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Here's what they look like:



Fanservice set sure, but I like it.

Do you mean the male set? Because I really liked the female version of it.

Using the transmog system will require a great deal of grinding, but it'll be so worth it for me.

I've been following all of the trailers. Really curious about the Steelix-like monster at the end of trailer 3.

And with the armor transmog function announced, It's an instant buy from me if it gets localized. Now I'll be be able to wear all those joke armors I made without being crippled skill-wise. Really hope it also works with low-high rank armor.

Also, here's Chapter 5 Scene 1. This chapter is significantly shorter than the others (30 pages as opposed to the usual 50-60) so I think I'll be done with it pretty quickly.
https://goo.gl/TjkV0z

I'll admit... it's this fast just because I don't do any proofreading before I put them up. I do eventually go back to old uploads to fix typos and stuff though.

Alright... Done with the rest of Chapter 4. Only 1 chapter to go for the first volume.

https://goo.gl/bvJGHe

Hm, I might try to get myself a copy of NieR. Good thing the lore summary video didn't spoil too much of it.

For real? Man, that pretty cool.

Drakengard is the only game in the series I played, actually. Not so good performance aside, it's fun. I never knew that the series had anything to do with NieR before I looked up NieR's story to prepare for Automata.

I've been following up on Drakengard and Nier's story/lore before playing Automata. Damn, it's way deeper than I thought. Pretty impressive that they basically made a whole new game series from the first Drakengard's "joke" ending.

Oh, and here's Chapter 4 Scene 3.

https://goo.gl/apyDzI

Hm, good to know that the world isn't empty. I'll most likely get this if I end up getting a switch.

Been looking through the lineup, and Disgaea 5 looks pretty cool. And then there's VOEZ, which is a one-time payment for all songs instead of paying for individual songs like the mobile version.

I'm mostly curious about how it looks on the Switch portable mode, since there's no direct capture footage of it. If I end up getting the switch, I don't think I'll want to use the TV mode.

And yeah, I already thought the tutorial area was big enough, it ended up being a small area in the full(?) map. It's pretty surprising, since I expected it to be way smaller.

I've been watching some gameplay of it. Looks a lot more fun than I expected.
How's the graphics in portable mode?

Ah, for MH related books, I have all 4 of Yuuki Rin's series and 1 from the MonHan Nikki/Nyanta Life series.

According to the JP Wiki, the MH light novels do have a total of more than 50 books published by Famitsu Bunko alone. Each game generation has 2-3 series each written by different authors (except for gen 1 which only has Yuuki Rin's series). We're missing out on quite a lot of story.

What do you mean by how many books?
If you mean just for this series, I have 4. But if it's all the books I own, I never counted them, but it should be about 50.

Alright, Ch.4 Scene 2 done.

https://goo.gl/NZzqVO

I feel that when people say bad animation, they usually mean art style. Happened with Log Horizon Season 2 and Pokemon Sun and Moon as well.

Speaking of anime, I'm really looking forward to Kekkai Sensen, Clockwork Planet, and Rage of Bahamut.

I really hope that's the case. I mean, when Vita was announced, people expected MH4 to be on it, since the more successful games at that time were on PSP. And that's why I'm waiting to buy the system that MH is actually on this time around. (Not that I regret my Vita purchase though.)

I do hope Switch gets it though, since the online subscription fee is the lowest compared to Xbox One and PS4.
And actually having proper camera control with the right stick is always great.

Agh, I really like the hardware, but the lineup right now just doesn't interest me. I think I'm going to wait for either a new Bravely, Super Robot Wars, or Monster Hunter to be announced/released first before getting one. Hell, even a port of Xenoblade X will do.

Anyway, on-topic. Here's Ch.4 Scene 1. I just got started with this chapter because of a lot of things keeping me busy.
https://goo.gl/bvJGHe

Becky is the low rank quest giver NPC from the first game and Freedom. She also appears in MH Gen as the quest giver in Kokoto Village and in one of 4U's episodic quests.

There's also another illustration of the girl (+Becky) in Ch.1 scene 3. I added it in later because I didn't have the illustration scans when I first started. Also cover art and intro illustrations in scene 1.

The factory bombing scene is at the end of episode 5 or 6, I think. And yeah, that and the "no visas" scenes were hilarious. She even bent her voice to sound like a preschooler.

Chapter 3 done!
It's the shortest chapter so far, but Super Robot Wars V just came out so my progress is hindered a little.

https://goo.gl/6xRXCH

From what I gather, the novel was released as a tie-in to the first game to expand on the game's world and to give it some story.

The author was let in on some yet-unrevealed details of the MH world, so it's possible that Capcom had him write a story based on those concepts.

Well, this novel wasn't even planned as a series as first, so maybe that's why. You can only fit so much into one book, after all.

For me, the first volume is... pretty different from what I expected from MH, so to speak. Especially chapter 3 onwards. But I think it's an interesting read regardless.

The novel does go back to the basics a bit in volume 2 and 3, and the "starting from the bottom" kind of thing is in volume 4, strangely.

Anyway, I finished Scene 1 of Chapter 3. It's short, but I got stuck at a whole lot of points.
https://goo.gl/PRadYp

Chapter 2 done.

https://goo.gl/NSdJDy

Hm... the redesign was made to make him fit his personality better when fully illustrated, perhaps?

It doesn't matter that much in text form, but physical appearances do affect a viewer's perception on a character's personality.

Well, I tried the first 5 episodes of Youjo Senki. Didn't hook me, but it's pretty nice. I kinda prefer the salaryman's exchange with god in this version to the manga.

Tanya and Viktoria's designs are the only ones that look off, but they work really well in the Youjo Shenki comedy shorts.

Chapter 2 Scene 1 done. Just a little more until we get to the action.

https://goo.gl/NSdJDy

It's a sequel? I guess I should finish the manga first.

Anyway, I managed to find scans for most illustrations and updated my files. This series doesn't have that much, but they do look nice. The armor pieces are detailed and look almost exactly like their game counterparts.

Damn, they got the first volume of Bungaku Shoujo. It's a pretty good read.
The novel version of Fate/Zero is also great.
I haven't read Welcome to the N.H.K. yet, but I liked the anime.

Wait a sec... they got a novel version of Onani Master Kurosawa? I wonder how it's handled in text form.

Korean, huh? There are quite a lot of official translations released there, yes. I don't know any reliable import sites for those though.

Anyway, MH chapter 1 is finished (first draft, anyway).
I also re-uploaded the first scene to fix some typos and missing words.

https://goo.gl/TBamE3

I guess you haven't found the type that you like most? I also had that problem when I started collecting manga. When I found the kind of thing that I like, it really narrowed down my choices. That actually helped me find good stuff easier.

I don't really know if there are that many translated LNs out there though, so I'm not sure if it will work out for you or not.

Thanks for the feedback.

I'm still undecided on what to use for emphasizing terms and items. The original used square brackets.

While translating this, I realized that the start is a pretty slow burn. It will be a while until it gets to the action.

I plan on hosting this somewhere if I complete the first book.

Thanks a lot!
It's my first time doing something like this, and I'm not very creative when it comes to writing, so I'll need all the feedback I can get.

Finished the first scene of the first chapter. Not proofread yet though.

https://goo.gl/24qNN0

Oh yeah, I started my attempt at translating Yuuki Rin's Monster Hunter novel. It's just something I impulsively started over the weekend, but I kinda want to finish it. At least the first book, anyway.
I'm currently at 10 pages right now, out of about 210.

The translation is still very rough and I had to take a few liberties to have it make sense in English though.
And I also seem to have a tendency of getting the tenses mixed up.

He really contradicts what he said. At first he praised the world building of MH and the potential to create a cinematic universe that has multiple stories of completely different groups of people, and then he makes the movie a "monsters coming to the real world" thing which doesn't have a lot of potential for side stories on top of being completely out of place in general.

Given how much MH emphasizes the importance of coexisting with nature and monsters being an essential part of the ecosystem, it just feels... wrong.

Yup. When I read the synopsis, I thought it was too ridiculous to be real. Then I saw that clip.
At this point I wouldn't even complain if this gets canceled and Mezeporta Reclamation gets adapted instead.

It's just a ~5 seconds clip.

From 2:37 to 2:42


8 cuts in ~5 seconds and inaccurate monster models. And it really does take place in the real world.

Slightly off-topic, but I just saw the short clip of the Monster Hunter movie. It's... quite depressing that it's gonna be the first mainstream adaptation that is released in the west (assuming the clip is real, that is). Especially when there are way more faithful MH adaptations out there in the form of manga and novels, and only Orage (just ok), Flash Hunter manga (good), and Ride On (bad CGI but otherwise enjoyable) were the only ones that were(/will be) released in the west.

I won't judge the quality of the movie just yet, but it's Anderson, so I don't have much faith.

On topic - I finished book 3 and read two chapters of book 4.
Book 3 is the weakest book out of the first three, but it really shows how much the MC has matured from the events of the first two books. The new characters are also pretty cool.
Book 4 is more like an epilogue story, where the main cast gather in a bar to party and tell stories of their most memorable hunt, that kind of stuff.

Huh, I just noticed something in the MH novel. The first book has a guild receptionist in Minegarde named Becky, which is the same as the Minegarde Sweetheart NPC.

This might be where her name (and her hidden Guild Knight status) is first revealed, since the novel came before the first Hunter's Encyclopedia art book.

legendarylemur posted...

barnnn posted...

Well, by the time he wrote that, MH had only one game. Like, MHG wasn't even announced yet.

The only MH games that required online for guild quests were the ones on PS2 and Wii, if I remember correctly.

Ahhh I got it confused for Monster Hunter Generations :P

Ah, ok. MHG was never localized, so that's understandable.

Well, by the time he wrote that, MH had only one game. Like, MHG wasn't even announced yet.

The only MH games that required online for guild quests were the ones on PS2 and Wii, if I remember correctly.

That kind of scenario would be classified as an erotic novel rather than a light novel. Just saying.

On a different note, my order arrived and I finished MH volume 2.
The story is more personal this time around, compared to the first book, which was mostly about MH world's lore and a bit about the MC. The hunting scenarios are more intense and varied, which is a big plus.

The new character might in fact be MH1's player character, considering some her past exploits and a certain weapon she owns. She's also given a pretty extensive backstory. Quite a bit more than the main party, actually.

The author's notes section is pretty entertaining too, especially the part where he complains about the mandatory online for guild quests, and wishes there's a MH1.5 that gives access to guild quests when offline (and he never got it, since MHG still requires online for guild quests). He's also apparently a big fan of the comic book Nightmares & Fairy Tales.

I might have some problem with that, but I can't know for sure because the things I read so far are pretty literal. I am fairly familiar with Japanese pop culture as well, so I should be fine in that regard, but I don't think I can handle heavy puns and/or local jokes yet. The different dialects are also surprisingly easy to handle for the most part.

With that said, I have read only a few novels in Japanese. Most of the stuff I read are translated in my country, then I changed to english-translated ones after I move to the US, and then started importing shortly after joining this thread.

The language is pretty hard to pick up, but you'll be on a roll once you get the basics (kana, basic words and grammar). Remembering all the useful Kanji will take a lot of time, but I can use a dictionary app for them when reading.

Nyanta Life is classified as a children's book in one of the Japanese Wikipedia pages for MH, so I just went with that. The language level is low compared to other imports I have read, and the book has full furigana, which is usually used to assist children who don't understand kanji yet.

As for the content, It is pretty light, but there are some heavy moments. Then again, Japanese kids were fine with Kamen Rider Ryuki and Faiz (super dark and depressing plot) back in the day, so I guess the Japanese standards on what's appropriate for kids are pretty high.

The book is also published by Kadokawa Tsubasa, which only publishes children's books. Mostly original novel series, but they also have things like novelizations of anime,games, and Disney movies, simplified versions of popular novels, and translated foreign books.

Well, the complaints were something like "ruining WWII with flying girls and magic". Something like that. It was on a Facebook page that I don't remember the name of, so I can't exactly dig it up.

Speaking of anime, I just watched Hand Shakers. The series got quite a lot of hate mainly from the bad CGI and excessive fanservice, but I (somehow) thought it looked quite impressive for the most part. I'm a sucker for vibrant landscape art though, so that might be why. And the fanservice doesn't even involve nudity, so I'm mostly cool with that.

On topic, I finished Nyanta life. It's not as serious as Yuuki Rin's MH novel, but that's expected for a children's book. This one does go through the same topic as the other novel though, namely the Hunter Guild's philosophy. The main characters (a prowler, a human hunter, and the hunter's palico) also get a decent amount of development. The illustrations are also pretty sweet.

Waiting for Yuuki Rin's MH volumes 2-4 to arrive right now.

Huh, I think I might have seen a trailer for that some time last year. I kinda remember the main girl's facial details looking a bit weird, the other girl having ridiculously large eyes, and the salt in the comments section from people who expected a gritty military story (lol).

If it's still good by the halfway point I'll give it a shot.

Was gonna start reading Nyanta Life, but got sidetracked by the novel versions of Pokemon Movie 19 and Your Name. Both of them are almost exactly the same as their film counterparts, so there's not much to talk about.

Also, I just discovered that Yuuki Rin's Monster Hunter Novel has 4 volumes. I didn't notice this at first because the books aren't numbered and all have different titles.
The second volume involves the Kokoto Village Hunter (aka MH1 Player Character), if the story summary on Amazon JP is anything to go by.

Well, it's not exactly "legal" for the free-to-read translations to continue after they have been licensed, so it's not like I can complain about that. I'm all for supporting the creators though. Most of them deserve the money and respect.

As for SAO, I'm not really following the main series, but I think I understand how you feel, because I had the same feeling when Overlord got licensed.

At least the US has a pretty solid release schedule for most of them, which is good at the very least. My country's publishers are pretty irregular about this stuff. There are even several series that got abandoned after 1-2 volumes.

Also, publishers taking too long to release translated stuff is also one of the reasons I learned Japanese and started importing the novels.

Alright, found a MH Gen novel. It's called "Monster Hunter Cross Nyanta Life: Tamamitsune Shuryou".
It's a apparently a book for kids though, because the language level is quite simple and it even has furigana.

Well, it's not very well known. I only knew it because I was browsing Kino stuff on amazon jp and it was recommended.