Question What’s going on with Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter?

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  1. Danthefanokaku

    Danthefanokaku Well-Known Member

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    So I just saw how there are now 174 chapters out of Common Sense of a Duke’s Daughter, and I was wondering what happened. I didn’t think Asian Hobbyists had dropped it, so how come there’s this new person translating? I mean it’s not like I don’t appreciate novels being translated and this sudden boom of new chapters gets my heart racing, but it’s all MTL and frankly, garbage. So I’d love to know what’s going on, if anyone has any ideas.
     
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  2. ShimizuA

    ShimizuA the best teacher is Life.

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    It's cursed. With bad TL. I even don't know why this djurasco guy did that.
     
  3. reagents 11

    reagents 11 disaster personified

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    Someone want visitors to their blogs perhaps for ad revenue or else.

    For leeches that appreciated this kind of release though well you're much better doing that yourself in MTL because it made no difference. That way at least you'd learn something.
     
  4. Wujigege

    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    I did not drop the novel. I already cleared my schedule for this month.
    More chapters next month.
    Cheers!
     
  5. Sabruness

    Sabruness Cultured Yuri Connoisseur

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    You havent dropped it and the leech trans hasnt started from the beginning then why is it listed? Doesnt it break the rules for getting releases linked on NU?

    After further looking through the releases, filtered by group, it looks like the leech cheated the release rules by doing a release of chapter 1 to satisfy the 'starting from the beginning' part of the rules. the rest of their releases only go as far back as Ch 125.

    @Tony @Parth37955 @Westeller

    Can we have some advice from the boss cabal on this?
     
  6. Beer_Kitty

    Beer_Kitty Just a very very drunk kitty that likes beer

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    That guy released those last month. But only got posted this august, if i remember correctly.

    The thing is, its so horrible that i think reading via google translate looks way better. I mean, he did try to make the sentences readable but still looks crap that in a way the google translate one looks fine.
     
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  7. Parth37955

    Parth37955 NU #3, [Dead Inside], Mid-Boss, Dark Dealer Staff Member

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    ... https://www.novelupdates.com/nu-policy/
     
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    Beer_Kitty Just a very very drunk kitty that likes beer

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    • If you start translating the series from the beginning
    (That guy only posted chapter 1 then went to chapter 125 upto the latest)
    • If you have permission from the current active translator
    (No permission from Asian hobbyist looking at Wujigege is still translating the series)
    • If your releases were accepted when there were no active translators at the time
    (He posted 125 a few days from asian hobbyist 124)
    • If you have translated at least 50 releases (according to the raw site) for the series
    (Well he went full on mtl on the series)
    • If you were an active translator at any point for the series
    (He wasnt)
    • If your releases were accepted due to meeting the requirements at any point


    Looking from my via point, he IS poaching the series and out releasing the translator without editing(grammar sucks so hard).

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  9. prongsjiisan

    prongsjiisan Apostle of Violence

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    Did you ask permission from previous translator. What about Tensei Shitara Slime? Have you ask the previous translator?
     
  10. Beer_Kitty

    Beer_Kitty Just a very very drunk kitty that likes beer

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    Not gonna be rude or anything but this is a different topic and a different novel.
     
  11. polokoi

    polokoi TVPropaganda

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    ???
     
  12. Xane

    Xane Well-Known Member

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    Looks like it was a couple weeks short (17 days from 90) of the 3 month limit. I dropped Slime over a year ago because of the slow as fuck translation pace.
     
  13. Danthefanokaku

    Danthefanokaku Well-Known Member

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    Okay sweet then! Thank you for the information as I was a bit worried for a second there! Keep up the stellar work!

    It was insanely slow, but luckily it looks like Wujigege is picking up the pack immensely so there's that to look forward to.
     
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  14. Tony

    Tony Moderator Staff Member

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    No, there are no "rules being cheated". The new group has reached 50 releases and has qualified to be added to NU even though there's currently an active translator already.
    https://www.novelupdates.com/nu-policy/
     
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    Beer_Kitty Just a very very drunk kitty that likes beer

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    Oh ok. Just gonna block the other one.
     
  16. Shio

    Shio Moderator Staff Member

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    It's not the best translation there is, but the translator do edit their work. The english is not perfect, but it's not coy paste from MTL
     
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    prongsjiisan Apostle of Violence

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    The translator is still active. And for all intents and purposes as good translator he should ask permission first. Or maybe notified previous translator.

    So @Wujigege how the taste of your own medicine :blobowoevil_horns:
     
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  18. alamptr

    alamptr What should i put here

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    Wow, we got 50 chapter so suddenly. Competition is really good for the reader
     
  19. Beer_Kitty

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    Not really. Especially if the competitor only poops out chapters and doesnt really check their mtl.
     
  20. Shiroikaze42

    Shiroikaze42 Well-Known Member

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    First of all fan translators rarely "compete" for readers, because there aren't nearly enough of us for that, and it's not lucrative enough to really care most of the time. Typically we say "oh, that's being translated already? Great! Guess I'll pick up something else then!". The only time that people muscle in is when the translation is on the level of unreadable, or apparently when someone wants to create an unreadable edition to a translation.

    Second, as a reader, I don't want to try and sift through incomprehensible chapters from people who obviously either have no grasp of English or google translated the whole thing. If I want google translate, then there's a thing for that: google translate.
     
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