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Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de – Chapter 12: The deputy branch leader seems to be an unpleasant guy

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Heyas folks,

 

I am too tired from translating today, so I will keep the message short. Extend your gratitude to BakaGrappler for his awesome job in editing my gibberish into something readable! 🙂

The next chapter of Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! should be released tomorrow at 10 PM GMT.

The ongoing issue with the licensing of Kuro no Shoukanshi will free up some time over the week, so I will try to work on Interlude 3 of Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de and Interlude 6 of Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! in that order to fill the gap in releases for now.

 

Have fun reading it,

Shasu-chan

Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! – Chapter 30: Erich-nii-san’s marriage

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Good evening folks,

once again, sorry for the two days delay. Well, at least you get this time a fair share to read on the bright side. 🙂

I will use this post to announce a few things:

First and foremost: Please welcome Kruncs as new editor for Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! He will be the one suffering through all my little slip ups in those eternally long chapters of Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! so I am not sure he is aware what he signed up for, but shhh! 😉

Furthermore I got another editor for that series on board who will be announced in due time. As I decided to have the editor team to look over older chapters of the previous translators to make the reading of those more enjoyable, I am still looking for 1 or 2 more editors (there’s a lot of work to do there after all).

If you are interested to work on this series, Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou!, please send me a proper introduction (you can look up my requirements here). Also, I’d like to stress p-r-o-p-e-r introduction! That doesn’t include 2 liners saying “I want to edit …., gimme!” 😉

Second would be a change in release time: As I get home now at 5 PM GMT and have to go sleep latest at 11 pm GMT my time window for translation is kinda small in the week. But even worse would be cutting it with an 8 PM GMT release. Thus the releases will now move to 10 PM GMT so that I have time to use the time after coming home to translate some without interruption.

Furthermore, since I won’t have that much time to translate in the evening, I will have to daily translate a portion of bigger chapters. So I decided to move Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de to Friday with a strong tendency towards Saturday as release day. Luckily Kuro no Shoukanshi should be doable a chapter a day, if push comes to shove, so there’s no need to worry on that front (Chapter 12 will be released tomorrow at 10 PM GMT). 🙂

Well, I think I have said, what should be said …. thus … enjoy!

Greetings,

Shasu-san

Important announcement: Change in translated series’

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So to make a long story short: My trial day at the potential workplace went well and thus I am starting from tomorrow onwards as full-time employee in sales.

Now what does that mean for my translations? I had considered the possibility of this happening beforehand already and thus my decision is actually set in stone. Basically I had two options, either decrease the release pace or drop one series to free up time. I opted for latter.

Thus, as of today, Yomigaeri no Maou is abandoned for the time being unless I find myself with plenty time again (in other words unemployed, which I’d like to avoid). Any translator who wishes to take up this series, is free to do so and can continue from where I left off.

Now, some will ask why it is Yomigaeri no Maou and not some other series. There are a few reasons, which I shall list here:

  • The pace of the story is too slow for my liking. Just to give you a rough idea: The Fighting Tournament starts at chapter 36 and continues for over 20 chapters. In other words, it would take further 8 weeks to reach the Tournament arc filled with trivial boring chapters about useless chit-chat. I don’t doubt that Yomigaeri no Maou is an interesting story, but it needs a dedicated translator who can release chapters every 1,2,3 days to actually really get on with the story. Considering that Yomigaeri no Maou only released  1 Light Novel volume even though it already has 235+ web chapters, speaks for me not being the only one sharing this opinion about the story.
  • The writing style of the author is uselessly complicated and annoying. Translating that series really takes more effort than another series of the same length just because the author loves to construct stupidly long and complicated sentence structures. Not even mentioning the fact, that his writing style appears rather plain to me as in richness of vocabulary and expressions which also means that I am forced to beef up the content myself to not make it an enjoyable read. (Of course this might also be due to the lack of my skill as translator though).
  • The MC is too plain. Well he is an ex-Maou but gets pushed around by his surroundings like a plush toy. Not even sure what I should say about such a MC except that he has no real character in my opinion and if he has, it is a softie character which I dislike as MCs.

There are a few other points I am unhappy about with this series’ but unlike my other series’ these are they key points why my choice fell onto Yomigaeri no Maou.

Now as for the other series: Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! will stay on the Sunday slot (the only time I have to translate such frigging long chapters is over the weekend), Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de will move up to Thursday/Friday (depending on my time after work in the week) and Kuro no Shoukanshi will move to Tuesday.

As my days at work are fairly long, I have only little time after work to translate. Today I came back home late and have been translating Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! Chapter 30 for 4 hours straight (still not done with it though *sobs*). Thus there might be some adjustments to the schedule depending on how my daily routine pans out in the end.

Still, don’t be worried. I don’t plan on dropping the other 3 series as I like them too much to leave them sink in the quagmire of oblivion!

Well, I hope the readers of Yomigaeri no Maou can understand my decision, even if it may be hard for them to accept it.

As for Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! Chapter 30, I will try to finish the last 20% tomorrow. Sorry for that delay but nothing I can do about it. My brain actually hurts from all the translation for that chapter! xD

 

That’s all of my ramblings,

Shasu

Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de – Chapter 11: It seems to be an adventurer’s guild

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Heyas everyone,

sorry for the slight delay. As I didn’t manage to finish translating the next chapter of Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de yesterday, our poor new editor BakaGrappler was forced to put up with my mistake riddled text today.

Please welcome BakaGrappler warmly as editor for this series!

and a few words from the person himself:

“Hello, all. I’m the new Editor for Nidoume, which is more than a little fulfilling for me since that web novel is the reason I found Infinite Novel Translations in the first place.  So, rest assured that I’ll be putting my efforts into making the releases as high a quality as possible, despite my being a Baka.  Enjoy yourself, and let me know if / when I completely drop the ball.”

 

 

Well, then enjoy the read!                                                                                                                                                       ——–> Continue here!

 

As for the next chapter of Yomigaeri no Maou: I have a few RL errands to run tomorrow but will try to make it in time for the Friday release. *prays it works out* Otherwise I will leave a note in the Release Schedule on the side bar.

 

Greetings,

Shasu

Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! – Chapter 29: Reunion with Erich-nii-san

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Sorry for the slight delay, folks.

Part of the reason stems from the previous announcement and another part from the fact that it was the longest chapter I translated up until today. At somepoint I was doubting whether it will ever end at all. 😉

Well, have fun reading Chapter 29 of Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou!

Chapter 7 of Kuro no Shoukanshi will be released later today. Chapter 11 of Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de will be released on Thursday the 23rd July at 8 PM GMT as I got a job interview tomorrow and thus won’t have much time to translate.

If there are any further delays, I will keep you guys informed but I do hope I can get back on track by Friday. 🙂

 

Greetings,

Shasu

Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de – Chapter 10: It seems we have finally arrived at a human habitat

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Heyas everyone,

today you get another shot of Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de! Enjoy reading Chapter 10!

Now on to another note: Due to RL issues the release of Yomigaeri no Maou will be very likely pushed back by one day. Since it got quite hectic over here, I cannot guarantee the Friday release, Saturday shouldn’t be a big problem though. This shouldn’t affect Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! for Sunday, I hope, otherwise I will post a notice ahead of time.

 

Greetings,

Shasu

Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! – Chapter 28: Associate Baron Baumeister

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Heyas folks,

before I will post the chapter link there is a request pending from some of you to me I’d like to address.

In the last few days some people have asked me (be it via comments or mail) to edit the older chapters of Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou!

Since I don’t feel like answering every time the same to each and every of you, I will use this opportunity to do it here.

No, I won’t edit or change the previous chapters (this includes chapter 1 – 25 + interludes 1 -5 ).

Why not? Because …

  • I do not want to change someone else’s work without their permission. I originally only reposted the chapters here, because it is easier for reading navigation and because the blogs of the respective translators basically are inactive. Treat it as service for the readers.
  • It takes time. I won’t put my name under something I haven’t at least roughly TLCed and properly edited. And that’s not a job of a few minutes. If I were to really do this, there would be no new chapters of Hachinan for a while as I won’t drag the issues of one series into the release schedule of other series’.
  • Finally, the chapters are readable. Some people are just too spoiled. Personally I have read translations that are far worse close to below border-line elementary school English (and that from a prominent translation group to top it off -.-). Since the chapters are understandable, all the grammar whiners should bark up to another tree in my humble opinion.

I do not ask you to accept these reasons with joy, I only ask you to understand and live with them.

Oh, and before anyone else asks. The links to new chapters not working before their release time is intended. These are only preparation for the release itself. The schedule is written on the right side of your screen. Be as kind to read it before asking. 😉

Well, that’s all from me on this topic. (Guess translating the Sunday web novel always drives me to write longer blog posts! xD)

And here is your chapter, have fun reading it !

 

Greetings,

Shasu-pyon

 

P.S: I removed the chat because it didn’t seem to work, or I was bugged, or the chat was bugged or both of us were or because no one wanted to use it anyway … well one of those reasons or all of them. ^^

Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! – Chapter 27: Audience with His Majesty

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Heyas folks,

today I have released the new Chapter of Hachinan tte, sore wa nai deshou! but before giving the link, I’d like to announce two important things:

First off, originally the “next chapter” would have been Interlude 6. Personally as a reader I don’t really care about interludes/intermissions as they most of the times give only side stories of unimportant characters or occurrences.  Of course, that doesn’t mean that I won’t translate them though. I will handle them as side projects and try to release them within 5 chapters after emergence. This applies to all series I am translating, too.

Second, the translator who has translated chapter 25 of Hachinan tte sore wa nai deshou! unfortunately forgot a bit of text at the end of the chapter. I have translated and added the missing part to the chapter. You should read it here.

Well that was all from me, enjoy Chapter 27 – Audience with His Majesty!

Kuro no Shoukan Samurai – Chapter 5 will be released on Monday, the 6th July at 8 PM GMT.

 

Greetings,

Shasu

 

P.S.: I changed the style a bit in order to move the menu bar below the banner and make it easier on the eyes as a whole.

I hope you like this one. If not, feel free to comment and I will revert it.

Nidoume no Jinsei wo Isekai de – Chapter 8: It seems to be the cleanup after battle

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After an exciting climax battle chapter, this time around we get a more relaxed chapter from Shion’s POV. Still the chapter is loaded with plenty information about the other world making it a worthwhile read for sure.

Smart move of the author. *thumbs up*

Enjoy reading chapter 8 here!

Yomigaeri no Maou Chapter 25 might be released on Thursday, the 2nd July at 8 PM GMT.

“Might”, because the chapter is slightly longer than the last and knowing the authors way of constructing sentences it could get a major hassle again. xD

At worst it will be released on Friday for sure though, which would be right on schedule anyway though. 😉