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Here's the big reason that official translations are almost always disappointing compared to scanlator translatons: Audience. Official publishers are translating it for an audience of casuals who they hope to entice to read these weird backwards (literally) comic books. They are trying to...

It would be nice if they continued, but scanlators around these parts tend to drop a translation like a hot rock if the series get licensed. And I would be willing to pony up money if the official translations were any good, but they always wind up being egregiously over-localized. So I'm...

"Official" translations almost always strip out honorifics and specific family terminology, which means meaning gets lost and we wind up with people calling each other "big bro" and the like, which always sounds stilted and unnatural. I don't want to read over-localized crap. I prefer my manga...

For some of us, this is the only manga site we use, for a multiplicity of reasons. If something is not here, it might as well not exist.

I've seen worse than this manga. That's the only reason I gave it a 2 instead of a 1. And I do not get why some here are praising the art. The dungeons are mostly wireframe 3D models. The characters are utterly typical stock anime renderings. The background in most panels are non-existent. The...

In case this wasn't mentioned earlier, Narnia makes a slip of the tongue. Kalego-sensai asks Narnia specifically about Atori, and Narnia says "getting those two into Babyls was a necessary process." It's not much of a slip, since they were already suspicious of Shida, but it is still an...

Okay, it's official. The MC has gone from less-than-nobody to godlike hero way way way too fast. The growth curve has been ridiculous. There's no real feeling of threat or danger anymore, since all the writer has to do is pull some random buzzwords out of the air to explain how the MC escaped...

Thank you for using honorifics. They just do not translate into English, linguistically or culturally. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Actually this one was also censored, but the scanlators pasted on some nipples, to varying degrees on success. I'll give them points for making the attempt, but restoring art is a tricky business, and unless you do it near perfectly, it looks weird and off-putting. For example, the first panel...

What makes Japanese special is that it is the language that you, I, and 99.9% of the people reading the chapters here have spent years gaining a cursory familiarity with. We all know the honorifics by heart, when they are used, what they mean, and what exactly is being conveyed by them above and...

That may be the outer pretense, but actually he's doing several things. 1) He's seeing how the candidates react to him dangling the idea of unbridled power in front of them. Those who react well can be recruited. Those who react poorly can be undermined. 2) He's planting the seeds of rancor and...

Someone set us up the bomb. But who was phone?

The author had their way with us . . . and it felt so good.

If he is not using his Appraisal ability all the time, for even the most trivial of things, like buying the freshest groceries, not to mention high-finance and/or life-altering decisions like the ones he is making now, then he would be the world's biggest fool. There is a trope called the Idiot...

Are you still only one chapter behind the raws?

Oh, you can wait alright. Four years and counting.

In your time zone. My time zone still has another 9.5 hours of "hilarity" to go. :rolleyes:

Why not both?

Yeah, I'm really not too impressed with our protagonists here. They are in possession of something they know is going to make governments all over the globe sit up and take notice. Something that wars could easily be fought over. Something that the big nations are going to be mobilizing their...

It was the only way to render him somewhat 'armless.