• Message to all TLRS

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    SomeOldGuyS

    @Ruby-Eye Without context, you have to go with stock translation. Google says:
    "If you hit the fire arrow with the minimum power, you can remove it. Please don't move."

  • Foreign Text

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    SomeOldGuyS

    Google says, "What are you doing, you kid!! What a punishment!"

  • check it out

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    Rahul BalagganR

    Hello,

    As previously mentioned, https://forums.j-novel.club/post/273384 since the spamming has gone on I have muted your account for 7 days.

  • Title: PRIMAL

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    myskarosM

    @Allen-Wull-9a1twb2 Since you kept posting without responding to me, I have muted your account for 24 hours. Please consider whether you want to be a part of this community or not. If you continue the behavior you've been exhibiting since you started posting here, you will be banned.

  • Vampire High (Ongoing)

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    Rahul BalagganR

    Hello,

    Please refer to the forum rules, specifically rule #4 as it related to spamming.

    I have left the topic open if anyone wishes to read the story, and left the opening post, and the post linking to the story.

    Thank you

  • The Code Of The Alpha

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  • Manhwa and Korean web/novel translations?

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    LottelieseL

    @Lotteliese said in Manhwa and Korean web/novel translations?:

    Wattpad has started to release about 10 Korean web novels.

    https://www.wattpad.com/user/series_naver?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_profile&wp_page=user_details&wp_uname=zastanna&wp_originator=xo%2Fxuuvacrkobr%2Fllgn51dw9ulbkzmf%2Buyorjuidxpqwhi0h6qx1htzwlvtioye5%2Faz6uqc1vvoribwmsfhxm1xea6n%2Fbc%2Fvkaefgbqp1k32vm5dkzzvlelbv7froplo

    After the acquisition of Wattpad by Line Webtoon's parent company Naver, Webtoon launched its own YONDER reading App where webnovels can be read for free. Their lineup are made up of original English webfiction and Korean webnovels.

    YONDER App is subjected to region locking on App stores.

  • Light Novel diverges from Web Novel

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    DracO.S. 01 0D

    I'm not sure if it counts as a light novel, but I've heard Dungeon Defence is very different between the web and published versions.

  • Magician who rose from failure - WN Status?

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    Todd Graves.qtcwnyrT

    @Naelidaan
    That's understandable if that's the case.

  • Isekai Tensei Recruited to another world Web Novel?

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    LegitPancakeL

    @Todd-Graves-qtcwnyr Every series page on J-Novel Club has the Japanese title included. All you have to do is copy paste. Of course a Japanese website is not going to come up when you use the English alphabet.
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  • Vol. 7

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    Geezer WeasalopesG

    It's possible you posted in the wrong section entirely, but if not...

    What we have here at J-Novel Club is an officially licensed translation of the Light Novel.
    You posted in the Web Novel discussion section.
    J-Novel doesn't do translations of Web Novels, it's just a section of the forum to discuss them.

    While there are a couple of English language firms licensing Web Novels for translation rather than works already released in Japan as Light Novels, none of them license Web Novels that have a Light Novel version.

    Thus, as hinted at by @jpwong , any English translation of this work you have come across other than that being produced by J-Novel Club is an illegal translation.

    When you say the last club stopped due to buy out, I suspect what you really experienced was their ceasing their fan translation when they learned that the work now had a legal license; most fan translation sites do that.
    Licensed translations start with the very beginning of the work and progress from there, creating an entirely new translation as they go; they don't build upon the fan TL, they don't pick up where the furthest along fan TL left off, they start from word one and go from there.

    ETA: Well, most of the time.
    J-Novel does have at least one title [Invaders of the Rokujouma] where they made arrangements to bring the chap doing the fan TL onboard and use what they had already translated as the basis for the licensed TL, and then continue the translation here once the published version caught up with what they had already produced.
    I also know of one scanlation where the folks producing it, as part of announcing they were ceasing to do so as a scanlation... let everyone know that the newly licensed version had negotiated to use what they had produced as the official translation up to where they were ceasing work. In all of these cases it was because the fan translations had done such a good job and everyone was willing to work together to get the licensed product firmly established.

  • The ideal sponger life - volume 7?

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    Rahul BalagganR

    Hello,

    As you may or may not have seen, V7's start is on the books now, https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/5735/the-ideal-sponger-life-vol-7-discussion

    I will take this time to once again thank everyone for their patience, it is greatly appreciated!

    Thank you

  • I’m Not Even an Otome Game Mob Character

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    B

    @jpwong Neat, thanks for the explanation.

  • Grimgar no longer published by J-Novel?

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    Geezer WeasalopesG

    @sean-mccann said in Grimgar no longer published by J-Novel?:

    Can't say exactly when it will happen, but we should hopefully be starting up the next volume on here "soon."
    My schedule is cleared as of this week, so I finally have time to get back to translating weekly parts for it.

    "What are we reading?!"
    "Grimgar of the Ashes!"
    "When are we reading it?!"
    "Real soon now!"

  • Can someone help me with the End of Cthulhu gonfalon

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  • otherside picnic volume 7 next update

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    poisonedbiteP

    @jheanmaylonzaga

    That membership lets you read all their prepubs. Like bookworm and apothecary diaries and infinite dendrogram etc etc.

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  • [Spoilers] Sorcerer's Receptionist and Sequel WN Discussion Thread

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    Apropos of nothing, I feel like Harre could lower their hiring requirements if they didn't have a portal in their main office to demon-infested hinterlands.

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    Geezer WeasalopesG

    If by 'web novel' one means books published for free on the web in installments, ala Narou, but not necessarily falling within any specific genre...

    For English original web fiction I'd recommend various of Fel's works (search for 'Sennadar forums' to find his site) for stuff that falls more toward what shows up at Narou and such. The forums there also have a topic with the title something like 'links to good reading' which has some surprisingly good suggestions.

    Wes Boyd (not the 'Move on' guy) wrote a series of interconnected novels set in a slightly fictionalized late 20th century Michigan, with forays elsewhere in the US. (Search for 'Spearfish Lake Tales'.)
    He died several years back, but his family has cooperated with his fans to keep his site active, and to finish posting those works he had far enough along that he had them listed as 'OK to have his editors finish them up in the case of his death'.

  • The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! Updated this week

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    NutarisN

    Would be great if the publisher would get vol 10 out but that probably won't happen.