I don't believe bringing up Ghibli/Disney as a comparison to Funimation is fair. Relative to weekly animes, Disney has infinite resources in terms of time, money, casting, etc. so I don't want to 'go there'. I think that something is lost when an anime is dubbed. As has been mentioned, there are cultural differences, localization choices, cadence differences, a whole plethora of things that are different between Japanese culture/language and my own. One of the things that I enjoy about anime is that difference. A dub removes a layer of the very thing that drew me to the genre. It's would be like polishing the patina off of an antique. That being said, the subtitles and translation choices might be frustrating to some as well- but the source material is right there. For example, I don't mind so much what choices were made with honorifics in the subtitles...when I can hear them, and choose to ignore or apply in my head on the fly. one of my frustrations/delights is when an anime puts notes on the screen, explaining a cultural reference. My curiosity always gets the best of me, and I feel compelled to freeze-frame to read the notes (which either enhances the experience, or screws up my immersion in the story)

@LegitPancake - it's Sol Press, a two month wait is nothing ;) They've stopped even mentioning 80,000 Gold in blog posts, so maybe we'll get volume 2 in 2021?

I admit, I too am chomping at the bit for this one. Can't wait!

@hopebestman said in Why are relationships between characters still not recognized and taken lightly in light novel and manga?: If you wanna go with pop culture isekai, you have to 5 main things in your story. 1-)You have to re-draw Kirito with little changes. 2-)Create really OP MC 3-)MC has to be best hearted person in the world. He cant say no to anyone even if he will ends up dead. Ofc he wont die but still. 4-)Needs harem. 4.5-)They need to be tsundere loli, a girl with huge breasts and falls in love the MC right in the moment and never let him go. Shy loli. And lastly a semphatic girl which is naive as ever loli or she has medium size breats. 5-)Has to be a Demon lord. These are the elements. For isekai genre. And this is exactly why Bookworm is the best isekai I've ever read. It has none of the above elements. Except for #2, except nobody figures that out until about 5 volumes into the series.

Yes this one is very high on my list of wants.

I hope they will

I just checked the manga and wow it's really heartwarming. Would love to see it licensed.

My name is Trashboat and I endorse this license request. Paid for by the More Novels for Trashboat SuperPAC

@Jon-Mitchell said in How much do you think fan translations hurt the industry: @renofury said in How much do you think fan translations hurt the industry: I have no problem with fan translations they made me discover so many titles that ended supporting by buying the official volumes (like overlord). My issue is with websites that hold pirated versions of published lightnovels. The people who invest in the industry have the right for a fair return and be able to have confortable living. Fans that feel entitled for free (pirated) novels triggers me way more than any fan translators which in his/her are also contributing to the industry growth. I wouldn't be a light novel reader if not for fan translators, as I started only reading light novels with the fan translation of SOA and NGNL. Many more potential customers will be introduced to light novels by fan translators in the future. They are an important cog in the wheel, I still research new lightnovels by checking out fan translations when available. I even donated to them to appreciate their fast releases of my favorite novels. agreed there are 'fan translations' and there are 'fan translations' promoting (translation) a work because you are a fan, gets a thumbs up from me promoting (translation) a work for profit, continuing when asked by license holder to stop, hosting fan translations behind a paywall, hosting pirated work (i.e. licensed translations) --all earn my ire. and the difference between the 2 groups is a moving line. what was ok 10 or 5 or 1 year ago may not be ok now - some of my own comments earlier in this thread (when I re-read them) feel out of date I have to agree the 2nd hurts the industry. I've seen a number of series I've read catch up to licensed english release against the fan translation (scanlation) and the group continued doing it. Dome X Kano, I think Shield Hero is past scanlation, and I've literally seen groups post LICENSED work on a certain ex aggregator (MR). I sent in a report to the site and they just sent back a form letter saying they where working on licensing it... yea ok...

This looks really sweet, I'd love to see a series like this picked up!

I would cry tears of joy if this ever got rescued ;o;

I think it was the official English title that attracted me to this one, although I’ve never actually got around to reading any of the fan translation. The manga is terrible though; bad art and sorely lacking in explanations.

I’ve got the manga, but not the LN since, while there are a lot of promising sounding Alphapolis novels they are both expensive and lacking in illustrations (and this one has no translation to follow along with).

@0-0-mjdk7af said in Trinity Blood (light novels): So if you are a fan or interested in it, please consider just to sign in for the vote. I did it too with a spare mail account. Let us all try to make it happen and do our best. It's really not much. A few clicks and maybe it will happen! If you really want it to happen, then you should be buying JNC's other titles which are older such as Full Metal Panic!, Crest of the Stars, Orphen, and Slayers. As I understand it, the biggest impediment to license rescues like this is that older series have typically not been very profitable for JNC, and if their sales don't improve, there may not be any more. So, by all means, show your interest in this particular series by voting for it, but as a group, we need to be voting with our wallets and buying the older series that JNC has already licensed in order for JNC to think that it's reasonable to license more.

Missing the kanji title, which makes looking it up on Japanese sites harder: 航宙軍士官、冒険者になる This one interested me so I got the first volume and read some of the manga. Discovering now that I’ve fallen behind, and it is one of those annoying titles where there is a gap between what is available in tankoubon form and online because they take down the online chapters too early. For a web-only serialization it’s inexcusable.

I’ve been buying and enjoying this one. I like me a crafting-heavy story, although it’s a pity that the crafting is all food ^^;