Funny that the least interesting battleharem anime of the Fall 2015 season was the only one to get its source licensed.
Grabbed a copy of the official English release of Volume 1 because why not. The translation is competent enough as far as I can tell but it's not like the original was a Shakespearean masterpiece in the first place. The translator is Melissa Tanaka who seems to be among the better qualified translators YP has hired overall, so clearly they expect this to sell.
Anyone else bought it?
Elijah Watson
Comparison of official (right) and fan (left) translations, out of interest
Adam Perry
>Anyone else bought it? You can read it for free, why buy it
Adam Wood
To support the author? To own a tangible copy? To be able to peruse a version that doesn't read like it was spat out of Google Translate via Chinese?
Andrew James
>To support the author
Fair point
Asher Gomez
>To support the author? He should get punished for this, not supported!
Jose King
>support the author Trashy battleharems that only want to be the next Infinite Stratos should not be supported. Only support good things.
Benjamin Williams
The fan translation reads like it's trying too hard.
>The deep sentiment its owner held for that handkerchief was clearly conveyed. It was inconceivable that it had been intentionally discarded. versus >He could practically feel the affection its owner had for it. This handkerchief couldn't possibly have been discarded on purpose.
Or perhaps
>The current time would still be regarded as early morning against >It was still early
Or perhaps
>Looking at the scenery, so abundantly favored with nature's grace compared with >Surrounded by such natural beauty
Fan version is a little overwrought really. It's not War and Peace, it's just a cookie cutter battleharem for middleschoolers.
Josiah Hill
Sex with Kirin-chan!
Brayden Sanchez
The author's not at fault, he's not doing anything a hundred other authors aren't doing by writing a IS clone. The ones who should be punished are Aniplex for throwing money at this almost at random thinking this would be their new cash cow.
Tyler Allen
...
Justin Rodriguez
This. Also the school uniform is great.
Camden Allen
>the least interesting battleharem anime of the Fall 2015 season I'm pretty sure that was lance and lolis.
Chase King
>the school uniform is great You must be joking.
James Watson
>Fan version is a little overwrought really. It's not War and Peace, it's just a cookie cutter battleharem for middleschoolers.
THIS
Obviously the fan translations fail in the basics in creating something readable
They have this deluded notion that being "faithful to the Japanese" means being wordy and full of purple prose
Jaxson Gutierrez
That's because Japanese has a very detached and roundabout manner of referring to things with omission of parts of sentences implied by context also not helping matters.
Caleb Clark
Oftentimes they aren't even translating from the Japanese but instead from Chinese.
Ian Long
Bladedance and Absolute Duo are really cute.
Wyatt Perry
japanese love purple prose anyways, its big in re:zero
Zachary Brown
Bahamut and Antimagic are fine, everything else is trash.
Oliver Sullivan
If we did, then yen press would get it and Volume 13's translations would be even more delayed.
William Green
Just the way Haunted wants it!
Parker Mitchell
But despair turned to hope in the end.
Angel Phillips
top row, bottom row, and absolute duo a best
Michael Garcia
>Yen Press No thanks. I hate localized translation.
Ryan Hall
Coming up with new generic uniforms must be a challenge.
Michael Price
THIRTEEN H I R T E E N
Chase Murphy
I'm with you. Learning Japanese is the way to go since you can put a brown paper bag over a book and read OreImo at work during your lunch break and if anyone asks what you're reading, you can tell them you are reading a mukashibanashi.
Justin Reyes
Behold, gentlemen. Proof that the main heroine of battle harems are always the most boring looking and low tier girls in their own series.
Elijah Howard
Except Ouka, she's actually really great.
Juan Flores
Cause Aniplex and Bandai made a huge push on it in the West expecting it to be the next big thing and even announced it at a Western convention. All of this was pre-planned with the assumption that because they were backing it at A-1 it'd be a smash hit.
Josiah Cox
>the main heroine of world break was imouto
I REMEMBER that's wrong
Jackson Allen
I hate battle harems so much.
John Moore
She may not be best girl, but I have to agree.
Carter Smith
I honestly love everyone. Usagi is a bit on the weaker side but I like her too.
Sebastian Gray
Who's the girl on the left? I didn't see her in the anime.
Angel Davis
That's Ikaruga five years later
Nolan Wood
Same, they're just all great in their own way.
Mason Nelson
Damn, she maintained herself well. I should have been able to tell from the moles.
Samuel Barnes
Mari is...not the same
Jeremiah Campbell
What is this YP dev shit? YP's version is overly simplified, streamlined, and localized to suit the general English masses who aren't familiar with LN writing that commonly puts emphasis on action/details and descriptive prose.
Henry Kelly
She just let her small pigtails go
Sebastian Harris
Nice bum
Leo Barnes
>Bahamut, Absolute Duo, Bladedance, Trinity Seven The only good ones.
Justin Nelson
>Yen Press If it weren't them then I might had been inclined to buy. I simply can't stand translations that doesn't retain honorifics or otaku lexicon. Worst, if Americanization is involved.
Luke Cruz
Wait, who won the Takeru?
Elijah Nelson
Metaphysically, Lapis. Physically, ambiguous. He married someone down the line.
Brody Flores
>Physically, ambiguous. He married someone down the line. Cop Out
Joseph Jackson
>LN writing that commonly puts emphasis on action/details and descriptive prose.
And a chunk of them are needless descriptive mastubation
Hunter Kelly
Didn't mind it too much. I ended up staying for actual plot and I was happy with what I got. It would have been nice if he ended up with someone for real but I don't think that was the most important part.
Benjamin Miller
You are part of the problem.
Xavier Perry
Didn't he promise to marry Ikaruga to take care of her daughter or something like that?
Blake Price
He pulled his "share your burden" shtick on her and she threatened him with that notion. She didn't hold him to that though.
Jason James
I don't mind if I can like every single girl. Liking only one girl in these is like hell every episode.