Happy Halloween! (I’m PST, it’s still Halloween here!)
Just in time for the Former Underlings arc, Chapters 10-12! Read it on Google Docs
(we’re also looking into setting up another reading platform for people who have issues viewing on Google Docs, if you have any suggestions, let me know! Google Docs will still be our primary viewing platform however)
The first volume of the Light Novel version has been released for Yuusha Party. If you enjoy the story, please support the author and buy the book, it comes with pretty pictures! =D
And speaking of pictures, if you haven’t seen the character concepts by illustration artist La-Na, check out this post on animesuki forums.
Also, while translating these chapters, the issue of the Harpy underling’s name came up. I used my favorite interpretation, but I’m still unsure of which translation I should use (fantasy names in Japanese are hard to decode). Based on the Katakana Ha-pi-ne-su, it could be any of the following (taking into account that since Japanese don’t have a ‘fee’ and ‘th’ sound they are often substituted with ‘pi’ and ‘su’ respectively:
Happyness
Hapines
Hapyneth (based on names like Gwyneth and Lyneth)
Haphineus (based on King Phineus, a major icon in Harpy mythos, a bit of a stretch but fitting)
Haphyneth (combo of the last two)
If you’d prefer a different interpretation of her name from the above list, please let me know in a comment below! (or even if you like the name I chose already) I am still willing to go back and change her name at this point based on public opinion (if there is any).
Next release will focus on releasing our own version of chapters 1-3 that way we can provide you with a complete set, then we will return to forward progression. Hope everyone had a happy Halloween!
What about pastebin?
can’t you posted it on this blog?
like other translator
Haha that second to last line in ch12… that was a good way to end a chapter
The names I would have gone with are Happiness and Seek, though I could understand why one wouldn’t want to use them because they sound a bit awkward.
Thank you for the release! 😀
(Haphineus gets my vote)
>slut
I laughed too hard.
Personally I’m terrible with names so it doesn’t matter all that much to me, that said once I get used to a name having it change feels really weird.
Thanks for the chapters.
Thank you!!!
Personally I would prefer anything else other than pastebin because it doesn’t work in my computer. (Though yesterday, I had a sudden genius-level idea and read chap 1-3 with my phone in school e_e)
I’m very bad with names so I don’t know, and thanks for the chapters!
Thank you.
Post directly on this blog seems to be the best solution and thanks for chapter.
thanks
http://jekyllrb.com/
It allows plain text to be transformed into html static pages which can be hosted via github.
Thanks for new chapters!
This series is so fun ヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ
Looking forward to chapters 1-3 so I can save them. (I like saving these for later re-reading.) I honestly am fine with the translation you went with for the name. It grew on me very easily. Thanks for the updates by the way, I’m loving this series so far.
Thx, i love this
Thank you very much for this. After the first 3 chapters were translated I hoped someon would translate this is really good. Thanks again.
It is possible to put something to show your progress on Manga and LN please?
You can see a spreadsheet in Google Docs folder with current progress and release plans :3 (manga I sadly don’t have a translator for yet so it hasn’t even been started /D)
My day job has been busy (I have to actually work at work omg D8). Since that’s where I do a majority of my translating, it’s been a bit slow…also admittedly the Diablo III Halloween buff didn’t help |D
Ok sorry i haven’t noticed in the Google Docs folder :'( and thanks for your hard work! 😀
Thank you for the Yuusha TLs <3
weren’t chapters 13-15 supposed to be released around the 15th and chapter 16 on the 16th but its the 16th today and none of those chapters were released
Nah, I don’t do pre-planned release dates (stuff happens, I know better than to do that). The “Release Plan” is the grouping of chapters that will be released together (since they’re short right now). Also next on the table is the HaruPARTY version of chapters 1-3, then back to forward progression! 1-3 will probably be released tomorrow or the next day!
Just dropping in to say thanks for the translations ^_^
What a charming series! Thank you very much for translating it!
Gdrive loaded only first page of doc on my mobile (iphone4 safari) is there any way to read on mobile ?
Hmmm, I’m not sure, I don’t usually run into any issue reading Gdocs on my phone from other TL places. I’ll look into it, thanks for letting me know!