Website is Moving

Tenshi2 Comments

It has been the longest time coming, but I’ve finally gotten around to making the new site!

Thank you so much to everyone for your support on here, but I’m officially leaving the LN/WN fanslation world.

For those who still want to follow along as I continue translating novels, come find me here: taishitranslations.com (I’m still doing Secret Org!)

To all the amazing people still doing fanslations, I wish you all the best! May the wonder of Japanese ln/wns reach the rest of the world far and wide!

 

All good times come to an end……but all ends are also beginnings of something else

Tenshi9 Comments

Hey there all you awesome people.

To all of you who were here from before the 10 month hiatus, I offer you my deepest apologies.

I am the very abrupt kind of burnout-er (as is plain to see), the kind who just abruptly disappears off the face of the earth. And when I come back, I always come back with apologies.

I admit that this is a problem, but this is something for me to work out.
All I can do for now is offer my apologies, then move on.

As I’m sure many of you know by now, I have signed with J-Novel Club.
For those who didn’t know, this would be my official announcement, I suppose.
Now, that means several things:
1. I can’t continue as a fan translator anymore.
2. That’s pretty much the biggest reason why I’m changing my name to Taishi and (for lack of a better way of putting it) washing my hands of this site (and its related spaces, such as the Discord server).
3. I can proudly call myself an actual LN translator now (this is pretty big for me personally, it’s always been a dream of mine).
4. Unfortunately, Shadows is published by Kadokawa, and that’s pretty much entirely Yen territory ^^”
5. What I can do is……….Secret Organization!!!

That’s kinda the peace offering I’m bringing though, it’d be super rude to the series to call it a mere peace offering.

This series is chuuni like Shadows AND is self-aware/meta like Deadpool.
And now I have an amazing editor who is an enormous help with making the translation that much better.
Releases are usually 1 per week, but as a treat, Part 1 and 2 will be coming out within a week of each other!

And while I’m promoting stuff, I’ve also just finished up Vol 1 of a series called Middle-Aged Businessman, Arise in Another World! アラフォー営業マン、異世界に起つ！ ～女神パワーで人生二度目の成り上がり～ on JNC, with Vol 2 on the way soon!

This one is an isekai transmigration one. But as I hope all you guys know by now, I only go for series with an interesting twist. The twist in this one is that 1) OP is in his forties and transmigrated over with his whole family (so no teenage angst and no harems) and 2) OP is OP, but opts instead to use marketing strategies to musou in an economic way lol.

I would love it if you guys could follow me over to JNC. Not for me (I’m not worth the $5/month lol), but for these two and soooooo many more amazing light novels on there.
(And if I can be honest, they drive a faster pace than I drove myself when I was doing fan translations on this site 😅 In other words, that means very brisk progress through books.)

Well alright that’s it for the advertisements. I will be setting up a new website and a new Discord server over the weekend, which I will announce on here also. I won’t be able to respond as much as before (cus I’m too busy translating!), especially on Discord, cus the msgs fly by like mad and then there are like pages to read by the time I check, but I’ll do my best to keep channels open (especially open to pointers about typos and mistakes). It’s my hope that you guys like them as places to mess around and be silly like you did for here (true story, for me, reading the comments was the best part of doing the fan translations hahaha).

Officially looking for people to pick up my series

Tenshi56 Comments

Hi everyone. As y’all probably already know, I can’t continue this website anymore.

Thank you to everyone who helped to be a part of the great community on here! There’s still a chance I might see you guys again soon, we’ll see.

But for now, I am opening the gates for those who want to pick up a series, any series, that I was doing. BUT I want you to send me an email with the next chapter in the series that you want to pick up before Wednesday, 10 October 10am GMT+8. I will announce on here who I’ll be entrusting to carry on the torch on Sunday 14 October. As long as you submit it on time, it would not be first come first serve.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Bad News (Sorry guys)

Tenshi126 Comments

Hi there guys. Major announcement (obviously).

Firstly, I’m really sorry, I was out of commission for about a week or so. It’s my bad, and I feel absolutely terrible about it. Let me explain what happened.

I’ll start by reiterating that I really do love spreading the joy of lightening up someone’s day with a new chapter from an awesome series.

But due to a certain situation on my side (I’m not sure if I’m allowed to reveal it yet or not), I am going to have to give up this site, because I can no longer do anything that might become a legal liability. This past week was me trying really hard to make it work, and then me being depressed when nothing worked. The only way I would be able to continue is if the authors gave me permission, but upon contacting them, all of them said their contracts with their Japanese publishers included all the rights for foreign translations (even Secret Org, whose publication isn’t even publicly announced yet), so they couldn’t say yes.

Rejection after rejection after rejection. Boy was I depressed.

It makes it worse that I’d only just recently started the new series, started looking into the Twitch, started Discord, started Patreon. It kinda felt like this is where things are going to take off or something, and then BAM.

I kept thinking that I’ll tell you guys tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, until somewhere along the way it became that I have to apologize for being MIA, and the guilt just made me more and more fearful. I couldn’t even bring myself to read those @’s that you guys were awesome enough to send me on Discord (I am really touched for them, but I’m so sorry). But you wonderful people have a right to closure, and I really don’t want to ghost on you guys (again), so I’ve gathered myself back together, and here we are.

So, this is what’s going to happen from here on.

I’m going to do 1 more chapter of OreMegane and MotoKimama, just to get them to a nice, round 10 chapters total. I’ll also do just 1 more chapter of Secret Org to finish off the prologue.

Releases will be today, tomorrow, then day after. 10am GMT+8, as usual.

After that, I welcome anyone to pick up any of the projects I was working on. That includes Shadows. (Though hold off on that until I confirm that I’m dropping it first. I’ll update y’all when I know for sure. Send me an email if you want to pick any of them up.)

Of course, I will also be shutting down my Patreon (gotta make sure to do it before the next billing). Send me an email if you want a refund, I’ll understand.

Thank you guys for being on this wonderful ride together. We might see each other again at a later date, depending on how the situation on my side turns out. Until then, stay in the shadows. All hail!