Horobi no Kuni no Seifukusha - Vol. 3 Ch. 15 - Unsettling School Life

[LogLauncher]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[ia_zero]

thanks for your work. surprised to see an update after a long time.

 

[stavekoff]

just do it. thanks for the tl

 

[BlackAeronaut]

I do not know if the official publisher will bring out more chapters or not, since there is no news of any new chapter. If anyone has any updates let me know so that I can decide whether to drop this and pick a new manga or I can continue it.

I wouldn't worry about it. It's very rare for an official publisher to come after a single scanslator such as yourself.

And besides, J-Novel Club only has themselves to blame for overextending themselves far beyond what they're capable of handling. They have way too many titles, and not enough staff to properly handle the workload. This is clearly evident in the lack of quality in their work combined with the lack of updates.

And, regardless, there's also the issue of licensing and who gets the money - something I frequently harp upon as a proponent of scanslation.

Basically, all licensing is done on the terms of the publisher, and not the mangaka or the LN's author. And usually, this means that the licensing fees are done at a "flat rate" with no accounting for how many copies of the licensed and localized version are sold.

This means that for most manga and light novels translated into another language, those sales figures count for absolutely nothing when a publisher is weighing the pros and cons of continuing a title or axing it.

And, what's more, the author/mangaka sees very little of your money this way whenever you purchase a translated version of a title.

This is why it is so very critically important that if you want to support the mangaka/author and make it more likely that a title will continue to be published, then you absolutely must purchase the title in its original language. Purchasing a translated edition is secondary.

No, it's not fair that it is like that. And I doubt that it'll change much. Reason being: the original publishers are exposed to very little risk at all with this setup. The licensing publisher has to shoulder the entire cost of translation, redrawing, typesetting, as well as the costs of printing and/or online publishing, and even the advertising in their market. And, meanwhile, the original publisher pretty much pockets all of the licensing fees and walks off whistling happily.

This new English-language publisher, Azuki Manga, shows some promise in that the amount of money paid out to the original publishers and mangaka depends on a title's readership. However, it remains unclear just how well this benefits the mangaka, or if the number of "reads" benefits the "popularity" of a title to keep it from getting axed.

Time will tell, I guess.

But until then? Don't worry about the legalities. The most important part about this is that you make it clear that you're not doing this for profit. Which is why it's foolhardy of some scanslators to publish on their own website. Why sink money into that when you have Mangadex? Answer: they're trying to profit off of it by way of advertisement revenue on their website. And that's the big legal no-no of scanslation: the moment you're profiting off of it is where you've crossed the line, and you will have absolutely no legal defense at all.

(Granted, this is still very rare. And, more often than not, they'll just hit you with a "Cease and Desist" which means "Okay, you stop scanslating this/these title(s) and we won't sue you." It's even more rare for a publisher to go straight for the lawsuit, and usually only done by the REALLY big fish, like Sony or NIS America, who have money to burn and lawyers on their actual payroll.)

So yeah. Don't be one of those guys.

As for whether J-Novel Club would come after you? That's entirely up to them... HOWEVER!!! I strongly suspect (for the reasons I cited before regarding quality and lack of output) that they don't have enough cashflow to blow their money on lawsuits against scanslators. Let that be an cautionary tale for others looking to get into the business.

 

[Salfaro]

Nice chap, hope to see it kicks back up again, though I understand the desire to drop a series when it has an official release.

 

[BayuAH]

The official publisher is likely from the US, but that's not the only country that uses English, so unless it affects you directly, just go ahead with it.

As far as I know MangaDex use US servers, although there is safe harbors rule of Internet,¹ the provider must comply with the complaint. I'm not a lawyer, but I think this part is tricky.

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¹ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/copyrights-safe-harbors-preserve-what-we-love-about-internet

 

[InsaneAwesomeTony]

Many thanks for the chapter 🙏🏼❤️

 

[REDRED]

Thanks! Great chapter!
Burn out is real. Hope you stay well. doing all this solo is A LOT. But dont let it overwhelm you. I know how it feels when a passion project or hobby turns into "work".

Thanks so much for working on what you can!

 

[Bibliothecarius]

Thnks for the chapter!
Please continue working on this.

 

[FeudalGrass]

Nice to this get updated, thanks for the chapter!

Meanwhile for the LN, Vol 8 still isn't available...

 

[Kaarme]

Yuuri is certainly 100% typical isekai MC in the desire to take his (second) life easy, but the story just keeps pushing trouble into his face.

Quite weird the princess didn't have any bodyguards with her. Maybe the bodyguards or whoever is in charge of arranging them has been bribed. It's supposedly a thoroughly corrupt country, after all.

 

[_Keyboard]

Thanks for picking this up. But I forgot everything. I need to this again.

 

[PRAR]

Isn't this girl next in line to be queen? How is she just wandering around town.
Though maybe next chapter it will be revealed those are her guards.

 

[Odious1]

She was definitely following him😅.

You know, I get why they give us the info they do about the economy and the likes, but they should've delivered it a different way. It's like the mc learned nothing relevant with all that studying. Example: they go to the battlefield right after graduation, but he didn't learn the enemy's language? However, he learned an ancient one, just so he could read the classics🙃? The priorities are wonky here😅.

 

[yoshiii]

Thanks for translating!! Appreciate it

Also, pls no, go away. Why'd you even follow him.