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@Silvermane it is released in Japan, now you just have to wait for licensing contracts to be signed, and the translation team to have time to work on it.

@Silver-Sugar-Duchess A mechanical translation is just that - mechanical; it has no insight into the meaning.

A person who understands the reason behind the words has a better chance at both being "correct" and "understandable".

That said, I have better luck by including context around what is being translated. That's why I just copied in the WHOLE thing, rather than individual phrases. I used to just copy individual parts... and laughed at what come out (when doing French to English, which I'm more familiar with).

None of it would hope to work on a major work, where individual rules get in the way. Several years ago, I tried reading a mechanical translation of volume 18 of The Irregular at Magic High School that was Japanese->Russian->English "for accuracy" (?!?). I'm sure glad we have an official translation now, so that characters don't switch genders between paragraphs...

@sorvani Thanks!

Sorry if that sounded too negative, it was only intended to be pragmatic with a touch of dark humor:

There's a new release, the quality is fine, and it's OK to buy it even if the delays continue.

Edit: @Rahul-Balaggan - actually it might make sense to lock this thread and start a fresh one, so new readers don't need to wade through 4 years of past delays and disasters to discuss the present state of the company.

Tentai has been a bit cursed so far, everything from an office break-in where their equipment was stolen to losing control of their discord server after a malware infection, but they've kept struggling forward despite that.

Their latest update is here: https://tentaibooks.com/blog/

@GeorgeMTO Thanks for the heads up.

@luparguru I'm not staff, but: You just need to be very careful about starting topics in the Streaming section. Normally only staff start topics there, and they already do start one discussion topic per volume per title.

So if someone starts a Land Mines volume 10 topic, it is confusing to people because:

If the official topic hasn't been created yet, people think the new volume is about to start, when it might still be weeks or months away. This disappoints people and makes some of them extra salty. If the topic has been created, then it confuses people because there should only be one topic per volume.

If you want to start a topic about a series or a new volume of it, it's usually best to do it in this Light Novel Discussion area not in Streaming.

For this case, you might have created a topic here in LND with a title like "Magician Who Rose 7 delayed by artist illness"

@Paul-Nebeling The new backend deals with this smartly by having "people" a first-class database class with theoretically many different name variations in all languages. When we fully switch over to that we can handle that, but also situations like staff changing their names, etc.

@Silver-Sugar-Duchess said in License expire notice?:

Buuut, does anyone know how long the “updated“ mark will remain? I don‘t want to redownload each book every month again.

It's a simple date check. If "your most recent download date" is earlier than "the most recent file modification date" then it shows you the [Updated] tag.

Is it your book? I am also learning Amazon KDP now. just learn from Youtube

You can check the sales volume in Amazon JP

@jpwong I really hope "Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers" gets a physical paperback version of the LNs. The anime made me love the series. As much as I am thankful that JNC and other companies exist to provide translations, I am not a fan of ebooks and not having something physical and tangible personally.

It's a fun series, hoping Bash is successful before his time runs out. Maybe with Thunder Sonia, at that.

You could wait for the next JNC light novel contest if you willing to wait until that happens

Otherwise I think @HarmlessDave has the right idea

@anony-mouse99 Those links are hugely helpful, thank you!!

@myskaros

Thanks. That is good news.

If you get the membership, you can read all of a bunch of different light novels on a tablet:

Any new series added, starting with volume 1 The latest volume of ongoing series A rotating set of catch-up releases every month, see "This Month’s Catchup Series" at the bottom of the main page

I :heart: my Kindle for reading books, but my iPad works well for reading the content above. If you don't want to spend the money for an iPad, a Lenovo Tab will do the job, either 8" or 10". You could also gamble on some no-name tablet from Amazon. Or a Fire tablet on sale (8" refurb is $55) but it comes with their own "Silk" browser which might or might not work with JNC -- though you can side-load Firefox or Chrome.