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I mostly read from a physical book.

Aura: Maryuuin Kouga Saigo no Tatakai
Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On
Dragon Ball Super

Hmm, I guess. I don't really read anything on BT, so I'm more used to having indented paragraphs and stuff.

Harvest December? I'm also interested in it, but I still have a few VNs in my backlog.

Anyway, my translation of MH is on Baka-Tsuki now. Still getting used to the formatting, so it'll be a while until the whole first volume is posted.
Something seems to be bugging me about the web though. Maybe it's the lack of indents.

https://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Monster_Hunter

Gypceros and Khezu are my favorite monsters from Monster Hunter.

Finally got to start my translation of MH volume 2. I don't know if it's the author changing his writing style or the fight scenes being more chaotic, but it's way harder to translate compared to the first.

Huh, is Korea fond of NTR in their novels or something? I only read some of their comics and watched a few drama series but haven't come across NTR yet.

Anything worth checking out around there?

Well, I do prefer the dresses in those movies over most modern clothing.

Man, the art style is so damn beautiful. I'm not in to arena shooters, unfortunately.
Would love an open world or adventure game with this kind of visual style.

The one with the boomerang, right?
I remember playing a whole lot of it.

Good luck have fun.

Well, I got to play it a bit on a demo unit when I was in Japan last year. The battle system is pretty simple. It's a turn based rock-paper-scissors style, kinda like Fate/Extra (if you've played that) but a bit deeper and way less random.

The story gets pretty serious for a kid's anime standards, and I heard that the game version is even more serious right off the bat.

Mostly because the newest Monster Hunter is on their system.

I'm really looking forward to it.

Well, I guess I did get spoiled on about half of the story because I watch the anime, but the game does take a slightly different direction so I'll probably be fine.

FFIV - A Trip to the Moon
FFV - Two Worlds
FFVI - Serial Insane Clown Killer
FFVII - Final Battle of the Dream Soldier
FFXII - Knights of the Zodiac
FFXV - Royal Recipes Fit for a King

Most of them.
Scenes where rangers from different sentais appear (like the White Ranger in Mighty Morphins) aren't stock.

Does Orchestra count?

It's Thailand.

I haven't been following the LN scene back there since I moved to the US for college, and a lot of different prominent LN publshers have emerged while I was away.

Huh, it turns out MH Tamashii has an official translation in my country, and all 5 volumes have been released. Gotta grab them when I get home for vacation later this year.

Godus (mobile version)

Something with ballroom dancing preferred.

I'd like to try playing some real baseball. I got to try those pitching machines in Japan and loved it.

As long as it's entertaining, I guess.
I also watched a lot of bad to mediocre anime just because only one aspect of it (usually the OP or art style) caught my interest.

Huh, this novel sounds... awfully unbalanced in terms of pacing.

First of all: I played the Vita version of Totori, and I don't really know how much they changed.
Haven't gotten far in Ayesha yet, so I won't comment on that.

In Totori, it's all about time and resource management. Basically, you run a workshop and have to rank up your adventurer's license by exploring, battling, and crafting items within the time limit of 3 years. You'll also build relationships with other characters by following their quest lines or bringing them into battle, and events will trigger when certain conditions are fulfilled.

If you fulfill the adventurer rank condition, you'll be able to move the main plot forward and an ending will trigger at the end of year 6 depending on the main plot's progression and character events you have seen.

Totori is a pretty good entry point for the Arland trilogy, since vanilla Rorona (first installment) is pretty unforgiving (so I've heard) and Meruru (third installment) has a good chunk of its focus on the returning characters.

G Rank does get mentioned in volume 3 of Yuuki Rin's series, but it's more or less just rephrasing what Becky said in volume 1. With the novels being a more realistic interpretation of the games, I don't think they really want to dwell on ranks that much.

Welp, finished the samples of the gen 4 novels.

Akatsuki no Chikai (Vanilla 4) feels pretty lighthearted compared to the other ones I've sampled. Basically, it's about a trio aiming to be big name hunters. They train under a veteran hunter who is like a big brother figure for the orphans in their village. This village is (to my knowledge) original to the novel, but according to the JP Wiki, the series does cover the game's frenzy virus plot line, so I guess they'll move to one of the in-game towns later on. 6 volumes long for this one.

Ten'i Muhou no D (4U) opens with some decent action right off the bat. The MC is knowledgeable about monsters and is a skilled painter. He comes off as a book-smart type, which is a first for the MH novels. According to the synopsis, he's also related to a group of G Rank hunters, and they're apparently the focus of the first volume's plot. This series is only 3 volumes long, and have different titles for each volume similar to the first series.

Cross Soul (Gen) also feels pretty lighthearted. The plot follows a newbie who was late for the registration at Bherna, and a skilled hunter who runs a traveling restaurant. Synopsis doesn't say much other than the two deciding to hunt a Great Maccao together. Mizutsune does get featured on the cover and front illustration though, so there's that. Only one volume out so far for this one.

For anime and manga related stuff, it's absolutely better if you know the language.

For video games, it depends. If you're playing a game with Japanese audio and English subtitles, the localization changes you notice can get pretty jarring. Especially in games localized by NISA. Then again, you won't have to wait for a localization unless your device is region locked, so I guess it's still good.

Now that's new...

I searched around a bit, and apparently it's categorized as a "Nox" Novel (whatever that's supposed to mean), which is aimed at adults and focuses more on sex and violence.

http://nox-novels.jp/

Well, there's the novel version of Flash Hunter, which is based on Tri and a bit of 3U. The manga adaptation apparently covers everything in the novel, judging from the front illustrations. The art style is pretty different though, especially for Raiga and Becksel. Looks worse than the manga overall, but the novel style makes the characters' physical growth over the years more apparent. Opens with Raiga and Keres going to Loc Lac like in the manga, so there's nothing much to say about the story here.

Then there's Souten no Akashi, based on P3rd and later 3U. It's a whopping 8 volumes, which is understandable since P3rd is one of the fastest selling games of the series. It's apparently about a newbie who was mistaken for a skilled veteran due to some messed up paperwork. The sample pages only cover his arrival at Yukumo, so I didn't get much out of it.

There are also 2 more series based on the second gen, Hayate no Tsubasa (FU) and Shakunetsu no Yaiba (Frontier G). They're considered to be direct sequels to Tamashii, so I didn't look at them yet.

Well... with the series being 24 volumes long, I don't think I'll be able to get started any time soon.
I usually read all books in one series in a row because I get hooked easily, so I'll have to wait at least a few months from now.

Also, I tested out MH Tamashii wo Tsugumono (based on MH Dos and Freedom 2). It seems like this series focuses on learning the ropes in a more traditional way, since Kut-ku and Velocidrome were featured in the front illustrations, and the plot summary says the MC will be training under a veteran hunter. This veteran hunter also appeared in MH Episode as a one-off character, if I remember correctly.

Huh, maybe I'll pick up that series when I have some more free time. A bit too busy to read anything long right now. I can't even get started with my translation of MH volume 2.

What I'm doing now is go through the sample chapters of the other MH novels. Turns out BookLive has samples for every single one of them, so I'm going through them to decide on the next series to import.

I think I read somewhere that the LN does provide better details for the final story arc.
I only got as far as volume 5 though, and I remember some of Kushieda's comedy routine being a bit more heavy, but that's pretty much it.

The complete fan translation is still on Baka-Tsuki last time I checked.

It used to be licensed in my country, but the publisher went under halfway through and no one picked it up. It's more or less exactly the same as the anime though.

Huh, I haven't read any of those.
I've read plenty of novels that focus on the characters' cooking, but they don't really dwell on it for long.
Like, Toradora doesn't focus on the food abd cooking process at all even though Ryuji's cooking and eating in general is pretty important.
Log Horizon has Nyanta's cooking and the burgers Volume 2, but they last only a few sentences as opposed to the anime where it got one whole episode.

Cooking montages? Is that a new trend or something? I don't think I've ever encountered those in the LNs I read.

Me: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Transcendent_Nephalem_Physiology
Archenemy: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Poetry_Embodiment

Pretty sure I win this one.

1. Fund a whole lot of medicine and robotics research.
2. Dedicate the rest of my life to video games, anime, art, music, and literature.

Welp, I found a sample of the LN version.

https://booklive.jp/product/index/title_id/315682/vol_no/001
(Press the button under the cart button)

Chapter 1 has indeed been changed to Prologue, but the contents are mostly exactly the same.
The LN revised a sentence or two and added an illustration, but other that that there's no change.

Judging from the chapter names, the fan translation is indeed based on the WN version.

Thanks. I skimmed it, and it seems that the fan translation is pretty much spot-on, except for God not retaining his "Old Man" accent. Much more literal compared to the official release, assuming that the official also uses the WN as base. The paragraph structure in the fan translation is also exactly the same as the WN.

kirbymuncher posted...

yeah it was supposed to be a semi-sarcastic guess, it's pretty clear the fan one is not as well done <_<

My favourite part was him intentionally TLing sometihng completely wrong to put in a reference to something else, and then having to put a TL note since the conversation didn't make sense anymore

When it comes down to it, seems like most LN readers don't really care at all about translation quality as long as they get their stuff fast and for free. Which is why so many of the translations are done by people with absolutely no idea what they're doing. Kinda sucks :/

I could see the fan translation being more literal though, except for that Hellsing Abridged (?) reference. Do you have the raw for this?

I fell that it's the same case as my translation of MH. I try to be as literal as possible, so the writing style is pretty simple.

Well, I would say that the one on right is the fan translation.
The writing style is more simple, and there's that wild "Hai" out of nowhere.
And I guess changing Chapter 1 to Prologue wouldn't make sense for an official release.

Anyways, I know I'm late but congrats on getting your job TC.

Animated with MMD, apparently.

Welp, I got to try out Breath of the Wild today. Didn't get to do much, but I liked what I played.
Having an open world game with almost no objective markers is pretty refreshing. Gives an impression of the first Zelda game, minus the way too subtle hints.
Shield surfing is really fun to mess around with, and there's tons of disposable shield lying around.
The frequency of weapons breaking remind me of that one fight scene from the Korean comic Ares. Doesn't disturb me that much, but I can understand the people who complain about this.
Oh, and the chickens. They can be used as a glider. Limited utility, but it's freaking awesome.

And with Japan getting a port of the Seiken Densetsu (Mana) trilogy, I'll definitely be getting a Switch down the line.

Overlord? Isn't it supposed to be a Japanese series?

I watched the anime and read the first volume. Was fun.
The anime also has a second season announced.

From how things look, I think I'll try to get it hosted on Baka-Tsuki.
That is, if I decide that I'll be able to commit myself to translating the other 3 volumes.

Finished with the rest of Chapter 5, the Epilogue, and Afterword! Man, I'm actually surprised that I managed to finish this project.
https://goo.gl/jr81yM

I also compiled the whole volume together in a single file.
https://goo.gl/2cahnE

Chapter 5 Scene 2 done. Just a little bit more...
https://goo.gl/pk4b4Z