Novel pick-up requests
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@xftg123 Man... Like seriously... You might take this as rude but why the hell do you people still buy stuff from YP? Only thing they want is to rip you off not caring at all about the quality of the products they are supposed to deliver. The U.S. market, as huge as it is in general, is the worst in terms of eastern media (be it manga, novels, anime, etc.) You've got Crunchyroll, Funimation and SekaiProject as examples and on the top of that list is YP as the worst companies in the business. Smaller companies with less resources (SevenSeas, J-NC, MangaGamer) are delivering way better products than YP has ever done and ever will yet, somehow, they're still on the market.
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@mmkop It's cause YP is literally holding series hostage. If they go away without finishing series, it's literally another Tokyopop in lost series which still haven't been recovered. And LN fan-translations are pretty much a dead part of the community as well. Exclusivity isn't a good thing here. I imagine if J-NC could licensed titles YP has, they'd probably be able to put YP on a run for it's money. Hell, I think they're doing a pretty good job already with licensing pretty much half the total of YP's titles in only a year and a half. At some point, YP will hopefully realize that they're shit and need to stop being shit. One of the things I asked about at Sakura-con was about setting up a forum, and they did say it's in the works to hopefully reboot their old one. Assuming they don't start censoring, I think it's a great first step to letting them realize how fucking bad they are at times. (Looks at Danmachi translations.)
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@mmkop said in Novel pick-up requests:
You might take this as rude but why the hell do you people still buy stuff from YP? The only thing you're for those guys are piggybanks. They do not care about the quality of the products they supposedly deliver.
... Because they publish series I like and I want to support the creators while being able to actually read the stuff I buy?
Of their novels, I'm buying Index, NGNL and Log Horizon.
Yen's novel translations are hit-or-miss for me but the titles above are fine IMO.
I didn't like their The Devil is a Part-Timer! TL so I opted to collect the fan translations for that one.
If they end up not doing anything with Index past vol.22, I've already got everything up to vol.18 of the sequel on my computer.And, personally, I see VIZ as the worst company (Still waiting for the last three Naruto Hiden novels, probably in vain!).
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@aruseus493 I disagree. "at times"? They are fucking bad at whatever they do. Just look at NGNL? A whole mess since it started publication. Shitty translator, no editor whatsoever, shitty localization. Mahouka? Why would you hire a translator who has not a fucking idea of what the series is about? Then you go and hire an editor who's basically on the same boat. I mean, how do you mess a series plot so bad since volume 1. How much of an idiot you've got to be to pull that off?
@doublemangekyo said in Novel pick-up requests:
... Because they publish series I like and I want to support the creators while being able to actually read the stuff I buy?
Of their novels, I'm buying Index, NGNL and Log Horizon.
Yen's novel translations are hit-or-miss for me but the titles above are fine IMO.Exactly the reason why they are still here. Just don't buy their stuff and that's it. Whenever a company starts losing money is when they realize something is wrong and needs to be fixed, either the do it or disappear (TokyoPOP). You're paying for their stuff, there never should be something like "hit-or-miss". Everything should be a hit since you're not getting it for free. In these circumstances "pirates" are getting a better value for their money.
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Speaking of YP, I might as well link this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/63o7rq/why_does_mostly_everyone_here_on_rlightnovels_not/
Its from the LN subreddit, in which I asked as to why people were not fans of Yen Press's LN imprint, Yen On.
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I believe that the english light novel market needs some more "Senki" light novels: Grancrest Senki (Record of Grancrest War) and Arslan Senki (The Heroic Legend of Arslan) for example.
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@doublemangekyo said in Novel pick-up requests:
Yen doesn't look keen on getting the two side story volumes... I'm sad now.
I don't think they'll be getting that extra Psycome volume either...
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@mmkop My position is similar to that of @Aruseus493. YP has the licensing exclusivity from Kadokawa that makes them very difficult to compete against. I personally think that JNC is starting to get close to the point where they will be seen as legitimate competition for YP. After all, three (more) JNC titles are being made into anime, and I haven't counted how many have already been made into anime.
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@paul-nebeling For reference, 3 upcoming anime and 8 already-aired anime.
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@myskaros Thanks. :-)
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@doublemangekyo I'm halfway through So I'm a Spider Vol. 2 and the lack of editing is abysmal. The worst it has to offer so far is translating a skill as [Height of Evil] in a paragraph, and in the next one, barely 4 lines later, it's written as [Height of Occultism]. I can accept typos, shit happens, but inconsistencies of this degree are unacceptable. I won't even mention the fact that the skill name should be [Magic Supremacy] and the "official translation" fails to convey that meaning.
YP doesn't deserve my money at all with their horrible products... but it's either that or never getting to read some light novels, I wish my japanese was good enough to fully read novels on a regular basis but I'm nowhere near close.
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@paulnamida said in Novel pick-up requests:
@doublemangekyo I'm halfway through So I'm a Spider Vol. 2 and the lack of editing is abysmal.
I haven't read through it, but literally on the first page of the prologue, Empty Box 2 has a missing word.
Well, thanks to this last incident, I’m beginning understand why
I hear Monster Girl Doctor was the worst edited light novel to date... So looking forward to reading that..
Do Yen Press update their digital offerings' grammar / editing after release?
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
I haven't read through it, but literally on the first page of the prologue, Empty Box 2 has a missing word.
There is no prologue in either volumes 1 or 2, and I flipped through the first few pages of the first couple chapters and don't see what you're talking about. Not to say I don't believe you, rather hoping you can point me in a more specific location to see if my copy also has this error :x
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@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
I haven't read through it, but literally on the first page of the prologue, Empty Box 2 has a missing word.
don't see what you're talking about.
It's the first page of the story on digital store. The line is the first of the 5th paragraph.
Did you get it?
=P
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@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
It's the first page of the book on digital store. The line is the first of the 5th paragraph.
Well, it's not in the print edition, and I checked the "read the first few pages" thingy on Amazon and don't see anything either :x
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@myskaros said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence said in Novel pick-up requests:
It's the first page of the book on digital store. The line is the first of the 5th paragraph.
Well, it's not in the print edition, and I checked the "read the first few pages" thingy on Amazon and don't see anything either :x
Must be a Nook on release exclusive! x(
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@terrence This is my print edition of Zeroth Maria volume 2:
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@legitpancake said in Novel pick-up requests:
@terrence This is my print edition of Zeroth Maria volume 2
Yup, there's the error. It's literally page 1! x(
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Looks like the "Shinmai Maou No Testament" LN series won't get an official English release
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@xftg123 it's also the last volume I believe, and the main story ended on the previous volume so the author just let himself loose for the epilogue I guess
