Novel pick-up requests

paulnamida

@xftg123 yeah, but Demon Lord is just borderline, I don't think we get anything more graphic than the fingering scene. Kaifuku's LN version is supposedly even raunchier than the WN version. The author promoted it as containing "material that couldn't be posted in Narou" after all. And Narou allowed cannibalism snuff on vol. 3... I'm almost afraid to know what were the added scenes.

Deemerald

How about Bodacious space pirates? The Hyperspace Abyss special is translated in English, but i cant find the original 12 volumes anywhere in English?
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https://bookwalker.jp/series/4878/list/
Watched the Anime, seems fun.

kino

How about these? I first got into the manga for all three of them and I enjoy them quite a bit.

Gaikotsu Kishi-sama, Tadaima Isekai e Odekake-chuu
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The New Gate
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Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi
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Deemerald

@kino Those are already being translated. Search for the titles at novelupdates.com

Rahul Balaggan

@deemerald none of those are legally licensed, for people who only read official translation they have no way to read them in English.

Deemerald

@rahul-balaggan The New gate is done by an official translater, but illegally. So that gains a pass maybe?

Rahul Balaggan

@deemerald some may say it does, I for one say it doesn’t. Nothing against that translator but I still won’t read unless I can legally pay for it in a way that the author sees residuals.

Deemerald

@rahul-balaggan So you mean like Slime Tensei, where they legally got premission from the author to translate the webnovel?

Rahul Balaggan

@deemerald that Yen licensed the LN version and released it that has become a mute point.

Deemerald

@rahul-balaggan Mkay then. Ill give. If the person in question wants to read only official translated novels i cant really help them. I almost read everything 'illigally' wink wink

Aruseus493

@deemerald Considering said translator is charging for early access to chapters, I hope he gets shut down for that scum-behavior. Would much prefer it to be licensed.

Deemerald

@aruseus493 hmm. Never knew that. Normally i follow 20 different things at the same time and just switch between them constantly, not really minding whether something comes out early or late

Terrence

I think it'd be good practice to at least have the Syosetu tab open for the individual chapter you're reading translated.

For anything that has an official release in Japan, I'd grab the Light Novels off of Bookwalker. There are ways to support the author while still reading unofficial translations.

Speaking of Syosetu, I've been realizing that a lot of stuff that gets published but cancelled doesn't necessarily disappear off of Syosetu and in fact sometimes continues for a long time after. I wonder if any English publisher could do a halfway translation (translate the available LN, then switch to the WN; I'd say forget the LN, but these relationships with official pubs are really important not to burn, and you'd lose all that art too)?

hatguy12

@deemerald said in Novel pick-up requests:

The New gate is done by an official translater, but illegally.

I'm not familiar with the circumstances in this case; out of curiosity, what makes the person doing it an "official" translator?

Deemerald

@hatguy12 I'm not really that sure if he is official. I dont know the specifics so that post could be Horribly wrong, but there was at least one time they hired an official one i believe

kino

Are Overlap easy to work with? I think I requested The New Gate a long time ago, but apparently that one is from a publisher J-novel can't work with or something... I see that the other two of the things I requested are from Overlap.

Edit: The manga for both of the overlap titles are very popular, I won't be surprised if Yen Press try to poach the two...

Rahul Balaggan

@kino the first 2 publishers JNC worked with are Hobby Japan and OverLap.

So requests from there are just marginally more likely.

Small percentage like .00000000000000001% more likely

BartzBB

@kino
IIRC, Sam once said that The New Gates's publisher AlphaPolis does not yet have an International Licensing department that could handle licensing for other languages making it impossible to license any series they have even if its not JNC who wants to license them.

Edit: I found post the where Sam mentioned this.

Terabyte

@bartzbb That sucks, let's hope they do something about it.

paulnamida

on the illegal fan-translation vs. official translations fight, I stand in the middle ground. While I do read fanslations, (I mean, that's how I started reading light novels), I try more often than not to buy the licensed version, the only thing holding me back most of the time is just there being e-book formats or not, since importing physical boks to my country gets way too costly, but if it has an e-book I'd take it asap.

But then there's a ton of series that never got an official license, and some are pretty good, so the mentality that "I only read official translations" is lost on me. I'm pretty sure we're never going to see Campione or Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere licensed, and only recently would I think a license for Date a Live, High School DxD or Oda Nobuna no Yabou to be plausible.