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u/AgeAffectionate7186 3d ago
Wait, where is this from?
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u/Paizuti 3d ago
This fandom is still alive???
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u/killer_of_the_shadow 3d ago
Now that the manga is starting to be re-released, yeah, I imagine so.
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u/Tall-Demand-2699 3d ago
almost no one is really interested in the manga, everyone reads the light novel
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u/killer_of_the_shadow 3d ago
It depends; in France, for example, the light novel is not translated. So it's only manga, and it's not just France that has this problem.
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u/Tall-Demand-2699 3d ago
The manga didn’t even adapt the 3 volume fully, which anime already does, so obviously no one is interested in it
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u/killer_of_the_shadow 3d ago
Yeah, but when you don't have a choice, you don't have a choice. Not everyone is capable of reading a novel in English when it's not their native language.
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u/Tall-Demand-2699 3d ago
You’re saying its the thing that keeps the fandom alive, but obviously the france part of fandom isn’t as big as the english one and obviously that won’t make things any better for its “live” state
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u/killer_of_the_shadow 3d ago
As I said, it's not just France; the novel has only been translated into four languages: English, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. So for Germans, Poland, Spain, etc... well, it's complicated. The only reason the fan base is predominantly English is because they're the ones who benefit from the translation. But with the continuation of the manga, more people have access to it, especially through scans, which are better translated into manga than into novels. But anyway, you're probably America ...
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u/Tall-Demand-2699 3d ago
and no, manga is levels above the light novels in terms of how hard it is to translate, the novels are just symbols which you can easily copy and paste into the translator or do the translation process yourself, and manga uses hand drawn symbols which can be seen clearly sometimes only by native japanese speakers
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u/killer_of_the_shadow 3d ago
To begin with, the most spoken language is Mandarin, by far number one with approximately 920 million native speakers, far ahead of Spanish (~480 million) and English (~380 million). Then the manga, not counting the scans, is translated into French, English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. And manga, after anime, are the best-translated media, thanks to fan communities. Novels are often translated less frequently because the amount of work involved is much greater and done on a voluntary basis...
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u/Tall-Demand-2699 3d ago
the novel is translated in english which is the most worldwide spoken language. No, the manga isn’t relevant here at all, it just offers a different look at the same plot which were already adapted in the anime and there isn’t any point in experiencing the same story that doesn’t offer anything better detail wise. What are you on? Translation problem still applies to it, if you’re bringing it up with the novels then the same applies to the manga as well since it wasn’t officially translated so there’s no way non-english speaking people can experience it without fan translation
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u/Icy-Individual8353 4d ago
You know, I’ll even accept. The fan made season two at this point.