Mahoutsukai no Yoru

[Leftovers]

E-peen.

[warellis]

E-peen.

Does he/she have a history of giving up on projects halfway through like this, and then forcing others to not work on it while he keeps it locked up?

[lopalop2]

Yeah Commie was the first group to take a shot at translating it (I think), theres also 3-5 other people that have made large amounts of progress, but McJon is the only one who has actaully released anything

[Riku Noctis]

The translation is bad as the one who did it wasn't that good at english when it was made. A lot of people are good as editors, but not so much when you may as well need a complete retranslation of everything for it to be more or less good, besides the QC. The editors that tried to work on it gave up anyway as they thought it was easy and not that much work.

IMO, a mahoyo english TL is pretty much a meme now. lol

[Deathhappens]

It'll happen eventually. We said much the same about HA.

[Riku Noctis]

It'll happen eventually. We said much the same about HA.

Mcjon01 will be your saviour.

Unless we make him play FFXIV again.

[GundamFSN]

Help McJon in his romcom life and we assuredly shall get what we wanted.

[warellis]

The translation is bad as the one who did it wasn't that good at english when it was made. A lot of people are good as editors, but not so much when you may as well need a complete retranslation of everything for it to be more or less good, besides the QC. The editors that tried to work on it gave up anyway as they thought it was easy and not that much work.

IMO, a mahoyo english TL is pretty much a meme now. lol

Why the hell would someone who isn't good at English try to translate a work into English? Overestimation of their abilities?

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Why the hell would someone who isn't good at English try to translate a work into English? Overestimation of their abilities?

The same reason why someone who can't read Japanese would like to educate people on what a given Japanese line means.

[Nikiri]

Help McJon in his romcom life and we assuredly shall get what we wanted.

but wouldn't that make him quit his bl life

[Riku Noctis]

Why the hell would someone who isn't good at English try to translate a work into English? Overestimation of their abilities?

The individual haven't had worked on anything english-related since a long time ago at that point (funny enough some other guy was in the same situation, but didn't do anything, AFAIK). Sure, it was overestimation in the end anyway, as not even a native JP speaker can help if everything ends up being nonsensical engrish.

What most people thought about mahoyo is that it would be that easy to translate, even with a good editor. I mean, chapters 7 to 11 are hard if you don't really know some Nasu gibberish and prose, unless you want pseudo-translated stuff that doesn't really have the essence of the work, which would be more or less what Commie has and a lot of people want released for anyone else to work on (which is a bad idea anyway).

but wouldn't that make him quit his bl life

So, the only means for your salvation also results in your doom?

Truly a meme.

[Akyuu]

Why the hell would someone who isn't good at English try to translate a work into English? Overestimation of their abilities?

Was this not what gave us TakaJun's TL of F/SN?

[Deathhappens]

Why the hell would someone who isn't good at English try to translate a work into English? Overestimation of their abilities?

I probably shouldn't tell you how many fringe LN translations were machine translated from Chinese and then edited into passably readable English by a Filipino.

[warellis]

I probably shouldn't tell you how many fringe LN translations were machine translated from Chinese and then edited into passably readable English by a Filipino.

You mean all those Chinese isekai/portal LNs? Those always had bizarre "translations" from what I read.

[Quibi]

So many localization companies and none of them are even trying to localize a TM VN.
Shame.
inb4 yeah it's expensive but I think the fanbase is big enough to make it worth it (if muv luv kickstarter raised $1m...).

[Reign]

So many localization companies and none of them are even trying to localize a TM VN.
Shame.
inb4 yeah it's expensive but I think the fanbase is big enough to make it worth it (if muv luv kickstarter raised $1m...).

I think a lot of it is because there's widespread fan translations already. Why would people pay for something they can get for free?

Except Mahoyo

[Nikiri]

So many localization companies and none of them are even trying to localize a TM VN.
Shame.
inb4 yeah it's expensive but I think the fanbase is big enough to make it worth it (if muv luv kickstarter raised $1m...).

While it is frustrating that Type-Moon won't let us localize their games, my company has been actively localizing top of the line games such as Higurashi and Rance.

They are trying

TM is not letting them do it

[lopalop2]

Eggplant doesn't trust anyone to translate his works, thats why only 3rd party TM works are translated officially.

[Deathhappens]

You mean all those Chinese isekai/portal LNs? Those always had bizarre "translations" from what I read.

Isekai, yes, most of the time. Chinese, not really. There's a crapton of less popular Japanese LN's, not to mention WNs that never get published officially but people still want to read.

[Huitante]

So many localization companies and none of them are even trying to localize a TM VN.
Shame.
inb4 yeah it's expensive but I think the fanbase is big enough to make it worth it (if muv luv kickstarter raised $1m...).

I believe most of the western TM fanbase wouldn't care about Mahoyo. IIRC it wasn't that successful in Japan either.