High School DxD
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I’d probably buy it just to support the author... I mean I’ve watched the anime, and I find those harder series to read than others.
I’ve watched smartphone like 5 times... and haven’t read the books yet, even tho I have the premium version in my library... I save this stuff up for when the unforgivable happens.
No fan translations to read... lol
And I love marathon reading, so it’s no skin off my nose to buy them and let them sit on my device for - number or months...
Crap... I still have 3 danmachi’s too to read... (plus a sword oratoria... not to mention others)
Oh, and I love long volume series’s... but yea, the problem is if they get dropped part way.
Side query.
Why would the fan translations be done in a way that would prevent purchase of them? Buy those you can, fix them, and fill in where you Can’t?
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@thomask IIRC the requirements for JNC to license a fan translation were something like this:
- The entire work (or at least a significant portion of it) must be done by a single translator
- The quality of the translation must be on par with JNC's pre-editing standards
- The translator must be willing to work for JNC to continue the translation
- The translator must agree to stop doing any and all fan translation work
For DxD, the first two are not true, and the other points are question marks. I'd imagine that Sam needs to have all his ducks in a row to convince the Japanese publishers that acquiring the fan translator/translation is kosher.
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@joshua-caleb if they can't get the first series from volume 1-25
They should get the sequel "Shin Highschool dxd" a continuation from volume 25
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@danniel-donnie-dan It makes no sense in this case to license the sequel before the original. Let's say for some reason someone did license the sequel, no would who read it would be able to make sense of it since there will be an expectation that you have read the previous books. Yes I know there is an anime but I seriously doubt it has covered 25 volumes of material.
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Yeah, while I'm grateful to the fan translators, if JNC got the license, they should do it themselves. It is nowhere near the quality that JNC's translations have. Even ones that went a little fubar like the early Undead Adventurer are far better than most of DXD's translations.
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@guspaz Interesting point that many on the Discord feel it wouldn't sell well, many of the people I know would certainly buy it. I know that's merely a tiny subset of annecdotal evidence, but I had thought it might be one of the more popular ones.
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Some more info courtesy CuriousCat and Twitter:
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@myskaros
If someone is going to license DxD I really hope it will be JNC since they can release faster than any publishers. Although I understand the risk of licensing a long and popular series I still hope of the day when JNC is successful enough that it could take the risk and hopefully nothing negative happens. -
The cheapest cease and desist is to put them under your thumb and pay them I guess?
Yeah, I can see how the “no more fan translations” might be a no go for both sides. It’d be fine to go anonymous with a new alias... but when someone wants to buy that trans... oops... they under contract.
Thanks for the reply breaking it down.
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No, it's more along the lines of, an official licensor/publisher like J-Novel Club can't be employing people who are actively pirating their partners' content.
Since that post I've read a bunch more volumes of DxD (to the end of 22 now), and the translation quality has taken a dive. The current translator has a tendency to both severely under-translate and use significantly lower quality English than older volumes. My understanding is that it's also now a double-translation via Chinese. I didn't think the translation was anywhere near JNC's required level of quality before, at this point, the idea of buying the translation is laughable.
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To everyone who wants to see this title officially licensed by JNC:
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Heh.
Bought both Kokoro Connect and Amagi Brilliant Park. Just one person, but did my part!
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@dtta Same! I did my part, too!
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@rahul-balaggan I can't say yes to High School DxD officially licensed enough. So instead I vote with my wallet and buy every novel that I read they translate. Their business model is amazing.
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Did the same.
If DxD ever gets licensed I really hope it will be by J-Novel Club.
I encourage everyone to buy both Amagi Brilliant Park and Kokoro Connect to make a good impression on Kadokawa (and because of the stories of course)
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To be honest, as much as i love DxD, i'm not going to purchase books i have no interest in to maybe (small chance) to get it licensed. I would much rather spend my money on books i will read.
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As much as I like DxD, Amagi, and Kokoro Connect, JNC is still a bit too far behind on both Amagi and Kokoro and I need to focus on series that I am behind on first.
That said, it would be great if we could get DxD on JNC.
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Hypothetically if they got the license, and did all this prepub stuff, they could release the whole series in about 5 years.
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Oh definitely if you have no interest, no pressure to buy.
I definitely wanted Amagi, it feels like a weird Japanse Changeling: The Dreaming to me. And I had a minor interest in Kokoro. I'd probably not have bought it if I didn't want to encourage more Kadokawa, but I am interested in it, so why not? S'only six bucks, so buy it rather than just read the prepubs.
