(C92) [HMA (Hiyoshi Hana)] Admiral!!!!!! (Kantai Collection -KanColle-) [English] [Rainsong]

Didn’t need to read the whole thing to know it’s good

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@Ikoter: I encourage people to learn languages. I started young, but you can start any time. Learning and studying japanese is hard at times, but I've always found it fun as well. I also encourage people to join translation groups. A lot are willing to take on new people and teach them editing skills from scratch. It's all just practice and passion. I'm certainly not the best around but I am improving over time and that's enough for me.

@Rainsong. It is always good to hear that someone somewhere found a passion project and is turning it into money. How I wish I could do something similar... Personally I had the idea of learning japanese in order to read these doujins without needing to wait for translations, but I realized the ridiculousness of it all and just simply chose to wait for translations. If I had the money I would commission some works as well.

@upilJenglot. Talking IS free. Unless... you wish to restrict a strangers ability to talk on the internet, in which case, I would have to call you an oppressor and oppose you. So, all in all, mind your own business.

tl;dr - I like solo but I'm a bit slow compared to others. Sorry for my lack of skill.

It's also been a lot of fun just practicing on my own as well. This started with me just wanting to practice my japanese, so that I'd be able to practically apply what I've learned over the years. (and also to avoid getting rusty from lack of practice.) And a lot of my solo projects have really just been me attempting to test myself and really learn new skills or to help me get better or make my processes faster. Which is why my editing skills have gotten better recently as well. So, all in all, it's just something I'm doing for fun on the side. I can rush more jobs but then I feel like the quality would drop, and I don't want that. I try to meet my own quality standard, at least.

@ikoter: That depends on a lot of things. It'll vary based on how much text there is to translate and then typeset, and how much editing/cleaning/redrawing I'll need to do as well. Without rushing, I usually do around 15-25 pages a day. This project, for example, took about a day from start to finish. I can do more, but I choose not to so I avoid burn out. Since I'm working entirely solo, I have a lot of freedom around my timings and I can rotate between multiple projects as well. The downside is that I'm working entirely solo, so if I run into a job that, for example, takes a lot of editing/redrawing then it'll hold up other parts of the process. That's why I understand why some people prefer to work in groups. They can split the work and do a lot more a lot faster. But I happen to like the freedom and flexibility I have on my own, since I'm not holding up or being held up by the redrawer working on a panel or the typesetting working on a page, or something like that.

@Rainsong. I've read your response. I dread the world we live in, where a man commissions another to start work from the back rather than the front. And if I may, out of curiosity, how long does it take to translate a doujin?

THE TERROR OF THE SEAS, THE BISMARCK AND THE KRIEGSMARINE!

@epicsword: Oh, thanks for the heads up! I don't mind working on it at all, trust me. I was just saying I didn't have plans on it yet haha.

haha, real happy!

I wanted the #6 to be translated first so i commissioned it first, next one as Rainsong told you will be #4, and after that (i hope) i will ask for #1 aswell. This Bismarcks doujins by Hiyoshi Hana is one of my old time favourites so i finally got courage (and finances) to ask someone to translate it. Thank you again Rainsong for doing God's work.

Ayy the wholesome series is back

Also, I feel like I should add one more thing: I see now that #1 isn't translated, but I currently have no plans to translate it nor have I been commissioned to work on it. Although I have plenty of things I've taken on as personal projects, I don't plan to do that one. Sorry. I don't have anything against kancolle vanilla, it's just not high on my personal list of priorities, ya know? Even if I have worked on #6 first. LOL. I'm just doing solo jobs of things that I like unless someone pays me to work on something else. So basically, if someone feels like it they can translate it themselves or commission a translator/translation group to do it.

@ikoter: Normally, I'd agree with you and I'd start from #1 if this were a personal project and #1 hadn't been translated yet. And I don't know if you read the credits or not, but I was commissioned to translate this one. I was requested to work on #6 first, and so I literally worked on what I was paid to do. I did not question or choose which work to do first. I only went by the commissioner's wishes. Only after we had worked out the details for this commission had the commissioner also requested that I translate #4 next. So, once again, just working on what I was paid to work on in the order I'm paid to do so. That's all it really is.

I'm not even horny: just reading because I love Azur Lane vanilla

@Rainsong, watafak. You translated the SIXTH one? Not the first? Shouldn't one start with the FIRST? Were you paid to jump directly to the sixth or did you idiotically choose six instead of one? Cause I will judge you drastically if it turns out you chose which to translate.

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