Henkyou no Roukishi - Bard Loen - Vol. 10 Ch. 61 - The Life of an Old Knight

[Nicromatic]

He's acting as if what he did wasn't already impressive enough. I doubt most people could have done all that.

I can confirm that I would be tanking the knife in that situation

 

[EggMiner]

I can confirm that I would be tanking the knife in that situation

Hey, @Nicromatic
I'd hate it if you died , you know?

 

[nonexistent696969]

as expected my master

 

[ntn9713c]

Hey, @Nicromatic
I'd hate it if you died , you know?

Wholesome.

 

[friendly]

I truly love his humility about fights- and I like his constant awareness of life and death, and the importance of putting fear into combatants to keep from needing an all out brawl. It gives the sense of a very real world of violence that I like for this series very much.

Glad to see the lass is studying safely.

 

[fight2live]

i was expecting a beatdown, but this is somehow more impressive. the mangaka is insanely skilled at crafting story

also, thanks for triple release, Cuddlebun

 

[Nicromatic]

Hey, @Nicromatic
I'd hate it if you died , you know?

Aww <3

 

[Angelnickl]

Thanks for the continued TLs, also Bard just keeps being way to cool. And that girl was a cute.

 

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapters!!! Splendid as usual

 

[Ajira]

Still no news about anyone licensing Bard Loen? Can't they produce a short preview/proof of concept like "the girl from the other side" to boost the awarenes-recognition? Guess I have to collect the Japanese volumes.

 

[ngekngok]

Oh, he immediately sheat his sword probably to hide whatever the effect that clash had on the blade, to not show any probable "weakness" that might reduce the effect of his initial attempt to instil fear on them.
he's so humble, but everything he did always been so thorough so far.

 

[Gunlord500]

Still no news about anyone licensing Bard Loen? Can't they produce a short preview/proof of concept like "the girl from the other side" to boost the awarenes-recognition? Guess I have to collect the Japanese volumes.

It's being translated in France, right? I would absolutely by the full set of this manga if it ever came out in English.

 

[AceTheBase]

Phew a happy ending!

 

[Ajira]

It's being translated in France, right? I would absolutely by the full set of this manga if it ever came out in English.

It's way too slow. French vol 1 - June 2022 French vol 2 - March 2024.

 

[Gunlord500]

It's way too slow. French vol 1 - June 2022 French vol 2 - March 2024.

Jeez, that is slow. I wonder why the French translation is so much slower than even our unofficial English translations here. We've got a pretty decent pace considering the batch releases Cuddlebuns does.

 

[Grikath]

Jeez, that is slow. I wonder why the French translation is so much slower than even our unofficial English translations here. We've got a pretty decent pace considering the batch releases Cuddlebuns does.

license vol 1, translate, print, distribute, see if it sells well enough to continue.
license vol 2, translate, print, distribute, see....

Different economics. In investment, return, and re-investment. Slower turnover.

Bard Loen's storytelling and art are pretty much in line with the more adult Bande Dessinée traditions of continental Europe, so it'd do well with the people used to that tradition. France, Belgium, the Netherlands.
(And being dutch... we are used to there being 2-3 years between volumes, even episodes. Hell... before the digital age, some works ( Storm, for example, especially the early works and the early Pandarve books) had originals in bloody oil paint.. Especially the big spreads that had to be photographed.. You can imagine what those do in auctions... But ultimately "Production Time" was very much a thing..)

Not necessarily as well in german, and english would actually be a true tossup, since the style is radically different from the usual US/UK comics the anglophone market is used to.
Internet and the Indy scene changed much, but it's still rare to find any continental-style "comics" outside of mainland Europe, except for real specialist shops at...eye-gouging prices. Or you can order at the same price level..

And while Bard Loen is incredibly good and well-executed, it simply would most likely only get a minor cult following in UK/US, and never reach the minimum uptake you need to y'know.. make an actual profit from in dead-tree format. Possibly not even in official digital. So it won't get investors, so it won't get made.
Or maybe you have $300-400k lying around you can risk?
(I remember from online-gone-dead-tree highly popular comics a print run using the usual kickstarters can run up to half a million dollars in investment with post-print, stocking, and distribution taken into account...)

Because for me it'd be a "shut up and take my money!" thing to get the existing volumes in proper english.
But there simply aren't enough of us to make an english publication commercially viable.

 

[Gunlord500]

license vol 1, translate, print, distribute, see if it sells well enough to continue.
license vol 2, translate, print, distribute, see....

Different economics. In investment, return, and re-investment. Slower turnover.

Bard Loen's storytelling and art are pretty much in line with the more adult Bande Dessinée traditions of continental Europe, so it'd do well with the people used to that tradition. France, Belgium, the Netherlands.
(And being dutch... we are used to there being 2-3 years between volumes, even episodes. Hell... before the digital age, some works ( Storm, for example, especially the early works and the early Pandarve books) had originals in bloody oil paint.. Especially the big spreads that had to be photographed.. You can imagine what those do in auctions... But ultimately "Production Time" was very much a thing..)

Not necessarily as well in german, and english would actually be a true tossup, since the style is radically different from the usual US/UK comics the anglophone market is used to.
Internet and the Indy scene changed much, but it's still rare to find any continental-style "comics" outside of mainland Europe, except for real specialist shops at...eye-gouging prices. Or you can order at the same price level..

And while Bard Loen is incredibly good and well-executed, it simply would most likely only get a minor cult following in UK/US, and never reach the minimum uptake you need to y'know.. make an actual profit from in dead-tree format. Possibly not even in official digital. So it won't get investors, so it won't get made.
Or maybe you have $300-400k lying around you can risk?
(I remember from online-gone-dead-tree highly popular comics a print run using the usual kickstarters can run up to half a million dollars in investment with post-print, stocking, and distribution taken into account...)

Because for me it'd be a "shut up and take my money!" thing to get the existing volumes in proper english.
But there simply aren't enough of us to make an english publication commercially viable.

That's super interesting, thank you! How would you say this manga is similar to bande-dessinee?