Yen Press Buys Licenses for Sword Art Online, Accel World and Other Titles

I hope some company ends up translating the Baccano LN's- probably Yen Press since they did the Durarara ones, unless I'm mistaken?

Anyways, I might check out Accel World.

I think this is spot on (not saying gorgeous fan translations don't exist). But I wouldn't discount the idea that there are people who prefer the plain, "converted" fan translations over the stylized stuff that some official translations end up being. Especially when a whole bunch of canon material gets altered to sync with the perceived sensibilities of the target audience.

And that's strange, comparing human translators to Google Translate. At the moment, machine translations are on an entirely different level of incomprehensibility.

Partially it is. They received a C&D order before for the other licensed series like Bungaku Shoujo and S&W.
It's been their policy ever since to take down anything that has been licensed in English. They took down Hidan no Aria almost immediately even without a C&D order.

The statement about Yen Press asking Baka-Tsuki to remove the fan-translations is not true.

I'll read the SAO and Accel World novels for sure, and maybe the manga.

thanks I wasnt sure since no image is available.. but damn 203 days left o.O

guys dont despair there are other sites who still have this light novel available so .. ;) and otherwise you just buy them :P

Fuck....just fuck....gonna cry in a corner now....

Localization is an art more than it is a science, and a translator has to be a good writer in order to do a really good job. A good editor is also going to make a difference. Fan works (and a lot of professional works) aren't going to get that much quality devoted to them, so it's pretty much an unsolvable conundrum. Add the numerous differences between Japanese and English both linguistically and culturally, and it's no wonder that most translations contend themselves with being just adequate.

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Aincrad-Reki-Kawahara/9780316371247

^ I believe that is what you are looking for.

Aah so thats why i couldnt continue

Well i managed to find it elsewhere..
On wattpad.com so if anyone wants to read it..

I try to read as quick as possible before they find out about this site too

I will buy the light novels if i didnt read this through baka-tsuki..

Quite silly to read the same again so.l



Cant find it n bookdepository tho.. But maybe i overlooked it


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when will the first volume of sao ln be released in english?

Nice to see support, but I have a heavy dislike for american companies in general that touch and alter Japanese works while translating to make it fit the culture better. Makes me feel like something I love was violated by another person then handed back to me, sheer thoughts of what might be changed leaves me concerned. Fan translations are not all that accurate either but if you find a good one they will generally leave anything that can not be directly translated and explain it in a translation note. This is something I think should be used at all times when translating from another language over altering it to fit another language/culture. But a lot of official companies like to just change the dialog and even elements of the stories at times to better fit without having to use notes explaining the original, this is true in anime, manga, and light novels. Yen press might be one of the better ones but I still worry about what will be changed along the way while translating.

Manga and novels published in the US do get exported overseas. For example, in Malaysia both Borders and Kinokuniya carry US-licensed manga and light novels.

It's very unlikely, I can't remember Yen Press having done that with anything they own.



It's not related to the number of page per book but rather that most work having a good deal of ecchi stuff in it are very likely not to leave Japan (or at least will not reach America).
The answer to that is because these are work that people might have a good deal of prejudice against them. Company like Yen press care about their image as much as they do about profit. Releasing Horizon would be a bad idea since the market would be low and most people wouldn't be tempted to try it either.



It is possible. They bought a few license already to test the water and if it actually sell well they will probably consider buying other Madoka related work.



I wouldn't say that it will be released worldwide but it'd be possible to buy them online from pretty much any developed country that do not have a problem with it (yes I'm looking at you Korea),



You've been reading a series that the author poured his sweat and time into writting it for free until now, if you can't be appreciative and buy the released version then you actually deserve not to know the ending ever.

Other than that, Kuudere pretty much covered everything else.

No Shinsekai Yori yet :(

Well, at least there's one thing interesting here.

Looking at you, Different Story. I'll be buying that on release.

I know :(
The author is a beast.

I wonder if Yen Press will (soemday) license all Madoka-related material like Nitro+ novel and Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica: Anthology!

I wanted to at least finish the Alicization arc :-(. Well whatever
B-T lost a big shareholder
INDEX getting licensed? I doubt that is possible. That will be the end of earth
happy for the AW though :-D

Have Yen Press ever failed to complete something they started? Because I can't think of any time they've done that (excluding not releasing spin offs/side stories which they probably never wanted in the first place). And they're part of one of the largest and most successful publishing companies in the world (particularly with regards to modern fiction), so I think it's fairly unlikely that they would stop as a result of going out of business. Personally, I have about as much confidence as is realistically possible that they will release the whole series.



Because there isn't enough demand for it - people don't know about that stuff for the most part. SAO/AW probably weren't viable before last year's anime release either. Yes, they can then aim it out at new fans, but the majority of the market comes from the people who saw the anime and want to own the books.
So "newer" comes to mean "things that got hugely popular anime adaptations faster". Then again, stuff like OreGairu wasn't anywhere near as successful as SAO/AW, and even that isn't exactly short. Plus SAO/AW also has the advantage of both being by the same author and even sort of in the same universe - so people who read one series will most likely look into the other. It's the perfect opportunity for them, really.



It's been done before - most of what Seven Seas licensed back when they were getting LNs were short finished series. The problem there is that they are often less popular, anime adaptations tend to cover more of the series so people don't buy to find out what happens next (assuming that there is a recent adaptation when it is licensed - if there isn't then the series will likely have lost most of its popularity, if it ever had it to begin with) and if people have already completed a series from fan translations then they are a lot less likely to buy the books as well.