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NEWS: Yen Press Adds A Certain Magical Index Light Novels

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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? light novel Fujino Omori's comedy fantasy follows "a hapless adventurer and a failed goddess, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda." It will ship as part of Yen On's initial launch lineup this winter.

So, without googling it or anything, this is interesting, if for no other reason than light novels are incredibly expensive to translate. With Yen Press creating a new imprint for light novels, and licensing a relatively lengthy, if popular series, this seems to indicate an unusual nod to the viability of translated light novels. I wonder who who's doing the index translation, since IIRC translating a light novels basically requires them to hire someone new. (for either the LN or to cover for someone else)

ajr wrote:

Quote: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? light novel Fujino Omori's comedy fantasy follows "a hapless adventurer and a failed goddess, with illustrations by Suzuhito Yasuda." It will ship as part of Yen On's initial launch lineup this winter. So, without googling it or anything, this is interesting, if for no other reason than light novels are incredibly expensive to translate. With Yen Press creating a new imprint for light novels, and licensing a relatively lengthy, if popular series, this seems to indicate an unusual nod to the viability of translated light novels. I wonder who who's doing the index translation, since IIRC translating a light novels basically requires them to hire someone new. (for either the LN or to cover for someone else)

I have a hunch and it's just that right now that they might hire or recruit or hire one of the translators from baka-tsuki that have worked on index. So far all twenty four volumes of the original index light novel, nine volumes of new testament, the side stories are fan translated. If yen press was smart they really would work out deal with the fan translator, polish up said translations and then publish them.

RestlessOne wrote:

Yen Press doesn't censor.

Yen Press doesn't censor inside of the books, yes, but if you look at Omamori Himari: Volume 3's front cover (not from inside the book), it's kinda censored (I think a loli yokai's wearing panties, so instead she's wearing shorts). I might be wrong on this one, so please correct me if that's the case.

.... or maybe something like Utsuro no Hako? I tried reading that but time loops + not so great fan traslations = I understood very little.

Holy crap are these guys slow. Apparently they have SAO as well. As in one of the hottest properties around, even in the west.

The first vol. is scheduled for April, and the next is not until August.

So they are on a 2 vol. per schedule for SAO, the tentatively timeline for Index might be 15-20 years, and that is assuming the series was finished.

Holy crap are these guys slow. Apparently they have SAO as well. As in one of the hottest properties around, even in the west.

The first vol. is scheduled for April, and the next is not until August.

So they are on a 2 vol. per schedule for SAO, the tentatively timeline for Index might be 15-20 years, and that is assuming the series was finished.

Dark Absol wrote:

RestlessOne wrote: Yen Press doesn't censor. Yen Press doesn't censor inside of the books, yes, but if you look at Omamori Himari: Volume 3's front cover (not from inside the book), it's kinda censored (I think a loli yokai's wearing panties, so instead she's wearing shorts). I might be wrong on this one, so please correct me if that's the case.

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Seems the same.

Can you really blame them though? You have to think of this in terms of putting out a novel series that people have to actually spend money on rather than just in terms of providing hard copy translations of something already written. You can translate a single LN in a month if you're good enough (or a week if you're the Index fan-translator), but it would be stupid releasing a novel each month because the release of the new novel will cut short the cooling off period of the previous one - it'd be a terrible sales decision.

Besides, 2-3 novels a year is pretty logical in terms of novel release dates in the West, it's what people are used to as well. Although, in Index's case, Yen Press should be looking into releasing volume bundles instead of releasing them individually. The early novels are short enough that you could put two or three of them together and it'd be the size of a regular size novel. It'd get the releases out faster and have the possible added marketing advantage of "two/three stories in one book!". Just a potential idea I had, don't know how viable it might be.

CrownKlown wrote:

Holy crap are these guys slow. Apparently they have SAO as well. As in one of the hottest properties around, even in the west. The first vol. is scheduled for April, and the next is not until August. So they are on a 2 vol. per schedule for SAO, the tentatively timeline for Index might be 15-20 years, and that is assuming the series was finished.

Can you really blame them though? You have to think of this in terms of putting out a novel series that people have to actually spend money on rather than just in terms of providing hard copy translations of something already written. You can translate a single LN in a month if you're good enough (or a week if you're the Index fan-translator), but it would be stupid releasing a novel each month because the release of the new novel will cut short the cooling off period of the previous one - it'd be a terrible sales decision.

Besides, 2-3 novels a year is pretty logical in terms of novel release dates in the West, it's what people are used to as well. Although, in Index's case, Yen Press should be looking into releasing volume bundles instead of releasing them individually. The early novels are short enough that you could put two or three of them together and it'd be the size of a regular size novel. It'd get the releases out faster and have the possible added marketing advantage of "two/three stories in one book!". Just a potential idea I had, don't know how viable it might be.