Seikishi ni Natta kedo Danchou no Oppai ga Sugosugite Kokoro ga Kiyomerarenai - Vol. 1 Ch. 2

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This young man is like Sir Galahad.

I hope someone lights the Grail-shaped beacon.
 
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Thank you for the translation! I never expected this to get picked up again.
 
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last updated 3 years ago and somehow i bookmarked it. no idea what this is about, but it's got fanservice, so i'll keep reading.
 
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E-begging for MTL generally doesn't go well.
They're referring to the fact that you're going to set up a patreon despite the fact you're translating with machine instead of actually fluent. It's bad form.
You know what's actually bad form?

Complaining about a fellow traveller of the high seas setting up a way to peddle their wares whilst oneselve is also a scurvy pirate searching for ill-gotten booty without paying the tax man.

It's wasn't even a "pay me money to read more",it's a "pay me money if you want another series done",which is what most scanlators do anyway.

Whilst the machine part is irrelevant to this whole discussion,more so with how smooth the result was and considering the so called fellas who would supposedly do better didn't do so in the last three years.

He's made a scanlation,he has offered a way to get more titles done,and the results are close to fuss free.

This is the kind person you should be nuturing so they do even more.
Let me know where I can improve and maybe where I can find most used fonts for better reading experience.
You can use anything but the bog standard Comic Sans,plenty of people noted how outdated it is,more so the origins of it,Western comics,is pretty much stagnate with all the cray crays who have invaded the hobby due to a lack of gatekeeping.

Also,yes,feel free to use colours too,if you want.

No need to conform to normie high horse standards of others,so long as it can be read on a resonable three gen older PC.
 
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You know what's actually bad form?

Complaining about a fellow traveller of the high seas setting up a way to peddle their wares whilst oneselve is also a scurvy pirate searching for ill-gotten booty without paying the tax man.

It's wasn't even a "pay me money to read more",it's a "pay me money if you want another series done",which is what most scanlators do anyway.

Whilst the machine part is irrelevant to this whole discussion,more so with how smooth the result was and considering the so called fellas who would supposedly do better didn't do so in the last three years.

He's made a scanlation,he has offered a way to get more titles done,and the results are close to fuss free.

This is the kind person you should be nuturing so they do even more.

You can use anything but the bog standard Comic Sans,plenty of people noted how outdated it is,more so the origins of it,Western comics,is pretty much stagnate with all the cray crays who have invaded the hobby due to a lack of gatekeeping.

Also,yes,feel free to use colours too,if you want.

No need to conform to normie high horse standards of others,so long as it can be read on a resonable three gen older PC.
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You know what's actually bad form?

Complaining about a fellow traveller of the high seas setting up a way to peddle their wares whilst oneselve is also a scurvy pirate searching for ill-gotten booty without paying the tax man.

It's wasn't even a "pay me money to read more",it's a "pay me money if you want another series done",which is what most scanlators do anyway.

Whilst the machine part is irrelevant to this whole discussion,more so with how smooth the result was and considering the so called fellas who would supposedly do better didn't do so in the last three years.

He's made a scanlation,he has offered a way to get more titles done,and the results are close to fuss free.

This is the kind person you should be nuturing so they do even more.

You can use anything but the bog standard Comic Sans,plenty of people noted how outdated it is,more so the origins of it,Western comics,is pretty much stagnate with all the cray crays who have invaded the hobby due to a lack of gatekeeping.

Also,yes,feel free to use colours too,if you want.

No need to conform to normie high horse standards of others,so long as it can be read on a resonable three gen older PC.
Thank you, I woke up to something nice; and thanks for font help, I have a couple done that uses the default fonts but I'll change them going forward.
 
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Thank you, I woke up to something nice; and thanks for font help, I have a couple done that uses the default fonts but I'll change them going forward.
You're welcome.

You're not the first I have defended like this,but you most certainly feel like one who will actually stick around and not cave to a bunch of rando haters who never did anything themselves to fix the issues they preceive.

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Seriously, pulling a Shiryu two chapters in a row, and canonically twice in the same day? This guy has some insane mental to be able to even consider that, much less doing it twice in a single day
 
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Let me know where I can improve and maybe where I can find most used fonts for better reading experience.
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The translation itself seems pretty decent for a first-timer. It's definitely a notable decrease in translation quality from the previous chapter, but that makes sense since SlayerScans A) has been in the game for longer, and B) is a team instead of just one guy.
Unfortunately, I don't really have the energy to go back and pinpoint the areas in which it's rougher. However, I do have some advice for you:

Based on your credits page there at the end, it looks like you don't have a great grasp of how to effectively use end-of-line hyphenation when typesetting manga.
The best option for hyphenating words at the end of a line is, of course, not to. If at all possible, you should shift words around between lines in such a way that none of words have to be split to the following line. This will probably create some unevenness in where the lines end, but if you use center-aligned text then that won't be a huge issue (you should be using center-aligned text anyway, since that's what works best in things like speech and though bubbles).
If you absolutely have to split a word up with a hyphen (i.e. there's literally no possible way to fit the text into the space available while maintaining readability without splitting a word up), then deciding where to place the hyphen is actually pretty important. The best way to do it is to insert it at a natural pause in the word. For example, you have "mangadex" split up as "man- gadex", but the better way to split it up would be "manga- dex".
When in doubt, sound it out. Try saying "decide...ed" with a nice big pause in it. Now, try saying "de...cided" and see how much more natural it feels. Part of that is because the root word, "decide", has only one place you can hyphenate it (i.e. "de-cide"), and the "-ed" part of "decided" has so little emphasis on it that it feels awkward to try and say/read it separately.

Natural pauses and natural breakpoints like that are the most important things to keep in mind when breaking a word up like that, but here's a few other things to keep in mind:
  • Always place the hyphen between two syllables, never in the middle of a syllable. When in doubt, you can look the word up a dictionary online. Most online dictionaries will have little dots between each syllable of a word.
  • If a word has a suffix or a prefix (e.g. the "un" in "unfortunately"), then that's usually a pretty decent place to put the hyphen, but if it doesn't coincide with a natural pause or breakpoint, then it can still feel pretty awkward. For example, the "ed" in "decided" is technically a suffix, but hyphenating it there still feels pretty unnatural (on the other hand, "un-natural" is the perfect way to hyphenate "unnatural").

Honestly, if you try to get a solid, airtight set of rules for it, you end up having to dig into a lot of nuance, so really your best bet is to go with natural pauses/breakpoints, and to sound out the word with big pause at the hyphen to see if it feels right.
 

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