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Cute healing and all.

EB_v01_028Helllllllo. Starting the releases in the earnest for Elvenblood. In this post I'm going to also mention some translation intricacies for the series. You could call it an insight into translation decisions.

For the first thing, enjoy the first chapter (not counting preamble), it's cute and mostly fluffy. See the illustration on the right? About that fluffy, link here.

Edit: Okay, on the second thought, I'm self-censoring myself. Maybe I gave too much spoilers.

All right, below I'm gonna add the section on a few things concerning translation this time. Well, they're mostly trivia on how the world works and such. Also, it's preferred if you read it after reading the chapter.

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Let's start up the new, different darkneesss.

senketsu_kuchie_p01_aWell, for now let's call it "new darkness", I'll come up with something fun for it soon enough!

So here we go, a series with evil powerful pointy ears. Very unlike the other series I translated so far, the style is much more sophisticated... or maybe it's just my impression.

For what'll be from now on, I hope to complete volume 1 before antimagic and OSO come out. Also, meanwhile I also hope to continue working on AMA 2 re-translation (I have completed preparations for it, all I need is motivation now).

About Elvenblood, or EB, as from now on I'll shorten it. It has a quite long release schedule, much longer than OSO or AMA (5-6 months, as compared to 3 months) so it composes right in for a slow series (PS: volume 2 comes out today).

All right, for now I have a preamble translated, check it and any impressions are welcome, I guess. Link here.

Update: I added volume 2 cover on the series page.

——Krytyk

I have conquered the land of imoutos. Project Complete. New series announcement.

OOSY_v03_CoverAnd so it goes, I bulldozed myself through the last chapters... so I'm kind of wasted now, but satisfied.

Finally finished this, hmm, side project so to speak. Low priority project. In the middle of it I was discouraged by slow pace and had a hard time translating, but it really is a great, non-standard light novel slice of life story. I'm satisfied I was able to complete it, no matter how much I complain about it being hard to translate (non technically, it was mentally hard).

Well then, feel free to comment and share impressions of it. Not every day you can see to a series' ending and comment on that. Some might like the ending, others might not.

Personally, I do like the ending a lot. I don't like forced drama and forced twists. This kind of thing puts me in a good mood.

Well then, after writing some (a requirement, for a series-completion post!) here I go with links. Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13, Epilogue, Afterword. Full Text.

 EB_v01_Cover

As for the new series... there are clues on the new series page, the only things remaining there are clues, all my trolling was erased. Yes, piggy, nyancat, nyanpirate, banana, nyansheep, time travel, grandpa krytyk were trolling. And it felt good :3.

If you don't find out what's the series is, well, I'll announce it anyway, when I rest that is. As for when I'll start with it... idk, but I'll announce that too.

PS: It's a relatively new series, apparently I have a new series fetish. (I wonder if it's me wanting to popularize less-popular series or unknown series).

PS2: Yes, it's been found out (quite fast actually, right away after this post was made). It's Senketsu no Elf, or as the English title states, Elvenblood by Fujiwara Yu.

——Krytyk

Imoutos, imoutos everywhere.

OOSY_v03_002K, starting up with volume 3. I want to get it over with as fast as possible... no, I'm not blaming imouto's, they're cute. But translating this started to feel like a horror to me... the lack of action is making me enter coma in mid translating!

Complaining I am, but never fear. I always finish what I start.

Also, I'm going to release chapters of this in batches, single chapters are too small to bother, I mean there's post to write, twitter to update, mangaupdates to update. And so on. (krytyk snickers as he looks at webnovel translators releasing 2000 words chapters).

The links: ???, Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3.

——Krytyk