Discussion Chapter length, the disgust is overwhelming!

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  1. Mount Tai Unleashed

    Mount Tai Unleashed This one has tai but can't see mount eyes

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    So one of the novels I'm reading is called- "I have refined QI for 3000 years"

    It's a fun little novel and I've reached the end of the translated chapters and now I just wait for the new chapters to come out, and they come out sparsely, like every 2-3 days a new chapter part comes out.

    The problem is, that the chapter length is goddamn fucking disgusting!!

    Latest chapter? 320 words... I waited 2 days for a 320 word long chapter? GTFO
    https://foxaholic.com/novel/i-refined-qi-for-3000-years/book-4-chapter-22-1/
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    The translator splits already short chapters into 2 parts, usually a full chapter wouldn't go beyond 1300 words and it would often be shorter. So the first part of a chapter is usually 400-500 words but sometimes it reaches lows of 300!
     
  2. otaku31

    otaku31 Well-Known Member

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    Perseverance, man! If the MC could refine Qi bit by bit for 3000 years, the least you could do is wait 3000 days for his journey to reach completion! :blobpeek:
     
  3. Mount Tai Unleashed

    Mount Tai Unleashed This one has tai but can't see mount eyes

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    At the rate it's going, I'll be an old man with one foot in the grave before this novel ends.
     
  4. Suijin

    Suijin Blood God [Medic]

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    yeah. those examples are just TLs being shit on purpose.
    same for mangas. split a 20 page chapter into 10 parts at some points. WTF????
     
  5. oblueknighto

    oblueknighto Blue Person

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    That's true for many novels. The translation would potentially take a decade or even longer for some of the slower translators. The best solution would be to learn Chinese and translate it yourself. That'd be much faster.
     
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  6. RougeAsura

    RougeAsura Rayus

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    There is a manga version. You can check it out here.
     
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  7. nonononononono

    nonononononono NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO

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  8. Mount Tai Unleashed

    Mount Tai Unleashed This one has tai but can't see mount eyes

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    You sneaky bastard:blobspearpeek::blobcat_knife:

    Cheers bro, I'll check it out.
     
  9. Sutad Aatma

    Sutad Aatma Well-Known Member

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    Perhaps you can go to the server and talk to the translator that hey, slow updates are preferable over such short chapters, please. (TwT)

    On a side note, this disgusting chapter length reminds me of a certain group >.<
    Their chapters are so short! They cut one normal-sized chapter into 4 parts. And they even go as far as taking patreon for those individually. It has annoyed me so much I have actually started actively avoiding their group (even if the novel seems super interesting and fluffy)
    Might as well read a poorly MTL'ed version from mtlnovels than be annoyed by the constant ads and short chapter

    ahem, please don't be so shameless
    sincerely, a random reader
     
  10. Cream

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    If chapters are too short, that's when you start stacking chapters...

    My pet peeve about splitting chapters into parts is when translators completely renumber the chapter numbers, so even if I want to go read the raws, I don't know what chapter the translation left off at and what chapter I can pick the raws up at.
     
  11. SwordDrake

    SwordDrake Slice of Life Lover

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    The novel/manga has to be pretty damn good for me to tolerate chapter splitting. I usually just drop them.
     
  12. deepon

    deepon One who inevitably awakens

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    I have faced such situations with quite a few Chinese novels. My method of dealing with it is simple. Find a proper MTL, read a few hundred chapters, sometimes few thousands, get bored/fatigued, and then abandon it. I did it for Nine Star hegemon body art, Let me game in peace, Pocket hunting dimension, and a few more. Works like a charm.

    I will pray for your other foot to join the first one soon. It's a pain standing on a single foot.
     
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  13. CadmarLegend

    CadmarLegend one and a two and a bing bang boo!

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    Hahaha!
     
  14. OurPrinceNiki

    OurPrinceNiki Well-Known Member

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    I do chapter splitting but I also translatate pretty regularly. I do this because when I translate a whole chapter I get frustrated like I spent 1 hr in translating and when I scroll down there are more to be translated... Made me want to give up.
    In order to solve this psychological problem, I just did chapters splitting. Dunno about other translators though.
    New korean book picked up to be posted on march. 1st chapter available here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X1fjnDLEOKBevzYEqzMUj_LNs_cySyC8_-lsKzQwUo8/edit?usp=sharing
     
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    CadmarLegend one and a two and a bing bang boo!

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    I hope so as well XD
     
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  16. Concernedcitizen

    Concernedcitizen Well-Known Member

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    This is why I rarely start a novel now below 50-100 chapters. I also check new released novels and there are some that are 1 chapter after 2 weeks. I avoid those kind. Binge read is the way to go. Look at "I never run out of Mana". It is 4 years now and its still not finished.
     
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    CadmarLegend one and a two and a bing bang boo!

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    I myself don't do that..... partly because I machine translate(but with lots of editing!) and partly because I've set up a schedule for myself. Besides, I also like to read what's happening as I translate.
     
  18. OurPrinceNiki

    OurPrinceNiki Well-Known Member

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    Well, people have different style when translating. And we do this mainly because we enjoyed it.
     
  19. CadmarLegend

    CadmarLegend one and a two and a bing bang boo!

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    Yus. It's the translator's choice. =D

    I just like to be on the same page as my readers.
     
  20. fox23

    fox23 Digging Pits

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    Heyo! Thanks for the heads up. This is actually in violation in Foxaholic rules about how long a chapter can be before it can be split into chapter parts. (Chapter should actually be at least 2k (English) words long before it can be split into parts.) We will be fixing that momentarily.

    -Fox23 (Owner of Foxaholic)

    Edit: Whelp, looks like there was a confusion as the raws were over 2k characters long. Nonetheless the rule still stands.
     
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