>Localization SevenSeas can go fuck themselves in their

>>159728628
That's not a localization. That's a blatant mistranslation.

When will they just hire scanlators like how cybersecurity firms hire hackers?

>>159728722
They do, they just hire the shitty ones cause the better ones have dignity.

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>>159728706
I'm guessing the original Japanese says a somewhat know pickup line and they decided to try and pick English equivalents.
Maybe a moonrune reader can verify?

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seems fine to me

>>159729193
somewhat known*

>>159728722
They do sometimes
CR hired ex-fansubers in the past but they treated them like shit and iirc a lot quit over the years
Then again companies like CR/Funi/etc keep getting worse and worse not just in translation department
Trying to cut costs so they keep more money

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>>159729212
>when do you get off? 'cause that's when I'll get you off!

>>159729246
I think they'll die anywhere now that Amazon and Netflix are buying all those licenses.

>>159729318
*anyway, I should go to bed

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>>159729310
What? Don't you think that's a smooth line, anon?
It's great, on the same level as the ol' lickaroo.

>>159729246
Kodansha seems to do okay work. Yen Press is just buying every manga that looks like it might become popular in the west at some point and then throwing them under a (TBA).

>>159729318
If only decent companies replaced them
They're now trying to pander to the shitty parts of the western fan base/"community" with CR original shit
They're also one of the companies that acts all holier than thou regarding file sharing but started like an other illegal streaming site
Honestly more competition is better and has been needed.
Now if only doujins/hentai would get proper competition so you know who could lessen their non-stop shilling

>>159729483
>then throwing them under a (TBA).
When have they done this?
They're slow to release with most projects, but I don't think I've ever seen them just sit on a license they announced.

Right now it looks like Kadokawa is behind why YP is buying up so many licenses, cause Kadokawa wants to dig its claws into the western audience more.

>>159729193
I can tell you the left translation on >>159728628
is as literal as it gets, and it's also not wrong other than the fine/find typo.

>>159729491
Yeah I think it's a good thing too. Not to mention that Amazon's video quality is way better than CR's shit.
The only part that pisses me off is Netflix' policy of never releasing stuff unless it's completely done, which is why we have to hope and wait for random fansubs again.

>>159729491
I hate those korean and shoujo websites that make you buy coins/tickets. they have some good hentai that's impossible to find anywhere else (even on zip/rar raw sites).

>>159729692
>When have they done this?
I was just going through their stuff on MU, https://www.mangaupdates.com/publishers.html?id=279 there's a bunch with (TBA).

>>159729483
>Kodansha seems to do okay work
Don't make laugh.

>>159728628
If you want dry, soulless text you know what to do - learn Japanese and read the raws, or that shitty translation with the typos and everything.

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How about this one? It seems like they intentionally tried to make the line more perverted than it actually was.

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>>159728628
Why has this shit gotten so much worse nowadays ?
This is how Viz used to translate manga.

>>159730291
Are you saying that's better?

>>159730291
I hated when they did that it completely threw off the flow of the story

>>159730449
Having an intensive index of sfx, what they were in Japanese, and what they refer to? Yes.

>>159728628
You have to tell me which one is Seven Seas and which one is the fan sub because I don't know if it's left or right.

>>159730701
I hope that was an attempt at a joke, because otherwise you are very stupid.

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>>159730701
The more detailed (right) is Seven Seas
>Bob's your uncle

>>159729860
Going through the list; Many of these only had a licensed announced relatively recently (and a couple I noticed already had release dates on Amazon and related sites, but just haven't been updated on MU).
But there are certainly a lot of them. I feel this is more symptomatic of Yen Press being too quick to license and announce various manga and light novels like they're candy. They need to slow the fuck down.

Or at least, I wish they did what J-Novel Club does, and not announce the license at least until right before its release, that way people don't forget about it in the next half-year or more...

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>>159729449
That was a good one. That and "Bon appetit, wanna fuck?"

>>159728628
Source of the manga? Neither google or yandex give it me.

>>159728628
SevenSeas is good as a company, but most of their translations aren't on spot.

Still, betten than JewPress overall.

>>159728628
Except for Keith Giffen scum: official (no matter how bad it is) > scanslators

Official release can have errors, ruins the spines, bad translations, expensive or whatever but at least they dont give you aids unlike scans.

>>159731838
next time try harder

Floor ni Maou ga Imasu

>>159732074
Who?

>>159732107
Thanks.

Seven Seas only gets a psss by most people because they're the only ones localizing yuri manga.

>>159728628
Is this Demon Lord in the Floor?

Where has the story gone since scanlations stopped? Is Sword in the lead?

>>159732718
http://marumaru.in/?c=1/30&cat=%EC%9B%94%EA%B0%84&mod=view&uid=68984

Korean raws are here. More THICC girls.

Demon Queen seems to show slight jealously toward the male cook.

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I can sort of see what they're going for even if it sounds retarded. Politeness is top priority in Japanese society. It's rude to hit on a chick like this anywhere, but astronomically so in Japan, so they tried to make it as vulgarly cheesy in English as it would be perceived there.

Or maybe it's just epic funny localization and there's no point in playing double's advocate.

>>159730133
That's exactly what they did.

>>159729193
If this the case, that's what is called a good translation. And, if that were the case, then fucking weeaboos can go shove a watermelon up their assholes.

>>159733466
Should they also change the setting to America and all the bento boxes into double stack cheeseburgers?

>>159733333
>wasted quints

>>159733226
>Or maybe it's just epic funny localization and there's no point
Probably, look at >>159730133, it seems like the person in charge of translating wanted to appeal to 12 year-old family guy watchers.

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>>159732718
>Is Sword in the lead
Sword is a milf.

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>>159728628
>left
Hitting on a girl by calling her cute, she's not expecting it combined with their proximiy causes her to blush, expressions are sorta believable, everything checks out
>right
Hitting on a girl by trying to show yourself as an alpha who deserves her and implying that she's a slut, expression in second panel doesn't work with the dialogue from the first panel because no-one acts like that after being called easy in that sort of situation and the third panel dialogue is almost on the same level as the ol' lickaroo.

What the fuck happened.

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Seven Seas is going to be doing this. Am I safe because it's not set in japan(so no shit to butcher with localization), or are they also bad in other respects?

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Why is it always the garbage manga /a/ complains about when it comes to translations?

>>159734700
>garbage manga
It's actually not. "Don't judge a book by its cover" is in serious play here.

>>159728628
Good thing I can read moonrunes.

>>159734925
Any manga that has character designs like that objectively can't be good

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Kawakami Masaki is such a good and underrated/unknown mangaka. His entry for the Gekkan Shouji Nozaki-kun anthology was perfection.

>>159735153
I shouldn't have bothered.

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>>159734550
They pick the most random shit to license, the quality of every release is like Russian roulette

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>>159734521
It also completely eliminates the diametric angle of calling both her puppy and the kouhai girl kitten (which Seven Seas included in their translation).

>>159728628
>Heeh
That's not English

>>159737011
You're not Italian-American.

>>159728628
>>159729193
>子犬などでは…
>A puppy...
I often see scanlators make this kind of mistake. The complete sentence implicit in this line is 子犬などではない。 Japanese often leave sentences hanging like this, but fluent speakers can fill in the rest of the line by context. So the translation should be more like, "I'm not a..."

>>159735957
Nirvana is probably going to get an anime so it's not really that random.

>>159729193
Hmm, what's a cute puppy like you doing in a place like this?

Another guy hitting on me?

Calling me a puppy is a little...

When do you end work? Come over tl mg place!

No... That... That...
(Literal meaning, she's basically scrabbling for words to say)

>>159736605
Basically SevenSea's TL can translate but can't connect the dots of the story so his translations come out more natural, instead he ends up with a 12y/o tier pickup line.

Reminds me of that MaidDragon dub shit fest.
Western Jap>Eng pro(lol) translators either ham it up or go past eleven with localizations.

>>159737315
Nice catch, anon.

>>159734094
What about her daughter?

>>159737900
Maybe they work in shifts.

>>159738943
I seriously hope people here don't think there's only one translator at that or any other company.

>>159739043
I'd think it'd be a 1-person-a-tank for TLing. It's just raw text.

>>159739043
But why do they have such bad editors/proofreaders?

>>159739043
It takes me like 5-6 hours to typeset, redraw, and clean 20 pages. I feel like I could go a bit faster with the amenities of a corporation (tablet, faster computer, newer version of CS) and comfortably do a whole tankobon in a 40 hr work week.
So why does it take them 6 months to release a new volume of a manga that is already 4 volumes behind?

>>159739403
Because actually printing a volume, getting bookstores to carry it, shipping it to them, and advertising it takes more effort than uploading an image to some reader site?

American bookstores place orders literally a year in advance, publishers can't wait less than that long from when they license something to release it and no store is going to do something as stupid as try to stock a new volume every week.

>>159739509
Nobody goes to bookstores anymore in America. By the time they ship them to the few remaining ones there are, they could've already made triple the amount they'd make from booksales, just by selling them over the internet and digitally.

>>159739509
>American bookstores place orders literally a year in advance, publishers can't wait less than that long from when they license something to release it
What does that mean if the release date for manga's first volume is a year and two months after the manga started?

>>159739826
That they were talking with the Japanese publishers and got the license back when the series started?
There's no rule that says a publisher has to announce a license as soon as they get it, a lot of the time when the release date is very soon after an announcement it means they just held off on it.

If they made tankoubons $1.99 instead of 7 dollars I think they'd get like quadruple the revenue. There are so many times where I'm on the verge of buying a digital release that hasn't been ripped yet, but then I'm like "yeah, I could get this manga that will last me 2 hours, or I could buy a video game that will last me 200". I'd rather just read something in my backlog or reread something I've already read and wait for a digital rip.
But if they were 2 bucks a pop I could see myself actually impulsively spending.

>>159728628
SevenSeas is literally the shittiest official TL for any series. Look at ShieldBro, for example. They mess up grammar so many times with easy mistakes like "it's" and "its" and do shit like put "the" before a name like "I'm going to see the Trash".

>>159728628
Stop, we need companies like this to make manga popular. Instead of bullying them, email and support them.

>>159740048
>SevenSeas
>ShieldBro
Are you literally retarded, anon?

>>159740073
How high are you in their employment structure? Can you at least tell the shit translator in OP to shape up or gtfo? I assume his office is near yours, correct?

>>159739897
The question is why they would be so quick to jump on something that isn't notable except for being written by a semi-popular LN writer who was only popular in japan.

>>159740073
>Stop, we need companies like this to make manga popular
Why would we want that? We'd probably get more manga actually translated if licensed releases didn't exist at all.

>>159739973
>If they made tankoubons $1.99 instead of 7 dollars I think they'd get like quadruple the revenue.

Stopped reading there because I'm afraid to catch the stupid.

>>159740154
>does not understand digital economics
maybe you'll learn it in school next year

>>159730587
Yeah, nothing livens up reading a fucking graphic medium like checking an index for every sound effect!

You fucking knob. Translating those on-page should be standard.

>>159738943
Having multiple translators working in one chapter? That's worse than BT's work style,it make some sense if it was one TL per chapter but 2+guys doing one chapter?
That's way beyond nuts, unless the 'puppy pick-up line' changed to bland was the editor-san fault.

>>159739043
>don't think there's only one translator at that or any other company.
One guy doing translation(only) for one certain title/chapter sure, proof-reading ,type setting, page cleaning/redraws are usually done by fixed certain groups in the company(or out sourced).

They got the kitty line down pat, but strayed off mark with the puppy, which is annoying on my end since I've read, and also have a copy of raws but still want to support western releases.

>>159740153
You would get less, licenses or not few people translate.

>>159740215
>wanting to read english comic books
>not wanting to read japanese manga translated into english

>>159740266
There used to be way more groups out there but people don't translate anymore because of cease and desists, and because there's a good chance that the digital release will make their translation moot so why bother?

>>159728628
floor maou finally gets an update?

>>159740359
Same shit for subs, digital age copyright laws killed human's manual method of sharing their shitty tastes, just because the marketing department saw profit in doing so.
Now go work your ass off anon and buy us those publishing rights.

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>>159737900
Funny you should mention Seven Seas and MaiDragon.

>That moment where "you look like a slut" is changed to a Girls Gone Wild reference

>>159740702
>who she adores
Even professional copywriters don't acknowledge the who/whom distinction anymore evidently.

>>159740073
>we need companies like this to make manga popular
No, we don't.

>>159728628
I see what they were trying to do, upper right is actually better than upper left in my opinion. Try saying the "cute puppy" version out loud, it sounds like something an anime character would say instead of just a dumb line (the author's intent).
But the last panel was fine in the literal version. The translator just wanted to use all his favorite lines I guess.

>>159741235
They could've just used "cutie" or "honey" instead. And "sleazebag" was totally unnecessary.

>>159741347
Not honey, maybe darling? Even "babe" would've been better.

>>159740702
>13 dollardoos
They can shove it up their dickhole.

>>159728628
They hire SJEWS as translators

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>>159732718
The series just finished introducing a new character named Alice. She's a demon hunter who lost her memories when coming into the human world. She lives with a female teacher who takes decent enough care of her. Due to her memory loss, she can't remember anything about her past. This changes when she eats some of Kouichi's godly food which causes her to transform just like Amon. The last few chapters dealt with her learning more about Kouichi which lead to her applying for a job at the same restaurant he works at.

Amon (transformed) would be the girl who's in the lead right now. She's still the only girl who made Kouichi blush (if only slightly) in the story. Kisaragi is a close second. The two of them are almost always together due to the fact that he's her cooking teacher. It helps that Kisaragi trusts Kouichi a lot which leads to her confiding to him whenever she feels troubled about Amon. As for Mutsu and Alice, the two of them are basically playing catch up but for different reasons. Mutsu is actively trying to appeal to Kouichi while Alice was only just recently introduced in the story.

>>159742172
I don't think there's really going to be any romantic conclusion to this manga to be honest. I don't really like Amon though because as a loli she's kind obnoxious and if transformed you'd need to kill a lot of her characterization for a proper "romantic" ending.

>>159742059
>afraid of sjw/kike boogeyman
Truly cucks afraid of cucks.

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>>159742172
>missed opportunity to give her saber hair

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>>159729483
>Kodansha seems to do okay work
I'll always hate them for taking over SZS and then immediately dropping it. Del-Ray handled the series fantastically and had massive TL note sections in the back covering Kumeta's random nonsense panel-by-panel.

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>>159729491
>but started like an other illegal streaming site
They were worse than most. The cunts would steal fansubs for anime and K-dramas regularly and act like they were producing the translations. No one on /a/ should give that cunt Shinji a fucking cent.

How long before mangaka and keyframe animators start being bought to produced direct to english anime/manga written by western scriptwriters?

>>159742766
I'll never forgive them for changing "I'm in despair, X has left me in despair" to "It's hopeless, I lost faith in X."

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>>159742385
Well yeah. There wasn't even a proper story until Alice showed up. That's fine for me though. The series isn't really focused on romance outside of a few one-sided scenes anyway. I'm happy as long as the artist continues to draw more of Kisaragi being cute.

>>159742953
Those breasts trigger me.

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>>159742977
Forgot your image, anon.

>>159729491
>Now if only doujins/hentai

That shit should die, though.

>>159742849
I think fakku is the most ironic of them all. It's only been a few years since they were the same type of site that they regularly flag content on.

>>159743554
I don't know if I'd call it ironic, since Fakku had already shown some money-grubbing hints before that. Remember when they removed nearly everything on the site to avoid losing ad revenue in the great loli purge several years ago?

>>159729491
>Now if only doujins/hentai
Hentai is a whole market on its own, for doujins however couple of artists already made their own paetron pages, it'll be a matter of time till future japanese doujin artists directly go global without parting their work's profit due to middlemen(Fakku) for sales.

>>159743630
>tfw lolis are back but cost money

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>>159743968
I think whoever is able to build a stable aggregate community for translators and co. to provide services for Asian content producers that want to enter Western markets, possibly facilitating distribution as well, will end up making a lot of money.
Pixiv has gotten into publishing already. It'd need to be something like an global pixiv that connects international communities of translators willing to prep content for english sale, and artists willing to pay to have it done.

>>159728628
It's cheesy. I like it.

Clarin-rin, yeah.

>>159740945
The only times I ever hear people use whom is as a replacement for who when they want to sound smarter/more sophisticated. I'd rather just let common usage win and use who for everything than this.

>>159744629
I grew up distinguishing the two and using "who" for both just feels weird. I thought people who write for a living would still make the distinction but I guess most speakers of US English can't anymore.

>>159744629
>want to sound smarter/more sophisticated
One is an objective pronoun and the other is a subjective pronoun. They're not the same thing just because people are ignorant. At the very least a professional editor should know the difference.

>>159744629
>I'd rather just let common usage win and use who for everything than this.
ＳＭＨ　ＴＢＨ　ＦＡＭ

>>159745000
This.

>>159745000
>I'm a nerd
>girls don't like me
>give me wedgies

>>159728628
Sadly the original translators had to drop it. How far is SevenSeas compared to the original fan translation?

>>159734094
At the farmers market with my so-called boyfriend.
He hands me a sword, says it's my mom.
Man, this ain't my mom, this is a sword!
I threw it on the ground!
What, you think I'm stupid?
I'm not a part of this system.
My mom's not a sword!
DUH!

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>>159746191
The fan translation is still ahead by a few chapters. You'll have to wait until volume 3 for SevenSeas to surpass what we have right now.

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Here's how Alice looks for anyone who's curious about it.

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Never forget. Kodansha US ruined my Vinland Saga.

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>>159747948

>>159747948
>>159747971
At first I was going to say that any two page spread like that would be ruined.

Than I realized you were talking about this shitty english SFX. I keep forgetting why I read most stuff online now a days.

>>159748040
I hate it when they translate SFX in English and redraw shit and ruin the art. What the fuck does DSHHHHHHHHH even mean, how does it add to the reading experience? Fuck these retarded companies.

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>>159743092
>>159742977
>>159742953
>>159742385
>>159742172
>>159732718
It's pretty obvious the author drew thicc hentai doujins before yet /a/ is unable to find his or her former hentai doujin circle.

The only hint I think that could someone find out if he or she did any hentai before is that on some of his profiles, he or she states their favorite character to draw is Saten Ruiko from Index.

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>>159748404
Kawakami is a male. He's says as much on his pixiv profile. As for other stuff he may have did, I don't really have a clue other than what's shown on his website.

http://kawakamimasaki.wixsite.com/kawakami-masaki

>>159748961
He seems to do occasional livestream drawings at nico nico according to his site.

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>>159740702
>"you look like a slut" is changed to a Girls Gone Wild reference

>>159737825
Congratulations, you have increased the number of translation errors compared to left image.

>>159728628
>I'll beat the shit out of you!
vs
>I'll punch you away!

Nah, accurate translations are an abomination.

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>>159749743