or 3 volumes come out in a year.

Fuck off with your bullshit.

I look forward to the hardcover Baccano.

>>141770288
>>141770435

>Great news for everyone who wants a quality translation! Yen Press has picked up this project.

>This site started because they DMCA me without licensing anything, which was just stupid.

>Now that they have licensed it, it is only right to stop since they are releasing an official version. Not right to deny the author her share of the profits.


Emphasis on
>Now that they have licensed it, it is only right to stop since they are releasing an official version.

>>141773605
>decent fan tl?
Pfft do you know how rare as fuck this is?

Don't know why some of them attempted with monogartari like they are capable of handling Nisio tier shit.

Anyways i don't care, your translators are just a bunch of retarded pussys anyways so enjoy seeing your fav series get DCMA'd left and right.

>>141770247
Another good series condemned to death.

>>141773863
>mahouka just now getting volume 1 out even though it's been licensed for ages
> delays for multiple series including SAO progressive which was already caught up
> 2-3 releases still means upwards of 3-5 years to catch up on index, mahouka and all the other long running series they've been sitting on

>bullshit

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Don't think I'll read/buy, the voices really carried the show.

>>141771520
Yen Press killed the Strike the Blood fanbase though.

>>141774164
What , it had a fanbase? Anime was shit , dont know ln tough.

>>141774053
>Thinking a book company can just dish out 5 or more books a year
>Not understanding moderation and sales

You don't see japs do this or even normal fiction books do it so don't be retarded.

But yeah go on, name more examples because just listing Sao isn't good enough.

>>141774243
There was gonna be a LN fanbase since people were interested in reading it but Yen Press just put it on their ever growing Backlog of Licensed Novels they probably only plan to release after the Japanese Olympics which by that point, everyone stopped caring.

>>141774164
Strike the blood is so garbage only the fanservice in the anime was the good points so i don't see why people would result to reading that trash in book form.

>>141773498
>Yen Press is notorious for licensing shit, releasing 1 volume, seeing it doesn't do as well as they expect it to do and then they drop it while keeping the license.
When has Yen Press done this, ever?

ITT: mad poorfags

>>141774537
Most Of yew press releases get ripped anyway.

>>141774537
People don't get mad because they are being released for money, but because it stops translations for years.

>>141774300
>more examples of delays

you're kidding right?

>not understanding that digital releases aren't subject to supply and demand rhetoric companies keep spouting to keep the money in their pockets and out of the middleman's

keep drinking their koolaid. meanwhile kadokawa annouces bookwalker with hopes of simultaneous releases. they can and eventually will be able to put out content faster, but by then they will be able to dictate how you read it via their awfull apps and DRM ridden formats.

but go ahead and keep being a sheep

>>141773897
I like to put emphasis on
>Vanir fanfic will be uploaded starting next week, and fanfic 9 will be the last volume to be worked on.

Thank you Sky.

>>141774769
Damn you really are delusional and don't know how shit works huh?

You seem mad to be disregarding basic grammer too but regardless, I won't be mad if that brings in more official translations so whatever.

>>141775022
>grammer
Nice try.

where's my fucking second season?

>>141773863
You realize they own a lot more than your cherry picked examples?

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>>141770247
>Yen Press's shitty localization

Thanks, OBAMA!

By the way Death March LN and manga got picked up by yen press too.

>>141770247
Another great LN dead because of nigger-press.

By the way is jcafe kill? Cant go there for more than a week. And here i was waiting for the no game no life translation update.

>>141773501
Basically yes. 2 years at minimum. Holy shit this sucks.

DONT STOP THE FANFIC PLEASE

>>141773897
If that is their reasoning, how do they morally justify translating titles that anyone with half a brain knows are going to be licensed just because they haven't made the official announcement yet?

I hope you people realize that you can't fight with them to make them continue. At most you can ask and hope

I wonder when Vertical will announce what they picked up after that poll in April.

Too bad, the fanfic was great

>>141776767
Everyone will have big announcements at AX.

>>141776767
They'll only do that next year.

I still don't understand why translators don't have a dark-net hub yet. IPFS is perfect for this shit, it's already usable for (static content) and everyone can access the resources unlike TOR.

You would think after translations getting shut down so frequently translators would band together to make something DMCA-proof.

>>141774321
Not wanna sound crazy, is it true by all means to have first volume after the Japanese Olympics.

I didn't know we had a fanbase dedicated to StB.

>>141772256
You're being retarded. Most translators TL stuff because they enjoy the series and want to spread the word. While it may be illegal (or at least, in a legal gray zone), the fact is that once something gets licensed one of the main reasons you're doing it - to help spread the work - is moot. That said, in some cases it makes sense to continue a fanTL because licensed releases will often take ages to catch up to the fan TL and will never catch up to the current Japanese release, but that is up to the discretion of the translator. As for me I never drop a series I'm working on because it got licensed but I can completely understand why somebody would do it. There's always more stuff to work on; if something is going to be translated by somebody else anyway, and officially, there isn't much point in wasting your time when you can put effort into helping spread some other author's work. You are assuming that translators think about things the same way you do, when they don't.

>>141777058
We're just looking at this from our perspective, which equals to NO NEW KONOSUBA FOR YEARS, and it hurts anon

How much would it hurt Yen Press to start translating from the start and from where fan-translations ends at the same time?
Or slightly more realistic: start from the beginning and from the next volume released in Japan.
I know that in a lot of cases these options are identical.

>>141777337
It's impossible for them to do that because they would be legitimizing the fan tl, which they don't

From what I'm reading this is just disheartening

If Yen Press and Kadokawa think this a smart plan to eliminate fan translation as business step. They are nothing full of shit. You translations and fans need to stick and fight for you love the most.

>Tap continued translating SAO with no DMCA takedowns
>Drunken Wolf continued translating Spice and Wolf with no DMCA takedowns
>ultimatemegax translated Haruhi volume 10 with no DMCA takedown
>livejournal translator continued translating Maou-sama with no DMCA takedowns

I think Danmachi is literally the only one in recent years (i.e. not the original C&Ds sent to Baka-Tsuki for Haruhi, Spice and Wolf, and Book Girl) that got hit with a cease and desist from Yen Press. Possibly because Danmachi was on volume 4 while YP was on volume 1, whereas all the others are currently many more volumes ahead.

>>141772585
Alright faggot I'm gonna be paying you up front in bitcoin for fanfics to continue. How about it?

>>141777377
Except that Yen Press has left the SAO translations, the Hataraku Maou-sama translations alone, and the S&W translations alone.

>>141773498
>Yen Press is notorious for licensing shit, releasing 1 volume, seeing it doesn't do as well as they expect it to do and then they drop it while keeping the license
That's not Viz Media or Tokyopop. Yen Press actually releases what they license, even shit that sold badly like Bungaku Shojo.

>>141774321
>but Yen Press just put it on their ever growing Backlog of Licensed Novels they probably only plan to release after the Japanese Olympics
They're steadily releasing one volume every four months since September 2015.

>>141777536
The fanfic is pretty good, why would you care about Yen Press? This literally just means a few years of no new content

>>141771038
someone remind me again why the fuck LN translators just give up when series is licensed to a north american publisher? crunchyroll and funimation sub all of their shows on their own and yet fansubbers still persist

>>141777631
>The fanfic is pretty good, why would you care about Yen Press?
Have you compared the Maou-sama fan translation to the official translation from Yen Press? Yen Press's version is actually funny.

>licensing LN which already has fantrans
I kind of hate their move, they're just like Sekai Project of LN.

>>141776767
Vertical has his hands full whit bakemonogatari this 2016

>>141774387
Konosuba is the same.

>>141777631
>This literally just means a few years of no new content
Don't be stupid, somebody will pick it up if only for the e-peen. This has been happening with for years when it comes to popular series that Yen Press licenses. See: Haruhi, S&W, SAO.

>>141777682
Anime fansubbers went through this a decade ago and only those who don't give a shit and those who translate ancient titles remained afterwords.

>>141777768
That would be great, but can we actually expect the same quality?

>>141777682
It's not just LN translator, but it's also Manga and even Eroge.

>>141777695
They have two options most of the time.
License stuff without a fan translation, or license stuff that actually sells.

>>141777700
They had a poll where people could write in an LN they wanted to be licensed, so they are clearly planning to pick up more stuff.

>>141777682
90% of fansubbers do it for the efame and dick sucking

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>Blaming Companies for Fans translations for being discontinued when the fucking translator can still do it regardless

Gosh people are so retarded.

>>141773897
>implying any jap author gets gross points on western sales
Good one /a/, you're totes "supporting" the author.

>>141777951
Can you even read? Vol 9 will be the last volume they will translate, retard.
You're the one who retarded here.

>>141777878
To be fair, while eroge usually stops because when something is picked up, the fanTL team usually works directly with the company who picked up a license.

>>141777960
i dont care about supporting the author fampai, she is already doing quite well in nipland i just want my konosuba desu

>>141777951
Official translations a shit. A SHIT.

>>141777951
If Yen Press didn't decide to translate an already well translated series we would still continue to get timely translations

>>141778010
I'm still waiting Chrono Clock and Wagamama. And moogy-dono finishing Subahibi with Sekai Project.

Holy shit, Did Yen Press just post on /a/?

Remember what happened to Danmachi? Fantrans died by DMCA and everyone who didn't want to give shekels to Yen Press lost interest. Not only that, but the more series they add the slower translating everything else gets and the quality of the translations is in question (do they localize it or do a faithful translation with honorifics? Couldn't know, I don't give shekels to YP).

This comes down to translators not hosting translations on something that doesn't fucking burn down when a single DMCA notice comes through, the fansub scene has already existed for fucking years and they still can't make a goddamn DMCA-resistant hub. This is not the fucking NSA or FBI that's after them to shut them down, the publishers can't do shit if you host the translations on some site on TOR or something like IPFS.

>>141778157
No.

>>141777996
I think you can't read. This whole thread is full of bitching about it in general.

>>141778093
Doesn't matter, same shit happens with manga and everything still goes smoothly. LN translators just always feel like giving up for some retarded reason, like you begin to wonder if they even liked the series they worked on at all.

>>141776531
Exact same fucking situation as Accel World, where it's taken them like 2 years to catch up to the point where the fan translated stuff was up to.

And at that exact point, they drop their release rate to something like 2 per year. I'll still buy the fucking books but YP Licenses generally kill's the established fanbase because they take so long to release "new" content that everyone's moved on.

Any reason to hate official releases that is not "muh DMCA'd fan translations"?

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Do people not WANT to read a translation of Gifting that didn't come via Singlish by way of Mandarin?

>>141778213
>LN translators just always feel like giving up for some retarded reason
They don't want to impact themselves getting a job there.

I should really fucking learn japanese

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Bring in Hakomari faggot ass YP instead of always bringing garbage that aired recently.

>>141778175
I haven't seen a single honorific in any of the YP LNs I have.

>the Slow Press
>AGAIN
Jesus fucking christ
Why does sky quit anyway? Wasn't the whole fucking point of the new site to avoid DMCA?
Good thing I finally started learning moon fuck this shit
>>141778234
No, people don't want to read a translation of possibly questionable quality (see NGNL) after waiting fucking years for it to catch up.
>>141778232
No, besides the fact that they're incredibly slow, not always of good quality, and always years behind.

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Why do yen press not just commision the fan translator since he has already done 9 volumes. Pay for his work and they can reap in a load of money quick before the hype dies down. they really have no head for business!

Who else here can't read psycome thanks to jewpress?

>>141771675
It's a FANFIC of Konosuba, there is not much to get

>>141778175
I second this we need a fan-translations project/website by anons, only anons who don't give a fuck against DMCA or stupid bullshit.

>>141778232
They're usually localized as fuck.
>>141778332
The Jew Press makes everything disappear.

>>141778305
>people don't want to read a translation of possibly questionable quality (see NGNL)
With the breakout popularity of Konosuba, they're more likely to put someone of actual capability on it like they did for SAO and Index, especially if Kadokawa has a say in it.

>>141778332
Read the first four volumes long ago.

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>>141778232
Back in the Tokyopop days they had horrible release schedules and were dropped at random. The last official LN release problem I can think of was the debacle with the first couple volumes of Spicy Wolf, which Yen Press did go back and fix after getting a lot of shit from fans.

>>141778306
It's all about the greed nigga

>>141778370
>Index
Where are they up to in Index?

>>141778349
>They're usually localized as fuck.
This is not a bad thing. See: Maou-sama. What the fuck do you want to read broken English translations from Chinese for?

>>141778332
Psycome got Editor'd at volume 6.

He ends up with Gasmask, obviously.

>>141778305
You forget that non burguers are utterly fucked since if the shipping doesn't kill us, the coin change does

>>141778415
Localized and correctly translated are not the same thing smartass.
>>141778443
This as well.
>>141778389
Season 3 never.

>>141778413
>Where are they up to in Index?
Volume 7 due in June.

>>141778418
I thought he ended up with Rusty because Gasmask was comatose?

>>141778404
They should at least be efficiently greedy. At least yen press don't meme us into oblivion like seven seas.

>>141778415
>This is not a bad thing
I hope you are joking

>>141778415
I'd rather a good translation than either of those. Which if you're actually paying money for, you should get.

>>141778457
Wait what? I just don't know then.

>>141778457
>Volume 7 due in June.
>volume 7 due in June
>this is why they demanded all of Old Testament to be removed
epic
>>141778415
Someone post the fansubbing comparison with 4kids

>>141778443
Can't someone just upload it?

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>>141778454
To be fair, it would require multiple seasons to cover the "essential" content from the books, and they'd have to go back and cover Elsa's introduction since they skipped that book.

>>141778443
>the coin change does
Not in Euroland. Also, unless you want the physical copy, you can buy the digital version.
But if you were reading the fan-translation, why do you care about physical copies at all?

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>>141778306
>Pay a fan translator who literally went on google translate then edited out minor stuff

My fucking sides they deserve jack shit most of the crap on Baka tsuki.

>>141778538
Which is why you spend so much time translating that all hype and interest dies right

>>141778443
Bookdepository has free worldwide shipping.

>>141778470
I am not joking. Aside from the loss of honorifics Yen Press doesn't generally insert dumb memes and donuts like Commie does. They did good work with SAO, and they are actually doing SAO Progressive on time, which the fan translators would have finished by about 2025.

>>141778538
I didn't mean just shove that shit straight out but buying the "work" of the fan translator will undoubtedly speed up the production schedule.

>>141778581
>I am not joking
Localization is literally exclusive to accuracy, I hope you realize that.

>>141778555
LN is a dead medium here regardless and this hype you speak is like what? 300 or so people possible reading that shit? Get real no one deserves to be paid for bad work.

>>141778443
Where is shipping and coin change a problem?
I get all my manga and LN pretty cheap from a Scandinavian website with free shipping.

Yeah so I'll buy the first manga print like I did "No Game No Life," Then YP will get distracted with the next flavor of the month and release volume 2 and 3 as LNs only. Yen Press is to manga what Funimation is to anime.

Is it so hard to publish fan translations on the internet when the series get licensed?
I mean, hosting them on a website will result in a take down, but isn't there any other way? Like torrents?

>>141778653
No e-peen to be had that way

Spice and Wolf still isn't translated in it's entirety by Yen Press.

It's been over 5 fucking years maybe close to 10 now. Either finish it or let someone else do it by this point.

>>141778333
I don't get why would anyone care about fanfiction and why I see it ever fucking time I come in a Konosuba thread. I must have missed something.

>>141778653
>hosting them on a website will result in a take down
Like fuck it will, there exist other websites besides wordpress and blogspot

>>141778653
There are loads of ways, which is why it's retarded that some translator hasn't done that yet. Tor, IPFS, torrent, etc..

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>>141778581
>Yen Press doesn't generally insert dumb memes

>>141778306
Why pay when you can use it for free? I remember when man-ga here in italy stole low quality with shitty grammar subs for highschool of the dead.

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>>141778734
>>141778581
>he doesn't like memes

>>141778622
>Actually wanting to pay for garbage shit straight out of baka tsuki


But listen anon, that translator does not own the series and has no copyright crap on his translations. There is no "Kind" business that would pay for shit like that out of goodwill.

>>141778770
>having Sora say 1337 gamer is a good meme

>>141778671
>Spice and Wolf still isn't translated in it's entirety by Yen Press.
Yes it is

>>141778625
Localization is about equivalence of spirit, tone, and the reader experience. Literal translations do not automatically result in accuracy, you humungous pillock.

Can you imagine a translation of an English work into another language being literal when translating shit like "make like a banana and split" or "it's up in the air" or "have no clue"? How the fuck would that make any sense?

>>141778671
>Spice and Wolf still isn't translated in it's entirety by Yen Press.
It is.

>or let someone else do it by this point.
Someone else did do it, and Yen Press left them alone.

>>141778829
Most of these idiots complaining about localization don't even know Japanese and are just throwing fits about lack of honorifics.

>>141778829
That's not what complaints about localization refer to and you know it faggot.

>>141778810
>>141778869
No it's not I jus-

oh... well shit. I guess it's been quite a while since i've checked. I retract my previous statement and hang my head in shame.

>>141778888
nice quads.

But really, I don't give a shit about the lack of honorifics as long as the translated text flows properly and doesn't make shit up. What I do give a shit about is having to wait 2-3 years to read new content, since it's long established that I'll never fucking be able to read japanese.

>>141770247
>Yen Press picks up another LN despite being unable to translate the ones they already have on time.
Figures

>>141771193
hey Sky, since Setsuna is such a shit, would you translate Bahamut please? preferably volume 8-9

It is as if you want the pussy LN translators to shut down.

Yew Press is evil

>>141778829
Accurate translations are not literal translation. 'it's up in the air' does not literally mean it's up in the air, which is why you replace it with a term that means roughly the same thing.
I've never read YP so I don't know how they localize, but technically replacing sushi with oreos is localizing and nobody would find that okay.
>>141778994
Mainly this. I'm going to learn Japanese if it fucking kills me

>>141778994
>it's long established that I'll never fucking be able to read japanese
The only way to lose is to give up.

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>Reading ongoing LN's that come out twice a year in nipland

Give me on good excuse to reading LN's while they are ongoing and not just wait for the end.

Last LN I've read that was ongoing was Tokyo ravens and there still hasn't been any damn translations in a year.

>>141779106
It's horrible. And manga fags complain about lack of updates :^)

>>141779106
If you started learning nip you'd be able to read fine.
if not it's because you'd get hit with shit like Index where the Jewish Press orders a takedown.

>>141779106
>one good reason to read ongoing LNs

Impatience.

Has anyone else tried the Heisig method out? It's good for being able to understand, but not really read passages.

>>141779106
To be*

>>141779045
>I've never read YP so I don't know how they localize
Oh, so you're complaining about shit that you didn't read.

>but technically replacing sushi with oreos is localizing
Yeah, and technically your mom is a form of whore but that doesn't mean anyone is actually paying her for sex.

Shit, if you want to actually read a decent Yen Press localization for free then go download the Maou-sama or Index epubs from the sekrit club.

>>141770247
See you in 2030!

>>141779183
Heisig method is fucking retarded. There is no good reason to deliberately refrain from learning how to pronounce kanji while learning the meanings and will impair your ability to listen to anime.

>>141779106
This.

Series Like Konosuba look like it'll never end so i don't bother reading that shit.

>>141779183
It's a fucking retarded method. Just memorize them and the shit comes naturally, it's only useful when you suddenly find a kanji you don't recognize and want to guess it without booting up a dictionary.

>>141779200
>Oh, so you're complaining about shit that you didn't read.
I'm not even someone complaining about YP you fucking moron, but great job slinging your mom insults hahaha fucking epic XDDd :p >>>/b/
I'm only telling you that localization actually is opposed to accuracy, because it actually fucking is.

>>141779275
It shouldn't be too far away from ending actually

>>141773842
>changed dialogue to sound more "politically correct"

Are you shitting me?

>>141779153
How long could it take until I'm able to understand LNs?

Who gives a shit anyway? There's already 8 volumes translated and I'll bet the series won't even go on for much longer.

>>141779183
Studying kanjis individually is useful for word retention. However, the best way to do it is to study vocabulary and only focus on kanjis that make up words you find difficult to memorize.
Studying even simple kanjis individually, as in the Heisig method, is kind of a waste of time in my opinion.

>>141779327
What makes you think that, they've gotten rid of only 2 Demon Generals (Vanir and Wiz are alive) out of the 6 needed to make the barrier die.
What would the endgame even be? Kazuma gives no shits about killing the Demon King.

>>141779275
They all end eventually.
I have a series with 80 volumes in my cellar.
Got through ca. 50 of them before I suddenly forgot I was reading it.

>>141779314
>I'm only telling you that localization actually is opposed to accuracy
Yes, using an incredibly facetious definition of "localization" that equates the entire process to replacing onigiri with donuts instead of recognizing the existence of a spectrum.

>>141779406
I don't think Vanir is supporting the barrier anymore. After all, he's Vanir II now. Vanir I died back then.

Didn't YP kill the mahouka fanbase alone?

>>141779387
a month if you got nothing, absolutely nothing else to do, and invest 100% of your time awake just crunching efficiently. Obviously, you'll spend that time reading/watching things you want to be able to understand as well.

Or it could take years if you don't actively put in the time. There's no fixed estimate for how long it takes to learn a new language that has very little in common with what you already know.

>>141778418
>Psycome
Just one volume more and its the end. I just want to see the ending.

>>141779387
If you study 20 new words a day, in one year you should be able to understand them, but it's gonna be very slow and hard at the beginning.
However you should start to read native material after 3-4 months of studying. That's the best way to learn a language.

>>141779314
>I'm only telling you that localization actually is opposed to accuracy, because it actually fucking is.
No, creating a text that flows and doesn't make shit up necessitates a measure of localization, or else you just get literally accurate but effectively inaccurate translations. Swapping ramen for burgers is just one thing that may be chosen to be done in the localization process, but is not itself the core of the process.

>>141779485
A lack of new material leads to poor discussion, so I can only imagine.

At least Youjo Senki is too anti-PC for YP to pick up without ANN throwing a shit fit like they did with KnJ.

>>141773897
>Not right to deny the author her share of the profits.
What share of what profits
>>141779447
Translating shit like 'up in the air' literally would be an incorrect translation, the correct version would be to use either the plain, non-saying version or to find a similar phrase. I count that as part of translation, not localization.
Replacing Sensei with Teacher is also localization and compromises on accuracy, but it's such a small loss that it doesn't matter that much and you might not even know there IS a loss. I chose an extreme example to make sure you got the point, but you still managed to miss it.
>>141779479
Isn't he just trolling?

>>141779387
Two months if you work at it.

>>141779408
They'll end when I'm a 60 yo fag and don't give a shit about jap media.

>>141779509
>a month
How can anyone make it one month? You can cram all of Tae Kim and study like 200 words a day, but there's no way you're gonna retain all that in such a short time

>>141779599
Translation doesn't mean literal translation though, unless you're counting even changing the grammatical structure of sentences as part of localization.

>>141779618
It's Vanir after all, so who really knows?

>>141779696
His masks are serious business. He wouldn't bullshit about being Vanir II.

>>141779528
Was volume 3 the one in the woods?
I'm pretty sure that was the last one I read.

>>141779651
You cram it all and study 200 words a day then start reading WNs, which means you're now applying the knowledge and can actually remember it.
I dunno, I used two and a half months of cramming with a week of slacking off in the middle and made it enough to be reading Jashin Average which isn't really one of the hyper difficult WNs but not a baby one either.

>>141779485
And Danmachi, and Log Horizon, and Hataraku Maou, and Index (original), and Haruhi, and No Game No Life, and Strike the Blood, and sword art online, and they will kill many many more in the future.

Darknet hosting FUCKING WHEN already?

Yen Press a shit.

>>141779618
>Translating shit like 'up in the air' literally would be an incorrect translation, the correct version would be to use either the plain, non-saying version or to find a similar phrase. I count that as part of translation, not localization.
Yeah, well, we're operating on two different definitions of localization because to me localization also includes replacing turns of phrase and idioms and slang with equivalents that make sense.

>Replacing Sensei with Teacher is also localization and compromises on accuracy, but it's such a small loss that it doesn't matter that much and you might not even know there IS a loss.
No, it enhances accuracy, because your average English-speaker doesn't understand the term "sensei" the way a Japanese person would. If you left it as "sensei", they would think of a martial arts instructor, and be confused as fuck when it actually refers to a teacher or a doctor.

>I chose an extreme example to make sure you got the point, but you still managed to miss it.
No, you're missing the point that localization includes even the most basic of translation adjustments needed for proper equivalence, which are not inherently opposed to accuracy, and chose instead to parrot the 4kids boogeyman.

>>141779765
>Log Horizon
You can blame the double whammy of Snail Press and DEEEEEEEN for that.

>>141779765
>Index
>Gets daily threads here

>>141779651
just some shit someone bragged about in a DYT at some point. Obviously to be taken with a grain of salt, though retaining all that is gonna be a bitch regardless of wether you add new 20 words per day or 300. The key, imo, lies in using the acquired knowledge through reading, rather than be satisfied that a computer program now declares that you "remember" a word.

I wouldn't mind so much but this is all they do. When was the last time they didn't license something following a popular anime adaptation or popular fan translations?
They start something, they just snatch it away when it's popular. Why not take a gamble on something newer for once and keep it up as close to date as the Japan release as possible?

>>141777021
Because they want money from ads since donations ain't cutting it

>>141779836
Well yeah, luckily New Testament is a separate series, would be a shame if YP licensed it now wouldn't it?

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You know what smacks it? The series I'm seeing people complain about are some garbage entry level shit like holy fuck the amount of shit taste in thread.

Whatever YP is doing good on them for killing this cancer.

I want Yen Press devs to leave.

>>141779888
You mean it's hard to make a blog where they can point to for donations? WOW, SO HARD, WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?

>>141770294
It's totally shit. There are lots of things they changed there. One instance is that Aqua acts like she's in love with Kazuma.

>>141779805
>No, you're missing the point that localization includes even the most basic of translation adjustments needed for proper equivalence
Which I count as part of translation. If we're operating on two different definitions then there's not much to talk about I guess.
>If you left it as "sensei", they would think of a martial arts instructor
They do? Normals at my old high school knew perfectly well that sensei could mean teacher.

>>141779765
>Index
>Haruhi
>SAO
These three are alive and well though. Or well, Haruhi is alive in the way that a zombie begging for Season 3 is alive.

>>141779894
NT looks to be almost done though.

Remember.

Kadokawa bought Yen Press.

This means they want the LNs out properly. And not just fucking delays.

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>>141779927
Hi there, anonkun! I heard you had impeccable taste so I wanted to know what types of LNs you liked.

>>141779765
They don't kill anything.
The translators who stop kill it.

>>141779894
Nah.

NT has been pretty shit lately so wouldn't really care at this point and nips seem to lose interest too. Not to mention the discussion in the threads are just full of frenda spamming memes and waifu war crap.

Series should have ended with OT.

>>141779406
3: dullahan, slime and chimera tranny.

>>141780062
Forgot the slime.

>>141770847
>release one volume every year at best
Most of Yen Press's light novels get three volumes a year, though.
SAO gets 6, if you count the spin-off (though they already caught up to the spin-off)

>>141771520
Index gets four

>>141779979
>And not just fucking delays.
Possibly. But I somehow doubt we'll get a significant improvement in release speed.

>>141779996
You don't need to mention the obvious, we know translators are lazy fucks in anything, but translating and even that is questionable.

The only reason they stop is because they can't be bothered to host on a darknet site or because one does not exist.

Their precious donation buttons can still exist and can easily be mentioned where they can be found, they have no excuse.

>>141780110
>Their precious donation buttons can still exist and can easily be mentioned where they can be found, they have no excuse.
I'll be honest though, does anyone actually buy them a coffee? I mean, I personally donate at random but...

>>141780097
They need to impress Kadokawa though.

The fact that even Death Match is getting translated just means Kadokawa is in serious business mode in regards to their acquisition.

If Yen Press gets rid of honorifics, then what the fuck do they do if there is a part in an LN that focuses on honorifics?

>License stuff that only ever got popular because of fan translations
>Kill the fan translations
>Release volumes Y-E-A-R-S behind the Japanese schedule
>Anyone that cares will just read the previous fan translations and be mad for 2 years while waiting

Yen Press has a terrible schedule and still manages to do bad translations. I hope they improve fast, they're just killing themselves.

>>141779949
>Normals at my old high school knew perfectly well that sensei could mean teacher.
Did they also know that it is used to address respected professionals like doctors or lawyers or even anyone accomplished beyond most people in a field like famous movie directors or mangaka?

Your highschool pals would be at least a little confused a translation left a physician being addressed as sensei instead of Doctor, right?

>>141779882
Maybe the Kadokawa buyout will cause them to take more risks. That Goblin Slayer LN they just licensed only just started in February of this year in Japan. Re:Zero was an obvious case of Kadokawa meddling as well.

>>141779979
>Kadokawa bought Yen Press.

They buy up everyone these days huh

>>141779882
Your argument would've been better if they didn't announce Goblin Slayer literally last week.

>>141780187
They would, but you could compromise on that, and it still does lose meaning compared to 'sensei' - the problem is that the original would just be incomprehensible. This doesn't mean that it magically fails to lose meaning in the process of making it comprehensible.

>>141770247
Why idiots praise these Yenpress faggots again?
If they really wanted to help they would license series which aren't getting fan translations to begin with.
They are just another group of greedy pigs.

>>141780183
>bad translations
If anything, the translations themselves are the only thing they do right, with the exception of a few bad releases.

>>141779882
On top of Goblin Slayer last week, there's Death March that was announced just a little bit before Kono Suba. Both Goblin Slayer and Death March have no anime, and look like pretty big gambles by comparison.

>>141780198
They're trying to stick their hands in all the pies, yes.

>>141780183
See
>>141779996

>>141780264
>and it still does lose meaning compared to 'sensei' - the problem is that the original would just be incomprehensible.
This is the crux of the problem, is leaving in an unmodified honorific still accurate if the accurate meaning is inaccessible to the majority of the target audience? The end purpose is after all to convey a meaning, not to convey a word. If you throw out localization, you get TV-Nihon tier moubakakisamatachi-tier translations.

>Yen Press known for being jews that shut down any fan translation project.
>SAO is a Yen Press cash cow
>PDFs for the LNs are openly available on the subreddit
>Fan Translations still actively ongoing in the open, and haven't moved ever since the license was announced.
>That one spinoff no translator picked up was translated by YP, and they caught up in a year

Feels nice being an SAOfag

>>141780326
I don't mind greedy pigs, I just don't like incompetents who claim they can release 4 volumes in a year then delay that to 2, picking up yet more series anyways as if their workload was clearly too much as it is.

>>141780485
Yes? I never challenged this.

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>>141780326
>If they really wanted to help they would license series which aren't getting fan translations to begin with.
But they did do that.

>>141780515
Yes you did, when you stated that localization is inherently opposed to accuracy when in fact a measure of localization is necessary to maintain accuracy.

>>141780597
Picked up I guess. She looks like a qt.
My main problem with them is DMCA'ing volumes they're nowhere fucking close to.

>>141780653
>DMCA'ing
Why do people keep calling it this? They're sending C&Ds, not DMCAs. DMCA is the law that says they can send C&Ds, not the actual C&D itself.

>>141780198
>>141780345
Banrise will then later buy Kadakawa

The real problem with localizing light novels is that you almost have to make shit up to make it actually readable, because maybe 50% of the text in an average LN is constructed entirely from boring stock phrases, rising to 70% in a web novel.

>>141780738
That's my line!

sky pls dont give up pl0x

>>141780768
Idiot, don't say things like that!

>viral marketing
lurk 2 years before posting

It's literally your own fault for getting invested in a long running series.

>>141780738
Hah. After 10 volumes of Magika no Kenshi, the MC always defaults to "you're cute" even when one of his girls flat out tell him to be more poetic when praising them.

>>141780652
And it does oppose accuracy. Localization does not maintain accuracy, it trades accuracy for easier understanding. Beef udon being replaced with beef noodles would be an example - people might not know udon, but they definitely know noodles. Translating 'yare yare daze' to 'good grief' doesn't quite capture the true meaning, but people understand 'good grief' as opposed to 'yare yare daze'.
I'm not saying that you should translate everything literally, but as I said I believe that changing idioms to roughly equivalent idioms is part of translation, and even that always loses meaning. I never said that localization should never be used, but don't pretend it maintains accuracy.

>>141780684
It's just a term that gets used I dunno. They're not C&D'ing either, since they're sending C&D, but they're invoking DMCA therefore I say they're DMCA'ing.

>>141780738
I wonder how nips stand it to be quite honest.
>an otherworldly beauty
Alright I get it everyone in the world is an otherworldly beauty move on now

>>141780653
>Picked up I guess. She looks like a qt.
Do you seriously not know about a LN that is as popular as SAO in japan?

>>141780917
>in Japan
I'm not in Japan though.

>>141780887
>implying I'm mad
>implying I won't buy all the volumes as they come out to decorate my shelf.

>>141780738
Just replace everything with burger culture.

>>141780846
>implying that's still a thing
Have you had the good fortune of not running into someone who claims to be not new because he's been here for six months?

What's to keep a company like Yen Press from just offering to compensate the fan translator and just analysing/editing an extisting translation, rather than starting from scratch and taking literally years to catch up.
Seems much faster and more profitable.

>>141781107
Nobody knows
I don't care Moonreading masterrace

>>141780905
I think we have different views on accuracy, to me accuracy is accuracy of the audience's understanding as opposed to the terminology's inherent accuracy as understood by some other group of people who are fluent in the source language.

>>141781167
Then yes, we have different views on accuracy, because I'm comparing [this is what burgers understand after reading a translation] to [this is what nips understand after reading a translation]. You always lose accuracy.

>>141781227
>[this is what burgers understand after reading a translation] to [this is what nips understand after reading a translation]
So I worded that like a retard.
[this is what burgers understand after reading the English version] to [this is what nips understand after reading the Moon version]

>>141780152
I need an answer to this.

>>141781107
>compensate the fan translator
Professionalism, probably.
They don't want to have to pay an amateur for something they might have to completely rewrite anyways.

Take for example Death March; Yeah, translation is 13 volumes in... of the Web Novel. If they buy his translation, they then have to read through everything and compare it to the Light Novel anyways, and make proper changes. On top of that, the English is far from professional, so an editor still has to completely rewrite it.

In theory it's a great idea; in practice it's not likely to work, because most fan translators don't actually know what they're doing, and they still have to pay a real translator to translate the original to double check the translation's integrity.

>>141781266
They can't do anything, just like you're fucked if there's homonym play.

>>141781107
They're a real company and not some kids in a basement. There's proper procedures and accountability, something like that is difficult to get approved by your sponsors/owners you know.

I bet they lose more time with legalese bullshit than actually translating. They long waits are a (bad) business decision, not sheer idiocy.

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>>141781261
But that's what I'm comparing too? To use the earlier example, localizing "sensei" to "doctor" makes [burger understanding of translation] closer to [nip understanding of moon] while leaving it as "sensei" causes a greater mismatch between burger understanding and nip understanding, hence the localization is more accurate than the weeb version.

>>141781458
Doctor isn't a complete match for Sensei, therefore there's a loss of accuracy.

>>141781525
It's a hell of a lot better a match than leaving it as sensei would be for a burger reader, hence there is a gain in accuracy compared to not changing it in localization, if you are really using your definition of accuracy to mean the accuracy of [burger understanding].

I was going to say something about how retarded Yen Press must be if it thinks people who watched the show are going to wait years for the official translation to catch up, but then I realized that market is probably not large enough to warrant speedy translations anyways

>>141781665
Sensei -> Doctor is translation. I'm not sure what the fuck I'm talking about anymore, I drank a little too much coffee half an hour ago and I'm frazzled as fuck.
I think the point I was trying to make was that Sensei -> Doctor loses accuracy, but you need to do it if you want a burger to understand hence it's translation, while Udon -> noodles isn't actually strictly necessary but still loses accuracy so it's localization, which might be beneficial (since not all burgers know what udon is exactly) but isn't actually necessary as turning sensei into doctor is.

>>141781777
>Sensei -> Doctor is translation.
Okay, well, we've made it obvious that we have different ideas of what is considered to be localization. Changing udon to noodles is going too far in my opinion because Japanese restaurants are a thing that exists (and going by Maou-sama YP doesn't habitually change udon to noodles anyway).

>>141782073
I told you, I don't read YP so I don't know what they do. I'm just saying that localization by my definition will always lose accuracy, because if you need it included to be understood I say that's translation and sensei is a japanese word anyway so -> doctor actually is a translation

>thinking a flowing text means just making shit up in localization

Fan translation:

Satan and Alsiel sealed the contract out of the spur of the moment. They were dazed out for a while but they were barely able to recover and think about their situation critically.

The building was old and their landlord was someone who couldn’t possibly be a human. However, the two youths were unemployed and they had no address. By the rules of this world, would there be another place that would accept someone as suspicious as them? Looking at the situation like that, they needed to be grateful about having a roof over their heads.

The two of them vowed to live quietly and pay the rent on time, so that they wouldn’t need to see their landlord’s face ever again.

“In this world, there seems to be a proverb that says ‘one must endure unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance’[9]. This must be one of those cases.”

Their bodies were injured because of their fight with the Hero, their magical energies were spent, and they were swept up by the gate’s flow and deposited in a world that they’ve never heard of. Even someone like the Demon Lord Satan was losing his powers after using the hypnotic spell twice. Satan experienced tiredness like he’d never felt before.

To heal his wounded body and heart, the Demon Lord Satan slept for three days straight.

Sleeping for three days straight with his injured body without eating or drinking caused Satan to suffer from malnutrition and had to be rushed to hospital. He couldn’t even stand up straight because he was dehydrated and was lacking in vitamins.

To save his pale and dying master who was staring blankly with unfocused eyes, Alsiel had to request help from their landlord Shiba after just three days of moving in. Because they didn’t have a clue as to how medical attention worked in this world.

>>141782161
Yen Press localization:
They had signed the contract, completely unable to mount any sort of protest. The two of them stood there, their minds blank, waiting to regain their composure so they could reflect over these sudden events.

The place was a dump, its landlord a nonhuman behemoth. But what other living space would be willing to accept two homeless, unemployed young men, a concept that would send any sane landlord running at first sight? They resigned themselves to their fate, knowing the answer all too well. At the very least, they wouldn’t be rained on.

So, deep in their hearts, the two demons swore to work hard, make the rent each month, and otherwise have as little to do with their landlord as possible.

“‘You have to start somewhere,’ as they apparently say around here. Perhaps this is exactly what we need.”

They were overwhelmed in battle against the Hero, battered by the wild journey across the flows of the Gate, and mentally fatigued by their adventures in an unfamiliar world. Satan, the Devil King, was rapidly expending his magical force, his breathing ragged after only two hypnoses. The sense of extreme exhaustion was like none he had ever tasted.

So the Devil King fell asleep. And he stayed asleep for three days and three nights, healing his scarred body and drained soul.

Then, after sleeping three days straight without eating or drinking, Satan was taken to the hospital for malnutrition. The dehydration and vitamin deficiency had immobilized him.

In order to rescue his master—near death, skin dry and pallid, empty eyes staring aimlessly into space—Alciel had been forced to ask their landlord, Shiba, for help the third day after moving in. He had absolutely no idea what manner of medical facilities to expect in this world.

What about megumin spin off? Are there still the epubs for it?

>>141782195
So was this in the original or just made up?
The fan translation IS kinda clunky with too many full stops though, I'll give them that

>>141782151
We were discussing its use as an honorific, and one of the litmus tests that weebs use for differentiating "muh pure translations" from "localized 4kids trash" is whether honorifics are left untouched. So it's localization, not translation.

>>141782161
>>141782195
I stopped after the first two lines but it's basically the same.

>>141781107
Don'tyou fucktards realise that they can translate this shit quickly and do once a month of if they wanted to but it's a fucking book industry so they have to slow things down on purpose to maximise sales on each volume.

They are going slow on purpose.

Also if i knew YP was using baka tsuki shit with minor edits I'd not pay for such garbage

>>141782323
Nothing is made up. If you compare the fan translation with "hurr overlocalized Yen Press shit" you find that the meaning is pretty much the same, with the difference that Yen Press doesn't read like it was done by an ESL with no writing skill.

>>141782329
I'll be perfectly honest and say that people who don't know what -san / -kun / -sama / -dono / etc. entail have very little place reading this stuff in my opinion, but whatever.

>>141782332
If you seriously think they are similar, you need to study some English. Style and flow are completely different.

>>141782446
I don't even know why they would read shit that obviously takes place in Japan and most of the time in Tokyo and not expect very different culture, meanings and expressions in those works. It's why I find localization so fucking retarded as it ruins the point of reading these novels.

>>141782511
I think he's talking about the contents

Honorifics are garbage and should fuck off in my English translation.

Fuck your Sama.

>>141782525
Why is it always fucking tokyo anyway
If it's in a named city in Japan then it's Tokyo 80% of the time and Kyoto another 15%. Why?

>>141782534
Yes, I do. No clue why he would think otherwise.

>>141782575
>Yes, I do
I didn't propose to you shove off

>>141782395
>the difference that Yen Press doesn't read like it was done by an ESL with no writing skill.
And that's why official translations are usually better.

>>141782446
If you're talking about Manga, that would be one thing, and YP does keep Honorifics in some of their manga. But novels are "more professional", so they edit the translation more thoroughly.

>>141782567
Most of the population live in those areas?
I assume most writers have characters from where they live, instead of where some other people they don't know live.

>>141782607
I don't know
I mean
Are there no other big cities?

>>141782567
Well, almost half of Japan either lives in Tokyo or the Osaka/Kyoto metro areas.

>>141782716
I didn't know that. That's pretty goddamn ridiculous.

>>141782649
Off the top of my head I can think of Osaka and Nagoya. But there's a bunch of others.

>>141782649

Osaka, at most.

When they want to be cheeky they use Hokkaido, Okinawa, or Kyushu as settings, but there's really no reason to.

>>141782736
Greater Tokyo has 37m people. Neat.

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>Going to have to wait 5 years to get where the Nips are now
Yeah thats fine I guess

>>141782828
>82828
Not quite a get but pretty cool
git gud EOP

>konosuba thread
>not a single image posted relates to konosuba
>not a single image is best girl darkness
>not a single image is second best bang-boom loli
H O W
O
W

>>141782161
>>141782195
Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but for me I think the fan TL is better. Mainly because I find it easier to read, in contrast with the official one which just feels convoluted.
I prefer text that's simple so I can just speed read it. No need for 100% perfect syntax or semantics.

>>141783000
>konosuba thread
This is a "Yen Press ruins everything" thread.

Konosuba thread is over here: >>141753354

>>141783000
>Konosuba thread
it's a YP thread

>>141783038
>Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker
That explains a lot. The Fan TL is boring 9th grader shit, too many full stops, no structural variety, convoluted phrasing, etc.

>>141783038
Funny, because as a native speaker, the fan translation sounds like a non-native speaker or a child wrote it. Understandable, but not pleasant to read.

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>>141783000
Here are both the best girls condensed into one image, just for you anon

>>141783080
Even worse, it just feels like publicity.

See you guys in seven years when they finally catch up to fan translations

>>141783364
>3 volumes a year
>currently at Volume 8
That's three years, senpai.

Assuming they don't speed up their schedule, now that Kadokawa bought them.

>>141783123
>>141783115
Well, I'm more interested in getting the idea through. I'm not looking for poetry.
I just want to enjoy the story. Even if the author is going for a specific writing style, most of it is going to be lost in translation. So in the end all that pretty writing is useless to me.

>>141783124
I love those saggy titties. I have no idea why. Maybe it's backlash to all the perfect round orbs strapped on to chests I see too much of.

>>141783613
Saggy tits have weight and look like they'd be heavy and soft in your hands.

>>141783137
That's because we have some of their devs pretending we should be thankful to them for killing the series we like

>>141784065
>devs
We ain't in /vg/ m8

>>141780497
I don't follow SAO, but isn't there SAO and then a sequel series with a subtitle? I think the thing is that they have to licence the second series seperately, so they won't take it down until they get through all of the old ones. Same deal with Index, they've DMCA'd a few things hosting PDFs of the original "series" of LNs, but New Testament has been totally safe so far.

>>141783421
They really need to start releasing omnibus volumes, otherwise they'll never catch up. Some series (e.g. Index) get written faster than YP translate, so YP are going to be stuck 30 volumes behind until the series ends.

>>141784626
There's SAO, and there's SAO Progressive.
But that's not a Sequel Series. It's just a spin-off, and Yen Press is translating both at the same time.

The manga on the other hand does that weird thing, where each arc has its own subtitle and artist.

>>141784861
>But that's not a Sequel Series
That is odd then. They went out of their way to take down a mediafire folder used mainly by /a/ that was hosting Index PDFs, I wonder why they don't bother for SAO?

>>141780497
pretty much this.

"i may have shit taste but at least i'm getting fed what i asked for."

>>141781306
>In theory it's a great idea; in practice it's not likely to work, because most fan translators don't actually know what they're doing, and they still have to pay a real translator to translate the original to double check the translation's integrity.

There are so-called "professional" translators who do worse than fan translations. (see Crunchyroll subs)

>>141785036
Subs can be disjointed statements removed from context since there's no narration or description to translate inbetween.

>>141785085
On anime, that could be fixed by dedicating more time in grasping the context. But shoddy translations in LNs is far less forgivable because they should have the entire manuscript in their hands.

>>141785036
I find that generally YP's prose is better than most fan translations (not by much, it's still pretty bad) but their translation of terminology is worse and they aren't always consistent between novels, even in the same series.

>>141785273
Yeah, this was pretty bad in their Danmachi translation. Things got romanized really weirdly, even if they had real components in mythology, like Daidaros and Ikoru.

>>141785273
>translation of terminology is worse
I could see that. They translated "Roman Catholic Church" as "Crossism" based on the kanji used for the term despite the fact that a volume in the LNs was explicitly entitled as "Roman Catholic Church".

Can't wait for Yen Press to get caught up to the fan translations in 2020 while Konosuba is on volume 16.

Thanks Yen Press. They should just start doing what the fucking Sekai Project does with VNs and snatch up fan translations then edit them.

>>141785366
>Crossism
whay

>>141785334
>>141785366

let's not for get gareth being changed to gallel, Ryuu being changed to Lyu or Valis changed to Varisu.

and what sad is the authors already defined how certain terms are spelled yet jew press guys can't even be bothered to do a simple google search.

>>141785398
How much content should they remove then? I sure love how Sekai Project refuses to release anything other than all age versions of fucking eroge. Already translated eroge even

Never read something translated by Yen Press, are they the kind of guys that translate metric units as imperial and 3rd year of middle school as 12th grade?

Whoever buys Kadokawa needs to remove Yen Press immediately out of the translation business.

>>141782394
>They are going slow on purpose.
Then they should stop promising to go faster and delaying. If they started with "We'll release once every 6 months" rather than just always delaying their 3 month schedules to 6 they would look much more professional and I might actually believe you when you said it was on purpose.

>>141786050
They did some pretty weird shit in Index like changing a reference to the Gulf War to something about an "Okinawan War" that has never happened either in-universe or in real life.